Lesson Plans | TELL A VISUAL NARRATIVE STORY WITH EDUCREATIONS Educreations is an app that turns the iPad into a recordable, interactive whiteboard for creating Khan’s Academy-style tutorials, lessons, or stories. It’s both a teaching and learning tool, allowing users to create lessons and browse what others have created. It’s very simple to use and intuitive, requiring very little time to learn, and created videos can be used by anyone via iPad or computer. Educreations can be used either as a pedagogical tool in flipped or distance-learning classrooms (or just as supplementary instruction) or as a platform for student exhibition, allowing students to demonstrate learning, craft presentations, and teach each other. Using Educreations, which enables students to narrate scripts, illustrate them, and share them with others, students become digital storytellers and examine writing through a new lens. Step 1: Assign students a particular style of narration. Step 2: Students create scripts or outlines. Step 4: Exhibit some student creations. Writing 1. 2.
Futurist Speaker Thomas Frey – Celebrity Keynote, Futurologist, Writer, & Author, of Future Trends & Emerging Technology Author of the 2011 book “Communicating with the Future,” Futurist Speaker Thomas Frey is a powerful visionary who is revolutionizing our thinking about the future. “The greatest value in understanding the future comes from spotting the major cultural, demographic, societal, and economic shifts early and translating them in to viable business strategies,” says Tom. Thomas continually pushes the envelope of understanding as part of the celebrity speaking circuit by creating fascinating images and understandings of the world to come. He has been fortunate enough to headline events along with some of today’s most recognizable figures: Tom Peters, Nobel Peace Prize winner Mohammad Yunus; former CEO of General Electric, Jack Welch; former New York City Mayor Rudy Giulliani; Former President of Colombia, Andrés Pastrana; Prime Minister of Spain, Felipe González Márquez; Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz; Saudi Prince Turki Al-Faisal; and former World Bank President James Wolfensohn.
Paul Higgins (Emergent Futures) THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER Online - The Social Work Careers Magazine for Students and Recent Graduates - Articles, Jobs, & More - Electronic Connection: Handwriting vs. Keyboarding, Fountain Pens vs. PDAs by Marshall L. Smith, Ph.D., and Robert Rivas, MSW Okay, time to ask questions about where all this technology is leading us! Why, you might ask, is this a problem? What has replaced students’ ability to write cursively? A good friend of mine (Marshall’s) teases me unmercifully when we meet at conferences: When we need to check what sessions we are going to, or when I just need to make a note, I reach for my PDA, remove the stylus, open to the right screen, and start using “graffiti.” In the end, the time gained because of the use of technology may very well be equal to the time lost because of the same technology. Then, there’s data loss due to technology. And, what about our recent elections? One final question seems appropriate: what do we gain and lose by relying on technology to express ourselves to others? Marshall L. This article appeared in the Winter 2007 issue of THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER.
THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER Online - The Social Work Careers Magazine for Students and Recent Graduates - Articles, Jobs, & More - SW 2.0: Going Where the Client Is: Exploring Virtual Clinical Social Work Practice By: Karen Zgoda, MSW, LCSW, ABD Editor’s Note: This is the final installment in Karen Zgoda’s SW 2.0 series. In the past three years, Karen has introduced THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER’s readers to many innovative uses of technology. It was a dark and not-so-stormy night. The G+ experience raises some interesting questions about learning, social work practice, and human interaction and connection. Nancy and Mike are at the forefront of incorporating virtual technologies into their practices. We need to learn how to use this stuff to stay competitive and show up on the radar or folks will not select us as a profession. Mike is a practicing clinician and author of both Reset: Video Games and Psychotherapy ( Anytime most people are using something and we refuse to know about it, that’s a problem. Nancy adds, most importantly: We are missing out on connections. Second Life Smyth, N. (2010, November 3). Gaming Gee, J.
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Autodidacticism Independent education without the guidance of teachers Generally, autodidacts are individuals who choose the subject they will study, their studying material, and the studying rhythm and time. Autodidacts may or may not have formal education, and their study may be either a complement or an alternative to formal education. Many notable contributions have been made by autodidacts. The self-learning curriculum is infinite. Self-education[4] techniques used in self-study can include reading educational textbooks,[5] watching educational videos and listening to educational audio recordings, or by visiting infoshops. The term has its roots in the Ancient Greek words αὐτός (autós, lit. Various terms are used to describe self-education. Autodidacticism is sometimes a complement of modern formal education.[11] As a complement to formal education, students would be encouraged to do more independent work.[12] The Industrial Revolution created a new situation for self-directed learners. [edit]
College - The Center for Innovation and Learning The Center for Innovation and Learning aims to design, develop and integrate resources that enrich learning and teaching at Wofford, and to provide a locus for conversations, both within the Wofford community and with other institutions, about excellence and innovation in a residential liberal arts education. Purposeful integration of research, curricular innovation, and support in The Center for Innovation and Learning is a step toward the academic synthesis a 21st century liberal arts college can offer both its own community members and society at large. Our mission is four-fold: to support innovation in teaching, provide an environment for the support of teaching and learning, to support on-campus writing initiatives in curricular and co-curricular programming, and to assess for the effectiveness of innovations undertaken in the service of student learning.