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Empowering students with digital tools and project-based learning

Kadenze

This enduring trend threatens to further increase current social and economic disparities given the continued under-representation of both women and individuals from racial minority groups across all technology-oriented industries. Credit for Image: University of Michigan Health Lab published under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0

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Blurring the boundaries

Learning with e's

Non-linear pathways map neatly across the topography of the human brain with its galaxy of connections. Jay Cross (2007) called it 'rediscovering the natural pathways that inspire innovation and performance'. Through the use of new and emerging technologies, this may all change. And there's our next challenge. Unported License.

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Learning precincts

Learning with e's

The technological revolution suggested metaphors of learning that included the mind as a computer, and later as a network, which is probably the most aligned we have ever been to representing the neural connections the human brain makes when we learn something new. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Inspire to learn

Learning with e's

M y key premise is that l earning technology is just about everywhere in education. How might we harness the powerful potential of these tools and technologies to engage students more, and enhance learning in higher education? We have the technology. The psychology of learning is a very exciting area of academic study.

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Games based learning

Learning with e's

He gets to explore all the latest possibilities technology can offer to education, and to ask the "what if?" Dawn uses an innovative combination of tools including the Nintendo Wii, to engage kids in scenarios that take on a 3D immersion effect. Take David Samuelson for example. questions each day. Long may it continue.

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Teacher Voices: Chris Nesbitt

Learning with e's

Have every brain buzzing, engaged in what they are doing and every child feeling they are there for a purpose. 6) What are the most innovative uses of technology in education (that you have done yourself, or have seen)? 4) What do you consider your greatest achievement to date as an educator? I think as a person I have grown.

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January 2010 Informal Learning Hotlist

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Tools for Finding Creative Commons Images - Full Circle , January 2, 2010. Blog – The Case of the Collider and the Great Black Hole - Technology Review Feed – Tech Review Top Stories , January 4, 2010. Ten Technologies That Will Rock 2010 - TechCrunch , January 1, 2010. Skinner Box?