The NMC is pleased to announce the interim results of the 2013 Horizon.K12 Project, as presented at the 2013 CoSN Conference in San Diego. The Horizon Project Advisory Board voted for the top 12 emerging technologies as well as the top ten trends and challenges that they believe will have a significant impact on teaching, learning, and creative inquiry in global K-12 education over the next five years. These initial results will be compiled into an interim report, known as the "Short List," and described in further detail.
The "Time-to-Adoption Horizon" indicates how long the Advisory Board feels it will be until a significant number of schools are providing or using each of these technologies or approaches broadly.
Near-Term Horizon: One Year or Less
* BYOD (Bring Your Own Device)
* Cloud Computing
* Mobile Learning
* Online Learning
Mid-Term Horizon: Two to Three Years
* Adaptive Learning and Personal Learning Networks
* Electronic Publishing
* Learning Analytics
* Open Content
Long-Term Horizon: Four to Five Years
* 3D Printing
* Augmented Reality
* Virtual and Remote Laboratories
* Wearable Technology
In October, Fabien Cousteau (grandson of famed explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau) will be leading a record-breaking marine expedition known as Mission 31 living underwater in the Aquarius Laboratory for 31 days and spending 6-9 hours per day exploring the ocean.
The first of two episodes with Mitchel Resnick, LEGO Professor of Learning Research, head of the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Laboratory.
"Through an exciting partnership between NCNSP and the multi-campus University of
North Carolina, four innovative high schools within North Carolina will become
learning laboratories capable of hosting educators and others eager to see
teaching and learning at high levels by all students."
In each topic, you will find a laboratory exercise, and brief description of the histological material.
Includes cytology, epithelium, connective tissue, cartilage, bone and bone formation, blood, hematopoeisis, muscle, nervous tissue, cardiovascular system, lympathic and immune system, integument, upper GI, lower GI, liver, gallbladder, pancreas, respiratory system, urinary system, endocrine, male reproductive, female reproductive
We are all time travelers... drifting through time at a steady pace, one moment at a time. In what direction are we moving through time? Or does time move through us? How many dimensions of time are there? Though slightly allegorical, three-dimensional time offers physics new parameters, accounting for conventional and exotic physical phenomena, while maintaining the conservation of energy and symmetry groups found in physical law.
I began playing with the idea that all of physics could be reduced to just interactions between spatial and temporal coordinates. I wondered if inertia and momentum might be composed strictly of temporal components. This would require extra time dimensions. Could inertia or momentum be used as indicators of multi-dimensional time? What about charge, spin, and other properties of matter? Answers to some of these questions appeared to reside in neutrino research, specifically neutrino flavor oscillation.
The universality between Thermodynamics and Temporal Mechanics can reduce the fundamental forces of nature into a single expression, a new equivalence principle, which can be used as the generator for the evolution of time.
Once Quantum Mechanics is seen through the lens of three-dimensional time, the EPR paradox looses its mystique. The speed of light may be restricted to a set speed limit within each individual frame of reference, however, frames of reference can undergo periods-of-time at varying rates of the passage-of-time.
If the positive side of absolute zero is a state of condensed matter, what is on the negative side of absolute zero? Uncondensed matter?
The anti-matter aspect of the Dirac equations may have been misinterpreted. The convention is to assume that "matter" is composed of "particles" distinctly different from "antimatter" composed of "antiparticles". The assumption of one time dimension locks in this interpretation of the Dirac Equations. However, the uniform production of particles and antipa
ipl2: Information You Can Trust features a searchable, subject-categorized directory of authoritative websites; links to online texts, newspapers, and magazines; and the Ask an ipl2 Librarian online reference service.
Digital library with online collections and an e-mail question-answering service used as a teaching and learning laboratory for library and information science graduate students.
Here you'll find detailed descriptions of the activities of the Mobility and Robotic Systems Section, as well as related robotics efforts around the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. We are approximately 100 engineers working on all aspects of robotics for space exploration and related terrestrial applications.
Answer explanation is almost as important as mathematic problem solving. If we really want to know if a student understands ANY concept, we need to ask him/her to write their explanation. Sometimes the understanding comes from the thinking required to do the writing - writing to make it make sense!
Wow! I think the concept of doing less of something in order to make time for experimentation is a fabulous idea! Do you mean there are different aspects of student assessment and testing beyond a bubble sheet? :)
Most of them have studied psychology, teaching methods, curriculum theories, assessment models, and classroom management researched and designed in the United States
Finland's successful practices are something they learned here in the U.S. So, why aren't our teachers here in the U.S. employing those same practices successfully?
Professional development and school improvement courses and programs often include visitors from the U.S. universities to teach and work with Finnish teachers and leaders.
in an ideal classroom, pupils speak more than the teacher
the entire Finnish school system looks like John Dewey’s laboratory school in the U.S.
cooperative learning has become a pedagogical approach that is widely practiced throughout Finnish education system
Finnish teachers believe that over 90 percent of students can learn successfully in their own classrooms if given the opportunity to evolve in a holistic manner.
After abolishing all streaming and tracking of students in the mid-1980s, both education policies and school practices adopted the principle that all children have different kinds of intelligences and that schools must find ways how to cultivate these different individual aspects in balanced ways.
it is ironic that many of these methods were developed at U.S. universities and are yet far more popular in Finland than in the United States. These include portfolio assessment, performance assessment, self-assessment and self-reflection, and assessment for learning methods.
Alternative assessments! Performance, portfolio, self-assessment, self-reflection, and assessment of learning methods...
Peer coaching—that is, a confidential process through which teachers work together to reflect on current practices, expand, improve, and learn new skills, exchange ideas, conduct classroom research and solve problems together in school
Working together and reflecting on current practices - Reflection helps to expand, improve, and provides an opportunity to learn and exchange ideas to solve problems
the work of the school in the United States is so much steered by bureaucracies, test-based accountability and competition that schools are simply doing what they must do
Sadness Abounds! We are teaching folks what works best. Then, they enter the classroom and get wrapped up in bureaucracies and test-based accountability to the point that teachers are just going through the motions instead of facilitating quality learning
Pasi Sahlberg Blog Finnish education reform Originally published in Washington Post, 24 July 2014 An intriguing question whether innovation in education can be measured has an answer now. The Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development in its recent report "Measuring Innovation in Education: A New Perspective, Educational Research and Innovation" measures Innovation in Education in 22 countries and 6 jurisdictions, among them the U.S.