How Using A Drawing Tablet Revolutionized My Online Tutoring Service
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by James Ashenhurst (@jamesashchem). He is a Ph.D. organic chemist, online tutor and the founder of Master Organic Chemistry, an online guide to introductory organic chemistry. In collaboration with Metamolecular he recently published theReagents app for iPhone, a guide to the 80+ reagents in undergraduate organic chemistry.
I’m an organic chemist and I tutor the subject online through Skype. Chemistry is a very visual subject. So one of the major problems I had to solve in order to provide a valuable online tutoring experience was to be able to draw structures for my students in real time…
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10 Ways That Mobile Learning Will Revolutionize Education
By Fabio Sergio, fastcodesign.comFrog’s Fabio Sergio on how mobile devices will provide learning opportunities for people across age and income spectrums.
Smartphones and tablet computers are radically transforming how we access our shared knowledge sources by keeping…
“Smartphones and tablet computers are radically transforming how we access our shared knowledge sources by keeping us constantly connected to near-infinite volumes of raw data and information. We enjoy unprecedented instant access to expertise, from informal cooking lessons on YouTube to online university courses. Every day people around the globe are absorbed in exciting new forms of learning, and yet traditional schools and university systems are still struggling to leverage the many opportunities for innovation in this area.”
Creating a Seamless User Experience for Digital Textbooks
Kirsten Winkler, rafter.com
Digital textbooks still take a smaller percentage of the overall textbook market, but with the increasing adoption of tablets in education I believe it is safe to say that they will be the standard five years from…
@kirstenwinkler thinking about the accessibility of e-textbooks across multiple devices http://flpbd.it/2lnbw
3 Free iPad Whiteboard Apps To Record Video Lessons Like Khan Academy
great article by Kirsten Winkler
The iPad has found quite some success in the education community with an increasing number of teachers calling an iPad II or even the new iPad their own, and the same is true for many families. Today’s article is a comparative review of three handy whiteboard apps to teach your students and people around the world.
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Howard Rheingold on how the five web literacies are becoming essential survival skills
Will it Blend? Putting the Person Back in Personalized Online Learning Studies
For all the great advantages of online learning, there is one big downside, which is not necessarily the fault of online learning but of the way people relate to it:
There exists a wide-spread deception that using tools can replace teaching or learning for that matter, and while few people would admit actually believing this, the number of blogs and articles about techno-centric education prove the opposite.
Their approach is built on the valid understanding that tools can be used as an extension but then goes overboard until the learning itself becomes completely shrouded in never-ending talks about tools, technologies, apps, etc.
All of this obscures the fact that while people like to talk about education and be seen as philanthropists their understandingof what learning actually means might be limited.
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Why Parents and Educators Are Epically Failing the War on Cyber-Bullying
A recent study showed that 74% of Parents friend Their Children on Facebook.
Needless to say, they don’t always do it just for fun.
Since Social Media mirrors the world of relationships with all its attractions and dangers, parents naturally want to keep tabs on what their offspring is doing, especially if they’re underaged.
As simple as it sounds, this monitoring is demanding more and more time from both parents and educators.
But is there really a need to monitor your kids? Isn’t that a bit “big-brotherish”?
