I recently had the opportunity to help Mr Science to prepare his show on Memory and the Use of New Media, aired on national TV, RTL TeleLëtzebuerg on Sunday, 5th June 2016: http://www.science.lu/de/content/w%C3%A9i-verh%C3%A4lt-een-am-beschten-tippen-schreiwen-oder-just-nolauschteren
Category: EdTech
Big Trend: Free online learning & assessment resources
I’ve got the impression that many companies are investing in offering free online learning and assessment resources and tools. I recently discovered these two: http://www.varsitytutors.com/practice-tests http://www.varsitytutors.com/classroom-assessment They can be interesting for learners, looking for self-paced revision and for teachers wishing to make their jobs easier (and spend their time on…
DNLE – Assignment #1: Evaluation of 3 Learning Environments or Technologies
In the online course on “Designing a New Learning Environment” (DNLE hereafter) that I’ve started taking on 15th Octobre 2012, we have been given a first (individual) assignment… And I’m currently preparing to address this task, in the next days. We have to evaluate 3 Learning Environments or Technologies and…
My motivations to take the “Designing a New Learning Environment” course
As a researcher in Educational Technology, I’m interested in the strategic use (or lack of use) of ICT tools in educational settings, the factors that influence (positively or negatively) their strategic use by teachers (of all levels in educational systems) and in the (transformative) effects (or not) that their use…
Going to class – again! second attempt
I’m currently subscribed to take an online distance course on “Designing a New Learning Environment“, given by Professor Paul Kim from Stanford University. I’m very (!) excited about all the things that I will be able to learn from this unique experience. I’ll be blogging about it here. So stay tuned!
LightningTalk @HaxoGreen2012 “Adventures in Technology-Supported Running”
I’ll be giving a LightningTalk this afternoon @HaxoGreen2012 on my recent “Adventures in Technology-Supported Running”, and just uploaded my slideshow here: http://www.slideshare.net/rreuter/adventures-in-technologysupported-running Of course, you won’t have the voice, but I guess you can may sense of it nevertheless. Feel free to watch it and give me comments… after that…
Going to class – again
I’ll start going to class again, this week… but this time, it’ll be a virtual class… a course offered through ISTE on “Research to Practice in Educational Technology”. I will get the course materials and have interactions with peers and teachers via a moodle online course. Here is the course…
Rethinking schooling and educating in a digital age – Book Recommandation
I’m very happy about a recent book that I discovered thanks to my wife: Remo H. Largo’s (2010) “Lernen geht anders. Bildung und Erziehung vom Kind her denken”; actually because it starts with some 20 introductory pages where Largo convincingly shows how society has dramatically changed during the last 20-30…
Doug Woods on “Good Teachers Don’t Need Technology”
Doug Woods (ICT in Schools) has blogged about why he thinks that it’s inappropriate the say that “good teachers don’t need technology” and he goes into some details here: http://doug-woods.blogspot.com/2010/06/good-teachers-dont-need-technology.html I’ve tried to post a comment on his blog, but so far it didn’t appear there, so I’d like to use…
Technology-Enhanced Literacy Instruction
I’ve just finished exploring the “technology-enhanced literacy instruction” literature and creating a prezi presentation file about it, that I will share will our educational sciences bachelor students (4th year: “Younger”). I’m heavily relying on the TPACK Model (Mishra & Koehler, 2006) to structure this presentation. I have also introduced the…