Future Learning | Mini Documentary

Students are the future, but what's the future for students? To arm them
with the relevant, timeless skills for our rapidly changing world, we
need to revolutionize what it means to learn. Education innovators like
Dr. Sugata Mitra, visiting professor at MIT; Sal Khan, founder of Khan
Academy; and Dr. Catherine Lucey, Vice Dean of Education at UCSF, are
redefining how we engage young minds for a creatively and
technologically-advanced future. Which of these eduvators holds the key
for unlocking the learning potential inside every student?                                                                      
What is the future of education?
Maybe this time we can consider how tech enhances - not replaces - traditional learning. 

Spring Blog Festival: Spring Blog Festival

Spring Blog Festival: Spring Blog Festival

Spring Blog Festival (SBF) is a one day event that will take place on Saturday March 21, 2015. The aim of the festival is to showcase bloggers and their work. The links to the webinars and content of the presentations will be available in the courseware.

Topics range from transformational blogging and reflective blogging to connectivity, history, evolution, teaching tools, multi-media, thinking & creativity, families, schools, and content curation.

Course Highlights

• Blogging for Learning
• Blogging for Business
• Blogging for Teaching
• Blogging for Fun

Songs for English Teaching

I love this song...

Let's Talk English File -- with teacher, Anthea Marks

European Commission launches network to foster web talent through Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)

http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-14-335_en.htm

About Diversity

Iversity.org is a platform for Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) whose main objective is to make a difference in education through the use of open online courses and supporting universities on their way into the digital age.

Useful links

Link to EC press release on the launch of first pan-European university MOOCs

Open Education Europa website

Startup Europe website

Grand Coalition for Digital Jobs website

From old to new — cultural identity and you

http://www.ukessays.com/essays/cultural-studies/the-dynamics-of-globalization-and-culture-cultural-studies-essay.php

“There is always a fracture between where I live and where I come from. I don’t think it’s possible to resolve this fracture. I saw that it was not just me, it was a shared phenomenon among immigrants.”
I have been interested in cultural identity forever.

When I talk about Poland with my foreign students,

I usually focus on introducing Polish "national character”, Polish Way. We debate on analogies and replication in social behavior of the Poles’ generations from the down up to present national customs, which form the Polish attitude. We talk about differences and similarities between the Poles and other European nations. My students also talk over the importance of the cultural universe, distinguishing features of the national character and traditions, as well. The lecture awakens students to Poland’s war with Communist rule, the Solidarity Movement –in 1989 official name of the state: Polish People's Republic became the history. This was a historic moment for all Europe; the a free and democratic Republic of Poland was born.

I have always felt Polish and being Polish is meaningful to me. My family has a long history. We have always been Polish; there are documents proving this.

Moreover, I feel that Polish history talks about my past and present family times, or another way around.

I am interested in your opinion about cultural diversity. What does it mean to be Canadian, French, Italian, American, German or British? Is your background significant?

 

Polish Democracy 1

Europe, The European Union And European Identity

The EU in its most robust form stands at the pinnacle of this vision – an integrated Europe with a single market subject to common rules and a shared framework of human rights and justice. The plurality of European nations could flourish within an overarching shared commitment to democratic rules and human rights standards. Power and authority could be remoulded upwards and downwards: cities, sub-national regions, nation states and the supra-national structure of the EU could all exist together in a cosmopolitan structure defined by not to my nation right or wrong, but by a shared political culture of democracy, markets and social justice.http://www.social-europe.eu/2014/02/europe-european-identity/

Tablets Offer So Much More Than Just One Text

http://learningonlineinfo.org/

 

 

Tablets Offer So Much More Than Just One Text

What makes these devices so compelling in the classroom and at home is they can not only offer two textbooks on one device, but hundreds. As well as that, they’ve gotten excellent at browsing the web in the last couple of years. With thousands of excellent Flash games and resources on the web, this makes the tablet an incredibly versatile tool.