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yeuann

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.
Sally Loan

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.
bernard tan

3G powers Singapore school's 21st century classroom - 1 views

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    NIE is mentioned in this article talking about mobile technology in schools. And the platform chosen was Windows.... The National Institute of Education of Singapore is assisting teachers with the development of customized curriculum in English, Science and Chinese that leverages the benefits of mobile, Internet-connected, learning devices and provides students with new learning opportunities that are not possible with paper and pencil. We co-design technology enabled lessons with the teachers and provide professional development to teachers that enable them to enact lessons using smartphones. It is critical to empower teachers to orchestrate the transformed classroom to support students' personalized learning," says Professor Looi Chee Kit of the National Institute of Education. All smartphones are equipped with MyDesk, a next-generation mobile learning platform tailored to leverage the capabilities of Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system. MyDesk enables each student to access his or her assignments, relevant websites that contain podcasts, textual material and video clips and educational applications, such as concept mapping, drawing and animating, to practice both self-directed and collaborative learning.
yeuann

IASC: The Hedgehog Review - Volume 14, No. 1 (Spring 2012) - Why Google Isn't... - 0 views

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    A very interesting journal essay that points out how info overload is not a new problem, but one that has existed ever since the first books. The writer examines how people in the previous centuries used the then-new technology of printing to help them handle the "plague of books" that was overwhelming their libraries. He then reminds us, that at the core of it all, it is not the technology itself that enables and empowers learning, but an ecology of human-tech interaction that helps us learn more effectively in today's Toffler-esque world. A fascinating read indeed. A more readable PDF version: http://www.iasc-culture.org/THR/archives/Spring2012/Wellmon_lo.pdf
Rachel Tan

An online badge of success | - The Providence Journal - 0 views

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    A "digital badge" of achievement.for your 21st-century learning credentials - will this concept catch on in Singapore ?
yeuann

An iPhone Compass Designed to Let You Stumble Into Adventures - 0 views

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    Instead of a compass telling you exactly which direction to go, it acts as a facilitator, allowing you to work out your own route - and discover new things along the way. This can serve as a metaphor for our 21st-century style of facilitated and directed e-learning. How can we use and even reverse the default affordances of a mobile phone to enhance exploratory and creative learning? Based on the above reflection, here's one random idea for stimulating creative learning using mobile apps: - Language: As you walk along a path, the phone automatically generates a "cloud" of words extracted from geolocated tweets associated with the location that you are currently on, and invites you to contribute your own tweets about your own location.
Kartini Ishak

Promoting the use Social Media in my classes for developing 21st century skills | Starr... - 0 views

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    As we move forward in education and the world continues to grow technologically it is incumbent upon the institutions that educate our children to make social media and technology available and a part of their learning every day.
Pratima Majal

Instead Of Tests, Video Games To Assess Student Learning - 2 views

  • srooms. The Gainesville Sun reports that the University of Florida is offering an online course called "21st Century Skills in StarCraft," which requires student to play the real-time, multi-player online strategy game "StarCraft" for up to two hours per week.
  • University of Florida is offering an online course called "21st Century Skills in StarCraft," which requires student to play the real-time, multi-player online strategy game "StarCraft" for up to two hours per week.
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    Thanks for sharing this. It's something I might be able to use for my trainees next semester. BTW, gaming as tests is news only to the layperson. Gamers and educators/researchers involved with gaming know that games are mainly a series of tests! People can't get over the idea that you can actually enjoy yourself taking tests.
Ashley Tan

