As the current generation of college graduates wrangles with an unprecedented amount of debt, a sea change is underway in higher education. More and more elite universities are offering free online courses that might characterize the next iteration of the college experience for the forthcoming generation of students.
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Nebraska Change Agent - What School is REALLY Like for Students - 3 views
Why Twitter Matters: Tomorrow's Knowledge Network « nigelcameron.org - 1 views
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its core it offers two interlocking experiences which deliver value so great it is hard to measure.
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First is, as it were, research
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Second, Twitter as cocktail party. 24/7.
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Challenge 11: Google Drive, Open in & LMS Integration | Greg's iOS Experiment - 4 views
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"Challenge 11: Google Drive, Open in & LMS Integration"
Teaching in the New (Abundant) Economy of Information | MindShift - 3 views
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In the past 10 years, perhaps nothing has changed more than the relationship between teachers and the information being distributed in their classrooms.
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information scarce environment, the main form of instruction was a lecture
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new economy of information has freed teachers from their role as “font of knowledge” and allowed them to become chief analyzer, validity coach, research assistant, master differentiator, and creator of a shared learning experience.
Are teens behaving badly online? | Toronto Star - 2 views
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“Adults didn’t grow up with social media, and so they only look for the bad, and see scary stuff like cyberbullying and sexting” he says. “They don’t realize that 90 per cent of kids use social media for really good things, like making friends.”
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“Teens are simply doing on social media what they have done for decades, using social relationships to experiment and test behaviours and values they will use as adults” says Andersen.
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“The role of parents is to model appropriate behaviour for their kids and to develop expectations with their kids around social media use. We can’t just hand them a cellphone and cross our fingers.
Leading Innovative Change Series - A New Staff Experience | Connected Principals - 4 views
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"Staff meetings were something that I dreaded in my beginning years as a teacher. We would often spend the majority of our time together discussing rules and policies, and would debate, on end, things that are seemingly significant. Hours have been spent in schools talking about whether kids should wear hats or not in school. Really?"
How does one of the top-performing countries in the world think about technology? | Hec... - 0 views
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digital devices are increasingly viewed as a means to bring students together in collaboration, rather than separate them further.
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In the late 1990s, the Singapore Ministry of Education unveiled its master plan for technology. The first phase was spent building up infrastructure and getting computers into schools. In the 2000s, in phases two and three, the ministry focused on training teachers in how to use gadgets and identifying schools to experiment with new innovations.
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""The technology just fades away, and that's what we hope for it to do," "
5 Online Tools to Take Your Teaching Full STEAM Ahead - 5 views
Genius Hour - Why we scaffold - 3 views
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Genius Hour - The idea is simple, identify a block of time and give it over to the students as an opportunity for them to create a learning experience of their own. But while the idea is simple implementing such a plan can be challenging and there are aspects of such a project that require careful planning and a clear philosophical understanding before you begin.
Blended Learning: Personalizing Education for Students - 3 views
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"Blended Learning: Personalizing Education for Students"
Training & Placement Programs Industrial Automation Training - 0 views
Walco Solutions offers Automation & embedded internships program. The internship program provides practical work experience and an introduction to Automation and Embedded systems for the coll...
Will at Work Learning: Mythical Retention Data & The Corrupted Cone - 0 views
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"Have you ever seen the following "research" presented to demonstrate some truth about human learning?"
Mind Over Mass Media| The Committed Sardine - 1 views
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NEW forms of media have always caused moral panics: the printing press, newspapers, paperbacks and television were all once denounced as threats to their consumers’ brainpower and moral fiber.
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Experience does not revamp the basic information-processing capacities of the brain. Speed-reading programs have long claimed to do just that, but the verdict was rendered by Woody Allen after he read “War and Peace” in one sitting: “It was about Russia.” Genuine multitasking, too, has been exposed as a myth, not just by laboratory studies but by the familiar sight of an S.U.V. undulating between lanes as the driver cuts deals on his cellphone.
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And to encourage intellectual depth, don’t rail at PowerPoint or Google. It’s not as if habits of deep reflection, thorough research and rigorous reasoning ever came naturally to people. They must be acquired in special institutions, which we call universities, and maintained with constant upkeep, which we call analysis, criticism and debate.
How to Make SMART Board Lessons an Engaging Interactive Learning Experience - 7 views
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"Creating Great Smart Board Lessons"
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