Digital Media - New Learners Of The 21st Century

Katie Salen, Professor at Parsons The New School for Design and Founder of the Institute of Play, discusses how game design can help students explore systems.

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Digital Media - New Learners Of The 21st Century

Mimi Ito, cultural anthropologist at the University of California at Irvine, describes how new media practices are transforming the ways that young people interact, play, collaborate and learn outside of school.

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Changing Education Paradigms

Watch this great video where Sir Ken Robinson discusses through animation the need for Education Reform

The beauty of data visualization

Watch David McCandless presentation on infographics. He explains how infographics can make a great data visualization tool! His creation of interesting patterns are an eyeopener.

Educational Change Challenge

Educational Change Challenge is a video that I came across and thought of sharing! It has some good questions that teachers to prepare their students for the forthcoming year.

Learning and Working in the Collaborative Age: A New Model for the Workplace

An inspiring talk by Randy Nelson who explains what schools must do to prepare students for jobs in new media. We should strive to work together collaboratively to achieve results. I liked his quote "...the core skill of an innovator is error recovery not failure avoidance."

21st Century Learning - Different kinds of minds

Temple Grandin herself diagnosed with autism as a child reinforces in this video about the different ways we process information. She talks about how she thinks visually and that which helps her solve problems that neurotypical brains might miss. She mentions about others who are pattern thinkers, verbal thinkers etc., and how they all process information differently. She reiterates that that we all have different ways of thinking, behaving and learning and that educators need to consider a wide variety of strategies while educating children.

Inspiring & enlightening talk by Temple! Please watch the video till the end and consider sharing this talk with everyone you know. Please post your comments below as I would love getting insight!

Change in the Education System

Meet the Press interviewed Education Secretary Arne Duncan, Rev Al Sharpton, and former speaker of the house, Newt Gingrich. They discussed about learning, accountability, Race to the Top, and their bipartisan effort to affect change in our education system.

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The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology

Pranav Mistry demos several tools that help the physical world interact with the world of data - including a deep look at his SixthSense device and a new, paradigm-shifting paper "laptop." Pranav in his presentation has a very interesting way of bringing the physical objects to Digital world and vice versa. This technology is truly amazing, and it will change the way we are living right now. Genius & Mind Blowing!!

A Brave New World Wide Web

This is a neat video on how we can use Web 2.0 tools to collaborate,create,communicate in the 21st century.

A Vision of K-12 Students Today

(Cross-posted on educatorslog.in)


Kids today are often referred to as “digital natives”. They enjoy being able to express themselves through the many digital technologies that they are so facile with; technologies that they would enjoy putting to use for the purposes of learning (and school work) as well.

This video was created to inspire teachers to use technology in engaging ways to help students develop higher level thinking skills and be better prepared to succeed in the century. It is just as important for parents to understand, and sync up, with their digital kids.

‘A Vision of K-12 Students Today’ was probably inspired by an earlier video ‘A Vision of Students Today‘ made by Michael Wesch in collaboration with 200 students at Kansas State University in which they share similar views (in similar fashion too) about their affinity for, and desire to use, digital media in higher education. This earlier post discusses Michael Wesch, his work on studying mediated cultures, and his popular channel on youtube.