Always Connected: The new digital media habits of young children
Learning: Is there an app for that?
Can Video Games Promote Intergenerational Play and Literacy Learning?
iLearn: A Content Analysis of the iTunes App Store's Education Section
White Paper: The Digital Promise: Transforming Learning with Innovative Uses of Technology
Simply put, we can’t keep preparing students for a world that doesn’t exist. We can’t keep ignoring the formidable cognitive skills they’re developing on their own. And above all, we must stop disparaging digital prowess just because some of us over 40 don’t happen to possess it. An institutional grudge match with the young can sabotage an entire culture.
A classroom suited to today’s students should deemphasize solitary piecework. It should facilitate the kind of collaboration that helps individuals compensate for their blindnesses, instead of cultivating them. That classroom needs new ways of measuring progress, tailored to digital times — rather than to the industrial age or to some artsy utopia where everyone gets an Awesome for effort.
The new classroom should teach the huge array of complex skills that come under the heading of digital literacy. And it should make students accountable on the Web, where they should regularly be aiming, from grade-school on, to contribute to a wide range of wiki projects.
According to Davidson (2011 p7) if we're frustrated at information overload then we should quit operating under twentieth century rules ... I'm currently reading "Now You See It". This is an article about the book.
New curation and bookmarking tool - drag and drop images, text, video, web page into your collection and then share and publish online. Delivers content in a highly visual format. Join up during testing phase!
I'm going to apply this next term with one of my Year 11 classes. I've generated videos using iShowU app (only for Mac, I think it was around $10) from app store.
The claim:
Talkwheel creates a visual roundtable collaboration platform to allow groups in enterprises, e-learning and social networks to interact more effectively than anywhere else online.
YouTube clip pitched to real estate agents. Hang on! They're only referred to a few times! The material is highly relevant to TLs.
Both content creation and content curation can help you position yourself as a trusted resource online. But before acting on either, consider formulating a content strategy. This way, whether you are creating or curating you can be sure that the content you share is valuable and useful to your intended audience. So what's the difference [...]
This presentation was delivered by Steve Wheeler, Associate Professor of learning technology at the University of Plymouth, during his keynote address at the eAssessment Scotland Conference. Well worth a watch!