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Tales of a 6th Grade Classroom

Tales of a 6th Grade Classroom

ICT-Atelier: MWUCE Idea Sketch Sal Khan: the man who tutored his cousin – and started a revolution Sal Khan has a simple mission: a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere. Naturally, people think he's crazy. The craziest part is not the "world-class education" part, because plenty of people want that. And it's not even the "for anyone, anywhere" part. It's the "free" part. Crazy or not, it's an idea that has attracted attention from Downing Street to Washington DC. Khan – working as a financial analyst in 2004 after earning degrees from MIT and an MBA from Harvard – started remotely tutoring his cousin, Nadia, in Louisiana, who was struggling with maths. "YouTube? Since 2009, Khan has devoted himself full-time to his Khan Academy, a tutoring, mentoring and testing educational website at khanacademy.org that offers its content free to anyone with internet access willing to work through its exercises and pithy videos, the majority narrated by Khan himself. Using the internet to widen access to education is not itself revolutionary. But the Khan Academy is different.

iPads at Burley Gazelle psdmobilelearning - home Learning in a Digital Age - extending higher education opportunities for lifelong learning View or download the publication (PDF )1 View the publication in ePub format2 View the publication in Kindle format3 View or download the publication in text only format (PDF )4 Order print copies5 An increasing number of students are benefiting from education later in life, bringing diverse experiences, skills and needs and adding value to employers and society. What the publication offers Aimed at individuals in further and higher education who have an interest in lifelong learning: academic staff, lecturers, tutors, learning support staff, learning technologists, and information, advice and guidance professionals, the publication signposts some of the effective higher education practice taking place in the UK and addresses the benefits and challenges that arise in a digital age. The eleven institutional case studies have been aligned against the following themes: Learning in a Digital Age is the latest in the Effective Practice series from the JISC e-Learning Programme. Tables and diagrams

Shamblesguru (shamblesguru) How To Get Involved in the Peeragogy Project Hello and welcome! The peeragogy project was kicked off around the time of Howard Rheingold’s January 23, 2012 Regents Lecture at UC Berkeley on Social Media and Peer Learning: From Mediated Pedagogy to Peeragogy. We have put together a handbook about peer learning: you’re reading it — maybe on our website, or in your hammock with the beverage of your choice and our print on demand paperback. But: there’s still more work to be done. What you do here is largely up to you. The goal we have in mind for our book is for it be a useful guide to peer learning! It’s up to you. We regularly use Google+, Google Hangouts, forums, and email to communicate asynchronously and pretty much continuously. In short: here’s how it works: Questions? If you have questions, that’s good! Post Revisions:

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