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The persistence of distance (learning)

Learning with 'e's

By comparison, in its technology supported multiple formats, contemporary distance education is much more sophisticated. m-Learning, or mobile learning focused on the use of personal technologies. They were surely an asynchronous form of instruction, a sort of same place - different time learning. We have come a long way.

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The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release

Hack Education

” – that’s Sebastian Thrun, best known perhaps for his work at Google on the self-driving car and as a co-founder of the MOOC (massive open online course) startup Udacity. But Martin Cooper, a Motorola exec, made the first mobile telephone call in 1973, not 1983. The quotation is from 2012. And the Internet?

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A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking

NeverEndingSearch

However, at each level—middle school, high school, and college—these variations paled in comparison to a stunning and dismaying consistency. Claims on YouTube: Students watch a short video and explain why they might not trust a video that makes a contentious claim. . That was certainly the case in our experience.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Education Week : “Thousands of Android Mobile Apps Improperly Track Children, Study Says.” ” Via The MIT Technology Review : “ Bill Gates and Masayoshi Son are backing a plan to have video cameras watch every inch of Earth from space.”