The Future of Textbooks/Education
With all the rumors and hype of Tablets being the Next Big Thing in technology, here’s a very fascinating video/commercial demonstrating how a tablet (or a smart phone?) could be used in the classroom.
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The future of the internet: Semantic Web
A glimpse at the next step for the internet.
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Video, PD, and Conferencing
Sometime in the future I plan to get into the fine points of creating and using video for class (and peer) instruction. I’m still in the experimental stages, but have definitely been convinced of the handiness of some basic video editing software, a flip video, and the ever handy vimeo.com.
Personal geek hero of mine, Dan Myer, posted a very clever “how he does it” video on his blog. I highly encourage those interested to check it out.
Professional Conference Video With Semi-Professional Equipment from Dan Meyer on Vimeo.
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Annotated Link Post: December 14
6 Practical Reasons why Art Ed is Important…written by my personal brain/education hero, Dan Willingham.
Horses out the barn…in which Doug Johnson lists trends in education that are becoming reality. Very well said.
More Honor Students are going to Community Colleges…because you can save a boatload of money. Another example of how economics are changing the learning playing field.
How much do dropouts cost a city?…a study that opens with this whopper: “If half the students who dropped out of the class of 2008 had graduated, they would have generated $4.1 billion more in wages and $536 million in state and local taxes nationally in one average year of their working lives.”
Retaining Next-Gen Teachers is an impossible dream…a very sad and pessimistic post on why schools (particularly public, inner-city) won’t keep next-generation teachers in the classroom. The post has a ring of truth to me (although it’s countered by the current economic realities and the joy of having a steady job). Hmmmm, food for thought.
Blackboard and Desire2Learn drop the knives…lawsuits are dropped and both companies agree to cross-license their technology. The question of whether they should have the patents in the 1st place remains unresolved.
Pittsburgh looks at taxing tuition…interesting article on how Pittsburgh is looking at fulfilling its pension dues. Low risk tax increase (students don’t typically vote locally).
The Idiots Guide to Google Wave…because – at first – it’s hard to wrap your mind around. I still can’t figure if this will be one of those ground breaking technologies that will complete reshape the technological/societal world over the next decade…or a complete flop. I do give props to Google for trying to take on the antiquated technology of email.
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Using Scenarios in eLearning
Great presentation that summarizes much of the information I’m finding with eLearning. From Cathy Moore’s site “making change“.
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Annotated Link Post: November 23rd
Who owns the lesson plans?…a NY Times article that details the budding market place of teacher lesson plans. Hmmm, wonder how much I could get for my American History PPTs?
Robert Cringley joins other prophets in predicting the downfall of post-2ndary education…great quote: “What drives the education industry is producing degrees while what drives the computer industry is producing products and services.” Substitute “computer” for any industry and you got cause for concern.
Wikis in the work place…an interesting article that tackles common miss-perceptions people have of using wikis for work. A good read, particularly because I think this will be the future trend in education. It just makes sense.
6th Sense Technologies…umm, okay, I’m a science fiction geek so I knew this was coming. I just didn’t realize it was here. When this technology starts coming into education, school is going to be so much fun.
100 Ways to use Facebook in the classroom…yes, Facebook can be used for education.
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You’ve Lost the Argument
Seth Godin features a post on how to loose an argument. Personal favorites:
- Forget the pitfalls of Godwin’s law. Any time you mention Hitler or even Communist China or Bill O’Reilly, you’ve lost.
- Bring up the slippery slope. Actually, the slope isn’t that slippery. People don’t end up marrying dogs, becoming cannibals or harvesting organs because of changes in organization, technology or law.
Anytime I read a comment in the newspaper or on someone’s blog that features those two point I immediately stop reading or giving any intellectual credit to the writer.
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