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Tyler Wall

Reinventing Education To Teach Creativity And Entrepreneurship | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation - 0 views

www.fastcoexist.com/...reativity-and-entrepreneurship

creativity education learning

shared by Tyler Wall on 10 May 12 - No Cached
  • Teaching’s primary purpose should be to ensure that every student graduates ready to tinker, create, and take initiative.
  • The art is in the relationships you build with kids, and the science is purposeful assessment that generates real evidence of student growth.
  • Accountability is a good thing, but only when you are measuring what matters.
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  • What if quizzes measured kids’ ability to question, not answer?
  • Our schools should be producing kids who tinker, make, experiment, collaborate, question, and embrace failure as an opportunity to learn. Our schools must be staffed with passionate teachers who are not just prepared to foster creativity, perseverance, and empathy, but are responsible for ensuring kids develop these skills.
  • But we’re shortchanging kids if we aren’t relentless about measuring outcomes in these new models. Teachers are the linchpins here
  • Tyler Wall on 10 May 12
     
    "Teaching's primary purpose should be to ensure that every student graduates ready to tinker, create, and take initiative."
Chris Aitken

A pedagogy of abundance or a pedagogy to support human beings? Participant support on massive open online courses | Kop | The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning - 0 views

www.irrodl.org/...2025

pedagogy MOOC connectivism

shared by Chris Aitken on 05 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • This paper examines how emergent technologies could influence the design of learning environments. It will pay particular attention to the roles of educators and learners in creating networked learning experiences on massive open online courses (MOOCs). The research shows that it is possible to move from a pedagogy of abundance to a pedagogy that supports human beings in their learning through the active creation of resources and learning places by both learners and course facilitators.
  • Emergent technologies provide different models and structures to support learning. They disrupt the notion that learning should be controlled by educators and educational institutions as information and “knowledgeable others” are readily available on online networks through the press of a button for anyone interested in expanding his or her horizon.
  • Of course this puts the responsibility for information gathering, the validation of resources, and the learning process in the hands of learners themselves,
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  • To manage this vast network of resources effectively requires learners to be autonomous in their learning and to have advanced analytic and synthesis skills to distill relevant information from the “noisy” network. Moreover, a high level of competency and interest in using a vast array of tools is required to do so effectively.
  • Barnett (2002)
  • pedagogy for human beings.
Tyler Wall

Online University Education in Canada - 3 views

http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/2012/01/21/online-university-education-in-canada/ Includes a link to a report, sponsored by the federal government entitled Online University education in Canada: C...

started by Kathy Schwarz on 23 Jan 12 1 follow-up, last by Tyler Wall on 23 Jan 12
Jeff Hamilton

Apple in Education - ebooks - 3 views

www.apple.com/education

shared by Jeff Hamilton on 19 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • Jeff Hamilton on 19 Jan 12
     
    Very cool announcement. It will be interesting to see if textbook prices will drop? I have been super impressed with some books on the iPad and others are super lame. With the new authoring tool it will be interesting to see what we can do with our own content!
  • Chris Aitken on 20 Jan 12
     
    I think this post puts the iBook announcement (and Apple's role in education) into perspective: http://www.hackeducation.com/2012/01/19/apple-and-the-textbook-counter-revolution/
anonymous

Mobilicity - Newsroom List - 1 views

mobilicity.ca/...play-increasing-role-education

mobile

shared by anonymous on 13 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • anonymous on 13 Aug 12
     
    "Survey confirms that majority of Canadians agree mobile phones are an invaluable tool for students; unlimited mobile data plans enable Mobile Student 2.0 movement Toronto, ON - August 9, 2012 - Mobilicity today released new research findings pointing to the increasing role smartphones are playing in and out of the classroom. The Mobile Student 2.0 Survey found that 66 per cent of Canadians would use a mobile phone to conduct online research anywhere, anytime; 46 per cent would download mobile apps to help stay organized; 41 per cent would record lectures and tutorial sessions; and 42 per cent would coordinate school and social activities if they were a student. Moreover, the majority of Canadians (56 per cent) think that mobile phones are an invaluable tool for students. The Mobile Student 2.0 refers to the next-gen student who relies on a smartphone with Internet usage to enhance their education and social life. "
Christie Robertson

The 33 Digital Skills Every 21st Century Teacher should Have - 0 views

www.educatorstechnology.com/...skills-every-21st-century.html

web2.0 education teaching lc2

shared by Christie Robertson on 12 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • Christie Robertson on 12 Jun 12
     
