technology enhanced learning

TECHNOLOGY ENHANCED LEARNING

Brain-friendly methods, tools, environment, communities

What Do the Internet, neuron growth, and Creativity have in common?

“In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order”; Carl

Jung

Different views of the internet

Making sense of chaos

What do we do with the internet?

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” 

― W.B. Yeats

Can the internet bring learning to life and life to learning?

Wire, fire higher…….

Brain, drain,

train……

Is this art imitating life or life imitating itself?

The Internet and the Brain

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and

reassuring.

Carl Sagan

Critical thinking and exploration

The stuff of life!!

Technology may

remove our delusions.

The nature of the brain & the brain in nature.

Why do mindmaps look like neural networks?

Technology & the Brain

Which of these technologies do you or would you consider to be indispensible in an online or blended course?

Virtual classrooms

Educational platforms

Interactive, educational websites

Microsoft office

Learning management Systems

Social learning and networks

The world wide web

Google docs

Web tools

Multi-media

Which of these would you consider to be closed or open systems?

Virtual classrooms

Educational platforms

Interactive, educational websites

Microsoft office

Learning management Systems

Social learning and networks

The world wide web

Google docs

Web tools

Multi-media

What are the advantages and disadvantages of open and closed

systems?

Virtual classrooms

Educational platforms

Interactive, educational websites

Microsoft office

Learning management Systems

Social learning and networks

The world wide web

Google docs

Web tools

Multi-media

Can you give examples of the environments, tools, and communities

below and give examples of some teaching methods you could apply to them?

Virtual classrooms

Educational platforms

Interactive, educational websites

Microsoft office

Learning management Systems

Social learning and networks

The world wide web

Google docs

Web tools

Multi-media

Some influences and recommended reading

Books:Emotional IntelligenceDaniel Goleman

Social intelligenceDaniel Goleman

The Dragon Fly effect JenniferAaker, Andy Smith Net Smart

Howard Rheingold The Mindful Guide to Online

LivingAndre Klein

A mindful guide to Social mediaAndre Klein

Vygotsky and creativity

Social Media Examiner

Blue grass blog

LearnOut Live

How to build up a thriving PLN in 2013

Why we need strategies for creativity

Edukwest on a search for better education

Some tools for self-expression

Eduglogster

Prezi

imindMindmaple

AnimotoGo animate

Learning environments

Artistic platforms Learning spaces

Eduglogster

Story Bird

BitstripsMake Belief

ComixPixton comics

Go animate

Moodle

Club EFL

Edmodo

OpenClass

Wikis

BlogsSecond Life

Technology is beautiful!!

Fourteen articles about creativity, technology and learning