This past Friday I had the distinct pleasure of chatting with Taylor Jadin on ds106radio. Taylor is an instructional technologist at St. Norbert College in De Pere, Wisconsin, a school that has been tearing up Domains I wanted to chat …
What Post-Covid Schools Could Look Like—Starting This Fall
Let’s not repeat the mistakes the education sector made in responding to the last major disruption of the education system.
https://www.future-ed.org/what-post-covid-schools-could-look-like-starting-this-fall/…
The Coming Disruption to College
Scott Galloway predicts a handful of elite cyborg universities will soon monopolize higher education.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/05/scott-galloway-future-of-college.html…
Write-on Video: A Video Editor to Plan and Edit Videos For Your Classes
Write-on Video is a powerful video editor compatible with iOS and Mac, ideal for storytelling projects. Whether you want to add an interactive touch to your video content or you want to engage your students in multimodal literacy activities, Write-on …
A virus detection network to stop the next pandemic
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Presentation of the Week: Covid19 and the impact on global higher education
4 habits of highly effective lifelong learners
Lifelong learning is the “ongoing, voluntary, and self-motivated” pursuit of knowledge for either personal or professional reasons.It’s about learning to know, learning to do, and learning to be. Cultivating the mind is essential for personal growth.
https://www.theladders.com/career-advice/4-habits-of-highly-effective-lifelong-learners…
5 Learning Myths, Debunked
Whether you’re designing a course or giving learners study advice, don’t let these myths lead you astray.
Google Meet premium video meetings—free for everyone
Google Meet, Google’s premium video conferencing product, is now free for everyone, with availability rolling out over the coming weeks.
https://canada.googleblog.com/2020/04/google-meet-premium-video-meetingsfree.html…
This Is What Students Want Us to Know About Pandemic Learning
Students in different countries were asked to answer 15 questions on issues they are experiencing on learning online Many of the students cited the same issues regardless of their country of origin.
Want to Learn French? Italian? Russian? There’s No Time Like the Present
We may not be thrilled with our housebound conditions, but what better opportunity for learning a foreign language?
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/28/travel/language-instruction-apps-television-youtube.html…
Teach from Home- An Excellent Google Resource to Enhance Your Remote Teaching
Teach from Home is great educational resource created by Google in partnership with other parties (e.g., UNESCO and ISTE). It is “a temporary hub of information and tools to help teachers during the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis”. The site features a …
12 Building Blocks to Use Learning Technologies Effectively: All-in-one
This summary describes pretty precisely many of the instructivist principles being applied these days in ‘remote teaching’. They basically describe a process of presenting information, having students practice concepts, and then testing them on their knowledge acquisition.
College Campuses Must Reopen in the Fall. Here’s How We Do It.
It won’t be easy, but there’s a path to get students back on track. Higher education will crumble without it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/26/opinion/coronavirus-colleges-universities.html…
Experimenting with Hybrid Teaching in a Dedicated Room – Preliminary Conclusions of a Project From LaSalle College Financed as Part of the Digital Action Plan
In the fall of 2019, 3 teachers from LaSalle College experimented with hybrid teaching in a new classroom set up for that purpose.The college drew preliminary conclusions from the experiment. I will present to you some of the key elements …