Rethinking Learning for the 21st Century
Written by Brad Bohte
Taking my previous post into consideration I thought it would be good to turn the tables back in favour of Blended Learning. According to Research Data Centres of Canada (an interesting report on the digital divide in Canadian schools and homes from 2003 – it’s a bit dated http://www.publications.gc.ca/Collection/Statcan/81-597-X/81-597-XIE.pdf) almost 100 percent of students use […]
Written by Brad Bohte
So Blended Learning http://www.christenseninstitute.org/blended-learning-3/ is this idea that students are now learning through not only textbooks and library resources but through digital media systems as well; kind of exactly what Cohort21 is all about. I found an interesting article from Scientific American that describes a discrepancy between information read from books and information read from […]
Written by Brad Bohte
Looking through various different sites and resources online I recently came across November Learning at http://novemberlearning.com/blc-education-conference-2014/. I don’t know much about the educational conferences they run but the organization seems to have been started by a man named Alan November. How fitting, Mr. November running November Learning being found in November. It begs the question of […]
Written by Brad Bohte
Bloomberg Businessweek recently published an article by Devin Leonard entitled ‘The iPad Goes to School’. http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-10-24/the-ipad-goes-to-school-the-rise-of-educational-tablets Technology, it seems, is the only natural next step to educating our future citizens. The proof seems to be out there; students learn with more access rather than less. Our children can learn to be responsible citizens both in the […]