Skip to main content

Home/ educators/ Group items tagged free learning

Rss Feed Group items tagged

Filter: All | Bookmarks | Topics Simple Middle
1More

Home/IWitness:Video testimonies from Holocaust survivors and witnesses - 0 views

iwitness.usc.edu/SFI history history_teacher education news
shared by Vicki Davis on 21 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 21 Oct 13
     
    Students across the country have already started working on their IWitness Challenge project sponsored by the USC Shoah Foundation - The Institute for Visual History and Education, but there's still time for youngsters in your community to enter this free online program geared to all secondary-school students. The deadline to enter the Challenge is Dec. 2, 2013. The winning student, along with their teacher and a family member will be brought to Los Angeles to showcase their work as part of the 20th anniversary activities for the Shoah Foundation, which was founded by director Steven Spielberg in 1994 after making "Schindler's List." Tthe IWitness Challenge (iwitness.usc.edu) connects students with the past in a very personal way that spurs them to take action to improve the future. With access to many of the Shoah Foundation's 52,000 testimonies of survivors, liberators and rescuers, students experience history in a way that hits home. Instead of reading facts from textbooks, students feel the emotions and build relationships with those who lived through seemingly impossible situations. But students do more than watch the testimony. The IWitness Challenge compels them to think, to make smart choices and to create their own project and video from what they've learned. By encouraging teachers and students to create their own lesson plans, IWitness allows them to expand on practically any subject they wish to pursue. From civics, government and history to poetry, art and ethics, educators can tailor lessons appropriate for their classrooms. And by using the embedded editor, participants not only learn valuable searching and editing skills, but also how to make ethical editing decisions that ensure their finished assignments are a fair and accurate reflection of what they've seen. All work is kept safe inside the IWitness site and not accessible to the public. Using IWitness is free, but teachers or homeschool parents must register at iwitness.usc.edu.
1More

TASITE free software - 0 views

www.tasite.tas.edu.au/freesoftware.htm free software top tools teachers learning web 2.0
shared by Ruth Howard on 10 Jul 09 - Cached
  • Ruth Howard on 10 Jul 09
     
    2009, Tasmanian educators shared ideas on free software for education. A list of useful software was assembled and an online survey was developed. Iinterested educators began to rate the free tools, and new suggestions were added. Finally, after several weeks, a list of the "Top 10" free tools for education had emerged based on rankings by Australian teachers. And so, colleagues, to the top 15 (there were several cases where the difference in votes was too close to call, so the 10 became 15)
1More

SIGML Partners with ISTE and Verizon Innovative Learning Schools Program Virt... - 0 views

sigml.org/...bile-learning-topic-tweetchats education news twitterchat free twitter
shared by Vicki Davis on 05 Feb 14 - No Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 05 Feb 14
     
    February 11, the Special Interest Group for Mobile Learning #sigml will be hosting tweetchats during the day about a variety of topics. Sylvia Martinez and I will be talking about the maker movement at 5 pm that day. Sylvia is coauthor of the amazing book "Invent2Learn" -- a must read for those interested in the maker movement. There are many others including Scott Merrick, Susan Wells and more who are sharing that day.
1More

Innovative Learning - Free Newsletter Fall 2009 - 24 views

issuu.com/...fall_newsletter-_2009 education opensim reactiongrid ipod iphone iste learning edu_news edu_trends
shared by Vicki Davis on 06 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 06 Nov 09
     
    This phenomenal special interest group of ISTE has a great quarterly newsletter which is really the best of innovative learning in all of education. On pages 15-17 there are three pages of an article from two of my students and I about teaching in a virtual world including my "quick tricks for teaching in a virtual world." Print this, share it, and learn - so many great things in this newsletter!
1More

About Chinese Language and way to learn Chinese Language - 1 views

chinesesphere.posterous.com/e-and-way-to-learn-chine-12899 Chinese language material Chinese schools Learn Chinese numbers free chinese lessons how to learn chinese lean chinese online live lessons online Chinese schools online chinese lessons what is chinese
shared by Sable Smith on 24 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Sable Smith on 24 Oct 11
     
    This article is regarding the Chinese Language and Chinese Culture. The Chinese language combines the culture of one of the oldest civilizations with the simplicity and beautiful strokes of character symbols. And the history of Chinese Language. And also focus on different way to learn Chinese Language. I hope you enjoy.
22More

