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Interesting Infographics (part 2) 5 of 5 - "What's Trending @Twitter"

 
This is part of a series of posts showcasing some interesting infographics that are available on the web. For more information on infographics have a look here and for some of the problems with using infographics graphics have a look here.

Today's infographic is on "What's Trending @ Twitter" (original source)

For me the most interesting fact is that 10% of people don't know what a # (hashtag) is. Do you?

More information on Twitter here in this CommonCraft Video and for reasons why it is useful to build a personal learning network for teachers see this TES Article 'I can't live without Twitter' that Steve Bunce, Dan Roberts and I contributed to back in January 2011.

 

Thanks to Tony Shin for sending me the link.

Interesting Infographics (part 2) 4 of 5 - "The State of Digital Education"

 
This is part of a series of posts showcasing some interesting infographics that are available on the web. For more information on infographics have a look here and for some of the problems with using infographics graphics have a look here.

Part Two of this series mostly focuses on Infographics that illustrate the US Education System - but I think there is valuable learning and questions they raise about the UK Education System as well.

Today's infographic is on "The State of Digital Education" (original source)

For me the most interesting facts are:

1) Education is a seven trillion dollar industry. That's 570 times the size of the online advertising market and equal to seven times the global mobile industry - [its no wonder lots of commercial companies are being ing increasing interested in education. For a long time I have maintained that it is one of the only guaranteed markets in challenging economic times].

2) Teachers are embracing online learning tools: 93 percent believe online tools improve performance and 95 percent believe that online tools help to engage students - [I think this is a trend reflected in the Scotland / UK. The big challenge we face though is getting teachers from 'believing' to 'doing' and certainly in Scotland we are still to make that shift].

3) The education community is already adopting new technologies which will work together to result in more effective learning solutions, including game-based learning, learning analytics, cloud computing, personalized learning environments and open content - [we are well on the way to adoption in Scotland. Particularly in Games Based Learning. The other findings are consistent with the 2011 Horizon Report].

Interesting Infographics (part 2) 3 of 5 - "Open Source Textbooks"

This is part of a series of posts showcasing some interesting infographics that are available on the web. For more information on infographics have a look here and for some of the problems with using infographics graphics have a look here.

Part Two of this series mostly focuses on Infographics that illustrate the US Education System - but I think there is valuable learning and questions they raise about the UK Education System as well.

Today's infographic is on "Open Source Books" (original source)

Open Textbooks is a new paradigm that is beginning to emerge and is becomeing increasing popular in the US (particularly Califonia I think?). It gives the option for students to print books on demand or download free digital copies at the fraction of the cost of a normal textbook price. As you can imagine there is some oposition - but it is an interenting model. 

If your interested in Open Source Books then WikiBooks is not a bad place to start.

Thanks to Tony Shin for sending me the link.

Interesting Infographics (part 2) 2 of 5 - "How the Internet is Revolutionizing Education"

This is part of a series of posts showcasing some interesting infographics that are available on the web. For more information on infographics have a look here and for some of the problems with using infographics graphics have a look here.

Part Two of this series mostly focuses on Infographics that illustrate the US Education System - but I think there is valuable learning and questions they raise about the UK Education System as well.

Today's inforgraphic is on "How the Internet is Revolutionizing Education" (original source)

For me the interesting points are:

1) The Open University (OU) has led the on-line learning revolution since 1971, now are challenge is to get more OU courses into the Senior Phase of schools (schools like Islay High School and Monkseaton High School already do this)

2) We need to signpost learners and teachers more to some of the great on-line Open Education learning content that exisits on the web and in places like Apples iTunesU.

3) We need to consider the impact on pedegaogy and learning from the use of resources like Khan Academy (terms like Flipped Classroom are starting to be used more widely but we need to experiment more and evaluate these ideas in practice) 

Thanks to Tony Shin for sending me the link.

