Photo credit: https://appreal-vr.com/blog/augmented-reality-in-education/ Photo credit: https://www.indestry.com/blog/2016/4/26/augmented-reality-revolutionising-education Really? Augmented Reality (AR) sounds like a newly emerging technology, but it has been around longer than most people realize. Way before personal computer came into being, in 1901, an author Frank Baum first mentioned this idea of an electronic display that overlays data onto real life. Then, in 1974, […]
Author: Xinyun Peng
Learn not for learning, then for what?
Since last year I discussed in my first blog post about the incidental learning, I have been interested in learning outside the classroom-based learning, which is normally called informal learning. What really is informal learning defined? I asked constantly. Gradually, I figure out a way to make sense informal, nonformal, and formal learning. That is […]
Among the hundreds of issues of tech-based educational innovation
Education, as an old topic existing for centuries, hardly makes people relate it to innovation. When we are asked about innovations in education, we would easily think of technologies, because technologies are gradually changing our lives in every possible way. If we don’t think twice, we tend to see the promising side of the technological […]
Visits to Science Centers Can Predict Interest in Science?
I came across an article the other day that is about adults’ current and previous informal learning experiences and the relations to the interest in science. It is a quantitative study done in 2017, and it involved about 14,000 participants and 3,001 effective data from 3 metropolitan areas of the United States, Los Angeles, […]
6 Promising Tech Trends 14 Years Ago
From a recent chat with friends, I found an NPO called New Media Consortium (NMC) that did an annual report to summarize the trends, challenges and technologies that are likely to have impact on teaching, learning, and creative inquiry in the following few years. I was so curious about whether their predictions were reliable that […]
Something about machine learning and artificial intelligence
Since the term “Machine learning” was developed in 1959 at IBM, it has become a hotter and hotter topic. Especially recent years, tech companies can actually utilize machine learning technique to bring innovations to their products. Just a few days ago, Google showed the world their ability and virtuosity on machine learning (the audience who […]
Social media is needed for learning, really?
When you are asked “what are social media?”, what would you think of? Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat? How would you use these social media in learning? Synchronous discussion, find outside resources, or keeping connected with classmates? These are the questions we normally get stuck because we could have misunderstood them from the beginning. Social media […]
What unconventional method(s) would effectively help people learn?
— an incomplete summary of my AERA experience The 2017 annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association has just concluded. Taking with me the purpose of seeking inspirations for my future research as well as of seeing what researches are being done in related fields, I found quite a lot interesting studies. It […]
Do you really understand incidental learning?
Formal and informal learning have been talked about in educational fields for years. People have an approximately common understanding of formal learning, which is the learning normally delivered by teachers in a systematic intentional way within a school, academy/college/institute or university. Yet, the definition of informal learning varies from person to person. Two major views […]