The academy's neoliberal response to COVID-19: Why faculty should be wary and... - 1 views

academicmatters.ca/eoliberal-response-to-covid-19 Canada education online neoliberalism capitalism opinion analysis pandemics
shared by Ed Webb on 29 May 20 - No Cached
  • In the neoliberal economy, workers are seen as commodities and are expected to be trained and “work-ready” before they are hired. The cost and responsibility for job-training fall predominantly on individual workers rather than on employers. This is evident in the expectation that work experience should be a condition of hiring. This is true of the academic hiring process, which no longer involves hiring those who show promise in their field and can be apprenticed on the tenure track, but rather those with the means, privilege, and grit to assemble a tenurable CV on their own dime and arrive to the tenure track work-ready.
  • The assumption that faculty are pre-trained, or able to train themselves without additional time and support, underpins university directives that faculty move classes online without investing in training to support faculty in this shift. For context, at the University of Waterloo, the normal supports for developing an online course include one to two course releases, 12-18 months of preparation time, and the help of three staff members—one of whom is an online learning consultant, and each of whom supports only about two other courses. Instead, at universities across Canada, the move online under COVID-19 is not called “online teaching” but “remote teaching”, which universities seem to think absolves them of the responsibility to give faculty sufficient technological training, pedagogical consultation, and preparation time.
  • faculty are encouraged to strip away the transformative pedagogical work that has long been part of their profession and to merely administer a course or deliver course material
  • ...19 more annotations...
  • remote teaching directives are rooted in the assumption that faculty are equally positioned to carry them out
  • The dual delivery model—in which some students in a course come to class and others work remotely using pre-recorded or other asynchronous course material—is already part of a number of university plans for the fall, even though it requires vastly more work than either in-person or remote courses alone. The failure to accommodate faculty who are not well positioned to transform their courses from in-person to remote teaching—or some combination of the two— will actively exacerbate existing inequalities, marking a step backward for equity.
  • Neoliberal democracy is characterized by competitive individualism and centres on the individual advocacy of ostensibly equal citizens through their vote with no common social or political goals. By extension, group identity and collective advocacy are delegitimized as undemocratic attempts to gain more of a say than those involved would otherwise have as individuals.
  • Portraying people as atomized individuals allows social problems to be framed as individual failures
  • faculty are increasingly encouraged to see themselves as competitors who must maintain a constant level of productivity and act as entrepreneurs to sell ideas to potential investors in the form of external funding agencies or private commercial interests. Rather than freedom of enquiry, faculty research is increasingly monitored through performance metrics. Academic governance is being replaced by corporate governance models while faculty and faculty associations are no longer being respected for the integral role they play in the governance process, but are instead considered to be a stakeholder akin to alumni associations or capital investors.
  • treats structural and pedagogical barriers as minor individual technical or administrative problems that the instructor can overcome simply by watching more Zoom webinars and practising better self-care.
  • In neoliberal thought, education is merely pursued by individuals who want to invest in skills and credentials that will increase their value in the labour market.
  • A guiding principle of neoliberal thought is that citizens should interact as formal equals, without regard for the substantive inequalities between us. This formal equality makes it difficult to articulate needs that arise from historical injustices, for instance, as marginalized groups are seen merely as stakeholders with views equally valuable to those of other stakeholders. In the neoliberal university, this notion of formal equality can be seen, among other things, in the use of standards and assessments, such as teaching evaluations, that have been shown to be biased against instructors from marginalized groups, and in the disproportionate amount of care and service work that falls to these faculty members.
  • Instead of discussing better Zoom learning techniques, we should collectively ask what teaching in the COVID-19 era would look like if universities valued education and research as essential public goods.
  • while there are still some advocates for the democratic potential of online teaching, there are strong criticisms that pedagogies rooted in well-established understandings of education as a collective, immersive, and empowering experience, through which students learn how to deliberate, collaborate, and interrogate established norms, cannot simply be transferred online
  • Humans learn through narrative, context, empathy, debate, and shared experiences. We are able to open ourselves up enough to ask difficult questions and allow ourselves to be challenged only when we are able to see the humanity in others and when our own humanity is recognized by others. This kind of active learning (as opposed to the passive reception of information) requires the trust, collectivity, and understanding of divergent experiences built through regular synchronous meetings in a shared physical space. This is hindered when classroom interaction is mediated through disembodied video images and temporally delayed chat functions.
  • When teaching is reduced to content delivery, faculty become interchangeable, which raises additional questions about academic freedom. Suggestions have already been made that the workload problem brought on by remote teaching would be mitigated if faculty simply taught existing online courses designed by others. It does not take complex modelling to imagine a new normal in which an undergraduate degree consists solely of downloading and memorizing cookie-cutter course material uploaded by people with no expertise in the area who are administering ten other courses simultaneously. 
  • when teaching is reduced to content delivery, intellectual property takes on additional importance. It is illegal to record and distribute lectures or other course material without the instructor’s permission, but universities seem reluctant to confirm that they will not have the right to use the content faculty post online. For instance, if a contract faculty member spends countless hours designing a remote course for the summer semester and then is laid off in the fall, can the university still use their recorded lectures and other material in the fall? Can the university use this recorded lecture material to continue teaching these courses if faculty are on strike (as happened in the UK in 2018)? What precedents are being set? 
  • Students’ exposure to a range of rigorous thought is also endangered, since it is much easier for students to record and distribute course content when faculty post it online. Some websites are already using the move to remote teaching as an opportunity to urge students to call out and shame faculty they deem to be “liberal” or “left” by reposting their course material. To avoid this, faculty are likely to self-censor, choosing material they feel is safer. Course material will become more generic, which will diminish the quality of students’ education.
  • In neoliberal thought, the public sphere is severely diminished, and the role of the university in the public sphere—and as a public sphere unto itself—is treated as unnecessary. The principle that enquiry and debate are public goods in and of themselves, regardless of their outcome or impact, is devalued, as is the notion that a society’s self-knowledge and self-criticism are crucial to democracy, societal improvement, and the pursuit of the good life. Expert opinion is devalued, and research is desirable only when it translates into gains for the private sector, essentially treating universities as vehicles to channel public funding into private research and development. 
  • The free and broad pursuit—and critique—of knowledge is arguably even more important in times of crisis and rapid social change.
  • Policies that advance neoliberal ideals have long been justified—and opposition to them discredited—using Margaret Thatcher’s famous line that “there is no alternative.” This notion is reproduced in universities framing their responses to COVID-19 as a fait accompli—the inevitable result of unfortunate circumstances. Yet the neoliberal assumptions that underpin these responses illustrate that choices are being made and force us to ask whether the emergency we face necessitates this exact response.
  • The notion that faculty can simply move their courses online—or teach them simultaneously online and in person—is rooted in the assumption that educating involves merely delivering information to students, which can be done just as easily online as it can be in person. There are many well-developed online courses, yet all but the most ardent enthusiasts concede that the format works better for some subjects and some students
  • Emergencies matter. Far from occasions that justify suspending our principles, the way that we handle the extra-ordinary, the unexpected, sends a message about what we truly value. While COVID-19 may seem exceptional, university responses to this crisis are hardly a departure from the neoliberal norm, and university administrations are already making plans to extend online teaching after it dissipates. We must be careful not to send the message that the neoliberal university and the worldview that underpins it are acceptable.
1More

