I guess that answer was more about the results of the infographic, rather than the makeup of the infographic, so let’s talk about the makeup:
- Design
- Story
- Flow
- Data
- Shareability
- BONUS - Think about what is next in this industry.”
Stephen
Stephen Abram's Posts About Library Land
I am having a wonderful time at the European Business Schools Library Group meeting at the Judge School at the University of Cambridge.
Here’s my slides for today’s keynote.
Stephen
Summary from the NMC K-12 Horizons Report
“TRENDS
The presence of the Internet in students’ lives outside of school, and especially on mobile devices, is allowing for more online and blended learning models in classrooms. That trend is supported by an increasing tolerance and even excitement among teachers for mobile devices as learning tools. As the cost of devices continues to come down, they proliferate in classrooms and can be powerful learning tools.
Print and digital textbooks are getting some serious competition from open-source content, which has captured the imagination of educators who are finding valuable content outside the prescribed realm of textbooks.
CHALLENGES
The big challenges for better using education technology are similar to ones that have long existed. There isn’t enough professional development to help educators feel comfortable using new strategies and it often isn’t part of a school’s culture. Resistance to trying new approaches remains prevalent and the status quo continues to exert a powerful inertia on the system, preventing a broader use of good ideas.
Traditional models of schooling are experiencing more competition than ever before with charter schools, for-profit operators, online learning and MOOCs pushing for change. Similarly, traditional teaching that relies on lectures and tests is being challenged by blended models of instruction.
There’s a large demand for personalized learning, but the technology tools don’t yet support the goals of those who want to use it — a big gap still exists between overall vision and available tools. Meanwhile, even as teachers are shifting to more formative assessments taken continually throughout the school year, assessment policies have not always shifted to match this change. But educators think there’s potential for digital tools to help collect formative assessment data unobtrusively.”
Challenges, challenges…
Stephen
Via: http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/?p=4255
http://visual.ly/how-rock-social-media-30-minutes-day
Stephen
Trends in Consumer Book Buying

Stephen
“Mitch Joel, author of the business strategy book, “CTRL-ALT-Delete: Reboot your business. Reboot your life”, has pulled together some mind-blowing facts that show the internet is so much bigger than you think it is.
Stephen
I have the great pleasure of speaking at Cambridge University this week – twice!
Here’s the first presentation from tonight for CILIP East.
Stephen
Via: http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/?p=4256
Simplicity works for students (and adults too)
Write Your Paper Right
http://visual.ly/write-your-paper-right
Stephen
The biggest drag on the recovery is this . . .
Student Debt is the Worst
http://ilovecharts.tumblr.com/post/52066765463/student-debt-is-the-worst

If you want to goose the economic recovery then give some better terms and forgiveness to those students carrying this debt load between the ages of 25ish and 40ish. They can then stop delaying relationships, marriage, home-buying, decorating, car buying, travel, further education, job mobility, and having kids – whatever else they may want from life in general. Tax cuts to the richest 2% to store that money overseas and invest offshore surely makes no sense economically in a consumer-driven economy …
Rants never over . . .
Stephen
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