Archive for the 'General education' Category
Embracing the Millennials’ Seamless Embrace of Technology
From the blog post by Mark McVay via The Chronicle of Higher Education
An interesting and very short article about how we might consider re designing the traditional lecture theatre to accommodate current and future students.
“But maybe the most serious consequence of the digital revolution is that it is redefining the social aspect of learning. Millennials […]
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A Vision of K-12 Students Today
“We expect to be able to create, consume, remix and share information with each other.”
“Teach me to think, to create, to analyse, to evaluate, to apply. Teach me to think”.
Although it drawing both from Michael Wesch’s A Vision of Students Today (here) and the now legendary Karl Fisch’s Shift Happens (here) this video […]
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The Networked Teacher
Here’s another image to ponder.
Via by Lorelle Van Fossen (Edublogs Magazine).
The image suggests that todays educators are interconnected with a variety or resources/ methods. Would you say this represents you? Is it overwhelming or just how it is. Or as Fossen suggests “it opens up a whole world of the possible, finding creative inspiration, support, […]
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The Explorers
By Jennifer Zwick.
What a fantastic image.
Does this relate to us educators in terms of our vocation? I think so. But more to the point does the current education climate encourage a similar application to our students.
View full picture (here).
Also the interesting Making of Explorers
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Anyone for TED?
From the Bionic Teaching blog. There’s a pass to the TED Conference available. It’s not available through the usual channels but through Ebay. It’s currently at $33,535.00
TED stands for Technology Entertainment Design and is an annual conference held in Monterey, California. It is described as a “group of remarkable people that gather to exchange ideas […]
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21st Century Education: Thinking Creatively
From the Student 2.0 blog:- a blog kept by pre university students.
“Twenty-first century education won’t be defined by any new technology. It won’t be defined by 1:1 laptop programs or tech-intensive projects. Twenty-first century education will, however, be defined by a fundamental shift in what we are teaching—a shift towards […]
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How to fold a T-Shirt in 2 Seconds
Mainly for Primary eds this one but worth a look if you’re interested in education full stop. Tom Barrett recently posted about an exercise in instructional writing in which he involves his students in reading and evaluating instructional text.
One set of instructions consisted of a single paragraph with no numbers of bullets. The second was […]
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How to keep up with blogs, wikis and websites
As we’re all aware blogs, websites, wikis and the like offer a great deal of potentially useful information. But they rely on you constantly having to go to each site and check for new content. This is time consuming.
The way round this is to make the information come to you. You do this by using […]
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