6 Ways Digital Learning is Changing Teaching
Email Share December 1, 2011 - by Tom Vander Ark 0 Email Share I visited Wireless Generation , a leading education technology company, in Brooklyn this week. In a discussion about Getting Smart , a couple dozen employees including teachers and technologists asked great questions about the future of learning. Here are two more. As someone who has, within the last decade, been a student and a teacher, as well as administrative support, I was very interested by the parts in your book when you made it clear that educational institutions are evolving. There will be a half a dozen significant changes in teaching in this decade. Model differentiation will proliferate over the next decade as school developers invent new ways to blend online and onsite experience around competency-based pathways. The second profound change underway is the shift from the individual practitioner to more collaborative and team based teaching. Fifth, the work is getting more data driven.
Etude 2011 : Twitter, Les Marques Et Leurs Abonnés
The Virtues of Video
What if your struggling students could view demonstrations of difficult math concepts as often as necessary? Picture your students asking questions of an expert diver as she explores Australia's Great Barrier Reef. Or imagine a motivated student in a remote location attending an advanced placement physics class without leaving home. Providing such enriching learning activities, even with limited funds, is no fantasy; it's possible through live, interactive video. Much of what we define as education can now take place anywhere, anytime—and much of it can be acquired free through resources available over the Internet. Videoconferencing: Engaging Millenials As early as the 1980s, students in rural areas of Alaska, Washington, Texas, and Oregon connected to teachers through interactive videoconferencing. Interactive videoconferencing is often a good solution for resource-strapped school districts that can't afford to hire more teachers. When learners are engaged, retention occurs. References
10 utilisations créatives de Twitter
Artistes, marques, agences, étudiants… Nombreux sont ceux qui ont décidé d’utiliser Twitter d’une façon étonnante et/ou créative. Cet article se fait l’écho de 10 exemples qui méritent le coup d’œil (à noter que l’article évolue en fonction de vos contributions, l’article final aura sûrement plus de 10 exemples). 1 – Don’t Tell Ashton, l’oeuvre collective sur Twitter Commençons parce ce qui se présente comme la première œuvre collective via Twitter. L’idée est la suivante : Ashton Kutcher (@aplusk) est certes un célèbre acteur américain, mais il est surtout aussi devenu une des figures emblématiques de Twitter. Pour créer le buzz et lui faire un clin d’œil, les étudiants de l’Interactive Communication class at Berghs School of Communication viennent de lancer un projet artistique 2.0 qui utilise son nom : Don’t Tell Ashton. Pourquoi ? Or, le cadre qui reçoit les avatars correspond exactement à l’espace que prendrait Ashton Kutcher s’il s’inscrivait. Source. Morceaux choisis : Source. Source.
5 Excellent Cloud Tools You Should Be Using
It seems like everything is moving to the cloud from documents to photos to podcasts; plus more and more services are implementing cloud storage for security reasons. While 10 years ago you needed to have actual space on your computer or mobile device in order to save and access files, now you really don’t need much because free cloud storage is everywhere. Since there are so many new and useful cloud tools that are regularly popping up on the scene, I decided to share 5 that I feel are extremely beneficial to bloggers and social media users. So here are 5 excellent cloud tools that you should be using, if you aren’t already. Pogoplug Plain and simple, Pogoplug is “cloud storage for your mobile life”. Pogoplug is great for streaming music, movies and photos from your mobile device. ZeroPC ZeroPC is known as “your content navigator for the cloud”. ZeroPC has mobile apps for the iPad and Android and can run in Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Internet Explorer. sideCLOUDload Mougg Flapcast
Les chiffres de Twitter en 2012 : activité, profils, historique
Le problème avec les médias sociaux, c’est que les données les concernant changent en permanence. L’évolution des services est de plus en plus rapide, les nombres d’inscrits battent record sur record, même les usages changent régulièrement. Il est donc nécessaire de faire des points régulièrement. C’est ce qui a été fait avec cette infographie qui reprend les principales données disponibles actuellement sur Twitter. Le site de micro-blogging a encore connu une belle année, passant la barre des 500 millions d’inscrits. Basée sur de nombreux chiffres et études, l’infographie nous apprend que seul 140 millions de comptes sont actifs sur les 500 millions d’inscrits. Une partie historique est également présente.
Social Media's Slow Slog Into the Ivory Towers of Academia - Josh Sternberg - Technology
Underpinning a disdain for social media in higher education is the assumption that incoming students have an inherent aptitude for new technologies "If you took a soldier from a thousand years ago and put them on a battlefield, they'd be dead," Howard Rheingold, a professor teaching virtual community and social media at Stanford University, told me one morning via Skype. "If you took a doctor from a thousand years ago and put them in a modern surgical theater, they would have no idea what to do. Take a professor from a thousand years ago and put them in a modern classroom, they would know where to stand and what to do." Terms like "digital native" and "digital immigrant" have been used by marketers as a way of differentiating generations. This tale is not new. But as social interactions and technologies mature, there has been a swing in the pendulum. Teaching Social Media Theory "As faculty, we're always trying to engage our students better," Smith-Robbins says. Image: Creative Commons.
Google + - Another Tombstone for the Social Media Graveyard?
MySpace, Bebo, Friendster, Google Wave, Google Buzz, Ping. All brand names that meant something once, some of which had tens of millions of users in the online social space, all have something else in common; they tried to be David to Facebook’s Goliath and came off worse. All of them brought something new to the online social space, a different way to interact with other members, a quirky feature or niche focus. The reasons for their failures are varied, but the end result is the same. There have been contenders who have stuck it out though; Twitter is a great example of a social network which has managed to hold its own. Facebook fatigue? Google + has come at an interesting time, there is research showing that we are experiencing ‘Facebook fatigue’ due to extensive media coverage, data ownership and regular security setting modifications.
