•
With editing stations on laptops and video cameras everywhere, students and teachers have become moviemakers. Making and watching movies is fun and engaging. Yet, not every piece of video will be worth sharing beyond those who made it. At the same time, there will be those gems, the videos that perfectly capture a concept, a moment, or an emotion that deserve to be shared beyond the classroom door.
Steve Springett, Vice President of Technology & Engineering at New Dimension Media sees the future of learning as incorporating existing learning assets with those generated in the classroom–on a smart board, video, audio or other sources, into new learning materials. Students and teacher learn by the process of assembling the media and make it available to other classrooms in their community.
Read more »
•
When I hear educators talking about Web 2.0 in the classroom, I keep hearing about 2 particular applications: Wikispaces and VoiceThread. We’ve already shared Adam Frey’s thinking about the future of education. Next up is Ben Papell, one of the founders of VoiceThread, who I met on the exhibit floor at NECC 2008. As you might imagine, he echos earlier comments about breaking down walls and fostering collaboration.
Read more »
•
I stopped Adam Frey on the show floor at NECC and asked him what the future of learning looks like. Adam doesn’t make a distinction between the student and the teacher in his answer. Instead he focuses on “enthusiasm”.
Adam is one of the founders of Wikispaces and we spoke on a panel about education at Office 2.0 last year. He sees that enthusiasm of online spaces and online collaboration everyday at wikispaces where teachers, students, and all kinds of regular folks create collaborative online spaces to work together. If you’re not ready to wiki’s in your classroom, why not start one for a family event or to plan your next vacation? Read more »
•
Speaking of ambitious teaching and learning, I was really impressed by Kerrie Guston, an elementary school teacher from Magnolia, Texas.
During the Classroom 2.0 Birds of a Feather session, she described her “Share Your Community” project at Gustinspace. Elementary students from Magnolia, Texas, and Perth, Australia share their community through a wiki moderated and maintained by Kerrie.
Read more »
•
Last week at NECC, I brought my new flip camera and asked people I met “what does the future of learning look like.” I’ll be sharing the answers here through out the summer. Enjoy!
Lucy Gray, lead technology coach at the Center for Urban School Improvement at the University of Chicago, joined me on Steve Hargadon’s panel Classroom 2.0: Exploring the Potential of Web 2.0. Lucy and I went to Beloit College together many years ago (hooray for a liberal arts education!), and reconnected at NECC several years ago. She is an Apple Distinguished Educator and passionate about global education. She started the Global Education Collaborative, a social networking site to help students and teachers reach the world.
Read more »
Steve Springett, Vice President of Technology & Engineering at New Dimension Media sees the future of learning as incorporating existing learning assets with those generated in the classroom–on a smart board, video, audio or other sources, into new learning materials. Students and teacher learn by the process of assembling the media and make it available to other classrooms in their community.
