When Sal Kahn created Khan Academy, he forever transformed education. His recent book The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined chronicles how the seed of Khan Academy was planted and grew to fruition, eventually garnering support ……
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Loading...In this Hangout, Dr. Sabita Persaud, Assistant Professor in the Notre Dame of Maryland School of Nursing, shares how she used a fictitious Facebook profile to create a relevant learning environment for her graduate level ……
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...At his blog, George Siemens looks at MOOC criticism, specifically a growing movement to label the MOOC as a neoliberal initiative, neoliberal standing for…well, standing against the MOOC rather than standing for something. And that’s a lot of the problem with the neoliberal argument…it uses the term to cast against something rather than to be for something, and a definition needs to be more than a roster of things the term is not. …
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Today’s Philanthropy Club of Chicago meeting featured Kate Cangemi, Program Officer, Community Health Initiatives, BlueCross BlueShield of Illinois. Yesterday I wrote about the Making Learning Connected MOOC #CLMOOC that started a couple of weeks ago.
As I listened to Katie speak about the new Health Care Law and about how Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois reviews more than 250 grant applications each cycle I made a list of topics that I felt could be discussion points in MOOCs connecting the non profit sector, the philanthropy sector, community members and policy makers.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Games and Gamification are quickly becoming the new buzz words in education. While the concept of using games to teach is not new, recent innovations in technology make games much more useful for educators. The ……
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Over the past couple months I’ve been reading a selection of nonfiction that has applications for education (cf. some reading notes). In just about every single book, including those by Cathy Davidson, Daniel Kahneman, Jane McGonigal, Daniel Pink, and now Steven Johnson’s Where Good Ideas Come From, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, a psychologist famous for the study of happiness but underappreciated until relatively recently, and his idea of “flow” is cited, playing no small part in defence of the author’s thesis.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...So as part of the clmooc, I’ve decided to build my first app (I’m using Infinite Monkeys) and I chose Microsoft Paint as my subject. Why? Because in the ICT curriculum in Canada and the US, Grade 1 is where you start using Paint.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...One of my former students was featured in the Bux-Mont Living. I created a layered photo to accentuate the quote. You can do it, too, here are 10-easy steps:
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Step 1: Scan as a photo (this will ensure it’s saved a .jpg…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...I was going to post a blog explaining why I was so busy, I have not posted my Bring Your Own Technology Video. However since Hunter has already done it on Curious Intentions site. I guess there is no need too.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...With his passion for technology—and online learning experience that began in the 90s—Sam Brenton is on a mission to ease instructors’ fears of teaching online. Brenton joined the Academic Partnerships International (API) team in April ……
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