Saving Lives

Valuable discovery to save lives!

Nutritionists innovated food for malnourished children that doesn’t require refrigeration, water, cooking and it has minerals and vitamins. Student can discuss other solutions to eradicate World Hunger.
I can't imagine what is like to live in a place where people have no electricity, water, and food.

Human rights report released

Emerging Powers for World Peace!

This news video reports on a dark side of our society. Many people may not want to talk about it because it is sad. However, I found that the issue this video points out is something we can use to bring global awareness into the classroom. We could discuss further the causes and the impacts of this issue as well as what solutions we could implement in order to create a peaceful society.

This video emphasizes a significant aspects of social study. “Human rights and freedom” – This news report brings attention to the importance of sharing visions, collective leadership as well as the necessity of courage and commitment in realizing the human rights that the United Nations adopted 6 decades ago.

Dean Kamen: New prosthetic arm for veterans

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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.

Talks Ross Lovegrove: The power and beauty of organic design

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"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.

Speed limit

We have a speed limit on the road for safety.

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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.

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.