Interesting Infographics (part 2) 1 of 5 - "Students Love Technology"

This is part of a series of posts showcasing some interesting infographics that are available on the web. For more information on infographics have a look here and for some of the problems with using infographics graphics have a look here.

Part Two of this series mostly focuses on Infographics that illustrate the US Education System - but I think there is valuable learning and questions they raise about the UK Education System as well.

Today's inforgraphic is on 'Students Love Technology' (original Source).

For me the interenting questions are:

1) When will we see the convergence between laptop/tablet and text book (ans isn't reading or having the information the most important thing?).

2) That 3 out of 4 students say that they wouldn't be able to study without technology BUT only 1 out of 4 uses video podcasts as study materila (I still think that we have a job to do in signposting young people towards the great learning content that is available on the web).

3) That students in the US seem to be useing email, socila meadi and mobile phones to contact teachers reagarsing their learning more than I perceve them to be in the Scotland / UK.

Thanks to Tony Shin for sending me the link.

Interesting Inforgraphics (part 2) - Introduction

An infographic is a visual representation of a set of data, facts, statistics, and images that often support a point of view. In lots of ways they are not dissimilar to large classroom posters that you often see in classrooms and school corridors.

Jen Deyenberg wrote a post on using inforgraphics that is worth a read and Neil Winton offers some alternative advice on the use and point of inforgraphics over on his blog.

What ever you think – I think they do have a place in schools and we certainly need to be working with children to make sure that they understand how to decode and interpret inforgraphics. I find some of them quite interesting and they certainly get you thinking about things!

I have previously posted some of my favorite inforgraphics earlier in the year at the end of March. Since then I've been collecting Inforgraphics about education - most of them have been delivered to me by my on-line colleague Tony Shin, who seems to have a really good eye for spotting the best ones.

I’m going to post five that I have bookmarked recently over the next week and they are all mainly about the US Education System but provide some valuable learning for us over on this side of the pond. 

To get us started - here is a nice infographic explaining How Google actually works (you might want to click on the picture to make it bigger!) -

Source: PPCBlog

Interesting Infographics (5 of 5):

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This is part of a series of posts showcasing some interesting infographics that are available on the web. For more information on infographics have a look here and for some of the problems with using infographics graphics have a look here.

Today's infographic compares two Android phones to the iPhone Four (source):

Interesting Infographics (4 of 5): Where is my mobile phone?

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This is part of a series of posts showcasing some interesting infographics that are available on the web. For more information on infographics have a look here and for some of the problems with using infographics graphics have a look here.

Today's infographic is on what happens if you loose your mobile phone. A nice little infographic resource from McAfee useful for Internet Safety and Responsible Use Lessons - what do you think?

Why washing machines are important [Hans Rosling TED Talk]

I’m a big fan of Hans Rosling - he is only of the only people that I know who can make statistics interesting and we could learn a lot from the way he presents and simplified complicated data when trying to get these key messages across to children.

Alan Parkinson (over at the Living Geography Blog) pointed me in the direction of Han’s latest TED talk where he focuses on washing machines! Unlike his previous talks this is the first talk I have seen Hands do where he does not use Gapminder - I’m pretty sure he is using PowerPoint in Office 2010, which demonstrates how this presentation software can be if its used in the right way.

I’ve embedded his 10 minute talk below - a must watch for geography teachers (and anyone else with 10 minutes spare!)

Interesting Infographics (3 of 5): Facebook Vs Twitter

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This is part of a series of posts showcasing some interesting infographics that are available on the web. For more information on infographics have a look here and for some of the problems with using infographics graphics have a look here.

Today's infographic is on Facebook Vs Twitter (source)

One has over 500 million users, the other just over 100 million. But who are they and what’s their behavior? What’s their value to a brand? How old are they? What’s their education? How much do they make? Just exactly what does the Facebook vs. Twitter landscape look like? Good questions.

Here is one way of looking at it: