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Thomas H

GSMA Embedded Mobile - Mobile Education - 0 views

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    "Mobile connectivity provides an opportunity to offer new ways of teaching and learning that ultimately will improve performance and results whilst at the same time open up new markets formobile operators across the world. Mobile will increase access to up-to-date materials, will enable collaboration and strengthen learner engagement. In response to this opportunity, the GSMA's Mobile Education initiative aims to accelerate the adoption of Mobile Education solutions; in particular, the use of mobile-enabled portable devices ,such as e-Readers and tablets in mainstream education settings.This global initiative seeks to understand and address the landscape, barriers and opportunities in this emerging market. The GSMA has recently published its first Mobile Education Landscape Report describing the emerging global Mobile Education and related eTextbook Publishing markets. While education systems are country or even local authority specific, we believe that globally coordinated activity drawing on common experience sharing and best practices will be vital to understand and act upon the Mobile Education opportunity. To help Mobile Operators become familiar with this new space we have produced aseries of Mobile Education reports which we hope you will find useful. To get involved, whichever part of the ecosystem you belong to, please contact mobileeducation@gsm.org to learn how."
Thomas H

Education - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • Education in the general sense is any act or experience that has a formative effect on the mind, character, or physical ability of an individual. In its technical sense, education is the process by which society deliberately transmits its accumulated knowledge, skills, and values from one generation to another. Education can also be defined as the process of becoming an educated person
Vicki Davis

Linden Lab punctures education community with newly registered trademark - Massively - 0 views

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    Second Life in Education users are up at arms over the fact that Linden Lab has now decided that http://sleducation.wikispaces.com infringes on their SL trademark (which has been registered for 9 days.) In my opinion this will push more people to options like Open Sim (we love Reaction Grid for ours.) You would think that they would have read the case studies on the mistakes of Microsoft when they "gave up" their monopoly when they got greedy and cornered the market. In this environment, people WILL make alternatives and this is not a group of people (the educators in SL) you want to be mad at you. These are the people who teach others how to do things, for goodness sakes - every company should wish for an army of free volunteers like Linden has. Big mistake, Linden. Big mistake, but one that perhaps it will take years to see. I have seen educators who I have NEVER, I mean NEVER been angry at Linden angry.
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    Important happening on October 1st about Second LIfe and education
KRYSTAL S

Globalization, Education, and Technology « Praxis Makes Perfect - 0 views

  • Some effects of globalization: The United States is the center of globalization trends – we drive most of the world’s economy, influence international policy, and financial transactions. The prime paradigm is capitalism – a faithful reliance on the market to drive decisions. Global forces like the World Bank promote decentralization and privatization.  Governments get out of the way, leave services to private groups. Inherent in capitalism is an unequal distribution of wealth. Having wealth generates more wealth, having no resources leaves countries at a severe disadvantage. Technology is one kind of resource and wealth. Countries that have technology, use it to develop new products, markets, ideas… and financial power.
  • What are globalization effects on Education (in the U.S.) Heightened competition between nations to develop an educated labor force; nations need a competitive niche. Education is seen as a mechanical process – develop basic skills, technical skills, competitive skills. Movements like standards and testing develop from this view of education. The cultural philosophy of capitalism, decentralization, and privatization manifest in strategies such as independent schools, charter schools, and vouchers. Higher education (colleges and universities) are more closely tied to the private sector – it is a necessary reality. Technology is seen as a key area for education, but how is technology important? View 1 -People trained directly in the hard sciences and technology fields contribute to those lucrative markets. View 2 – Information technologies impact how people work, play, gain information, and participate in communities. Those who can use IT to further their own aims win out, those without access or skills lose out in the new world.
kimberly caise

The Atlantic Online | January/February 2010 | What Makes a Great Teacher? | Amanda Ripley - 0 views

