Schools shift from textbooks to tablets - US News & World Report By PHILIP ELLIOTT, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Well before the cleanup from Superstorm Sandy was in full swing, students could read about the weather system that slammed the East Coast in their textbooks. Welcome to the new digital bookcase, where traditional ink-and-paper textbooks have given way to iPads and book bags are getting lighter. Publishers update students' books almost instantly with the latest events or research. Schools are increasingly looking to the hand-held tablets as a way to sustain students' interest, reward their achievements and, in some cases, actually keep per-student costs down. "We must use technology to empower teachers and improve the way students learn," said Joel Klein, a former New York City schools' chief who now leads News Corp.' News Corp. introduced their Amplify tablet during a breakfast Wednesday at the South by Southwest conference in Austin, Texas. Putting a device in every student's hand is not a pie-in-the-sky dream.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: A Great Concept Map on Bloom's Digital Taxonomy Yesterday while I was working on " the 21st century pedagogy chart " I came across this excellent graphic on Bloom's Digital Taxonomy. I am pretty sure this will be a great addition to the resources I have been compiling in the section called Bloom's Taxonomy for Teachers here in Educational Technology and Mobile Learning.This fabulous work has been done by Andrew Churches in which he relates higher order thinking skills included in Blooms Taxonomy to different digital skills. The purpose is to highlight the importance of technology and digital skills in today's learning. This graphic is similar to the post I have published a couple of months ago entitled Web Based Bloom's Taxonomy and in which I featured a set of web tools that go under each category of Bloom's Higher Order Thinking Skills. Click on the image to enlarge it
14 Technology Concepts Every Teacher should Know about We have compiled for you this list of some trending educational technology terms.The list below is a simple attempt to help you better capture the full picture of what all these tech terms are about by providing clear definitions to each one of them. The sources of each definition is included in the last section of this post enjoy 1 - Adaptive Learning This is an educational method which uses computers as interactive teaching devices. Computers adapt the presentation of educational material according to students' learning needs, as indicated by their responses to questions and tasks. 2 - Virtual Classroom "A virtual classroom is an online learning environment. "Mooc is an acronym for “massive open online course”. 4 - Synchronous Vs Asynchronous Learning "Synchronous online classes are those that require students and instructors to be online at the same time. 5 - Blended Learning 6 - Flipped Classroom 7 - Self-directed Learning 8 - Learning Management Systems 9 - Cloud Based Learning
Flipped classroom, flipped teaching vai flipped learning? Flipped classroom -ajattelumalli on yksi tämän hetken kuumimmista pedagogisista puheenaiheista. Flipped-malli on yksi sulautuvan oppimisen toteutustapa, joka on perinteisesti ymmärretty videoiden hyödyntämisenä teoriaopetuksen metodina. Oppijat tutustuvat teoriaan itsenäisesti etänä, jolloin lähiopetukseen jää enemmän aikaa keskustelulle ja ongelmanratkaisulle. Malli on suomennettu tieto- ja viestintätekniikka opetuksessa Facebook-ryhmässä "käänteiset opetusmenetelmät" -malliksi. BETT-messuilla Lontoossa 31.1.2013 flipped class-ajatuksen pioneerit, yhdysvaltalaiset Aaron Sams ja Jonathan Bergmann, luennoivat opetusmallin kehittymisestä. Miksi flipped classroom -ajatusta pitäisi pohtia? Samsin ja Bergmannin mielestä aiheen tärkeyttä voidaan lähestyä kysymällä: "Mikä on paras tapa käyttää aikaa, kun opettaja on oppilaan kanssa kasvotusten?" Flipped-ajattelun kehittyminen teoriassa ja käytännössä 1. 2. Flipped-ajattelun seuraava kehitysvaihe oli arvioinnin kehittäminen. 3. 4. Pohdinta e-Oppi Oy
How 21st Century Thinking Is Just Different How 21st Century Thinking Is Just Different by Terry Heick This content is proudly sponsored by The Institute for the Habits of Mind, promoting the development of personal thinking habits in 21st century learners. In an era dominated by constant information and the desire to be social, should the tone of thinking for students be different? After all, this is the world of Google. As a result, the tone of thinking can end up uncertain or whimsical, timid or arrogant, sycophant or idolizing–and so, devoid of connections and interdependence. The nature of social media rests on identity as much as anything else—forcing subjectivity on everything through likes, retweets, shares, and pins. But this takes new habits. Information Abundance There is more information available to any student with a smartphone than an entire empire would have had access to three thousand years ago. New contexts—digital environments that function as humanity-in-your-pocket—demand new approaches and new habits. Persisting.
