SimCityEDU Is Coming Soon To A Classroom Near You
Added by Jeff Dunn on 2013-01-20 Remember SimCity? Me too.
What should students learn in the 21st century?
By Charles FadelFounder & chairman, Center for Curriculum Redesign Vice-chair of the Education committee of the Business and Industry Advisory Committee (BIAC) to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)Visiting scholar, Harvard GSE, MIT ESG/IAP and Wharton/Penn CLO It has become clear that teaching skills requires answering “What should students learn in the 21st century?” on a deep and broad basis.
Asiantuntija: Twitter mullisti sosiaalisen median - Twitter - Kotimaa
Tukholma. Ruotsalaisella datastrategikolla Hampus Brynolfilla on ollut kiireinen päivä Twitterissä. Hän on vastannut lukuisiin suomalaisten Twitter-käyttäjien kysymyksiin siitä, mikseivät he ole päässeet mukaan Brynolfin analyysiin suomalaisista Twitterin-käyttäjistä. "Mukana ovat vain ne, jotka twiittaavat suomeksi", Brynolf selittää.
These Listening Activities for Middle School Students Help Build Important Skills
Following Directions Activity One fun way to improve students’ listening skills is to give them directions and see if they can follow them. It sounds simple enough, as teachers give directions all the time in class, but these directions are to draw objects in the right space.
Evernote CEO Phil Libin Interview: Evernote Business, Coal Mines And 'The Nike Of The Well-Ordered Mind'
If there's one thing that hasn't got much simpler at work in the last 15 years, it's remembering things. Or, at least, remembering to remember them. While the amount of digital information we generate has increased exponentially with the birth of email, cloud document editing and the hideous resilience of the Powerpoint presentation, our ability to share what's useful - and record the stuff that really matters - hasn't improved much at all.
International Project or Partner Place - Homepage
Welcome to iPoPP iPoPP is a place for educators and youth worldwide to find global learning projects and partners. iPoPP combines the best offerings of GlobalSchoolNet and eLanguages, to improve academic achievement, encourage workforce readiness, and give youth skills to become responsible global citizens. iPoPP News and Social Media Please join the iPoPPulation conversation, and share your iPoPP news and ideas via Twitter and Facebook.
4 Ways I Document My Own Learning in Class
There is a lot written about documenting student learning. How do we capture what happens as they acquire knowledge? But these days there is another person who is learning in the room – me. With a new focus on authentic learning – and the push to incorporate technology - I am often ‘learning’ more than they are. So how do I record, for me, what is happening?
Technology and Education
Free education: Learning new lessons
TOP-QUALITY teaching, stringent admissions criteria and impressive qualifications allow the world’s best universities to charge mega-fees: over $50,000 for a year of undergraduate study at Harvard. Less exalted providers have boomed too, with a similar model that sells seminars, lectures, exams and a “salad days” social life in a single bundle. Now online provision is transforming higher education, giving the best universities a chance to widen their catch, opening new opportunities for the agile, and threatening doom for the laggard and mediocre. The roots are decades old. Britain’s Open University started teaching via radio and television in 1971; the for-profit University of Phoenix has been teaching online since 1989; MIT and others have been posting lectures on the internet for a decade.
The top 10 ways to create digital magazines
If you're used to visiting netmagazine.com every day, then you'll notice something a little different about the site you're looking at right now. That's because .net magazine, the print publication that's been the web industry's bible since 1994, is now publishing all its online content via Creativebloq.com. UPDATE: We've migrated around 250 of 1,800 old articles. More are coming online every day. Please bear with us.
How to publish your content to Google Currents
In today’s technology themed post I’m going to explain how to publish content to Google Currents. First though – what is Google Currents? Google Currents is a new product from Google. It’s an application for smartphones and tables running either Android or iOS which allows you to consume content offline in an elegant way – much like Flipboard already does for iOS devices. It’s a bit like an RSS reader, only on some serious steroids.
Google Currents: Publishing Platform to Marry Magazines and Mobile
Sample image of Currents Producer. Courtesy Google Mobile blog Thursday, Google finally launched its long-rumored magazine-style publishing platform for tablets and smartphones. It’s called Currents, and it’s available now in the U.S. for both Android and iOS. In development, it was code-named Propeller.
