Make no mistake. Adobe makes great products. But, it is hard for educators and students to connect with them. First, the company produces professional-grade tools (Photoshop, Premiere Pro, After Effects, etc.), and, as a result, they are very expensive for resource-starved institutions to purchase (even with discounted education pricing). Second, these professional-grade tools often come [...]
"Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mundane
educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom, go to the library
and educate yourself if you've got any guts."
-Frank Zappa
educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom, go to the library
and educate yourself if you've got any guts."
-Frank Zappa
Posts Tagged ‘ resources ’
Invisible Learning released
4/28/2011
Cristóbal Cobo and I are pleased to announce that the Spanish edition of our new book, Invisible Learning (Aprendizaje Invisible), has just been released by the University of Barcelona (Col·lecció Transmedia XXI. Laboratori de Mitjans Interactius / Publicacions i Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona). The e-book is available for purchase at the UB website [...]
The Emerging and Future Roles of Academic Libraries
3/28/2011
Libraries are actively reinventing themselves for the digital age. Confronted with corrosive budgets, skyrocketing costs, and challenged by a fear of obsolesce resulting from the accelerating rate of technological change; libraries are struggling for their survival. For the academic library — the “heart” of the modern research university — survival requires demonstrating their value in new ways, [...]
Got a business plan for Open Educational Resources?
11/30/2010
Startl has announced a $25,000 competition, soliciting business plans for best uses of Open Educational Resources. The prize is modest, but this could turn into a generator of alternative ideas for education.
Five secrets futurists don’t want you to know
3/9/2010
Professional futurists continue to make outstanding contributions toward the development of understandings of the future, but is futures thought limited to this select group? Definitely not! With a do-it-yourself attitude, and leverage of the right resources, anybody can become an effective futurist. Here’s why: Nobody knows the future – don’t trust anybody who says otherwise. [...]
Fab Lab: Build ‘almost anything’
2/3/2010
“The Fab Lab program has strong connections with the technical outreach activities of a number of partner organizations, around the emerging possibility for ordinary people to not just learn about science and engineering but actually design machines and make measurements that are relevant to improving the quality of their lives.” [MIT Center for Bits and [...]
Share the love: Embedding the Education Futures timeline
12/21/2009
Did you know the Education Futures timeline of education is Creative Commons licensed? You’re invited to share the love! Simply cut-and-paste this text into your blog or website (assumes a column width of 500px): <div align=”center”><iframe src=”http://www.educationfutures.com/flashtimeline/index-500.html” width=”500″ height=”310″ scrolling=”no” frameborder=”0″></iframe><p>Source: <a href=”http://www.educationfutures.com/resources/timeline”>Education Futures</a></p></div> …and, it should create this: Source: Education Futures
A video invitation to join the Invisible Learning project
12/3/2009
More at www.invisiblelearning.com…
Invisible Learning: Designing cultures of sustainable innovation
12/2/2009
Cristóbal Cobo and I are pleased to announce the Invisible Learning (Aprendizaje Invisible) project –and we invite your participation! Invisible Learning // Aprendizaje Invisible is collaborative book (in English and Spanish) and an online repository of bold ideas for designing cultures of sustainable innovation. Through the development of 1) a collaborative, printed book; 2) an [...]
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