It seems that after a decade or more of what seems like non-stop innovations and technology tools, in the past four to five years there has not been much new. Although many of the old topics like mastery-based, competency-based, micro-credentials, adaptive learning, and others keep being revisited, along with discussions about AI and privacy, reports […]
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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 […]
Criticism, a learner’s greatest tool… and why distance education makes this achievable
I recently read Brookfield’s, “A Political Analysis of Discussion Groups: Can the Circle Be Unbroken?”. Brookfield has worked diligently on the topic of critical analysis as a tool for learning. (Brookfield, 2000, 1001)I found this an interesting take on how people feel about themselves through the examples he provided as vignettes. Brookfield’s vignettes provide this pattern […]
Technology: A Panacea or Placebo for Education?
Xinyun posed a really good question last week: “Moreover, even though the trends mentioned above were all used extensively in teaching and learning, would they be able to convert into good learning outcomes?” I think we can start to answer it with a further examination of some concrete forms of technology such as tablets. It […]
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 […]