Open Textbooks By Allie Alayan for AACE Review The Innovating Pedagogy 2017 Report included Open Textbooks as one of its innovative trends that has the potential to provoke major shifts in educational practice. This post discusses educational benefits to using open textbooks, as well as educational … Read more
Learners Making Science By Angela Brown for AACE Review The 2017 Innovating Pedagogy Report from The Open University (OU) has identified Learners Making Science as one of ten “innovations that are already in currency but have not yet had a profound influence on education.” The report identifies … Read more
Big-data Inquiry: Thinking with Data By Allie Alayan for AACE Review The Innovating Pedagogy 2017 Report included Big-data inquiry as one of its innovative trends that has the potential to provoke major shifts in educational practice. The 2017 Innovating Pedagogy Report stated that Big-data inquiry has a potential impact … Read more
An Interview with Alan Singer: Teaching and Learning Social Studies via Digital Technology By Michael Shaughnessy for AACE Review About Alan Singer Alan Singer is a professor of Teaching, Learning and Technology and the director of social studies education programs. Dr. Singer is a former New York City high school social studies teacher and is editor of Social … Read more
Interview with SoapBox Labs Founder on Speech Recognition API to Enhance Children’s Interactions with Smart Devices By Sandra Rogers for AACE Review Advances in application programming interface (API) for speech recognition are impacting our everyday lives from smartphones to the Internet of Things (IoT). According to Katy Levinson on Quora.com, “…an API forces structured data-based … exchanges between what the … Read more
Navigating Post-Truth Societies: Strategies, Resources and Technologies By Sandra Rogers for AACE Review This post is the second in a series in which AACE social media interns follow up on the latest Innovating Pedagogy Trend Report 2017 – read the review and summary by Allie Aylan. As Ferguson et al. (2017) … Read more
After-school Code Club – Lifelong Kindergarten? By Angela Brown for AACE Review After my first term volunteering to start an after-school Code Club in a public library, one of the challenges we’ve been grappling with is how to keep activities roughly on task and progressing coding skills, without being at … Read more
Build Your Knowledge by Listening to TED Talks –AACE Review Selection By Joseph Chan for AACE Review Swiss psychologist and epistemologist Jean Piaget stated that education must create people who are capable of accomplishing new things by not simply imitating past generations. Acquiring knowledge to do better things is easily done by watching online selections … Read more
Comics in Education: An Unflattening View By Chryssa Themelis for AACE Review Consider the wide adoption and success of Instagram – are we entering a new visual culture where people express themselves through graphics as much as through writing? How does this affect business and research communication? In this article … Read more
Inclusive Community Design: Design Thinking Workshop on Local Engagement for Diverse Populations By Stefanie Panke for AACE Review Design thinking is a problem solving method geared to overcome wicked problems, that have no right or wrong solution and resist traditional scientific and engineering approaches, as “the information needed to understand the problem depends upon one’s idea … Read more