I'd very much like to know what those top 20 learning tools used by learners consist of, Bob. If, as I suspect, it's a combination of Web2 type technologies, this may well excite the learner - but if we're to use it to deliver learning, and we need…
Not that glamorous Ron but Professor Rose Luckin talking a lot of sense about the need to get rid of the "illusions" around the technology,institutions and knowledge which really summarise a lot of the challenges...you can follow the discussions on…
Sounds glamorous!
Pretty soon everyone will be shooting and editing video on their phones so definitely need to be able to upload content easily. Some kind of intelligent automatic meta-tagging would be good too.
Very good point about docs. I'm do…
Hi Ron and thanks for this....just on my way the C4 event on digital technologies and agree with the points you make. If you look at the top 20 learning tools used by learners today powerpoint and word are very low on their lists but if you were to…
I'm wondering whether a bottom-up approach would work better and be a good way to get teachers up-skilled for minimal cost and effort. Alot of kids are highly computer-literate (my three year old uses a PC at nursery!) and young people will already…
I've been thinking alot about this question because recently I've become increasingly (and unintentionally) involved in the dark, confusing world of learning management systems (LMS). We've had Moodle for a couple of years for testing content on. I…
With regard to 'Emotion in learning' I emailed Richard Mayer and rather wonderfully he mailed me straight back with an answer. Here is my email and Richard's reply:
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Hello Richard
My name is Rob Hubbard and I’m on the…
Make wifi free everywhere. This would be a huge shot in the arm, increasing productivity and people's access to information.
Give everyone an iPhone or similar device, make them support Flash and be easier to author for. If we could all browse the…
I put together the mindmap Christine posted above www.mindmeister.com/18195804 and chaired the conference we used it at. Part of this included facilitating a table discussion using the mindmap. Tables chose topics at random and then used the mindmap…