Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me When I Was Learning How to Code — Learning to Code — Medium

Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteEXCELLENT advice. Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me When I Was Learning How to Code — Learning to Code — Medium. Before you learn to code, think about what you want to code. …..There’s nothing mystical about it (but … Continue reading →

Media literacy tops traditional education in school smoking-prevention efforts – Medical News Today

Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteHmmmmm – helping kids learn how to think is more effective than telling them what to think. Who’d a thunk it? Media literacy tops traditional education in school smoking-prevention efforts – Medical News Today. Be the first to like. Like … Continue reading →

BBC News – Harvard plans to boldly go with ‘Spocs’

Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteBBC News – Harvard plans to boldly go with ‘Spocs’. How are “Spocs” different from other small private online courses (i.e. the ones we’ve been doing for well over a decade)? … Aside from have a sexy new acronym, I … Continue reading →

Signature Pedagogies in Education

Approximate Reading Time: 2 minutesInstructional Design Collaboration: A Professional Learning and Growth Experience ~ Stephen’s Web. Amid a dozen of so papers that could have been wrritten in the 1990s is this position paper in the current issue of the Journal of Online Learning … Continue reading →

Open access publishing hoax: what Science magazine got wrong | Higher Education Network | Guardian Professional

Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteOpen access publishing hoax: what Science magazine got wrong via Open access publishing hoax: what Science magazine got wrong | Higher Education Network | Guardian Professional. This is a fairly accurate assessment of Open Access publishing. Where research is made … Continue reading →

Smart Teenage Brains May Get Some Extra Learning Time : Shots – Health News : NPR

Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteSmart Teenage Brains May Get Some Extra Learning Time : Shots – Health News : NPR. We have long accepted that there are specific critical periods in animals as they grow up – we know a fair bit about how … Continue reading →

It’s Not PowerPoint’s Fault

Approximate Reading Time: 2 minutesThere’s a discussion going on (again) on one of the forums I follow that is trashing PowerPoint. Now, I’m not a big fan of Microsoft, but really, PowerPoint is one of their better applications. The fact that there are millions … Continue reading →

10 Truths About Educational Technology | Amplify

Approximate Reading Time: 4 minutesThis is a great list. I’ve taken the liberty of recopying it here. 10 Truths About Educational Technology | Amplify. 10 Truths About Educational Technology By Randy Rodgers I am one of the many educators fortunate enough to work in … Continue reading →