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Form follows function
It is the pervading law of all things organic and inorganic,
Of all things physical and metaphysical,
Of all things human and all things super-human,
Of all true manifestations of the head,
Of the heart, of the soul,
That the life is recognizable in its expression,
That form ever follows function. This is the law.
Sullivan, L. (1896). The tall office building artistically considered. Retrieved from http://www.scribd.com/doc/104764188/Louis-Sullivan-The-Tall-Office-Building-Artistically-Considered.
Knowledge
The knowledge: John Seely Brown
Renowned for his groundbreaking work at Xerox PARC and pioneering thinking on the
interplay between organisations, technology and people, John Seely Brown has had a
significant impact on the knowledge-management world. He talks to Sandra Higgison about his major influences, describes selected highlights from his career and discusses his current challenge to bring joy and meaning back to the workplace.
Popcorn maker
Have to love the name alone …yes, I’m a pop corn addict …
Popcorn is a free web app that makes video pop with interactivity, context and the magic of the web. Popcorn Maker makes it easy to enhance, remix and share web video. Using Popcorn Maker’s simple drag and drop interface, you can add live content to any video — photos, maps, links, social media feeds and more. All right from your browser.
The result is a new way to tell stories on the web, with videos that are rich with context, full of links, and unique each time you watch them.
Creating a Flipped Lesson
Steps on how to wrap video content in an online lesson with TED Ed
http://catlintucker.com/2012/11/ted-ed-creating-a-flipped-lesson/
School 2.0
School 2.0: teachers will be liberated from the classroom
Somewhere, this year, a university hired its last tenured professor. That’s because of the economic pressures on higher education. Next year, a university will hire its last faculty member expected to teach in a classroom. And that’s because of the technological pressures on higher education.
Technology won’t kill university education any more than television killed radio, but it will transform it. While your kids will still go to college, and it will still cost a fortune, their study time will look radically different than it does today. Even though our university classroom teachers may be replaced with robots, websites or direct-to-brain Ethernet jacks, on-campus higher education will still have a place that no Massive Open Online Course will supplant in our lifetime.
New literacies
21st C Literacies: Digital Knowledge and Digital Humanities – a course outline
Here is a description of the doctoral course I’m offering this Spring, sponsored by the PhD Lab in Digital Knowledge and coordinated with some of the Lab’s offerings and enhancements in Spring 2013. I am limiting enrollment to 15 Duke students, reserving places for 5 students from other universities in the area. It combines “yack” and “hack” and requires that students, from the first day of class, have an online presence and create their own online portfolio (for some, at an advanced level, for others using simple out-of-the-box tools such as Google Sites).
Online education – future of ed
The internet is threatening to shake up education, as it has already done with music, retail and journalism.
The core of any student’s education was once the 3Rs: reading, writing and arithmetic. But in the 21st century, educators are just as likely to be talking about the 4Cs: critical thinking, communication, collaboration and creativity. In this new way of educational thinking, teachers and students are connecting through the “cloud”: the international network of servers that can link digital devices almost anywhere on the planet. The aim is to build, collaborate, share and manage lessons through a multitude of media – trading chalk and blackboards for digital tools that foster collaboration and interactive learning.
http://www.listener.co.nz/current-affairs/technology/online-learning-the-future-of-education/