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DigiGogy: Digital Bloom's Visual
I was playing around today trying to create a visual representaion of a Digital version of the new Bloom's hierarchy. I'm either going to link the images in this illustration directly and publish on a wiki or I will come back here and provide all the links in a list format, separated by Bloom's level. If you're interested in "Digital Bloom's," you can search for "Bloom,"
Effective use of Technology in Education « Elevated Formation
There are 3 main ways in which technology can be used in education. One of them is horrible. One of them is neutral. One of them is great. One of them is used extensively. One of them is increasingly being used. One of them is not being used enough. One of them is technology being used to demonstrate an idea. One of them is using technology as a replacement for pen and paper. One of them is using technology to create.
Seth's Blog: Education at the crossroads
MIT and Stanford are starting to make classes available for free online. The marginal cost of this is pretty close to zero, so it's easy for them to share. Abundant education is easy to access and offers motivated individuals a chance to learn.
Scarcity comes from things like accreditation, admissions policies or small classrooms.
Lenovo awarded NSW DET netbook contract
Scroll down to the comments by students in this article. Under the arrangement, Lenovo will supply 220,000 IdeaPad S10e laptops to school students in years 9-12. The machines feature advanced network security and remote management tool. They also include theft protection features such as hardware level reporting, retrieval and remote disabling functions and RFID tagging.
In the Future, the Cost of Education will be Zero
“Knowledge is, as the economists say, a non-rival good,” wrote venture capitalist Brad Burnham in May. “If I eat an apple, you cannot also eat that same apple; but if I learn something, there is no reason you cannot also learn that thing. Information goods lend themselves to being created, distributed and consumed on the web. It is not so different from music, or classified advertising, or news.”
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“Knowledge is, as the economists say, a non-rival good,” wrote venture capitalist Brad Burnham in May. “If I eat an apple, you cannot also eat that same apple; but if I learn something, there is no reason you cannot also learn that thing. Information goods lend themselves to being created, distributed and consumed on the web. It is not so different from music, or classified advertising, or news.”
Vision Mapper by Futurelab
"Everyone felt the consultation exercise was a great opportunity to contribute to thinking about how the school of the future should be, how it should serve children and the local community, and how it might enhance the capacities of staff."
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"Everyone felt the consultation exercise was a great opportunity to contribute to thinking about how the school of the future should be, how it should serve children and the local community, and how it might enhance the capacities of staff."
Microsoft's School of the Future: Lessons in failure
When it opened its doors in 2006, Philadelphia's School of the Future (SOF) was touted as a high school that would revolutionize education: It would teach at-risk students critical 21st-century skills needed for college and the work force by emphasizing project-based learning, technology, and community involvement. But three years, three superintendents, four principals, and countless problems later, experts at a May 28 panel discussion hosted by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) agreed: The Microsoft-inspired project has been a failure so far.
Rose Review: Independent Review of the Primary Curriculum
Strengthening the teaching and learning of ICT to enable them to be independent and confident users of technology by the end of primary education.
Pupils 'should study Twitter'
The Guardian said the draft review requires primary school children to be familiar with blogging, podcasts, Wikipedia and Twitter as sources of information and forms of communication.
Gravity and Levity: Five Things Schools Must Do To Avoid Extinction
As schools slowly verge towards the same fate as newspapers and bank tellers, we must step away from the precipice of extinction by doing the following:
Eco-Friendly Computing
With energy costs soaring to record levels, taking steps to reduce the amount of energy you use isn’t just good for the environment--it’s also essential for your schools’ fiscal health
School 2.0 - Learning Ecosystem
The Technolgist View of the School 2.0 Learning Ecosystem highlights the range of administrative roles that technology plays in supporting a School 2.0 Community and the often broad range of responsibilities that fall under the technologist or CTO/CIO title.
School garden design: NCBS Greenfingers
To design a new playground for our school that meets the needs of the school community
Something about New School | 2¢ Worth
The overlap between the pedagogies of school 1.0 and school 2.0 are important in critical. But breaking it all apart and putting labels on it seems like a useful way to better understand it all.
wireless.itworld.com - 'World's largest' Wi-Fi network keeps Linux under wraps
Building the world's largest enterprise Wi-Fi network sounds like a challenge, Victoria's Department of Education (DET) in Australia took it all in its stride - with the help of a little penguin.
School forces student to shave off Movember mo
A Wellington private school boy has shaved his Movember moustache off after his school threatened to ban him from sitting his NCEA exams
Open Ed - Week 11: OERs vs Learning Objects | Designed to Inspire
Open education is the next iteration of the quest to design and deliver reusable educational resources.
How to Bring Our Schools Out of the 20th Century - TIME
A yawning chasm (with an emphasis on yawning) separates the world inside the schoolhouse from the world outside.
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I have set up this information to help them learn more about blogging and it has been broken into a stepped blogging program:
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“In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists” — Eric Hoffer
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