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Massive Open Online Courses are leveraging today's technology to provide (typically) free access to world class education

"Education is a reflective practice. This blog provides my views on educational leadership, effective technology integration, best practices, and creating a student-centered learning culture. "

Good Education vs Bad education is NOT about technology Just because you make kids buy BOOKS on Shakespeare doesn't make your school any better than the school that offers the entire library of Shakespeare (including every movie ever made based on Shakespeare's works) on an iPad, Laptop, or other new gadget.

I suggest that we must not be hopeful that governments can find the solution (or afford it if they found one) and that we must look for the solution from within the daily circumstances of people who are suffering from the present worsening situation. Many people are trying to adjust in individual ways, even though welfare payments from governments are declining and impoverishment grows. Others (a minority) are trying, as already mentioned, to form new forms of communities in which they can improve their efforts by mutual exchange of services. If there is to be hope in both cases, I would suggest that they will need many more skills than they have at present. However, as government expenditure retrenches, education is going to become increasingly expensive. For cultural and financial reasons, an increasing number of people are going to be denied any chance of acquiring skills for paid-jobs (as they become increasingly specialised) and for more ordinary daily circumstances (eg carpentry, growing vegetables, saving energy, equipment maintenance, medical care, etc, etc). However, in the Internet we have the potential for a new instructional and informational technology that can offer almost any skill. Considering that the performance/price ratio of the PCs, modems, etc, has increased at least a million-fold in the last 15 years, then, in 15 years' time, the potential for a versatile and sophisticated instructional technology must be phenomenal - even to the poorest among us.

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Образовательное Оригами - блог и вики о преподавании и обучении 21-ом столетии. Эта вики не только об интеграции технологий в учебный процесс, хотя это, конечно, важная область, но и о перемене нашей образовательной парадигмы. Мир не так прост, как говорят преподаватели - цифровые иммигранты и студенты - цифровые аборигены. Фактически, мы знаем, что воздействие технологий изменяет мышление тех, кто подвергается этому воздействию. Чем дольше и сильнее воздействие и чем более интенсивные эмоции вызывает использование технологий или их содержание, тем глубже изменения. Эти технологии становятся все более повсеместными. Мы должны изменить то, как мы преподаём, как мы оцениваем то, что мы преподаём, когда мы преподаём, где мы преподаём, и с помощью чего. Это - трудная задача, но таково наше захватывающее время.

"Teachers TryScience is a web site for teachers. This site provides free and engaging lessons, along with teaching strategies and resources, which are designed to spark students' interest in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). What's more, the site features collaboration tools to enable teachers to discuss and share effective instructional practices. "