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Pages that discuss education.
Updated on May 13, 12
Created on Feb 02, 10
Category: Schools & Education
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Keith Hamon's List: Education
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Oct 06, 08
A wonderfully breathless presentation by Chris Lehmann about School 2.0 delivered at Ignite Philly 2.
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Feb 11, 10
the annual report released by the Sloan-Consortium, Learning On Demand: Online Education in the United States, 2009. As of fall 2009:
The US saw a 17% increase in online enrollments in higher ed over the previous year, outpacing the the 12% increase announced in the '09 Sloan-C survey (which stunned folks).
The 17% increase in online enrollments becomes even more startling when we compare it to the measly 1.2% growth overall for higher ed.
While the participating colleges and universities indicated that they had witnessed an increase in all their offerings (all methods of delivery) due to the economic downturn, all institution types agreed that the strongest demand is for more new AND existing online courses as well as online programs.
Despite the enormous student demand and strong enrollment growths, college and university executives continue to demonstrate a flimsy, at best, correlation between the importance of online learning and the strategy of their institution. -
Feb 16, 10
8D World runs a virtual world called Wiz World Online for Chinese-speaking kids who want to learn English.
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Feb 16, 10
Through surveys, interactive brainstorming sessions, and a final community vote, the EDUCAUSE community identified their top five challenges in teaching and learning with technology.
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- Creating learning environments that promote active learning, critical thinking, collaborative learning, and knowledge creation.
- Developing 21st century literacies (information, digital, and visual) among students and faculty.
- Reaching and engaging today's learner.
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Feb 16, 10
Grades tend to reduce the quality of students’ thinking. Given that students may lose interest in what they’re learning as a result of grades, it makes sense that they’re also apt to think less deeply. One series of studies, for example, found that students given numerical grades were significantly less creative than those who received qualitative feedback but no grades. The more the task required creative thinking, in fact, the worse the performance of students who knew they were going to be graded. Providing students with comments in addition to a grade didn’t help: the highest achievement occurred only when comments were given instead of numerical scores (Butler, 1987; Butler, 1988; Butler and Nisan, 1986).
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Grades tend to reduce the quality of students’ thinking. Given that students may lose interest in what they’re learning as a result of grades, it makes sense that they’re also apt to think less deeply. One series of studies, for example, found that students given numerical grades were significantly less creative than those who received qualitative feedback but no grades. The more the task required creative thinking, in fact, the worse the performance of students who knew they were going to be graded. Providing students with comments in addition to a grade didn’t help: the highest achievement occurred only when comments were given instead of numerical scores (Butler, 1987; Butler, 1988; Butler and Nisan, 1986).
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what grades offer is spurious precision – a subjective rating masquerading as an objective evaluation
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Feb 17, 10
here are ten “literacies” that seem crucial for our discussion of “This Is Your Brain on the Internet.”
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Feb 18, 10
Given that coherence and lucidity are key to understanding our world, how do educators teach in networks? For educators, control is being replaced with influence. Instead of controlling a classroom, a teacher now influences or shapes a network.
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The largely unitary voice of the traditional teacher is fragmented by the limitless conversation opportunities available in networks. When learners have control of the tools of conversation, they also control the conversations in which they choose to engage.
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For educators, control is being replaced with influence. Instead of controlling a classroom, a teacher now influences or shapes a network.
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Feb 19, 10
The decision to adopt online technology (defined here as predominantly Internet-based delivery, with provision for interaction throughout the process), even on a limited basis, is always complex and can be risky, especially if the adopting organization lacks structural, cultural, or financial prerequisites (Welsch, 2002). A discussion of some attributes of media and of the modes of teaching presentation and learning performance they support, in relation to some influential learning models, might help to clarify some of the implications in the choice of any specific delivery or presentation medium.
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Feb 25, 10
Behaviorism, cognitivism, and constructivism are the three broad learning theories most often utilized in the creation of instructional environments. These theories, however, were developed in a time when learning was not impacted through technology. Over the last twenty years, technology has reorganized how we live, how we communicate, and how we learn. Learning needs and theories that describe learning principles and processes, should be reflective of underlying social environments.
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May 07, 10
my pedagogy in futures studies consists of empirical, interpretive, critical, and action research approaches and is based on: (1) the main pillars of futures studies; (2) ways that the future can be used; and (3) mapping and change methods.
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May 11, 10
Here are a few of the most common techniques for anticipating, forecasting, and assessing future events.
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May 24, 10
I wonder what changes I will experience, initiate, or resist… over the next 10 years? Warning, wild (or mild?) speculation follows…
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Jun 06, 10
How to create a futures map for higher education.
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Aug 09, 10
a model of inquiry has emerged that seems to balance the vision of student-centered inquiry described in the NSES with an inquiry strategy that reflects teacher concerns. This model, called the Coupled Inquiry Cycle, combines, or "couples", "teacher guided" inquiry with "full" or "open" inquiry, into an inquiry cycle based on a learning cycle format
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Aug 09, 10
Great site for exploring the concept of ePortfolios
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Aug 25, 10
Getting to what we would generally call adulthood is happening later than ever. But why? That’s the subject of lively debate among policy makers and academics. To some, what we’re seeing is a transient epiphenomenon, the byproduct of cultural and economic forces. To others, the longer road to adulthood signifies something deep, durable and maybe better-suited to our neurological hard-wiring. What we’re seeing, they insist, is the dawning of a new life stage — a stage that all of us need to adjust to.
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Sep 14, 10
10 trends (mostly demographic & social) that will affect education.
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Sep 17, 10
Overview of definitions of student engagement & methods of assessing engagement: self-report measures, checklists & rating scales, direct observations, work sample analyses, & focused case studies.
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