Call for Papers: ‘Design Thinking for Education’, Special Issue De Gruyter Open Education Studies By Stefanie Panke for AACE Review Open Education Studies is a new open access journal by De Gruyter, with Theo Bastiaens as the editor in chief. The 2019 topical issue is focused on ‘Design Thinking for Education’. Design thinking is a problem solving method … Read more
Interview with the Creators of Hoaxy® from Indiana University By Sandra Rogers for AACE Review Figure 1. A Hoaxy® diffusion network regarding claims about the HPV vaccine. Falsehoods are spread due to biases in the brain, society, and computer algorithms (Ciampaglia & Menczer, 2018). A combined problem is “information overload and limited attention … Read more
Getting Unstuck with Makey Makey By Angela Brown for AACE Review Does this ever happen to you? You become hands-on with a new technology and have fun making your first project, and sharing it. You encounter inspirational ideas about what to do next, but somehow the options seem overwhelming. … Read more
EdTech Research: Finding, Organizing and Citing Research – Bibliographic Formats & Tools By Stefanie Panke for AACE Review Whether you write conference paper or prepare your manuscript for a journal submission, a well presented review of the literature together with correct citations and references significantly increase your chances to be accepted. Furthermore, it will make it … Read more
Attendee’s Notes from AppState’s 2018 Free-Learning Conference By Sandra Rogers for AACE Review I attended Appalachian State University’s (AppState) 1-day, virtual, Free-Learning Conference in July. Their website stated it would be “…a day of exploration designed to promote and evaluate effective uses of technology for teaching and learning while also providing … Read more
ELON Teaching and Learning Conference 2018: Innovation, Makerspace Education, Critical Pedagogy & Bad Ideas By Stefanie Panke for AACE Review The annual Teaching and Learning Conference at Elon University is a free, regional event that brings together instructional designers, teachers, students, curriculum specialists and others interested in educational technology and pedagogical approaches from the research triangle in North … Read more
Educators’ Online Identity: Time for a Visual Shift? By Chryssa Themelis for AACE Review Celebrities and fashion icons are well-informed about the role of online identity and visual appearances, but it is time educators rethought the way their students and colleagues perceive them. Despite the popularity of tweets, chatrooms and discussion forums, … Read more
An Overview of EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2018 Award Papers in LearnTechLib By Allie Alayan for AACE Review Each AACE conference awards best papers to honor submissions that offer a significant contribution to the field of educational media, learning and technology. Award paper publications are typically available as open access through LearnTechLib. These conference highlights comprise some … Read more
Moonhack 2018: A new world record for kids coding! By Angela Brown for AACE Review On 20th July 2018, kids all over the world participated in Moonhack, a space-themed event to get kids coding. When I first wrote about Moonhack 2018 it was a month before launch and the anticipation was building like … Read more
Prepare for fun! Scratch 3.0 is coming By Angela Brown for AACE Review Popular and free, the block-based code platform Scratch was originally launched in 2007, by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at MIT Media Lab. Scratch rapidly grew an online community on its platform for games, animations and storytelling, primarily aimed … Read more