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LEARNing! Actually, it’s about education, training and LEARNing. It’s for educators and teachers who are interested in making a real difference to the lives of their students, their colleagues and their organisations – basically, people who are interested in “doing business” differently in education. People in education are often divided into two categories – “the thinkers” and “the doers”. Traditionally, many of our discussions have been about “TEACHing”. This “design flaw” confuses the means and ends in education – and keeps all of us apart. What we need is more “thinking doers” who come together – across the lines that have been drawn in the sand (or the “schoolyard”) – to talk about “what really matters” in education. LEARNing – student LEARNing, educator LEARNing, institutional LEARNing! allthingslearning by Tony GURR is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Like this: Like Loading...
Animateurs multimédias, suivez la vague ! : Articles : Thot Cursus
L’animateur multimédia est au centre de la communauté Web. Il doit donc maîtriser mieux que quiconque les outils multimédias et surtout connaître leur palette d'usages, afin de pouvoir répondre aux demandes de ses utilisateurs. Si la familiarisation avec les principaux outils de bureautique, le courrier électronique, le navigateur web et les applications courantes de création multimédia continue de représenter l'essentiel de son travail auprès d'un large public, l'animateur multimédia peut et doit, de plus en plus, proposer une large gamme d'outils répondant à des besoins spécifiques, et les combiner entre eux. Le site DUO 2.0 propose six parcours de formation scénarisés : Vivre la famille au quotidien; Dynamiser la vie associative; Mieux travailler ensemble;Optimiser ses évènements;Optimiser une veille efficace; Vivre en réseau avec son mobile. Les formations sont disponibles entièrement en ligne, sous forme de widgets embarquables. Chaque capsule propose : Sources :
Educational Insanity – You either love a good dichotomy or you don’t.
This is about online learning, mostly in higher education. Especially in the wake of the UVA fiasco, I’ve been pondering online learning and the term “MOOC” (massively open online course), which I believe has been co-opted from folks like George Siemens, Dave Cormier, and Steven Downes. Those guys taught the Connectivism MOOC in 2008 and, most recently, the Change11 MOOC. Here’s a bit of a history of their courses. Dave Cormier made the video below in December 2010: In a similar vein, though clearly with their own spin and innovations, Jim Groom et al. have been offering ds106 (digital storytelling) as a MOOC in recent years. Then, along came the folks at Coursera and Udacity and Udemy and… It’s unclear if the founders of these entities explicitly adopted the MOOC terminology or if the “mainstream” media applied the term to those outfits. So, what we have, essentially, are two VERY different kinds of MOOCs. So, that’s our first dichotomy… Thoughts? Tags: higher ed., MOOC, online learning
Brainstorm in Progress
Reflections, Ideas, Motivation, and Resources by a Passionately Creative, Easily Distracted, Hopefully Encouraging College Instructor. | Developer of the Tetra Training Method for Teachers
Holt Think: Ed, Creativity, Tech, Administration
Does Opting Out Help or Hurt? Opinion There seems to be a growing movement among parents, led by folks such as Diane Ravitch to encourage or to actually remove their students from taking state standardized tests. Parents such as LA Times journalist Karin Klien pulled her daughter out of testing after realizing that they do not actually help the learning process: "As a journalist, reviewing an early state test that had been leaked to the paper by a teacher, I saw how thin and fault-riddled it could be. I really have no argument here. National organizations such as Fair Test have sprung up challenging the notion that student have to take “the test.” I get it. Some people are choosing to opt out their children because they don’t see an academic benefit, like Klien. Some are opting out their children because they see the stress on their children. But I can’t help but wonder if these parent opting out their kids actually help their cause any? Schools are still accountable. Skype/ Facetime:
10 Things We Should No Longer Tolerate in Ed Tech from Fellow Educators
