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Will Richardson graduated as Bachelor of Science in Journalism, Ohio University, Athens, OH in 1980 and Master of Arts (Teaching), College of New Jersey, Trenton, NJ, in 1983. He is a very active presence on the web; he has both a Twitter and YouTube channel and a highly ranked edublog on Weblogg-ed. Richardson is now an independent presenter and owner of Connective Learning, LLC. He promotes the implementation of Read/Write technologies in K-12 classrooms. He is also an advocate for school reform which encourages the integration of technology in learning. He was also recently named to the National Advisory Board for the George Lucas Education Foundation. Along with Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach, he is co-owner of Powerful Learning Practice, a company that delivers job-embedded, year-long professional development to schools worldwide around the pedagogies of Web 2.0 tools. District Administration magazine publishes a quarterly column by Richardson titled The Online Edge. Will Richardson has been part of a panel presentation at the 2006 Milken Global Conference and has given presentations all over the world.
Over the years in the history of Education, Educational Technology has taken New Avatars from the Programmed Learning Movement to the present era of Web 2.0 Technologies and Social Media. By using Social Media Platforms such as Wikis, Blogs, WhatsApp, Facebook and Twitter in the classroom, teachers have seen an increase in achievement and classroom participation – even less sociable students have become more participatory. Tablets not only offer the present digital learners the chance to browse for information in quick fashions, but they also allow them to more easily collaborate on projects and become more engaged in their learning process. They have become exceptional tools that soon every classroom will strive to have. The Smartphones, like the tablet, have had different receptions. In addition to providing access to social media platforms which allow students to more freely interact, the Smartphones also provide easy access to useful information which betters a child’s overall learning experience. They also offer numerous apps designed to help students better budget their time and create more efficient schedules to complete their school work. Like never before, students are able to access any type of information about any subject matter through free web resources. They choose Khan Academy, YouTube, NROER, OER and numerous other forums which have bettered the learning experience and allowed student access to resources necessary to supplement their own education. Since the start of online programmes, anybody is able to pursue education anytime, anywhere. “With the emerging new technologies, the teaching profession is evolving from an emphasis on teacher-centered, lecture-based instruction to student-centered, interactive learning environments” (John Daniel, 2002). Today, the world of education stands loaded with unprecedented hope for a new paradigm of ‘anybody, anytime, anywhere learning’ through collaborative and constructive pedagogical models, thanks to the all-new web technologies. According to Douglas Kellner (2008), this technological revolution will have a greater impact on society than the transition from an oral to a print culture. George Siemens (2009) observed, “Technology is altering (rewiring) our brains. The tools we use define and shape our thinking”. Today’s teachers, whether in school or college are working with students whose entire lives have been immersed in the 21st century media culture.“The previous teaching practices of teacher directed, ‘chalk and talk’ no longer can engage the learner, nor can it provide the learner with the knowledge needed to connect and stay connected in this digital era (Siemens, O’Neill & Carr, 2008). The New York Times (2011) observed, “Learning, like culture, is a dynamic thing. It was an oral thing once, then it became a printed thing and is becoming a digital thing.” The much-hyped 21st century education is bold. It breaks the mold. It is flexible, creative, challenging, and complex.
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Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts: Harnessing Technology for Enhanced Learning Achievement2010 •
December 2010 Vol. 7. No. 12. 3 Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts: Harnessing Technology for Enhanced Learning Achievement through Powerful Web Tools Jephias Mapuva, Juliet Stoltenkamp and Loveness Muyengwa South Africa Abstract Technology and the employment of etools ...
The field of online learning is an ever-improving art and science. There are many lessons that schools can learn from the online learning industry. Over the last five years, the industry has learnt to separate technology from methodology and channel more resources into instructional designs and approaches. Every few months, a new trend hits the online learning industry in corporations around the world. This paper aims to place three interrelated new trends (reusable learning objects, blended learning and instructional design) in online learning within the context of schools and their implications for schools. These implications include the need for schools to coordinate and collaborate in the creation of learning objects, adopt a learning management system that searches distributed catalogues of learning objects, acquaint teachers to instructional design principles, redefine the roles of students and teachers, and reassess the curriculum and mode of assessment.
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