Our classrooms still look so much like they did when we (the readers of this blog post) were in school; maybe even when our parents were in school. The children we are preparing to enter the world are not entering at a 1985 ideal–they are entering at 2025. What are we doing with our content that is preparing them for the world they live in (or the world they will graduate into?)?
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Connected Professional Development Is Now An Imperative - 2 views
The 6 Questions We Should Be Asking About the Future of Learning | LinkedIn - 2 views
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We used technology like people do at work – as a tool to helps us get our job done, learn and conduct research, and to connect and collaborate, to build communication skills, and to solve problems. The big insight: technology can power deeper learning.
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These questions don’t center upon, nor are they dependent on, technology, though if technology is an integral part of our lives, some of the answers to these questions might lie in the use of technology.
How Computers Work - YouTube - YouTube - 4 views
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New 6 part series of videos introduced by Bill Gates and produced by Code.org.
Creativity in the Digital Age | The Creativity Post - 0 views
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With all the warnings about what digital technology is doing to human brains, there has been less talk about what we’ve gained from it.
Workbench Platform - 2 views
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"Workbench provides a ready-made platform for makers of great products to connect with end users and build online communities. Makers can find new ways to use products, teachers can find new ways to teach, and everyone can share their own programming code, lessons, and experiences within the community"
Panicked about Kids' Addiction to Tech? - NewCo Shift - 1 views
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children learn values and norms by watching their parents and other caregivers.
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Once you begin saying out loud every time you look at technology, you also realize how much you’re looking at technology. And what you’re normalizing for your kids.
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Teenagers loathe hypocrisy. It’s the biggest thing that I’ve seen to undermine trust between a parent and a child.
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A new literacy for understanding and communicating knowledge in the post-truth era. - T... - 0 views
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In the post-truth era, does the capacity to utilise knowledge prepare one adequately to do battle against falsehood? When those selling untruths know the falsehood of their stories, does the bright light of truth shine through? Perhaps not.
Free Technology for Teachers: Webinar Recording - Three Things We Can Do To Quickly Tra... - 0 views
Educators Must Accept Tech Methods, Higher Ed Leaders Say - 2 views
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Less discussed is how to mix online tools with in-person college classrooms. And some technology proponents say faculty need to do this effectively on a large scale to prepare students for life beyond college - and to make sure college stays relevant to a generation that has spent most of their lives on digital devices.
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"I don't know if we can continue to pretend that we operate in analog environments and still prepare students for the digital world."
Cognitive Access to Numbers: the Philosophical Significance of Empirical findings About... - 1 views
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We teach children about numbers, but how do people come to know what numbers are, given that they are abstract? There must be some process of learning that takes place. This paper explores this problem, offers several alternative accounts of what a number is, and argues that the concept of a number can be learned by learning to recognize the size of a set or collection of entities. Teachers call this subetizing
What can Google Sites do? - 4 views
EdTech Implementation: What it Will and Won't Do for Your Classroom - 3 views
10 Google Drive Activities Teachers Can Do Using Chrome Apps ~ Educational Technology a... - 5 views
Tech Is Not Magical - You Are - Teacher Tech - 3 views
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Occasionally you will see an article about tech being the $1000 pencil or a hoax. Tools do not teach kids.
10 Things Every Teacher Should Be Able to Do on Google Classroom ~ Educational Technolo... - 0 views
Amel Karboul: The global learning crisis -- and what to do about it | TED Talk - 2 views
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"he most important infrastructure we have is educated minds, says former Tunisian government minister Amel Karboul. Yet too often large investments go to more visible initiatives such as bridges and roads, when it's the minds of our children that will really create a brighter future. In this sharp talk, she shares actionable ideas to ensure that every child is in school -- and learning -- within just one generation."
Into Film - 1 views
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Great resource for all manner of things related to Film. From camera angles and shots to plans for running film clubs, this is a site worth diving into.
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A wealth of information can be found on this site for the exploration of film. Do check out the comprehensive Film Club section if you are thinking of running an ECA on film.
Wolfram Alpha Founder Discusses Computational Thinking at Ed School | News | The Harvar... - 0 views
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Wolfram defined computational thinking as “the activity for a human of taking something that they want to know about or that they want to have happen in the world, and formulating it in such a way that a sufficiently smart computer can then know what to do.”
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“Computational thinking is a bigger, more significant thing that I think will be remembered as probably the most important intellectual achievement of the 21st century,”
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Coding, Wolfram argued, is “the enemy” of computational thinking. “I think with the low-level coding, it is as mechanical as a lot of the kind of math that kids find boring,”
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