June 17, 2014
Categories: Access, E-learning, Education, Lessons
Alex Lizzappi’s insight: KA Lite is open-source software that mimics the online experience of Khan Academy for offline situations. Running KA Lite as a local server, you can watch Khan Academy videos, do Khan exercises, and track student progress — all without needing an Internet connection!
March 28, 2014
Categories: Ayiti Now Corp, Education, Lessons, Missions
Tags: learning, personalize, testing
Guest Post by Liberty Elem. Personalized Learning Team, Liberty Elem. School, RUSD, CA Liberty Elementary’s vision is to become a landmark school that provides personalization while fostering every learner’s highest potential. Their mission was developed by all teachers: “Liberty exists to nurture and facilitate innovators’ individual passion for learning. Through voice, choice, pace and path, …
February 26, 2014
Categories: E-learning, Education, Lessons
Tags: eBooks, Gamification, learning, program
\ Introduction BY CHRISTOPHER PAPPAS No Game, No Gain! Dedicated Learning Professionals and Educators across the globe were until recently desperately seeking for ways, methods and techniques to engage employees and students in the learning process. Surprisingly enough no one would think that gameswas the answer. After all, games tend to increase learners’ natural desire …
February 23, 2014
Categories: Lessons, Technology
Tags: problem-solving
Problem-solving is one of the most vital and basic skill which is required by every one of us in the 21stcentury. We feel the need of this skill quite frequently in our daily lives, and especially children should develop it at quite a young age to cope up with problems in education as well as …
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January 31, 2014
Categories: Education, Lessons
Tags: classification, constructionism
eymour Papert and Idit Harel The following essay is the first chapter in Seymour Papert and Idit Harel’s book Constructionism (Ablex Publishing Corporation, 1991). It is easy enough to formulate simple catchy versions of the idea of constructionism; for example, thinking of it as “learning-by-making.” One purpose of this introductory chapter is to orient the …