10 Ways That Mobile Learning Will Revolutionize Education Smartphones and tablet computers are radically transforming how we access our shared knowledge sources by keeping us constantly connected to near-infinite volumes of raw data and information. We enjoy unprecedented instant access to expertise, from informal cooking lessons on YouTube to online university courses. Every day people around the globe are absorbed in exciting new forms of learning, and yet traditional schools and university systems are still struggling to leverage the many opportunities for innovation in this area. Recently frog has been researching how learning models are evolving—and how they can be improved—via the influence of mobile technologies. We’ve found that the education industry needs new models and fresh frameworks to avoid losing touch with the radically evolving needs of its many current and potential new constituencies. We have been focusing on the concept of mLearning—where "m" usually stands for "mobile" but also just as easily for "me." 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
Alice.org Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is a freely available teaching tool designed to be a student's first exposure to object-oriented programming. It allows students to learn fundamental programming concepts in the context of creating animated movies and simple video games. In Alice, 3-D objects (e.g., people, animals, and vehicles) populate a virtual world and students create a program to animate the objects. In Alice's interactive interface, students drag and drop graphic tiles to create a program, where the instructions correspond to standard statements in a production oriented programming language, such as Java, C++, and C#. Alice Overview Download this video (right-click [ctrl-click on a Mac] > Save File As...): Quicktime (11 MB) From an interview for the Manuel Sadosky Foundation, Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 2014.
SimCityEDU | Create & Share SimCity Learning Tools 6 Ways to Tell Your Story With Interactive Maps | MSDS Brand Strategy & Design If you’re into interactive maps, it’s a good time to be alive! Seems we’ve entered a golden era of interactive mapping, with no shortage of exciting ways to display geographically-specific data. In the last few years alone, we’ve seen exponential growth in interactive mapping software that presents data from all sorts of angles. But while being spoiled for choice can be a good thing, all this product and feature clutter makes it difficult to make a choice. When we have a client who wants to design an interactive map, our first question is not, “What kind of map do you need?” So, let's say you want to add an interactive map to your website. Assuming you may not have had time to navigate the world of online mapping software and could use some help designing for impact using geographic data, hopefully I can offer some insight gained over years of helping clients tell their story using interactive maps. 3 Things Before You Dive In Your Data: What kind of data do you have? 1. 2. 1a. 1b. 1c.
Solar System 101 Homework Help K-4 Kids Do It Yourself Games Select an Inner Planet Community | Schools Historypin is a great tool to use in schools and is being used all over the world in classrooms and to run events and projects with parents, families and local communities. Why use Historypin in schools? Improve communication, social and inter-personal skills Get families and carers more involved in the life of students and the school Build positive links between your school and the local community Engage students in curriculum subjects such as History, Computing, Geography, Citizenship and English with an exciting digital tool Run natural and meaningful inter-generational sessions and events Turn your students into local archivists How can I use it? There are three main ways to use Historypin, by Exploring it or by Adding to it or Curating stuff on it. Have a look at our How to Guides for more help How are other schools using it? In lots of varied and interesting ways! Have a look at our Case Studies for some ideas What are the best things to look at in the classroom?