Stop it with the medieval #math requirements, already! #education #school #student #teacher @edutooter@a.gup.pe @edutooter@chirp.social https://justequations.org/blog/the-latest-in-the-inexplicable-war-on-high-school-data-science-courses

✔ I just finished submitting the #MIXAP-EU project for a 🌍 @EUErasmusPlus grant !

It's about #mixedReality authoring #education and #teacher #training.

We managed to put together a great team 👍
🤞 I really hope we will get the funding to be able to do all the fantastic things 🎉 we wrote in the project !

@lelibreedu
@framaka
@edutooters
@edutooter

#lium #lemansuniv #iutLaval

Over the course of my career, #students have gone from “Why do we have to learn this?” to incredibly insightful critiques of #school. #education #teachers @edutooters @edutooter https://hechingerreport.org/student-voice-teachers-assign-us-work-that-relies-on-rote-memorization-then-tell-us-not-to-use-artificial-intelligence/

@bryanalexandee There used to be far more of a Web ecosystem surrounding podcasts when they were first popular and my journal article in 2005 was one of the first academic and technical analyses of educational podcasting: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/237544289_Spoken_Internet_to_Go_Popularization_through_Podcasting
The faddish ephemerality is exasperating when there will always be a market for listening, even if limited to drivers, joggers, strap-hanging students and commuters like us in Japan, and so forth. In 2022 I covered some of the changed terrain in https://www.researchgate.net/publication/366399918_Podcasting_Reconsidered

#podcasting #podcasts #listening #technology #education #academia #OnlineLearning #OnlineEducation #EducationalTechnology #EdTech #openedtech #OpenEducation #OpenAccess #OER #HigherEducation #HigherEd #AcademicMastodon #AcademicFedi #Japan

@edutooter @OnlineEducation

Am using #GIS ( @qgis in particular) to offer insight into some #student trends ... attendance, achievement, all sorts of things. We started this with COVID to try to try to get ahead of outbreaks, but continue to explore other uses. For example, It's helped to place various supports in appropriate places within the community for students who may have transportation challenges. Any other interesting ideas for #schools and #education? @edutooters @edutooter

I keep trying to find something wrong with this, but I can’t. Maybe just not imaginative enough tonight. #education #schools #students @edutooters @edutooter https://www.njspotlightnews.org/video/newark-will-allow-16-year-olds-vote-for-school-board/

Ageism, age discrimination or prejudice, is the only discriminatory speech that is still universally accepted. As a result, older people themselves buy into stereotypes of declining abilities, usefulness, and attractiveness as companions.

The Japan Association for Language Teaching has a Lifelong Language Learning Special Interest Group, for which I promoted "career tapering" in the article "Lifelong Learning and Retiring Retirement Stereotypes," at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/365838087

For my last university teaching year at age 75, I will be allotted only one class, on Intercultural Communication. Yet if the Indo-Japanese binational research grant project comes through as expected, it will go a year past my teaching career. Happily, although public positions in Japan have an age limit of 65, the Japan International Cooperation Agency welcomes me to lecture indefinitely, introducing Japan to officials from around the world.

Publications on #Japan: https://japanned.hcommons.org/japanology

@psychology @edutooter

@dendari @edutooter@a.gup.pe @edutooters @edutooter@chirp.social Yes! Trust and empower schools to preserve the future rather than judge them by nationalist, competitive metrics that are always behind the curve.

If the “riddle” of public #education in America is how to ensure a future that guarantees both individual liberty *and* collective success, then what do #schools need to do next? What is the immediate next level of work? What should we be doing that we’re not, and what should we stop doing? @edutooter@a.gup.pe @edutooters @edutooter@chirp.social #teachers

Moodle has become a venerable and large Open Source project, and is still the most widely-used learning management system in the world. #moodle #education #edtech #edutooter @edutooter @edutooters

https://opensource.net/the-future-of-education-open-learner-centered-and-sustainable/

America’s founders left us a riddle, and they saw #schools as the laboratory for cooking up a solution. #education #edutooters #teaching #learning @edutooter@a.gup.pe @edutooter@chirp.social https://schoolahead.today/blog/the-nation-needs-schools

In the US, #personalization and #belonging in #schools have a tense common border. How do we radically #individualize as we also ensure collaboration within a community? It's been a tension since the Founding vision that we be a nation in which individual liberty ensures collective success. How else to do it but to view each person's differences as strengths rather than disadvantages toward solutions to common problems? #education @edutooter@a.gup.pe @edutooter@chirp.social

