Horizon - The New Media Consortium The NMC Horizon Project is a global ongoing research initiative that explores the trends, challenges, and technology developments likely to have an impact on teaching, learning, and creative inquiry. Founded in 2002, it uniquely provides a cross-sector view of disruptors in higher education, K-12, academic & research libraries, and museums, with NMC Horizon Report editions that focus on each. Subsequent virtual events in the NMC Beyond the Horizon series delve deeper into the subject matter, offering opportunities for participants to collaborate on devising strategies that solve pressing challenges and create better experiences for learners. Anyone with a stake in making teaching and learning more engaging, inclusive, and relevant can improve their knowledge and enhance their leadership via NMC Horizon Project resources. Each publication is published with an open license to promote sharing, remixing, and adapting. Get Involved:
Maker Movement.pdf LaBuonaScuola in 12 points 1. No more fixed-term contracts An extraordinary recruitment plan to hire 150 thousand teachers by September 2015, putting an immediate stop to the current .waiting list. system. 2. From 2016, only qualified teachers 40 thousand qualified young new teachers will be hired between 2016 and 2019. 3. The extraordinary recruitment plan will provide schools with a stable staff of teacher to cover vacant positions and leaves, ensuring the continuity in teaching that students deserve, and extending teaching hours to full-time. 4. Career shifts: from automatic pay rises connected to the length of service to quality. 5. Professional development schemes, mandatory and based on peer collaboration. 6. From 2015, each school will publish its budget, a Self-Evaluation Report and all funded projects in details in open-data. 7. We will identify the 100 most burdensome rules for schools together with principals, teachers, administrative staff and students. 8. 9. 10. 11. .School-at-work. 12.
The Future Of Education Eliminates The Classroom, Because The World Is Your Class This probably sounds familiar: You are with a group of friends arguing about some piece of trivia or historical fact. Someone says, "Wait, let me look this up on Wikipedia," and proceeds to read the information out loud to the whole group, thus resolving the argument. Don’t dismiss this as a trivial occasion. It represents a learning moment, or more precisely, a microlearning moment, and it foreshadows a much larger transformation—to what I call socialstructed learning. Socialstructed learning is an aggregation of microlearning experiences drawn from a rich ecology of content and driven not by grades but by social and intrinsic rewards. The microlearning moment may last a few minutes, hours, or days (if you are absorbed in reading something, tinkering with something, or listening to something from which you just can’t walk away). Think of a simple augmented reality app on your iPhone such as Yelp Monocle.
Deloitte Reimagining Higher Education Astronauts getting 3-D printer at International Space Station Now Playing NASA awards 'space taxi' contract to Boeing and SpaceX CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The 3-D printing boom is about to invade space. NASA is sending a 3-D printer to the International Space Station in hopes that astronauts will be able to one day fix their spacecraft by cranking out spare parts on the spot. The printer, made by a Northern California company called Made in Space, is among more than 5,000 pounds of space station cargo that's stuffed into a SpaceX Dragon capsule that was supposed to lift off before dawn Saturday. Rainy weather forced SpaceX to delay the launch until Sunday. Besides real-time replacement parts at the station, NASA envisions astronauts, in the decades ahead, making entire habitats at faraway destinations like Mars. "If we're really going to set up shop on Mars," we have to do this, Jeff Sheehy, NASA's senior technologist, said Friday. At Kennedy Space Center, the company showed off a number of objects made by its 3-D printers.
Education and Training Monitor What is it? The Education and Training Monitor is an annual series that captures the evolution of Europe's education and training systems by bringing together a wide array of evidence in one digestible report. The Education and Training Monitor 2015 puts the spotlight on education priorities most in need of investment and identifies policies that help improve the inclusiveness, quality and relevance of Europe's education and training systems. Why is it needed? Since 2012 the Education and Training Monitor has grown into an indispensable reference tool for the European education community, keeping track of priorities under the ET 2020 cooperation framework , and contributing to the broader Europe 2020 strategy with its headline target for education The report will be one of the main sources underpinning the Commission's analysis of education challenges and policy developments in the 2016 European Semester. What has been done so far? (3.91 Mb) . (251 kB) (3.75 Mb) (CRELL).
Documentary 'Print the Legend' Goes Inside the World of 3D Printing The genesis of and challenges to the 3D-printing revolution are subjects that take center stage in a new documentary called Print the Legend. From directors Clay Tweel and Luis Lopez (Freakonomics), the film sets out to act as a "'time capsule' of a nascent industry," Tweel told Mashable. "The result is both a look inside a compelling new technology, and hopefully, a story about the challenges of growing any type of business, and facing the moral dilemmas our marketplace presents." That it is. Tweel said he knew "nothing" about 3D printing when he walked into the doors of MakerBot nearly two years ago, but working behind the scenes has taught him much about the industry. Print the Legend is now in theaters across New York and Los Angeles, and is also available on Netflix. BONUS: What Is 3D Printing and How Does It Work? Have something to add to this story?
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