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Paddling the Learning Pool – 8 Tools That Changed My Teaching. There’s a lot going on. Educators seem overloaded with initiatives and expectations. Students appear weighed down by assessment and intervention. The profession is under attack by a swathe of politicians and their ‘bright’ ideas. Bad press outweighs good. Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results is indeed ‘madness’ but rarely, in education, is there an opportunity to make sweeping changes. Now, before you think this is just an advert for an iPad, I must add that I am merely writing about my experience to illustrate how I have been able to change the way I do things. Assessment Three tools have made a huge difference to the feedback my students receive.

Socrative - A free e-clicker that is regularly used to assess student progress. Dropbox - The cloud based memory store, enables students to hand-in work through a shared folder option. These tools have had a profound effect on the way I assess and how the students receive it. In the Classroom Resources. Innovating Pedagogy | Open University Innovations Report #1. This series of help sheets is designed for people who are trying out distance and online education for the first time, and for teachers who have already taught at a distance and want to try something new.

Each help sheet outlines one approach to learning at a distance and provides guidance on how to put this into practice. All the help sheets are based on approaches covered in past Innovating Pedagogy reports and take into account that students may have only limited access to technology and the Internet. The latest report in our annual series explores new forms of teaching, learning and assessment for an interactive world, to guide teachers and policy makers in productive innovation. Download Innovating Pedagogy 2020 This eighth report, produced in collaboration with the National Institute for Digital Learning (NIDL), Dublin City University, Ireland, proposes ten innovations that are already in currency but have not yet had a profound influence on education in their current form.

Bloglovin, a design-conscious RSS meets Tumblr, gets Betaworks investment. When Mattias Swenson, Patrik Ring and their three co-founders first decided to launch a startup out of high school, the plan was to work on it for a year and then move on with their lives. Growing up in Stockholm, they said, they didn’t know of anyone else who gave up university for entrepreneurship. But more than five years later, they’re still at it. And their startup Bloglovin, which is something like a visual RSS reader meets Tumblr for the entire blogosphere, is poised for a new level of growth. New York-based Internet company Betaworks is announcing today that it, along with former Glam CFO and Microsoft executive Bruce Jaffe, is making a “significant” investment in the startup.

Bloglovin is a Stockholm-based company, so Betaworks is not obliged to submit a Form D financing note and publicize the amount of the investment. Betaworks: we look for engagement, design “The category is something that makes a ton of sense for us at Betaworks. “They bashed it,” said Swenson. Health, Social & Childcare. This page aims to share best practice within the Health, Social and Childcare faculty in particular around the use of Technology to Enhance Learning. Key questions: 1) Why should we engage with the TEL agenda? 2) What barriers do we need to overcome?

3) What best practice is already happening? Like this: Like Loading... Health, Social & Childcare. Interesting Ways. The Design Thinking School | NoTosh. Design Thinking can be a powerful vehicle for deeper learning of content, more divergent thinking and building the thinking skills capacity of learners. Key to the process's success in learning, is that it provides the platform for learners to become problem finders.

At a time when design thinking tends to come across as "shop" class and post-it notes, NoTosh have spent four years developing medium- and long-term professional development programmes with schools around the world, which marry design and education research with classroom practices that work in any part of curriculum.

We've seen schools increase student engagement, content coverage and attainment thanks to the challenging way we frame design thinking and formative assessment, together, as a vehicle for creative and robust learning. What is design thinking? In schools, we use design thinking as a framework onto which we hang specific thinking skills to achieve specific learning tasks. Why design thinking? Ewan McIntosh | Digital Media & Learning. MoTEL Academy. Welcome to Mobile Technology Enhanced Learning In a world were technology underpins communication and collaboration it is imperative that we equip our learners with the skills and confidence to effectively utilise technology throughout their lives.

This portal aims to facilitate continuous professional development for mobile technologies. Showcase/Best Practice Technology Enhanced Learning Blogs Mobile Learning Case Studies Google Sites in Primary Education What would you like to discover? Planning for Learning Teaching & Learning Assessment for Learning Want to share ideas and best practice? Which products and services do you recommend? Social & Professional Networking Online Media Communication & Collaboration. Learning Innovation. HandheldLearning’s Presentations on SlideShare. Di Dawson - About Di. Hi. I’m Di Dawson – an independent trainer and consultant who can help you with all manners of e-learning, pedagogical advice for successful online training and I can advise how to use mobile technologies for teaching or training.

Why not browse the topics for Learn and Lunch sessions – pick up a new skill in just 15 minutes or if you need to get started with e-learning , as a cost effective way to deliver training to your staff. And if you want a refresher train the trainer course or wish to learn skills to become an online trainer or to be able to deliver webinars or virtual classrooms then do talk to me. I’m also quite knowledgeable about ITQ. ITQ is not just about Office applications – you can now choose a specific one suitable for your role. So there is one for Social Media – a City & Guilds certificate ideal for anyone responsible for marketing a business. Content creation is something I enjoy doing – using Articulate Storyline or Xerte. The main page of Village e-Learning Consultancy. David Sugden proprietor. David Sugden email.

Leeds City College Festival of Learning 2012 | celebrating and transforming learning at Leeds City College. E-Learning Stuff. Course: Learner Support in using Technology in Learning. Free technology teacher training videos for teachers. Donald Clark Plan B. Learning Without Frontiers | Learning, Innovation and Society.

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