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nstructional design is like starting with, “I spy a red box over there in the corner under the picture of the sailboat.” With this type of guidance, you’ve gotten the person to look in just the right spot. It doesn’t make playing “I Spy” fun, but it makes teaching a lot easier because you’re less dependent on them learning through a more informal process (which has its own benefits but can be more time-consuming).
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An MIT-produced interactive game, 'Vanished,' now being played by thousands online, offers a novel experiment in alternative science education.
Tony Palmeri's curator insight,
October 24, 2015 11:15 AM
I chose this resource because I am skeptical that learning can occur through video games - this sounded fluffy to me. However, this article describes a game that MIT created for this express purpose. And it would appear that many of the problems encountered in the game can evoke higher level thought. Perhaps more games like it will be developed for different topics. Middle school children will be thrilled :)
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ipl2: Information You Can Trust features a searchable, subject-categorized directory of authoritative websites; links to online texts, newspapers, and magazines; and the Ask an ipl2 Librarian online reference service.
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Can you believe that the first published website is already 20 years old? Web design has come a long way since the first website was published by Tim Berners-Lee in 1991.
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Age-appropriate, customizable project
checklists for written reports, multimedia projects, oral presentations, and science projects.
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Google for Educators is a web site that support teachers in their efforts to empower students and expand the frontiers of human knowledge. Google for Educator offer free online Google products like Google Search, Docs, Blogger, Calendar, Group, Earth, SketchUp, Maps, and more. For example Google Docs allows teachers and students to create documents, spreadsheets and presentations for free, so having to install Microsoft Word, Excel or PowerPoint on every classroom computer is no longer an issue.
Mind map based on Google for Educators
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supporting school communities worldwide
over 30,000 links to moderated teaching and learning resources
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Research has shown that technology can, indeed, help improve teaching and learning when used wisely-and companies have responded in kind, creating hardware, software, and other devices that give teachers innovative ways to engage students, improve retention, and make learning more interactive.
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Your Assignment, Should You Choose to Accept It . . .
Like Alice, many educators, policy makers and even the general public respond resoundingly with "That's impossible!" when challenged to adopt a new paradigm of education for the 21st century. Most people today adhere to a paradigm of education that is strictly 19th century. But, like the Queen, a growing number of educators are believing in and accomplishing "the impossible". Scott McLeod, in his blog, Dangerously Irrelevant, recently reminded us of a line from Mission Impossible, and we must apply that challenge to all of society. "Your assignment, should you choose to accept it" is to take education truly into the 21st century. It is not enough to say that we are already living there. Technically it is the 21st century, but our schools are not there, and our challenge now is to reinvent schools for the 21st century - for the sake of our children, our students and the welfare of our world. Making such a paradigm shift is not easy. After all, when any of us thinks of education, we usually think of what we knew as school - the way it has always been. That is how parents, policy makers, politicians and many students think of school. But we have to make the paradigm shift to 21st century education. So what is 21st century education? It is bold. It breaks the mold. It is flexible, creative, challenging, and complex. It addresses a rapidly changing world filled with fantastic new problems as well as exciting new possibilities. Fortunately, there is a growing body of research supporting an increasing number of 21st century schools. We have living proof, inspiring examples to follow, in schools across the United States. These schools vary, but are united in the fundamentals of 21st century education - see Critical Attributes of 21st Century Education and Multiple Literacies for the 21st Century. Scott McLeod has issued the challenge of creating a plan to get us from "here" to "there".
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Gmail, Calendar, Docs and more
Google Apps for Education offers a free (and ad-free) set of customizable tools that enable faculty, staff and students to work together and learn more effectively. |
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You wonder to yourself, can this work in the e-learning world? Specifically, m-learning? Can an app for the smartphone superimpose learning in a location or locations?
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This is a good list to keep teachers moving forward. I know I’ve got a lot of ground to cover. The list comes from the blog simplek12.
