Educational Technology and New Pedagogies

Planning an online course takes a great deal of work up front. You have to create an online infrastructure for learning to take place (the learning management system (LMS)). You have to plan a syllabus for the online environment. You have to plan assignments and assessment. And, you have to develop a calendar with attainable weekly tasks.

Fantastic website from Notre Dame helps instructors (and students) design effective media-based assignments. Great examples and how-tos for inspiration.

Wow denna sida var sååå bra. Jag förlorade mig själv på denna sidan idag! :))) 

Awesome collection of ideas and exemplars...

A very helpful resource

Good visual diagram on the inquiry process

So simple and useful/  Thanks!

Make your documents come alive and social.

Another document creating tool that might work for tutorials.

Goodbye Printer, hello beautiful images which are always in colour!

Wow!  I am going to give this a try!

A very interesting tool, that teachers can use inside and outside the formal learning area. Where students can interact with the information live during the lecture (where most interaction should happen anyway) closing the 'cold and insigificant' student-lecturer relationship. Students can respond to the data while the lecture is in progress. As expensive and time-consuming (training) this intiative would be to udertake it would certainly improve lecture attedance. :D

A list of assignments connected to reading and using iPad. For each assignments there are suggestions of apps that will help the students to fulfill the task. The assignments don’t have to be made digitally but most of them easily can be and will make the execution of their book reports more fun.

"It is only right that we continue to expose and challenge terms we believe to be erroneous, but we should also acknowledge the rhetorical roles they play at all levels and areas of academic (and non-academic) discourse, and adopt both a critical understanding and inclusive approach when contributing to the ongoing dialogue."

I've certainly noticed this.  It is becoming a snow ball in an industry (higher ed) that doesn't move very fast.

Changing your behaviour to develop a personal/professional learning network will be essential to thrive in an era of perpetual change.  The old focus on Continuing Professional Development is no longer fit for purpose and this video delivers  advice on creating a network  based on research

The author points 3 criteria for Learning Networks to emerge :

- user ownership

- user independence

- user self-determination 

Then 3 "values" - that could also be defined as "Attitudes"
- Trust 

- Openness

- Integrity

Last part is on how to "nurture" the right climate for Learning Networks to thrive.

When we say things like the dumbest generation and bathed in bits, we operate in the extremes. We need to look at the quality of learning which may not be easily quantified.

This article is part of a larger, on-going effort to help connect teachers and other learning professionals with the neuroscience of learning.

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Something we should all read

Utility and project based learning apps for teachers and specialists. Worth checking out!

Carol

Productivity and teaching apps - old and new -  listed and even easier to find now

Apple finally gives us our own category! 

Connecting with parents is one the key factors of student success