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John Evans

Can iPads help students learn science? Yes | Harvard Gazette - 2 views

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    "A new study by researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) shows that students grasp the unimaginable emptiness of space more effectively when they use iPads, rather than traditional classroom methods, to explore 3-D simulations of the universe."
John Evans

Open Collections Program: Expeditions and Discoveries - Sponsored Exploration and Scien... - 0 views

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    The newest in a series of online collections from Harvard University, Expeditions and Discoveries delivers maps, photographs, and published materials, as well as field notes, letters, and a unique range of manuscript materials on selected expeditions between 1626 and 1953.
John Evans

TEDxDirigo Jennifer Oxman Ryan - TEDxDirigo - 0 views

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    "Jennifer Oxman Ryan is a Researcher and Project Manager at Project Zero, a research organization at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her current research project, Agency by Design, focuses on the thinking and learning engaged during making and design experiences. She is particularly interested in exploring how educators, schools, and organizations can optimize maker experiences and how these experiences can cultivate maker empowered youth. Jennifer has degrees from Mount Holyoke College and the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She currently lives in Portland with a family of makers, aged 4 through 40."
John Evans

Quick Look: MIT and Harvard announce edX | MindShift - 0 views

  • “The gathering of many universities’ educational content together on one site will enable learners worldwide to access the course content of any participating university from a single website, and to use a set of online educational tools shared by all participating universities.” Key piece of information: “EdX will release its learning platform as open-source software so it can be used by other universities and organizations that wish to host the platform themselves.”
Phil Taylor

Move Over Harvard And MIT, Stanford Has The Real "Revolution In Education" | TechCrunch - 1 views

  • recent one-week study that compared the outcomes of two classes, a control class that received a lecture from a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and an experimental section where students worked with graduate assistants to solve physics problems. Test scores for the experimental group (non-lecture) was nearly double that of the control section (41% to 74%).
John Evans

What We Learn from Making | Harvard Graduate School of Education - 2 views

  • Empowerment is a key goal of maker-centered learning — helping young people feel that they can build and shape their worlds. That sense of “maker empowerment” arises when students learn to notice and engage with their physical and conceptual environments, the report states. To encourage that heightened sensitivity, educators should provide opportunities for students to: look closely and reflect on the design of objects and systems; explore the complexity of design; and understand themselves as designers of their worlds.
  • But as a new report from Project Zero’s Agency by Design concludes, the real value of maker education has more to do with building character than with building the next industrial revolution.  
  • In a white paper [PDF] marking the end of its second year, Agency by Design (AbD) finds that among the benefits that may accrue along the maker ed path, the most striking is the sense of inspiration that students take away — a budding understanding of themselves as actors in their community, empowered “to engage with and shape the designed dimensions of their worlds.”
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    "What are the real benefits of a maker-centered approach to learning? It's often described as a way to incubate STEM skills or drive technical innovation - and it is probably both of these. But as a new report from Project Zero's Agency by Design concludes, the real value of maker education has more to do with building character than with building the next industrial revolution.  "
John Evans

When Will Educators Get Serious About Gaming? - Bruce Dixon - Innovations in Education... - 2 views

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    When Will Educators Get Serious About Gaming?: http://bit.ly/gVBonT from Harvard BR
John Evans

Public Domain & Creative Commons Content - Finding Public Domain & Creative Commons Ima... - 3 views

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    "This guide will help you find and correctly attribute public domain and Creative Commons images for your project or presentation."
John Evans

EcoMUVE - 3 views

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    IES-funded Developing Multi-User Virtual Environment (MUVE)-based Ecosystems Science Curriculum modules for Middle School EcoMUVE 
John Evans

EcoMUVE - 2 views

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    Advanced Ecosystems Science Education via Situated Collaborative Learning in Multi-User Virtual Environment
John Evans

20 Tips for Creating a Professional Learning Network - 6 views

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    "etworking is a prime form of 21st century learning. The world is much smaller thanks to technology. Learning is transforming into a globally collaborative enterprise. Take for example scientists; professional networks allow the scientific community to share discoveries much faster. Just this month, a tech news article showcased how Harvard scientists are considering that "sharing discoveries is more efficient and honorable than patenting them." This idea embodies the true spirit of a successful professional learning network: collaboration for its own sake. "
John Evans

Coding in French - Free Printable Coding Blocks | Mrs. Geek Chic - 0 views

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    "While using twitter one night, I saw a teacher using coding blocks.  Hand's on, tangible, printed blocks.  No actually technology was involved.  I loved that this was a fun and easy way to include coding for French learners.  I googled the blocks and found them.  (http://scratched.gse.harvard.edu/resources/vector-scratch-blocks).  I knew that these blocks could help my students, but I needed them in French.  I asked on Twitter, on Facebook, anywhere I could.  They were nowhere to be found.  So I decided to make them and I would like to share them with you all.  You can find them here:  https://goo.gl/A1ajhN (or in the folder below). This link will take you to the blocks that I have made and other helpful documents."
John Evans

Digital Natives Are Slow to Pick Up Nonverbal Cues - John K. Mullen - Harvard Business ... - 5 views

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    "Digital Natives Are Slow to Pick Up Nonverbal Cues"
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