ROSYTH THINKTOT

TED Talks

TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader.It has grown bigger as the years have gone by and always has speakers at the cutting edge of ideas and practices.
Here are some ideas of tomorrow today!

















Here are 2 talks by a Swede who helps us understand how data or statistics can be transformed into knowledge and learning and help us understand the world better.









In a sligthly more serious vein.
I got this off an article on the internet.

The report comes from an evaluation of the responses of 6,300 students from 63 institutions around the country to ETS's new ICT (Information and Communications Technology) Literacy Assessment. Students were given scenario-based items that were presented to them in 75-minute test environments. These information literacy tests included extracting information from a database, developing a spreadsheet, or composing eMail summaries of research findings.

The tests are meant to measure students' abilities to overcome three challenges they typically have:

"The ability to identify trustworthy and useful information;

"The ability to manage overabundant information; and

"The ability to communicate information effectively

The study found that 52 percent of those tested could correctly judge the objectivity of a web site, and 65 percent could correctly judge that web site's authoritativeness. But only 40 percent of students entered multiple search terms when researching a topic, and only 44 percent properly identified a statement that captured the demands of the assignment.

We may have to expand our idea of literacies and how to help our pupils deal with a world that is awash in information and ideas.
We can actually structure lessons that scaffold pupils interactions and develop their skills and competencies to deal with a media and infocentric world.


To round things off, in a more humorous vein. Missing the point of Powerpoint. Enjoy.

posted by William Grosse @ 6:34 PM