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Top Learning, Technology & Media Links: Weekly Digest – 2

Upside Learning

This article on the New York Times talks how kids today are caught between two worldsvirtual and the real. Google Docs Connects With Microsoft Office. The release of Google Cloud Connect ensures that you can stay wishy washy and commitment-free. Read it here. Read it here. Ways Technology Is Improving Education.

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5 Steps to a Successful Blended Learning Strategy

Learning Rebels

Project-Based: Teams of participants, can meet in person and/or virtually, at a time and place convenient to them to complete their assigned project. Enriched Virtual: Students receive one-on-one (or one with few) sessions with their instructor. Google docs, evernote, DropBox Notes, OneNote etc.)

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Collaborative Learning: Transforming the Traditional Learning Experience

Paradiso

This model fosters a dynamic and interactive environment, enabling learners to gain insights from one another and develop skills crucial for success in todays interconnected world. Case Studies and Problem-Solving Activities Working on real-world case studies encourages learners to apply theoretical knowledge practically.

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On the Horizon

Experiencing eLearning

Also listed: virtual worlds, videoconferencing, voicethreads, geotagging, cell phones, flip cameras, digital storytelling, portfolios, multimedia. Gaps between how content is used in school and how it’s used in the real world. Collaboration authoring tools (Google Docs, Flat World Knowledge).

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TEACHING ONLINE: Teachers are Going Online. Corporate Trainers Could Learn from Their Experience

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

As teachers in many areas of the country struggle to take their classroom activities into the virtual training world, here’s what we’re finding. Collaborative tools such as Google Docs are also in use. Some school systems already have virtual learning systems set up: Blackboard, Canvas, Google Classrooms, and so on.

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Top 10 Tools for Learning and Development: Expert Picks from the Top 100 Tools

Thinkdom

In a world where learning and development are increasingly crucial, it's important to recognize the tools that can revolutionise these processes. It's renowned globally as an unmatched 'How-To' source , offering tutorials on virtually any subject imaginable. It's praised as the best library in the world.

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What content makes a Course in your LMS?

Absorb LMS

Perhaps this epidemic of certainty stems from our addiction to news sources and social media networks that mostly confirm that our beliefs are 100% correct and shield us from different ways of looking at the world. Attending instructor-led events, either in physical or virtual classrooms. Politics, of course, comes immediately to mind.