Khan Academy explores hands-on learning — from edutopia.org
Also see:
- Introducing Khan Academy Lite, an offline version of Khan Academy
On 12/27/2012,
in blended learning, hybrid learning,
by Daniel Christian
On 12/19/2012,
in blended learning, hybrid learning,
by Daniel Christian
10 predictions for blended learning in 2013 — from thejournal.com by Michael Horn and Heather Staker
Excerpt:
In the year ahead we will see more public schools adopt blended learning, meaning online learning in physical schools. Blended learning is no longer entirely new or untried, and school leaders are hungry for a way to do more with less. Below are 10 predictions for blended learning in 2013.
On 12/06/2012,
in blended learning, Canada, higher education, hybrid learning, online learning, professional development,
by Daniel Christian
On 10/04/2012,
in collaboration, face-to-face, flipping -- inverted learning, hybrid learning, love of learning, more voice more choice more control, online learning,
by Daniel Christian
On 07/16/2012,
in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, A/V -- audio/visual, adult learning, analytics, Artificial Intelligence/Agents/LLMs/and Related, assessment, blended learning, business side of he, career development, change, changing business models, cloud-based computing / apps / other cloud-related, competency-based learning/education, cost of getting a degree, dangers of the status quo, Daniel S. Christian, data related items, digital learning, disruption, education reform, education technology, educational games / serious games, elearning, emerging technologies, engagement / engaging students, future, future of higher education, game-changing environment, global / globalization, higher education, homeschooling/homeschoolers, hybrid learning, intelligent systems, intelligent tutoring, interactivity, internet, learning agents, learning ecosystem, Learning from the Living [Class] Room, lifelong learning, machine-to-machine communications, mirroring and/or multiple devices, mobile learning, multimedia, new business models, online learning, online tutoring, personalized/customized learning, reinvent, social learning / networks, staying relevant, streams of content, tablets, teachers, teaching & learning, teaching online, technologies for your home, telepresence, trends, TVs, ubiquitous learning, videoconferencing, virtual K-12 schools, Virtual Reality (VR) / worlds / learning, virtual tutoring, vision/possibilities, web-based collaboration,
by Daniel Christian
From DSC:
When the technologies behind IBM’s Watson and Apple’s Siri get perfected and integrated into products and services that will make up the near future “Learning from the Living [Class] Room” environment— there will be:
- A high degree of personalization and customization — available 24x7x365 on multiple kinds of devices
. - The option to turn on tracking and analytics — reporting from which can be moved into the learner’s cloud-based profile upon completion of the unit/activity/badge
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- Students of all ages will have access to their own virtual tutors so to speak
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- When a virtual tutor is unable to resolve or address the student’s issue to the student’s satisfaction, the student will be able to instantly access a human tutor (with the option of keeping the existing work/issue/problems visible to the human tutor)
![The Living [Class] Room -- by Daniel Christian -- July 2012 -- a second device used in conjunction with a Smart/Connected TV](http://danielschristian.com/learning-ecosystems/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/The-Living-Class-Room-Daniel-S-Christian-July-2012.jpg "The-Living-Class-Room-Daniel-S-Christian---July-2012")
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Addendums:
- Siri’s new cousin works as a bank teller — from The Future of Work section at TechnologyReview.com — by Tom Simonite
Spanish bank BBVA taps the team that invented the iPhone assistant to build technology that can converse with bank customers.
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- How Virtual Personal Assistants are changing consumers’ lives — from betakit.com by Gideon Hayden
. - A Siri for the Living Room — from businessweek.com by Kevin Fitchard
On 07/02/2012,
in 21st century, 3D, A/V -- audio/visual, active learning, analytics, attention, blended learning, cloud-based computing / apps / other cloud-related, collaboration, communities of practice, digital learning, digital video, education technology, emerging technologies, engagement / engaging students, engineering, face-to-face, future, hybrid learning, ideas, innovation, interactivity, K-12 related, learning ecosystem, learning spaces, machine-to-machine communications, mirroring and/or multiple devices, multimedia, Near Field Communication (NFC), project-based learning, real-world assignments, second screen apps, smart classrooms, social learning / networks, STEAM-related, tablets, telepresence, TVs, user experience (UX), vendors, videoconferencing, vision/possibilities, web-based collaboration,
by Daniel Christian
Description:
By connecting education with smarter technology, Intel offers a look into the future of K-12 education. Watch as students use technology to collaborate with peers and industry experts to build a bridge model, from the initial design phase through the final structure testing. Intel’s education solutions help teachers provide innovative, personalized and secure learning environments to prepare students for successful futures in the 21st century.
I originally saw this at
- Intel vision video: Partial picture of blended future — from Getting Smart by Tom Vander Ark
On 05/23/2012,
in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, analytics, blended learning, data related items, digital learning, education, education reform, future, hybrid learning, mobile learning, mobile technologies, MOOCs -- Massive Open Online Courses, personalized/customized learning, strategy, trends,
by Daniel Christian
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Featured presenters:
- Karen Cator, Dir. Office of Education Technology, U.S. Department of Education
- Dr. Barrett Mosbacker, Superintendent, Briarwood Christian School
Excerpts re: trends:
- Mobility — 24/7 access
- Social interactions for learning
- Digital content
- Big data
On 05/11/2012,
in blended learning, communities of practice, hybrid learning, K-12 related,
by Daniel Christian
Excerpt from the introduction
The growth of online learning in the K–12 sector is occurring both remotely through virtual schools and on campuses through blended learning. In emerging fields, definitions are important because they create a shared language that enables people to talk about the new phenomena. The following blended-learning taxonomy and definitions expand upon and refine our previous work in helping to create a shared language for the K–12 blended learning sector.
