Edcmooc_artefact. 'Our School Would Be Better Off Without iPads.' We go on and on about iPads, tablets, phablets, and just about every other piece of technology out there. But the discussion is slowly changing. It’s becoming less and less about how to deploy as much technology as possible. Instead, the discussion is shifting (luckily) back over to effectively connecting with students.
Check out the recent post by George Couros to see what I’m talking about. It’s easy to see that there is a slow pivot happening in education right now where we’re becoming a little less enamored by shiny new iGadgets and other tech tools. Instead, we want to figure out how to effectively use what we have in order to actually connect with students. So that’s why it was interesting to see a comment pop up on a recent post here on Edudemic about iPads .
The comment is below. NOTE: Since a teacher’s name and school was included in the comment, I thought it might be useful to remove any personal or identifying information from the comment before raising awareness of it. Online tools and applications - Go2web20. Let’s Laugh! 10+ Resources & Activities for Inspiring Laughter in Your Class. “Laughter is more than just a pleasurable activity…When people laugh together, they tend to talk and touch more and to make eye contact more frequently.” ~Gretchen Rubin April Fool’s day is around the corner and it’s a great time to get your students laughing while learning. Laughter is healthy and gets us to relieve the stress of language learning. Many of these lessons deal with studying the language in jokes.
Jokes are cultural. They play on words, take critical thinking skills to decipher, and enhance the classroom atmosphere. Joke Mingle You can have students bring in jokes for any topic, grammar, or vocabulary you teach. Students memorize at least one of the jokes.Put students in pairs facing each other.Give them 30 seconds to a minute to tell their jokes.Blow the whistle. My Favorite Joke Have students present their favorite jokes to the class then discuss where they first heard the joke, who told them the joke, and why they think the joke is so funny. Corniest Joke Contest. 5 Interesting Ways Schools Use iPads. There are iPads flooding into just about every classroom and school these days. Or so it seems. Judging by the amount of interest from educators, students, and administrators, it’s easy to see that the iPad is a becoming a topic of discussion (at the very least) for many of us. So what are some of the more interesting ways schools use iPads and how are schools currently implementing them?
Below are just a handful of examples but there are boatloads more. In fact, we at Edudemic would love to hear from YOU! To Encourage History Discussions Bringing the past to life is a great reason to integrate technology into any classroom or lesson. To Bring Teachers To Rural Areas There’s a rural area of Sweden (Vindeln) that has seen iPads become a critical tool in filling teacher vacancies or simply bringing instruction to many areas not normally reachable by standard education systems.
To Streamline Med School You may start seeing your doctor carrying around an iPad. To Create Interactive Textbooks. 5 Reasons We Use Social Media. MadMOOC. Being social in a MOOC | The MOOC Experience. Social media and digital learning environments are now combined. As part of the MOOC experience, students are requested to join debates and course’s topics on social networks, such as Facebook, Twitter or Google +. The idea is to go beyond the regular e-learning platform, or the virtual class – instructors want to encourage students to learn and share ideas where they feel most comfortable at.
I believe this is a great thing about MOOCs. Not only we can learn everywhere, but it is also easier to be in touch professionals/students with similar interests. Have you ever, for example, joined a Facebook Group of a MOOC class? It is amazing what people can share out there. In the end of January, I had the opportunity to join one, EDCMOOC (made by students of E-learning and Digital Culture, provided by University of Edinburgh by Coursera) with more than 4,000 members from many different countries.
In this first one I highlight users by their countries/languages. Like this: Like Loading... How Video Games Change the Brain. I am in an overgrown lot leaning against an eight-foot-tall shipping container. I look both ways, weighing my options. A man with an assault rifle is looking for me, just as I am looking for him. Hoping for a better vantage point, I run toward the abandoned car to my right. A metallic bang rings out as my opponent's shot hits the wall I have just left. I dodge around the next container, then circle behind it. Raising my M16, I peer through the scope as I run. So ended my introduction to first-person-shooter video games.
These striking findings have contributed to a shift in the national conversation about video games. Teaching is the critical word. So far the games shown to have the most potent neurological effects are the ones parents hate the most: violent first-person shooters. New Vision Bavelier stumbled on the subject of video games by accident. So Bavelier took the test. The action-game players were not more attentive from the start, the researchers determined.
