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Aaron Davis

George Siemens Gets Connected - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

  • Learning is not just about the content of a lesson. It is about belonging to a community.
  • "If you're always moving away from something, you'll be lost," Mr. Siemens remembers a priest telling him. "Always be moving toward something."
  • "For me, we can't even talk like that," Mr. Cormier tells me. "It's messy, and it's always going to be messy, and those sort of clean lines are not even something we should strive for."
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  • "If you care about it," he tells me, "you should make it something that can outlast you, that people can make their own."
  • 'Knowledge is ambiguous, you have to be able to understand that what the teacher tells you is a guidepost, a framework for you to develop your thinking,'
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    An interesting piece on George Siemens and Connectivism. Good background to MOOC's and how the original concept is different from that offered by companies such as Coursera and edX.
Shelly Terrell

Why teach MOOCs - MOOCs as a selfish enterprise (talk at MIT) - YouTube - 2 views

Tony Richards

Mitch Resnick: Let's teach kids to code | Video on TED.com - 2 views

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    "Mitch Resnick: Let's teach kids to code"
Tony Richards

YouTube reportedly building a version for kids under 10 years old - TechSpot - 3 views

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    "The content hosted on Youtube is pretty diverse. But while diversity is good, not all videos are suitable for all ages, especially for the younger ones. According to a  report published by The Information, the video site is developing a children-friendly version designed specifically for children under ten years old. Google has already started talking to video producers who are interested in creating video content for kids, the report says."
oompfh

Don't just write a resume, write a story! - 1 views

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    Since beginning humans get mesmerized with stories. They enjoy every part of it but only if it's interesting. A good story can create a memorable impact on the listener. Don't get surprised, yes we are going to talk about resumes only! Get more and more career oriented tips from our team of professional by login into www.oompfh.com
Roland Gesthuizen

Sugata Mitra: The child-driven education | Video on TED.com - 2 views

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    "Education scientist Sugata Mitra tackles one of the greatest problems of education -- the best teachers and schools don't exist where they're needed most. In a series of real-life experiments from New Delhi to South Africa to Italy, he gave kids self-supervised access to the web and saw results that could revolutionize how we think about teaching."
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    Sugata Mitra's "Hole in the Wall" experiments examine what students can self learn with computer technology.
Debra Hicks

Joachim de Posada says, Don't eat the marshmallow yet - 1 views

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    A great six minute video on TED.com that looks at future success. Love the little girl who just can't put that marshmallow down! Wonder what the implications are for us as educators?
Clay Leben

Home for webReader - 1 views

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    Add webReader text to voice page reader to a personal blog or web site for free. Plugin for Wordpress, Drupal, and Joomla.
Shelly Terrell

Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world | Video on TED.com - 4 views

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    "Games like World of Warcraft give players the means to save worlds, and incentive to learn the habits of heroes. What if we could harness this gamer power to solve real-world problems? Jane McGonigal says we can, and explains how."
Clay Leben

Fotobabble - Talking Photos - 4 views

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    Record your voice with photos. Create a slideshow. New Facebook app for fan pages. Embed on web pages. Great for storytelling.
Tony Richards

Are Ideals Really Ideal? - Finding Common Ground - Education Week - 0 views

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    "Recently, as a part of the Ed Tech Crew Christmas Hangout, Darren Murphy posed the question, what would your ideal school be? It got me wondering, what does the talk of ideals really achieve?"
Roland Gesthuizen

Reading Writing Responding: Tinkering, Passion and the Wildfire that is Learning - 0 views

  • whether you are creating an environment where learning can take flight - dry kindling, tall trees - or are you creating an environment where, with a lot of damp branches, there is a lot of smoke, but little fire?
  • As +George Siemens suggests while talking about connectivism as an answer for the digital age, "learning is a process that occurs within nebulous environments of shifting core elements – not entirely under the control of the individual."
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    "In a fantastic discussion as a part of +Ed Tech Crew Episode 240 focusing on what it takes to be an IT co-ordinator, +Ashley Proud spoke about the demise in tinkering amongst students. Although +Mel Cashen and +Roland Gesthuizen mentioned about taking things a part, giving the conversation a more mechanical theme, I feel that tinkering is best understood as a wider curiosity into the way things work."
Rhondda Powling

Getting Started with Google Classroom - Instructional Tech Talk - 0 views

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    " This article tries to break down the 'Getting Started' aspects of Google Classroom and point out important features along the way."
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