    I know the tools are out there, but sometimes I feel like I don't have time to find them.  Luckily, Mohamed Kharbach did it for us!  Check out his blog learn about the skills educators should have and use the links to learn or brush up on them. 
Chris Aitken

Connectivism: Learning theory of the future or vestige of the past? | Kop | The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning - 0 views

www.irrodl.org/...1103

downes siemens connectivism learning e-Learning teaching

shared by Chris Aitken on 18 May 11 - Cached
  • it replaces older theories that have become inferior, and the new theory builds on older theories without discarding them, because new developments have occurred which the older theories no longer explain.
  • what are the grounds for this measure
  • If connectivism is to build on older theories, how is the integration of the old and new theories to be conducted?
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  • educators in higher learning institutions have been forced to adapt their teaching approaches without a clear roadmap for attending to students’ various needs.
  • The wide range of approaches and learning paths that are available to redesign curricula cause friction for educators and instructional designers who are required to deliver course materials in accordance with learning outcomes prescribed and mandated by educational institutions.
  • In connectivism, the starting point for learning occurs when knowledge is actuated through the process of a learner connecting to and feeding information into a learning community.
  • a learning community is described as a node, which is always part of a larger network.
  • Nodes may be of varying size and strength, depending on the concentration of information and the number of individuals who are navigating through a particular node (Downes, 2008).
  • Since information is constantly changing, its validity and accuracy may change over time, depending on the discovery of new contributions pertaining to a subject.
  • he ability to make decisions on the basis of information that has been acquired is considered integral to the learning process.
  • Learning is considered a “. . . knowledge creation process . . . not only knowledge consumption.”
  • One’s personal learning network is formed on the basis of how one’s connection to learning communities are organized by a learner
  • The connectivist metaphor is particularly timely, since the navigation of the Internet and the means by which information is dispersed on the Internet now provides a reference point for Siemens’ assertions.
  • In Theories of Developmental Psychology, Miller (1993) distinguishes between “theory” and “developmental theory,” and identifies the vast deficit that can exist between the two.
  • n general, an emerging theory should fall within the domain of scientific research, use scientific methods, and be based on previously conducted studies.  It should be logically constructed and verifiable through testing.
  • Developmental theories are fertile testing grounds for ideas, which, in turn, may lead to empirical research that can then validate – or disprove – formal hypotheses posited within the framework of the scientific method.
  • How does connectivism fulfil these tasks?
Jackie Doherty

Personal Learning Environments: Challenging the dominant design of educational systems - 1 views

74.125.155.132/scholar

Personal Learning Environments PLE Adult Learning personal environments learning

shared by Jackie Doherty on 26 May 11 - No Cached
  • To support effective organization of information, mechanisms of flexible tagging should be combined with list creation and sharing facilities
  • Smart groups are used extensively in products such as iTunes [21] and enables organisation to structure itself based on simple user-provided rules
  • more value can be obtained by the user when the information of services is combined to enable sorting, filtering and searching
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  • ather than relying on services to offer a very detailed set of metadata using a common profile, systems will instead need to offer greater capability for managing either heterogeneous information or operate on a very limited set of information which can be commonly assumed, such as titles, summaries, and tag
  • While the contexts of formal education systems can be characterized as having bounded variety (e.g., a course typically has around 20-2000 members) and possessing rigid boundaries, general social systems used in informal learning can possess more diverse levels of variety
  • Connecting with very large contexts using a PLE poses both a technical and a usability challenge, as it will not be possible to absorb all the information within the context into an environment to be operated upon locally, nor is it feasible to present users with flat representations of contexts when they contain thousands of resources
  • ilter the context to reduce the amount of visible users and resources based on the declared interest of the user.
  • it remains unclear what mechanisms can underpin the coordination of collective actions by groups and teams within a PLE.
  • the PLE is not a single piece of software, but instead the collection of tools used by a user to meet their needs as part of their personal working and learning routine
  • the characteristics of the PLE design may be achieved using a combination of existing devices (laptops, mobile phones, portable media devices), applications (newsreaders, instant messaging clients, browsers, calendars) and services (social bookmark services, weblogs, wikis) within what may be thought of as the practice of personal learning using technology
  • TenCompetenc
  • So how will the PLE and the VLE design co-exist
  • whereby VLE products start to open their services for use within the PLE.
  • LE are incorporated into the VLE, yet along the way robbing them of some of their transformative power.
  • The VLE is by no means dead, and those with investments in this technology will attempt to co-opt new developments into the design in order to prolong its usefulness
  • PLE model will develop in sophistication, making the VLE a less attractive option, particularly as we move into a world of lifelong, lifewide, informal and work-based learnin
  • Within the field of education technology, the focus in recent years has been on the improvement of the technology of the virtual learning environment (VLE, also known as a Learning Management System, or LMS) with software and techniques that do not fit the general pattern of capabilities of a VLE being largely marginalized
anonymous

