@ the Intersection of Learning & Technology: Recent Episodes
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I’m not sure if Clayton Christensen would agree, but it’s looking like MOOCs are the latest disruptive innovation in education. They’re cheap and currently only serving the fringes of the educational market, but what do you know, the great state of California may be increasing their status on a large scale. From The Chronicle of […]
Today I took the first quiz in “Model Thinking,” the massive open online course (MOOC) I enrolled in using Coursera. The quizzes are set up to allow three attempts, and only the highest score is counted. I’ve been recommending this type of assessment to faculty creating online courses for years. This strategy allows students to measure […]
In a February 2012 blog post for iddblog.org, I admitted my guilty pleasure of “pinning,” and asked: Does Pinterest Have a Place in Education? One year later, this amazing infographic on the use of Pinterest in education conveys a resounding YES. Yes, educators, students, and schools are leveraging Pinterest in fairly traditional (online reading collections) […]
Today I signed up for my first MOOC using Coursera. The course is called “Model Thinking” and is taught by Scott E. Page from University of Michigan. The Welcome message says, “In this free, online course, we’re going to learn a variety of models. These models will help you to better understand the world, to […]
Do you ever cringe at the thought of how you or your classmates terrorized a teacher growing up? Here is a podcast about a funny thing that happened with technology, though my teacher didn’t think it was very funny… Funny Technology Podcast Not sure about the website referenced in this anecdote? Here is some background […]
Click image to open video in a new window. This video is a brief (60 second) bio about my current positions in education as well as my passions in this area. It was recorded using the free version of Jing screencasting software, along with my laptop’s built-in microphone. I then used Camtasia to edit the […]
In an education system that truly uses differentiated instruction, the issue of social promotion would become almost irrelevant. Every teacher knows that in a 1st grade classroom of 30 students, there are 30 different levels of reading comprehension, 30 different levels of math understanding, 30 different levels of social maturity, and so on. There are […]
On the free stuff for educators front – Victory! Prezi is this cool new software that takes the linear nature out of presentations, and makes them more like a big graphic organizer or related scene, with images, text, zoom and navigation capabilities. In response to a call for reduced subscription rates for educational use, Prezi […]
From Malcolm Knowles: Apostle of Andragogy the greatest danger to the survival of civilization today is not atomic warfare, not environmental pollution, not the population explosion, not the depletion of natural resources, and not any of the other contemporary crises, but the underlying cause of them all–the accelerating obsolescence of man (sic)… The only hope […]