The 15 Education Technologies To Know About This Year

Read an article by Julie DeNeen on the edudemic site (link here) where she looks at 15 "technologies" that she suspects will be used heavily in 2013.

I had not heard of most of these, but I am willing to try a couple and see how they go. Read her full article, but here is the list:

1. Flashnotes  

2. Lore  

3. Study Blue

4. LEAP Motion

5. Papertab

6. Chromebooks

7. Celly  

8. Flipped Classroom

9. Snagit, Jing, Camtasia

10. LessonCast

11. Kid Blog

12. Glogster EDU

13. Donors Choose

14. Live Binders

15. Knewton  

Give them a try and let me know what you think.

 

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United Values at Christmas

via youthblog.org

Loved this, which I received over the Christmas break

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O Little Town of Bethlehem

via PumpHouse

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How is Technology Transforming Education?

Listen to a conversation with Sir Ken Robinson on this topic.

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Can private schools teach the world?

There is a very interesting debate on the BBC website (read here) about the influence and power that provate school can / should / might have on world education. Here is the first section...

Despite international pledges, there are still millions of pupils around the world without a basic education.

Could the private sector be a more effective way of reaching these millions of pupils who are missing out?

Should donors be supporting low-cost, low-fee private schools, rather than trying to build state education systems?

Or would such schools further deepen the barriers to education for the poorest and most excluded?

A meeting at the House of Commons last week heard strongly opposing views on such private sector involvement. Here are some of the arguments for and against, from Sir Michael Barber and Professor Keith Lewin.

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Some excellent lessons

Jonny Baker (from jonnybaker) has been running the cms pioneer mission leadership training. He has written some reflections on the fresh expressions web site about the things that he has learnt over the last two years. These are some good lessons:

1. Not fitting in is a wonderful gift
2. ‘Why not?’ and ‘what if?’ are at the heart of pioneering
3. The church says it wants pioneers but…
4. Pioneers thrive in community
5. We’re still only at the start of something

 

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Who will make the most difference?

This past week has seen two very important elections take place. The winners of these elections will both have a massive impact on the world. Both come from very priveleged backgrounds and both live in very weathly countries. Both hold positions of incredible power and people will hang on their every word. Both will be critisized, not matter what decision they make or camp that they support. My question is, who over the next four years, will make a difference in the world? All prayers and blessings for Justin and Barack.

 

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