Something For Art

“Unlocking Knowledge, Empowering Minds”–Since 2001, MIT has been sharing their curriculum materials online and made them available for anyone to use freely. Currently with 1700 courses to choose from, it offers independent students a MIT education, though without the university experience, access to expertise, degrees and certificates. This substantial collection also serves as a useful [...]

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The New Face of Learning by Will Richardson strikes a chord with me. He shared on how blogging has taught him about learning and being a learner. Having been regularly writing and reading blogs in the past yr, my citizenship in this blogosphere has indeed transformed me:

it has changed the way I learn and think, [...]

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As I was reading Marc Prensky’s articles, I noted that much of what he said is nothing really new, or rather over the past decade, his ideas have been echoed by like-minded educators who have long been rallying for a technological revolution in education. So much has been said, but apparently we have yet to [...]

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Want to learn more about the tools which our digital natives are engaged in? Check out this series of articles by EDUCAUSE.
“7 Things You Should Know About… series from the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) provides concise information on emerging learning technologies. Each brief focuses on a single technology and describes what it is, where it [...]

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I’ve heard of his ideas on “Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants”, but never did examine them in greater depth, so today I decided to spend some time reading a couple of his articles. Here’s my brief summary of his key ideas:
Prensky famously coined the term “digital natives”, referring to today’s students who’ve grown up immersed in [...]

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Whenever I had to cite my sources, I must refer to my long long ago thesis handout, and then carefully typed out my references without missing a comma, colon or spacing. So “Citation Machine” will be really helpful!
With “Citation Machine”, all you need to do is to key in the relevant info in the available [...]

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“Professor Eric Faden of Bucknell University created this humorous, yet informative, review of copyright principles delivered through the words of the very folks we can thank for nearly endless copyright terms.” (from website)
Found this on YouTube, a place where copyrights is sometimes…simply bypassed….

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Great! Someone has uploaded this on YouTube! A video abt the distortion of perception of beauty.

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“There are two types of education. One should teach us how to make a living. And the other how to live.” ~ John Adams
This is a thought provoking key-note address by Roger Schank at SITE 2007. It challenges educators to once again “look at how people actually learn, how the teacher’s role needs to be [...]

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Teachers, are we ready for the school of the future? Is our School 1.0 prepared for the Web 2.0? Watch this cool video by Darren Draper, it will inspire u to re-define education and learning. Guess we have no choice…the educational landscape is evolving, we need to rethink our teaching to engage the kids [...]

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Are u like me…still trying to catch up with the advancement of technologies, and at times feel like this medieval man desperate for help? This video is hilarious! Must watch!

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