Posts Tagged ‘education’
What (not where) you learn
Posted by: ashleytan on: October 2, 2009
Chris Dawson asked “What if my kid went to Dawson’s School of Online Learning?” He was referring to the idea of “educational aggregators, taking the best available online content and helping students build degrees to fit their needs”.
This is not the usual face-to-face (F2F) versus e-or-online learning debate. That topic is passe. (Why? Blended is [...]
Schooling vs. learning
Posted by: ashleytan on: August 19, 2009
I like what Seth Godin had to say about the difference between schooling and learning.
School was the big thing for a long time. School is tests and credits and notetaking and meeting standards. Learning, on the other hand, is ‘getting it’. It’s the conceptual breakthrough that permits the student to understand it then move on [...]
Augmented reality
Posted by: ashleytan on: July 18, 2009
The first augmented reality (AR) on phone application I saw was Layar from the Netherlands.
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That was a month ago. Now someone else has created an application for the New York subway system.
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What might AR for education look like?
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Game design to revolutionise life?
Posted by: ashleytan on: May 26, 2009
I read an interesting feed from a Wired report about how someone designed a game around email. Unfortunately, the feed seems to have broken from the original article. Fortunately, someone archived it for all to see.
The problem? Email overload at work because people were sending out messages willy-nilly.
The game design solution? A communications professor at [...]
The rise of the netbook
Posted by: ashleytan on: May 2, 2009
Image source: http://asia.msi.com/index.php?func=proddesc&maincat_no=135&cat2_no=582&prod_no=1474
How can education ignore netbooks? From this Yahoo! Tech article:
Microsoft recognizes that it cannot afford to ignore the netbook niche, which is the only global PC market segment recording significant growth. According to iSuppli, global shipments rose by a staggering 2,424 percent in 2008 and are poised to grow an additional 68.5 percent [...]
Educational Web 2.0 in the news
Posted by: ashleytan on: April 7, 2009
Like last semester, I wondered if I should maintain this blog between semesters. Also like the last semester, I have decided to do so, but perhaps less frequently. I will probably tweet (microblog) more.
Yesterday I found two articles:
Web 2.0 Classrooms Versus Learning?
http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/3698/web-20-classrooms-versus-learning
Why “versus” in the title? In the context of that Chronicle piece, professors saw [...]
Tweet twits?
Posted by: ashleytan on: March 25, 2009
Twittering is stupid… but only if you answer Twitter’s question: What are you doing?
If that is all you do, then this YouTube video applies to you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN2HAroA12w
But if you use your noggin, you’ll first realise what the people behind the video are trying to say. You’ll also find, as I have, Twitter [...]
Sweet tweets
Posted by: ashleytan on: February 14, 2009
Tweets are sweet!
Using Twitter, I started following the thoughts of Tom Barrett, a teacher in Nottingham, England, after a recommendation from Mr Tweet.
From his tweets, I found a shared Google presentation on “18 Interesting Ways to Use Twitter in the Classroom“!
Web 2.0 and schools
Posted by: ashleytan on: February 9, 2009
Thanks to my reliance on RSS, I came across a good article titled, Web 2.0: What does the future hold for schools?
From the statistics that my blog provider collects, I realise that my readers rarely click on links I make available. So here’s are some of the best bits:
“Web 1.0 was largely a ‘push’ [...]
CNN article
Posted by: ashleytan on: January 20, 2009
I came across a CNN article titled “Web 2.0-savvy teachers testing old assumptions“. Ah, I thought, something that might finally inform the layman about the impact that Web 2.0 was having on mainstream education. But this was true to a limited extent.
The new practices included relying less on the lecture-based approach when podcasting, promoting online [...]
