Posts Tagged ‘learning’
Mr. Winkle Wakes
http://www.creatinglifelonglearners.com
Rip Van Winkle awakes after one hundred years and visits a school…
Created as a conversation starter for professional development on the use of educational technology.
An amusing, animated retelling of the popular education story about the need for twenty-first century skills to be taught in schools.
Duration : 0:2:51
Educational Technology Showcase
Following the hearing regarding the Future of Learning: How Technology is Transforming Public Schools, some Members of the committee and the public visited a showcase of educational technology.
Duration : 0:2:48
Brain based education: Fad or breakthrough–high quality
Professor Daniel Willingham looks at when and how neuroscience can inform education. (Higher quality version of previously posted video)
Duration : 0:8:22
Brain Rules in the Classroom
Find out what happens when Brain Rule #5 (repeat to remember) is tested in classrooms of third graders. John Medina is the author of “Brain Rules.” http://www.brainrules.net/
Duration : 0:2:8
Education in Second Life: Explore the Possibilities
A brief overview about Second Life and how educators may be able to use it in their classes.
Duration : 0:6:0
ICT in the Classroom [ERtP #1]
Why have teachers been reluctant to integrate ICT in the classroom? Welcome to the first episode of “E-learning Research – the podcast”. In this episode, “ICT in the classroom: Integration & teacher training”, hear from experts and researchers in the field of ICT & education as they tackle some of the big questions: What are the mistakes and challenges? What are the secrets to success? And, what will the role of the teacher be in the future ICT-enriched classroom? More information at: http://coco.edfac.usyd.edu.au
Duration : 0:5:3
Cyber Summit on 21st Century Skills, June 1-12, 2009: Atomic Learning Professional Development Day
“Atomic Learning provides web-based software training and curriculum resources for more than 110 applications students and educators use every day.” From http://www.atomiclearning.com.
Taking place June 1-12, 2009, the Cyber Summit on 21st Century Skills is a nation-wide online event where educators, administrators, business people, policy makers and parents—anyone who desires to have a voice in the future of education in our country—can learn and be heard as we work together to advance the 21st Century Skills Movement.
To be heard and join in the discussion, visit http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/cybersummit and participate for FREE between June 1-12, 2009.
Duration : 0:3:30
Educational Technology: Not Just Computers
This is the VOA Special English Education Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com
We received a question from a listener about how American schools use educational technology. There is not a simple answer.
It depends on the subject and level of students, of course. But it also depends on the interest and training of the teachers, and the goals and budgets of the schools.
Schools are almost all connected to the Internet. But some have more technology, and use it more, than others. For example, some schools use computers for activities like video conferencing, to bring the world into the classroom.
And some classrooms are equipped with things like a Smart Board, a kind of interactive whiteboard. Interactive whiteboards are large displays for presentations.
They connect to a computer and can operate by touch. They can be used for documents or writing or to project video.
Some teachers are trying creative new ways to teach with devices like iPods and mobile phones.
But educators say the most important thing, as always, is the content.
Yet technology can have special importance in some cases.
Cosmobot is a therapy robot. It stands about half a meter tall and has a blue body and a friendly face with big eyes.
One child who works with it is six-year-old Kevin Fitzgerald. Kevin has developmental dyspraxia; he has difficulty moving his mouth and tongue.
He works with Carole Semango-Sprouse as he uses a set of buttons attached to a computer. He can make the silent robot move forward, backward or around in circles.
Kevin’s mother thinks the robot has had a calming influence, helping her son get along better with his friends.
Cosmobot was developed by AnthroTronix. Corinna Lathan started the company ten years ago to work with children with cerebral palsy, Down’s syndrome, autism and other developmental disabilities.
Children become friends with the robot, she says. That can have a big effect on their behavior, helping them work harder and longer in therapy sessions.
Corinna Lathan is currently working with a British company to develop other socially assistive robots.
She says they are still considered research tools in the United States. They are not used as much as in places like Britain and Japan. But she hopes to change that.
And that’s the VOA Special English Education Report. You can comment on our reports at our Web site, voaspecialenglish.com.
(Adapted from a radio program broadcast 17Dec2009)
Duration : 0:4:0
Whole Brain Teaching: High School Math
Watch Kristin DeWit, veteran Whole Brain Teacher, guide her class through a lively algebra lesson. To download hundreds of pages of free materials, go to WholeBrainTeaching.com. For more information about Whole Brain teaching email Chris Biffle at CBiffle@AOL.com.
Duration : 0:5:13
Wikis in University Teaching and Learning – Richard Buckland FULT UNSW
53 Useful things you can do with wikis in large class teaching.
Richard Buckland has been using Wikis in his large class (100-500 students) teaching in Engineering and Computer Science since 2000. He has found some amazing things which can be done with Wikis, and made many many mistakes.
This video is a summary of 4 of those interesting things, each requiring an increasing amount of courage, which could easily be adopted by other teachers.
Depending on your courage and how much faith you are prepared to have in your students wonderful things can happen when you empower them.
This video was produced by filming a session Richard gave entitled “Wikis for Collaborative Learning and Teaching” as part of UNSW’s “Foundations of University Learning and teaching” (FULT) programme.
Duration : 0:55:17