Showing posts with label Learning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Learning. Show all posts

Monday, February 11, 2013

TEDxOverlake - Dr. Sara Goering - Philosophy for Kids: Sparking a Love of Learning

TEDxOverlake - Dr. Sara Goering - Philosophy for Kids: Sparking a Love of Learning Tube. Duration : 10.72 Mins.


Dr. Sara Goering is Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Member of the Program on Values in Society, and Program Director for the Northwest Center for Philosophy for Children at the University of Washington, Seattle. Since graduate school, she has developed programs designed to bring philosophy to K-12 students, including a philosophy summer camp and outreach program at the University of Colorado, Boulder, the Center for the Advancement of Philosophy in Schools at California State University at Long Beach, and a regular UW class that sends undergraduate students into the Seattle public schools to lead weekly philosophy discussions with K-12 students. In thespirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.

Monday, February 4, 2013

John Seely Brown Lecture on Learning in the Digital Age

John Seely Brown Lecture on Learning in the Digital Age Video Clips. Duration : 76.27 Mins.


Noted writer, speaker, and educator John Seely Brown discusses learning in the digital age at a guest lecture at IU. Brown is currently a visiting scholar at the University of Southern California and serves as an independent co-chairman for the Deloitte Center for Edge Innovation.

Monday, November 19, 2012

Web Collaboration and Learning with Adobe Connect

Web Collaboration and Learning with Adobe Connect Video Clips. Duration : 46.22 Mins.


Series: Collaboration Technology and Engaging the Campus 2009 Title: Web Collaboration and Learning with Adobe Connect Speakers: Genevieve Mathieson (Moderator) - Information Technology Services, Case Western Reserve University Elizabeth Damato, Ph.D. - School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University Gary Murphy, Ph.D. - Department of Economics, Case Western Reserve University Wyatt Newman, Ph.D. - Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Case Western Reserve University Recorded in the 1914 Room in the Thwing Center on the Campus of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio Date: Thursday May 7, 2009

Thursday, October 4, 2012

TEDxPSU - Ali Carr-Chellman - Bring Back the Boys: Using Video Games to Re-engage Boys in Learning

TEDxPSU - Ali Carr-Chellman - Bring Back the Boys: Using Video Games to Re-engage Boys in Learning Video Clips. Duration : 13.25 Mins.


Ali Carr-Chellman is an instructional designer and award-winning author who has focused on change, innovations, diffusion, user-design and school change in her work over the past two decades. She has worked at Penn State in the College of Education for the past 16 years in the department of Learning and Performance Systems. She works primarily with doctoral level students focusing on research and producing the next generation of faculty with inspired research ideas and methods. Carr-Chellman also teaches online courses focused on helping practicing teachers learn how to improve their own instructional design practices and how to improve their classrooms. Carr-Chellman attended Ohio State University, where she studied elementary education. She then moved on to Syracuse, where she taught kindergarten and third grade. She discovered Instructional Design, Development and Evaluation, known as IDD&E, at Syracuse and earned her master's degree in that field while working full-time at a Sylvan Learning Center as a director. Carr-Chellman decided that traditional elementary classrooms weren't for her, in part because she was highly frustrated by the lack of innovation, agility, and ready change in traditional schools. She has an infectious enthusiasm that carried her well into her doctoral program at Indiana University. Her most recent research projects live those values out by asking prisoners and homeless people to think about how to reform schools, bringing new voices to the ...