Digital Media: New Learners of the 21st Century

Digital Media: New Learners of the 21st Century (Middleton Clip) from Mobile Digital Arts on Vimeo.

“a few ideas …” (Visions of Students Today)

See all the ideas at http://visionsofstudents.org (an HTML5 interactive video collage).

Patient problem solvers

Bring on the learning revolution

“Everyday, everywhere our children spread their dreams beneath our feet and we should tread softly.”

In this poignant, funny follow-up to his fabled 2006 talk, Sir Ken Robinson makes the case for a radical shift from standardized schools to personalized learning — creating conditions where kids’ natural talents can flourish.

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This Is How We Dream

Richard E. Miller and Paul D. Hammond, The New Humanities Collaborative, tell the story of how reading and writing have been transformed by the web.

What does it mean to write? to read? to publish?

The answers to these questions, once obvious, must now be reimagined.

This is How We Think: Learning in Public After the Paradigm Shift

In “This is How We Think,” Richard E. Miller and Paul D. Hammond explore how education must change now that we live in a world where information abounds, where reading and research have moved from the library to the laptop, and where the act of learning itself is now making its way out of [...]

Why students don’t learn what we think we teach

This video was first posted here.

Embedded video from Cornell University

Research over the past two decades has deepened our understanding of the fundamental principles of human learning. Yet much of what we do in undergraduate education seems to effectively ignore these principles.

Robert Duke, professor of music and human learning at University [...]

Show Your Media Literacy

Nice idea…

In celebration of Media Awareness Week (November 2-6, 2009) we are encouraging students, teachers, and the general public to create videos, digital stories, text, images or any digital media that showcases the different ways they are Media Literate. To get things started, we have created a video that is hosted here [...]

Myths and Opportunities: Technology in the Classroom by Alan November

Myths and Opportunities: Technology in the Classroom by Alan November from Brian Mull on Vimeo.

In this video presented by Mobile Learning Institute, Alan tours his hometown of Marblehead, MA and comments on the historical global vision of his community. Alan challenges us to think about the emerging role of “student as [...]

Information revolution

Another video from Michael Wesch from Kansas State University…

This video explores the changes in the way we find, store, create, critique, and share information. This video was created as a conversation starter, and works especially well when brainstorming with people about the near future and the skills needed in order to [...]

An introduction to connectivism

Networked Student

The Networked Student was inspired by CCK08, a Connectivism course offered by George Siemens and Stephen Downes during fall 2008. It depicts an actual project completed by Wendy Drexler’s high school students. The Networked Student concept map was inspired by Alec Couros’ Networked Teacher. I hope that teachers will use [...]

Michael Wesch, Kansas State University – The Machine is (Changing) Us: YouTube and the Politics of Authenticity

Inspiring….

Web 2.0 and Your Own Learning and Development

Came across this video by Stephen Downes after reading an interesting essay he wrote;

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