Educación y TIC

We explore what digital media is, where it can be used to support teaching and learning and what the key opportunities and challenges are.

Read more:

http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/guide/using-digital-media-for-teaching-and-learning

Open Educational Resources (OER) offer higher education governance leaders a cost-efficient method of improving the quality of teaching and learning while at the same time reducing costs imposed on students related to the purchase of expensive commercial textbooks and learning materials. Leading scholars around the world are already participating in the OER movement even without support from most higher education institutions, including community colleges. Higher education governance officials, particularly boards of trustees and senior academic governance leaders, have a tremendous opportunity to harness the advantages of OER for their institutions.

Two looks at Bloom's - one is a verb wheel and the other is a web2.0 wheel. The Verb Wheel shows the domains as well as appropriate verbs and possible student projects. The Web 2.0 Wheel also includes suggestions of Web 2.0 tools you might use.

Very impressive digital animation, a must see...

Here the link: http://eductechalogy.org/swfapp/blooms/wheel/engage.swf

The teleXLR8 project has been running as a free, invitation-only beta from March to November 2010, using Teleplace. It has been relaunched in 2011 using OpenQwaq. Visit our main site and blog for more information. teleXLR8 is a telepresence community for cultural acceleration. We produce online events, featuring first class content and speakers, with the best system for e-learning and collaboration in an online 3D environment.

Videos are here: http://www.youtube.com/user/telexlr8/feed

http://eductechalogy.org/swfapp/blooms/wheel/engage.swf

Robin Good: If you are interested in exploring content curation as a possible venue for innovating teaching and learning approaches, you will find lots of valuable information in this new article by @NancyW entitled Developing Future Workskills Through Content Curation.

In it she points to a study conducted last year, the Apollo Research Institute Future Workskills 2020, that identifies critical workskills needed for future jobs and how fitting "content curation" may be in cultivating and refining many of those.

She writes: "A closer look suggests that critical workforce skills identified in this \ study can be easily aligned with the skills practiced with content curation.

The skills a student employs to successfully curate information include curiosity, media literacy, ability to make connections across disciplines, information literacy, the ability to evaluate and understand perspective, synthesize and evaluate information, and a good dose of self-direction."

"Future Workskills 2020 suggests a monumental shift and change needs to begin now in our education system.

These skills can be developed through the process of content curation.

Content curation has the added benefit of helping students find their passions for and take ownership of their learning..."

Right on target. Recommended. 8/10

Full article: http://d20innovation.d20blogs.org/2012/07/27/developing-future-workskills-through-content-curation/

Neuroscience isn't just for scientists anymore. The way experts study how children's brains develop over time is changing education overall.

When was the last time you used a tape recorder or a slide projector? That's what we thought. In the age of technology, we can do just about everything online or with our smartphones. Whether its shopping or learning, students are using modern technology to make their experiences virtual.