What do we value more in our classrooms, enduring learning or a classroom full of compliant, high scoring children who only value grades?
http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/work_in_progress/2017/10/make_school_about_learning_not.html…
Three lessons from rigorous research on education technology
“Education technology is an area where innovation has outpaced rigorous research,” said Vincent Quan, who runs the North American education unit at J-PAL. “We wanted to find all the studies and distill the main lessons so that decision makers can …
How Communities of Inquiry Drive Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age
Terry Anderson revisits the Community of Inquiry (CoI) model and looks at some more recent suggestions for extensions and revisions in this paper produced for Contact North in advance of the upcoming World Conference in Distance Learning.
What every teacher should know about … memory
In a new series of articles on how psychology research can inform teaching, Bradley Busch picks an academic study and makes sense of it for the classroom. This time: a project on long-term memory.
https://www.theguardian.com/teacher-network/2017/oct/06/what-every-teacher-should-know-about-memory…
Introducing Education Resources, a source of Open Educational Resources within Office 365
Today we are launching the pilot between Open Up Resources and Microsoft Education. Open Up Resources is a nonprofit working to develop the highest quality full-course OER curricula, Common Core aligned, and provided for free to promote instructional equity.
10 Characteristics of Learner Centered Experiences
Education Reimagined defines the paradigm shift from teacher-centered to learner-centered as shifting how we see learners and their critical role in their own learning now, and throughout their lives.
https://katielmartin.com/2017/10/07/10-characteristics-of-learner-centered-experiences/…
Presentation of the Week: How to Manage a Classroom using the BYOD Approach
The puzzle of motivation
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Book Review: We Are Data: Algorithms and the Making of Our Digital Selves
In We Are Data: Algorithms and the Making of Our Digital Selves, John Cheney-Lippoldexamines how algorithms increasingly interpret and influence our behaviour. With the author concluding with some pragmatic suggestions for challenging the digital status quo, Daniel Zwiwelcomes the book …
How My Students Use Adobe Spark Page to Create Online Presentations
Spark is a FREE three-part tool: Post allows users to create social media graphics (i.e. memes, inspirational quotes); Video allows users to create animated videos (complete with options for music and/or narration with images in motion); and Page allows users …
Top 200 Tools for Learning 2017
The Top 200 Tools for Learning 2017 (11th Annual Survey) has been compiled by Jane Hart of the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies from the votes of 2,174 learning professionals worldwide.
How to Curate Content Quickly (and 70+ Places to Find Great Content)
Where do you start with curation? There are many great websites on all sorts of topics. Here is an ultimate list of content curation sources across multiple industries.
The Company That Wants To Replace Textbooks With Video Games
Andre Thomas launched the LIVE (Learning Interactive Visualisation Experience) Lab, which focuses on educational research and developing ways to incorporate gaming into the classroom experience.
https://www.kotaku.com.au/2017/09/the-company-that-wants-to-replace-textbooks-with-video-games/…
The Pedagogic Architecture of MOOC: A Research Project on Educational Courses in Spanish
The article analyses the pedagogic architecture of MOOC on pedagogic/educational subjects in Spanish over one academic year (September 2015-June 2016). The analysis focuses on five major dimensions from a qualitative perspective: subjects and the promoting institution, methodology, resources, type of …
OneNote in One Minute – Tips & Tricks
It really is the best tool for anyone but the education tools, such as class notebook, make it an absolute must for teachers.