Do Your Students Know How To Search? The Connected Student Series: There is a new digital divide on the horizon.
It is not based around who has devices and who does not, but instead the new digital divide will be based around students who know how to effectively find and curate information and those who do not. Helene Blowers has come up with seven ideas about the new digital divide – four of them, the ones I felt related to searching, are listed below. The New Digital Divide: In an age of information abundance learning to effectively search is one of the most important skills most teachers are NOT teaching.
3D. @impactEduk. Bloom's Taxonomy. SOLO Taxonomy. What does good e-learning look like? I think we’ve all seen, and suffered examples of bad e-learning and I’m certainly building up a pretty good picture of all the ways in which eLearning can go wrong.
But I’m less sure about exactly what GOOD e-learning looks like. I’m hoping that this blog post will be just the beginning of the conversation and that you’ll comment with your ideas of what makes good e-learning, or with links to good examples. Shouldn’t we just drop the ‘e’? One point of view that I’ve had shared with me frequently when talking about e-learning is that the ‘e’ is the barrier. That e-learning is simply a new generation of learning and that that little old ‘e’ erects all kinds of unnecessary barriers.
YouTube. Google. Augmented Reality. Social Media. Mobile Technology. Blogging. Twitter. Data visualisation. QR Codes.