Blackboard Learn Today's active learner expects to be able to easily connect online with their different communities – including their education community. However, they want to keep their academic and personal lives separate. So we worked with students, educators, and administrators to develop a global learning network for Blackboard Learn. This network connects users at Blackboard Learn institutions around the globe and enables them to learn from each other through social, informal means – complementing the more formal classroom and online course experiences. This network connects learners at Blackboard Learn institutions around the globe and enables them to learn from each other through social, informal means – complementing the more formal classroom and online course experiences.
Curse of knowledge The curse of knowledge is a cognitive bias that leads better-informed parties to find it extremely difficult to think about problems from the perspective of lesser-informed parties. The effect was first described in print by the economists Colin Camerer, George Loewenstein and Martin Weber, though they give original credit for suggesting the term to Robin Hogarth.[1] History[edit] While the economists Colin Camerer, George Loewenstein, and Martin Weber were the first to "coin" the term "curse of knowledge" and to describe, and effectively, define this phenomenon, they are self-reportedly not the first individuals to document or study the effect; on the other hand, in their publication they state that: "All the previous evidence of the curse of knowledge has been gathered in psychological studies of individual judgments", referring readers to Baruch Fischhoff's work from 1975, which also involves the hindsight bias.[2] Applications[edit] See also[edit] References[edit]
News & Trends Archives - Cool Cat Teacher Blog Paper by 53, a favorite sketchnoting app of many, gets major updates like cloud backup and Activity Center where you can share and find sketchnotes of others. This is very cool for sketchnoting fans and those who just like information. While I struggle with sketchnoting, I have this app and will be playing with it […] Education technology startups are hot. Sweeping changes are moving through education as technology has become more affordable and scalable. This conference day in Dubai was one of the best. If you see technology controlling students, then you’ve got a classroom using 21st century technology for 20th century teaching. Over the last couple days, we have been attending the Global Education and Skills Forum (GESF). Matthew Kohut claims people make a decision with a tenth of a second about a person’s warmth. At the Global Education Skill Forum in Dubai, one of the things that I noticed was the overwhelming devotion of teachers to their profession and their students.
A Year of Reading ScienceFix - Science Fix Edmodo Promotes Blended Learning Tagged with: Blended LearningVideo When students at Meadowbrook High School were asked to show administrators how their teachers incorporate the digital world into their classes, the students chose to highlight how their teachers use Edmodo both as an instructional support tool and a tool for professional development. Rather than writing an article for the school newspaper, the students produced a video as part of their MBK411 news series. Under the direction of teacher Randy West, the students presented their video to the Chesterfield County School Board to show evidence of how teachers are incorporating blended learning into their classrooms. Big shout out to Brittany, Brenton, Jeremiah, Joseph, Maricela, Kane, Linda and Joshua for doing an amazing job producing the video!
Creating a New Culture of Teaching and Learning with Alan November May 10, 2012 by PC Munoz "Creating a New Culture of Teaching and Learning" is a Scientific Learning webinar presented by Alan November, proposing that educators make the most of today's "small world" by turning classrooms into global communication centers and collaborating with fellow teachers and students from all over the world. November's ideas about a new culture of teaching and learning are plentiful, as are his suggestions for further research. Information Schools ought to abolish their "technology planning committees," which focus on "stuff" (wires, boxes, hardware). Collaboration The educational experience can and should be supercharged with true collaboration. Empathy When he asked the CEO of HSBC Bank in England what the most important "21st century skill" is, November received the surprising reply, "empathy." More than once during his presentation, November states that he hopes his ideas are "good enough to critique." Related Reading:
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