This week's Core Question:
How are recent technological developments (e.g. the internet and mobile technology) affecting learning and cross-cultural communication?
Sources - Browse, skim, watch, find something interesting (below or elsewhere) that addresses our core question.
Food for Thought: Changing Education Paradigms
Transcript
Other cool RSA Animate Videos
Language as a Window into Human Nature
The Power of Networks
The Divided Brain
and from other sources
Visionsofstudents.org
Rethinking Education
Connectivism
At its heart, connectivism is the thesis that knowledge is distributed across a network of connections, and therefore that learning consists of the ability to construct and traverse those networks.
Connectivism
Connectivism: Questioning the Role of the Teacher
Seven Habits of Highly Connected People
The Networked Student: Video & Blog Post
The Flipped Classrooma form of blended learning which encompasses any use of technology to leverage the learning in a classroom, so a teacher can spend more time interacting with students instead of lecturing. This is most commonly being done using teacher-created videos that students view outside of class time.
Let's use Video to Reinvent Education (click show transcript to see English or Korean)
More about Khan Analytics (starts at 1:10)
http://www.thegatesnotes.com/Topics/Education/Sal-Khan-Analytics-Khan-Academy
Interview with Salman Khan
http://fora.tv/2011/05/03/Khan_Academys_Salman_Khan_The_Real_YouTube_Revolution#chapter_07
About Flipped Classroom
http://www.peterli.com/spm/resources/articles/archive.php?article_id=2604
The Flipped Classroom Project
http://www.flatclassroomproject.org/
Teachers "Doing The Flip" To Help Students Become Learnershttp://www.thedailyriff.com/articles/teachers-doing-the-flip-to-help-students-become-learners-531.php
The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman The title is a metaphor for viewing the world as a level playing field in terms of commerce, where all competitors have an equal opportunity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_world_is_flat
Transcript Here
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Social Networking ELT Professional Development
Diigo (Social Bookmarking): Webheads , Language Learning and Technology, Resources for Languages
Google+: English Language Teaching, ESL Teachers, Learning English (Hangouts)
Google+: English Language Teaching, ESL Teachers, Learning English (Hangouts)
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| Electronic Village Online Participant Map |
Student Engagement
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Discussion Questions
- How do you feel about the growing presence of online, interactive technology in our lives?
What do you see as the biggest advantages and disadvantages (personally and for society)? - Twenty years ago, how much did you interact with people from other countries?
How about now? What role has technology played in any change? - How does (can) social networking affect our view of the world and interaction with other cultures?
Has it had any effect on yours? - What are your thoughts on changing the paradigm of education? How can education be re-imagined to address the economic and cultural desires of national and global society?
- How could you envision a 'flipped classroom' model working for language learning? (lecture/presentation at home, teacher interaction in class)
What would be the challenges, advantages, and disadvantages? - How would being part of a global learning community affect language learning in your class?
How might gaming dynamics like 'badges, scores, and virtual role play' affect your students learning and participation in a global learning community? - In a connectivist model, knowledge is distributed across a network of connections. If that is the case, what is the role of teacher?
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