Collaborative learning, according toexperts, unleashes a unique intellectualand social energy. We can attest to thatphenomenon. This book is the result of alearning experience that began when threedesign firms joined forces on anunprecedented project.
Alternative Education Resource Organization | AERO | Learner-Centered Education
The Alternative Education Resource Organization (AERO) was founded in 1989 by Jerry Mintz. AERO is a branch of the School of Living, a non-profit organization founded in 1934 by Ralph Borsodi. AERO's goal is to advance student-driven, learner-centered approaches to education. AERO is considered by many to be the primary hub of communications and support for educational alternatives around the world. Education Alternatives include, but are not limited to, Montessori, Waldorf (Steiner), Public Choice and At-Risk, Democratic, Homeschool, Open, Charter, Free, Sudbury, Holistic, Virtual, Magnet, Early Childhood, Reggio Emilia, Indigo, Krishnamurti, Quaker, Libertarian, Independent, Progressive, Community, Cooperative, and Unschooling. One of AERO's areas of expertise is democratic process and democratic education, but equally important is the networking of all forms of educational alternatives. It is through our work and mission that we hope to create an education revolution.
For People and Planet: Not Profit and Self-Destruction Can Universities make the move towards, or even lead 'transition'? he purpose of this dissenters' conference is to consider whether an alternative university frame of reference can be meaningfully and practically developed. Thus, it is not interested in REF's or research funding per se. On the contrary, it seeks to ask a fundamental question for this age of Climate Change, Peak Oil and Global Inequality: can universities radically change course, and initiate a programme of genuine 'transition' not simply for their own benefit but for that of the wider common weal?
The study of economic and state systems at the edge of their normal social and economic function, including preventative measures to avoid destructive feedback loops and vicious cycles.
From January 29th though March 5th 2011 Agitprop will be conducting a workshop in conjunction with the 2010 California Biennial. The title of the project is The 2837 University. The 2837 University will examine spaces in the neighborhood nearby the Agitprop space that are sites of knowledge construction- that is, places where people learn something through the exchange of ideas. The 2837 University is a project that re-imagines the Agitprop space and the surrounding neighborhood as the site of a micro-university, with the goal of opening a conversation about re-purposing the concept of University Education. We will begin by investigating the relation of the construction of a mass consumer class in the US after WWII and the formulation of a new concept of individuality that borrowed its notion of self-expression from the legacy of Romanticism, all the while yoking the seeming freedom of expression to the profit system of hyper-inflated production and infinite obsolescence.
Professors Paul Gestwicki (Computer Science) and Brian McNely (English) are developing a software system to enhance collaborative knowledge work, leveraging modern theories of rhetoric and writing, human-computer interaction, and the science of learning. Specifically, we are using techniques of interaction design and information visualization to encourage continuous formative evaluation and to promote metacognition among collaborators. This research project has the potential to influence the future of collaborative knowledge work, and it will result in a prototypical software system.
PairBurst Memory was developed by Craig Kapp and Nisma Zaman during a class, taught by Dan O’Sullivan and Marianne Petit, at New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. The game was created for use by inpatient children at NYU’s Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine. During a mid-semester user-testing session at RUSK, Craig and Nisma brought two fiducial markers, each linked to an animated character, and observed the children’s fascination with making the characters appear and disappear by uncovering or covering the markers. This action sparked the idea for a memory matching game to test and help to improve children’s visual memory skills and hand-eye coordination.
To this end the Oberlin College Center for Technologically Enhanced Teaching (OCTET) & CIT have purchased a number of iPads and will be making them available to a group of faculty for the semester. These users will also have access to a loaner pool that can be used in class with students. We hope to develop a user generated, searchable listing that looks specifically at how certain apps may or may not support specific pedagogical goals. The listing can be found by selecting the Participant Information>App Reviews
Mobile subscriptions hit 5 billion mark - Ericsson
This week marked yet another milestone in the internet becoming mobile when the 5 billionth mobile subscription added to the count, largely thanks to emerging markets like India and China. According to Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) estimates based on industry information, the 5 billionth subscription was added Thursday, July 8. In the year 2000, about 720 million people had mobile subscriptions, less than the amount of users China alone has today. Mobile broadband subscriptions are growing at similar pace and are expected to amount to more than 3.4 billion by 2015 (from 360 million in 2009). Studies show that soon 80 percent of all people accessing the internet will be doing so using their mobile device.
From classics on their nightstand to textbooks in the classroom, the Amazon Kindle has become an integral teaching tool this semester for a group of Ball State University education majors. Twelve students in Jon Clausen’s “Studies in Educational Technology” Class are using the Kindle DX as part of a course focused on learning and teaching with emerging technologies. An assistant professor of secondary education/educational technology, Clausen said the course is one of the first of its kind to incorporate this type of emerging media into a curriculum for education majors.
The proposed project will deliver an e-book, constructed based upon the customisation of an existing Pearson Education text. Customisation will include highlighting and annotating text to reflect activities stipulated in the course guide. The e-book allows for just-in-time and customised delivery to flexible, full colour screens (via notebooks, netbooks, iPhones, laptops and desktop computers), and has the potential to provide audio and video components, the ability for handwriting, as well as margins for note-taking and text highlighting [1]. Previous research explored initial user perceptions and the use of Amazon’s Kindle e-book reader [2]. The cost of an e-book is approximately 55% of the price of a traditional text. Publishers provide a selection of titles via a joint web-based delivery (‘Vital Source’) and the sales of e-books are rising rapidly.