There’s undeniable science behind #teaching and #learning, but #progressives in #schools go through cycles of forgetfulness in an ongoing zeal to perfect the instruments. (I say that as a progressive.) Science requires inquiry, which requires curiosity, which requires engagement and relationship. #Teachers wield a humanity that includes—but does not end with—science in their craft. #education @edutooters @edutooter@a.gup.pe @edutooter@chirp.social

College for intergenerational mobility provides another perspective with which to champion higher education: "The deep inequity of the anti-college movement," Jose Luis Alvarado (The Hill, 10/28/23): https://thehill.com/opinion/congress-blog/4281108-the-deep-inequity-of-the-anti-college-movement

We have looked to MOOCs, OERs, open access publications, and online education generally to widen access to higher education for those disadvantaged by the digital divide as well as for learners worldwide who are not affluent enough to access f2f higher education.

Although Dr. Alvarado's article is closer to my experience than you'd imagine, I relied upon the merits of millenia of academia for a series on the academic life, including "The Idea of the University"; download from: https://hcommons.org/deposits/download/hc:26460/CONTENT/academic_life_series.pdf

Comments on Dr. Alvarado's article or the above?

#OpenAccess #OER #Education #HigherEducation #HigherEd #AcademicMastodon #AcademicFedi #OnlineLearning #DistanceEducation #OnlineEducation #OpenEducation #multiculturalism

@edutooter @academicchatter @OnlineEducation

“If collective response [to #AI] is limited to risk mitigation, communities will miss the greatest impact opportunity in history. #Schools have an important role to play.” #education #Teachers @edutooter@a.gup.pe @edutooters @edutooter@chirp.social

https://www.gettingsmart.com/2023/10/25/one-year-into-the-ai-revolution-and-most-schools-are-still-seeking-direction/

Presentation and cosplay! Colorful scenes with faculty and staff from Kindai University (近畿大学) in Osaka and Rangsit University near Bangkok, and students from several Asian countries. For the first time I presented on American culture and multiculturalism, drawing from my Intercultural Communication class. The slideshow is at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/374143089 or https://www.academia.edu/107508712
The Kindai faculty presenter on Japanese culture let us dress up in yukata, and I could even get a pair of geta wooden slippers for cosplay photos!

#Japan #Osaka #culture #cultures #multiculturalism #diversity #AmericanCulture #JapaneseCulture #Thailand #Asia #InterculturalCommunication #StudyAbroad #education #cosplay

@edutooter

Working with #teachers and #students to develop a definition of “#personalization” for our #school, derived from our motto (“A sound mind in a sound body”). Anyone want to share your definition—not a textbook or dictionary definition, but *yours*—to give us some kindling? #education @edutooters @edutooter@a.gup.pe @edutooter@chirp.social

Learning #Japanese changed my life and has been my key to success. I specialized in #Japan, and E.O. Reischauer told me in 1979 that "Japan is an up-and-coming country." What an understatement that turned out to be! Cal Berkeley Prof. R. Scalapino gave evergreen advice: choose any country, learn their language, and go there.

In 1980 about the only possibility in Japan was teaching English. I was a baseball slugger on many teams, but below the pro level. I became a Professor, but still expected that teaching about Japan would be like shipping coals to Newcastle. However, since 2004 I lecture for the government foreign aid agency JICA to visiting officials. Everything learned turns out to be valuable.

My biography and religious syncretism research is in a 2022 book chapter free at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/361566172 or https://www.academia.edu/82383623
My Japanese translation (和訳) of it can be downloaded from: https://hcommons.org/deposits/download/hc:48212/CONTENT/discovering_ja.pdf

@linguistics @religion @edutooter

Bookmark: https://japanned.hcommons.org/japanology

ℹ️ Notre outil #mixap, qui permet aux enseignants de créer leurs propres applications pédagogiques en #RéalitéAgmentée, sera au #learningshow mardi prochain à Rennes !

https://learningshow.eventmaker.io/

Merci aux collèges du Réseau Canopé pour l'animation de cet atelier. 🙏

#edutooter #education @edutooter #edtech

@bryanalexandee I've had an abiding interest in disciplinarity and interdisciplinarity since a Stanford professor could not answer how his field (CALL - Computer-Assisted Language Learning) was a discipline. Disciplinarity is also a weak point of Indian academia, as you notice, e.g., with journals combining disparate fields. Therefore, I started a culmination of my work by explaining the difference between a field and a discipline, then I defined terms related to online education. If you haven't already read it, check it out some time: "Online Education as a Discipline" at https://doi.org/10.20935/AL434 or https://www.researchgate.net/publication/353073973

@OnlineEducation @academicchatter @edutooter