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Smart searching tips for both kids and adults -- straight from the pro.
Via Alastair Creelman
Emaze vision – to change the way people create presentations through a simple, fully automated process that generate powerful and engaging showcases.
Via Baiba Svenca
We’re pretty excited about the prospect of using Google Glass in education. So much so that we wrote a whole ‘Teacher’s Guide To Google Glass‘ and have chatted with a few teachers and early adopters who are already using the hardware. One of those instructors is Andrew Vanden Heuvel. You might remember him from a previous article we ran on Edudemic about Andrew’s trip to CERN which he recorded using Glass and brought it into the classroom. It was pretty impressive and showed the power of Glass to unlock learning like never before.
Details how the infographic Brainy Approaches to Learning supports Personalized Learning.
Via Kathleen McClaskey
College officials are concerned and confused by new licensing terms from Adobe they fear will dramatically raise costs. While colleges have not yet sorted out some of the major issues, the changes by Adobe are already prompting at least a few college officials to say new versions of company's popular creative software will be unaffordable.
" "Free Tools and Resources to Help Students Develop 21st Century Skills Our online tools create active learning environments where students can engage in discussions, analyze information, pursue investigations, and solve problems. You’ll also find teaching resources, including lesson plans, assessment strategies, and technology-enriched project ideas for all K–12 subjects."
Via Jim Lerman
This month's edition of the Pulse podcast features an interview with Max James, national sales manager for education at Citrix, which provides GoToMeeting, GoToWebinar, and other web conferencing tools that some colleges use for academic and administrative purposes.
Here's a rundown of the best s'cool tools from the first quarter of 2013. These are the tools that had you clicking, sharing, and tweeting away.
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Each time a teacher or a learner interacts with an Open Educational Resource (OER), these interactions produce data. This "interaction data" includes "artifact data" routinely captured during any online interaction by Web server logs (e.g., users' browsers, users' IP addresses) and "social data" created during Web 2.0-style interactions with resources (e.g., tags, comments, ratings, favorites). Interaction data can serve a number of purposes in a period of increased interest worldwide in OERs quality and uptake. First, interaction data is a valuable source of analytics about OERs and typical audience profiles. Second, combined with metadata, interaction data can enhance searching, ranking, and recommendations of learning resources. However, obtaining this data is not always easy since OERs, in particular, are generally dispersed among different systems where the interactions between resources and their users take place. This paper describes approaches to unlocking, collecting and aggregating this interaction data.
Via Andreas Link
by Maria Popova "On May 21, 2005, David Foster Wallace got up before the graduating class of Kenyon college and delivered one of history’s most memorable commencement addresses. It wasn’t until Wallace’s death in 2008 that the speech took on a life of its own under the title This Is Water, and was even adapted into a short book. Now, the fine folks of The Glossary have remixed an abridged version of Wallace’s original audio with a sequence of aptly chosen images to give one pause:" Wallace: “The real value of a real education … has almost nothing to do with knowledge and everything to do with simple awareness.”
Via Jim Lerman
For creating open content as a continually ongoing process of refinement, re-distribution, correction, modification, re-arrangement and reuse, better quality of the open content is the result of these possibilities. It’s important to make reuse easier. This requires authors to consider visibility and circulation of the published open educational resources(OER).
Via Andreas Link
Google has released a major new education program called Google Play for Education that organizes and manages the way teachers share apps, books, and other learning content with their classes.
Via Andreas Link
Most teachers t think that students today have a problem paying attention. They seem impatient, easily bored.
I’ve argued that I think it’s unlikely that they are incapable of paying attention, but rather that they are quick to deem things not worth the effort.
Via Nik Peachey
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In the E-Learning world SCORM is a big thing because it is the leading framework for supporting the interoperability of complex arrangements of learning resources. The latest release of SCORM 2004 dates back to 2009, which is already 4 years old. However, pretty much from the beginning SCROM 2004 has been considered as "too complex", "too complicated", or even "too limited" to be a big success. As of 2013 the interoperability geeks in the community have a new hope that everything will be better, easier, and nicer: TinCan.
Via Andreas Link
Blended learning is one of those buzz words in education and technology these days. It’s not bringing a blender to class and trying a ‘Will It Blend?’ type project. Sorry, had to include that joke. You’re better than that, though. So let’s get down to it. What is blended learning and what should you know about it? Whether you’re a teacher or student, these videos from Edudemic reader Frederic Skrzypek shed some light on the importance of blended learning.
Given the excellent review of the design of MOOCs presented by Stephen Downes in week 2, I’d like to take a look at quality from the other side. In an attempt at starting a discussion on the motives of different vested interests and their relationship to MOOCs I’ve tried to outline from my own experience, what different interest groups are at play. These should not be seen in anyway as reflective of the ‘content’ or ‘delivery model’ of those MOOCs but rather how each different group might see success. I believe that one of the true innovations of MOOCs is that it changes the reason you might start a course in the first place
Via Alastair Creelman
People who have taken dozens of massive open online courses share their advice for those teaching them.
Via Alastair Creelman
Any language teacher knows that online translation tools can be a double edged sword. This visual should shed some light on current trends to know about.
Via Ana Cristina Pratas
Coursera is a for-profit company that has joined with top universities to deliver free online courses. The “free” part sounds great until we realize that the real intent of companies like Coursera is to transition into producing monetized, for-credit university courses. To many academics this represents a conflict of interest that compromises the independence and integrity of higher education institutions. I agree and here’s why:
Via Alastair Creelman
The problem is that Wikipedia in the classroom has gotten a bad reputation in the K-12 world, undeservedly so I think. I would suggest that Wikipedia can be used for a multitude of educational purposes at a wide variety of grade levels. Too many teachers are still afraid to use it in class, so I’m here to right that wrong and show our educators how they can responsibly integrate Wikipedia into their lessons.
Via Nik Peachey
Sir Ken Robinson outlines 3 principles crucial for the human mind to flourish -- and how current education culture works against them.
Via Andrea Zeitz
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