Disruptive innovation — reflections/recap of by Lord David Putnams’s speech by Steve Wheeler
On 01/12/2011,
in disruption, innovation, student teaching/teacher education, teaching & learning, UK,
by Daniel Christian
On 01/04/2011,
in 21st century, education technology, leadership, strategy, student teaching/teacher education, teaching & learning,
by Daniel Christian
School Tech: 6 Important Lessons From Maine’s Student Laptop Program — from Mashable.com by Sarah Kessler
On 12/08/2010,
in instructional design, K-12 related, learner profiles, learning, learning ecosystem, memory, student teaching/teacher education, teachers,
by Daniel Christian
‘The fundamentals of how children learn’ – ePace [from agent4change.net]
Maureen McTaggart explores a new service that helps kids learn and teachers teach
A simple 45-minute test developed by an ex-teacher helps educators identify the strengths and weaknesses of all their pupils and then transform the way they teach and how those children learn. But the ePace online profiling tool, which will be launched at BETT 2011, is not about creating more record-keeping for teachers, says Mary Blake.
“We are looking at the fundamentals of how children learn rather than what attainment level they are going to get,” she says. “I think it’s an amazing thing for teachers to know but even more so for children because it empowers them to see for themselves how they are learning.”
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The ePace (electronic profile of attainment cognition and efficiency) test evaluates 11 critical areas of learning – auditory memory, visual memory, listening skills, emotional control, decision making, focus, hand-eye co-ordination, mental speed, timing, literacy and impulsivity – and any child from the age of seven can take it. The support pack includes practical teacher resources and strategies and interactive sharing with students and parents is actively encouraged.
On 11/03/2010,
in digital video, education technology, student teaching/teacher education,
by Daniel Christian
On 10/07/2010,
in elearning, online learning, online tutoring, student teaching/teacher education, teachers, teaching & learning, teaching online, virtual K-12 schools,
by Daniel Christian
E-Learning 2010: E-Educators Evolving — from EducationWeek.com (9/20/10)
This special report, the second in a three-part series on e-learning, aims to answer questions related to the growing role of e-educators in K-12 education. It provides perspectives and advice from state policymakers and virtual school providers navigating through the new and often murky policy waters of online-only education, and features insights from e-educators in the trenches of virtual schooling.
On 08/11/2010,
in education, education reform, education technology, elearning, emerging technologies, face-to-face, future, innovation, K-12 related, leadership, strategy, student teaching/teacher education,
by Daniel Christian
Ed-tech innovators share their vision for education — from eSchoolNews.com [via the Ubiquitous Learning Newsletter; see below]
Leaders in education technology offer their insights on the future of education in video interviews with eSN-TV
Ubiquitous Learning Journal, Volume 2, Number 4 now available
The final issue of Volume 2 of Ubiquitous Learning: An International Journal has now been published. Volume 2, Number 4 contains:
- Changes to the Information and Communication Technology Skills of Pre-Service Teachers Over Time by John Kenneth Hope and Anthony Neil Hunt.
- Sustaining Technological Innovation: Is it too Calm after the Storm? by Heather Hemming and Gregory MacKinnon.
- Involving Students in the Development and Evaluation of a Ubiquitous Learning Application for a Design Practice Setting by Lisa-Dionne Morris and Anthea Connolly.
- Dynamic Organizing and Evaluating Project-Based Collaborative Learning by Oleg Tilchin.
- Using a Customized Wiki for Classroom and Online Learning by Arthur Taylor.
- Learning Language, Content, and Collaboration through Group Projects by Paula Korsko, Kate Lyons and Carlos Guevara.
- The Use of Instructional Technology to Impact Student Retention and Attitudes in a College Level Geology Course by Michelle McMahon.
On 07/01/2010,
in adjunct faculty, engagement / engaging students, faculty, presentations, teachers,
by Daniel Christian
Prezi: A better way of doing presentations — from Faculty Focus by: John Orlando, PhD
Everyone seems to assume that a presentation must be accompanied by a PowerPoint. Conferences even require presenters to submit their PowerPoints as a condition of being accepted. But we’ve all seen terrible PowerPoints that detract from the presentation, and many people just don’t use PowerPoints well, hence the term “PowerPoint-induced sleep.”
But maybe it’s time to (gasp) question the use of PowerPoint itself (stick with me here)! Why do we assume that we must put up an outline of our points to help the audience understand them? The best presentations on TED are not accompanied by a PowerPoint of bulleted lists, but rather photos or other imagery that illustrate a point or make an effect. A speaker might flash the simple word “why” on the screen to prepare the audience for questioning a common belief. A single photo could be used to elicit a laugh or set the tone of the discussion.
One alternative to boring PowerPoint slides is to use Prezi. This web-based tool allows the user to create a single canvas of text, images, videos, etc. online. The presenter flies from location to location on the canvas, sometimes turning elements upside down, sometimes zooming in or out, to explore the relationship between ideas. Like a painter, the canvas draws the developer to choose visual imagery to create the presentation, in contrast to the text-heavy, outline-based methodology of PowerPoint.
On 06/30/2010,
in professional development, student teaching/teacher education, videoconferencing, web-based collaboration, webinars,
by Daniel Christian
Videoconferencing Lesson Study: Learning from the Classroom — by Janine Lim
Poster Session: Amy Colucci, Jefferson County Public School with Jeremy Renner
Just stopped by a poster session on the way that Jefferson County Public Schools uses classroom-based videoconferencing systems to facilitate real-time lesson studies without interrupting the classroom instructional.
I talked to Pam Caudill, who is the videoconferencing contact supporting the project. It’s a really cool professional development model. (In case you’re interested, they are using Tandberg equipment.)
So imagine this:
- The model teacher is in the classroom – and videoconferences back with a group of teachers at another site.
- She explains the idea for the lesson; prep etc.
- She teaches the lesson. The teachers at the other site are watching. A mic is on the teacher, and a room mic is used also. Someone in the room unobtrusively manages the camera so the far site sees everything going on.
- After the lesson, the model teacher debriefs with the teachers at the far site.
- THEN, the teachers at the far site learn how to use the technology tools they just saw used with the students.