Zipf explains how the mind works, it takes shortcuts but that is OK.

Another amazing VSauce rant on the mysteries of the mind: https://youtu.be/fCn8zs912OE

Frequent free-play breaks help students focus

15 minutes of unstructured play every 45 minutes. Students focus Bette in class.
http://m.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/06/how-finland-keeps-kids-focused/373544/

Try not to watch this Flowcharting Software demo.

Flowcharting software is uninteresting until you make it lyrical. This demo caught my attention and my heart.

• source: https://www.lucidchart.com/pages/examples/flowchart_software

The free version is available after the 14 day trial (no credit card required), it provides 25MB of storage.

This site also has Mind Mapping, and other charting tools.
Steve

What a shambles!

I go back to this site again and again. Here are some game ideas. 

No topic is left unshared. It would take a lifetime to explore this labyrinth. It is always a great source of inspiration to prime the creative pump. Steve

• Sharing educational know-how  Shambles in S.E.Asia (The Education Project Asia)
• Head teacher topics headteacher

Example. 

Here are some direct links from  "The Education Project Asia, Shambles, www.shambles.net"

Games and Simulations (General) :| Commercial Games | Board Games | Crosswords & Puzzles |
| Evaluation of Computer Games and Tips for Parents | Hints & Cheats | Internet Hunts |
| Individual School 'Games' Sites | Games Around the World (not computer!) | Game Reviews |
| MMOGs | Problem Solving | Research and Educational Games Theory | Recreational Games |
| Simulations | Teaching Games | Quizzes | Video Games | Games Authorware & Development |
| Games to promote co-operation and teamwork | Ice Breakers | Mobile Games (& on Phones) |

Games and Simulations (Primary ... k-6) :
| Fun | General/Miscellaneous | Literacy Games | Numeracy Games |

Games and Simulations (Secondary Y7-Y12) :
| General/Miscellaneous |

Games in Subject, Support & Curriculum Areas :
| Art Games | Careers Games | Classics Games | Dance Games | Drama Games | D&T Games |
| Economics Games | ESL and English Games | Geography Games | Games in the Library |
| History Games | ICT Games | Maths Games | Medical Games | MFL Games | Music Games |
| P.E. Games | Religous Educ Games | Science Games | Social Studies |

Copyright of the design, structure, and content
of this website is with "The Education Project Asia"
and is licenced under a


Creative Commons Licence
Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported

Heutagogy - word of the day.

Heutagogy 

“Heutagogy is the study of self-determined learning … It is also an attempt to challenge some ideas about teaching and learning that still prevail in teacher centred learning and the need for, as Bill Ford (1997) eloquently puts it  rather than ‘knowledge hoarding’. 

• What Is Heutagogy? | Heutagogy Community of Practice

Tools for Learning list - 2013

A staggering array of tools. I use but a tiny fraction of them. Am I using the right ones? Stve

• The list http://c4lpt.co.uk/top100tools/
• Guide to the top 100 tools 

Top 100 Tools for Learning 2013 from Jane Hart

Quote “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.”

Learning is the business of installing new eyes. Steve

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.”

Marcel Proust quotes (French Novelist and Author, 1871-1922)

Technology in the classroom ideas

I hope you find this interesting too, be ye teacher or student. Steve

• 2013_EmergingEdTech_Free-Education-Technology-Resources-eBook.pdf
• No account required, just make a page, share it with the class: Pen.io. Free, it just works. I use it to publish links for a lesson.
• Check your work for traces of plagiarism. Plagiarism Checker. Free
• SuperKids SAT Vocabulary Review - Day 1
• Edupage | Scoop.it
• Education 3.0--Where Students Create Their Own Learning Experiences

Lyrics on an mp3 player? The Sony walkman.

