Some excerpts from student blog posts on the apps they find most useful for learning Maths.
Christy:
In maths I think that the best apps are mathletics and educreations. Mathletics is good because it includes different varieties of maths activities. There is live mathletics which is good because you can improve in your speed with different levels.…
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Loading ...It is with great pleasure I can proudly announce I am the press officer for UKNIP (The Universities Knowledge Independence Party).
UKNIP believes that commercial interference in the running of Universities, the prime example of which are the foreign MOOCs coming to the UK and undermining our access policies.…
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As I begin my summer reading binge, I’ve been trying to balance my consumption of pro-technology materials to include anything that offers alternative and/or critical views of the new (e.g. tech.-focused) directions in education. Much like I’ve argued with questions of the value of foreign language…, I think it’s healthy to face and even embrace criticism, since it helps us to build a fuller understand of why we do certain things in certain ways through reflection, lest our ideas become dogmatic or myopic. Continue reading
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Every day there seems to be yet another exciting open library/book project announced on the web. Here are just a few recent ones that I think are interesting.
cc (BY-NC-SA) licensed flickr photo by The Shifted Librarian
LibraryBox is a project that not only lets you carry around a whole library of public domain books in your pocket, it also lets you make those books available to anyone else in the immediate vicinity via the wifi capabilities of the box.…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...What is the point of education reform? I feel like many people have jumped on the bandwagon in recent years, with myself included. I have begun to rethink my interest in this “reform”. I’ve been asking myself questions like, “Can education be reformed at all within the current system?” and “SHOULD education even be reformed?”.…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...“People don’t leave companies- They leave bad bosses”- D. Goleman
My ah ha moment during our staff meeting today when we were discussing the pros and cons of promoting Google hangouts was: “If I force a child to come to me they will never come, if I flex and meet them where they are at they can be drawn”.…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...In week 3 of the #TeachtheWeb MOOC, we were asked to find someone to collaborate with and create something together. The theme for the week was the open web and that was the inspiration for our collaborative work.
I loved the guiding blog post that was written for this week because it succinctly and accessibly covered some of the most important issues around openness: decentralization, transparency, hacakability, ownership/authorship, collaboration and remixed derivations.…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Bryan Alexander is blogging with frequency again (hooray!), in his exemplary educator style — pose a topic, add information, perhaps include an informed opinion, and rather than end the blog with a definitive period have it linger for further discussion.
He is currently musing on the cost of college, the decline in college enrollments, and the general purpose of college in today’s society.…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...This week we built our own community on the floor of our classroom. Mrs. van Rees put tape on the floor for roads and we did the rest. We brainstormed different things a community needs and then each of us took a specific thing to create.… Continue reading
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Around 2006-2007, our lives began to change as Web 2.0 technologies transformed the Web from a static repository of content into an interactive dialogue. Before long, most of us were reading blog posts written by …… Continue reading
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