Learning together…
It”s not not uncommon for geeks to do some wishful thinking a line any mortal hoping their tech dreams will come true in the new year to come. Id like to make some predictions for 2012 as well. Just a few humble predictions and observations. 1. Education everywhere And by everywhere I don’t mean the [...]
A phenomenon that can be classified as anything from multitasking to plain distraction is getting more popular as smartphones get smarter and tablet computers more ubiquitous: the use of the “second screen“. It is common now to have at least one person (if not everyone) in the living room watching as movie on TV while, [...]
There is a vast sea of information out there. In fact, it’s hard not to avoid drowning in it if you, as an educator or learner (which we all are) don’t put strategies in place to organize content by aggregating it using different bookmarking and sharing Web applications (which are a dime a dozen. Tools [...]
Something that bothers me sometimes is the poor search results yielded when one looks for educational resources. So many good projects I know of simply don’t show up in a simple Google search no matter what keywords I add into the search field. Results, in generalm are often irrelevant and require a lot of filtering to finally find GOOD learning materials. That is [...]
Duolingo claims to help you learn a language for free because as you practice translating sentences you are simultaneously helping them translate the Web. It is not clear to me whether translation is the only methodology behind their language learning approach, and it is so not clear what exactly they mean by the Web to be [...]
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