Blackboard: A Tale Of 2 Companies | Gilfus Education Group - 0 views

www.gilfuseducationgroup.com/ackboard-a-tale-of-2-companies

lms blackboard

shared by anonymous on 02 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • anonymous on 02 Sep 11
     
    "The Utah Education Network is a case in point. It left Blackboard, the market leader, for Instructure, a year old Utah-based developer with an open source product called Canvas. Consider the way messages are sent and received on Instructure's Canvas: The receiver has a choice between traditional university E-mail, gmail, Facebook and text messaging; Blackboard's system uses traditional E-mail and was designed before Facebook was created. For a student body that uses social media the way earlier generations used pencil and paper, the differences between the two competitors are profound."
anonymous

AcademicPub - Custom Books...Now! Custom Course Materials for Higher Education - 0 views

academicpub.com/...landing.html

etexts

shared by anonymous on 21 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • anonymous on 21 Jul 11
     
    "AcademicPub provides custom books - print and digital - to educators and institutions. We provide real-time copyright clearance and an ever-expanding content library to easily create and deliver learning materials in just minutes."
Chris Aitken

#MobilityShifts - 5 key trends for the future of education [guest post] | Dangerously Irrelevant - 3 views

dangerouslyirrelevant.org/...e-of-education-guest-post.html

education future trends

shared by Chris Aitken on 18 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Chris Aitken on 18 Oct 11
     
    A. Openess B. Greater insight into the knowledge and creation process C. Mobile Learning D. Alternative forms of assessment (badges) E. Rethinking the classroom environment
Christie Robertson

IPTEL 2013 - 0 views

ocs.educ.ubc.ca/...IPTEL2013

conference edtech

shared by Christie Robertson on 18 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • For those interested in a global dialogue on increasing access, equity and engagement through innovations in technology-enabled learning. This conference is designed to provide an international forum to explore lessons, challenges and possibilities related to the provision of technology-enhanced learning in a rapidly changing global context. Of particular interest are research and practice that enhance access, engagement and outcomes for students at all levels, who are learning to use educational technology in their practice.
anonymous

Grades Without Evidence Are (Almost) Meaningless; Evidence-Based Evaluation Is Better -- Campus Technology - 1 views

campustechnology.com/...ios-is-Better-Than-Grades.aspx

eportfolios

shared by anonymous on 16 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • anonymous on 16 Jun 11
     
    "the reality is that we now have choices for how we in higher education do final evaluations in courses. The tool is at hand to support an evaluation process that provides evidence behind the grade: the electronic portfolio (for more on electronic portfolios, see http://www.aaeebl.org). It is now possible to have a transcript with links from each grade to the work evidence behind the grade. Now, in response to the question, "but what does that grade mean?" there can be an answer."
Kathy Schwarz

Tom Reeves on Educational Research - 0 views

Listen to the audio on this site... http://change.mooc.ca/recordings.htm

education

started by Kathy Schwarz on 17 Feb 12 no follow-up yet
anonymous

Blackboard Buys Out Moodlerooms, NetSpot -- Campus Technology - 2 views

campustechnology.com/...s-out-moodlerooms-netspot.aspx

lms

shared by anonymous on 27 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • anonymous on 27 Mar 12
     
    "Blackboard is buying out two major players in the open source services space: Moodlerooms and NetSpot. Blackboard has also brought onboard Sakai Project founding architect Charles Severance. With these additions, the company is also launching its own open source division: Blackboard Education Open Source Services. Moving into Open Source Services Teams from both Moodlerooms and NetSpot will make up Blackboard's new open source group. Both of those companies provide commercial services for institutions that use Moodle, including support, consulting, installation, and hosting services."
Kathy Schwarz

New Resources For Online Educators From Contact North - 1 views

http://www.tonybates.ca/2012/03/27/new-resources-for-online-educators-from-contact-north/

started by Kathy Schwarz on 28 Mar 12 no follow-up yet
Kathy Schwarz

Funny posting by Steve Wheeler - 1 views

We have had pencils in our school now for some time, and we were one of the first to adopt them, but it has been an uphill struggle. There aren't enough to go around, and often several of the child...

education

started by Kathy Schwarz on 06 Dec 11 no follow-up yet
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