Educational Origami

As I drove to work this morning I was informed of the unfolding drama in Mumbai. The reports were vague and like most radio news article on the 1/2 hour.  But these and television reports are not the only information sources available.
Twitter is providing a crowdsourcing feed of information. Someone, who knows who it is, [...]

About a year or two ago I created a page on the edorigami wiki that compared digital and traditional approaches to teaching and learning. Well a lot can happen in a year or two so the time has come to update the tools and add in some interesting web 2.0 applications and remove the odd [...]

A while ago I wrote a post on unlearning. This post received a number of replies and comments. I believe that we need to teach our students principles independent of software packages. By this I mean:

Principles of word processing
Principles of data processing
Principles of data presentation
Principles of design

Many things change, we all have seen the rapid [...]

Lee LeFever at the commoncraft show have produced another of their excellent “in Plain English” videos.
This one is Microsoft windows live http://www.commoncraft.com/windows-live
This is another excellent resource for professional development and teaching & learning.
Here are some other recent videos from Commoncraft:

Phishing scams in Plain English
Web search strategies in Plain English
Social media in Plain English

addthis_url [...]

Educause has released their latest publication -
7 Things You Should Know About Flip Camcorders
These cheap and simple tools have been earning fans everywhere not the least of which is Richard – TEK
You can view the article online or down load it as a pdf file
Recent:
7 Things You Should Know About Ustream
7 Things You Should [...]

I have watched the brilliant video “Pay Attention” many times. (Jordan School district) It quotes the work of Marc prensky and Ian Jukes and a number of other leading advocates of ICT. But one comment within it  always interested me “Whenever I go to school, I have to power down”. During some research I was [...]

Recently, two colleagues of mine have run foul of the appraisal systems within their schools. Both are leading ICT innovators, both are competent teachers and both are seen as leading examples (and in one case is an award winning teacher for the use of Technology) of the use of technology in the classroom. While obviously [...]

This is an neat tool that allows you to submit news and incidents as they happen. The tool was used in Kenya during the elections and South Africa and was used to map the violence that unfolded there. It is now being used in the Congo to bring incidents and reports out from the areas [...]

Ewen in  a recent post -we are all in the connected generation -  lambasted the use of the term “21st Century Learning”. It was a shotgun post on a shotgun term, and I agree with the sentiments while I might has phrased it differently.
I use the catch words 21st century learning, digital native, digital immigrant, [...]