From DSC:
I love the quote at the end…“Chance favors the connected mind.”
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Originally saw this at the Engaged Learning blog
On 10/21/2010,
in creativity, education, engagement / engaging students, love of learning, new media literacies,
by Daniel Christian
On 10/20/2010,
in 21st century, Adobe, Apple, blogs / blogging / vlogging, cloud-based computing / apps / other cloud-related, CMS/LMS, collaboration, corporate / business world, corporate universities / corporate training, creativity, digital audio, digital learning, digital photography, digital storytelling, digital textbooks, digital video, e-books, e-readers, education technology, emerging technologies, engagement / engaging students, higher education, K-12 related, learning ecosystem, mobile learning, mobile technologies, multimedia, new media literacies, online learning, online media, open courseware and systems, platforms, podcasting, presentations, productivity / tips and tricks, RSS, social learning / networks, social media, storytelling, student-related, teaching & learning, teaching online, tools, training / L&D, UK, United States, videoconferencing, web-based collaboration, workplace,
by Daniel Christian
Top 100 Tools for Learning 2010: Final list, presentation and more — from Jane Knight
Yesterday I finalised the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2010 list. Many thanks to the 545 people who shared their Top 10 Tools for Learning and contributed to the building of the list. Although this list is available online, I also created this presentation which provides the information as a slideset – embedded below.
Jane Hart, a Social Business Consultant, and founder
of the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies.
On 10/19/2010,
in creativity, digital video,
by Daniel Christian
‘Diminished reality’ software removes objects from video in real time — from Kurzweil Accelerating Intelligence (originally saw at minyanville.com)
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On 10/16/2010,
in creativity, education technology, innovation, K-12 related, pace of change, productivity / tips and tricks, tools, vendors,
by Daniel Christian
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From DSC:
Great finds here…but the number of apps here made me feel like I was drowning in all of these possibilities/tools, with tidal waves of innovation sweeping over me.
On 10/14/2010,
in change, creativity, education, education reform, K-12 related, organizational change, presentations, social learning / networks,
by Daniel Christian
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On 10/13/2010,
in Augmented Reality (AR), creativity, emerging technologies, innovation, mobile learning,
by Daniel Christian
Augmented reality and mobile learning — from interactyx.com by Jeff Roth
Let me pose this scenario:
Every day, you walk down the same street. You walk past the buildings, see the crowds and yawn. But on this day, you decide to use your smartphone and look down on the screen. At that moment, you see animation, tweets from people in the area, and you can respond. Interactivity meets reality. Social meets real time visibility. Engagement, enlightenment and excitement in an instance.
You wonder to yourself, can this work in the e-learning world? Specifically, m-learning? Can an app for the smartphone superimpose learning in a location or locations? Would it be possible to create a 3D environment in a real environment with people interacting? If yes, what would it be called?
Augmented Reality and it is happening as we speak…
On 10/11/2010,
in 21st century, assessment, digital storytelling, higher education, instructional design, memory, pedagogy, play, story, storytelling,
by Daniel Christian
The test has been canceled — from Boston.com by Keith O’Brien
Final exams are quietly vanishing from college
The change, which was first reported in Harvard Magazine, is not a statement on the value of final exams one way or the other, Harris said. But the shrinking role of big, blockbuster tests at Harvard and colleges elsewhere is raising serious pedagogical questions about 21st century education: How best do students learn? And what’s the best way to assess that? Is the disappearance of high-stakes, high-pressure final exams a sign that universities are failing to challenge today’s students, or is it just a long overdue acknowledgment that such tests aren’t always the best indicator of actual knowledge?
From DSC:
Perhaps like many others, I don’t remember a lot from the final exams taken during my college days. My hope is that whatever methods we use, we can foster deeper, longer-lasting ROI’s from students’ studying time. We can create more “hooks” on which to hang things 5-10 years down the line (if that’s possible these days!). One thought along these lines, is to use the ideas of story, play, and promoting the creativity of our students.
