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GROWING UP DIGITAL - 6 views
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The content and technology are continually changing. This article reminds us that learners are also changing. For the past decade, faculty who won awards for teaching expressed concern that they could no longer hold the attention of their students. John Seely Brown, Chief Scientist at Xerox and director of its Palo Alto Research Center, hired 15 year olds to design future work environments and learning environments. He observed that the students did not conform to the traditional image of learners as permissive sponges. It requires us to rethink and redesign education for the Digital Age.
Using Multimedia Tools to Help Students Learn - 12 views
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Researchers have begun to understand more about the situations in which students learn best, they have found that "the structure and resources of traditional classrooms" are often inadequate and that "technology - when used effectively - can enable ways of teaching that are much better matched to how children learn"
Index of Learning Styles - 6 views
Education Links - 1 views
A way with words - home - 11 views
Learning Technologies Conference 2009 - Theme: The Power of You - 1 views
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"A place for delegates at the Learning Technologies 2009 conference to share ideas and continue the dialogue. "
Looking For Learning In 21st Century Classrooms - A leadership guide to supporting and coac... - 8 views
Blog: What Ed Said - 3 views
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AIDLT ~ A new voice in ICT Education - 8 views
CosmoLearning | Your Free Online School: Courses, Video Lectures, Documentaries, Images, Bo... - 6 views
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CosmoLearning is a free educational website for students and teachers.
Differentiated Instruction | Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age - 8 views
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This post offers a long list of links to ideas for or about differentiated learning
Poor marks for education revolution | The Australian - 12 views
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"Poor marks for education revolution"
Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out - The MIT Press - 4 views
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Integrating twenty-three different case studies-which include Harry Potter podcasting, video-game playing, music-sharing, and online romantic breakups-in a unique collaborative authorship style, Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out is distinctive for its combination of in-depth description of specific group dynamics with conceptual analysis.
This book was written as a collaborative effort by members of the Digital Youth Project, a three-year research effort funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and conducted at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Southern California.
Breakthrough Learning in a Digital Age - 6 views
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Breakthrough Learning in a Digital Age will bring together 200 of the nation's top thought leaders in science and technology, informal and formal education, entertainment media, research, philanthropy, and policy to create and act upon a breakthrough strategy for scaling-up effective models of teaching and learning for children. The forum will showcase cutting edge research, proven and promising models to challenge decision-makers in key sectors to help "refresh and reboot" American global leadership in education.
