6 Ways Digital Learning is Changing Teaching Email Share December 1, 2011 - by Tom Vander Ark 0 Email Share I visited Wireless Generation , a leading education technology company, in Brooklyn this week. As someone who has, within the last decade, been a student and a teacher, as well as administrative support, I was very interested by the parts in your book when you made it clear that educational institutions are evolving. There will be a half a dozen significant changes in teaching in this decade. Model differentiation will proliferate over the next decade as school developers invent new ways to blend online and onsite experience around competency-based pathways. The second profound change underway is the shift from the individual practitioner to more collaborative and team based teaching. A third and related point is that staffing models will be more differentiated with specific roles and different levels. Four, we’re seeing a general shift from didactic instruction to more interactive learning experiences.
#Tweets2012 : les meilleurs gazouillis du jour Créé : 21-11-2011 16:57 Le journaliste Pierre Deruelle met en perspective la fraude fiscale de Liliane Bettencourt et a chasse aux profiteurs du système d'allocations voulus par le gouvernement. Photo : DR Encore le journaliste Pierre Deruelle qui cette fois-ci relaie la parole du grand-père de la jeune Agnès, assassinée et violée. Photo : DR L'éditeur "Zefred" retourne contre le PS l'argument souvent opposé à l'UMP : un faits-divers, une loi". L'avocat Maitre Eolas tourne en dérision les attaques contre les experts judiciaires après la remise en liberté sous contrôle judiciaire l'année dernière, de l'assassin présumé d'Agnès. Le journaliste politique du Point Mahrane Saïd relate avec un certain étonnement la normalisation de Marine le Pen auprès de la communauté juive. Le patron des jeunes UMP Benjamin Lancar note que François Hollande n'a jamais été ministre.Une preuve (de plus) d'incompétence selon lui. Le journaliste Xavier Monnier raconte comment les pressions glissent sur lui.
Formulists 45 Kick-Ass Resources for Online Entrepreneurs Few people talk about this great productivity tip… You will reach your goals faster and easier if you’re willing to learn from others. Using brilliant, well-crafted resources created specifically for online entrepreneurs improves your online productivity. Below I have a long list of resources, most of which I’ve used myself. Enjoy the list. I’ve arranged the resources from those helpful to beginners to those suited to more advanced entrepreneurs. The links to these resources are not affiliate links. Helpful from the word go… If you’re new to online business, you’ll find value in the following resources. 1. Before you can blog, collect email addresses or sell anything, you need a little piece of real estate on a reliable web server. 2. I’m hoping that no one laughs at this resource recommendation. 3. Today web design is easy. Productive Entrepreneur is running the Genesis framework and the Prose child theme. 4. 5. Copyblogger.com is where you learn about content marketing. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
50 Brilliant Apps to Enhance Your Twitter Experience Without a doubt, Twitter is one of the best innovations of the century. It’s a simple idea coupled with a simple interface that took them to the stratosphere. But after a few years and millions of dollars in venture funding, Twitter’s simplicity isn’t what people are looking for anymore. Right from the start, most of the innovation in the Twitter ecosystem has been coming from third party developers. Hootsuite HootSuite Hootsuite is the ideal choice if you are a social media power user to stay on top of your social media. Genre: Monitoring and AnalyticsPricing: From $5.99 per monthFree Account: AvailableMultiple Accounts: SupportedSupport for Other Social Networks: Available SocialOomph SocialOomph SocialOomph is another equally capable web app to stay on top of social trends. Genre: Monitoring and AnalyticsPricing: From $19.97Free Account: AvailableMultiple Accounts: SupportedSupport for Other Social Networks: Available CoTweet cotweet Seesmic Seesmic Twellow Twellow Klout Klout Strawberryjam Ping
Sur Twitter, êtes-vous sûrs d’utiliser les bons mots-dièse ? | Formation et culture numérique – Thot Cursus | Par Pierre Nobis | p.nobis@cursus.edu Le service de microblogging et de réseautage social Twitter génère une pléthore d’applications tierces permettant d’analyser entre autres fonctionnalités l’impact des messages publiés via cette plateforme. Hashtagify.me est un outil en ligne qui sert à évaluer votre choix de hashtagou mot-dièse pour reprendre la proposition lexicale de la Commission générale de terminologie et de néologisme (France) : en réalité comme l’ont justement relevé plusieurs commentateurs, il aurait été à priori plus exact de parler de « mot-croisillon » car cela correspond graphiquement au symbole utilisé devant les mots clefs sur Twitter, le croisillon ayant effectivement les deux barres transversales horizontales, alors que celles du dièse sont montantes (♯). Un outil de diagnostic Lorsque vous rédigez un message sur Twitter, vous y associez donc un mot-dièse. Hashtagify permet aussi d’identifier facilement les six comptes « influents » ayant recours au même hashtag.
