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Espaces pédagogiques interactifs (accueil général) Can Apple Products Pave the Way to Personalized Learning? Culture Teaching Strategies Lenny Gonzalez San Francisco middle school students watch instructional videos on their school-issued iPads.

Can Apple Products Pave the Way to Personalized Learning?

Open source : technologie et éducation ?) ImagineK12 hatches its first class of education tech startups. Last week the first cohort of the ImagineK12 incubator demoed at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference with high hopes and soaring self-predictive expectations to transform, disrupt and revolutionize K-12 education with the help of internet and mobile technology.

ImagineK12 hatches its first class of education tech startups

It’s quite a goal! But whereas innovative technology has shown its ability to disrupt the publishing, music and newspaper industries, it’s probably useful to first consider where technology is capable of accomplishing revolution in the K-12 classroom. New Frontier. [W]e stand today on the edge of a New Frontier -— the frontier of 1960s, the frontier of unknown opportunities and perils, the frontier of unfilled hopes and unfilled threats. ...

New Frontier

Beyond that frontier are uncharted areas of science and space, unsolved problems of peace and war, unconquered problems of ignorance and prejudice, unanswered questions of poverty and surplus.[2] In the words of Robert D. Marcus: "Kennedy entered office with ambitions to eradicate poverty and to raise America’s eyes to the stars through the space program. A Puy-Saint-Vincent, l'institutrice est payée par les habitants. Un village rural des Hautes-Alpes, dont la classe maternelle était promise à la fermeture en raison d'une baisse des effectifs, accueille lundi sa nouvelle institutrice recrutée et payée par ses soins, créant une situation inédite en France.

A Puy-Saint-Vincent, l'institutrice est payée par les habitants

"Il faut que la commune garde ses enfants dès le plus jeune âge, sinon c'est la mort annoncée du village", déclare à l'AFP Marcel Chaud, le maire sans étiquette de Puy-Saint-Vincent, une station de ski de 300 habitants qui emploie jusqu'à 500 saisonniers l'hiver. Resources for Students & Parents. It's getting to be that time of year.

Resources for Students & Parents

Your chances of seeing school supply commercials have increased exponentially. Kids are breaking out last year's Elmer's in anticipation of glorious glue feasts. Teens are cramming their entire summer reading into the last week of August. Back to School: 42 Digital Resources for Students & Parents. Things to do for kids & children. Le coût d'une scolarité - Ministère de l'éducation nationale. Betabeat — News, gossip and intel from Silicon Alley 2.0.

Dawn Hallybone, Teacher, Learning Without Frontiers, London. Plate-formes éducatives. The Future of Online Learning. The Future of Online Learning by Stephen Downes July, 1998 Today, and for the last century, education has been practised in segregated buildings by carefully regimented and standardized classes of students led and instructed by teachers working essentially alone.

The Future of Online Learning

In ten years, this model will be seen in many quarters to be obsolete. Click on a section title to begin reading... Stephen Downes: The Role of the Educator. How often do we read about the importance of teachers in education?

Stephen Downes: The Role of the Educator

It must be every day, it seems. We are told about "strong empirical evidence that teachers are the most important school-based determinant of student achievement" again and again. The problem with the educational system, it is argued, is that teachers need to be held accountable. We are told we must fire incompetent teachers. Ken Robinson – vers un nouveau paradigme éducatif. A Teacher-Built Technology Tool. Teaching Strategies A vocabulary lesson from a LessonCast.

A Teacher-Built Technology Tool

For all the gadgets and software and devices out there available to educators, what technology do they really need? Do we stop long enough to ask? The exhibition hall at ISTE 2011 was a mammoth affair, but walking up and down the seemingly endless aisles, I wondered which of these are really necessary? The question has been on my mind at least as long as the Startup Weekend Edu last month, when (as we covered here) teams came together to pitch, design, and build an ed-tech startup over the course of an intensive weekend. One of the teams at Startup Weekend that worked on a teacher-driven idea was LessonCast, and I had the sense as the team pitched their idea at the end of the weekend, that some of the investors and non-educators on the judging panel just didn’t “get it.”

The idea behind LessonCast is to enable teachers to make short, two-and-a-half minute videos explaining a particular lesson or classroom management strategy. 100 Ways You Should Be Using Facebook in Your Classroom. Facebook isn't just a great way for you to find old friends or learn about what's happening this weekend, it is also an incredible learning tool.

100 Ways You Should Be Using Facebook in Your Classroom

Teachers can utilize Facebook for class projects, for enhancing communication, and for engaging students in a manner that might not be entirely possible in traditional classroom settings. Read on to learn how you can be using Facebook in your classroom, no matter if you are a professor, student, working online, or showing up in person for class. Note: Check out our updated version of this article for even more suggestions on Facebook in your class.

Class Projects The following ideas are just a starting point for class projects that can be used with Facebook in the classroom. Follow news feeds. Facilitate Communication. Any student, any subject, anywhere. Mandy has been on a study trip to the Sistine chapel without going to Italy.

Any student, any subject, anywhere

Online Education Program in Colorado. Danemark : l'accès au web autorisé pendant les examens. L'Anneau des Mathématiques Francophones. User CLDP - Free Quiz Maker. I have a dream. Un peu d’ordre dans vos classes virtuelles ! eLearn Magazine.