Introduction to Nelson. Shows informational layers, ongoing discussions, check reliability of sources, current discussions and perspectives. Coupland - another digital book program. Alice - interactive reading experience.
Data visualizations to review and you can add your own. These are excellent assignments for students to work on . They have to find creative was to show their data.
To take full advantage of that reality, the vast majority of classes will be inquiry-based, and they will be grounded in the social online tools like blogs and social bookmarks and others that more relevantly reflect their learning realities. And Lisa’s teachers will know what it’s like to learn for themselves in these global networks as well. It’s a journey of change coming to fruition.
“We have to do both.” We have to make sure our students “succeed” by the traditional measures, but we also have to make sure they have the skills and literacies to navigate the social, online learning spaces they are going to be inhabiting well into their adulthood. What choice do we have?
Are you in the process of enacting the changes that your students need that no one is asking for?
Engaging content gives your reader a peek at something he or she hasn’t seen before, but can relate to in some way.
Engaging content starts and ends with telling a good story. Good stories require compelling characters, insider details and tales of challenges overcome.
Engaging content is anything that provides value to the lives of your prospects, customers or community members
Marketing Training and Education site where experts define what engaging means. As we think about how to engage students we have to figure out what that means and then what does it look like.
We are gaining the ability to consciously participate in our evolution as a species. We are networking ourselves together into something perhaps greater than the sum of our many parts. But we must not relinquish our participation in this project, entrusting our future to the few who learn to program or the companies paying them to do so.
At the very least we must come to recognize the biases - the tendencies- of the technologies we are using, and encourage our young people to do the same. If we don't participate in building our digital future together, it will be done by someone - or something - else.
If they don't know what the programs they are using are even for, they don't stand a chance to use them effectively. They are less likely to become power users than the used.
International School of Bangkok's 21st Century Literacy Page. I'm not sure if this is still be updated but there is good information on their plans to create a 21 century school.
Similarly, when reformers introduce new forms of management of the old approach to knowledge and learning, the system quickly snaps back to its state of equilibrium. And, perhaps most dramatically from the point of view of people in this room, the same kind of process undermines any attempt to change education by putting a lot of computers into otherwise unchanged schools.