Amplified Organization - 2020 Forecast: Creating the Future of Learning - 0 views
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Digital natives and technologies of cooperation are combining to create a generation of amplified individuals. These organizational “superheroes” will remake organizational models through their highly social, collective, improvisational practices and their augmented human capacities. These new models will thrive in a world of social networks; information proliferation, transparency, and saturation; and rapid change. As digital natives enter learning professions, and as existing educators and students become amplified, their extended human capacities will challenge traditional ways of organizing learning and will amplify schools, districts, and other learning organizations.
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These individuals are highly social, collective, improvisational and augmented.
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Together, these attributes enable several amplified organizational practices - open leadership and sociability, beta building, collective sensemaking, and transliteracy - that support more flexible responses to change and stimulate innovation
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55 Open Source Apps Transforming Education - Datamation.com - 0 views
Pattern Recognition - 2020 Forecast: Creating the Future of Learning - 0 views
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How do ubiquitous, visible data impact teaching, learning, and the assessment of learning experiences? How can we use data to enhance human decisions rather than automate them?
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How do ubiquitous, visible data impact teaching, learning, and the assessment of learning experiences?
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The challenge is no longer finding information but making it meaningful.
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New virtual bank for teachers to share ideas | Education | The Guardian - 0 views
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Will a virtual bank for teachers to share ideas revolutionise lesson planning or stifle creativity?
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At present, most teachers wince at the very mention of virtual learning platforms. Most VLPs are a horrific combination of required - the government has declared that all schools must have one - and useless. Unconnected and underdeveloped, many VLPs are devoid of content: empty cathedrals, monuments to technological failure.
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"The students we teach come from a media age; they are visually bombarded from every angle. As teachers we have to compete against their entertainment. A worksheet is not enough to engage them any more."
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About Becta - Development of common interactive whiteboard format - Becta - 0 views
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Development of common interactive whiteboard format
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Currently most content files developed for any one type of interactive whiteboard cannot be opened by the software of others. This means that it is not possible for teachers, the National Whiteboard Network, local authorities, or other content publishers to create content that can be used on the software of more than one type of interactive whiteboard. To tackle this problem Becta has, after completing a tendering process, appointed RM to develop a common industry-wide standard that will bring huge benefits to schools, allowing the exchange of resources within and between schools.
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The aim of this development is to provide the industry with an interoperability standard, followed by demonstration of support for the format with the production of an open-source file viewer.
elgg.org :: open source social software - 0 views
Stellarium - 0 views
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Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set your coordinates and go.
How the iPhone Could Reboot Education | Gadget Lab | Wired.com - 0 views
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How do you educate a generation of students eternally distracted by the internet, cellphones and video games? Easy. You enable them by handing out free iPhones — and then integrating the gadget into your curriculum.
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That’s the idea Abilene Christian University has to refresh classroom learning. Located in Texas, the private university just finished its first year of a pilot program, in which 1,000 freshman students had the choice between a free iPhone or an iPod Touch.
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Think web apps to turn in homework, look up campus maps, watch lecture podcasts and check class schedules and grades. For classroom participation, there’s even polling software for Abilene students to digitally raise their hand.
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School & Games Overlay - 0 views
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That’s what I imagine, schools and classrooms that are as permeable as possible, so that learning leaks out — not that we’re losing it, but because we’ve stopped trying to contain it, allowing learning to grow, to network, to fertilize other learning.
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School is a closed environment
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But I’m wondering about a commercial opportunity, or open source collaboration, to develop a package that overlays a schools curriculum with some sort of ARG (alternate reality game), along with game master instructions, social network plugins, a variety of barcoded clue stickers that can be planted, etc. Seems like some hard-fun learning.
News: The Evidence on Online Education - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views
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The study found that students who took all or part of their instruction online performed better, on average, than those taking the same course through face-to-face instruction
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hose who took "blended" courses -- those that combine elements of online learning and face-to-face instruction -- appeared to do best of all
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But the positive results appeared consistent (and statistically significant) for all types of higher education, undergraduate and graduate,
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Podcast Generator - Open Source Podcast Publishing Solution - 1 views
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Podcast Generator is a free web based podcast publishing script written in PHP: upload media files (audio-video) via a web form along with episode information and automatically create podcast w3c-compliant feed including iTunes specific tags
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Podcast Generator is a free web based podcast publishing script written in PHP: upload media files (audio-video) via a web form along with episode information and automatically create podcast w3c-compliant feed including iTunes specific tags
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Setup Wizard);
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Open Source Physics - 0 views
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