Big Thinkers: Howard Gardner on Digital Youth
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Presentation of the Week: Teaching in the Age of Participation
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Presentation of the Week: New Developments in Moodle 2.0
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7 Solutions for Educators Who Want 21st Century Students to Tune In
Rather than taking away student rights and the freedom to use the tools they want, we must address the root of the issue that is causing the problem.
http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2011/04/6-solutions-for-educators-who-want-21st.html…
3 Keys to a Flipped Classroom
The idea of a flipped classroom is that students receive their instruction (readings, lectures, etc) at home, and do their homework (assignments, groupwork, etc) in the classroom. Classrooms become laboratories or studios, and yet content delivery is preserved.
http://pairadimes.davidtruss.com/three-keys-to-a-flipped-classroom/…
How Technology Will Disrupt Learning for a Lifetime, Not Just in the Classroom
Much of the buzz around the educational benefits of Internet technology has focused on the potential for the classroom. It’s also a huge boom for “lifelong learners,” those students — students of any age — that are pursuing educational opportunities …
5 Myths About the ‘Information Age’
Confusion about the nature of the so-called information age has led to a state of collective false consciousness. It’s no one’s fault but everyone’s problem, because in trying to get our bearings in cyberspace, we often get things wrong, and …
What the Post-PC Era Means for Education
It’s the future of education futurists have been looking toward for some time. “As an industry that traditionally was focused on centralised knowledge, the stable, fixed model of computing of the PC era was much easier to integrate than the …
Turning the Classroom Upside Down
Why not have lectures at home and ‘homework’ at school—and let students learn at their own pace?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704101604576248713420747884.html…
How Technology Influences the New American Family
A new Nielson report takes a look at how multicultural families across America are adapting to today’s digital landscape. This new report paints a revealing and colorful portrait of how technology influences our everyday lives.
http://techland.time.com/2011/04/13/how-technology-influences-the-new-american-family/…
The Netflix Effect: When Software Suggests Students’ Courses
Austin Peay State University created an automated system which “considers each student’s planned major, past academic performance, and data on how similar students fared in that class. It crunches this information to arrive at a recommendation. An early test of …
21 Things That Will Be Obsolete by 2020
Inspired by Sandy Speicher’s vision of the designed school day of the future, reader Shelly Blake-Plock shared his own predictions of that ideal day. How close are we to this? The post was written in December 2009, and Blake-Plock says …
Presentation of the Week
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Teaching in the 21st Century
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Education & Technology in 2025: A Thought Experiment
Let’s assume that, by 2025, all hardware and software costs related to the use of information and communication technologies to support learning were zero. How might this change the way you consider the use of ICTs to support the goals