Pontydysgu - Bridge to Learning » Blog Archive » We have the ideas and the te... - 0 views
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I argued that our present systems are unable to keep up with the requirements of society and of industry for learning and knowledge development
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Open Educational Resources
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One of the barriers to such self driven and social learning has been centrally controlled and regulated curricula
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Clark Aldrich's Style Guide for Serious Games and Simulations: A Taxonomy of Interactivity - 0 views
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Many conversations around interactivity in formal learning programs rests on the tools. Does WebEx allow polling? Can you have threaded conversations in Second Life? What if you gave keypads to members of an audience? And those are all good questions. But at the same time, we need to nurture cultures around interactivity that are independent of any technology. We need vocabulary and expectations around interactivity itself.Here's a suggestion, hopefully useful in practice if not in theory:
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Level 0: The instructor speaks regardless of audience.
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Level 1: The instructor pauses and asks single answer questions of the students.
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SAVE THE DATE: OFFICEMAX WILL AGAIN SURPRISE 1,000+ TEACHERS ALL ON ONE DAY IN SECOND A... - 0 views
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October 1st, Office Max giving away grants. US teachers should register at adoptaclassroom.org.
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One thousand teachers will be surprised on October 1st by Office Max, but you need to go to adoptaclassroom.org to be in the running. If you are in the US and don't have enough resources, please go and apply. What can you lose? You don't have because you don't ask!
Write or Die : Dr Wicked's Writing Lab - 0 views
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Write or Die is a web application that encourages writing by punishing the tendency to avoid writing. Start typing in the box. As long as you keep typing, you're fine, but once you stop typing, you have a grace period of a certain number of seconds and then there are consequences.
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Clever thinking, interesting writing tools, a kick in the pants for any writer wrestling with fluency.
Infrastructures - SlideShare - 0 views
Dissent Magazine - Debt Education - 0 views
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First, debt teaches that higher education is a consumer service. It is a pay-as-you-go transaction, like any other consumer enterprise, subject to the business franchises attached to education.
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Second, debt teaches career choices. It teaches that it would be a poor choice to wait on tables while writing a novel or become an elementary school teacher at $24,000 or join the Peace Corps. It rules out culture industries such as publishing or theater or art galleries that pay notoriously little or nonprofits like community radio or a women’s shelter. The more rational choice is to work for a big corporation or go to law school
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Fourth, debt teaches civic lessons. It teaches that the state’s role is to augment commerce, abetting consuming, which spurs producing; its role is not to interfere with the market, except to catalyze it. Debt teaches that the social contract is an obligation to the institutions of capital, which in turn give you all of the products on the shelves.
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The Strength of Weak Ties » Tragedy of the Commons - 0 views
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At its best, Twitter is a place to share a resource, a link to a new blog post, or an insight, and even a place to have a little fun. It’s a place that could be about learning. At its very worst, Twitter is a self-indulgent exercise in self-promotion and pettiness.
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Those people that have lived off twitter at the expense of their aggregator, have in my opinion, traded in full meals for snack food.
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“God kills a kitten each time you count your Twitter followers. Please, think of the kittens.”
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Blogger: Cool Cat Teacher Blog - Post a Comment - 0 views
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I don't feel that any of the names mentioned act or feel like they are better than me and have even included me on many conversations
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I do love when you say, "if one person reads our blog and get something out of it.. it is important." I try to keep that in mind all the time. Numbers don't matter..people do.
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Lisa Parisi
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Study Suggests Math Teachers Scrap Balls and Slices - New York Times - 0 views
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That idea may be wrong, if researchers at Ohio State University are correct. An experiment by the researchers suggests that it might be better to let the apples, oranges and locomotives stay in the real world and, in the classroom, to focus on abstract equations, in this case 40 (t + 1) = 400 - 50t, where t is the travel time in hours of the second train. (The answer is below.)
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Dr. Kaminski and her colleagues Vladimir M. Sloutsky and Andrew F. Heckler did something relatively rare in education research: they performed a randomized, controlled experiment. Their results appear in Friday’s issue of the journal Science.
The Innovative Educator: Why Every Parent and Teacher Should Start Teaching MySpace and... - 0 views
Study Reveals What Kids Are Reading for School : May 2008 : THE Journal - 0 views
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According to the first study of its kind released in the United States, kids are reading an average of about 26 books per school year. That's the great news. The less than great news is that their volume of reading peaks in second grade, and the level and volume of books that they're reading stagnates from about sixth grade onward, even dropping off in high school.
Opportunities, Access & Obstacles | David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts - 0 views
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• Online networks help to define us. My Blog, My Flickr, My Space, My Facebook, My Friends, My Profile, My Second Life, My del.icio.us, MyBlogLog, My Ning Network, My Twitter, My-Whole-Life-Connected-and-On-Display-For-Anyone-And-Everyone-To-See…
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On many levels, ‘access issues’ are key obstacles. Yet, opportunities abound! The web lets us collaborate in many different ways! So now I have to wonder: Do we want our discussions to be around what we can’t do? It isn’t so much about ‘New Boundaries‘ as it is about removing boundaries. There were holes in the Berlin wall for years… innovative teachers today are escapees from behind similar walls. It is time to tear the old ideological walls down. Teachers and students need access granted!
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I’ve seen a real shift in my own thinking recently. Forget whining about access, never mind the slow speed of change, get over the obstacles! Go after meaningful results. Engage and empower students. Be a leader and a role model.
Around The World In 80 Seconds - 0 views
21CT: Plurknovelas - Fictional digital storytelling with a plurk!twist | The 21st Centu... - 0 views
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I have kicked off the first "Plurknovela" a collective digital story told by Plurkers around the world. Wanna join in the fun? Great for language students creating microblogged fiction on the fly!
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Plurk novellas are emerging -- this is very cool. This could be used in writing. You can see how threaded microblogging is DIFFERENT from twitter. I think there is room for both.
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Plurk novells are emerging. This is cool. You can see how threaded microblogging is DIFFERENT from twitter. I think there is room for both.
- Animoto: Education - - 0 views
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Animoto gives free full length video capabilities to educators. So cool!
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Brooksie over at CD Tech (http://gcedtech.blogspot.com/2008/04/animoto.html) showed me this. Brooksie left a message introducing me to her blog on yesterday's post and wow, I learned something new! Animoto will giv eyou a FREE code to make full length videos on animoto! This is a really cool free tool but we've been using the 30 second version! I didn't know we could use the full version for fREE! Wow! So cool
Fair use and transformativeness: It may shake your world - NeverEndingSearch - Blog on ... - 0 views
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I learned on Friday night that the critical test for fairness in terms of educational use of media is transformative use. When a user of copyrighted materials adds value to, or repurposes materials for a use different from that for which it was originally intended, it will likely be considered transformative use; it will also likely be considered fair use. Fair use embraces the modifying of existing media content, placing it in new context.
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Here's what I think I learned on Friday about fair use:
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According to Jaszi, Copyright law is friendlier to good teaching than many teachers now realize. Fair use is like a muscle that needs to be exercised. People can't exercise it in a climate of fear and uncertainty.
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USC IML - 0 views
Bloom's Taxonomy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 6 views
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A great mythology has grown around the taxonomy, possibly due to many people learning about the taxonomy through second hand information.
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It is considered to be a foundational and essential element within the education community as evidenced in the 1981 survey Significant writings that have influenced the curriculum: 1906-1981,
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the original Handbook was intended only to focus on one of the three domains
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