In this era of technology change and transformation there are new tools to help us achieve the ultimate in education. It is a time of change. Transformational change. Some of our needs in education are to make the best use of the learning landscape . In a recent blog , Edutopia, a blogger,Ainissa Ramirez says," Creativity is seen as the secret sauce for STEM, i.e. learning science, technology, engineering and math." Creativity can break the ice to enable learning but connected learning must … [Read more...]
ESRI The Education Conference, the International Conference
http://etcjournal.com/2013/07/23/esri-2013-the-best-conference-ive-attended-this-year/ This article originally appeared in the ETCJournal. Esri 2013 – The Best Conference I’ve Attended This Year Posted on July 23, 2013 by JimS The absolute best conference that I have attended this year is the Esri Educators Conference, San Diego, July 6–9, 2013. Note that the educators also participated in the main conference, Esri International User Conference, also in San Diego, July 8–12, 2013. The big … [Read more...]
Bridge Day, Teragrid A Special Event for Teachers
Bridge Day, Teragrid A Special Event for Teachers June 26,2009 The secretary of education and the president want transformational learning. We have examples of transformational learning in the high performance computing fields. But a lot of people are still stuck in an analog world as we move into the future of digital. Computational thinking is something that has to be considered. Truthfully we have closed our eyes to new types of learning in many ways through the era of no child left behind … [Read more...]
Repositories of digital storytelling examples
I would be interested in getting online examples of digital stories that others use as exemplars in their courses. Particularly I am interested in digital stories created by early childhood students (k-2) and upper elementary age students (3-6 grade). Below are a few that I have found online. … [Read more...]
Research threads
There is some interesting discussion about research tucked in under the Digital Storytelling category, with comments from both Bernard Robin and Gerald Knezek, chair of our Research and Evaluation committee. Gerald's response to Cynthia Garrety draws together some threads from different places and makes links between his current work in Ecuador and Mike's project in Costa Rica. You can find it under Research in the Digital Storytelling area. As the activity in this blog site increases, it will … [Read more...]
