Jon Udell has a great interview with Tim Fahlberg today. Tim is changing the face of math education at Coolschooltools.com and Mathcasts.org.
This is a must listen. What strikes me is that KIDS are creating these mathcasts which makes their learning deeper and also helps those who come after them.
Corporate training departments all over the world are paying giant sums of money to create powerpoint and then even more money on tools that convert those to "online learning".
I don't know about you guys, but I find the 4th grade screencasts significantly more engaging than any corporate click2death training I've taken. What's up with that?
Listen to the interview and pay particular attention to the discussion on hiring teachers, or employees in the future that have Learning Portfolios. They also address the fear of teachers and trainers feeling irrelevant with the advent of these new tools. Are you going to be irrelevant?
4 comments:
Thanks for pointing to this interesting example. The link to the math example seems to lead to a blank page. Some bug with encoding blanks for the URL. You can use this URL instead http://tinyurl.com/enfxr
Thanks for the tip. I"ll change the URL.
Cheers!
The mathcasts.org site has moved to a Google JotSpot wiki here: http://math247.jot.com/WikiHome
Thanks!
Tim Fahlberg
Our mathcasts wiki is now here: www.math247.pbwiki.com
Thanks! -- Tim Fahlberg
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