למידה, אינטרנט ... ומה שביניהם

זה עדיין נראה כמו שאתם זוכרים את זה

מה שאתה רואה זה במידה מאד רבה למידה מסורתית רק שבמקום לוח וגיר, הם עובדים עם מחשב.

אז מה ההבדל בין השיעור המתוקשב שעולה מאות אלפי שקלים לבין סתם שיעור רגיל שבו נשלחים הילדים לספריה לחפש מידע? אין הבדל וזאת כל הבעיה.

מאתיים שנה עברו מאז הומצאה הכיתה ולא הרבה השתנה בה: לוח, מורה, הרצאה פרונטלית, מבחן

לא מפתיע לגלות שאף שהנתונים הסטטיסטיים מצביעים על עלייה בהישגי התלמידים, בתי ספר רבים דוחים בנימוס את ההצעה לקורס הכשרה.

האיש שהצליח לייצר את המהפכה שלה כולם מחכים.

מיזמים שמפנים מקום בבתי הספר למה שחשוב באמת

לעיסה אחידה שחונקת יצירתיות ומטפחת שינון במקום חקירה ולימוד

Beginning in March, HarvardX for Alumni will offer versions of seven Harvard MOOCs exclusively to graduates of the university. The courses will not be full-length MOOCs but “segments” that include some new material developed specially for graduates, according to Michael Rutter, a spokesman. Some professors might even travel to talk about the material at Harvard Clubs in different cities, Mr. Rutter said.

Expand access to education for everyone

Nothing has more potential to lift more people out of poverty — by providing them an affordable education to get a job or improve in the job they have. Nothing has more potential to unlock a billion more brains to solve the world’s biggest problems. And nothing has more potential to enable us to reimagine higher education than the massive open online course, or MOOC, platforms that are being developed by the likes of Stanford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and companies like Coursera and Udacity.

One of the most convincing arguments for using tablets in the classroom is the possibility for students to then take that learning outside of the classroom – they can use the digital materials they are familiar with from class on their own devices at home.

This is Why We Need Tablets? Really?

Wow.

It is important to remember that fundamentally tablets are simply another tool to assist language learning.

Teachers would probably give the same consideration to classroom organisation if students had no access to technology, but the implementation of tablets is an opportunity to reconsider what works best. As the students become familiar with working straight on to the tablet, class time can be organized differently.

It is no coincidence that that the increase in tablets in education has led to an increase in project-based learning

As I read the materials in different modules of the online training, it dawned on me that the way that technologies such as computers, smart boards, tablets, and apps are integrated into the teaching and learning process without any research done to determine their impact on student learning should be considered unethical.

When it comes to technology integration, no testing or research is done upfront to determine if they help students learn. Such products are typically purchased by schools and used in classrooms before educators start conducting research to determine if they are effective. This is akin to providing treatment using drugs whose effects have not yet been studied. Both are unethical. Not to mention the millions of dollars that are spent every year by schools to acquire these technologies, just so the leaders of these schools can claim that their schools are on the “cutting edge.”

But, then, I think of the many instructional practices that have been used for centuries such as textbooks, worksheets, blackboards, and homework that underwent no tests then or now.

טכנולוגיה היא כל דבר שלא היה בנמצא כשנולדת

The blog is dead, long live the blog

But the function of the blog, the nebulous informational task we all agreed the blog was fulfilling for the past decade, is increasingly being handled by a growing number of disparate media forms that are blog-like but also decidedly not blogs.

Instead of blogging, people are posting to Tumblr, tweeting, pinning things to their board, posting to Reddit, Snapchatting, updating Facebook statuses, Instagramming, and publishing on Medium.

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The primary mode for the distribution of links has moved from the loosely connected network of blogs to tightly integrated services like Facebook and Twitter.

The beauty of the independent web is that we can choose to represent ourselves online - and therefore, publish content - in a manner of our choosing. I happen to like the reverse-chronological feed, but if you prefer to publish in the form of an immersive 3D world, or a radio show, or full-screen autoplaying video with annotations, then, hey, that's up to you. It's all part of a rich, interlinking medium. Independence means not necessarily going with the flow.

Blogging was and still is, an act of sharing; it is about having a point of view and most importantly, having a connection.

Later as people realised that blogging was not just about choosing a peppy website name, a snazzy visual theme and cool widgets; and that you actually had to write good, interesting content, most people gave up. The blogging fad died, slowly and painfully, exactly because people realised that blogging was about writing — and that it demanded hard work, lots of thought, sometimes multiple edits, just like ‘real’ writing. Most people who had jumped on the blog bandwagon were simply not prepared to do this work. It is much easier to follow on Twitter, ‘like’ on Facebook, reshare on Google+, than it is to create and write interesting content yourself. We have become passive followers rather than active creators.

Some bloggers posted without engaging, but the prototypical blogger treated a post as one statement in a continuing conversation. That often made the tone more conversational and lowered the demand that one present the final word on some topic.

My Blog, My Outboard Brain

Blogging gave my knowledge-grazing direction and reward. Writing a blog entry about a useful and/or interesting subject forces me to extract the salient features of the link into a two- or three-sentence elevator pitch to my readers, whose decision to follow a link is predicated on my ability to convey its interestingness to them. This exercise fixes the subjects in my head the same way that taking notes at a lecture does, putting them in reliable and easily-accessible mental registers.