Came across this link yesterday. Some of these innovations are quite interesting.
http://online.wsj.com/public/page/technology-innovation-awards-09272010.html
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Monday, September 6, 2010
TED Talk - Nov 2009 - Pranav
One of my favorite TED talks. If you have the time to watch it. Hopefully technology and the physical environment merge increasingly merge in the future. Its great to know some of these innovations will be open sourced.
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/guj/pranav_mistry_the_thrilling_potential_of_sixthsense_technology.html
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/guj/pranav_mistry_the_thrilling_potential_of_sixthsense_technology.html
Service Learning
In a meeting with Dr. Andrew Furco while discussing service learning, we talked about ways in which UMN could design a course together with Argentina - FLACSO in which undergraduate students could learn about the capability of youth in bringing about global change and the different programs in the world where this has taken place, analyzing both advantages and disadvantages. The class currently is conceived as a six credit course in which students could learn the theory and its history during the spring semester of 2011 at the University of Minnesota, where the students divided in groups of 3 to 4 students will partner with a local organization and help their youth members conduct a service learning project. The goal is not to help the children directly but rather have the students work side by side with the young adults and children taking part in this project and learn the capabilities for youth to bring about change. With few assessed limitations and a high level of idealism children are at times more willing to tackle issues that adults would be hesitant to be involved with.
While continuing to dialog about the subject, Dr. Furco elaborated on the capabilities of children led movements by talking about a previous child led initiative in which children at an elementary school when discussing slavery in America asked their teacher if slavery still took place in the world. Being a good teacher, she researched the topic and explained to the children how slavery was still taking place in Sudan, where at times when the parents were indebted, they would sell their children as laborers. When the young students learned about this, they decided to take action and coordinating with an NGO they collected thousands of dollars to buy the freedom of a number of child slaves in Sudan. While purchasing slaves raises some moral questions, including whether or not it alleviates the problem or perhaps exacerbates it, as slave owners may see the purchasing of slaves by NGOs as a way to generate revenue, what is unquestionable is that from a simple classroom
idea, children in the United States were able to organize a movement to free children from the bondage of slavery half way across the world.
Technorati Tags: student centered, slavery, service learning, sudan, andrew furco
While continuing to dialog about the subject, Dr. Furco elaborated on the capabilities of children led movements by talking about a previous child led initiative in which children at an elementary school when discussing slavery in America asked their teacher if slavery still took place in the world. Being a good teacher, she researched the topic and explained to the children how slavery was still taking place in Sudan, where at times when the parents were indebted, they would sell their children as laborers. When the young students learned about this, they decided to take action and coordinating with an NGO they collected thousands of dollars to buy the freedom of a number of child slaves in Sudan. While purchasing slaves raises some moral questions, including whether or not it alleviates the problem or perhaps exacerbates it, as slave owners may see the purchasing of slaves by NGOs as a way to generate revenue, what is unquestionable is that from a simple classroom
idea, children in the United States were able to organize a movement to free children from the bondage of slavery half way across the world.
Technorati Tags: student centered, slavery, service learning, sudan, andrew furco
Webinar - Technology Innovations in Higher Education - Univ. of Phoenix
Despite missing the actual webinar, I was able to listen this online session later through a Phoenix Online courtesy email. The webinar overviewed the changes to the online education industry over the years, where online education is moving towards, and how the University of Phoenix plans to take advantage of social networks within their education program to enhance their online platform. The speakers, Adam Honea and Michael White, contend that the proper use of technology can promote a more student centered, constructivist, personalized, social, and convenient form of education.
Here is the link to the webinar recording. The interface also allows the viewer to download the presentation slides as a pdf file. Hope you enjoy it!
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We heard a wide range of viewpoints on “Technology Innovations in Higher Education” from University of Phoenix leaders Bill Pepicello, President; Adam Honea, Provost; and Michael White, Chief Technology Officer.
If you would like to view a recording of the Webinar, please visit http://event.on24.com/r.htm?e=234475&s=1&k=93ED6BC452966C814B7DCF069E4CFD50. We encourage you to forward this e-mail to any colleagues who may have also missed this session.
To gain a better understanding of how University of Phoenix is supporting our communities through higher education, please visit http://www.phoenix.edu.
Best Regards,
University of Phoenix
The original event was broadcast on:
Date: Thursday, August 19, 2010
Time: 2:00 PM EDT
Duration: 60-minutes
Here is the link to the webinar recording. The interface also allows the viewer to download the presentation slides as a pdf file. Hope you enjoy it!
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We heard a wide range of viewpoints on “Technology Innovations in Higher Education” from University of Phoenix leaders Bill Pepicello, President; Adam Honea, Provost; and Michael White, Chief Technology Officer.
If you would like to view a recording of the Webinar, please visit http://event.on24.com/r.htm?e=234475&s=1&k=93ED6BC452966C814B7DCF069E4CFD50. We encourage you to forward this e-mail to any colleagues who may have also missed this session.
To gain a better understanding of how University of Phoenix is supporting our communities through higher education, please visit http://www.phoenix.edu.
Best Regards,
University of Phoenix
The original event was broadcast on:
Date: Thursday, August 19, 2010
Time: 2:00 PM EDT
Duration: 60-minutes
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