It’s pretty amazing how advanced stuff you can develop with Lego Mindstorm. These are five robot favorites! Cool machine that folding a paper plane and launches it Amazing record-breaking Lego ball contraptiont This cool Lego Rubik's cube solver you can build with a single set Mindstorms NXT 2.0 Of Monster and Men Little Talks played on... Continue Reading →
Individualized learning in the Networked Society
When I met Professor Stephen Heppell in London last month, he raised interesting ideas about measuring the learning process. He said that in the future, we will start to measure our learning in the same manner as many of us today have started to measure our health or our sports activities. As the services and... Continue Reading →
Learning and education are in a time of transformation. The research I been involved in shows that students and progressive teachers, empowered by technology, are the catalysts to fundamental change. ICT is literally breaking down the walls of the classroom, and we have to start looking upon learning as something that takes place everywhere, all... Continue Reading →
Empowered learning – how ICT is reshaping our classrooms
All around the world, a lively debate is taking place on the subjects of learning and education. At the 2011 Networked Society Forum in Hong Kong, Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes proclaimed that the textbook is dead. In a recent interview, Professor of Educational Technology at Newcastle University, Sugata Mitra says that we don’t need institutional learning anymore because everything... Continue Reading →
How the Internet is Revolutionizing Education
Nice infograph how internet is changing education from OnlineEducation.net Via: OnlineEducation.net
Fem roliga appar för barn (och vuxna)
I april skrev jag om bra appar för barn (du hittar den posten här >>). Somliga appar är roligare än andra, andra håller länge när man väl lärt sig hur de fungerar. I många fall får man mycket skoj för pengarna som den väldigt vackra och roliga Bumpy Road för endast 22 kronor. Sedan finns... Continue Reading →
The Invisible Girl
A couple a days ago the anthology "Invisible Girl - Ceci n’est pas une fille” was released by Umeå University. You find Marcus and my contribution under the theme Gender and Contemporary Media, Chapter 23, page 207. https://iml.edusci.umu.se/invisiblegirl/files/2012/06/Invisible_Girl_web.pdf
TED-Ed gives teachers new tools to teach
Last month, I wrote a number of posts on how the ICT industry is transforming the way we learn across all stages of education. As education evolves, we need more than just a new kind of teacher – we need a new way of teaching. Instead of concentrating on memorizing knowledge, like I did at school, we... Continue Reading →
Rewiring education in the Networked Society
ICT is transforming the way we learn and the way we do business. Competition that was once local is now global. And if you want to stay competitive, the need to know how to leverage technology effectively in the workplace is becoming essential, no matter what industry you work in. Businesses and the public sector... Continue Reading →
Bra appar för barn
Det är intressant och se hur barnen använder apparna på Ipaden och mobilerna, hur de lär sig, hur de interagerar och vilka appar som de tycker är kul i längden. För ett år sedan fanns den inte många appar för barn. Men sedan dess har strömmen stadigt ökat och framförallt är det många indie-producenter, folk... Continue Reading →
Mikael Eriksson Björling 