10 Ways to Teach Innovation Getty By Thom Markham One overriding challenge is now coming to the fore in public consciousness: We need to reinvent just about everything. Whether scientific advances, technology breakthroughs, new political and economic structures, environmental solutions, or an updated code of ethics for 21st century life, everything is in flux—and everything demands innovative, out of the box thinking. The burden of reinvention, of course, falls on today’s generation of students. This is hardly the case, as we know. Move from projects to Project Based Learning. Teach concepts, not facts. Distinguish concepts from critical information. Make skills as important as knowledge. Form teams, not groups. Use thinking tools. Use creativity tools. Reward discovery. Make reflection part of the lesson. Be innovative yourself. Related
5 technologies transforming education right now From iPads in classrooms to mobile apps for educators, new technologies are changing how teachers teach and educational institutions are run. Whether they flip the classroom model, blend the learning experience or just make educators' lives easier, lots of innovators are talking about technology and how it is transforming education as we know it. To give you an idea of what's coming, we've turned the spotlight on five technologies that are driving the ed tech revolution. Here's what you need to know: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Would you like to see more education news like this in your inbox on a daily basis?
Miltä oppiminen näyttää tulevaisuudessa? Oppiminen kehittynyt hitaasti Millaista oppiminen on tulevaisuudessa? Ei ainakaan samanlaista kuin nykyään. Viime vuosikymmenien huomattavasta teknologisesta kehityksestä huolimatta opetusmetodit ovat säilyneet hyvin samanlaisina – lukuunottamatta tiedonhaun ja oppimisympäristöjen siirtymistä osittain verkkoon. Opiskelijat istuvat edelleen samoissa luentosaleissa ja luokkahuoneissa, luennoitsija pitää luentoaan luokan edessä ja tentissä kirjoista opiskellut vastaukset kirjoitetaan käsin tenttipaperiin. Teknologinen kehitys vie meidät ubiikkiyhteiskuntaan Tulevaisuuden oppiminen näyttää kuitenkin hyvin erilaiselta. Turun yliopiston professori Sirkka Heinosen mukaan tämän hetkisen kehityksen myös opetus mullistuu teknologian tuella. Uudenlainen oppiminen kokonaisvaltaista ja yksilöllistä Arjen esineiden oppiessa viestimään langattomasti ja sopeutuessa käyttäjiensä tarpeisiin, voimme sanoa elävämme ubiikkiyhteiskunnassa. Oppiminen lähtee itsestä ja omasta kiinnostuksesta
Tabletti opettajan työkaluna | I Padin käyttökokemuksia koulussa The 10 Skills Modern Teachers Must Have The above image is 8.5×11″ so you can print it out. PDF is available here . There’s been a lot of talk about 21st century learners, 21st century teachers, and connected classrooms. There’s a daily influx of new technology into your inbox and your classroom feels woefully behind the times even if you’re flipping your 1:1 iPad classroom that’s already online and part of a MOOC . What are modern teachers to do with all this jargon and techno-babble being thrown at them all day long? Simple. In my experience, I’ve seen teachers attempt to integrate 30 iPads into their classroom by handing them out and then trying to figure out which apps are worth using. In order to do this, you’ll need skills modern teachers must have. 1) Build Your PLN Whether you call it a ‘personal learning network’ or a ‘professional learning network’ is not important. 2) Establish Real Relationships Whether it’s online or offline, the ability to establish real relationships is critical to any modern teacher. 7) Slow Down
Great Critical Thinking Map for your Classroom You ask any teacher today about the skills they want their students to develop and you will get critical thinking skills as an obvious answer; of course together with other skills. With the advance of technology and the educational paradigmatic shift that ensued , critical thinking skills have occupied a central part in the literature of teaching and learning pedagogy, not that these skills were not important before but I would say they came to the foreground now more than in any time before. Educational Technology and Mobile Learning has already covered this topic in some previous posts and you can check the following links to learn more about Critical thinking. For today, I am sharing with you a great graphic that illustrates some elements of critical thinking process.
36 Things Every 21st Century Teacher Should Be Able To Do What should every teacher in the 21st century know and be able to do? That’s an interesting question. After just now seeing this excellent post on educatorstechnology.com, I thought I’d contribute to the conversation. I added the twist of ranking them from least complex to most complex, so novices can start at the bottom, and you veterans out there can skip right to 36. 36 Things Every 21st Century Teacher Should Be Able To Do 1. Whether you choose a text message, email, social media message, Skype session, or a Google+ Hangouts depends on who you need to communicate with and why—purpose and audience. 2. Email won’t always work. 3. Hit the Print Screen button near your number pad on a keyboard on Windows. 4. Know what it means to be Rick Roll’d, the difference between a fail and an epic fail, why Steve is a scumbag, and who sad Keannu is. 5. Not everyone loves technology. An RT as an olive branch. 6. 7. Tone is lost when you type. 8. This is dead-simple, but you never know. 9. 10. 11. 12.