Sunday, May 25, 2008
Dean Kamen: New prosthetic arm for veterans
Video work: Excellent
Audio work: Excellent
Overall content quality: Excellent
Film quality: Good
Honoring the Human Spirit!!!
Thanks to Dean Kamen and his team, veterans have a new outlook in adapting the use of technology. As more schools have made assistive and adaptive technology available for students, this video is a great example uplifting the aid of human spirit.
Dean Kamen's innovative design in the prosthetic arm and improving human life is highly respectable. His meaningful use of technology and innovations inspired me with insights in the possibility of a new hope.
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Talks Ross Lovegrove: The power and beauty of organic design
Video work: Excellent
Audio work: Excellent
Overall content quality: Excellent
Film quality: Good
"Awe Inspiring organic design!!!"
This video can be a good motivational source for students especially the learning objective is to promote creative thinking and the process of development.
Ross Lovegrove is truly creative and knows how to express his emotions into those unconventional movements of fluid designs and philosophical beauty.
Audio work: Excellent
Overall content quality: Excellent
Film quality: Good
"Awe Inspiring organic design!!!"
This video can be a good motivational source for students especially the learning objective is to promote creative thinking and the process of development.
Ross Lovegrove is truly creative and knows how to express his emotions into those unconventional movements of fluid designs and philosophical beauty.
Sunday, May 4, 2008
Friday, March 7, 2008
Which Technologies will shape education in 2008?
After powerful web2.0 tools and other web applications were born, individual participation in web publishing has increased. This is especially true for those who grew up with computers who use them so naturally. Imagine, how much content is published online daily, audio, video, flash animated content, and other content produced collaboratively are easily created by using web2.0 tools. Current education is adapting to use these new online technological tools in teaching and learning. I wonder about whether or not we are too focused on trying out new tools rather than the content of the subjects.
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Cognitivism
Cognitive learning environments focus on helping students encode information meaning fully to long-term memory so that it can be easily retrieved. What methods could you as a teacher use (with or without technology to support you) to facilitate this process?
I pondered over and over about information processing. For the reason that it involves three key elements unifying all learning development; encoding, storage and retrieval of sources. In cognitive view of learning, I questioned either course modules or chapters can be developed to help learners.
Often found that it is hard to understand the information it is first introduced. It is easier for students to remember if practiced using the multi-sensory approach. This can be done with problem-solving practice quizzes or games. Both working memory and long-term memory are always active when the learner is in the process of learning. In recent years, there are more and more interactive quizzes and games to help students with cognitive learning skills. For example, military has been using this technique for long time.
On the production side of educational materials, cognitivism is vital in scaffolding and designing effective learning modules. In computer technology, there are tremendous improvements on web application, such as, web 2.0 and multimedia web applications in the last 2-3 years. It allows learning to become easier and faster in processing knowledge or information. Furthermore, increasingly teachers adapt to using technology tools or multimedia resources to help with their teaching. Many of math teachers are using quizzes as part of their pedagogy and others are adapting interactive quizzes with graphs, graphics, and audio. These interactive quizzes are embedded to their online course materials.
Not only are these well-designed digital forms of activities helping students to engage in their learning, but it also helps reconstruct knowledge for them to apply in other contexts. As a foundation, cognitive in today’s teaching environment is exciting because it includes embedded audio, movies, flash games and a vast variety of learning resources.
I pondered over and over about information processing. For the reason that it involves three key elements unifying all learning development; encoding, storage and retrieval of sources. In cognitive view of learning, I questioned either course modules or chapters can be developed to help learners.
Often found that it is hard to understand the information it is first introduced. It is easier for students to remember if practiced using the multi-sensory approach. This can be done with problem-solving practice quizzes or games. Both working memory and long-term memory are always active when the learner is in the process of learning. In recent years, there are more and more interactive quizzes and games to help students with cognitive learning skills. For example, military has been using this technique for long time.
On the production side of educational materials, cognitivism is vital in scaffolding and designing effective learning modules. In computer technology, there are tremendous improvements on web application, such as, web 2.0 and multimedia web applications in the last 2-3 years. It allows learning to become easier and faster in processing knowledge or information. Furthermore, increasingly teachers adapt to using technology tools or multimedia resources to help with their teaching. Many of math teachers are using quizzes as part of their pedagogy and others are adapting interactive quizzes with graphs, graphics, and audio. These interactive quizzes are embedded to their online course materials.
