Interesting example of online classes! Daphne demonstrates the impact online education can have visually and then demonstrates its benefits as she walks through her experience with Coursera.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2013/04/13/can-you-mooc-your-way-through-college-one-year-can-you-mooc-your-way-through-college-one-year/lAPwwe2OYNLbP9EHitgc3L/story.html
I followed a link from Cole Shaw's EduRobots article. This one explores the significance of attention in learning and how to maintain it. Bilge Mutlu and Dan Szafir at the University of Wisconsin-M...
Report: Schools Should Move from Print to Digital Content by 2017
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/03/science/field-testing-the-math-apps.html?ref=education There are so many apps out there, but who knows which ones work? WGBH brought iPads into a preschool clas...
The strategies that Ringham shares (welcome project, videos and audio interactions) sounds like a positive step towards achieving promotive interaction. I suppose next, in designing the online plat...
The proposal possibly gets easier with social media in classrooms.
How do sites and online learning sources monitor the information and subtle differences of posts?
how twitter could be useful
when more engagement leads to more personalized learning
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/13/education/schools-use-web-tools-and-data-is-seen-at-risk.html?ref=education&_r=0
Interesting editorial, it's pretty apparent that these learning apps we've been looking at are not accessible to blind students.
1) Bror Saxberg has a new book coming out in a couple of months: "Breakthrough Leadership in the Digital Age," with one of my favorite education authors, Rick Hess. An excerpt is here: http://blogs...
I was searching for police force jobs that will suit the qualifications that I have. I searched in offices and online until I came across Police-Recruitment UK. I was able to set my sights on a sp...
Opponents say it will "dilute the quality of instruction by doing away with the teachers in certain classes." Agree or disagree? http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/state_edwatch/2011/09/landmark_online...
For anyone who is intrigued by Xbox Kinect and potential applications in education, research, or anything beyond Xbox gaming, the peripheral is usable for developer's own projects, for free. What'...
The first decade of the new millennium saw the rise of a supremely disruptive technological force: the Internet. http://2010.newsweek.com/essay/a-decade-of-destruction.html For some reason, I cou...
