Educational Technology Journal Survey Research

University of Florida is conducting a survey about educational technology journals. The purposes of this research are to:
(1) advance the field of educational technology by determining the most academically prestigious publication venues in the field;
(2) determine most important factors relating to the choice of publishing in a journal in the field of educational technology; and
(3) connect research interests to specific journals in the field of educational technology.

This is a short survey (e.g., 15 minutes) that will evaluate several dimensions of the peer-reviewed journals in educational technology. Results will be shared with AECT and other educational technology groups.

 Interested to participate in this research go here and fill in the survey.

RSA Animate - Changing Education Paradigms , Ken Robinson

A 'Networked Student' in 21st Centruy, #PLENk2010

  In this video you can see how a 'connected student' in the 21st century learn and make his/her own learning networks. A student of 'Connectivism'  basically without a specific textbook or assigned lectur hours by teacher. Connectivist approach assumes that learning occures by making different social connections using tecgnology and tools and creating 'personal learning environment'. Using different social media and collaborative tools, a networked student is able to find relevant contents on the web, organize them in the way needed, reproduce and share them by social bookmarking tools like Delicious and Diigo and getting feedback from different people.

100 Inspiring Ways to Use Social Media In the Classroom

Social media may have started out as a fun way to connect with friends, but it has evolved to become a powerful tool for education and business. Sites such as Facebook and Twitter and tools such as Skype are connecting students to learning opportunities in new and exciting ways. Whether you teach an elementary class, a traditional college class, or at an online university, you will find inspirational ways to incorporate social media in your classroom with this list.

Theories of Learning

Web 3.0 (Semantic Web)

Revolution after revolution or revolution in revolution?! When the WWW was invented by Berners-Lee in early 90s it was so called the biggest human evolution after industrial revolution. Later on, by emerging  web 2.0 technologies and social media and different social networks like Facebook, Myspace, Twitter etc. there was a  big argumentation around it that how this evolution has changed human lives. Now it is all about the openness and connectedness of new generation of emerging social web tools which make it difficult for people to select and adopt them in appropriate ways. How one can manage very many different web applications and the information could be retrieved from them and how these huge sources of information could semantically be of help. That's the issue now that web 3.0 or semantic web is all about!

 

Above is a fascinating video by Kate Ray who has interviewd some experts in web technologies including: Tim Berners-Lee, Clay Shirky, Chris Dixon, David Weinberger, Nova Spivack, Jason Shellen, Lee Feigenbaum, John Hebeler, Alon Halevy, David Karger and Abraham Bernstein.