by kris | Oct 6, 2016 | BEST LINKS EVER
John recently mentioned a 2013 post I did about George Seimens on Connectivist theory. Here is more on connectivism in a slide share from Stephen Downes another researcher about learning theory for the digital age. Connectivism, MOOCs and Innovation from Stephen...
by kris | Oct 6, 2016 | BEST LINKS EVER, Convergence on Target
“My parents were auctioneers,” Dickerson said. “There were all these kids hanging out. I organized the Cookie Tin. I got each one to bake a pan of cookies,” she said. “They sold the cookies. I, of course, took a percentage off the top.” A local example in this Las...
by kris | Oct 6, 2016 | BEST LINKS EVER, Convergence on Target
In South Asia—I’ve worked a lot in Nepal, and also in India—I’m very impressed by two particular parenting behaviors. One is that parents are very physically affectionate. Fathers as well as mothers, and close relatives are too. And that is combined with totally clear...
by andflywrite | Oct 6, 2016 | BEST LINKS EVER
Follow up to Kris’s recent post on Alison Gopnik, child development psychologist, philosopher, author, and frequent media guest, who teaches at Cal Berkeley: a TED talk by her which has been viewed 2.5M times, so far. “Babies and young children are like...
by andflywrite | Oct 6, 2016 | BEST LINKS EVER
Smithsonian is publishing a series of comic books for kids that are designed as learning experiences for subjects in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) category. The first was “The Wrong Wrights”, and the second to be released soon is...
by andflywrite | Oct 6, 2016 | BEST LINKS EVER
Facebook’s Zuckerberg, who owns Oculus Rift VR stuff…held a conference covering a lot of VR news. Here’s Time mag article And here’s a video from Time demo of a Oculus Rift.
