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Ed Tech PTP: Summary Syllabus

03/05/2016 By debkr

My newly-established EdTech Personalised Training Plan includes the following streams:

1. Information Theory Stream
2. Learning/Development Stream: how humans learn vs. how machines learn + developing machines to augment human learning
3. Collaborative Learning Stream
4. Innovation Stream
5. Agile Methodologies Stream
6. Educational Technology Stream: to review the technological and presentational innovations shaping education and L&D

Refer my earlier post “Learning About Learning” for some background on this new/additional PTP.

Learning About Learning

03/05/2016 By debkr

As I’ve been going along in this mission of discovery that is my mid-life career-change search, I’ve come to realise just how important Learning & Development really is to me. It’s become a key area for me to look further into – especially in response to my wholly-positive experiences of MOOC’s so far and in relation to my budding interest in all things programming- and technology-led.

I’ve been thinking more and more about the ideas Accelerated Learning and Augmented Learning (specifically in relation to an ongoing developmental Programming Project). In brief, this is about how machine learning and artificial intelligence can be used to help and empower humans, rather than just be there to make rich people more money and put more people out of jobs and into long-term unemployment or underemployment. [Read more…] about Learning About Learning

Coding 101

11/03/2016 By debkr

A word before I begin
You can do no better in learning Python programming for data handling/analysis than to study for yourself one of Charles Servance’s MOOC’s, or to download and work through his freely-available, ‘remixed’ open-source book (see References below for links to both). I am not even standing of the shoulders of giants here… I am merely scurrying along way behind them all, picking up what few crumbs of knowledge and wisdom I can along the way. Blogging my own educational journey – as a 40-somthing woman heading into the world of tech – is a way to help me consolidate my own learnings. If it can help you too – above all by showing empirically that “if she can, then I can” – it will have served a double purpose. [Read more…]