Thomas Friedman, Pulitzer prize winner and columnist of The New York Times, published an intriguing article in the beginning of 2013 about a situation he called “The Great Inflection”. Friedman argues that the world has evolved from connected into...
The New Media Consortium (NMC), which is an international community of experts in educational technology, has recently identified five pressing “wicked challenges” that are vital to the future of education. According to Koehler and Mishra (2008), wicked...
Looking back at my Middle School classes, I have vague memories of an elective entitled “computer class”, that totaled one period a week, two heads per PC. Back in 1994, that was how a small private school in Southern Brazil went about the technology trend. Twenty...
If a stranger were to examine my info diet, I wonder what reactions they would have to my very eclectic selections. Like most people I know, I spend considerable amounts of time glancing at my devices in search of information, from professional advice to personal big...
According to the National Center for Learning Disabilities, a learning disability (LD) is anything that will create a gap between “a person’s level of expected achievement and their performance.” These impairments can be detected fairly early with young learners, as...
The assignment for this week at cep812 from the MAET Program, where we discuss the application of Educational Technology to Issues of Practice, had the class thinking about how to become 21st-century smart. The work entitled The Anti-Education Era: Creating Smarter...
This is a screencast created to respond to the reading about well-structured and ill-structured problems in education. Below are the questions that guided my reasoning: 1. Show and/or tell us about your problem of practice 2. Identify it as well-structured or...
Learning is an integral part of my day. Personally, I seek ways to maintain my mind health by reading and consuming information from various sources without which my days would seem just empty. Nevertheless, rare is the occasion when one can live their 24 hours...
As it might be quite obvious by now, I truly believe in online education. Learning in the 21st century has been transformed into a whole new experience, and that has a direct correlation to the advances of technology and the web 2.0. The opportunities never cease to...
One of the projects which we dedicated ourselves to in cep811 is called StAIR – or Stand Alone Instructional Resource. The name says it all: It’s a presentation supposed to be run by itself, wherein the student’s comprehension is tested through...
