What is 21st Century Education Revised August 2008. Your Assignment, Should You Choose to Accept It . . . Like Alice, many educators, policy makers and even the general public respond resoundingly with "That's impossible!" when challenged to adopt a new paradigm of education for the 21st century. Most people today adhere to a paradigm of education that is strictly 19th century. Web 2.0 and new Social Communities Dr. What is 21st century curriculum? What does all this mean for how we design and build schools? 1. References Kellner, Douglas; New Media and New Literacies: Reconstructing Education for the New Millennium Grant, Jodi, Director of the After School Alliance; Fourteen Million Kids, Unsupervised McLeod, Scott, Dangerously Irrelevant Time, Learning and Afterschool Task Force, A New Day for Learning Belasco, James A., Teaching the Elephant to Dance, 1991 Wesch, Michael, Ph.
Le Social Learning vu par Chamilo « LMS Selection Après Epistema/CrossKnowledge et e-Doceo, nous continuons notre exploration du Social Learning avec le LMS Open Source Chamilo, qui continue son chemin 1 an après son démarrage. Cédric Gérard présente le potentiel Social Learning de Chamilo. Outils et fonctionnalités Cédric Gérard (CG) : Chamilo possède de nombreux outils de communication et de collaboration utiles à l’enseignement et qui enrichissent la convivialité de la plateforme. Chamilo propose un réseau social intégré permettant de rechercher et d’ajouter des amis, et de créer des groupes autour de thématiques données. Nous avons récemment ajouté la possibilité pour un utilisateur d’ajouter des liens vers ses comptes Facebook, Twitter et LinkedIn. Dans les outils plus classiques, chaque cours possède sa propre interface de chat, et la création de forums multiples est également très simple. On compte également l’outil de wiki et de blogs, qui permettent de renforcer les aspects collaboratifs de l’enseignement. Aperçu Usages Point de vue
An Open Web Les bibliothèques de Rennes Métropole à l’heure de l’Open Data Bonjour ! Vous vous trouvez sur l’ancien blog du collectif Open Data Rennes. Ses archives restent en ligne, mais nous nous trouvons à présent sur www.cod-rennes.fr. A très bientôt ! Depuis 2010, Rennes Métropole s’est lancée dans l’open data et a ouvert des données d’horizons variés. Un domaine reste malgré tout plutôt pauvre, c’est celui de la culture. Un acteur a quand même commencé à proposer certains jeux de données, il s’agit de la bibliothèque des Champs Libres, avec ses statistiques de fréquentations par heure et par jour. Néanmoins, nous pensons qu’il y a plus à faire avec l’information qu’une bibliothèque peut générer et manipuler au quotidien: nombre de documents empruntés, retournés, en retard, emprunts par heure ou jour, quelle section d’une bibliothèque est la plus dévalisée. Une approche en douceur Mais nous parlons d’open data, nous voulons des données structurées. Ne jamais hésiter à ouvrir la discussion, si vous trouvez le bon interlocuteur. Des contraintes à prévoir
Is Video Marketing the Future of Education? The Internet makes our world smaller and our classrooms larger. Have you noticed the rise in online degrees? That’s the university system using a digital format to educate students in certain fields. What the Internet does for education can be groundbreaking, depending on how we use it. Online tutoring with Professor KhanLivestreaming your education events with Sid and Sam Generation YouTube 20/20 recently aired Generation YouTube, highlighting all types of YouTube superstars including moms, recent college grads, singers and performers, as well as educators like Sal Khan. Khan takes 10 to 15 minutes per video and breaks down arithmetic (from Math 1 all the way up to calculus) and the sciences (including biology, chemistry and physics). But what about your business? Here’s another model. Live Education Organizations like HandsOn University, Technology Councils of North America and the Georgia Center for NonProfits are starting to stream their events live online. What could you teach online?
Monitor: The net generation, unplugged Totally different from previous generations—or just younger? THEY are variously known as the Net Generation, Millennials, Generation Y or Digital Natives. But whatever you call this group of young people—roughly, those born between 1980 and 2000—there is a widespread consensus among educators, marketers and policymakers that digital technologies have given rise to a new generation of students, consumers, and citizens who see the world in a different way. Growing up with the internet, it is argued, has transformed their approach to education, work and politics. “Unlike those of us a shade older, this new generation didn't have to relearn anything to live lives of digital immersion. They learned in digital the first time around,” declare John Palfrey and Urs Gasser of the Berkman Centre at Harvard Law School in their 2008 book, “Born Digital”, one of many recent tomes about digital natives. But does it really make sense to generalise about a whole generation in this way?
The problem with informal learning is people! « Purple Learning - An eLearning and Blended Learning Blog Please don’t misunderstand me. I am a big advocate of informal learning although I’ve never been happy with the term. In fact I’m living proof that it is effective. To find out how you’ll have to wait til the end of the post for my own experiences. But before that, I wanted to investigate further why people are the problem with informal learning. I recently read an article in this month’s eLearning Age by John Helmer about informal learning. Like I said in the title of this blog, the trouble with informal learning is people. So some people think informal learning is an excuse to axe L&D teams while there are others who when they hear ‘informal learning’ think “that’ll never work – can’t measure that – what statistics can we report back with that?” Now before I go on any further, I’d like to share a little secret you may not know. So what’s the future for L&D professionals with this movement towards more self-directed, workplace learning and less formal courses? 1.
Free-textbooks project helps SA AN innovative education project has enabled the government to print more than 2.4 -million free maths and science textbooks for a nominal cost. The project also allows pupils from Grade 10 to 12 to download the books free - and provides videos and presentations that they can source via the internet or on their cellphones. The textbooks are written by an army of volunteers, many of whom are PhDs , and are provided free of charge to schools. The initiative - called Siyavula - is the brainchild of Mark Horner, 35. Horner's project is a labour of love that began in 2002 when he ran a project with graduate students at the University of Cape Town. He then started Siyavula - which means "we are opening" in Nguni. Now it costs government only R40 to print and distribute one of these textbooks, whereas previously the Department of Basic Education had to fork out R150 a book. The ground-breaking project used a legal framework that allows content to be licensed and used free of charge.
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