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A Fuller Framework for Making in Maker Education

User Generated Education

Corresponding to these activities were three types of knowledge: theoretical, the end goal being truth; poietical, the end goal being production; and practical, the end goal being action ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praxis_(process) ). ”( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praxis_(process) ). ” ( Amplifying Reflection ).

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How to educate in the 4th Industrial Revolution

eSchool News

They need to know how to film, make podcasts, blog, and build wikis, for example. A 2020 World Economic Forum report states that “critical thinking and analysis as well as problem-solving, and skills in self-management such as active learning, resilience, stress tolerance and flexibility” are critical to business leaders.

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Some Excellent Virtual Field Trip Resources, including lots from Google Maps

Educational Technology Guy

The Virtual Field Trips Wiki has some great tips and resources for creating virtual field trips using Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Google Earth. The Grand Canyon National Park’s Distance Learning Program is a great resource for schools to let their students explore one of the most famous national landmarks.

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A Natural and Experiential Cycle of Learning

User Generated Education

Critical reflection is not meditation, rather it is mediation — an active, conversive, dialectical exercise that requires as much intellectual work as does every other aspect of the learning process, from analysis to synthesis to evaluation.

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5 Tools To Shake up the New Year

Ask a Tech Teacher

Perform various backlink (inlink, inbound link) analysis. Here are two examples I put together in just a few minutes: How can you use it in the classroom: With the growth of blogs, student wikis, and class websites, these image editing tools make creating a picture perfectly suited to a topic easy. Convert various measurement units.

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Nostalgia will NOT get my PhD finished….but it is a nice diversion

Learning Confluence

I would like to get rid of this burden, this weight of study, this responsiblity of getting the thesis finished so I can ‘break free’… but I can’t… my PhD analysis and ‘originality’ is the hardest challenge I have had for a long time (possibly for ever!). tools and disrupt class activities.

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Digital assignments: How shall we grade them?

Learning with 'e's

It may be prudent to present your students with model assignments in blog, video, wiki and other non-traditional formats so they can see what they need to be aiming at. What if your external examiner is unwilling to accept blogs, wikis or videos as legitimate academic evidence of learning? I''m quite clear with my students.

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