  • This tale of two boys, and of the millions of kids just like them, embodies the most stunning finding to come out of education research in the past decade: more than any other variable in education—more than schools or curriculum—teachers matter. Put concretely, if Mr. Taylor’s student continued to learn at the same level for a few more years, his test scores would be no different from those of his more affluent peers in Northwest D.C. And if these two boys were to keep their respective teachers for three years, their lives would likely diverge forever. By high school, the compounded effects of the strong teacher—or the weak one—would become too great.
  • Farr was tasked with finding out. Starting in 2002, Teach for America began using student test-score progress data to put teachers into one of three categories: those who move their students one and a half or more years ahead in one year; those who achieve one to one and a half years of growth; and those who yield less than one year of gains. In the beginning, reliable data was hard to come by, and many teachers could not be put into any category. Moreover, the data could never capture the entire story of a teacher’s impact, Farr acknowledges.
  • They were also perpetually looking for ways to improve their effectiveness
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  • First, great teachers tended to set big goals for their students.
  • Great teachers, he concluded, constantly reevaluate what they are doing.
  • Superstar teachers had four other tendencies in common: they avidly recruited students and their families into the process; they maintained focus, ensuring that everything they did contributed to student learning; they planned exhaustively and purposefully—for the next day or the year ahead—by working backward from the desired outcome; and they worked relentlessly, refusing to surrender to the combined menaces of poverty, bureaucracy, and budgetary shortfalls.
  • When her fourth-grade students entered her class last school year, 66 percent were scoring at or above grade level in reading. After a year in her class, only 44 percent scored at grade level, and none scored above. Her students performed worse than fourth-graders with similar incoming scores in other low-income D.C. schools. For decades, education researchers blamed kids and their home life for their failure to learn. Now, given the data coming out of classrooms like Mr. Taylor’s, those arguments are harder to take. Poverty matters enormously. But teachers all over the country are moving poor kids forward anyway, even as the class next door stagnates. “At the end of the day,” says Timothy Daly at the New Teacher Project, “it’s the mind-set that teachers need—a kind of relentless approach to the problem.”
  • are almost never dismissed.
  • What did predict success, interestingly, was a history of perseverance—not just an attitude, but a track record. In the interview process, Teach for America now asks applicants to talk about overcoming challenges in their lives—and ranks their perseverance based on their answers.
  • Gritty people, the theory goes, work harder and stay committed to their goals longer
  • This year, Teach for America allowed me to sit in on the part of the interview process that it calls the “sample teach,” in which applicants teach a lesson to the other applicants for exactly five minutes. Only about half of the candidates make it to this stage. On this day, the group includes three men and two women, all college seniors or very recent graduates.
  • But if school systems hired, trained, and rewarded teachers according to the principles Teach for America has identified, then teachers would not need to work so hard. They would be operating in a system designed in a radically different way—designed, that is, for success.
  • five observation sessions conducted throughout the year by their principal, assistant principal, and a group of master educators.
  • t year’s end, teachers who score below a certain threshold could be fired.
  • But this tradition may be coming to an end. He’s thinking about quitting in the next few years.
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    "This tale of two boys, and of the millions of kids just like them, embodies the most stunning finding to come out of education research in the past decade: more than any other variable in education-more than schools or curriculum-teachers matter. Put concretely, if Mr. Taylor's student continued to learn at the same level for a few more years, his test scores would be no different from those of his more affluent peers in Northwest D.C. And if these two boys were to keep their respective teachers for three years, their lives would likely diverge forever. By high school, the compounded effects of the strong teacher-or the weak one-would become too great."
Thomas H

Education | Define Education at Dictionary.com - 0 views

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    "ed·u·ca·tion    [ej-oo-key-shuhn] Show IPA noun 1. the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life. 2. the act or process of imparting or acquiring particular knowledge or skills, as for a profession. 3. a degree, level, or kind of schooling: a university education. 4. the result produced by instruction, training, or study: to show one's education. 5. the science or art of teaching; pedagogics."
Julie Schlanger

Educator Resources - Google in Education - 1 views

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    Google branches out in many ways to help teachers and students in general.
Connor M

The Internet and Education | Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project - 0 views

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    This source outlines the major effects of the world wide web on education. It expresses how the more recent aspects of the internet have benefitted education greatly. It proposes something that is rather shocking, saying that the internet has replaced the library for a large number of people.
Vicki Davis