8 Essential Apps for Your Brand's Facebook Page Alison Driscoll is an interactive copywriter and social media consultant who specializes in . She authors a blog at alisondriscoll.com. Not even a year ago, Facebook was still being dismissed as a silly site intended to help college kids slack off. An effective Facebook Page not only attracts fans, but is sticky so that fans keep coming back and may even share the content on the Page. Applications 1. This app was originally a Facebook feature that they then converted into an application; as such, it is sponsored and maintained by Facebook and less likely to break or be abandoned. This notification system is important for staying on their radar and is more visible than an RSS Reader, or mini-blog as I like to call it, but lacks many formatting capabilities; it's best to think of Notes and an RSS Reader as working hand in hand. 2. I may have jumped ahead a bit with the Notes recommendation, but I am assuming that most companies have, or could have, a blog. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Britney Spears
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The Virtues of Video What if your struggling students could view demonstrations of difficult math concepts as often as necessary? Picture your students asking questions of an expert diver as she explores Australia's Great Barrier Reef. Or imagine a motivated student in a remote location attending an advanced placement physics class without leaving home. Much of what we define as education can now take place anywhere, anytime—and much of it can be acquired free through resources available over the Internet. Videoconferencing: Engaging Millenials As early as the 1980s, students in rural areas of Alaska, Washington, Texas, and Oregon connected to teachers through interactive videoconferencing. Interactive videoconferencing is often a good solution for resource-strapped school districts that can't afford to hire more teachers. When learners are engaged, retention occurs. Distance Classes: The Power of Access the process begins when a school identifies a learning need they can't serve on their own. References
Ecrire en 140 caractères : la twittérature, gadget ou nouveau genre ? Twitter a vu le jour en 2006. A l'origine, la plateforme gratuite de microblogging, qui rassemble aujourd'hui environ un demi-milliard de personnes, est conçue pour l'écriture et la diffusion de messages de 140 caractères maximum. Mais, petit à petit, un usage alternatif, plus créatif se fait jour et les formules ciselées envahissent la twittosphère, un peu sur le modèle des keitai shosetsu (de roman"/shosetsu - et "mobile"/keitai), textes japonais rédigés par SMS. Bien que pleinement inscrits dans le numérique, les twittérateurs revendiquent leur place dans une histoire littéraire jalonnée des contraintes que s'imposent les auteurs, de l'Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle (OuLiPo) aux cadavres exquis des surréalistes en passant par les haïkus japonais ou les Nouvelles en trois lignes de Félix Fénéon. Micronouvelles érotiques Micronouvelles érotiques, twiller (thriller sur Twitter, inventé par l'Américain Matt Ritchell), microcontes... ont ainsi vu le jour sur Twitter, explique M.
5 Excellent Cloud Tools You Should Be Using It seems like everything is moving to the cloud from documents to photos to podcasts; plus more and more services are implementing cloud storage for security reasons. While 10 years ago you needed to have actual space on your computer or mobile device in order to save and access files, now you really don’t need much because free cloud storage is everywhere. Since there are so many new and useful cloud tools that are regularly popping up on the scene, I decided to share 5 that I feel are extremely beneficial to bloggers and social media users. So here are 5 excellent cloud tools that you should be using, if you aren’t already. Pogoplug Plain and simple, Pogoplug is “cloud storage for your mobile life”. Pogoplug is great for streaming music, movies and photos from your mobile device. ZeroPC ZeroPC is known as “your content navigator for the cloud”. ZeroPC has mobile apps for the iPad and Android and can run in Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Internet Explorer. sideCLOUDload Mougg Flapcast
36 of Our Favorite #Education Hashtags - Getting Smart by Getting Smart Staff - edchat, edreform, EdTech Terry Heick at TeachThought recently published “The 20 Top #Hashtags in Education.” We liked it so much that we decided to compile our own list of favorites. (*Includes overlap from Heick’s list.) Priority Hashtags #EdChat*#EdTech*#DigLN#SmartSeries#EdPolicy#BlendedLearning#OnlineLearning#EdLeaders#STEM*#EduVC#HigherEd#EdReform Others to Eye #OpenBlend#OER#JiJimath#mathchat*#scichat*#STEMwire#eInstruct#Cworks#CommonCore#CCCSS#FlippedClassroom#FlipClass#innovation#IOLchat#EdEquality#CharterSchools#ntchat*#mlearning*#elearning*#engchat*#LRNchat*#education*#teacher#edu What hashtags are you following in the education space? Social Media's Slow Slog Into the Ivory Towers of Academia - Josh Sternberg - Technology Underpinning a disdain for social media in higher education is the assumption that incoming students have an inherent aptitude for new technologies "If you took a soldier from a thousand years ago and put them on a battlefield, they'd be dead," Howard Rheingold, a professor teaching virtual community and social media at Stanford University, told me one morning via Skype. "If you took a doctor from a thousand years ago and put them in a modern surgical theater, they would have no idea what to do. Terms like "digital native" and "digital immigrant" have been used by marketers as a way of differentiating generations. This tale is not new. For the last several years, teaching social media has been reactionary, found either in non-matriculated night classes for the working professional or in business schools for the budding marketer to learn and hone his or her online and social marketing skills. But as social interactions and technologies mature, there has been a swing in the pendulum.
Favorite Tweets of 2011 I would like to take a moment to thank all of the outstanding educators who are part of my PLN and invest in making me better each and every day. The 10 people who influence me the most and on a daily basis...... I have never met! As this year comes to a close, I wanted to take a moment to share my 5 favorite tweets of 2011 and a brief explanation as to why. Mary Beth Hertz offers some important advice when she tweeted, "Be patient but relentless in helping colleagues build connections!" Tom Whitby shares some meaningful advice in his blog, My Island View, in which he defines What's A Connected Educator? I could not agree more with Nancy and her straightforward tweet about technology integration. Thank you David for sharing this outstanding quote. Wow! "It's about your kids' future, not yours! There is nothing like a tweet that speaks the indisputable truth.