Connected Learning: Reflections on a Decade of Engaged Scholarship
This report presents a vision for understanding and revitalizing the ways in which we support learning during these changing times. Responding to the interests and needs of young people, researchers, educational practitioners, and policy and technology makers, this report synthesizes a varied set of content and perspectives: empirical research on the changing landscape of new media and learning, design principles, evaluation approaches, learner and case studies oriented to identifying and spreading positive innovations. The authors were part of the Connected Learning Research Network (CLRN), an interdisciplinary group of scholars, designers, and educational practitioners, who collaborated between 2011 and 2019 to study [...]
In their own words: what bothers children online? with the EU Kids Online Network
Nearly 10,000 children told these authors in this report about what upsets them and their friends online. Their responses were diverse, revealing a long list of concerns. Pornography (named by 22% of children who told us of risks) and violent content (18%) top children’s online concerns. Overall, boys appear more bothered by violence than girls, while girls are more concerned with contact-related risks. Violence receives less public attention than sexual material, but many children are concerned about violent, aggressive or gory online content. As children told them, video-sharing websites are often associated with violent and pornographic content, along with a range [...]
IV Congreso Internacional de Tecnologías en la Educación
La Comunidad Internacional de Tecnologías en la Educación está formada por una red de investigadores y profesores que organizan este año el V Congreso Internacional de Tecnologías en la Educación. Para esta edición del Congreso proponen focalizar el interés de la comunidad educativa en el campo de metodologías docentes basadas en la gamificación. Se trata de una gran oportunidad de compartir, experimentar e incorporar a nuestro quehacer docente estrategias para conseguir una mejor motivación para los estudiantes. Fechas: 26 y 27 de marzo de 2020 Lugar: Cancún, México Inscripciones en: http://tecno-educacion.com/congreso-2020/inscripcion/ Se abordarán otras temáticas relacionadas con la innovación docente, las [...]
Personalised Learning with ICT: the visión & the practice
Iris Merino2020-02-23T11:55:21+01:00“The learner at the center of the education system should not be a new education initiative; it should rather be a new philosophy in education” Autor: Evie Benetou, University of Warwick. ITTE Annual Conference 2011.
Novedad: Newsletter de BLE
Recientemente, el equipo de Bridging Learning Experiencies (BLE) hemos creado un newsletter con el que difundir las últimas novedades del sitio web y crear un nuevo canal de acercamiento para investigadores, profesionales de la educación y diferentes agentes involucrados en el ámbito educativo. Este newsletter es de formato digital y se enviará a través del correo electrónico con periodicidad bimensual.Si deseas recibir información de nuestras noticias, voces y recursos más destacados, ¡suscríbete aquí!
GLOBAL KIDS ONLINE: CHILE / Chilean children’s internet use and online activities
The aims of this study were to: (a) adapt the Global Kids Online survey to be applied in the Chilean context; and (b) to gather data from a representative sample related to the access, uses, skills and risks of young internet users in Chile. About findings, first, in relation to access, results show that 84.5% of households with child internet (9 to 17 years-old) users have a connection at home, which is higher than the home access of all Chilean households (76%) (SUBTEL, 2016). However, there are differences by socioeconomic group (SEG) regarding the availability and type of connection. Second, regarding [...]
Stages of Personalized Learning Environments
In this chart, Barbara Bray and Kathleen McClaskey present a work called “Stages of Personalized Learning Environments (PLE)”. The authors present how learners use voice and choice when they create their Learner Profile (LP) and Personal Learning Plans (PLP). The authors updated their previous work, changing some of the terminology and wanting to align the chart with the information in their book called “How to Personalize Learning” (2016). Stages of Personalized Learning Environments (PLE) version 5 from Barbara Bray & Kathleen McClaskey
Steps to Creating the Conditions for Deep, Rigorous and Applied Learning
Many school administrators, teachers and parents want the education provided to children to be high quality, rigorous and connected to the world outside the classroom. Teachers are trying to provide these elements in various ways, but a group of schools calling themselves the “Deeper Learning Network” have codified some of what they believe are essential qualities of deep learning. Some of these qualities include learning designated content, critical thinking, communication skills, collaborating effectively and connecting learning to real-world experiences. The infographic Steps to Creating the Conditions for Deep, Rigorous, Applied Learning shows us the keys of how to promote deeper learnings. [...]