Are Schools Prepared to Let Students BYOD? - Finding Common Ground. "Districts wading into the "bring-your-own-technology," or BYOT, waters are wrangling with which issues should be tackled through districtwide policy, and which should fall under school-level procedural codes.
In the process, they're trying to leave room to solve unanswered legal questions about Internet security and privacy. " Quillen (Education Week) As our students get older, they become more responsible...we hope. A laptop or tablet has replaced the notebook and pen over the past few years since our present technological explosion. Many students can't wait until the age that their teachers allow them to bring in their own devices.
From farming to films: how the web is changing Africa. Recently, when a potato disease ravaged Kenya, farmer Zack Matere searched "potato disease" on the internet and discovered that ants were eating his potato stems.
On the same website, Matere found that the cure for his potato disease was to sprinkle wood ash on the crop. Two months later, his potatoes were back to shape and Matere knew it was time to invest in the internet. Online, he found a local buyer for his rescued crop. Mobile Learning Finds (Apple iOS) (weekly) Prominent scientists sign declaration that animals have conscious awareness, just like us. Groopt: Free Collaboration Tool For Large Social Groups. There are plenty of ways to collaborate for businesses.
How the Flipped Classroom Is Radically Transforming Learning. Editor's Note:Posts about the flipped class on The Daily Riff beginning in January 2011 have generated over 240,000 views to-date - thanks contributors and readers . . .
See our other links related to the flipped class below this guest post. Since this post was written, Bergmann and Sams have released their book, Flip your Classroom: Reach Every Student in Every Class Every Day. Do check it out. - C.J. Westerberg How the Flipped Classroom was Born. How to start to learn coding from scratch? Loic Le Meur. Canvas LMS, the new, open learning management system. 6 Steps To A Better Mobile Learning Strategy. Enquiry-Based Learning - Learning & Teaching - Staff. Enquiry based learning describes approaches to learning that are based on a process of enquiry, study, and research in which the student takes considerable responsibility for their own learning.
Effective learning occurs when your students’ learning experiences are engaging, that is, when your students are doing rather than just listening.In enquiry-based learning, students take on more responsibility for identifying precisely what they need to learn and finding resources which will allow them to fill their knowledge gaps.Enquiry-based learning can begin in first year and progressively help students to develop their research skills as self-directed learners.Students learn to identify and find answers to the questions that they need to ask and the resources that they need to draw upon in solving any given complex (often real world business problem). Why Increasing student engagement is likely to improve the quality of learning and reduce challenges in the learning environment. Examples. Net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7081.pdf.
E-ScienceCity. Home - Welcome to Innovation. The Play Ethic. Higher Education Reform. No theory X in shining armour. A frequent topic on this blog is the likely trade-off between a higher population and a higher quality of life at some point in the future.
Some people – often total utilitarians – are willing to accept a lower quality of life for our descendants if that means there can be more of them. Others – often average utilitarians – will accept a smaller population if it is required to improve quality of life for those who are left. Both of these positions lead to unintuitive conclusions if taken to the extreme. On the one hand, total utilitarians would have to accept the ‘repugnant conclusion‘, that a very large number of individuals experiencing lives barely worth living, could be much better than a small number of people experiencing joyous lives.
Welcome to info.cern.ch. Top 20 Blogs about Game-Based Learning. PIXELearning's Blog – Serious Games and more. List of Unreal Engine games. Project-Based Learning. How can teachers and parents work together to help students learn? We know that parental involvement in children’s education is important, but what exactly does that look like when the youngsters are in school?
Yayoi Kusama, Japan's Most Celebrated Contemporary Artist, Illustrates Alice in Wonderland. By Maria Popova Down the rabbit hole in colorful dots, twisted typography, and strange eye conditions.
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass endure as some of history’s most beloved children’s storytelling, full of timeless philosophy for grown-ups and inspiration for computing pioneers. The illustrations that have accompanied Lewis Carroll’s classics over the ages have become iconic in their own right, from Leonard Weisgard’s stunning artwork for the first color edition of the book to Salvador Dali’s little-known but breathtaking version. Beamtenherrschaft. Sorting and searching at the library. Self-publish your in-progress book for great royalties on Leanpub. Side projects: Rhythm Rhyme Results. Connect All Schools. A declarative model for lexicon-ontology interface. About Neologism. Neologism is a web-based RDF Schema vocabulary editor and publishing system.
With Neologism, you can define vocabularies, consisting of classes and properties. These are the building blocks that enable a growing number of web sites to share not just documents, images, videos and applications, but also linked data on the web. The main goal of Neologism is to dramatically reduce the time required to create, publish and modify vocabularies for the web of data. Quick feature list Support for subclasses, subproperties, domains, ranges, inverses, disjointness, functional and inverse functional properties Support for XSD datatypes RDF/XML and N3 output Vocabularies are served with content negotiation Customizable class diagram Import from file or from the Web Mapping to external vocabularies Follows the W3C's Best Practice for publishing RDF vocabularies and Cool URIs for the Semantic Web guidelines What Neologism is not Neologism is no ontology editor.
Monnet Website. Neologism. 3 Links for Free Online Technology Courses from Top Universities. Technology courses offered by Udacity.com for FREE including certification! Would you like to freshen up your programming skills but you are put off by high tuition fees? That excuse doesn’t work anymore. Some top universities are now offering free online technology courses. It happened to the music industry. It happened to the book industry. Pretigious universities like our own University of Toronto offer free online technology courses.
Our Courses. How To Engage With Active Learners In The Classroom. Students are currently enjoying the last gasps of summertime in most countries right now.
They’re outside, engaging in social activities, and constantly on the move. So what would happen if these students were thrown into a slow-moving and old-fashioned classroom? The students would get distracted, disconnected, and feel lost. Why the Web Needs Educators and Vice Versa (Or, Why I'm a Proud Mozillian) On July 17, 2012, something unusual happened. Mozilla CEO Mitchell Baker and Mozilla Foundation Executive Director Mark Surman introduced me as the sixth member of the Board of Directors of Mozilla.
I am honored beyond words---and excited about what's ahead. Like the other Board members, I am doing this because I believe in Mozilla's commitment to innovation and to the openness of the Internet as a public good. But what's so unexpected about this appointment is that, unlike the other Board members, I'm not a prominent technology inventor, entrepreneur, or business leader. I'm a professor, originally an English professor, a digital humanist and historian of technology (what used to be called "history of the book"). Engines for Educators. Spigot. About Us - Web Science Trust. Digital Enterprise Research Institute: Home. Intelligent Solutions for the Knowledge Society — DFKI.
Open University Innovations Report #1. The 33 Digital Skills Every 21st Century Teacher should Have. By EdTech Team Updated on march 2, 2015 : The original list that was created in 2011 comprised 33 skills , after reviewing it we decided to do some merging and finally ended up with the 20 skills below. The 21st century teacher should be able to : JackieGerstein Ed.D. Learning Environment Design. Game-Based Learning. Watch: What Happens If Google’s Glasses Are Evil? We’ve seen Google’s Project Glass and Microsoft’s immersive mobile Xbox. We’ve even seen a new Apple patent arise showcasing a model for HUD glasses. With the big three involved, augmented reality is undoubtedly on its way. Project-Based Learning. Educational Technology and Mobile Learning.