Not only are these well-designed digital forms of activities helping students to engage in their learning, but it also helps reconstruct knowledge for them to apply in other contexts. As a foundation, cognitive in today’s teaching environment is exciting because it includes embedded audio, movies, flash games and a vast variety of learning resources.
Monday, November 12, 2007
Constructivism and Open Learning Environment
In Jonassen's Constructivist Learning Environment, the use of criteria of evaluation in some college classes, teachers can construct their pedagogy more efficiently in delivering their curricula. In this discussion, I would like to share some views in Constructivist Learning Environment theory, which includes goals in reasoning, critical thinking, and use of knowledge materials.
In a Journalism class I attended, students started with discussing today’s top news story, and given or chosen a category such as international, local, business, etc. When they are telling the news, the teacher help to improve their story telling in organizing the information, describing the story according to 5 W’s and H (Who, What, Where, When, Why and How). This enhances each writer’s ability as a prelude to active brainstorming session in writing assignments. In addition, the teacher's lecture takes a part then students start to write their stories or journals based on their homework and teacher reviews and coach providing feedback or commenting. Besides all of these activities or learning, they are also introduced to use current technology or software to layout their story and share with others. This class has contained with some of points from Jonassen's CLE; providing related cases and resources, activity, coaching with feedback, reflective questions, motivational prompts, hints and helps.
As a thought, in college today, faculty and students focus on dedicated subject area in depth with class projects. The nature of art classes is creating new forms or art using their own or existing tools and current technology, such as, painting, digital imaging, multimedia design, sculpture. The graphic arts classes I have taken are learner-centered, where students bring in their own concepts, and start from there they find tools to learn visual communication skills, artistic skills, and technical skills to develop their own art pieces. In OLEs, teachers provide support with technological tools and technical resources, which is crucial to guide students’ learning. Thus, Scaffolding is a necessary element in OLE to support students' learning. The four elements would include: Conceptual scaffolding would help students' brainstorming stagy, metacognitive scaffolding would help students' critical thinking, procedural scaffolding would help students' ability to process their learning and applying tools and skills, strategic scaffolding would guide students' idea or concept enrichment.
In Constructivist and Open Ended Learning Environment, mapping and constructing process or strategy of teaching and learning can be more flexible as we apply new technology. It is in the hands of teacher who paved the way to the student’s success by using preferring methods and tools in today’s learning environment. A good model of instructional design for class in general would be balance between constructivist and Open Ended Learning depending on the subject.
In a Journalism class I attended, students started with discussing today’s top news story, and given or chosen a category such as international, local, business, etc. When they are telling the news, the teacher help to improve their story telling in organizing the information, describing the story according to 5 W’s and H (Who, What, Where, When, Why and How). This enhances each writer’s ability as a prelude to active brainstorming session in writing assignments. In addition, the teacher's lecture takes a part then students start to write their stories or journals based on their homework and teacher reviews and coach providing feedback or commenting. Besides all of these activities or learning, they are also introduced to use current technology or software to layout their story and share with others. This class has contained with some of points from Jonassen's CLE; providing related cases and resources, activity, coaching with feedback, reflective questions, motivational prompts, hints and helps.
As a thought, in college today, faculty and students focus on dedicated subject area in depth with class projects. The nature of art classes is creating new forms or art using their own or existing tools and current technology, such as, painting, digital imaging, multimedia design, sculpture. The graphic arts classes I have taken are learner-centered, where students bring in their own concepts, and start from there they find tools to learn visual communication skills, artistic skills, and technical skills to develop their own art pieces. In OLEs, teachers provide support with technological tools and technical resources, which is crucial to guide students’ learning. Thus, Scaffolding is a necessary element in OLE to support students' learning. The four elements would include: Conceptual scaffolding would help students' brainstorming stagy, metacognitive scaffolding would help students' critical thinking, procedural scaffolding would help students' ability to process their learning and applying tools and skills, strategic scaffolding would guide students' idea or concept enrichment.
In Constructivist and Open Ended Learning Environment, mapping and constructing process or strategy of teaching and learning can be more flexible as we apply new technology. It is in the hands of teacher who paved the way to the student’s success by using preferring methods and tools in today’s learning environment. A good model of instructional design for class in general would be balance between constructivist and Open Ended Learning depending on the subject.
Monday, November 5, 2007
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