Education Talk at UN NGO

Talk on the topic “What is the Best Way to Educate People?” given to NGO Committee on Education, Learning, and Literacy, a Substantive Committee body of CoNGO (The Conference of NGOs in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations) 6/22/17

Joy and Curiosity

Joy a Subject Schools Lack

Student Agency

The Shift From Content To Purpose: A Continuum Of Choice

Maker Space, Innovation Space, Learning Commons etc

• Is it a Hackerspace, Makerspace, TechShop, or FabLab?

• What is: makerspace, hackerspace, Fab Lab, FabLearn?

• Innovation Labs, Makerspaces, and Learning Commons examples

• Designing New Learning Environments to Support 21st Century Skills

Project Based Learning

• When Tech Meets Project Based Learning

• An Introduction to Project Based Learning (Video)

Social Learning

• Sugata Mitra: Kids Can Teach Themselves (2007 TED Talk)

• You Do Not Think Alone

Metacognition, Learning Strategies, and the Brain

• Metacognition: The Gift That Keeps Giving

• Vanderbuilt Center for Teaching Excellence: Metacognition

• Exploring How Students Learn

• Resources on Learning and the Brain

• Learning Theories

• How Do You Know When A Teaching Strategy Is Most Effective? John Hattie Has An Idea

Ignatian Pedagogy

Ignatian Pedagogy page on Online Learning Resource at Fordham

Digital Citizenship

• 9 Digital Elements

• Video from keynote at Faculty Technology Day 2017

• Graphic Recording of Digital Citizenship keynote at FTD 2017

Wikipedia

• Wikipedia for Educators at Fordham

• Wiki Edu Foundation

• NYC Wikimedia group

MOOCs, Online Learning, Blended Learning, Flipped Learning, Open Learning

• How are people globally benefiting from online learning? #Infographic Insights from Coursera’s 2017 Survey

• Online Learning at Fordham Resource wiki

• Kristen’s page on MOOCs and Free Online Courses

• Tech Trends in Education Fordham: MOOCs page

Individual Talk: Surviving the MOOC Trenches: Confessions of an Extreme Learner

• Jonathan’s NEDx Talk at Fullerton (video)

• Degree of Freedom (Twitter)

• Interview with Jonathan Haber on his 12-Month Education Project

  • Video

  • Transcript

Jesuit @ the Margins

• What it Means to Design and Teach Courses for University Students who are Refugees

• Expert to Speak on Online Education for Refuges

• Jesuit Worldwide Learning: Higher Education at the Margins

Intergenerational Programs

• Intergenerational Programs benefit everyone

• The role played by grandparents in family support and learning: considerations for mainstream and special schools

PLN

• We Are Each Other’s Best Teachers

• Transform Your Teaching: Use Twitter to Develop a Personal Learning Network (PLN)

History & Future of Higher Education

• History & Future of Higher Education at Fordham

• 50,000 Strong to Change Higher Ed

• About the #HASTAC #FutureEd Initiative

Tech Trends/Emerging Technology

Tech Trends in Education

Additional Topics and Articles of Interest

• Why I’m Optimistic About the Next Wave of Education Technology

• Why We Should Care About The Education Of Other People’s Children

• Conceptualizing the emerging field of smart learning environments

Evidence Based Learning and Learning Environments

• How People Learn: An Evidence-Based Approach

• The Psychology of Learning Environments

• Why teen brains need later school start time

Standardized Testing

• Why Standardized Tests Don’t Measure Educational Quality

• Why Poor Schools Can’t Win at Standardized Testing

Additional Resources

Kristen’s Content & Curation site, including the Education Disruption Flipboard

Some of Kristen’s Tumblr posts: The World Wide Web, AR, VR, and MR | Meet-up: Gurteen Knowledge Management NYC