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60 Ways To Use Twitter In The Classroom By Category - 0 views

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    A comprehensive list of how twitter can be used in the classroom for your info and reference.
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Learning in the 21st century | TODAYonline - 1 views

  • Teaching is not simply presenting ideas and insights, nor filling students’ heads with what we know or transmitting information. Learning is not just committing facts to memory but the ability to critique, synthesise, analyse, use and apply information.
  • The addition of greater interactivity is essential to make knowledge transfer in universities more meaningful in today’s world
  • . But how do we integrate the digital world’s resources into classroom-based learning?
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  • A key element in any directed learning environment is the assessment of competence in that knowledge.
  • The first step — “knows” — is knowledge about a subject, such as recalling facts. The second is to “know how” to use the knowledge, such as in analysing a problem. The third step is to demonstrate proficiency in applying the knowledge — “shows how”.
  • The fourth step is to see how the knowledge is integrated into the real world.
  • The final step, “mastery”, refers to the competence of an expert who teaches the next generation.
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A framework for mobile learning | Places: Evaluating Mobile Learning - 0 views

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    For IDs, Eveleen and Yeu Ann... here's an article on mobile learning framework for your reference and info.
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How I use my iPhone and iPad as a college math teacher - 0 views

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    Provides a list of useful apps
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8 Outstanding iPad Apps to Create Tutorials and Flip your Classroom ~ Educational Techn... - 1 views

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    For IDs, VCDs and Henry: here's some ipad apps for flipping classroom.
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Given Tablets But No Teachers, Ethiopian Kids Teach Themselves - 1 views

  • Earlier this year, OLPC workers dropped off closed boxes containing the tablets, taped shut, with no instruction. “I thought the kids would play with the boxes. Within four minutes, one kid not only opened the box, found the on-off switch … powered it up. Within five days, they were using 47 apps per child, per day. Within two weeks, they were singing ABC songs in the village, and within five months, they had hacked Android,” Negroponte said. “Some idiot in our organization or in the Media Lab had disabled the camera, and they figured out the camera, and had hacked Android.”
  • Children there had never previously seen printed materials, road signs, or even packaging that had words on them, Negroponte said.
  • “If they can learn to read, then they can read to learn.”
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Project Noah - 0 views

  • Project Noah is a tool to explore and document wildlife and a platform to harness the power of citizen scientists everywhere
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    Very interesting! How can we apply this to other kinds of topics?
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Projects | Navigator - 2 views

  • This section of Navigator is the entryway to the extensive listings of vetted projects exploring uses of emerging technologies contained in the Horizon Project data set — easily the largest database of its kind in the world.
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    A great site that we can browse through for e-learning projects that explores emerging technologies, including mobile tech.
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Useful Handcrafted Videos | Common Craft - 1 views

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    Common Craft videos have helped teachers and trainers delight millions by making complex ideas easy to understand.
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Elearning Online Courses: Using Fonts Effectively | education research - 0 views

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    The way a course for e-learning looks online affects how well the content is being communicated to the learners. Fonts are important visual design elements that has the power to engage learners. This short article elaborate the importance of using them effectively.
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Apps in Education: Apps to Use as Student ePortfolios - 3 views

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    For eportfolio team, reference for mobile project
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Five Essential Skills for the Facebook Era - IEEE Spectrum - 0 views

  • “If print culture shaped the environment from which the Enlightenment blossomed and set the scene for the Industrial Revolution, participatory media might similarly forge the cognitive and social environments in which 21st-century life will take place.”
  • the “literacy of participation,” and I guess this consists of the social norms of social media. What are they, and why are they so important?
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    Insightful audio interview. The interviewee mentions about the "literacy of participation" as a key factor in the upcoming shifts in our cognitive and social environments of the 21st century.
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Tony Vincent's Learning in Hand - Blog - Make Your Podcast Sticky [Infographic] - 0 views

  • Sticky ideas are ones that we can plainly understand, clearly remember, and easily retell. When teachers and students make educational podcasts, whether audio or video, we want them to be sticky.
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