Super Scholar - The best ideas in the world Move Over Harvard And MIT, Stanford Has The Real “Revolution In Education” Lectures are often the least educational aspect of college; I know, I’ve taught college seniors and witnessed how little students learn during their four years in higher education. So, while it’s noble that MIT and Harvard are opening their otherwise exclusive lecture content to the public with EdX, hanging a webcam inside of a classroom is a not a “revolution in education”. A revolution in education would be replacing lectures with the Khan Academy and dedicating class time to hands-on learning, which is exactly what Stanford’s medical school proposed last week. To give a little background, last week, Harvard and MIT made headlines with the launch of EdX, a joint online education initiative that will place lectures from the best instructors online, complete with reading material, automated quizzes, wiki-style forums, and a tailored assessment of progress. So, last week, two Stanford professors made a courageous proposal to ditch lectures in the medical school.
Explore 50 resources for iPad use in the classroom The transition to the more extensive use of technology in classrooms across the West has resulted in the integration of bring your own device (BYOD) schemes, equipping students with netbooks and tablet computers, and lessons that use social media & online services. Gesture-based technology is on the rise; according to the latest NMC Horizon Report, gesture-based technological models will become more readily integrated as a method of learning within the next few years. The iPhone, iPad, Nintendo Wii and Microsoft Xbox 360 Kinect technology are examples of these kinds of developments, and in particular, resources for Apple products in education are becoming widely available online. For teachers, some of which are just beginning to use tablets and mobile devices in class, these resources can be invaluable in promoting more interactive classrooms and understanding how best to use and control such products. Tutorials: 1.) iPads for learning: Getting started 2.) 3.) 50 iPad2 tips and tricks 6.)
The Freud Apps: AI, Virtual Life Coaching, and the Future of Psychotherapy | Hybrid Reality Mental health and self-improvement services are increasingly accessible via mobile apps. The newest crop of these apps increasingly integrates Artificial Intelligence capabilities similar to Apple’s virtual assistant Siri. These intelligent systems will make our devices come to life, taking on new functions as our personal virtual ‘psychotherapist’ or life coach. Though the self-improvement industry is unregulated with actual numbers hard to come by, publicity would indicate that the business is booming. The same is true of the traditional mental health profession, whose ranks of counselors are expected to grow 36% by 2020. The increasing demand for psychotherapy and self-development coaching has spurred a wave of new digital services aiming at this market. Studies have shown that virtual coaches are effective in helping users change their behavior. In the future it might become common have one or several virtual companions 'living' on our cell phones.
MIT Debuts Video Lectures For Students, By Students - Education With its top-notch science, technology, engineering and math programs, Massachusetts Institute of Technology has plenty resources to share. Now a new initiative called MIT+K12, a partnership with the popular video learning site Khan Academy, will bring MIT expertise to students in kindergarten through high school. MIT students will create 5-to-10-minute videos to teach younger students the fundamentals of science and engineering. Like Khan Academy videos, MIT+K12 videos are easy to understand, but the for-students-by-students vibe adds an element of fun. Sometimes, like in the video above, the instructors even dress up in costume. MIT+K12 already has about 36 videos on a variety of science and engineering topics. Ian A. The videos are available on the MIT+K12 site and YouTube channel, and highlights will also be available on the Khan Academy site.
5 Ways to Give Yourself an Education That Kicks the Crap Out of the One You Got in School 5 Ways to Give Yourself an Education That Kicks the Crap Out of the One You Got in School One of the biggest reasons that people are denied the privilege of education is because they can’t afford it. However, today we live in a world where knowledge and information are at our finger tips like never before. Technology has leveled the playing field so that anybody with an interest and an internet connection can receive a world class education. Bloggers, podcasters, search engines and digital content creators of all types of have made it possible for us to learn virtually anything we want to even if we don’t have the money. Self Motivation is Not Optional Taking this kind of approach to educating yourself requires an extremely high degree of self motivation. 1. There are a handful of traditional education institutions that have started to embrace this trend. 2. In a recent feature, the CBS Sunday morning show said that there were approximately 50 million active blogs online. 3. 4. 5.
Will Free Benefit the Rich? How Free and Open Education Might Widen Digital Divides Tuesday, Janary 17, 12:30 pmBerkman Center, 23 Everett Street, second floorThe event is at capacity; this event will be webcast live at 12:30 pm ET and archived on our site shortly after. The explosion of open education content resources and freely available collaboration and media production platforms represents one of the most exciting emerging trends in education. These tools create unprecedented opportunities for teachers to design and personalize curriculum and to give students opportunities to collaborate, publish, and take responsibility for their own learning. Many education technology and open education advocates hope that the widespread availability of free resources and platforms will disproportionately benefit disadvantaged students, by making technology resources broadly available that were once only available to affluent students. About Justin I’m a doctoral student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a Fellow at the Berkman Center for the Internet and Society.
Plan Your Free Online Education at Lifehacker U: Spring Semester 2013 change.mooc.ca Learning & Brain Society Boundless Learning Raises $8 Million to Make Expensive College Textbooks Free Let me get this out of the way: Boundless Learning, a Boston-based startup, just raised $8 million from Venrock, bringing the company's total funding to just under $10 million. Okay, onto the juicy stuff. In our earliest days, Pando went a little crazy covering books. Amid the flurry of posts, I noticed a long-overdue disruption finally creeping its way into the textbook market. The company's website declared "100% Free Textbook Replacement," claiming its beta product, essentially a free textbook hacking tool, had helped students at 1000+ universities save almost half a million dollars and perform better in their classes. Boundless Learning's algorithm recreates the content of thousands of textbooks culled from free sources of information like Wikipedia, government sources and creative commons-licensed material. This is amazing, slightly insane, and totally doomed, I thought. In fact, the Higher Education Opportunities Act was signed in 2008 to make the textbook market fairer to students.
Plan Your Free Online Education at Lifehacker U: Spring Semester 2014