"Predicting the future is easy. It's trying to figure out what's going on now that's hard" (Dressler, 2005)
Last week, I stumbled upon an EdTechReview blog post out of India on “How Curriculum for 21st Century Must Look Like?“. One of the things I treasure about my PLN is the alternative viewpoints that come out of Europe, Asia, South America and Australia. Granted that while different, higher education is really not that different…we… Read more 30 Day Challenge – Day 18 – The Imagination Spiral
Yesterday, I talked about woodpeckers and swifts…today my inspiration is penguins. Actually, my inspiration was a blog post by Garr Reynolds last week – “There’s no shame in falling. The key is getting up!” As Garr noted: “…What inspires me most about this flightless bird is their resilience. They make the best of a… Read more 30 Day Challenge – Day 17 – Teaching Like Penguins
My wife and I love birds. We have several birdfeeders in the backyard and plant flowers and shrubs that are bird-friendly. Sometimes that means the local hawks thin the flock a bit…but that is part of nature as well. Three different species of woodpeckers frequent our suet and peanut feeders, while – because we also… Read more 30 Day Challenge – Day 16 – Woodpecker or Swift
Maryellen Weimer had an interesting post today in Faculty Focus – “What’s Your Learning Philosophy?” Interesting because in GRAD-602, we have had students working on their teaching philosophies. One facet of transitioning from expert student to novice faculty can be reflecting on what one’s philosophy is about teaching. We provide resources such as Gabriela Montell’s… Read more 30 Day Challenge – Day 15 – Learning and Teaching
Divergent thinking typically comes out of annual SXSW conference. Earlier this month, the conference featured Bruce Sterling, a noted science fiction author, as a keynoter. Bruce used a phrase from his and Jon Lewbowsky’s State of the World 2012 post that he had previously used…and which got a bit of buzz: “The Future Is About… Read more 30 Day Challenge – Day 14 – Competing Fantasies
My 30-Day Challenge question for today was sparked by a post this weekend from Paolo Narcisco – “Knowledge Management As We Know It May Not Exist in 2020 (and here’s why)“. Paolo wrote: “…Consider this scenario. In 2020, over 60% of the workforce will be made up of Millennials. While I come from the Connected… Read more 30 Day Challenge – Day 13 – Yik Yak Accountability
In the Online Learning Insights weekly news this morning, there is a review of the Serious eLearning Manifesto, released last week by four e-learning “instigators.” These instigators suggest that most elearning is broken, and that a new set of standards are required to raise elearning to its potential. Quoting from the manifesto: Supporting Principles 1. … Read more 30 Day Challenge – Day 12 – Serious eLearning, Seriously?
The NMC Horizon Report Higher Education Edition for 2014 lists six challenges which the review panel believes are very likely to impede technology adoption over the next five years. These challenges are sorted into three categories defined by the nature of the challenge — solvable challenges are those that we both understand and know how… Read more 30 Day Challenge – Day 11 – Relevancy
Next week along with my colleague Jeff Nugent, I am leading our second learning path session on online teaching, looking at the evolution of elearning. Borrowing a page from Brian Lamb, I plan to take the participants on a bit of a historical journey. Mankind first formed social groups about 200,000 years ago Mankind became… Read more 30 Day Challenge – Day 10 – Linear or Exponential
Disclaimer – I have friends that work for Softchalk. One of their recent ads suggested that “If Content is King, shouldn’t it be RICH?” There seems to be this assumption that content is indeed king. Google “Content is King” and you get a bazillion returns. One I liked was from Socialmedia Today, which quoted Jonathan… Read more 30 Day Challenge – Day 9 – Student-Generated Textbook