We should do less of spending money on assessment detached from designing learning and more of creating learning experiences that are irresistibly engaging."
"The integration of technology and pedagogy to maximize learning must meet four criteria. It must be irresistibly engaging; elegantly efficient
(challenging but easy to use); technologically ubiquitous; and steeped in real-life problem solving."
"I hold out four criteria for integrating technology and pedagogy to produce exciting, innovative learning experiences for all students
--something desperately needed to bring education into the 21st century. These new developments must be i) irresistibly engaging (for students and for
teachers); ii) elegantly efficient and easy to use; iii) technologically ubiquitous 24/7; and iv) steeped in real-life problem solving."
It’s not the technology that entertains people, it’s what you do with the technology.
No matter the length of your film — 30 seconds, five minutes, 22 minutes, feature length — it needs a story. It needs a beginning, a middle and an end.It needs to deeply connect with people.
Get it up there. Throw it up there as fast as you can, talk about it, tear it back down, put it back up there. Keep doing this.
Interesting post on some of the ways in which technology can be used to further engage with the wider community, especially those who are often unable to make it to events etc ... such as videoing information evenings and school assemblies.
Are you reading this on a handheld device? There's a good chance you are. Now imagine how'd you look if that device suddenly disappeared. Lonely? Slightly crazy? Perhaps next to a person being ignored? As we are sucked in ever more by the screens we carry around, even in the company of friends and family, the hunched...
A good introduction to the different social media formats, including Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin and Instagram. Induces discussion of what each provides.
Parents are encouraged to talk more to their children about their use of technology, and discuss with them the risks and potential dangers. Finding out what sites children visit online, who they talk with and what they talk about is useful information to help parents decide how to manage access to the Web.
Here are the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2013 - the results of the 7th Annual Learning Tools Survey. Not only is it an interesting list, but a great place to start to look for new ideas and programs.
A look at Creative Commons and Fair Use in media and blogging. An often ignored element when it comes to online publishing. Also includes some good links to sites containing free-to-use images.
Dropbox is one of the most popular cloud based platforms for hosting and sharing files. Like Google Drive, Dropbox offers a decent free storage space to start with and there is also the possibility to buy more storage capacity. Unless it is a Google doc or presentation, I always save my PDFs and other documents to Dropbox. What I like the most about this tool is its syncing capacities which are way faster than Google Drive. You can upload a PDF on your desktop and access it instantly on your Dropbox account in iPad.