Archive for the 'Learning Technology' Category
Web 2.0 Is the Future of Education
From the blog of Steve Hargadon (click here).
Steve believes that “the read/write Web, or what we are calling Web 2.0, will culturally, socially, intellectually, and politically have a greater impact than the advent of the printing press.” In particular he emphasises as to how difficult it will be to imagine the changes that will take […]
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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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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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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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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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Why is it so Hard for Educators to Focus on Their Own Learning?
From the blog of Will Richardson. Thought provoking and provocative it asks as that whether in showing staff how to use e-learning tools we should show how the same member of staff can actually engage in their own learning while using these tools and in doing so they gain greater insight when […]
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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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The Power of Arthus
…or a 14 year old talks educational technology.
Just stumbled across a new blog on e-learning and education. The author is 14 years old and has much to say. I found the blog via Stephen Downes’s blog (OLDaily) who in turn had pointed to a post in Steve Hargadon’s blog, (Infinite Thinking Machine) in which Arthus […]
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