A free tool from Microsoft Learning: LCDS v2.5 - Microsoft Press - Site Home - MSDN Blogs - 9 views

blogs.msdn.com/...rosoft-learning-lcds-v2-5.aspx free a tool learning online media administrator all_teachers web2 techintegrator technology curriculum
shared by Carl Bogardu on 28 Jul 10 - Cached
  • Carl Bogardu on 28 Jul 10
     
    Microsoft's free online course builder.
1More

ePortfolio Workshop - Acrobat X Pro - Atomic Learning - 6 views

www.atomiclearning.com/...eportfolio education eportfolio paperless adobe freeresources edu_news
shared by Vicki Davis on 01 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 01 Dec 11
     
    Free atomic learning on creating eportfolios with Adobe Acrobat X from Atomic Learning.
1More

Sept 17 - Teaching and Learning Weekly | Education Futures | Scoop.it - 2 views

www.scoop.it/...7-teaching-and-learning-weekly teaching learning weekly education news online newspaper
shared by anonymous on 18 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • anonymous on 18 Sep 12
     
    An online newspaper that collects together the week's news relating to teaching and learning - particularly for those interested in finding resources and inspirational stories about education. Read and subscribe free at: http://paper.li/f-1328546324
1More

Sept 3 - Teaching and Learning Weekly is out | Education Futures | Scoop.it - 2 views

www.scoop.it/...ing-and-learning-weekly-is-out teaching learning weekly education teachers resources technology
shared by anonymous on 03 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • anonymous on 03 Sep 12
     
    An online newspaper that collects together the week's news relating to teaching and learning - particularly for those interested in finding resources and inspirational stories about education. Read and subscribe free at:  http://paper.li/f-1328546324
1More

PBS & CR 2.0: Remixing Shakespeare for 21st Century Students - Classroom 2.0 - 0 views

www.classroom20.com/...pbs-cr-20-remixing education learning edu_news
shared by Vicki Davis on 17 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 17 Mar 09
     
    Cool Webinar tomorrow - Live Webinar with the Folger Shakespeare Library on Wednesday, March 18 from 8:00 - 9:30 p.m. Eastern Time (5:00pm start Pacific Time, 12 midnight GMT). Our speakers will present and demonstrate methods for teaching Shakespeare using digital media. The educational activities to be presented were developed by trained workshop leaders and teachers during the Folger's Teaching Shakespeare Institutes and sessions. Participants will learn practical and exciting ways they can incorporate Shakespeare's King Lear and other literary works into history, social studies, English, and language arts instruction. I try to understand why we cannot use these as credits - they are free and they are announced a few days a head of time -- but still, they are valuable learning experiences.
1More

