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no sólo una mejora del aprendizaje con e-learning, si no un cambio en la preparación, costo y validación de: materiales, contenidos, herramientas…que puedan servir para buscar la excelencia en los usuarios y en su aprendizaje.

Sin embargo muy a menudo, hay múltiples fuentes de e-learning, con material en distintos lugares web (recursos corpus abierto) que cubren el mismo tema, pero se diferencian en términos de calidad, formato y equilibrio en los costes. Es muy difícil para los estudiantes seleccionar los contenidos que mejor se adapte a sus intereses y objetivos, las características del dispositivo utilizado y red de distribución, así como su presupuesto de gastos.

We need to play with media to become more effective communicators

As you learn to play with digital text, images, audio and video, you will communicate more creatively and flexibly with a wider variety of options

Although written primarily for educators, anyone who is interested in learning more about digital communication will learn something new from this book. As children, we learn to progressively make sense of our confusing world through play. The same dynamics apply to us as adults communicating with new and different media forms.

One of the issues I still cannot get answered is whether “elearning” on tablets should be “mlearning

easiest way to answer this question would be to say Yes

Mobile and by extension mobile learning is about a new mindset, a new attitude, is almost about unlearning everything we know, and inventing new ways of doing things and having fun along the way.

Share student work.  Parents don’t go to a Christmas Concert to see the teacher; they go to see their child.  If you give them opportunities to see different work from students, they are more likely to be interested in the places you are communicating then by simply posting homework assignments.  Make opportunities for parents to look at the learning and creation that is happening in schools to make it more meaningful for them.

Make Your Grandparents Proud

I saw a banner posted in the hallway of an elementary school this week that read, “Is This Your Best Work? Make Your Grandparents Proud.”

this school community is helping children build habits of meaningful self-reflection and consistent good effort, and teaching them to show and share pride in their learning.

The Library 2.012 virtual conference (to be held October 3 - 5, 2012) call for proposals end tomorrow, 15 September.  The conference is free and held online with events to suite different time zones. The broad theme is "the current and future state of libraries. Subject strands include physical and virtual learning spaces, evolving professional roles in today's world, organizing and creating information, changing delivery methods, user-centered access, and mobile and geo-social information environments." There are already a number of accepted proposals about information literacy. http://www.library20.com/page/2-012-conference Photo by Sheila Webber: washing on the line in what seems like it was the last of summer, a few days ago

Human teachers and tutors are susceptible to what cognitive scientists call the “expert blind spot” — once we’ve mastered a body of knowledge, it’s hard to imagine what novices don’t know — but computers have no such mental block.

A computer never gets impatient or annoyed. But it never gets excited or enthusiastic either.

SSISTments and other computerized tutoring systems have focused primarily on math, a subject suited to computers’ binary language.

We need to look at the whole world of communication in a more complete way. We need to take art and music out of "the arts class" and put it into the English class. For instance, the various forms of communication form a circle. On one end of this circle is math, the least emotional of all forms of communication. It's very strict and very concise, and has a very precise way of explaining something. Then you start moving around the circle, and you get to the other end, where we have music, which primarily appeals to your emotions, not to your intellect. So, in this great circle of communication, you go from the emotional end of music and painting and art -- the visual forms of communication -- to the written communication and spoken communication. Finally, you end up at math, which is the most precise. It forms a beautiful circle of communication. But it's all part of the same circle. All these forms of communication are extremely important, and they should be treated that way. Unfortunately, we've moved away from teaching the emotional forms of communication. But if you want to get along in this world, you need to have a heightened sense of emotional intelligence, which is the equal of your intellectual intelligence. One of my concerns is that we're advancing intellectually very fast, but we're not advancing emotionally as quickly.

hey need to understand a new language of expression

Does technology have a positive impact on teaching and learning?

Overall we found strong evidence that educational technology complements what a great teacher does naturally.

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But in reality, concepts and facts require different approaches and different learning strategies.

Concept maps can be read as sentences starting from the main idea and working out along the sub-paths.

Concept mapping serves several purposes, helping students: -Brainstorm and generate new ideas -Discover new concepts and label propositions that connect them -More clearly communicate ideas, thoughts and information -Integrate new concepts with older concepts

Jack Shulze of Berg says the map exploits today's higher levels of visual literacy from games, television and comics. Part of his purpose, he says, was "an exploration into way-finding devices." He writes about his influences here. It's a great image. To me it's also a great metaphor for one of statistics' all-time headaches: how to make aggregate data that describes whole populations, their lives, chances and risks, feel real and relevant to everyone's sense of "me, here, now".