Big Thinkers. TAGSExplorer: Interactive archive of twitter conversations from a Google Spreadsheet for #edcmchat. Connected learning: getting beyond technological determinism. Life lately has felt like one of those dreams where you’re in a cab with your third-grade teacher on the way to a conference presentation you forgot to prepare for and then suddenly the cab morphs into a giant recycling plant and everything is spinning and… What? You don’t have those dreams? I have them when things get busy. It’s like a grand exercise in convergence: everything blurs together. From the midst of the blur, though, there’s a thread I want to try to untangle from the early weeks of #etmooc (Educational Technology and Media, a collaboratively-hosted connectivist MOOC) and #edcmooc (E-learning and Digital Cultures, my first Coursera effort, offered through the University of Edinburgh).
But the ideas are starting to bounce off each other and amplify…and then weave back together around this thread of technological determinism. Now, I’m not saying all determinist conclusions about technologies are wrong. What’s wrong with that? But it is a point that tends to miss the point. Five innovations changing how we work, live, interact. IBM has unveiled its latest ‘5 in 5’: five predictions about technology innovations that will change the way humans work, live and interact within the next five years. The ideas come from thousands of IBM biologists, engineers, mathematicians and physicians who predict that computers will, in their own way, begin to mimic and augment the five senses of humans – to see, smell, touch, taste and hear. “These innovations will be the underpinning of a new generation of cognitive computers that will learn, adapt, sense and begin to experience the world as it really is,” says Dr John E Kelly III, senior vice president and director of IBM research, in a public lecture on the innovations at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa.
Kelly directs the worldwide operations of IBM Research, with approximately 3,000 scientists and technical employees at 12 laboratories in 10 countries, and helps guide IBM’s overall technical strategy. (1) Timeline Photos. Letting Objects Tell Their Stories (WC Archive) Julian Bleecker's paper A Manifesto for Networked Objects Cohabiting with Pigeons, Arphids and Aibos in the Internet of Things (PDF) -- also known as Why Things Matter -- should be required reading for every WorldChanging participant, contributor or reader. The essay looks at the rise of what Bleecker calls "blogjects" (objects that blog), precursors to Bruce Sterling's more complex "spime" concept. Simply put, these are networked objects that document on an ongoing basis their locations, their histories, and their purposes -- in essence, telling us their stories.
On the surface, Bleecker focuses on the evolution of this technology, but in reality, he's really talking about a catalyst for bringing about the Bright Green future. These are some of his examples: ...What about the other cohabitants that will now have the ability to get on the network within this pervasively networked future? And there's more, much more. (Via BoingBoing) Www.ele.uri.edu/faculty/vetter/Other-stuff/The-Machine-Stops.pdf. The Age of Egocasting. Christine Rosen Great inventions usually summon images of their brilliant creators. Eli Whitney and the cotton gin; Alexander Graham Bell and the telephone; Thomas Edison and the phonograph. But it is a peculiar fact that one of the inventions that has most influenced our daily lives for the past many decades is bereft of just such a heroic, technical visionary: the television.
Schoolchildren aren’t told the odyssey of Philo T. Farnsworth, the Mormon farm boy from Iowa who used cathode ray tubes to invent an “image dissector” in the 1920s, or the tale of Russian immigrant Vladimir Zworykin, who worked with the Radio Corporation of America on similar techniques around the same time. Few people know that the first commercial television broadcast occurred at the 1939 World’s Fair in New York, where RCA unveiled its first television set.
Master and Commander Engineers created the first home remote control devices in the 1950s. There is a Pavlovian brilliance to the remote control. TiVo Nation. 5 Steps to Hosting Successful Twitter Chats: Your Ultimate Guide. Hosting a Twitter chat is an amazing way to interact with your fans and followers, to better understand and grow your community quickly, as well as promote your brand and business. I’ve seen the networking and promotional power of the Twitter chat, so I made up my mind to dig deeper. It’s challenging to describe everything I learned in this one article, but I’ll do my best. Here’s the all-in-one guide to prepare for and host your Twitter chat. Why Twitter Chat? A Twitter chat is a public Twitter conversation around one unique hashtag. This hashtag allows you to follow the discussion and participate in it. Twitter chats are usually recurring and on specific topics to regularly connect people with these interests.
