How Writing a Learning Journal Can Increase Critical Thinking Skills
Remember reflection? That's something we used to do occasionally before we all became addicted to checking our Web-enabled devices every few minutes for our much-needed digital data fixes. Prior...
View ArticleWhy the MOOC cannot trump the campus
Andreas Kuswara's insight:i think it's a good article, helping us to step back and look at a bigger picture, since we have been having MOOC so close to our face, it's a good new perspective.and to...
View Article41 Apps One 4th Grade Teacher Depends On
Mobile apps & websites for teaching 4th grade elementary school students, such as Socrative, instaGrok, Educreations, Wordle, Wikispaces, Quizlet, etc.See it on Scoop.it, via Good Pedagogy
View ArticleNew Pedagogies in Our Connected World (Interview with Prof Steve Wheeler)
Andreas Kuswara's insight:"The implications are massive," says Steve. Like many futurists and learning theoreticians he believes hierarchies are dying. “We have exhausted and moved on from taxonomies....
View ArticleGraduate employability and the social good
" Higher education should not be steered by the labour market, but by the needs of society." interesting to know what people think about this? deems to be rsther utopian? personally I tend to agree,...
View ArticleTaking university teaching seriously
Andreas Kuswara's insight:sounds like treading slightly near the political side of things, which is not my comfortable space, but interesting when the speaker noted that while we, educators, claimed to...
View ArticleHow to Change Education - from the ground up
Sir Ken Robinson addresses the fundamental economic, cultural, social and personal purposes of education. He argues that education should be personalised to ...Andreas Kuswara's insight:Bottomline...
View ArticleThe Gates effect
am interesting read... provoking us to think about the ideals of education and reconcile it with the practicals that the world is facing.See it on Scoop.it, via Good Pedagogy
View ArticleMOOCs changing lives of genocide victims
I think there are places for different kind of MOOCs in our global society, rather than condemning one MOOCs being less than sophisticated than the others, maybe it's better if we just explore the...
View ArticleIT as a Force of Change (webinar)
Andreas Kuswara's insight:this is definitly an interesting conversation (1hr 30m webinar from EDUCAUSE.edu) about how technology influence education in general, and for a big part of it talks about...
View ArticleEvery Child Is An Artist
"What do Disney television honcho Anne Sweeney and internationally renowned education theorist Sir Ken Robinson have in common Ideas for unlocking creativity." I think many of tha principals can...
View ArticleCopyright - a general overview
Andreas Kuswara's insight:Smartcopying website: The Official Guide to Copyright Issues for Australian Schools and TAFE.useful resources for anyone needing references about copyright in academic workSee...
View ArticleAssessment in Open Space | by Catherine Cronin
Lecturer, facilitator and academic coordinator of online IT programmes at the National University of Ireland (NUI) GalwayAndreas Kuswara's insight:Interesting presentation by by Catherine Cronin;...
View ArticleSir Ken Robinson: What you cannot miss in the classroom.
Sir Ken Robinson, renowned in the field of education for his valuable contributions, expressed his view on the relationship between education and technology....Andreas Kuswara's insight:Sir Ken...
View ArticleThe impact of e-learning in social science education
interesting light read, although rather lengthy. There are some assumptions that you might disagree with, but interesting coverage of relevant discussions.See it on Scoop.it, via Good Pedagogy
View ArticleLearning, Learning, Learning not Apps, Apps, Apps
"An app on its own is like a thinker without thoughts!" Actually it's probably more like a plate without the dish, since apps role is only to provide affordances for learning activities to occur, the...
View ArticleUsing YouTube In The Classroom
"If you like to bring multimedia into your lessons (and who doesn't?) then you probably use YouTube in the classroom from time to time." YouTube also can go beyond merely viewing video, it gives us the...
View ArticleMassive: What Good is the M in MOOC?
Andreas Kuswara's insight:Interesting question, why massive? as in why so many students have to enroll in a single class? why not making the class small, but roll out the multiple classes? each...
View ArticleThe Essence of MOOCs: Multi-Venue, Non-Linear, Learner-Initiated Learning
A discussion of MOOCs as the logical outcome of the move toward learner-initiated learning.Andreas Kuswara's insight:MOOC, LIL & BYOD enabling students to move from externally imposed learning...
View ArticleGet Started Coding: A Student's Experience
Etsy has received attention for its partnership with Hacker School to recruit more women for both coding education generally and for its engineering departme... obviously this video was made for...
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