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Accessing freely available media digital content and tools can be an effective way to improve educational provision and maximize resources in difficult times. On the other hand, without support, a sharing of best practice and awareness what we’re getting into we might waste a lot of time and money undertaking tasks which, on reflection, should have been done by someone else or done in a different way. The sharing of good practice and direct experience, in addition to free content and open source tools, may be the only way to ensure we receive the benefits of digital media while avoiding the pitfalls.
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Learning new skills and expanding your knowledge doesn’t have to cost you an arm and a leg. There are loads of free resources on the Web that can help you find instructional videos, tutorials and classes to learn a wide variety of skills from fixing basic car problems to speaking another language. With 100 sites to choose from, you’re bound to find something here that will help you learn just about anything you could want.
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Quotes on Education
The educational process has been the subject of much comment by academics and writers. Their observations range from praise to cynicism, mostly the latter. Education is an easy target for criticism because its stated aims are often so nobly ambitious that they have little chance of being realized. It should give us pause that so many people who have made their mark in the world of ideas, who have been acknowledged leaders and innovators, have held formal education and educational institutions in low regard. We have collected here a variety of thought-provoking observations on education. First, some definitions of education.
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The model 21st Century Classroom presents an environment in which learning comes natural for students and makes sense to them, allowing them to experience success regularly. Students need to build learning skills using Web 2.0, applications, technology tools and research-based instructional strategies that will enable them to succeed in the workforce for decades to come.
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Looking for ideas and resources to inspire environmental awareness and action in your classroom? Edutopia brings you Think Green: Tips and Resources for Earth-Friendly Learning Projects.
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.Cyberbullying explained in English and in French. L'intimidation, la médisance et l´harcèlement sur Internet sont un acte répréhensible, disons le clairement. Il ne s'agit nullement d'une peccadille, ce n'est pas un délit de mineurs. Le mobbing au travail est partiellement connu par les gens, mais pas encore sur Internet. Ce knol essaie de sensibliser au cyberbullying et vous donne des explications, des conseils et en même temps aussi des solutions comment réagir...
Des auteurs travaillant dans le domaine de l'éducation, des journalistes renommés de différentes nationalités (LU, FR, UK, AU, IR) vous guident dans ce knol... Le cyberbullying nous concerne tous !!! Un knol multilingue sur le cyberbullying. A multi-lingual knol about cyberbullying. Knol créé le 04.10.2009. ........................................................................................................................................................... Cyberbullying is a problem that affects not just one nation, language group or culture. It is sadly, an errant component of the human condition, a modern epidemic that has the ability to destroy the lives of individuals as well as those of their families. If left unchecked, cyberbullying even has the potential to undermine and destroy the fabric of the societies that we have come to love and cherish. Gathered and united here in one voice, are writers from around the world, each of whom is dedicated to doing what they can to stand up to this insipid scourge. Listed below are resources that can equip you and those you love with tools and skill sets that will help you understand, recognise, defend against and ultimately overcome cyberbullying.
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a 21st century interactive learning environment. Today’s students have grown up in a world in living colour, fast moving, fast talking,
fading in and out, and remote controlled.Technology is moving rapidly and it is crucial for schools and companies to keep up in order to offer the highest standard of learning and training to their pupils or employees. Integrated classroom systems are helping teachers to engage, motivate and assess their students and learners. Research reinforces that assessment for learning is a key factor in the success of educational initiatives and can develop teachers’ professional understanding about the processes of learning and how to motivate all students. Today’s classroom needs interactive whiteboard technology, appropriate software and the facility to conduct formative and summative assessments easily - via a personal response or ‘voting’ system.
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A modern-day declaration of where things stand for educators in a social-media saturated world yet to fully hit our schools.
Today’s teacher has to possess many more skills than a teacher of our previous century. The teachers of today have to be highly-qualified educators, parental figures, master communicators, engaging presenters, expert trainers, sages, technophiles, data analysts, sales people and much more.
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Microsoft Education offers lesson plans, tutorials and in-depth Microsoft product resources, including Office and Windows, for K-12 and higher education.
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