Georgia Tech is leading a project to create a virtual island in Second Life to improve STEM education for students with disabilities. The Georgia STEM Accessibility Alliance (GSAA) virtual world will provide mentors, tutors, and other resources to help students succeed in their courses. It will allow 24/7 access from any computer and aims to keep students with disabilities engaged in STEM fields by addressing lack of access to support resources. The project involves partnerships between Georgia Tech, University of Georgia, Georgia Perimeter College, and three Georgia public school systems.
Glogster EDU is available in a Web 2.0 platform. It easily allows users to upload photos, videos, text, audio, and other exciting resources to create a unique online, interactive poster from school or home.
Although educators and leaders create, design, and imagine the future, technology is changing how students learn and teachers teach. The future of education must keep up to date with the dynamic nature of the 21st century. It is expedient to take stock of the past in order to look forward, imagine and plan for a better future. Today, we take a look at education and how social, economic, and technological changes will revolutionize the way children, youth, and adults go to school. The future of education lies in harnessing technology to make us learn quicker, memorize effectively, and teach better. Without doubts, education today is not what it was even five years ago, and the future of education will look significantly different than it did a decade ago. This paper addresses how higher education institutions and K 12 schools can best prepare students for the future. Matthew N. O. Sadiku | Grace A. Adegoye | Abayomi Ajayi-Majebi | Sarhan M. Musa "The Future of Education" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-6 | Issue-7 , December 2022, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd52270.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/home-science/education/52270/the-future-of-education/matthew-n-o-sadiku
Glogster EDU is available in a Web 2.0 platform. It easily allows users to upload photos, videos, text, audio, and other exciting resources to create a unique online, interactive poster from school or home.
Although educators and leaders create, design, and imagine the future, technology is changing how students learn and teachers teach. The future of education must keep up to date with the dynamic nature of the 21st century. It is expedient to take stock of the past in order to look forward, imagine and plan for a better future. Today, we take a look at education and how social, economic, and technological changes will revolutionize the way children, youth, and adults go to school. The future of education lies in harnessing technology to make us learn quicker, memorize effectively, and teach better. Without doubts, education today is not what it was even five years ago, and the future of education will look significantly different than it did a decade ago. This paper addresses how higher education institutions and K 12 schools can best prepare students for the future. Matthew N. O. Sadiku | Grace A. Adegoye | Abayomi Ajayi-Majebi | Sarhan M. Musa "The Future of Education" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-6 | Issue-7 , December 2022, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd52270.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/home-science/education/52270/the-future-of-education/matthew-n-o-sadiku
Great crowdsourced presentation collaboratively created by educators, practitioners, and researchers. Interesting insights into how social media can impact the classroom.
(Take a look at this collaborative Google Doc that lists all the ways the social network site could work with students and teachers.)
Welcome to TechSoup New Member Orientation and Q&A (May 2024).pdfTechSoup
In this webinar you will learn how your organization can access TechSoup's wide variety of product discount and donation programs. From hardware to software, we'll give you a tour of the tools available to help your nonprofit with productivity, collaboration, financial management, donor tracking, security, and more.
A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
Read| The latest issue of The Challenger is here! We are thrilled to announce that our school paper has qualified for the NATIONAL SCHOOLS PRESS CONFERENCE (NSPC) 2024. Thank you for your unwavering support and trust. Dive into the stories that made us stand out!
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Embracing GenAI - A Strategic ImperativePeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
Learning Science and Math in a Virtual World -- Georgia Tech
1. Learning Science and Math in a Virtual
World
Atlanta, GA
Georgia Tech is taking the lead on creating a new virtual world to improve Science,
Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) education for all students, especially those
with disabilities. The project is part of a National Science Foundation Alliance
collaborative grant that partners Georgia Tech with the University of Georgia as lead
institutions. Georgia Perimeter College and three Georgia public school systems are also
critical partners in the project.
Robert Todd and his research team in the Center for Assistive Technology and
Environmental Access (CATEA) are creating a virtual island in the popular Second Life
world that will be a place for students with any kind of disability to go and get help with
STEM subjects. The project, known as the Georgia STEM Accessibility Alliance, or
GSAA, will serve Georgia students from high school through graduate studies.
“We’re building a universally designed virtual world to give everyone better access to
support in the STEM fields of study,” said Todd. “This island will focus on those
students who may have a wide range of issues such as learning disabilities, blindness,
motor skill problems or cognitive issues and it will allow them to have access to mentors,
tutors and other resources to help them succeed in their courses.”
According to Todd, many students with disabilities are often kept out of STEM fields due
to a lack of access to resources needed to help them with the subjects. This new virtual
world will allow students to have access to these resources 24 hours a day, seven days a
week, 365 days a year, from their own home or school computers, free of charge.
Todd notes ”the most common type of disability seen in high school and college students
is some form of learning disability. Research has shown that many of these students have
superior intelligence, but are hampered by specific cognitive processing issues. Other
students experience sensory or physical limitations, but likewise show a strong capacity
for science and math. Our project is being designed to serve all these students through
training, self-advocacy exercises, and most important, pairing students with mentors
chosen to meet their needs.”
Students will be able to create an avatar or persona that reflects how they want to be
perceived in this virtual world. It may mean that their disability is reflected in the avatar.
For example, a blind person may have glasses and a cane or a guide dog. The student
may also decide to create an avatar that has nothing to do with their disability – all is left
to the student’s choice. “I expect to see some very creative and fun avatars,” says Todd.
“Students like to express themselves in virtual worlds through dress, wearable
technologies and any creative theme you can imagine.”
2. In addition to serving the needs of students in high school through graduate school, the
GSAA virtual world will assist students through the transitions between them, whether
that be a job, a two-year college, a four-year college or graduate school, through online
fairs and other virtual activities.
The project will utilize other resources from Georgia Tech, like much of the expertise in
the STEM fields that the Institute has across campus. Todd says that another piece of the
puzzle is to make sure the GSAA tutors, teachers and professors understand how to teach
students with disabilities.
“We are building training modules that will help advanced students, teachers and
professors to know how to assist students with special needs,” said Todd. “We’ll also be
there, along with our partners at UGA, to support them throughout the process.”
The virtual world is not a stand-alone project. There are plans to connect the GSAA to
social networking sites that students are already using, such as Facebook and
Twitter. These tools will have many uses, such as allowing students to receive reminders
of upcoming sessions as well as alerts when certain tutors are available or upcoming
college or job fairs begin.
This five-year, $3 million project will begin with cadres of students from Georgia Tech,
the University of Georgia, Georgia Perimeter College and high school students from
Gwinnett, Clarke and Greene counties. But the GSAA is being designed as a scalable
model, replicable and “sized” to other institutions and geographic needs. Therefore, it has
the potential for national impact.
This virtual world concept is unique because it will be able to be utilized by anyone,
whether they have a disability or not. “We’re focusing strongly on Universal Design for
Learning as our basis,” says Todd. “So the GSAA and its expansions will be equally
helpful for students who have disabilities and those who don’t. We’re designing our
resources to promote better education for all students who need help in STEM.”
Updates on the GSAA virtual world can be found at the CATEA site:
www.catea.gatech.edu
For More Information Contact
Matt Nagel
Georgia Tech Media Relations
404-894-7460
mattnagel@gatech.edu