We all know about Khan’s Academy. Its founder, Salman Khan, gave the interview to the The Chronicle and talked about his vision for the future, and what he thinks the college of tomorrow should look like. Read more here.
Monthly Archives: March 2016
Microsoft suspends AI robot that talked like, learned from millennials
Microsoft released an artificial intelligence robot Thursday that was intended to speak like and learn from millennials. The robot’s use was suspended, however, when, after less than 24 hours, some users sought to abuse its commenting function. More here.
Typing will be replaced with…
Typing will soon become a thing of the past.
That was the prediction debated by a group of speakers the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
New technology is here to replace that tip-tap sound of typing echoing throughout your office and home, as well as buttons, knobs and other user interfaces. What will it look like? Mostly like two technologies we’re already familiar with: Siri and Kinect.
That is, voice and gesture recognition. More here.
Report: Using Ed Tech to Boost Development of Social-Emotional Learning Skills
“Educational technology can help students develop social and emotional learning skills such as collaboration, communication and problem solving, which are critical factors for success in the 21st century job market, according to a new report from the World Economic Forum, prepared in collaboration with The Boston Consulting Group”. Full version of the report New Vision for Education: Fostering Social and Emotional Learning through Technology is available online.
ISTE Identifies 7 Traits of Digital Learners
They are:
- Empowered learner
- Digital citizen
- Knowledge curator
- Innovative designer
- Computational thinker
- Creator and communicator
- Global collaborator
See more here.
Adding annotations to video
As always, great tips from Free Technology for Teachers!
One of the suggested activities for flipped lesson is to have students submit videos to you that they locate, review, and annotate.
VideoANT allows annotations to any publicly accessible YouTube video (see how to reading his post and watching his video here ).
Vialogues is a free service that allows you to build online discussions around videos online or videos that you have saved on your computer (see how to here).
Student Learning Outcomes: A Primer
Might be useful to review and see the OLC perspective on the issue. Examples are quite helpful. The post also describes how programs and course learning outcomes can be constructed.
Free learning design kit
“St. Petersburg College and Smart Sparrow have partnered to launch the Learning Design Starter Kit, a free tool designed to help faculty create their own digital learning resources.
“Smart use of adaptive learning has to start with faculty-led planning and instructional design,” said Dawn Joyce, professor of communications at St. Petersburg College, in a prepared statement. “The Learning Design Starter Kit is an important resource because it gives faculty an opportunity to see how engaging adaptive learning technology is for students. Change is always intimidating, but the Learning Design Starter Kit helps faculty in this transitional phase by providing resources and support every step of the way.”
“With the toolkit, faculty will learn how to design online resources rooted in cutting-edge learning science, capture user data to evaluate student engagement, and create rich, interactive, and adaptive courseware,” according to a news release.
Features of the toolkit include:
- Resources on learning design;
- Adaptive lessons focused on planning and designing for each student;
- Case studies from faculty and instructional designers;
- The opportunity to create rich, adaptive and interactive courseware; and
- Other tools and support.”
Details about and access to the Learning Design Starter Kit is available here.
Marzano’s 13 best practices for teaching strategies and behaviors
Though a post about Marzano’s 13 best practices for teaching strategies and behaviors proven to increase student achievement is complied for secondary education, many of these practices are applicable for higher education as well. Who can argues with these:
- Communicating course/assignment rules and procedures
- Providing students with all materials needed to complete an assignment
- Clearly presenting the goal/objective for each assignment.
Get the rest together with the implementation tips and challenges here.
Educational Neuroscience
Educational Neuroscience (EDN) is a new open access, interdisciplinary peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original studies, commentaries and opinions, and reviews on cognitive neuroscience research that stands to inform and improve educational assessment, practice, and policy. To see its full text articles, please access here.