TEDxNYED: Independently organized TED event
Examining the role of new media and technology in shaping the future of education
Andy Carvin
Michael Wesch
Henry Jenkins
Lawrence Lessig
Jeff Jarvis
George Siemens
Those were some of my heroes lined up at TEDxNYED, the independent TED event held in NYC, on March 6, 2010, a beautiful if cold spring day. Now all the videos are [...]
I am intrigued by this relatively new hype surrounding the Lecture Capture technology in education. I started digging, and I found a couple of producers of nice systems which do the job quite well. The job of recording a lecture, I mean, and providing students with an easy access point to the lectures they *missed* [...]
UPDATE on Invisible Learning/Aprendizaje Invisible, a wonderful bilingual project headed by Cristóbal Cobo, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales en México (FLACSO-México), and John Moravec, editor of http://www.educationfutures.com.
Their idea:
EXplore, eXploit and eXport innovative knowledge.
EXplorar, eXplotar y eXportar conocimiento innovador.
Participants will share great ideas about redesigning education to foster sustainable innovation and connect with the people making [...]
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The more I teach… and the more I see and use technology within education… the more I get anti-teaching.
This technology business and all my active involvement with Web 2.0 and education stuff have taught me a few things, I believe. In a few words, I’m thinking and thinking these days that education done [...]
The VIR-ED project is a research project looking at how we can adopt 2.0 thinking to creatively engage people in higher education learning and research.
Here’s a compelling video with a message: Viral Education 2.0