E-Learning-Inclusivo (Mashup)

Make content creation easier (and more fun) with these 35 free tools and resources from Lindsay Kolowich at HubSpot. I thought I knew all the tools but she's updated the list and you'll find several social media tools you didn't know before. Christmas comes early. Highly recommended! 11/10. ;-)

Make content creation easier (and more fun) with these 35 free tools and resources from Lindsay Kolowich at HubSpot. I thought I knew all the tools but she's updated the list and you'll find several social media tools you didn't know before. Christmas comes early. Highly recommended! 11/10. ;-)

I use several of these tools regularly, and can recommend every one of them. I suspect I'll be investigating some of the visual/design options heading into the new year. Use this list to expand your reach in 2017!

Creativity and innovation are the lifeblood of every organization. This poster describes 13 ways that creativity and innovation are destroyed every day.

Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren:

- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?tag=innovation

- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=Creativity

- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?tag=Sir+Ken+Robinson

- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?tag=Frank+SONNENBERG

Creativity and innovation are the lifeblood of every organization. This poster describes 13 ways that creativity and innovation are destroyed every day.

Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren:

- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?tag=innovation

- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=Creativity

- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?tag=Sir+Ken+Robinson

- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?tag=Frank+SONNENBERG

Apprendre gratuitement les rudiments du code à des enfants de 9 à 12 ans, mais aussi développer leur esprit critique et leur goût de l’informatique, tels sont les objectifs du Code Club Luxembourg. Animé par l’énergie d’une brochette de bénévoles, il accueillera ce mercredi 11 novembre Francine Closener, intéressée par le concept.

En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren / Learn more:

https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2014/08/24/coding-a-new-trend-in-education-and-a-big-responsibility/

Cover-to-cover reading begins with brilliant cover designs. 50 inspiring examp!es of creativity and highly recommended viewing. 10/10

Cover-to-cover reading begins with brilliant cover designs. 50 inspiring examp!es of creativity and highly recommended viewing. 10/10

Cover-to-cover reading begins with brilliant cover designs. 50 inspiring examp!es of creativity and highly recommended viewing. 10/10

Mmmm, free design tools

Check this out 9 very easy tool to help you make great designs ... 

Great new tools you should know about ...

Un « makerspace » est un lieu de découverte mais surtout de création où les jeunes pourront créer leurs propres outils digitaux. Durant l’année scolaire 2015/16, trois « makerspace » verront le jour au Luxembourg.

Learn more:

- https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2014/08/20/maker-space-a-new-trend-in-education-and-a-big-responsibility/

- https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2014/08/24/coding-a-new-trend-in-education-and-a-big-responsibility/

Un « makerspace » est un lieu de découverte mais surtout de création où les jeunes pourront créer leurs propres outils digitaux. Durant l’année scolaire 2015/16, trois « makerspace » verront le jour au Luxembourg.

Learn more:

- https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2014/08/20/maker-space-a-new-trend-in-education-and-a-big-responsibility/

- https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2014/08/24/coding-a-new-trend-in-education-and-a-big-responsibility/

Article très intéressant qui expose la thèse de Ken Robinson auteur de l'ouvrage paru en 2006 : "Do schools kill creativity?", qui s'insurge contre la standardisation des méthodes d'évaluation au détriment du développement de la créativité des élèves. D'après lui, les changements doivent venir de l'intérieur...

# ! Wonder if Queen Anne did expect all this mess
# ! around Her 1710 sanctioned Statute...

# ! ... as in its original aim
# ! to Promote 'The Progress of Science  and Useful Arts'
# ! so in software... an else....

(# ! It's Time to review, isn't it?)

Satish Kumar. "Augmented reality in education". 

La realidad aumentada puede ser una buena vía para aumentar la atención de los estudiantes en las aulas. La RA puede mejorar el compromiso emocional del alumno, su retención de conocimiento e inspirar pensamientos divergentes. Además, puede ayudar a construir la curiosidad del estudiante, hacer que el aprendizaje sea divertido, permitirnos llevar al profesor a casa (no en sentido literal, mediante códigos QR o videoconferencias, por ejemplo) y también fomentar la participación de los padres. Este artículo supone una lectura imprescindible para toda la comunidad educativa: profesores, padres y alumnos.

La creatividad es un componente esencial en el proceso de aprendizaje y logro de las competencias exigidas en el siglo XXI. La infografía de Gust MEES presenta 12 beneficios de la creatividad.

