http://ishbel8.edublogs.org Visual Art KLA Sat, 08 Nov 2008 04:54:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Allentown Art Museum's interactive educational web site. The Renaissance Connection is supported by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation and The Rider-Pool Foundation. This is a quirky web site, full of information and visuals, to keep students and teachers occupied for ages. It has some very interesting lesson plans as well. ... http://ishbel8.edublogs.org/2008/11/07/the-renaissance-connection/ Dr Geoff Romeo, Faculty of Education Monash University suggests 4 basic principles- Learner centred environments, Knowledge centred environments, assessment centred environments and community centred environments. Learners are encouraged to be active and "take charge of their own learning" - for instance looking out for web sites that are of interest and ... http://ishbel8.edublogs.org/2008/11/06/teaching-learning-and-technology-research-reform-realise-the-potential/ I found this note to JP Rangaswami who has a blog, Confused of Calcutta, stating his very democratic ideas about opensource technology- open conversation between people, free access to information, and free flowing conversation. Rangaswami is worried about "identity and presence and authentication and permissioning" as being "in some ... http://ishbel8.edublogs.org/2008/10/21/palaces-of-north-calcutta-beautiful-pictures/ HUI-HUI CHEN makes the comparison between Instructional and Constructivist learning. He sites traditional sources as media, being of instructional value, such as television, print materials and computers; the learner taking a passive role in the learning process. Constructionist learning is more student centered- students taking a active role, exploring, asking ... http://ishbel8.edublogs.org/2008/10/18/mindtools-usability-of-a-web-tool-for-constructivist-learning/ Marc Prensky talks about the fact that Digital Immigrants always "retain to some degree, one foot in the past", "an accent". He worries: "this is not a joke", "this is the biggest problem facing education today" - "that Immigrant instructors speak an outdated language and are struggling to teach an ... http://ishbel8.edublogs.org/2008/10/13/digital-natives-and-us-immigrants/ In Susan's Teen Culture Summary Susan talks about the fact that most teens are using MP3 and IPODs these days. I wanted to get a Walkman recently, as I still have a few tapes (does anyone remember these things?), and I listen to the radio, AM -band. The store keeper ... http://ishbel8.edublogs.org/2008/10/12/reaction-to-susans-blog/ Darren Newbury (p. 80) in his chapter, in Richard Hickson's book 'Art Education 11-18', looks at some ways of putting new technologies into good use. He examines the idea of the self-portrait, getting students to include images of themselves, and some written narrative; describing a few things about themsleves. They ... http://ishbel8.edublogs.org/2008/10/12/domestic-photography-and-digital-technology/ Sir Ken Robinson makes some very interesting points about creativity in his video. We are educating creativity out of people. He talks about Picasso stating that children are all artists and the trick is to stay an artist as one grows up. Robinson believes creativity is as important as literacy. ... http://ishbel8.edublogs.org/2008/10/12/reaction-to-mariellas-blog-video/ "Tokyo has become a victim of its own rush to go broadband. In the past six weeks, hundreds of homes and offices have reportedly been left without high-speed internet service after the crows discovered that broadband cable can be pecked into usable strips more easily than power cables or telephone ... http://ishbel8.edublogs.org/2008/10/09/inquisitive-raven/ Professor Susan Greenfield talks about the way cyberspace can damage the brain, its deadening effect. It creates a loss of certain cognitive stimulation with no character development, no story line, just process as an aim in itself. She talks of a good book having a beginning and a conclusion, where ... http://ishbel8.edublogs.org/2008/10/09/neuroscience-of-creativity-professor-susan-greenfield-video-5/