The Future of Education. New ‘Digital Divide’ Seen in Wasting Time Online. Those efforts have indeed shrunk the divide. But they have created an unintended side effect, one that is surprising and troubling to researchers and policy makers and that the government now wants to fix. As access to devices has spread, children in poorer families are spending considerably more time than children from more well-off families using their television and gadgets to watch shows and videos, play games and connect on social networking sites, studies show. This growing time-wasting gap, policy makers and researchers say, is more a reflection of the ability of parents to monitor and limit how children use technology than of access to it.
“I’m not antitechnology at home, but it’s not a savior,” said Laura Robell, the principal at Elmhurst Community Prep, a public middle school in East Oakland, Calif., who has long doubted the value of putting a computer in every home without proper oversight. But “access is not a panacea,” said Danah Boyd, a senior researcher at Microsoft. Ms. Digital and Media Literacy: How Can It Support 21st Century Learning? Hybrid Pedagogy: A Digital Journal of Learning, Teaching, and Technology | Home. The Past, Present, And Potentially Amazing Future Of Smartphones.
Smartphones are everywhere in education. Heck, they’re just everywhere period. Apple and Google seem to sell about a kabillion smartphones a second and the insatiable appetite of the worldwide market seems unrelenting. So I thought it would be helpful to actually, you know, learn a bit about where smartphones started, what they’re doing right now, and where they’re heading. See Also: 10 Schools Encouraging Smartphones in the Classroom To do that, we can explore the following visual timeline that sheds some light on factoids you may not have known. I sure didn’t! Source: Waypharer.com.
The #EduTour Begins! Hello everyone! I'm excite to start the EduTour tomorrow. My @TheNerdyTeacher account and The Nerdy Teacher site will be relatively quite over the next two weeks. All of my social media efforts will be focused on all things EduTour related. Below you will find all of the different accounts you can follow to enjoy the ride along with us. We will be live tweeting, doing on the road podcasts, tweet ups and other great things along the way. The main reason I'm doing this tour is to meet people outside of my educational and personal world. Please do me a solid and follow the accounts, interact with us while we head west and we promise to provide hours of entertainment. Social Media sites for the #EduTour: Introduction to Cloud Computing. My biggest mistake as an ICT Co-ordinator - ICT in Education - Educational Technology. Act 1, Scene 1Setting: an interview room.Chair of Governors: So, Mr Freedman, do you have any questions you would like to ask US?
Terry Freedman: Yes. What are YOUR criteria of a successful ICT Co-ordinator? Headteacher: I want to see teachers banging on the doors of the computer labs demanding to be let in. Well, I got the job, and with the Headteacher's comment in mind I set about making sure the computer facilities were being used as intensively and extensively as possble. I did quite a few really good things, if I do say so myself, such as: * I found out why many teachers were reluctant to use the facilities. It turned out that the network would break down with no warning, causing everyone to lose their work. . * I made it really easy to book the rooms. * I created a buzz about using ICT. * I talked to lots of teachers about the benefits and joys of using ICT. * I ran an ICT committee comprising representatives from every subject. I did a lot more besides. And it worked. Padagogy Wheel : Grey-matter Grids.
“The new version of the Padagogy Wheel tackles a major question that is lurking in the back of everyone’s mind. If it’s not … it should be. It’s about the problem of motivation in education. How do we motivate students, teachers, parents, and everyone else to get excited about learning? How do you stay motivated? What works and what doesn’t?” Jeff Dunn: Editor Edudemic Blog Post:Updated Padagogy Wheel Tackles The Problem Of Motivation in Education In this third podcast episode with Ken Spero, a Senior Strategist with The Regis Company, in Philadelphia, USA we talk about how the pedagogy of Immersive Learning is ideal to tackle the problem of motivation and hits the bullseye at the core of The Padagogy Wheel. Ken introduces Engagement into the equation and how it drives motivation for learning. I asked Ken if he thought Immersive learning would help teachers work with mutually agreed graduate attributes and capabilities, helping the students embed them in their lives.
Bullseye! How To Use Pinterest With Bloom's Taxonomy. Integrate iPads Into Bloom's Digital Taxonomy With This 'Padagogy Wheel' You’re going to want to turn on your printer and fire up a PDF viewer. This is just that good. It’s called the Padagogy Wheel and it offers a fantastically useful perspecitve on how to figure out which iPad apps work with Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy. Created by Allan Carrington , this thing is a monster and deserves some focused attention. So I’d make a personal plea to save the hi-res image (below) or print out the PDF ( available here ) and then spend your long weekend closely examining this thing. The Padagogy Wheel takes an expanded approach Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy and offers 62 iPad apps that fit into the organized chaos that is Bloom’s. See Also: 35 Digital Tools That Work With Bloom’s Taxonomy What do you think of some of the apps and where they’re placed on the wheel?
The Padagogy Wheel by Allan Carrington is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License . 5 Critical Mistakes Schools Make With iPads (And How To Correct Them) Over the last few years K-12 schools and districts across the country have been investing heavily in iPads for classroom use . EdTechTeacher has been leading iPad professional development at many of these schools and we’ve seen firsthand how they approach iPad integration. While we’ve witnessed many effective approaches to incorporating iPads successfully in the classroom, we’re struck by the common mistakes many schools are making with iPads, mistakes that are in some cases crippling the success of these initiatives.
We’re sharing these common challenges with you, so your school doesn’t have to make them. 1) Focusing on content apps The most common mistake teachers make with iPads is focusing on subject-specific apps. It simply didn’t occur to him use the VoiceThread app to record his students speaking Latin, or perhaps create a collaborative discussion of Cicero. And we don’t introduce a single subject app. 2) Lack of Teacher Preparation in Classroom Management of iPads It doesn’t. Mr Allan Carrington. Biography/ Background Allan is available on SKYPE and iChat/AIM and his username is:allansyd Allan is a Learning Designer with the Online Development Team, Division of the DVC & VP(A).
He is a winner of a 2012 Office of Learning and Teaching (OLT) Australian Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning. Allan's citation reads: "For sustained commitment to inspiring, challenging and mentoring academics to teach with activity-centric pedagogies and the latest learning technologies, to enrich the student experience. " The Citation Synopsis: For nearly a decade, Allan Carrington has provided teaching staff at the University of Adelaide with the tools, knowledge, motivation and confidence that they need to challenge themselves to enhance and develop their own teaching.
In 2011 Allan was also awarded the University of Adelaide Award for Excellence in Support of the Student Experience. Allan has a background in printing, publishing, web development and educational multimedia. What no ‘elearning’? This tweet from David Hopkins ‘Click next’ eLearning resources … haven’t we got beyond that yet? — David Hopkins (@hopkinsdavid) August 7, 2013 generated some reflection in relation to my last role… Despite me having the title of Learning Technologies Manager and the organisation generally defining ‘elearning’ as ‘click next, self-paced’ modules I was able to utilise a range of methods and media to meet needs that had previously been meet via traditional eLearning and physical classroom activity.
In 10 months I: Produced a handful of taking head videos and placed them on our internal collaborative platform , Jive.Produced 15-20 screencasts and placed them onto Jive.Produced a handful of audio interviews.Created a single ‘go to‘ L&D group on Jive. In short, I was able to operate up to, and indeed beyond, the expectations of the role, without ever having to go near an LMS or an authoring tool.
Was it easy? Did everybody ‘roll over’ without a fight? Did I experience some challenges?
User exp design. Minecraft. Social Media. Twitter. Moodle.