Educational Technology Landscape
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Web 2.0 Tools
A tag cloud (a typical Web 2.0 phenomenon in itself) presenting Web 2.0 themes. An interactive version is available here .NGAkids
SEA-SAWS SEA-SAWS is fun for kids of all ages. Select photographs of natural and man-made objects, then arrange the pieces to create a seascape or an abstract composition.
Educational Software
Educational software is computer software , the primary purpose of which is teaching or self-learning .Jing
Enhance Your Online Conversations With Jing Jing gives you the basic tools to start sharing images and short videos of your computer screen. Capture What You See
Overview Create slideshows using your digital photos. With a single click, you can touch-up, crop, or rotate pictures.
Photo Story 3
A slide created by the first presentation graphics company, VCN ExecuVision , in 1982. A presentation program (also called a presentation graphics program) is a computer software package used to display information, normally in the form of a slide show . It typically includes three major functions: an editor that allows text to be inserted and formatted, a method for inserting and manipulating graphic images and a slide-show system to display the content.
Presentation program
The Virtual Microscope The Virtual Microscope is a Java application that supports interactive viewing of high-resolution, multi-dimensional image datasets from various microscopes. We currently support data from a Philips Environmental Scanning Electron Microscope (ESEM) , and a Fluorescence Light Microscope .
Virtual Microscope
Education theory
Educational theory is speculative educational thought or a theory of education as something that guides, explains, or describes educational practice.
Constructionism
Seymour Papert Constructionist learning is inspired by the constructivist theory that individual learners construct mental models to understand the world around them.
Lego Mindstorms NXT Robotics Education
Video Game Design Education
Project-based learning , or PBL, is a collaborative education style facilitated by teachers, aimed at increasing student's retention of content in a way that is directly engaging, through projects applicable to life outside of the classroom. [ 1 ] Project Based Learning was promoted by the Buck Institute for Education in the late 1990s, in response to school reform efforts of that time. [ 2 ] Project-based learning is an instructional method that provides students with complex tasks based on challenging questions or problems that involve the students' problem solving, decision making, investigative skills, and reflection that includes teacher facilitation, but not direction. PBL is focused on questions that drive students to encounter the central concepts and principles of a subject in a hands-on method.
Project-based learning
Constructivism is a theory to explain how knowledge is constructed in the human being when information comes into contact with existing knowledge that had been developed by experiences. It has its roots in cognitive psychology and biology and an approach to education that lays emphasis on the ways knowledge is created in order to adapt to the world. Constructs are the different types of filters we choose to place over our realities to change our reality from chaos to order.