EdTech1 – Seminar 1: The Tech Breakdown

Today I started a newly redesigned course in our Bachelor in Educational Sciences study program called 1.6.2 Introduction to Educational Technology. And I had prepared two very nice and beautiful keynotes with inserted movies, etc. But, in a very tragically comical way (this year again), I had some technical issues,…

Many Eyes – Quickly Create Visual / Graphical Representations

I’ve just “discovered” MANY EYES (thanxs Kristina!) an online tool developed by IBM that allows everybody to generate graphical representations of numerical data – without too much trouble! It’s really a nice tool that follows my motto: keep IT simple! Explore it yourself! It’s really worthy IT… and yopu may…

Cell Phones in the Classroom, New Wikipedia Guidelines, Steam Car Redux, and Artificial Trees | PRI’s The World

via theworld.org Clark Boyd interviews Greg Kulowiec, a high school teacher at Plymouth South High School in Plymouth, MA, USA, who is using all sorts of new technologies as learning and teaching tools in his very classroom… This is a very nice USE CASE example. Posted via web from the…

Educational Technology: Example of a low tech tool for learning

While cleaning my office desk I found a piece of newspaper I had “archived” because it depicts an ad for an educational tool that nicely illustrates a few crucial things about educational technology. 1) Educational Technology is praised. 2) Educational Technology is praised for its positive effects on learning (“making…

Educational Technology and Specific Learning Difficulties

During my online exploration, in search of resources on dyscalculia for a research project, I stumbled upon a software that was “designed for remediation of dyscalculia in children aged 4-8. It may also be useful for prevention of dyscalculia, or to teach number sense in kindergarten children without specific learning…