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Wolfram/Alpha Revisited
Wolfram/Alpha continues under development even as the company releases apps through iTunes. I first posted about this computational knowledge engine on April 6, 2009. Since then, they have added many apps for learning academic skill. Check out their apps for … Continue reading
Encke: Virtual University Collaboration
Here’s another step toward ubiquitous organized university learning venues! Encke invites you to participate in a first of a kind event, an in-world mixture of conference, workshop and collaboration, to discuss, design, build, operate and evaluate various virtual teaching and learning spaces for … Continue reading
7 Signs You May Be Rationing Learning
A good teacher provides students with (1) direction, tools and time to learn efficiently; (2) a challenging, engaging, and rewarding setting whether in a classroom, tobacco barn or under the sky; and (3) temporary isolation from daily distractions and diversions not … Continue reading
Seven Things to Do Before Using aLEAP
If you haven’t applied behavioral science principles and data for awhile, you might be surprised that you already use them. They account for learning from your lessons. It’s simple to refine your use in order to increase learning by students. … Continue reading
Learning Efficiency Quotient
I’m moving ahead with the development of a Learning Efficiency Quotient (LEQ). It provides an evaluation of an instructor and of instruction. LEQ indicates the relative use of personal resources (time, effort, etc.) by a learner that a lesson requires. … Continue reading
Lesson Planning and Instruction by Design or as Decoration
While reading educators’ blogs, it has become clear that learners offer a view of lesson planning and instruction that fits only a fraction of what educators do. I’ve started outlining a learners’ view in a Learning Efficiency Analysis Paradigm (aLEAP). … Continue reading
Decisive Schools 2010: Q & A Notes
Decisive Schools 2010: Q & A Notes Recorded* at Illinois State Teachers Assembly, Peoria, IL Panel: Teacher Preparation for Near Future Education Moderator: Donna Pahl Wilkinson Date: September 5, 2006 Introduction Decisive Schools 2010 exist as a concept drawn from … Continue reading
Making Progress with eBook
I’m making progress again with my eBook. That’s why posts have been fewer recently. It’s really several books under one title, a collection of cleaned up observations, notes and suggestions for using advancing technologies to increase learning. And, yes, it … Continue reading
Twitter Notes to PowerPoint
NESI teachers find Dave Johnson’s suggested ways to use Twitter improves classroom PowerPoint presentations. They use: 1. The add-on PowerPoint Feedback Slides to insert student feedback clouds with a presentation. They configure it, so they can moderate feeds before they … Continue reading
Enterprising Instruction with Enterprise Resource Planning
Use of business enterprise style, data-driven instruction expands in public schools, thanks in part to encouragement from the US Department of Education for such management of learning as part of school reform. Electronic technology helps a growing number of educators … Continue reading