This Will Revolutionize Education - YouTube - 2 views
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Ivan Beeckmans on 16 Dec 14Great video that discusses the importance of teachers.
"It's not something that can be ignored or defended against,"
Contents contributed and discussions participated by Ivan Beeckmans
Oppia - Home - 2 views
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Google's foray into the online feedback as you go realm. Another step towards individualized learning?
Difference Engine: Obituary for software patents | The Economist - 0 views
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A fairly detailed account of some progress on the issue of software patents. New Zealand is highlighted for their forward thinking on this issue. Finally, trolls may find themselves being counter sued and progress may be the beneficiary.
How Is a Bad Radio Station Like Our Public-School System? (Encore) - WNYC - 0 views
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This podcast might be old (Dec, 2011), but it certainly describes one aspect of what we talk about in COETIAL - individualized learning. Like Pandora's effect on listening to radio, individualized learning is going to revolutionize education. The question is when. Podcast is definitely worth listening to.
Alternative art schools: a threat to universities? | Education | The Guardian - 1 views
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The problem is [university departments] continue to get worse as they lose sight of what an art school needs to be.
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heir recent proliferation has been driven by the rise in fees and a growing disillusionment with university art education
How a Radical New Teaching Method Could Unleash a Generation of Geniuses | Wired Busine... - 3 views
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"Sergio Juárez Correa"
Is 1:1 the New One Size Fits All? - Getting Smart by Stacy Hawthorne - 2 views
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Just like a carpenter chooses the right tool for the job, our students should have the opportunity to choose the right technology for their needs.
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three different classes and we clearly need three different devices for our students.
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As I listened to the conversation this week it struck me how much we handcuff students and teachers when we tell them what technology they are required to use.
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Interesting look at a new 'one size fits all' problem.
An A+ student regrets his grades - The Globe and Mail - 0 views
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Valuing success above all else is a problem plaguing the schooling systems, at all levels, of many countries including Canada and the United States, and undermining those very qualities that are meant to foster an educated and skillful society.
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but I mistakenly defined achievement in a way most do: with my GPA.
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The academic portion of my high school life was spent in the wrong way, with cloudy motivations. I treated schooling and education synonymously. I had been directed not by my inner voice, but by societal pressures that limited my ability to foster personal creativity.
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Granted, this is not about digital technology, but it could be part of the fuel to light the fire for change. What do we do when we fall so short of helping almost anyone foster a passion for learning? The quotes here are memorable and relevant: the writer is currently in university.
C. M. Rubin: The Global Search for Education: What Will Finland Do Next? - 2 views
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I think that the U.S. school system would benefit from a dual system in high school where young people who are interested in doing or making things with their hands, for instance, could have high quality vocational programs or schools that would equip them with the skills they need to find jobs or employ themselves.
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First, curriculum in vocational schools was adjusted closer to the standards of academic high school.
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Second, a significant proportion of vocational studies was shifted to real work places where students are able to learn in practice the knowledge and skills they need in their future jobs.
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Some interesting comments of regarding the future of schools...if that is what we continue to call them.
Manifesto for education change | Connected Principals - 3 views
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We need to train teachers to know how to maximise benefits of online learning. We need to re-shape online learning space and make it personalised, engaging & suited to the task.
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Will schools have a role into the future? Yes! Schools should be the core functional, relational communities of society.
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Physical space is just as important as virtual and/or pedagogic space. Kill off desks, chairs and lockers.
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Gangnam Style Shows What Can Happen When You Don't Lean On Copyright | Techdirt - 0 views
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Another, appropriate in my view, look at copyright. Maybe the patent and copyright offices SHOULD close and put a lot of lawyers out of work :)
Five-Minute Film Festival: Teaching Digital Citizenship | Edutopia - 1 views
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A great synopsis of the Digital Citizenship question.
Education Week: Educators Evaluate 'Flipped Classrooms' - 1 views
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Deb Wolf, a high school instructional coach for the 24,000-student Sioux Falls district in South Dakota - Look into her as a resource
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Discusses the pros and cons - note the "Tips for Flipping" on the right
Flipped Classroom - 0 views
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A good summary of the Flipped Classroom phenomena
University? There's an app for that - Technology - Macleans.ca - 0 views
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Even more surprising: while the course content could be viewed on a computer screen or tablet, it would be designed, first and foremost, for smartphones—making the “classroom” entirely mobile and available anytime, anywhere.
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And the target audience is just as compelling: developing countries, where there are millions of individuals who want an education but can’t afford it or access it locally—and where smartphones are common.
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The first users will be in China, where demand for North American education is high—850,000 students come here annually to learn.
It's Time for a New Kind of High School| The Committed Sardine - 0 views
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In Indiana University's 2007 High School Survey of Student Engagement, 73 percent of the respondents said, "I didn't like the school"; 61 percent said, "I didn't like the teachers"; and 60 percent said, "I didn't see the value in the work I was being asked to do." About 30 percent of the students indicated they were bored because of a lack of interaction with teachers, and 75 percent reported that the "material being taught is not interesting."
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Despite what we now know about the power of learning through talking and doing, we persist in expecting students to learn by listening. The present disparity between teacher and student talk time is a profound hindrance to learning.
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a grade 7/8 half-day school/work internship;
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The Dean's List: 50 Must-Read Higher Education Technology Blogs | EdTech Magazine - 0 views
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A list of possible people to follow
TeachPaperless: The Problem with TED Ed - 1 views
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An interesting post about the need for more doing in order to really learn.
Ivan Beeckmans