Archive for the 'education' Category
If I were president
Via Vicki Davis’s blog a nice little video of primary school children engaging in an exercise in which they have the opportunity to be creative and, as Vicki observes, “envision themselves as making a difference”.
Download Video: Posted by cshively at TeacherTube.com.
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Way-new collaboration
Another wonderful TED talk. This time we have Howard Rheingold talking about about how the future world will be dominated by collaboration, participatory media and collective action. He cites Wikipedia as “an outgrowth of our natural human instinct to work as a group.”
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A powerful idea about teaching ideas
Well I have a bad case of blogging guilt at the moment. Basically I’ve been busy working through ePortfolio resources as part of an upcoming StudyNet project and while I’m not working on that I’ve been co writing a paper on the future of MLEs, (plus I’ve been to Crufts).I’ve got a few things to […]
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Top Seven E-Learning Technologies & Trends for 2008
I’ve noticed that a great many of these lists seem to hover around the 5, 10 or 20 mark so so I thought I’d try for a magnificent 7. And rather than concentrate on actual technology I think it’s worth considering the implications of their use. So in no particular order:
One: Increased use of collaborative […]
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Evaluating Learning Process
University of Hertfordshire’s very own Martina Doolan on evaluating the process of learning. This short video covers the use of wikis in terms of using them to keep a record of the approaches students use during the course of their learning. Martina makes that point that in a traditional context, activities such as group work, […]
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Horizon Report 2008
This year’s Horizon Report is now out and it’s an absolute belter.
The report is produced through collaboration of the New Media Consortium (NMC), which is an international not-for-profit consortium of nearly 250 learning-focused organizations “dedicated to the exploration and use of new media and new technologies.”, (for more info click here) and the EDUCAUSE Learning […]
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I’m back …sort of
Well I haven’t been blogging much during the month or so as things have been a bit hectic plus I had a week off where I didn’t let myself go anywhere near a computer. I’m currently preparing teaching and learning guides on using blogs and this is taking up all my spare time at the […]
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Full details of universities ‘at risk’
Way off topic but of general interest. From the Guardian website. There had been a couple of Guardian articles with regards to a list naming 43 universities at risk of financial failure between 1998 and 2003. The list based on information obtained from the Higher Education Funding Council for England under the Freedom of Information […]
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Authentic Learning for the 21st Century: An Overview
By Marilyn M. Lombardi
Great article on the possible future of eduction in the 21st Century. This fall sin line with what Sir Ken Robinson and Paul Ramsden have been speaking of lately in terms if equipping students with the skills relating to creativity through a curriculum in which the higher order Bloom’s taxonomy of learning […]
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Backwards into the Future: Seven Principles for Educating the Ne(x)t Generation
By Helen Sword and Michele Leggott
I really enjoyed this article. Although it looks at recasting students as researchers and even fellow teachers (through shifting authority towards them) at its core the article centres upon the learning benefits associated with the student creating the educational content.
“We know much more than our students do. But they also […]
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