Learn Spanish free online, learn German free... - 0 views

www.vocabulix.com/...eTranslator.MainServlet language learning support
shared by Angela Maiers on 03 Sep 08 - Cached
  • Angela Maiers on 03 Sep 08
     
    Language learning support
1More

Education Week: Digital Edition: E-Learning for Special Populations - 0 views

www.edweek.org/...cialpopulationsreport2011.html E-Learning education special populations accessibility edweek
shared by Claude Almansi on 29 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Claude Almansi on 29 Sep 11
     
    "This special report examines the growing e-learning opportunities for students with disabilities, English-language learners, gifted and talented students, and those at risk of failing in school. Download the digital edition. (Login or FREE registration required.) You can read the complete online version of the report here. "
1More

Free Video Clips - Streaming Online Videos - EncycloMedia - 18 views

www.encyclomedia.com Media reference video resources streaming free
shared by Ted Sakshaug on 12 Oct 10 - Cached
  • Ted Sakshaug on 12 Oct 10
     
    EncycloMedia.com™ is a free video encyclopedia that covers everything you need to know or want to learn. If your passion is entertainment, fitness, health, history, nature, people, science, spirituality, religion, or travel - free video encyclopedia provides the access you need.
1More

SpellingCity for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch on the iTunes App Store - 3 views

itunes.apple.com/...id538407602 free ipad iphone ipod touch ipod itunes app vocabulary spelling spellingcity vocabularyspellingcity
shared by Cara Whitehead on 15 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • Cara Whitehead on 15 Sep 13
     
    VocabularySpellingCity is a fun way to learn spelling and vocabulary words by playing engaging learning games using any word list. The most popular activities are Spelling TestMe, HangMouse, and our vocabulary games, available to Premium Members. The most popular word lists are Sound Alikes, Compound Words, Hunger Games and SAT Words. This is a free app!
1More

MATH PRACTICE AND LEARNING PROGRAM - FREE FOR TEACHERS - 27 views

www.tenmarks.com/teachers all_teachers bestpractices edublogger math technology teachers
shared by Dan Sherman on 16 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Dan Sherman on 16 Nov 10
     
    TenMarks is the best math practice and learning program for grades 3-High School and as of today, it's FREE for teachers to use - in class or for their students to use at home. The TenMarks approach gives students a variety of problems on each topic, and ability to use hints if they need a little nudge, and immediate video lessons for them to refresh and learn the topic - on the spot. The end result - students refresh what they know and learn what they don't. Teachers choose their own curriculum (mapped to state standards), assign work to students, have it automatically graded immediately, review individual and class performance, and most importantly, take immediate action. TenMarks is super effective and real easy to use - it was designed with the help of math teachers across the country. What's more - it's FREE for the entire class!
2More

Atomic Learning's eBook on How to Flatten Your Classroom - Movies - 0 views

movies.atomiclearning.com/...seven-steps-ebook education learning flatclassroom edu_news edu_trends all_teachers technology
shared by Vicki Davis on 11 Mar 09 - No Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 11 Mar 09
     
    Free downloadable ebook from Atomic Learning based upon the 7 steps workshop I did for Atomic last year.
  • Vicki Davis on 11 Mar 09
     
    Did a workshop for Atomic Learning about the 7 Steps to Flatten Your Classroom and they've created an ebook based upon the content in the online workshop. This ebook is free in PDF form and available for download and is based upon the principles to help you get to a Flat Classroom.
2More

techLEARNING.com | Technology & Learning - The Resource for Education Technology Leaders - 0 views

www.techlearning.com/toolsinfo brightideas edu_news education professionaldevelopment techintegrator technology
shared by Vicki Davis on 25 Apr 08 - Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 25 Apr 08
     
    This webinar is Monday about Web 2.0 and I'm co-presenting. If you attend, you'll receive a 3 month free trial subscription to Atomic Learning. Preregister here. This will give you access to the series I did on Web 2.0 and how to set up an RSS reader, etc. Also, the new one I've done on Flattening your classroom will be available as well.
  • Vicki Davis on 25 Apr 08
     
    This webinar Monday has free three month subscription to Atomic Learning attached to it.
1More

Free Windows Movie Maker Tutorial from Atomic Learning This Month - 0 views

movies.atomiclearning.com/...moviemaker2 education learning software technology
shared by Vicki Davis on 12 Nov 08 - No Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 12 Nov 08
     
    Movie Maker 2 is a great entry level moving making program for the PC -- and MovieMaker comes FREE with your PC. (I highly recommending updating Movie Maker before embarking on a project!) I love atomic Learning, and this should be a great tutorial.

101 Free EduGames - 232 views

started by Zaid Ali Alsagoff on 28 Aug 08 no follow-up yet
« First ‹ Previous 41 - 60 of 319 Next › Last »
Showing 20▼ items per page