Smithsonian Education - Educators - 0 views

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    An incredible resource from the Smithsonian for educators
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    An online presence for the smithsonian.
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    Government organizations like the smithsonian are reaching out to educators and others with an online presence. This cool site has lesson plans and lots of great information for arts, science and technology, history and culture, and language arts.
Julie Lindsay

Educational Networking: The Important Role Web 2.0 Will Play in Education - 1 views

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    Excellent 'white paper' written by Steve Hargadon (classroom20 and futureofeducation guru) about Web 2 and education. Has an Elluminate sales-pitch side to it, but very much worth reading and sharing.
Kyle Correa

negative impacts of the world wide web on education - Google Search - 1 views

  • Computers, the internet, and cheating among secondary school ...pareonline.net/getvn.asp?v=9&n=9Cached - SimilarYou +1'd this publicly. Undoby S Conradson - Cited by 14 - Related articlesPermission is granted to distribute this article for nonprofit, educational ... And the vast realms of information on the truly, worldwide Web are so readily available. ..... policies that carry seriou
Sarah Miller

Educational Blogging - 0 views

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    This article illustrates the positive aspects of educational blogging. The author uses actual students' and teachers' reactions to show how the changing shape of information has increased the capabilities of schools. Basically, the article explains how educational blogging has impacted how students and teachers communicate and learn.
Vicki Davis

Top 50 iPhone Apps for Educators | OEDb - 0 views

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    iPhone apps for education from Online Education Database
Vicki Davis

Discovery Education | Discovering Diabetes - 1 views

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    This is an example of social entrepreneurship and a new way that people are connecting online. This is a great organization (Discovery - discovery channel, etc.) and they have a great program.
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    My Dad has diabetes as did my grandfather. This is a great program and discovery does things right -- please consider letting your students join this great event. "Discovery Education has launched a program for high school health/science teachers designed to help educate students about Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes. The site includes lesson plans (coming soon), lots of videos and multimedia interactives on digestion, blood glucose and diabetes. To recognize World Diabetes Day on November 14, all students with Type 1 diabetes are encouraged to create videos to "Shout Out" about diabetes and tell their story. For each video submitted, Novo Nordisk will make a donation to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation to help fund research leading to a cure for Type 1 diabetes. Plus, each student who submits a video will receive a free Discovery DVD. "
Julie Lindsay

As Classrooms Go Digital, Textbooks May Become History - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Textbooks have not gone the way of the scroll yet, but many educators say that it will not be long before they are replaced by digital versions - or supplanted altogether by lessons assembled from the wealth of free courseware, educational games, videos and projects on the Web.
Steve Madsen

Mobile Phones As A Teaching Aide - Education News - redOrbit - 1 views

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    An article that may give some ideas of using a mobile device in education.
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    education researchers at The University of Nottingham believe it is time that phone bans were reassessed - because mobile phones can be a powerful learning aid, they say.
Veronica Rohach

Benefits - Google Apps for Education - 1 views

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    This website outlines how the google apps aid in education and are able to be secure for schools. These apps help schools in many different ways. 
Mae Menk

Pros and Cons of Online Education - 1 views

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    This details the pros and cons of modern online education. Mobile and Ubiquitous, Education
Alec Lothian

The 10 Best and Worst Ways Social Media Impacts Education - Edudemic - Edudemic - 0 views

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    This article talks about the positives and negatives social networking has on education.
Tori N

SpeEdChange: Social Networking and Education-as-we-know-it - 1 views

  • social structure made of nodes
  • interdependency
  • The resulting structures are often very complex."
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  • large [positive] changes to educational methods
  • become a ubiquitous part of many students’ lives.
  • Students have been empowered to publish not just their best work, but the many drafts it takes to get there.
  • Ubiquitous social technologies help us connect to those who can help us learn when we're outside the domain of formal education.
  • authority is a flexible idea.
  • social network changed day-by-day, even when participants were much the same
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    How social networking can change the way things are taught.
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