How on Earth do you know that?!

Gathered around the NY Times Crossword every morning in the staff room before heading to class we would collectively work our way through the entire puzzle. Few of us could solve Thursday or Friday’s puzzles on our own, but together we were pretty successful. One colleague was famous for knowing some of the most obscure […]

Posted by milesmac on November 6th, 2013 | No Comments Posted in big ideas

Distance Education Annotated Bibliography

I wrote this annotated bibliography as part of my participation in the graduate course Critical Issues in Distance Education at the George Washington University. Annotated Bibliography: Distance Education Use of three-dimensional (3-D) immersive virtual worlds in K-12 and higher education settings: A review of the research Hew, K. F. and Cheung, W. S. (2010), Use […]

Posted by milesmac on June 11th, 2013 | No Comments Posted in #GWETL, Research

Role of Openness in Education: Article Summary

In the spirit of open learning, I'm sharing the notes I take while preparing for a research paper on Distance Learning. This post is about the article: On the role of openness in education: A historical reconstruction. by Sandra Peter and Markus Deimann made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License  On the role of openness […]

Posted by milesmac on May 23rd, 2013 | No Comments Posted in #GWETL, Research

Future of Distance Education: Quick Gaze into the Crystal Ball

Distance Education is Where I Am I have been exploring Augmented Reality as a context/system for learning. With ubiquitous internet (information), accessibility of powerful mobile devices (means to access information), and innovations in interaction methods including physical gestures and the ability to use brain activity to control computers (ability to interact with information), learning need […]

Posted by milesmac on May 22nd, 2013 | No Comments Posted in #GWETL, big ideas

Applications of Augmented Reality and Associated Technologies in Teaching and Learning

Introduction   Augmented Reality (AR) is the mid-point on a continuum between the real physical world around us, and the virtual digital world online superimposing information on our sensory experiences as we move through time and space (Milgram, 1994). Viewing physical objects through a mobile’s camera, AR uses image recognition, geo-location, the device’s accelerometer, and online […]

Posted by milesmac on May 3rd, 2013 | 1 Comment Posted in big ideas

Rethinking age restrictions for social media participation

Mr. 9 at my house is a Minecrafter and game player. He is into the culture of Minecraft including fan-made content like songs, poems, and YouTube video walkthroughs and strategy sharing. He recently asked for his own YouTube account so he could share his own content and participate in the ongoing conversation. Our own conversations […]

Posted by milesmac on March 20th, 2013 | No Comments Posted in big ideas

Augmented Reality in the Classroom

Augmented Reality My latest obsession is Augmented Reality. For the least year I've been getting my head wrapped around what it is, how it works, what it can do, how I could use it in the classroom, and understanding why it's more than a passing fad. Augmented Reality (AR) blends our personal sensory experiences with digital […]

Posted by milesmac on January 9th, 2013 | 3 Comments Posted in big ideas, Pedagogy

Happy Cake Day, Milestomes.com

December 14, 2011 Milestomes.com was born with the blogpost "How Grades Change Conversations About Assessment & Achievement" I wanted to start blogging partly in fulfillment of my employer's requirement to submit an annual statement of professional growth, but mostly because I started Tweeting and reading other blogs. I wanted to be part of the conversation and the professional dialogue. […]

Posted by milesmac on December 14th, 2012 | No Comments Posted in big ideas, Pedagogy

Fontography / Iconography: On the Verge of Post Literacy

Iconography Are words not long for this world? CBC's Nora Young speculated that we were entering a post-literate world where symbols take the place of words. (I have searched for the audio clip with no luck. It was during the week of November 12-16 on Winnipeg's CBC Radio 1, Winnipeg during the program Up to […]

Posted by milesmac on November 22nd, 2012 | No Comments Posted in big ideas
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