The End of the Textbook as We Know It - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education
You've heard it before: Digital technologies blew up the music industry's moneymaking model, and the textbook business is next. For years observers have predicted a coming wave of e-textbooks. But so far it just hasn't happened. One explanation for the delay is that while music fans were eager to try a new, more portable form of entertainment, students tend to be more conservative when choosing required materials for their studies. For a real disruption in the textbook market, students may have to be forced to change.
I’m obsessed with most of the assignments on the student-submitted assignment pages. I haven’t done a ton of them yet, but I have ideas for a lot. It’s so crazy that this counts as schoo (student in Digital Storytelling open course http://ds106.us/)l
Pairing technology with best teaching practices in the Center for Engagement, Learning, and Teaching helped one professor find new answers to a simple problem. Traditionally, students in Dr. Whittemore's endocrinology course had created portfolios of their work to showcase their research, notes, and final papers. But those portfolios had been paper entities, locked away in three-ring binders. With some technical help, Dr. Whittemore hoped the portfolios could be more easily shared with peers and potential employers. It was a matter of technical convenience. So, in early March, Dr. Whittemore found herself sitting in a workshop offered by CELT, the College's Center for Engagement, Learning, and Teaching. The Center, a new unit on campus, had been formed out of the old Academic Technology and Service Learning units of the College.
As part of the nmc summer 2010 conference, I had the good fortune to help coordinate and participate in a workshop entitled “Hacking Your Syllabus” with Bryan Alexander and Jim Groom. Ah the syllabus… that sacred document that serves as a path, a beacon, a contract between student and teacher for the upcoming 16 weeks of the course…. or that thing your department chair asks you to hand in or put i a three ring binder so when the evaluators come (once every 5 yrs) they can see what you have done. Oh yeah, that…
We were hoping to have a group of teachers and their syllabi here. Hope to keep the discussions in this session focused on learning outcomes in courses and how social media can help. Train the trainer vs train the teacher? The "work" of this workshop will be in the wrestling with ideas and thinking of new ways of doing things. Just as we have done in our own courses, you need to explore possibilities and then take steps to apply them to your own reality (which is outside of this workshop). Use this time for brainstorming, and asking about the "what if's"
The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) with the mission of providing a world-class education to anyone, anywhere. We are complementing Salman's ever-growing library with user-paced exercises--developed as an open source project--allowing the Khan Academy to become the free classroom for the World. Log in to the Khan Academy web application for user-paced practice and instruction
(Feb 4, 2011, Scottsdale Community College TechTools) This document is a resource for a presentation on February 4, 2011 at Scottsdale Community College’s Techtools event The future will be browsed! I'll share ten lesser known techniques or web tools you can use in your web browser to may impress your friends and co-workers, or make you more powerful on the web. Know them all? Share yours! Preferably a browser trick is some feature of a well known online tool that other people do not know about OR a tool few people know about that does something neat. Something that you might show a colleague and would whistle and say,“Cooooooool”.
or all its vaunted interactivity, The Daily feels oddly lifeless, almost like someone scanned a bunch of magazine pages and managed to add a few Flipbook-style photo galleries. To truly take the next step in the evolution of media, a more radically interactive approach is needed. Could adding some gamification elements help The Daily feel more like a living, breathing interactive publication? It may seem like a stretch, but drawing customers in with more to do, collect, and share can only increase reader involvement with this fledgling publication. Here’s a few handy suggestions on how Newscorp can make it happen.
The Leg of Gold – The Story | stranger things productions
I enrolled in a class in storytelling taught by Ashland based storyteller Debra Zaslow. As part of the course, we were asked to find a fairy tale, folk tale or legend to tell. I discovered this old French folk tale and rewrote it for my class. My understanding is that it originates from Agen in the Aquitaine region of France and is related to the fantastic tales of the came-cruse – a French creature that is nothing more than a leg, a tooth-filled mouth and a voracious appetite.
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Challenging the Presentation Paradigm: Publishing Scholarly Presentations - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Recently, I’ve been giving a lot of invited talks (too many for optimal productivity, in fact, but that’s another story), and I think I’ve finally worked out to my own satisfaction how to build a talk that’s suitable both for in-person delivery and for online publication, one that marries the best features of the academic conference paper with the best features of the slideshow presentation. Here’s the short version in the dreaded bullet points of how to create a scholarly presentation that is both personable and publishable: Write your talk. Use slides as visual aids. Cite your sources. And here’s the long version, plus some advice on where and how to publish a scholarly talk online:
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Kathleen Connally's Photoblog - Landscape Photography :: A Walk Through Durham Township, Pennsylvania
On January 3, 2003, I began this photoblog to visually document the residents, visitors, plants, animals, architecture, landscapes and farm life of Durham Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania (where I live), and nearby areas in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Unless otherwise noted, all photos are taken within a ten-mile radius of my home. (I occasionally post photos from business trips and vacations to Philadelphia, New York City, the Atlantic coast, etc.) This project is my ongoing attempt to become a better photographer, artist and writer. Some photographs work, some don't -- you're witnessing a permanent work-in-progress! I hope to intellectually and emotionally convey the intricacies and joys of rural living and the critical importance of farmland, open space and uncluttered horizons to our wildlife, our watersheds, our food supply, our health and our sense of well-being.