How YouTube is Part of a Global Economic Transformation - 0 views

  • YouTube announced a new batch of partners that were added to its Education Channel today and noted that nearly 80% of the viewership of educational content on the site came from outside the United States. Less than 70% of the site's total traffic is International, so the educational content is disproportionately viewed by global audiences. Both YouTube and iTunes U are serving up huge quantities of educational content to a world already in the throes of a 50 year revolution in global education. In some ways they represent exactly the kind of education that a new world needs, too: learning that augments existing education and fosters life-long development of non-routine analytical and interactive skills. That's a recipe for good times. YouTube now hosts more than 500,000 educational videos, on a wide variety of topics. The new mobile-friendly iTunes U also offers 500,000 educational resources and says that 60% of its viewership comes from outside the United States. This global consuption of US-created online educational content may be the newest chapter in a radical transformation of global education over the past 50 years. Life in this world is not like it used to be just a few decades ago, and the availability of world-class education on-demand, at almost no cost, is likely to help things change all the more as this century unfolds.
  • A trend began, at least in the United states, as far back as 1985: demand for "routine manual skills" has held relatively steady, demand for non-routine manual skills has plummeted. Demand for routine cognitive skills climbed through 1970, then fell. What's hot? Non-routine analytic and non-routine interactive skills. Those are things that a good YouTube or iTunes U video about world history or global ecology can help improve, your non-routine analytic and interactive skills. More than for just economic well-being, those are skills that positively impact quality of life in many ways.
wittyben

Flipping The Classroom… A Goldmine of Research and Resources To Keep You On Y... - 2 views

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    For Henry & the rest who are interested in flipping the classroom...
wittyben

30 Trends In Education Technology For 2015 - 0 views

  • Rethinking data in the classroom
  • Adaptive learning algorithms
  • Experimentation with new learning models (including flipped classroom, sync learning, blended learning, etc.)
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  • Teacher self-directed PD, webinars, streams, etc.
  • Focus on learning spaces
  • Design thinking
  • Gamification of content
  • Genius hour, maker hour, collaboration time
  • Workflows
  • YouTube channels, Google Chromecast, AppleTV
  • Google Drive
  • Google
  • Professional Learning Communities
  • Traditional reading lists of truly great literature
  • Pure creativity
  • Self-directed learning
  • Massive in-person education conferences
  • The physical design of most school buildings and universities
  • Memorization of prioritized content that leads to design thinking
  • Gamification-as-grading-system
  • Cloud-based learning
  • Apps like Prezi
  • Moving from one OS to another (e.g., from Android to Windows Phone)
  • Socioeconomic disparity
  • Mobile learning
  • Mobile assessment
  • Mass education publishers
  • Data Teams
  • “21st century learning” as a phrase or single idea
  • MOOCs
  • Increased “instructional hours”
  • Standards-based grading; pass/fail; student retention
  • Pressure on teachers
  • The traditional classroom
  • Whole class processes
  • Flash drives, hard drives, CDs, emailing files
  • Alternative schools/classrooms for special needs students
  • Apple-centric thinking
  • Apps like PowerPoint
  • Cable television, subscription-based content streaming
  • Oversimplifying BYOD thinking
  • “Doing projects”
  • In-app purchase gouging
  • Dropbox
  • Mobilizing non-mobile content
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    Tech in edu trends you might be interested to know...
Shamini Thilarajah

The LoTi Connection - 0 views

  • The Levels of Teaching Innovation (LoTi) Framework was first conceptualized by Dr. Chris Moersch in 1994 as a research tool to assess authentic classroom technology use.
  • measure classroom teachers implementation of the tenets of digital-age literacy
  • The LoTi Framework focuses on the delicate balance between instruction, assessment, and the effective use of digital tools and resources to promote higher order thinking, engaged student learning, and authentic assessment practices in the classroom--all vital characteristics of 21st Century teaching and learning.
Shamini Thilarajah

Glogster EDU - 21st century multimedia tool for educators, teachers and students | Text... - 0 views

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    Glog = Graphics + Blog
Eveleen Er

5 mobile apps that could kill business cards - 0 views

  • Business cards are an important part of life, helping us quickly swap contact details and turn a brief meeting into a valuable long-term contact
  • The thing is, business cards are so 20th Century. There are now a number of companies vying to replace them with far more tech savvy solutions. If you’re tired of getting having to take a box of cards around wherever you go, here are five solutions to try
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