The greatest teacher of all time used story — in the form of parables — all the time. I’ll bet that many of us can still recall to this day the parable of the sower, or the prodigal son…the good Samaritan or the lost coin. With enough repetition, we remember these stories and the deeper meaning behind them. They provide hooks to hang other things upon (i.e. scaffolding).
On 10/09/2010,
in assessment, creativity, engagement / engaging students, music,
by Daniel Christian
How would you assess this? — from Education Stormfront
Excerpt:
The good news is that we are entering a golden age of learning. A time where the Yeols of the world will be able to connect with people who will appreciate, encourage and foster their gifts. It will be an explosion of personal expression, where everyone can finally reach their full potential. The resulting massive outburst of creativity will reshape the planet like nothing since the Renaissance.
Jan Kriwol — from Fubiz.com
Des très belles compositions d’images par le photographe polonais Jan Kriwol, inspiré par le quotidien et les comics. Il travaille pour DDB, Saatchi & Saatchi et BBDO et pour des clients comme Reebook ou Quicksilver. Il est actuellement représenté par 76management.
On 10/04/2010,
in convergence, creativity, digital audio, digital learning, digital photography, digital storytelling, digital textbooks, digital video, disruption, distance education, e-books, e-readers, education technology, educational games / serious games, elearning, emerging technologies, engagement / engaging students, game-changing environment, Google, innovation, online learning, online media, online tutoring, tools, vendors,
by Daniel Christian
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Addendums:
10-5-10– from Google announces TV deals with HBO, NBA, others
“One of our goals with Google TV is to finally open up the living room and enable new innovation from content creators, programmers, developers and advertisers,” Ambarish Kenghe, developer product manager for Google TV, said in the post.
Light Drive — from fubiz
Une séquence en stop-motion étonnante réalisée par Kim Pimmel pour le FITC San Francisco, utilisant les techniques de light-painting à partir d’un vynil. Des séquences montées sur la bande-son du trailer de Tron Legacy. Les sources de lumières sont à découvrir dans la suite de l’article.
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On 09/27/2010,
in creativity, health, innovation, media/film, multimedia, nursing,
by Daniel Christian
USC Brings Together Filmmakers, Engineers, Doctors for Its New Body Computing Center — from FastCompany.com by Allisa Walker
On 09/09/2010,
in community colleges, creativity, education, education reform, engagement / engaging students, passions, staying relevant, strategy, student-related, surviving, United States,
by Daniel Christian
From DSC:
Here in the United States, the waste continues…
As I was reading the article mentioned below, I was reminded of a graphic I saw a while back after the April 20 Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion:
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This graphic reminds me of a very valuable resource that still isn’t being “realized” — and, as a result, the leakage continues to cause a mess. And that has to do with the amazing amount of talents, abilities, and gifts that are being wasted daily when students drop out of school or college.
So I appreciated hearing about what some of the community colleges are doing to try to “cap the spill” — to stop this waste of talent.
We must help students find and develop their passions. Should we look at changing some of the requirements/curriculums out there? If an emphasis on STEM isn’t working, is it time to try something else like arts, music, game design, shop/woodworking, automotive work, or something else that many of these same students might be more passionate about?
Addendum 4/5/11:
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Community Colleges Get Creative With Remedial Education — from edweek.org by Caralee Adams
Record numbers of students are arriving on community college campuses this fall, but a majority of them—nearly 60 percent—aren’t academically prepared to handle the classwork.
Three out of every five community college students need at least one remedial course, and fewer than 25 percent of those students successfully earn a degree within eight years, according to the National Education Longitudinal Study.
“We really have to figure out how to get developmental education right, or any dream that we have of increasing the number of college graduates in this country or eliminating disparities across racial and ethnic groups—that dream is going to tank,” said Kay McClenney, the director of the Community College Survey of Student Engagement and an adjunct faculty member in the Community College Leadership Program at the University of Texas at Austin.
Pushed by federal expectations, tightening budgets, expanding enrollments, and what the foundation-supported Strong American Schools campaign estimatedRequires Adobe Acrobat Reader to be a $2 billion-and-rising annual cost for remedial education, community colleges have started experimenting with a range of strategies to address those numbers.