The internet is fast becoming a place of spectacle. Early transition to the world wide web was marked by text-heavy prose while developers struggled for ways to “digitize” old media forms. Admittedly, this process is not entirely new. The benefits and allure (not always one and the same) of multimedia have been leveraged from the…
Teachers are the hardest working professionals I’ve ever seen with my own eyes. My own experience as a teacher in rural and urban public schools has shown me that (almost) every single moving part performs with the best of intentions and extraordinary effort that is easy to miss for anyone outside of the walls of…
Swiping, pinching, zooming, and other ‘non-typing’ interactions are emerging, moving us closer to a ‘touchless’ future of hardware.
“What Does an Ideal Learning Environment Look Like?” by Adrienne Albregts first appeared on the CompassLearning Navigator and gettingsmart.com How would you describe the perfect learning environment? Yes, I realize the question is open-ended, and after launching Compass Learning’s Ideal Learning Environment Video Contest, it’s evident that plenty of people have very specific thoughts regarding their education. We received…
Though we haven’t written about it much just yet, something that’s of enormous interest to us here at TeachThought is media–its creators, forms, themes, design elements, consumption patterns, and ultimate impact on thinking and human behavior. We put together this chart as a way to visualize the differences in the five most popular media consumption…
In the following video from Digital Media Research Hub, Katie Salen discusses the role of play in learning.
Social learning has always been a staple of education since Piaget, Thorndike, Vygotsky, and countless others before them began exploring how people learn. At its most basic level, this idea can be reduced to the need to socialize thinking, and experiment through interaction, play, and authentic, self-driven performance. In 12 Tips For Supporting Social Collaboration Jane Hart from Center for…
Chris Langan was profiled in Malcolm Gladwell’s book as “the world’s smartest man.” The former bouncer has an IQ measure between 195 and 210.
Whether you’re flipping your classroom, or learning from home, YouTube is an incredible source of mobile learning resources.
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Here, Jeff Brazil discusses entrepreneurial learning, making more concrete the abstraction that has been called “informal learning.”
Let’s follow the logic, since it holds some promise of solving vexing & persistent problems of boredom and ineffectiveness that we see daily.
Whether or not video games are truly art is a silly debate that keeps popping up everywhere–usually by those that continue to browbeat gaming based on games that are too (insert adjective here) for their tastes. For me, it’s difficult to not think of them as art–and as a woefully under-developed medium to promote interaction,…