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Samsung launches SmartTV apps for kids

On 12/10/2012, in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, A/V -- audio/visual, convergence, Daniel S. Christian, education technology, human-computer interaction (HCI), learning ecosystem, Learning from the Living [Class] Room, New "Amazon.com" of Higher Education, by Daniel Christian

Tagged with: convergence • Daniel S. Christian • educational technology • gesture / gesturing • human-computer interaction (HCI) • K-12 • Smart/Connected TV • voice recognition • Walmart of Education

wise-qatar.org — world innovation summit for education

On 12/10/2012, in education, education reform, future, global / globalization, innovation, K-12 related, by Daniel Christian

From DSC:
With thanks going out to
Mr. Stephen Harris (@Stephen_H)
for this resource.

Also see:

The Mobile Solar Computer Classroom: a complete classroom in the back of an SUV — from gizmag.com by Karen Sprey
Access to education around the world — from onlineclasses.org; with a special thanks to Muhammad Saleem for the resource

Tagged with: future • global • Global learning • innovation • K-12

Mathalicious.com: Real world math

On 12/07/2012, in engagement / engaging students, K-12 related, mathematics, real-world assignments, staying relevant, by Daniel Christian

Tagged with: K-12 • Keeping students engaged • math • real-world assignments • staying relevant

Online Learning: A Manifesto [Stommel]

On 12/05/2012, in blended learning, hybrid learning, K-12 related, learning, learning spaces, online learning, open courseware and systems, pedagogy, student-related, by Daniel Christian

Online Learning: A Manifesto — from hybridpedagogy.com by Jesse Stommel

What we need is to ignore the hype and misrepresentations (on both sides of the debate) and gather together more people willing to carefully reflect on how, where, and why we learn online. There is no productive place in this conversation for exclusivity or anti-intellectualism. Those of us talking about digital pedagogy and digital humanities need to be engaging thoughtfully in discussions about online learning and open education. Those of us in higher ed. need to be engaging thoughtfully with K-12 teachers and administrators. And it’s especially important that we open our discussions of the future of education to students, who should both participate in and help to build their own learning spaces. Pedagogy needs to be at the center of all these discussions.

…

I have no interest in debating the whether of online learning. That bird has most assuredly flown. What I’d like to do here is outline a pedagogy of online learning — not best practices, but points of departure to encourage a diversity of pedagogies.

Tagged with: blended learning • hybrid learning • K-12 • learning • learning spaces • online learning • open • pedagogy • student-related

“The Internet of Things Ceiling” — A concept for our future Smart Classrooms by Daniel Christian

On 12/04/2012, in A/V -- audio/visual, Asia, corporate / business world, corporate universities / corporate training, Daniel S. Christian, digital audio, digital learning, digital video, education technology, emerging technologies, engagement / engaging students, engineering, entrepreneurship, experimentation, face-to-face, higher education, human-computer interaction (HCI), ideas, innovation, internet, IT in HE, K-12 related, learning ecosystem, learning spaces, machine-to-machine communications, mobile technologies, multi-touch, multimedia, Near Field Communication (NFC), online media, participation, play, productivity / tips and tricks, smart classrooms, social learning / networks, workplace, by Daniel Christian

From DSC:

I’ve been trying to figure out the best ways to incorporate a BYOD/BYOT into the Smart Classroom. That is, how can students’ devices seamlessly communicate with the main displays around the classroom? How can they quickly display a blog posting or a Google doc for example…or play a song they wrote, etc. So I was excited to wake up this morning with the following concept/idea:

Other features/thoughts:

Line of sight communications — students must be in the room to display something up on the main displays
Information travels many ways: From large multitouch displays/walls to students’ devices and vice versa; so a professor could hit “Save” in order to send his/her annotations to all of the students’ devices (allowing them to be more cognitively present — vs madly writing down what the professor is writing)
The Smart Classroom’s infrastructure becomes like a multi-thredded processor — instantaneously and simultaneously handling a far greater amount of data — going in multiple directions
What’s an interesting idea here is for discipline-specific, cloud-based storage mechanisms for students who want to contribute their pieces of content to their schools repositories of content
This topic reminds me of a graphic I created a while back, re: The “Chalkboard” of the Future:

So…what if the 4 screen’s on Julong’s Ultra-IPBOARD were coming from 4 different sources? Perhaps:

One from a publisher’s cloud-based content repository
Another from a stream of content originating from a student’s iPad
Another from a stream of content originating from the Smart Classroom’s PC or Mac
…and the last source originating from a student’s smartphone?

