This is an excellent collection of tools that have been categorised under three headings - Visual Learners, Auditory Learners and Kinestheic learners. This is a modified VARK format.
http://www.collegeathome.com/blog/2008/06/10/100-helpful-web-tools-for-every-kind-of-learner/
Its an excellent post and one I will be using to update my own resource materials on VARK.
The thing that excites me the most is that not [...]
One of my current blog topics is 21st Century teaching and learning. I have written a number of posts on this topic.
I believe there are three factors or areas that key to 21st century teaching and learning:
The 21st Century teacher and learner
The 21st Century Learning space
Facilitating 21st Century learning by changing
resourcing
teaching skills
the curriculum
I have combined [...]
http://www.edutopia.org/ikid-digital-learner-technology-2008
Marc Prensky has written an excellent article on the 21st Century Learner. You need to read it.
Throughout the article he has made several observations that I find interesting and challenging.
“During my talks, however, I typically look out at oceans of white hair. Never — I can’t even say rarely — is a kid in sight [...]
The more I have considered teaching and learning in the 21st Century, the more convinced I am that our teaching and learning spaces must change to reflect the paradigm shift we are seeing with 21st Century learners and educator.
Classrooms have improved since the 19th Century, but essentially they are designed for the same traditional mode [...]
How do we take measure of ICT integration or implementation? Its not something we can score on a scale of 1 to 10 or measure as achieving with excellence or just passing. The benchmarks for every school and every classroom are different.
In preparing our students for the 21st Century, we must prepare them for the [...]
http://www.commoncraft.com/podcasting
Yeeha - another great resource from Lee and the crew at Commoncraft. This is a excellent resource and well worth using with students and staff alike.
Good effort.
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I have been foraging around for audio tools and I have found 2 text to speech tools that are free. One is an installed tool and the second an online one
http://www.naturalreaders.com/
This is a download for windows, this tool will allows you to convert any written text into speech, it also converts text to MP3. They [...]
I have long been a subscriber to Techlearning the ezine on technology and learning. Many of the writers are people whom I respect and admire as they strive to integrate ICT, manage districts or change perceptions on a national and often global scale - Miguel, Sheryl etc.
Well, I have just had a 5 page article [...]
http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/top-news/?i=53243
This is an interesting article. The research is commissioned by Cisco systems and says (not that its surprising) that multimodal teaching - teaching that includes visuals and auditory input have better learning outcomes.
“An analysis of existing research supports a notion that already has begun to transform instruction in schools from coast to coast: that multimodal [...]
