The internet, educational technology and professional development.

1. TECHNOLOGY ENHANCED
LEARNING
Brain-friendly methods, tools, environment,
communities

2. What Do the Internet, neuron growth, and
Creativity have in common?

3. Different views of the internet
“In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all
disorder a secret order”; Carl Jung

4. What do we do with the internet?
Making sense of chaos

5. Wire, fire
higher…….
Brain, drain,
train……
Can the internet bring learning to life and life to
learning?
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the
lighting of a fire.”
― W.B. Yeats

6. The Internet and the Brain
Is this art imitating life or life
imitating itself?

7. The nature of
the brain &
the brain in
nature.
The stuff
of life!!
Technology
may remove
our
delusions.
Critical thinking and exploration
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than
to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
Carl Sagan

8. Why do mindmaps look like
neural networks?

9. Technology & the Brain

10. Which of these technologies do you or would you
consider
to be indispensible in an online or blended
course?
 Virtual classrooms
 Social learning and
networks
 Educational platforms
 The world wide web
 Interactive,
educational websites
 Google docs

Microsoft office

Learning
management
Systems

Web tools

Multi-media

11. Which of these would you consider to be closed or
open systems?

Virtual classrooms

Social learning and
networks

Educational platforms

The world wide web
Interactive,
educational websites

Google docs

Microsoft office

Web tools

Learning
management
Systems

Multi-media


12. What are the advantages and disadvantages of
open and closed systems?

Virtual classrooms

Social learning and
networks

Educational platforms

The world wide web
Interactive,
educational websites

Google docs

Microsoft office

Web tools

Learning
management
Systems

Multi-media


13. Can you give examples of the environments, tools,
and communities below and give examples of some
teaching methods you could apply to them?

Virtual classrooms

Social learning and
networks

Educational platforms

The world wide web
Interactive,
educational websites

Google docs

Microsoft office

Web tools

Learning
management
Systems

Multi-media


14. Some influences and recommended
reading


Books:
Emotional Intelligence
Daniel Goleman
Social intelligence
Daniel Goleman

The Dragon Fly effect

JenniferAaker, Andy Smith

Social Media Examiner
Blue grass blog
Net Smart
Howard Rheingold

The Mindful Guide to Online
Living
Andre Klein

A mindful guide to Social media
Andre Klein

Vygotsky and creativity
LearnOut Live
How to build up a thriving PLN
in 2013
Edukwest on a search for
better education
Why we need strategies for
creativity

15. Some tools for self-expression
Eduglogster
imind
Mindmaple
Prezi
Animoto
Go animate

16. Learning environments

Artistic platforms

Learning spaces
Eduglogster
Moodle
Story Bird
Bitstrips
Make Belief
Comix
Pixton comics
Go animate
Second Life
Club EFL
Edmodo
OpenClass
Wikis
Blogs

17. Technology is beautiful!!
Fourteen articles
about
creativity, technol
ogy and learning