Also see:

Tagged with: A/V • Asia • corporate / business world • corporate training / universities • Daniel S. Christian • digital audio • digital learning • digital video • educational technology • emerging technologies • engagement • engineering • entrepreneurship • higher education • human-computer interaction (HCI) • ideas • internet • K-12 • learning spaces • machine-to-machine communications • Near Field Communication (NFC) • participation • smart classrooms • training • Wireless • workplace

The best screencasting apps for the iPad [Wylie]

On 12/03/2012, in digital learning, elearning, K-12 related, tablets, tools, vendors, by Daniel Christian

The best screencasting apps for the iPad — from jonathanwylie.com

Excerpt:

However, by far my favorite of all the apps is ExplainEverything. Unlike the three I just mentioned, it is a paid app [$2.99], but you get so much for your money that it is a compelling choice for all schools using iPads. You can record your video over multiple pages, re-record audio as you please, use the page sorter to rearrange or see your pages at a glance. You can have almost any pen color you can imagine, a choice of 5 pen widths, control over pen transparency and choice of two pen tips. The app has a built-in laser pointer, shape tool and text tool with more fonts that you could ever need. You can even insert a web browser and record a live website as part of your screencast.

Also see:

Screencasting Apps for the iPad — also from jonathanwylie.com

Tagged with: digital learning • e-learning • educational technology • iPad • K-12 • tablets • tools • vendors

To boldly go where no pupils have gone before [Morgan]

On 12/03/2012, in 21st century, A/V -- audio/visual, collaboration, education technology, emerging technologies, engagement / engaging students, future, human-computer interaction (HCI), interactivity, K-12 related, learning spaces, mathematics, multi-touch, science, smart classrooms, UK, by Daniel Christian

To boldly go where no pupils have gone before — from scienceomega.com by James Morgan

Excerpt:

The researchers behind the design of so-called ‘Star Trek classrooms’ have discovered that multi-touch, multi-user desks can boost pupils’ skills in mathematics. The inter-disciplinary team from Durham University, whose findings have been published in the journal Learning and Instruction, found evidence to suggest that children who used smart desks to complete mathematical exercises benefited more than those who completed their tasks on paper.

During the course of a three-year project known as SynergyNet, the researchers have worked with more than 400 pupils, predominantly aged between eight and 10. The team’s latest results show that collaborative learning, such as that facilitated by touchscreen desks, increases learners’ mathematical fluency and flexibility. Moreover, the researchers are confident that the technology that they have developed could also be used to improve learning across other subject areas.

Also see:

Tagged with: 21st century • A/V • collaboration • educational technology • emerging technologies • engagement • human-computer interaction (HCI) • interactive whiteboards • interactivity • K-12 • learning spaces • math • multi-touch • science • smart classrooms • UK

Breakthrough models in education — NGLC releases profiles of latest grantees [Page]

On 11/28/2012, in 21st century, change, education reform, higher education, innovation, K-12 related, leadership, strategy, by Daniel Christian

NGLC releases profiles of latest grantees — from nextgenerationlearning.com by Carie Page

Excerpt:

When we launched our RFP, we had a handful of names that we could use to exemplify breakthrough approaches in K-12 and higher education. Today, however, after announcing the last group of grantees for this wave in October, we aren’t just guessing at what a breakthrough model might look like. We now have 30 grantees actively developing and launching truly breakthrough approaches to education.

