Student’s Blog Challenge Traditional Press

Dwayne Harapnuik —  January 14, 2010 — Leave a comment
http://chronicle.com/article/Extra-News-Blogs-by-Students/63474/?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en

Extra! News Blogs by Students Grab Eyeballs – Technology – The Chronicle of Higher Education via kwout

It is very refreshing to see a group of young impassioned students utilizing technology to not only challenge the established media outlets but also be reported on by those outlets. The Chronicle of Higher Learning article Scooped! Student News Blogs Challenge College Papers for Big Publication on Campus points to a group of 20 Penn State students who are using a Blog to report on the news on campus and also to challenge the existing college news paper that employs 200 student journalists. The lessons learned by this group will be extremely valuable. Lets hope the institution learns from this experience as well.

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ISTE Top 10 Edtech Priorties for 2010

Dwayne Harapnuik —  January 14, 2010 — 1 Comment

It is the season for all sorts of predictions for the upcoming year. The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) offers the following:

  1. Establishing technology “as the backbone of school improvement” for student learning, professional development, and administration;
  2. Integrating technology to prepare students for careers and keep students engaged;
  3. Increasing federal funding support for technology through Enhancing Education Through Technology (EETT);
  4. Keeping educators up to date on the latest technologies to help them be more effective in their teaching environments;
  5. Increasing support for pre-service education technology programs to help produce more technologically adept teachers;
  6. Using technology to “scale improvement” and “accelerate reform”;
  7. Ensuring universal access to broadband services, which ISTE described as “critical so that students and parents have access to school assignments, grades, announcements and resources”;
  8. Developing systems and strategies that will help educators use assessment data to improve student learning;
  9. Investing in research and development focused on “innovation in teaching and learning”; and
  10. Promoting “global digital citizenship” through technology-based, cross-border collaboration.

ISTE’s complete “Top Ten in ’10” with explanations.

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Horizon Report 2010 Preview

Dwayne Harapnuik —  January 13, 2010 — Leave a comment

The pre-release of the 2010 Horizon report is now available and ACU has two mentions in the prestigious report that looks to that identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, or creative inquiry on college and university campuses within the next five years.

This years report points to the following predictions:

Time-to-adoption: one Year or Less

  • Mobile Computing
  • Open Content

Time-to-adoption: Two to Three Years

  • Electronic Books
  • Simple Augmented Reality

Time-to-adoption: four to five Years

  • Gesture-Based Computing
  • Visual Data Analysis

While these predictions are interesting in themselves almost all except for the Visual Data Analysis all are somewhat or totally dependent on Mobile Learning.

More to come…

The full report will be released by the end of January.

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I Need My Teachers to Learn

Dwayne Harapnuik —  January 13, 2010 — Leave a comment

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Prepare them for the future and not your past…

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Innovation Starts with a Focus on Creativity

Dwayne Harapnuik —  January 12, 2010 — Leave a comment

In the book Out Of Our Minds, Ken Robinson makes and thoroughly supports the argument that creativity, and the subsequent innovation that is spawns, is fundamentally hindered by our educational system.  Robinson refers to septic focus of education and the fundamental problem and develops the following four points to effectively support this position:

  1. For historical reasons, education is preoccupied with academic ability. This is based on the deep seated assumptions in Western culture about intelligence.
  2. Academic ability promotes particular forms of intellectual activity. They are important, but they are very far from being the whole of human intelligence.
  3. The results have been beneficial in many areas and disastrous in many others. There is a tragic narrowing of intelligence, divisions between arts and sciences, and a profound waste of creative capacity. Very many people leave education never realizing their real intellectual capacities.
  4. In the new world economies, this waste of human resources is potentially disastrous. The abilities that are now most needed are being left to waste despite the massive expansion of education and the pressure to raise standards. Organizations and communities are paying the price.

Robinson isn’t just critical of the system–he provides many worthy recommendations. Most of these recommendations take into account the following three priorities:

Identifying – providing systemically for the identification and development of creative strengths and abilities of all individuals in the organization.

Facilitating – providing for the conditions with the organization as a whole through which creative processes are actively supported and encouraged.

Employing – harnessing creative outcomes to the core objectives of the organization.

Clearly, we have a long way to go.

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