www.truetube.co.uk uses real-life stories and issues to encourage teenagers to explore and debate the world of morality, ethics, politics and religion, and brings to life the subjects at the heart of English, Citizenship & PSHE, R.E., Media, ICT and Geography using the language of today's teenagers - short-form web-based video
Web 2.0 tools play an increasingly important role in everyday life. Not only are people more connected, but they have more opportunities to find information, share ideas and be creative than ever before. Most educators who use some of the new, free, online tools to accomplish tasks find rich rewards. Yet many others are curious about how the tools work, and even more, what exactly they can do with them in the classroom to help their students learn. This eBook is designed to explore the reasons for using the most popular Web 2.0 tools and guide you as you explore the read/write Web on your own.
This video was created by Sofia, a Portuguese 8 years old student. Helped by her parents, she did the document search, photo selection and voice recording. The objective is to learn about the cheetah life and to present it to her class and teacher.
We appreciate the wonderful and precious pictures from National Geographic.
Trabalho de pesquisa, selecção de imagens, redacção de texto e registo em áudio, realizado pela Sofia, no 3º ano de escolaridade.
Na "aprendizagem digital" há uma perda de intensidade na relação com os conteúdos, uma apropriação superficial da informação, uma velocidade que carece de foco.
Já António Damásio referiu a possibilidade da nossa cultura mediatizada poder estar a afectar o desenvolvimento das emoções relacionadas com o juízo moral. http://goo.gl/t8Tj
There is no long-term significance to
the characters
It is this emphasis on process rather than content which could affect the
ability to learn
And for those concerned with
social behaviour in the real world, the dangers of online social networks
are even more noticeable.
You might just choose return to the sanitised world instead, and to
the safety of the screen, where you can relax in safety with your online
persona – a much simpler, but massively less rewarding, existence.
I and others will shortly be launching a new initiative, "A
Brain For Life", to examine fully the dangers faced by the screen
generation
A new year has just begun, but while time passes by our educational system keeps standing still. Your kids are still learning the same way you did 20-30 years ago, because they are still in a classroom with books.
Online learning tools and technologies have surfaced in recent years but the impression you get is that e-learning is still confined to a little group of savvy educators who have understood how to leverage the power of the Internet for teaching and learning.
the educational paradigm has not fully embraced those fantastic discoveries to give birth to a new learning paradigm that gets rid of useless exams, tests and paper sheets to focus on those new learning skills required to live a successful and meaningful life.
What does this remind of us of? The classroom, of course, and the entire structure of an educational system built for the industrial age, turning out students all the same, convincing them that there is one right answer
But that is what education and media do: they validate.
We tell them our answers before they’ve asked the questions. We drill them and test them and tell them they’ve failed if they don’t regurgitate back our lectures as lessons learned. That is a system built for the industrial age, for the assembly line, stamping out everything the same: students as widgets, all the same.
Google, he said, is looking for “non-routine problem-solving skills.”
“In the real world,” he said, “the tests are all open book, and your success is inexorably determined by the lessons you glean glean from the free market.”
We must stop our culture of standardized testing and standardized teaching
We must stop looking at education as a product – in which we turn out every student giving the same answer – to a process, in which every student looks for new answers. Life is a beta.
The school becomes not a factory but an incubator.
Likewise ICT use in education influences the private life
of all educational actors in the sense that these are engaged in
innovative practices which require new methodologies, techniques and
attitudes
In search for the Sustainable Knowledge Base: Multi-channel and
Multi-method?