Creativity now is as important in education as literacy and we should treat it with the same status." - Sir Ken Robinson

Sketchnote by @sylviaduckworth

Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren:

http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=Creativity

https://gustmees.wordpress.com/?s=creativity

Creativity now is as important in education as literacy and we should treat it with the same status." - Sir Ken Robinson

Sketchnote by @sylviaduckworth

Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren:

http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=Creativity

https://gustmees.wordpress.com/?s=creativity

This sums it up nicely.

very interesting!

wow........

This seems like such a more humane way to see students and the educational process!

He is correct, schools are not factories that create duplicate models of a prototype.  Schools are also not a business, where the latest organizational model makes the system effective.  Schools are more like a community, where everyone works together to accomplish the goals developed collaboratively by all stakeholders in the community.  Notice that state and federal politicians are not in the community.

Waar je allemaal niet komt met boerenverstand.

This is a great infographic to share in the classroom or hang on the fridge as a daily reminder of what you can do to unlock your creativity.  

Par @dougpete | A collection of images creatively made by Sylvia Duckworth

Learn more:

- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?tag=Sketchnoting

- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?tag=Creativity

This is a lengthy article detailing the relationship between 21st century skills and the adoption of technology as a way to promote growth in those skill areas. If you are here, you might find this very much "preaching to the choir," but the article provides a solid basis for understanding the need to integrate technology into education.

SO TRUE

The World Economic Forum has published a new white paper called New Vision for Education: Unlocking the Potential of Technology; the link for the full report is included at the end of this article.  The World Economic Forum is a not-for-profit international institution headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.  Although the focus of this report is worldwide, the gaps in identified twenty-first century skills are very applicable to schools in the USA.  In a powerful statement, the report says: “By the time students enter college and the labour market, deficiencies that have not been addressed earlier can be far more difficult and costly to remedy.” (p 8-9).

The report differentiates 21st century skills among foundational literacies, competencies, and character qualities. It sees foundational skills as what schools and systems traditionally teach and measure: literacy, numeracy, scientific literacy, instructional-communication technology literacy, financial literacy, and cultural and civic literacy.  Competencies sited include critical thinking/problem solving, creativity, communication and collaboration. While curiosity, initiative, persistence/grit, adaptability, leadership, and social and cultural awareness are included in a category called character qualities.  Appendix 1 includes definitions of 21st century skills.

The instructional cycle is referred to as a “closed loop” in this report. Beginning with clear learning objectives through the development of curriculum and instructional strategies to instructional delivery, ongoing assessment, interventions and the tracking of learning outcomes in a repeating complex system.  The report looks at ways that technology can be embedded into each step of the instructional loop to improve student learning outcomes and eliminate the skill gap, providing some resources that might be used at different phases of the cycle.

The report cites differences in the use of technology tools to close the skill gap, looking at different income levels among countries which create different contexts and stating that there are fundamental social and economic problems, such as poverty, that impede learning and underlie the skills gap. Although the deficiencies in many undeveloped countries far surpass those found in the United States, it is my perspective that there are different contexts within the United States itself that must be acknowledged and addressed.

The importance of creativity, problem solving and innovation to the economic well-being of our nation and therefore, the employability of our workforce cannot be stressed enough. The pressure of standardized testing can lead to a standardized curriculum and instruction model that does not allow  the classroom time for these skills to develop. Teachers caught in this dilemma are often driven to insure success on state tests at the cost of providing time for experimentation, reflection, and collaborative feedback. The report does suggest using technology for some of the foundational skills in order to free teacher time to provide instruction on competency and character skills.

In two of the examples from low income countries, technology was used to provide scripted lessons that were created centrally  to under-trained teachers. My preference would be to  more fully train teachers or provide a mentor/coach rather than a “turn the page” curriculum model.

One of the tenants of the article is the need to define and find a metric to assess each of these 21st century skills in order to compare countries skill level. Although I agree with the need to define the skills needed and provide training and resources to teachers so these skills can be embedded into the curriculum and instruction, the idea of an assessment to measure creativity or persistence fills me with dread. Paul Torrance developed a well-used test for creativity used to screen students for school gifted and talented programs.  It is not a test that can be administered and interpreted without training. The idea of administering a standardized test which by definition is convergent in thinking to measure a thinking skill that is divergent by definition seems inappropriate and a major shortcoming of this report.