Educreations and Other Mobile Collaboration

Well, Kevin Brady has done it again with a great find on mobile learning and the quick changing environment that we are in.

One of the treasures from the presentation is a site called educreations.com where you can record white board presentations for students with your voice, pictures, and animation.

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/04/pictures-polls-and-videos-how-to-use-mobile-phones-for-learning/

John

High Quality Online Blended with Live Students and Hollywood Production Values

2tor is a company that has focused on a high quality learning experience for online schools that includes live sessions with great instructors in addition to polished instructional content for asynchronous learning.

http://chronicle.com/article/What-Makes-a-Top-Tier-Online/131395/?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en

The article was found and forwarded by Kevin Brady.

John

12 Innovators in Education

Here are 12 examples of innovators who are rebooting traditional education and learning.

http://chronicle.com/article/Rebooting-the-Academy-12-Tech/130926/

Link provided by Kevin Brady.

John

Cloud Computing

One of the fast growing trends is the move to the cloud and the ability to create and update content in one common place while providing the access to the content and manipulation tools on many devices.

Google is working on their version of cloud and collaboration.  http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/12/were-better-together-how-cloud-mobile.html

John

Virtual Tool for Teaching - Khan Academy

Sal Khan has discovered the value of videos as a mechanism for individualized teaching allowing instructors to address specific individual needs.  His summary of the discovery of tutoring through helping family members and needing to scale his expertise is a great example of leveraging video as an option for individualized teaching rather than broad lecture presentations.

He shares how preparing for math competitions used techniques of peer instruction into efforts to learn the underlying principles of the subject matter.

http://www.khanacademy.org/video/the-gates-notes--sal-on-khan-academy?playlist=Khan+Academy-Related+Talks+and+Interviews

John

How Technology Can Improve Online Learning

The idea that education is independent of the mode of delivery brings up exploration of how education can be effectively delivered in a variety of ways.

The Online Learning article from The Chronicle of Higher Education explores How Technology Can Improve Online Learning and Learning in General.  http://chronicle.com/article/How-Technology-Can-Improve/129616/?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en

On the wheat field front of extending education beyond the local proximity, BYU Idaho is exploring ways to increase course offerings and student experiences to a study body that expands beyond the campus.  The trio of goals for BYU Idaho include raising the quality of education, lowering the cost, and reaching more students.  The pathway program opened up the way to extend learning to non-traditional students while the implementation of the case method of study added a constructive approach to learning for students.

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700188756/From-wheat-field-to-innovator-how-BYU-Idaho-is-changing-the-landscape-of-higher-education.html?pg=1

John

Praise for Effort vs Praise for Grade

In the recent Wired magazine article on learning from mistakes, the key item was the approach from the part of the learner based on the feedback.

The perspectives on feedback reveal the ability to adapt to challenges in the article which poses the question, can everyone be smart at everything?
http://mindshift.kqed.org/2011/11/can-everyone-be-smart-at-everything/

The link to the quest to understand if we are wired for mobile learning shows the visualizations of tools and technologies.
http://mindshift.kqed.org/tag/mobile-learning/

John