In our report titled, “The rise of K–12 blended learning,” we observed that there were six main blended-learning models emerging in the sector from the perspective of the student. This paper introduces a number of changes to that taxonomy based on feedback from the field and the need to update the research to keep pace with new innovations that are occurring in blended learning. Most importantly, the paper eliminates two of the six blended-learning models—Faceto-Face Driver and Online Lab—because they appear to duplicate other models and make the categorization scheme too rigid to accommodate the diversity of blended-learning models in practice. By moving from six to four overarching models, we have created more breathing room in the definitions. We hope these new models will better describe the majority of programs so that nearly all blended-learning programs will fit comfortably within one of the four. Appendix A explains the differences between the new four-model taxonomy and the old six-model taxonomy in greater detail.
On 03/30/2012,
in A/V -- audio/visual, distance education, hybrid learning, ideas, innovation,
by Daniel Christian
From DSC:
I especially like this one:
- Remote learning – follow professors around the classroom; see who is asking questions
On 02/02/2012,
in analytics, blended learning, education reform, face-to-face, hybrid learning, K-12 related, online learning, pedagogy, personalized/customized learning, reinvent, strategy, teaching & learning, vision/possibilities,
by Daniel Christian
On 11/14/2011,
in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, blended learning, change, digital learning, education technology, elearning, future, game-changing environment, hybrid learning, innovation, K-12 related, online learning, personalized/customized learning, productivity / tips and tricks, student teaching/teacher education, student-related,
by Daniel Christian
Also see:
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A comprehensive look at the promise and potential of online learning
In our digital age, students have dramatically new learning needs and must be prepared for the idea economy of the future. In Getting Smart, well-known global education expert Tom Vander Ark examines the facets of educational innovation in the United States and abroad. Vander Ark makes a convincing case for a blend of online and onsite learning, shares inspiring stories of schools and programs that effectively offer “personal digital learning” opportunities, and discusses what we need to do to remake our schools into “smart schools.”
— Examines the innovation-driven world, discusses how to combine online and onsite learning, and reviews “smart tools” for learning
— Investigates the lives of learning professionals, outlines the new employment bargain, examines online universities and “smart schools”
— Makes the case for smart capital, advocates for policies that create better learning, studies smart cultures
Addendum on 11/29/11:
- Getting Smart envisions a smarter system of schooling — from innosightinstitute.org by Michael Horn
On 10/13/2011,
in adjunct faculty, blended learning, collaboration, communities of practice, data related items, face-to-face, faculty/staff, higher education, hybrid learning, innovation, learning ecosystem, learning theories, physics, social learning / networks, strategy, teachers, teaching & learning,
by Daniel Christian
Building Learning Communities 2011 Keynote: Dr. Eric Mazur — from November Learning
Excerpt:
Today, we are officially relaunching our opening keynote from BLC11 with Dr. Eric Mazur. Dr. Mazur is the Area Dean of Applied Physics and Balkanski Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA.
In his keynote, Dr. Mazur shares his vast research on teaching and learning. Students in Dr. Mazur’s class are moving far away from the traditional stand and deliver lectures given in many k-12 and university classrooms around the world, and they are gaining a much deeper understanding of the material being taught in the process.
As you watch this video, we invite you to take some time and respond to one or more of the following questions…
From DSC:
What I understood the key points to be:
- Teaching and learning should not be about information transfer alone; that is, it’s not about simply having students “parrot back” the information. That doesn’t lead to true learning and long-term retention.
- The more a teacher is an expert in his/her content, the more difficulty this teacher has in understanding how a first time learner in this subject struggles
- Rather we need to guide and use peer instruction/social learning/collaboration amongst students to construct learning and then be able to apply/transfer that learning to a different context
- Lecturing is not an effective way to create a long term retention of information
- Peer instruction/human interaction creates effective learning
- “The plural of anecdotes is not data.”
- Eric is seeking data and feedback to sharpen his theories of how to optimize learning
- Technology serves pedagogy — technology should afford a new mode of learning
- Towards that end, Eric and team working on “Peer instruction 2.0”
- How do I design good questions? Optimize the discussions? Manage time? Insure learning is taking place?
- Eric is working with several other colleagues to create a system for building and using data analytics to give useful information to instructor about who’s “getting it” and who isn’t; about how we learn
- Peer instruction not without issues — how people group themselves and who students choose to collaborate with can be problematical
- Why not have the system do the pairing/grouping?
- System uses algorithms, facial recognition, posture analysis; cameras, microphones
- Surveys also used
- The system is attempting to help Eric and his team learn about learning
- The system being used at Harvard and by invitation only
Eric ended with a summary of the 2 key messages:
- Education is not about lecturing
- We can move way beyond the current technologies and use new methods and technologies to actively manage learning as it happens
From DSC:
After listening to this lecture, the graphic below captures a bit of what he’s getting at and reflects some of my thinking on this subject as well. That is, we need diagnostic tools — along the lines of those a mechanic might use on our cars to ascertain where the problems/issues are:
On 10/13/2011,
in blended learning, elearning, hybrid learning, instructional design, K-12 related, online learning, quality,
by Daniel Christian
Excerpt:
The mission of the International Association for K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL) is to ensure all students have access to world-class education and quality online learning opportunities that prepare them for a lifetime of success. National Standards for Quality Online Courses is designed to provide states, districts, online programs, and other organizations with a set of quality guidelines for online course content, instructional design, technology, student assessment, and course management.