Charlie in ‘Buried in your own startup? Who’s going to get buried in yours?‘ writes:
‘…too many people bury themselves in their own work, and then when it comes down to needing a supportive community to grow their service, they find a lot of tumbleweed blowing through their social graph. Don’t expect to disappear on your [...]
Games to Learn English has a variety of fun and highly interactive games and activities to learn English, nicluding Basketball, Shoot, Food ,Sounds, FastHands and Christmas.
Online Utility offers us the following:
Readability Test and Improve : Calculate and print various readability tests, for your students to find sentences which they could consider rewriting to improve the [...]
HighContrast offers insight into the question of why peeople tend to thing that ‘Entrepreneurs know how to operate in uncertain environments‘. His thoughts are split into three streams: Luck and timing; Gut Sense; and Iterative Improvement.
OnStartups, takes ‘8 Startup Insights inspired by the mega mind of Seth Godin‘. These include: resist becoming average; let your [...]
The Wisconsin online Resource Center, “a digital library of web-based learning resources,…is available to colleges, universities and consortia from throughout the United States and around the world with permission.” has some pretty impressive stuff. Also, Curriki , which aims to allow teachers to collect lesson plans, contribute teaching resources and connect with other educators is [...]
In this day and age where it is a constant struggle to keep up with the latest web 2.0 technologies, Mashable offers us “35 Tools For Teachers, Tutors and Students“. It offers all kinds of tools that can help you do most of your planning including learning management systems, social networking communities for students, as [...]
For the love of poetry.
@Edu, after sharing with us, that the most common student response to her question, “What kinds of writing do you like to do?” is “Poetry!”, she points us to a perfect site for aspiring junior youth writers: The Young Writers Society, which is “Specifically created for young writers ages 13 [...]
Learn about Virtual Worlds
It seems as if all the junior youth are into virtual worlds these days. Raph Koster, the video gaming guru, points us to the “2008 Metaverse Tour Video” which is a video tour of almost all the major virtual worlds, whilst LightSpeed offers and excellent summary of points via its “Cartoon Networks [...]
Maryellen Weimer, through her experiences with knitting, she writes about “Deep learning”
“….Surface learning is equated with memorization and rote learning as opposed to deep learning generally laid alongside understanding. Actually, I’ve been thinking that deep learning is something more.
….Deep learning means making something your own, owning it, and fitting it into the framework of your [...]
Although, very short on information, it seems that at least the idea of what “Heekya” is planning, sounds very interesting. From their blog:
‘Heekya is a social storytelling platform. We aim to change the way you tell, share and discover stories on the internet.”
Mashable gives a slightly more detailed explanation of the service:
Currently in private beta, [...]
In “Videogames and learning: Individualization, simluation, and complexity”, Scott McLeod talks about three core ideas:
the individualization of learning
the simulation of authentic experiences
intellectual complexity
(Okay, so they may not be easy, but there are 3 of them!). Three notable quotes from each of these ideas are:
the individualisation of learning
Video games are structured so that learners constantly operate [...]
