Last month, I wrote about educator David Christian’s TED talk for GeekDad. Earlier this week, the video of this talk was released.
Technology vs. Education
Data from a Speak Up survey last fall shows a gap between what students and parents expect for technology use in eduction, and the school administrative policies that restrict such use.
TED-ucation
One perk from planning TEDx Bloomington was a live stream from Day Two of the TED 2011 conference in California. Among the two sessions I watched, Salman Khan shined brightest.
World of Codecraft
My first programming class had some difficulties. Inspired by Lee Sheldon’s experiment in early 2010, I am now trying to apply multiplayer game dynamics on the course plan to teach Processing to undergraduates.
Future Education
An interactive map, commissioned by the KnowledgeWorks Foundation, itemizing the factors that are likely to influence public education in the next decade. It is divided into five elements—a two-dimensional space listing Drivers and Impact Areas, and the factors classified as trends, hot spots and dilemmas.
Co-Creating Education
There is a disconnection between goals for the learning environment and implementation. Everyone wants the classroom to be a place where students are engaged. Jerome Bruner once argued that we should create an atmosphere where students can “experience success and failure not as reward and punishment, but as information.” As theorist and feminist Nel Noddings put it: “There should be no penalty for getting things wrong.” Yet every grade inherently does just that.