Innovating Pedagogy Report 2017 By Allie Alayan for AACE Review The Open University (OU) has released the 2017 edition of its ‘Innovating Pedagogy’ report. It is the sixth rendition of an annual educational technology trend review that introduces ten pedagogies that are already in currency but have not … Read more
Book Review: Coding as a Playground: Programming and Computational Thinking in the Early Childhood Classroom By Angela Brown for AACE Review Through my explorations of Makerspaces, I keep returning to wonder about why we create separate, distinct spaces aside from others “for making”. In a similar way, we also create designated play spaces, like playgrounds “to play”. These boundaries … Read more
Holographic Experiences: A New Era of Immersive Educational Technologies By Chryssa Themelis for AACE Review The augmented reality training sessions for nurses (Gemini Research, 2017), the MIT museum, Chinese museum, BBC frozen planet and the immersive experience of the Eurostar train (Eurostar, 2017) make people wonder what the future holds in store for … Read more
Cambly- The mLearning App for English By Jennifer Wright for AACE Review Being able to learn anywhere or anytime is the definition of the practice known as mLearning (mobile learning). MLearning can be found in online classroom environments, virtual educational tools, and even the device in everyone’s hand…the smartphone. … Read more
Supporting Learning that Lasts with Mobile Learning Games: Interview with AACE Best Paper Award Winner Florian Schimanke By Rima Chamout for AACE Review All too often, students learn with the goal of preparing for a test or an exam – they cram the week before and forget most of what they learned soon after. While this strategy is usually sufficient for … Read more
Making a More Collaborative Classroom: Collaboration Tools to Try Today By Joseph Chan for AACE Review There is no question that technology has made it much easier to get things done. The use of online tools has become a great way to enhance and expand the process of collaborating, both among students and between … Read more
What’s Grit Got To Do with Learning? By Sandra Rogers for AACE Review In terms of education, ‘grit’ is a combination of your passion for learning, perseverance at task, and purposeful activities. Volition and conation are synonyms for grit. During his AECT 2017 keynote, Thomas Reeves, professor emeritus at the … Read more
AACE News Roundup Fall 2017 By Stefanie Panke for AACE Review The AACE Review News Roundup is a periodical summary of educational technology themes and debates in the blogosphere. For the review, we scan the latest posts of over 20 blogs, and we constantly add new voices to the … Read more
Exploring Faces and Places of Makerspaces By Angela Brown for AACE Review At AACE Review, we want to offer regular interviews with edtech researchers, as well as reviews and analysis of books, reports, tools and trends. We are excited to bring you a series of new articles, and many new … Read more
They swiped happily ever after: Of Fairytales and Tablets – An Interview with Bård Engen, Tonje Giæver and Louise Mifsud By Stefanie Panke for AACE Review This summer, the AACE Special Interest groups Design and Trends conducted a joint call for abstracts for the Special Issue on Mobile Technology for the Journal of Interactive Learning Research. A total of 16 abstracts were selected … Read more