Learning2oh

The Seedlings 10-29-09 podcast of an interview with Janalee Redmond has gotten my back into Second Life and Sloodle. Janalee is the Community Manager for Metanomics.

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I joined SL two years ago and spend several house creating my avatar and exploring education worlds. Once you are in SL you quickly realize, or you should, that to really learn how to use SL will take some serious time away from RL (real life). Over the last year I have checked back in to SL and updated to the latest version. I also became a Sloodle member over a year ago, but I have not spent much time exploring them either.

This interview with Janalee has got me back in SL and Sloodle. I am going to install the Sloode plug-in on the learning2oh and the lpvec.net Moodle.

I have been working to finish the Moodle Silk Roads project I have to do for the East Asian study group and was wondering how I could make it more interactive. By developing a Sloodle Silk Roads project students could be in a virtual caravan on the Silk Road.

Tags: Metanomics, Moodle, second life, Sloodle, virtual worlds

This podcast is a recording of a presentation by Dr. Steve Wycoff on June 12, 2008, titled “Natural Learning - What Schools Don’t Do” at the Trends, Tools, and Tactics for 21st Century Learning conference in Wichita, Kansas. TTT is sponsored by ESSDACK, the Educational Services and Staff Development Association of Central Kansas in Hutchinson. The official program description for this session was: How we learn naturally is far different than how we are taught in schools. If we are going to succeed in actually leaving no child behind, we’ll need to understand better how individuals learn and more importantly how schools will need to look to accommodate the learning needs we all have. We’ll also demonstrate what curriculum might look like in a learning environment designed for the way we learn naturally. We’ll also connect this new learning environment to the needs we are experiencing in society related to workforce readiness. Be prepared to have your thinking stretched.

This podcast was originally posted on Wesley Fryer’s blog, Moving at the Speed of Creativity. He has links to Steve Wycoff’s blog and other links you will find interesting. Dr. Wycoff covers many critical issues in education reform so take your time listening and thinking. Wesley has several other podcasts from this conference that you should listen to.

Tags: education reform, learning, PBL

Karl Fisch, a technology teacher at the Arapahoe High School in Centennial, Colorado and starting a year ago he created three videos about the past, present and future of education and technology. They have become some of the most viewed videos on the Internet. He reminds us of where we have been and where we may go. If you have not seen these videos they are only about 3 minutes each, so take a look and let me know what you think.

The first video is “What if?” It reminds us that maybe things have not changed after all.
What if?

The next video is Fisch’s most famous, “Did You Know”. He gives us a look at the state of technology and education today.

Did You Know?

The last video is called “2020 Vision”. In it Karl Fisch takes a look at what the world may be for students graduating from high school in 2020.

2020 Vision

Tags: ed tech, education

If you are looking for the Moodle site it is here.

This is one of the first videos I saw on the Internet that made me stop in my tracks.  It is a keynote given by Leigh Blackall at the Global Summit 2006 in Sydney, Australia

Leigh Blackall lives in Andersons Bay in Dunedin New Zealand with his beautiful wife Sunshine and their dog Mira and cat Anai. Leigh’s professional interest is in education and networked learning. Leigh currently works in Educational Development for the Otago Polytechnic and specialises in the use of social media and communication and its relationship to socially constructed learning. Leigh writes the Learn Online Web Log and facilitates several online communities for professional educators. He is a contributor to WikiEducator.

Tags: education, education reform, learning, teaching