by andflywrite | Feb 23, 2016 | BEST LINKS EVER, Learning Community
Anya Kammnetz writes about a New Jersey HS, that recently provided all the students with laptops and had them stay home and use online apps for learning. One of the apps noted is Schoology, a LMS. In student surveys taken after the event, the feedback was...
by andflywrite | Feb 22, 2016 | BEST LINKS EVER, Embed Resources & Tools
This video is a little like visiting the uncanny valley…something unsettling about it. And also silly at the same time. Sure, it’s another brick in the wall of robot saying “anything you can do I can do better”…the slicing off the pea pod...
by andflywrite | Feb 22, 2016 | BEST LINKS EVER, Embed Resources & Tools
Google Fiber, the FTTH initiative already well underway, has added Huntsville Alabama to their list of installed or installing base of American cities. Huntsville has been suggested as a model for the kind of high tech growth Las Cruces seeks. This meme was especially...
by andflywrite | Feb 16, 2016 | BEST LINKS EVER
As mentioned in the Quality Assurance post today, the big educational institutions in the US are charged with defining and improving the “systems” of learning widely promulgated by same. For decades there have been strong and articulate voices calling for...
by andflywrite | Feb 16, 2016 | BEST LINKS EVER
There’s a landscape where the individual is front and center in learning, as in Todd Rose’s world, which includes his concerns that we haven’t thought through how to change this: We’re trying to have a system to do what it was never designed to do....