This is the procedure for creating lyrics files to play on your Walkman. The lyrics scroll by on your screen as the song progresses.

http://docs.esupport.sony.com/portable/NWZE463_E464_E465_E463K_E464K_E463HK_guide/eng/contents/10/01/11/11.html

Thanks Claude

Lead with why not how.

Simon Sinek:
How great leaders inspire action #TED :

http://on.ted.com/eiwg

People follow the leader who is motivated by the same WHY they believe in.

Answer why you are teaching what you teach and you will be understood.

Thanks Antonio

Not just a list of Instructional Strategies and Methods

I love a list. This list of instructional strategies and methods is great to restart my creativity when writing lesson plans. Steve

• Instructional Strategies Online - A Listing of Instructional Strategies and Methods
• Home page: Instructional Strategies Online

Dangerous ideas in Education

Nine Dangerous Things You Were Taught In School - Forbes

1. The people in charge have all the answers.

2. Learning ends when you leave the classroom.

3. The best and brightest follow the rules.

4. What the books say is always true.

5. There is a very clear, single path to success.

6. Behaving yourself is as important as getting good marks.

7. Standardized tests measure your value.

8. Days off are always more fun than sitting in the classroom.

9. The purpose of your education is your future career.

Changing Education Paradigms

Or: why are you using 100 year old teaching methods?

Khan's vision of education. Homework in class, lectures on your own time.

[TED Air] I like this TED talk. Salman Khan: Let's use video to reinvent education http://www.ted.com/talks/salman_khan_let_s_use_video_to_reinvent_education.html TED Air (http://goo.gl/2Aftm)

Learning technology - Not a Haiku - by Steve

New technology amazes me.
I can't use a new technology efficiently until I stop being in awe of it.
I can't use a new technology until it stops being new.
I can only use a new technology when it becomes ordinary.
I can only use technology when it blends into my environment.
I can only use technology I don't notice.
Technology must be invisible to be used.
Invisible technology succeeds.
Learning technology is the process of making it invisible to yourself.

Not a Haiku by Steve

Has face to face learning become a subset pf distamce learning?

Online Learning 2012: Six Issues That Refuse to Die| The Committed Sardine

Top digital classroom tools

Can You Guess the Top 10 Digital Tools in Today’s Classroom?| The Committed Sardine

Free classes

Here is an other list of fine free classes.

• A huge collection of video material EDU - YouTube
• Ideas worth spreading: TED is good for you TEDtalksDirector's Channel - YouTube
• "Why the worry, I'd rather wonder." Also known as "Don't worry be Happy"
• Lifelong Learning EDU - YouTube
• Technical Technical: Data Communication by Prof.A. Pal http://www.youtube
• Technical: Routing Theory Basics - YouTube
• Apple - iTunes U - Learn anything, anywhere, anytime.
• Academic Earth | Online Courses | Academic Video Lectures
• Entire courses from 100 universities einztein.com/
• This is my super-tutor in math and science khanacademy.org/
  Focussed and short just what is needed to review any topic you saw in school from 1+1 to calculus.
• Video and 150 Textbooks openculture.com/

source: Readers Digest dec 2011.

Free Web 2.0 Tools teachers should know about

Some are a best for children, but many are standards. So here goes. 

Free Tools Challenge learn one a day... 

#1 - Wallwisher
#2 - Self-grading Quizzes
#3 - Bitstrips for Schools
#4 - Classtools.net
#5 - Edmodo
#6 - DoInk
#7 - Kerpoof
#8 - Glogster
#9 - ToonDoo
#10 - Wordle
#11 - Skype
#12 - Animoto
#13 - VoiceThreads
#14 - PhotoFiltre
#15 - Livebinders
#16 - WeeBehave
#17 - DropBox
#18 - Jing
#19 - Audacity
#20 - LearnBoost
#21 - Wetoku
#22 - Little Bird Tales
#23 - Wikispaces
#24 - Wiki's Simple English
#25 - Jog the Web
#26 - paper.li

Teach - learn. What do you know?

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