Here Be Dragons!
It's a brave new world in education.
The JISC Regional Support Centre Scotland have chosen “Here Be Dragons" as the theme for our annual conference to give educators in Scotland the opportunity to become myth busters!
Are there dragons or lands of opportunity beyond the horizon? Join us on a voyage of discovery as we explore the technologies that are transforming education and causing us to re-draw the boundaries of the classroom!
FREE for delegates from RSC Scotland supported Institutions £150 for other would-be Dragon Slayers
http://www.rsc-scotland.ac.uk/Dragons/index.htm Via Margaret McKay 
The one strategy that everyone wants to get it right is mLearning? It is a space that is evolving so quickly that it is difficult to stay ahead of the curve and one has to be extremely cautious while making the choices. 
A quote from a keynote by Rushton Hurley. The photo is from Heather Durnin's class in the midst of a live radio show. 
So you’ve got one or a few iPads that you want to use in the classroom. You could visit the Apple App Store’s education section and peruse the many offerings… do some Google searches to figure out what’s good… or just use this print-friendly image below to get started! Via Steven Engravalle, Felix Jacomino 
Revised document to be used in training and assessing college staff... An animation illustrating the steps involved in embedding open licences in educational resources, and some of the associated IPR issues. 
Imagine the day when students, because of the very nature of how they were taught, expect to and actually do verify the information they find online, work to produce content that adds to the body of knowledge. Via Susan Bainbridge 
If you're getting started on twitter or setting up a new profile, here are ten tips to get your account off to the best start. Via Anthony Beal These slides accompanied an invited speech given at Learning Technologies 2012, January 26, Olympia, London. 
… tips and advice for staying more secure on the web |
The JISC RSC Scotland team have produced a number of case studies on e-Assessment with staff from further and higher education institutions in Scotland. I thought I would collate recent ones, which will be entered for the JISC RSC Scotland iTech awards 2012.
Areas covered in the case studies include: diagnostic assessment; formative assessment; summative assessment; feedback and peer review; games based assessment; assessment centres; problem based learning and assessment and e-Portfolios. Via grainnehamilton ‘Assessment for Learning means that students benefit from assessment which does far more than simply test what they know. It ensures that students take part in the kinds of activities that are: valuable long term, help them to develop, provide them with guidance and feedback and ensure that students learn how to assess themselves as future professionals.’ Northumbria University Assessment for Learning CETL website
Embrace pupils’ use of technology, don’t discourage it, he urges... 
Maybe more significant than evaluating the app itself is evaluating how the app supports instruction that infuses technology to create a powerful learning environment. The Arizona Technology Integration Matrix is a rubric for teachers to assess their level of technology integration across five elements of meaningful learning environments. Via Nik Peachey 
When was the last time you used a tape recorder or a slide projector? That's what we thought. Via Carolyn Wiberg Noam Chomsky discusses the purpose of education, impact of technology, whether education should be perceived as a cost or an investment and the value of standardised assessment. 
Browse a selection of some innovative ways college professors are using Facebook and other social media tools to teach. |
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