learning styles
categories: learning, learning styles
learning styles and study tips
http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2014/10/new-interesting-visual-on-learning.html
Author Archive
social media management
categories: social media
A day in the life of a social media manager: How to spend your time on social media
http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2014/09/28/day-life-social-media-manager-spend-time-social-media/
Coffee (the App)
categories: LinkedIn, social media
Looking for a job or internship? Try Coffee
Coffee (the App) Is the Love Child of Tinder and LinkedIn
http://contently.com/strategist/2014/09/29/coffeetheapp-is-the-lovechild-of-tinder-and-linkedin/
the idea that it would be useful to build an app with a similar interface to Tinder, but one that was dedicated to networking instead of hooking up.
smart creative
categories: Google +
The Google Formula for Success
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/28/the-google-formula-for-success/
Yet today, the authors insist, fast decision-making and flat organizational models have to become a corporate way of life.
The critical ingredient, they argue in their new book, is to build teams, companies and corporate cultures around people they call “smart creatives.” These are digital-age descendants of yesterday’s “knowledge workers,” a term coined in 1959 by Peter Drucker, the famed management theorist.
Smart creatives, the authors write, are impatient, outspoken risk-takers who are easily bored and change jobs frequently. They are intellectually versatile, typically “combining technical depth with business savvy and creative flair,” the authors note.
Teaching Memes
categories: teaching
12 Completely Genius Teaching Memes
http://www.takepart.com/photos/funny-memes-teachers-education/next-gallery
My fav:
Effective Feedback and Clarity
Motivating Students With Effective Feedback and Clarity
Questions Guiding Effective Feedback
(1) What is my goal?
(2) Where am I presently in relationship to my goal?
(3) What next steps do I need to take in order to reach my goal?
Prioritize Learning When Using Technology
categories: learning, technology
8 Ways to Prioritize Learning When Using Technology in the Classroom
“Use technology to nudge students away from looking for confirmation for what they already know. Instead, challenge them — encourage risk and confusion that can’t be solved with a few clicks. Find learning technologies that identify and push against a student’s cognitive gap, that space between what a student knows and doesn’t know.
‘Anti-Facebook’ platform
categories: Facebook, social media
Ello
‘Anti-Facebook’ platform Ello attracts thousands
Ello’s manifesto says it won’t track your info and send it to advertisers. If you don’t say you agree, it sends you to Facebook.
disruptive technologies: from swarming to mesh networking
How Hong Kong Protesters Are Connecting, Without Cell Or Wi-Fi Networks
messaging one another through a network that doesn’t require cell towers or Wi-Fi nodes. They’re using an app called FireChat that launched in March and is underpinned by mesh networking, which lets phones unite to form a temporary Internet.
My note: seems that civil disobedience provides excellent innovations in using technology; examples are-
- the 1999 World Trade Organization Protests in Seattle, where the “swarming” idea was implemented and later transformed by Bryan Alexander into “swarming for education” (http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/going-nomadic-mobile-learning-higher-education) and depicted on this blog in September 2013
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/tag/bryan-alexander/
to be continued by Britt in Learning Swarms? (http://bwatwood.edublogs.org/2010/08/05/learning-swarms/) and Howard Rheingold in his interview with Bryn Alexander in 2004 (http://www.thefeaturearchives.com/topic/Culture/M-Learning_4_Generation_Txt_.html and as Howard calls it “moblogging” and lately is becoming finally popular (at least in K12 if not in higher ed) as “backchanneling.” - In a very similar scenario as the 1999 Seattle unrest, people in Venezuela (#venezuelalibre – Zello) and Ukraine (Ukrainian roots shine through at WhatsApp) are turning to mobile apps to organize themselves and defy governments blocking of traditional social media (Protesters in Venezuela, Ukraine turn to peer-to … – CNN.com)The ideas using Zello and WhatsApp in education poured in:A WhatsApp for education?, How to use Whatsapp Chat Messenger for Education
Mesh networking is still only an IT term. Internet and dbase search has no returns on mesh networking as a tool for education and/or civil disobedience. Will it be the continuation of moblogging, backchanneling and swarming?
related IMS blog post: https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2014/09/19/mobile-elearning/
Wearable technologies
categories: announcement
Wearable technologies survey – win an iPad Mini
You are invited to participate in a study of the current and potential applications of wearable technologies such as Google Glasses in Higher Education. If you choose to participate you will be asked to complete a confidential online survey that explores your knowledge and beliefs surrounding the educational applications of wearable technologies. The questionnaire contains a combination of short answer and Likert-scale questions, including background information about yourself and your teaching career/experience, your perceptions of wearable technologies, your ideas about use cases and potential avenues of future research.
The survey should take approximately 10 to 15 minutes to complete. You are in no way obliged to take part in this survey, but if you do you can go into a draw to win an iPad mini.
If you are interested or would like more information please follow the link below.
https://mqedu.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_cwsQOzPjSo4zAep
Many thanks to those who participate and if you have any colleagues who would be interested in this study then please forward this email on to them.
Best wishes,
Matt
Dr Matt Bower
School of Education
Rm C5A927 Macquarie University
NSW 2109 Australia
T: +61 2 98508626