Author: scoopit
40 Viewing Comprehension Strategies: Watching Videos Like You Read A Book
Studies of the effectiveness of video in formal learning environments have yielded some confusing ideas, namely that content acquired via video consumption doesn’t easily transfer to the medium of text (Fisch 2002; Koran, Snow & McDonald 1971). This doesn’t…
Read More »Digital Badges for Learning
With the Mozilla Open Badge project and any number of recent initiatives, the idea of using badges for documenting learning continues to gain interest and traction in the field of education. What is a digital badge? Think of a…
Read More »Top 4 Benefits of Using Moodle for your School – Why it Works as a Platform for Student-Teacher Interaction
”The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.” – Carl Rodgers The aforementioned quote rightly suffices the problem arising in prevalent education system. We have been cultivating ourselves since…
Read More »Digital literacy: the perks and pitfalls of plugged-in students
The increasing number of digitally literate students, with constant access to the internet via their own handheld devices, can cause problems for lecturers – but they also offer scholars the opportunity to undertake new and exciting research methods….
Read More »Moodle 2.9Dev now available for testing and development
If you’ve developed a plugin or theme and want to get a jump start on testing that theme against the changes that will be released in Moodle 2.9, the 2.9Dev branch is for you and is available now….
Read More »Joomla! 3.4.1 Released
The 3.4 release introduces new features into the CMS such as improved front end module editing, decoupling of weblinks, composer integration, Google new reCaptcha and security improvements by implementing UploadShield code which can detect most malicious uploads by…
Read More »Blended Learning Visually Explained for Teachers
Blended Learning is one of the major learning concepts that came about as a direct result of the impact of technology integration in education.In blended learning students and teachers get to experiment with a multimodal teaching method in…
Read More »Why Opting Out of Student Data Collection Isn’t the Solution
It’s useful to analyze which purposes of student data collection are primary, for which permission is expected and implied when data is collected. Some “primary use” categories are obvious. In order for schools to function, they need basic…
Read More »Add Coding to Your Elementary Curriculum. . . Right Now
Teaching elementary students to code begins with connecting to resources, looking beyond 1:1, trusting kids to learn, involving the school community, and making it fun. There are many reasons for this. As you well know, teachers are…
Read More »Defining “ePortfolio”: Four Ways of Seeing an ePortfolio – AAEEBL
We see, then, that in 2015, we still have to ask “What’s it All About?” The answer to that, I believe, will differ depending on the context. Is it only one more teaching practice? Or do eportfolios have…
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