Bloggers connect using #Blogchat hashtag. Hosting a Twitter chat is an effective way to: #1: Understand How it Works Before creating your own Twitter chat, it’s smart to follow or even participate in a few Twitter chats in your industry. . #2: Form Your Plan Brainstorm the Hashtag. How to Participate in a Twitter Chat. My name is Lisa and I sometimes annoy my Twitter followers by participating in Twitter chats. I don’t mean to be annoying, of course, but I’ve found that Twitter chats provide SMBs an excellent opportunity to meet new people, increase their own influence and gain valuable insight on a particular topic. And when you’re not busy doing that, Twitter chats are also a lot of fun!
If you’re not familiar with them, a Twitter chat is a guided conversation where users interested in a particular topic hop onto the service to chat. The chat is given a hashtag, which makes it easy for anyone looking in to identify the chat and participate. It’s similar to a chat room in that it’s a topic-driven conversation happening in real time; it just happens to be housed on Twitter. For example, the hashtag #b2bchat refers to a Twitter chat for B2B marketers that takes place every Thursday. If you’re a small business owner, how can you get in on the Twitter chat action and grow your network? Find the Chat.
Cooltoolsforschools - home. Technology has the power to change and create things, but we have the intelligence to control the power of technology. Technology has the power to change and create things, but we have the intelligence to control the power of technology. Film 1 BenditoMachine III The film suggests how technology attracts tremendously the attention of the characters (society).
Technology is something new, different that can be used in many ways: entertaining, informative, educative, etc. Technology is constantly changing. It gets better and more sophisticated. The film 2 shows how technology can help us to meet someone new and share many things with the love one. Technology has the power to change and create things, but we have the intelligence to control the power of technology. Lauren Chraibi, M.S. Top Ten Web Tools of 2012. I did mean to post this back at the beginning of January, but missed my own deadline. However I have found my previous top tens from 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 useful so decided to get this article done.
This is the fifth time I have done this, it covers the web tools I use on a regular basis and it’s those that make a difference to the way that I work. These are not necessarily tools that I see as important for learning technologies, no these are the tools I use. This is an e-learning blog and I should really mention Moodle, I use Moodle everyday as part of my day job, however I see this more as an institutional service rather than a web tool. 10. 9. 8. 7. 6. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1.
20 Tips for Creating a Professional Learning Network - Getting Smart by Miriam Clifford. “20 Tips for Creating a Professional Learning Network” by Miriam Clifford first appeared on the InfomED blog. Networking is a prime form of 21st century learning. The world is much smaller thanks to technology. Learning is transforming into a globally collaborative enterprise.
Take for example scientists; professional networks allow the scientific community to share discoveries much faster. Just this month, a tech news article showcased how Harvard scientists are considering that “sharing discoveries is more efficient and honorable than patenting them.” As educators, we aim to be connected to advance our craft. Learning networks are based on the theory of connectivism, or learning from diverse social webs. What are some ways to grow your PLN and improve the quality of your interactions? 10 Tips For Using PLN’s Keep the spirit of collaboration as your driving force. 10 Tools & Strategies for Establishing a Productive PLN Use Diigo, Evernote, Pocket, or Delicious to bookmark links.
In Search of Knowledge. Technological determinism. Technological determinism is a reductionist theory that presumes that a society's technology drives the development of its social structure and cultural values. The term is believed to have been coined by Thorstein Veblen (1857–1929), an American sociologist and economist. The most radical technological determinist in the United States in the 20th century was most likely Clarence Ayres who was a follower of Thorstein Veblen and John Dewey. William Ogburn was also known for his radical technological determinism. Origin[edit] The term is believed to have been coined by Thorstein Veblen (1857–1929), an American social scientist. Veblen's contemporary, popular historian Charles A. Explanation[edit] Technological determinism seeks to show technical developments, media, or technology as a whole, as the key mover in history and social change.[4] Most interpretations of technological determinism share two general ideas: Hard and soft determinism[edit] Technology as neutral[edit] Criticism[edit] [edit]
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