Explore the Portfolio

Tagged with: 21st century • change • education reform • higher education • innovation • K-12 • leadership • strategy

Tagged with: education reform • K-12 • United States

Some techs that can significantly help in teacher preparation/training

On 11/27/2012, in education technology, higher education, K-12 related, student teaching/teacher education, teaching & learning, by Daniel Christian

Other possible tools/ideas/approaches:

Blackboard Collaborate — have student teachers record their student teaching for professors to critique back at campus
teachscape — Some innovative products for classroom observation; again, very helpful for having student teachers record their student teaching for professors to critique back at campus. This tool offers better functionality for asynchronous commenting.
The four modular components of the new Teachscape Effectiveness Platform include:
- Teachscape Focus – Will include the Framework for Teaching Proficiency System and the Framework for Teaching Effectiveness Series. Teachscape Focus is designed to focus and align educators on a common definition of teaching effectiveness relative to Charlotte Danielson’s Framework for Teaching.
- Teachscape Reflect – Will include enhanced versions of Teachscape Walk, Teachscape Reflect Live, and Teachscape Reflect Video. The new Teachscape Reflect system supports multiple measures evaluations, and combines in-classroom and video-based observation data with measures of student learning, surveys, and artifacts for a holistic view of teaching effectiveness.
- Teachscape Learn – Will include an expanded version of the current Professional Learning Suite, our research-based preK–12 course library, as well as a new learning management system, online learning communities, video capture and sharing tools, and personalized learning plans.
- Teachscape Advance – Teachscape’s new talent management system will help districts organize, train, and align district staffing to best meet student needs and support larger strategic human capital management goals. The system includes tools for goals alignment, career path and succession planning, and competency management.
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Addendum — with thanks going out to edSurge’s mailing today [11/28/12] for this resource:

Tagged with: higher education • K-12 • student teaching/teacher education • teaching & learning

16 flipped learning uses in K-12 and college classrooms [Riddell]

On 11/20/2012, in colleges, community colleges, digital learning, flipping -- inverted learning, higher education, K-12 related, online learning, universities, by Daniel Christian

16 flipped learning uses in K-12 and college classrooms — from educationdive.com by Roger Riddell

Excerpt:

Flipped classrooms require educators to reconstruct traditional classrooms by sending lectures home and providing more face-to-face time at school, but elementary- through university-level instructors are finding good reasons to try them out.

Frequently traced back to Colorado teachers Aaron Sams and Jonathan Bergmann, who were quick to experiment with posting videos online in 2008, the flipped classroom concept is small, simple and has shown positive results. The general idea is that students work at their own pace, receiving lectures at home via online video or podcasts and then devoting class time to more in-depth discussion and traditional “homework.”

Here are 16 examples of flipped learning at all levels nationwide and abroad:

Tagged with: colleges • community college • digital learning • flipping -- inverted learning • higher education • K-12 • online learning • universities

Dept. of Ed. taps online learning startup Knewton for at-risk youth program [Heussner]

On 11/20/2012, in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, digital learning, education technology, K-12 related, legislatures / government / legal, online learning, tools, vendors, by Daniel Christian

Dept. of Ed. taps online learning startup Knewton for at-risk youth program — from gigaom.com by Ki Mae Heussner
The U.S. Department of Education has announced that it will partner with online learning startup Knewton and publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for a program aimed at helping millions of at-risk youth transition to traditional schools and prepare for the workforce.

Also see:

New adaptive learning software caters to incarcerated youth — from edweek.org by Jason Tomassini

Tagged with: 1:1 • 21st century • 24x7x365 • customized learning • digital learning • educational technology • K-12 • online learning • personalized learning • publishing • vendors

4 jobs for the future: Common Core and career readiness [De Haan]

On 11/16/2012, in career development, curriculum, future, higher education, K-12 related, workplace, by Daniel Christian

4 jobs for the future: Common Core and career readiness — from edreach.us by Jac De Haan

Excerpt:

10 years ago most of us had never heard of social media managers, user experience designers or sustainability experts. So what might these future jobs be, and how are Common Core Standards helping our students prepare? What will be the employment opportunities for recent grads in 2025? Here are 4 possibilities:

Tagged with: career development • curriculum • future • higher education • K-12 • workplace

How education entrepreneur Chris Whittle disproved skeptics [inc.com]

On 11/14/2012, in education, education reform, entrepreneurship, experimentation, global / globalization, by Daniel Christian

Along these lines of innovation/experimentation (but this time within higher education):

You can now earn real college credit from online education provider Coursera — from fastcoexist.com by Anya Kamenetz
Free courses from 33 top global universities + an online exam from a third party + a small fee = a radically cheap alternative to college education for millions of students.

Tagged with: education • education reform • entrepreneurship • experimentation • Global learning • innovation • K-12

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