Education | Learn to Adapt

Sep 21

Learn to Adapt Links for September 18th through September 21st

by Jeff Kelly

Ping - Technology Doesn’t Dumb Us Down. It Frees Our Minds. - NYTimes.com - Damon Darlin's thoughtful response to the Atlantic Monthly article "Is Google Making Us Stupid?"
Stanford School of Engineering - The Stanford Engineering Everywhere program offers full courses in the school's engineering program online. They include classes in computer science and artificial intelligence. The courses include lecture videos, reading lists, handouts, quizzes, tests, and a social network.

Aug 26

by Jeff Kelly

Sakai - Collaboration and Learning Environment for Education - Sakai is a free and open source online Collaboration and Learning Environment. Many users of Sakai deploy it to support teaching and learning, ad hoc group collaboration, support for portfolios and research collaboration.
Researchers mull gaming’s impact on learning - The power of game playing in learning is well established. New research shows how it continues to hold true for those "horrible" video games. From the article: "Studies suggest the benefits of playing video games go well beyond thrills. One study even looked at whether playing "World of Warcraft," the world's biggest multiplayer online game, can improve scientific thinking. The conclusion? Certain types of video games can have benefits beyond the virtual thrills of blowing up demons or shooting aliens.

Aug 18

by Jeff Kelly

TV remains top source of news even as online grows -
Why We’re Failing in Math and Science - O’Reilly Radar - A great post from Tim O'Reilly reminding us how America is "dumbing down" just when we need to be building education and intelligence in order to compete in the global marketplace.
Do Social Networks Bring the End of Privacy?: Scientific American - SciAm considers how new Web behaviors are changing our ideas of privacy and ponders if "Existing law should be extended to allow some privacy protection for things that people say and do in what would have previously been considered the public domain."

Jul 16

by Jeff Kelly

enterprise 2.0 … it’s this simple, see « pm blog - Mazy Hedayat posts a deliciously complex and confusing diagram that summarizes all the moving parts of Enterprise 2.0. A bit tough to read or use for learning, but it is a great summary…
Why Companies Need Web 2.0 - Forbes.com - No new news here, but Mike Schaffner summarizes how "Web 2.0" (cringe) technologies must be adopted by companies to remain competitive.
Tear down the broadcast towers - BuzzMachine » Blog Archive - Jeff Jarvis posits on how Web video and radio "could" make broadcast obsolete. Best part of the post is the comments. The way we consume media is changing dramatically and it will impact how we use media to teach.
Grockit - About Us - Learning 2.0 - From the site: "Grockit is Learning 2.0. Grockit is about questioning together. To this end, we are developing an online learning game where people can teach each other." I look forward to seeing the game!

Jul 07

by Jeff Kelly

Google, Zen Master of the Market - News Analysis - NYTimes.com - “The source of Google’s competitive advantage is learning by doing,” said Hal R. Varian, Google’s chief economist. One of the hallmarks of Learning 2.0 will be easy, inexpensive experimentation - learning through mistakes.
What good is collective intelligence if it doesn’t make us smarter? - O’Reilly Radar - Tim O'Reilly conference ad (with quote from John Battelle) discusses how it is time to move beyond the consumer-centric euphoria of social computing (Web 2.0) and start using the new found power to improve society.
The Future of Instruction: Teacher as ‘Co-Learner’ : June 2008 : THE Journal - Now you're talking. Forget the sage on the stage, and even beyond the curious curator, change is so fast that effective teachers will adopt the role of wise co-learner.