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Another great Dan Meyer video. (His Ted talk has gotten a lot of attention but this one is even better!) Dan describes the creative way he teaches math, including the active use of technology (rather than the "tired, dead tree format").

This is not about an emerging educational technology but how two designers re-thinking of teaching. I'm throwing this out here to see if you think one can apply the Scaling Up framework to this initiative. What are some of the impediments that you can imagine and would you have any solutions?

Free Youtube channel dedicated to use just for teachers. Allows teachers to provide video content to their students and also archive recordings of their own lessons.

COOL! Here, Chris Anderson, the creator of TED discusses how YouTube is changing education. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6Zo53M0lcY

Here is an entertaining talk about how everyday objects can be used for science education. We are all aware / starting to better appreciate that "it definitely ain't about the technology", but what conceptual understanding the technology can effect. Personally, I see two advantages of such low cost technologies: 1. They increase access to interesting learning materials for all - quickly. 2. They can serve as the kernels of ideas for influencing emerging technologies. ( Like in out class discussion : models are still expensive but they can guide / inspie Do share your thoughts.

Saw this over the summer and thought it raised some good questions about IEP initiatives, a child's ability to learn technical frameworks without explicit instruction, community engagement, technological innovation in impoverished areas, etc.

Speaking at LIFT 2007, Sugata Mitra talks about his Hole in the Wall project. Young kids in this project figured out how to use a PC on their own -- and then taught other kids. He asks, what else can children teach themselves? Sugata Mitra's "Hole in the Wall" experiments have shown that, in the absence of supervision or formal teaching, children can teach themselves and each other, if they're motivated by curiosity and peer interest.

I thought this was a great video when I watched it. Very interesting experiment. It reminded me of how I know people who learned other languages through their love of music--they just memorized song lyrics and practiced until they figured out the language!

I wonder if technology can help kids to acquire the skills needed for the multiple marshmallow challenges they will face in their lives (or at least not to loose the skills they were born with!)

Exciting video. Please share any gesture based computing resources you come across - prg115@ Gesture based computing is the topic of my assignment. On another note, I really like a quote from this talk "Technology is capable of expressing generosity. And we need to demand that" I think I understand it.....

Isabel, Chris M., Stephen B., and I are at MassCUE today watching Yong Zhao's keynote.  You can find a copy of his presentation here at this website.

I saw Zhao speak yesterday at the MassCUE conference (with James, Chris McEnroe and Isabel Schwartzman). His message was provocative: the United States did not do well on the TIMSS test, but the US has never done well on this type of testing even way back to the 1950s. Therefore, Zhao thinks that these tests are not good indicators of educational quality, but that the things that the US does right are fostering creativity, building in tolerance and forgiveness into the educational system, and stressing problem-solving and collaborative learning.

This relates to part of the discussion in class today. I've seen him speak about the irony that Chinese schools, which are outperforming US schools on PISA and TIMMS, are actually trying to model their systems more on US pedagogy. See his latest book or look for him on TED.