Tools to create activities/quizzes/etc. Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity. Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution! RSA Animate - Changing Education Paradigms. Imagination. Developing critical thinking. It means not taking what you hear or read at face value, but using your critical faculties to weigh up the evidence, and considering the implications and conclusions of what the writer is saying.
Imagine two situations. On the first, you are on a country walk and you come across a notice which tells you not to attempt to climb a fence because of risk of electrocution. Would you pause to consider before obeying this instruction? On the other hand, suppose you were to receive a letter from a local farmer announcing that he proposed to put up an electric fence to protect a certain field. In this case, would you not be more likely to think about his reasons for doing so and what the implications would be for you and your family? An allied skill is the ability to analyse – that is, to read or listen for the following points: How robust are the points presented as evidence?
Debate: arguing different points of view. Selecting information critically For books, who is the publisher? 1. 2. 3. 4. Www.sethgodin.com/sg/docs/stopstealingdreamsscreen.pdf. This, That and the Other — Mark Pesce’s Keynote at Web Directions South. Jolt.merlot.org/vol7no4/koutropoulos_1211.pdf. Learning and Education. As technology continues to transform our society, those responsible for our current systems of learning and education are facing overwhelming pressure to adapt.
Education technology, connected learning and the rise of the Networked Society is transforming the established concept of learning, teachers’ roles and even the nature of knowledge itself. Can ICT redefine the way we learn in the Networked Society? When Will Blended Learning Be Mainstream? By Alan K.
Rudi At the CUE conference this month, a questioner asked our Panel a simple question about blended learning – What is your prediction for when blended learning will be a mainstream application in education? A simple question, but it does not have an easy answer. First, when we look at the rate of technology adoption (or the number of years a new technology takes to reach 50 percent or more of its targeted users), it is significantly faster today at 25 years than during the last century which averaged 60 years. And information technologies are faster than the average with the PC and cell phone at an adoption rate of about 15 years, and the Internet at about 10 years. Three Things to Unlearn About Learning. Inquiry Learning Teaching Strategies flickr:CDsessums “If you’re not feeling uncomfortable about the state of education right now, then you’re not paying attention to the pressures and challenges of technology,” said Will Richardson, a veteran educator author and consultant, at a talk at ISTE 2012.
“We need to acknowledge that this is a very interesting moment, and even though in a lot of ways this isn’t what we signed up for when we went into teaching… as educators, it’s our job to figure it out.” Seeing the balance move from a place of scarcity of information to over-abundance on the web — and the ability to “carry around the sum of human knowledge on our phones” — Richardson said educators must start thinking of schooling differently. “This abundance has the potential to be amazing, but it’s not amazing if we don’t do anything with it,” he said. 1. “We have to stop being in charge of the curriculum and allow kids to create their own education,” he said. 2. 3.
Experiences of online education: a student point of view. MOOCs are really enjoyable, it could be for many reasons which I highlight being at home and attend your family, or most important being with them, also going to work without worrying about the attendance in class or in most cases it’s completely free.
I am from Colombia, and I am studying online my career and I must admit that although they both (virtual class in my university- MOOCs) are online they are totally diverse. First while I have to attend on Saturdays to class, MOOCS do not allow me to do so, some people could say that because it is MASSIVE, I know it is true and even though in some courses the teachers ask to your questions, I must admit that I need a teacher by my side. I am not saying that this kind of course are not what I am looking for, indeed the experience in Coursera has been exciting and varied from what I used to feel. As I said before, I am not against online education nor face to face. Theory and Practice of Online Learning. Ack in 1982, one reviewer hailed Athabasca University’s book Learning at a Distance: A World Perspective as “a miracle of educational publishing.”
Open and distance learning has evolved through several mutations since then, and Athabasca has now brought us up to date with a wonderfully perceptive and complete guide to the theory and practice of online learning. Most of the authors are from Athabasca University and their shared experience of developing online learning within that extraordinarily successful open university allows them to analyse online learning for the wider world in an admirably coherent manner. Starting with a comprehensive summary of relevant educational theory, the book revisits, in a lively way, the great dichotomies that have marked the history of open and distance learning. How should we balance the social and individual aspects of study? Marketplace in order to help institutional leaders decide where their own advantage might lie. 9 Signs That Neuroscience Has Entered the Classroom. Theories-of-learning-fixed.jpg (553×2991)