50 Powerful Ways To Use Skype In The Classroom Added by Katie Lepi on 2012-11-15 Collaborate! Meet with other classrooms : One of the most common projects educators utilize Skype for is setting up exchanges with classrooms around the world, usually for cultural exchange purposes or working together on a common assignment. The program’s official site provides some great opportunities to meet up with like-minded teachers and students sharing the same goals. Practice a foreign language : Connect with individual learners or classrooms hailing from a different native tongue can use a Skype collaboration to sharpen grammar and pronunciation skills through conversation. Communicate! Parent-teacher conferences : Save gas, time, and energy by holding meetings with moms and dads via video chat instead of the usual arrangement. Connect! Art crits : Schedule time with professional artists and receive thorough crits about how to improve a piece. And here’s the tools to help you do it! Comments are closed.
Intelligent tutoring system An intelligent tutoring system (ITS) is a computer system that aims to provide immediate and customized instruction or feedback to learners,[1] usually without intervention from a human teacher. ITSs have the common goal of enabling learning in a meaningful and effective manner by using a variety of computing technologies. There are many examples of ITSs being used in both formal education and professional settings in which they have demonstrated their capabilities and limitations. There is a close relationship between intelligent tutoring, cognitive learning theories and design; and there is ongoing research to improve the effectiveness of ITS. History of ITS[edit] Early mechanical systems[edit] Skinner teaching machine 08 The possibility of intelligent machines have been discussed for centuries. Pressey himself was influenced by Edward L. Early electronic systems[edit] In the period following the second world war, mechanical binary systems gave way to binary based electronic machines.
«Free digital tools in Blooms This list is distinctive as the resources are a) free and b) almost exclusively browser based. The list is also sorted by Blooms, meaning you are able to more easily consider your student outcomes FIRST. There are a few exceptions. Have a favourite that’s missing? Creating (Higher order thinking): Designing, constructing, planning, producing, inventing, devising, making) Applications: Evaluating (Higher order thinking: Checking, hypothesising, critiquing, experimenting, judging, testing, detecting, monitoring) Applications: Analysing (Higher order thinking: Comparing, organising, deconstructing, attributing, outlining, structuring, integrating) Understanding (Lower order thinking: Interpreting, exemplifying, summarising, inferring, paraphrasing, classifying, comparing, explaining) Remembering (Lower order thinking: Recognising, listing, describing, identifying, retrieving, naming, locating, finding) Blogging Software Posterous – Perhaps the easiest blogging tool to use available. Dashboards
Technology adoption lifecycle The technology adoption lifecycle is a sociological model that is an extension of an earlier model called the diffusion process, which was originally published in 1957 by Joe M. Bohlen, George M. Beal and Everett M. Rogers at Iowa State University and which was originally published only for its application to agriculture and home economics).[1] building on earlier research conducted there by Neal C. Beal, Rogers and Bohlen together developed a model called the diffusion process[5] and later Everett Rogers generalized the use of it in his widely acclaimed book, Diffusion of Innovations[6] (now in its fifth edition), describing how new ideas and technologies spread in different cultures. Rogers' bell curve The technology adoption lifecycle model describes the adoption or acceptance of a new product or innovation, according to the demographic and psychological characteristics of defined adopter groups. The report summarised the categories as: Adaptations of the model[edit] Examples[edit]
An Ed-Tech Guide for Teachers and Technologists “Ed-Tech” stands for educational technology, it is about the education-focused technologies or using general technologies for education purposes. Looking back on 2012, a review on Top 10 Educational Technologies of 2012 (from School Library Journal) is a must-read, and Top 100 Tools for Learning from C4LPT (2012) is the comprehensive list of top Ed-Tech tools from C4LPT. Looking forward to next year, MIT Enterprise Forum gave us the highlight on Converging Trends and Opportunities of K12 EdTech, and The Open University proposed ten innovations that have the potential to provoke major shifts in educational practice: Innovating Pedagogy 2012 from The Open University. Back to the basics of Ed-Tech, Audrey Watters(Hack Education) had created “The Audrey Test” in 2012 – … some of the things I think techies (engineers and entrepreneurs) should know about education. A little history, a little theory, a little policy, a little cognitive science.
Constructivist epistemology Branch in philosophy of science Constructivism and sciences [edit] Social constructivism in sociology One version of social constructivism contends that categories of knowledge and reality are actively created by social relationships and interactions. Social activity presupposes human interaction, and in the case of social construction, utilizing semiotic resources (meaning-making and signifying) with reference to social structures and institutions. Constructivism in philosophy of science Thomas Kuhn argued that changes in scientists' views of reality not only contain subjective elements but result from group dynamics, "revolutions" in scientific practice, and changes in "paradigms".[3] As an example, Kuhn suggested that the Sun-centric Copernican "revolution" replaced the Earth-centric views of Ptolemy not because of empirical failures but because of a new "paradigm" that exerted control over what scientists felt to be the more fruitful way to pursue their goals. Joe L. Genetic epistemology
Top 5 Lectures about Education & Technology Learn About EnglishCentral Teaching English Magazine Read The Latest Newsletter Digital Downloads TESOL Certificate Supporter Top 5 Lectures about Education & Technology This is a follow up to my recent: Top 5 Inspirational presentations about Educational Technology. Over the last decade there have been some great lectures made available to teachers/researchers about the powerful new possibility that technology promises for education. I'm sure you have your own to share and please comment and tell us which one(s) you think are a "must". Honorable Mentions: Is the internet a good thing? #5 Derailing Education - David Warlich #4 Let's Use Video To Re-invent Education #3 Copyright problems in the Digital Age - Richard Stallman #2 The Learning Revolution - Ken Robinson #1 The Future Of Learning - Sugata Mitra If you liked this you might enjoy: Top 5 inspirational speeches for teachers Views: 292 Tags: education, future, lecture, technology, top5 Like 0 members like this Share Twitter Facebook Add a Remark
100+ examples of use of social media for learning EmailShare 0EmailShare Note: this page dates back to 2011. More up to date information is to be found in my Social Learning Handbook 2014. Here are over 100 ways that different social technologies (and tools) are being used by learning professionals worldwide – compiled from the comments of those who have contributed to the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009 activity. Blogging (1) “Blogs are great for learning from others, reflection, story sharing, facilitating connections among people, philosophizing, and much more” Janice Petosky, Instructional designer,West Chester, Pennsylvania (2) “Writing a blog is a learning activity, of course, but reading the best blogs that are available is one of my most productive learning experiences.” (3) “Blogging is my chief way of making sense of things“ Michele Martin, Freelance Learning Consultant, USA (5) “While everyone seems to get the blog thing now, few are leveraging the technology for what, at its root, it really is: a very quick web page creator.