By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Innovation in Your Classroom
European Schoolnet, 2015/10/02
This is less a report and more a list of activities and resources available to teachers in Europe to foster innovation in their classrooms. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. MOOCs: A Toolbox for Course Designers?
Jim Shimabukuro, educational technology & change, 2015/10/02
This makes me happy: "The most significant breakthrough is anywhere-anytime learning, which automatically eliminates the space and time barriers that traditional classrooms represent. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Receive Files into Your Google Drive, Dropbox, or OneDrive
Tony Vincent, Learning in Hand, 2015/10/02
I've used this service before and will probably use it again. In a nutshell, it enables you to create a place where people can send files to our cloud storage accounts (like, say, Dropbox) without having to give out credentials to your cloud storage account. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. New reforms threaten future of Japanese language study in England
William Hollingworth, Japan Times, 2015/09/30
Another good reason why you should not subcontract hyour education system to a commercial publisher: "From 2017, education firm Pearson is planning to scrap A and A-S levels in Japanese". More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Are School Internet Filters the Forgotten Equity Battleground?
Katrina Schwartz, Mind/Shift, 2015/09/30
I haven't written about school internet filters for a long time. They've become generally background, standard, and annoying. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Why GE had to kill its annual performance reviews after more than three decades
Max Nisen, Quartz, 2015/09/30
If performance reviews and grading by the curve are becoming a thing of the past at the auto plant, can they last long in schools and colleges? "'Command and control is what Jack was famous for. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. A Terrific and Dismal View of What Influences CS Faculty to Adopt Teaching Practices
Mark Guzdial, Computing Education Blog, 2015/09/30
According to the study summarized here (but paywalled, so we can't evaluate it for ourselves), the major variable determining whether computer science teachers use a new pedagogical too is "whether students liked it". More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Here are the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2015
Jane Hart, http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/blog/, 2015/09/30
Jane Hart routinely surveys educational technologists to find their favoured toolss. This is the list for 2015 (or, at least, this version of the list for 2015). More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Hate Unicorns and the Culture They Breed
Mark Suster, 2015/09/29
I can't even print the title of this item without a language warning, so skip past this one if you dislike obscenity (I'll never understand why a certain type of writer thinks it's ok to offend a large segment of the world's readership). More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The cult of the dead at the ossuary of Santa Maria delle Anime del Purgatorio ad Arco
Strange Remains, 2015/09/29
This has nothing to do with ed tech, but EMMA's Ruth Kerr led me to the secret underground church and ossuary here in Naples filled with skulls and bones that had been fostered by a dozen or so rich noblemen in the 16th century and 'adopted' by people hoping to earn favour by helping them through purgatory. More...
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