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Discovery and Learning in Silicon Valley
“Learning is the process of discovering and exploring,” says former student and ClassConnect founder, Eric Simons. Simons talks about the importance of putting rich (e.g. video, audio, interactivity) content into the hands of students to engage them in the learning process. His company, ClassConnect, has content curation and creation tools that fit into a teacher’s…
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A Cost Effective Way to Use 3DTV as a Teaching Tool
Look closely at the background of this video and you will see an autostereoscopic 3D display. The cool thing about this type of display is that one doesn’t need glasses to view the 3D images. As explained by Rob Koplin of Elixir XES 3D, the first application for the displays was in the medical industry…
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Blended Learning Explained
“In its simplest form, it [blended learning] is the combination of face-to-face instruction and online or digital tools,” explains Lisa Gillis of Integrated Educational Strategies at the Foundation for Excellence in Education’s 2012 National Summit. It is about having individualized learning plans, as well as a personal touch of a teacher. Blended learning provides teachers with…