למידה, אינטרנט ... ומה שביניהם

The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release

Fascinating: Schools are using brain science to guide edtech decisions

What happens when a school district uses the latest in brain science to inform its edtech purchasing decisions? Students become more engaged and test scores go up, according to school district officials who shared their experiences at a brain science conference.

Jody Woodrum, the former assistant superintendent of the Starkville-Oktibbeha Consolidated School District in Mississippi, described major boosts in reading scores after her district entered a partnership with another evidenced-based ed tech company, Scientific Learning.

a brain-based content-independent pedagogy to directly improve thinking abilities in 5-9 year old children. Combines computer presented brain exercises and physical exercises

The chair that started a classroom revolution.

If you're ready to create an active learning environment for your students, discover the chair that started it all.

I put together a PowerPoint presentation with some (hopefully) thought-provoking ideas. I was hoping by telling some of these "stories" to our faculty, I could get them thinking about - and discussing with each other - the world our students are entering. To get them to really think about what our students are going to need to be successful in the 21st century, and then how that might impact what they do in their classrooms.

In a word: everything. And nothing.

In 2006 U.S. public schools are “failing.” This was also true in 1996, 1986, 1976, 1966, 1956, 1946, 1936, 1926, 1916, and 1906. In 2016 U.S. public schools are still “failing.”

In 2006 I was asking about core values at my school. In 2016 I’m still asking about it.

יש הרבה קביעות ב-Shift Happens שטעונות בדיקה. אינני ממליץ לקבל את הכל כעובדה.

It's shown in schools all over the place, where headteachers and principals, who one would have thought could exercise enough critical judgement to recognise an emperor with no clothes, say how fantastic it is.

לשדר סרטוני ה-TED של קן רובינסון ושל Shift Happens לעתים קרובות כדי להראות שאתה מבין את השינויים שמתרחשים בעולם

The great thing about the web is the diversity it brought about. The mistake we've made, 25 years later, is being so distracted by money and the appearance of engagement that we have turned that wonderful diversity machine into a monoculture.

a miracle because of its simplicity and low-techness

The raw material of the monoculture are you and me. People. We don't make any money from our use of the web. It can be a tool for more working-together, problem-solving and love-making.

• חוויית למידה מאתגרת, מרגשת ומשמעותית שיעורר בהם תשוקה ללמידה.
• עידוד יצירתיות, חשיבה עצמית, חשיבה ביקורתית, ערך עצמי ו growth mindset - ההבנה שכל מה שירצו הם יוכלו ללמוד.
• שיתעוררו אצלם ערכים של למידה לאורך החיים
• וגם ערכים של כבוד הדדי, שיח, הקשבה ועבודה שיתופית הוגנת.
• אזרחות פעילה - שילדינו יבינו שהם חלק מעולם גדול, שיחושו איכפתיות לסביבה, איכפתיות לחברה ורצון להיות אזרחים תורמים ופעילים.
• שייצאו ממערכת החינוך מוכנים לחיים והאתגרים המטורפים שיעמדו בפניהם בעולם החדש שבו אנו חיים.

since classrooms are such a good idea, we should make them in a new way that allows people to be bored by the lecture at some other time and then have a discussion about a lecture they didn’t care about (and probably didn’t watch) in the first place.

This means we will do the crap we always did, but some of it will be online.

Learning needs technology to the extent that it can transform school-based ideas into the way we always learned before there was technology and school. But, silly me, I thought that all these people who work on learning would know better than to copy school and then think they can improve learning by adding technology and cute buzz words. I was wrong.

Seriously, can you imagine if a teacher said “my students looked at pictures of Verona through the View-Master and now they have a better understanding of Romeo and Juliet”? We’d scoff, wouldn’t we? Yet that’s precisely the crap I’m hearing about Google Cardboard.

Augmented reality has strong potential to provide both powerful contextual, in situ learning experiences and serendipitous exploration and discovery of the connected nature of information in the real world.

Augmented reality is an active, not a passive technology; students can use it to construct new understanding based on interactions with virtual objects that bring underlying data to life as it responds to user input.

The growing use of AR in education

AR can be used to give mini homework lessons, to put in common reviews or essays made by students, or for social content, such as an interactive photo wall.

The use of augmented reality in educational settings is a disruptive innovation that can deeply alter traditional methods, especially when applied to the primary school environment. An interaction with an iPAD and a recorded teaching session can help involve the child’s participation, as can be seen in this video.

מחקר: שימוש בטאבלטים משבש את שנת הלילה

בניסוי שנמשך כשבועיים, מספר מתנדבים התבקשו לקרוא מאייפד ארבע שעות לפני השינה במשך חמישה לילות ברציפות, בעוד שקבוצת הביקורת התבקשה לקרוא ספרים מודפסים עם אור עמום. לאחר שבוע, שתי הקבוצות החליפו ביניהן את מטלת הקריאה.

צוות המחקר מצא באלה שהשתמשו במכשירים האלקטרוניים רמות נמוכות של מלטונין - "הורמון החושך" שנוטה לגדול בערב וגורם לישנוניות. לקבוצה זו לקח זמן רב יותר להירדם וחבריה בילו פחות זמן בשנת חלום, הנחשבת כשינה עמוקה. יתר על כן, מי שהשתמש במכשירים האלקטרונים דווח בבוקר שלמחרת על עייפות, גם לאחר שינה בת שמונה שעות.

"We introduce these devices that have medical and biological effects without requiring any health studies on their impact ... They don't have to go through any evaluation like a drug would, for safety and efficacy," Czeisler said. "I think it's time to rethink that."

Those nights were so oppressive that scientists now believe our sleep patterns were radically different in the ages before ubiquitous night lighting. In 2001, the historian Roger Ekirch published a remarkable study that drew upon hundreds of diaries and instructional manuals to convincingly argue that humans had historically divided their long nights into two distinct sleep periods.... Ekirch documents the way the ideal of a single, eight-hour block of continuous sleep was constructed by nineteenth-century customs, an adaptation to a dramatic change in the lighting environment of human settlements. Like all adaptations, its benefits carried inevitable costs: the middle-of-the-night insomnia that plagues millions of people around the world is not, technically speaking, a disorder, but rather the body’s natural sleep rhythms asserting themselves over the prescriptions of nineteenth-century convention....

The flicker of the tallow candle had not been strong enough to transform our sleep patterns. To make a cultural change that momentous, you needed the steady bright glow of nineteenth-century lighting. (עמ' 200-201)

For most of evolution we slept a certain way…. Waking up during the night is part of normal human physiology.

In that five minute video Skinner tackles concepts of self-paced learning, the importance of quick feedback, the basics of gamification, aspects of proximal development, and mastery learning. He understands that it is not the *machine* that teaches, but the person that writes the teaching program. And he is better informed than almost the entire current educational press pool in that he states clearly that a “teaching machine” is really just a new kind of textbook. It’s what a textbook looks like in an age where we write programs instead of paragraphs.