A nice video for TOK teaching that highlights both the need for language to evolve but also the prevalence of contradictory phrases in the US.
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Jesse Schell TED talk on the coming ubiquity of gaming
Published May 20, 2010 E-learning , TOK Leave a CommentThis is an astonishing talk about how the creeping advance of socialised gaming (think Farmville etc.) will explode when the world around us becomes internet enabled (ie. when products and sensors on our bodies can talk to each other. A side issue that is touched on involves the work Lee Sheldon has done in changing the grading system he uses for his classes to a more games oriented one. Well worth 28 minutes of anyone’s time.
http://g4tv.com/videos/44277/DICE-2010-Design-Outside-the-Box-Presentation/
http://theoryofknowledgestudent.com run by @Elvira has some useful quotes, links and advice for TOK students
Brilliant analysis from Brooker’s NewsWipe show of how TV news now works
I usually check this as soon as it comes out and update my bookmarks accordingly, then, later in the year, remember something hazily and spend ages trying to track it down via the Time website. It strikes me it might be easier to just post them up for the benefit of readers of this blog and myself.
Scribd presentationA great presentation hosted on scribd and which came to my attention from the ever reliable lifehacker.com. I won’t pretend I understand all of it but huge potential for TOK and Critical Thinking teachers along with some useful inspiration for lesson starters.
Cognitive Biases – A Visual Study Guide by the Royal Society of Account Planning
Next time you catch a child doodling in class, challenge them!
Published February 16, 2010 History Leave a CommentBrilliant piece of animation on the History of the World
I first came across www.wallwisher.com about six months ago but couldn’t really see how an online noticeboard would help with my teaching. Then, as is so often the case, a tweet came through that made me look at things in a different way, @tombarrett sent details of 16 ways to use wallwisher in the classroom. Now I’m working on using wallwisher pages to scaffold answers to GCSE History questions using the indicative content provided by the exam board, a link to an example is here, give me a shout if you’d like the addresses of any of the others.
Studystack.com for Flashcards and other study aids
Published February 13, 2010 E-learning Leave a Comment
I’ve been experimenting with a number of online flashcard generators and this is the bext one I’ve come across so far for a number of reasons, www.studystack.com. The cards generated are minimal and clear, without any kind of distracting detailing. They can be embedded in vles and converted for ipods quite easily (although embedding in blogs has proved beyond me!). Different types of learning aids can be generated including hangman, crosswords, matching, tables and missing word exercises and the information can be imported easily from your existing chronologies and factsheets. All most impressive, and of course, it’s free!
Jaron Lanier makes some interesting comments in an article in today’s Independent about web2.0 arguing that it has taken away much of the creativity of the early web and replaced it with ill thought out musings. He goes on to suggest that it could make all middle-class professions redundant. His case, with obvious connections to Wells’ Time Machine is nicely summed up here.
“And when something new is created on the web, it’s often a banal “mashup” of old culture. Lanier likens the people who create these mashups to salvagers picking over a garbage dump. It is only in the old-world economy – the world of books, films and newspapers – that original content is being created. But Web 2.0 is steadily undermining the old-world economy in favour of one based on free content and selling social graphs to advertisers.”
Perhaps he needs to pay closer attention to the work that teachers are doing with web 2.0, or maybe he has!
