Twelve learning technologies with big education potential By Laura Devaney, Managing Editor, @eSN_Laura Read more by Laura Devaney May 22nd, 2013 Learning technologies that will become widespread and widely-implemented in a year or less: 1. Bring your own device initiatives 2. Technologies and practices that have the potential to change teaching and learning, but that are two or three years from popular practice, include: 5. Four or five years down the line, learning technologies that may dramatically influence education include: 9. 3D printing 10. Several key factors are driving technology trends: Key challenges include: Ongoing professional development needs to be valued and integrated. The report is produced by the New Media Consortium, the Consortium for School Networking, and the International Society for Technology in Education.
Innovation Design In Education - ASIDE 10 ed-tech tools of the 70s, 80s, and 90s By Meris Stansbury, Associate Editor Read more by Meris Stansbury May 10th, 2013 We don’t know about you, but sometimes the eSchool News editors are amazed to hear about the ed-tech students use to learn in schools these days: mobile gaming apps, 3D printing, and robots? Many of the editors still remember the prestige of walking to the front of the class and writing on the chalkboard with colored chalk. To celebrate technologies of the past, the editors of eSchool News have compiled a list of the education technologies we and our teachers used back in the day–you know, before the internet even existed. Can you think of an ed-tech tool not on the list? (Next page: Ed-tech of the 70s, 80s, and 90s)
2013-Horizon.K12-Shortlist_v3.1 - 2013-horizon-k12-shortlist.pdf Using video to improve teaching and learning By Kari Arfstrom Read more by Contributor February 22nd, 2012 Iowa teachers can model or learn from exemplary lessons by posting or watching short videos online. Knowing that good teaching leads to increased student achievement, the Great Prairie Area Education Agency (GPAEA) in Ottumwa, Iowa, already had legacy programs in place to coach and mentor new teachers and to highlight best practices of professional educators using video. To expand these practices and share them with others, GPAEA sought a cost-effective, easily accessible way to store and retrieve these educator-made videos to use for improved teaching and learning. Research and common sense show that self- and shared reflection for beginning and established educators, often by viewing audio and visual recordings made in the classroom, is an important and common practice.
Literacy Beyond Words: How Generation Y is Redefining Learning For Everyone Gen Y, those in their 20s now, are born of bits and bytes. They hardly read. They watch play computer games, watch movies on the Internet, have made YouTube their favorite destination. This generation is the one that will redefine learning. And because of them book-based learning, lectures, stand-up teaching, grades, honor rolls, and all the other paraphernalia of the 20th century will fade away faster than we image. As I travel around the world I see cheap Internet access everywhere. Being connected is as important to them as having electricity or running water. Virtual learning takes center stage But my four or five star business hotel still charges way too much for slow Internet access – mainly because people my age don’t demand it as these younger folks do. Only Baby Boomers and Gen X would tolerate that. Today’s virtual learning is looking more like what you see at skillshare.com where anyone can teach and anyone can learn. How learning will change Sure young people need guides.
Literacy Is Not Enough: 21st Century Fluency for the Digital Age by Ian Jukes These are my notes from Ian Jukes‘ METC 2010 presentation, “Literacy Is Not Enough: 21st Century Fluency for the Digital Age” at the METC 2010 conference. MY THOUGHTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. I haven’t heard Ian present in quite a few years. He was the first person at an educational technology conference (TCEA) to really make my head spin and inspire me to get on the digital learning mardi gras float. Quoting Don Tapscott, “Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation is Changing Your World” consumers vs prosumers In have value entertain teach students today may be literate by the standards of the 20th century, but won’t be literate by the standard of OUR society today we need to move to 21st century literacies or fluencies – when you are literate, you still have to think about what you are going to do next – fluencies are unconscious skills, you just “know” what to do next hands up: who learned to ride a bicycle? decisionmaking, time management, etc. How many times have you heard some