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John Evans

Makey Makey Will Make You Love The "Internet Of Things" | Fast Company | Business + Inn... - 0 views

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internet things makey makey

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  • Makey Makey is a little circuit board that comes with a set of alligator clips. You can attach them to anything even mildly conductive (a body part, a glass of water, alphabet noodles, paper clips, Play-Doh, or fruit for example) and use that thing to control your computer as though you were hitting the keyboard or moving the mouse. The device plays well with the Arduino in case you want to attach it to simple sensors.
Phil Taylor

Google Turns Off Ad Scanning in Apps for Education Permanently -- THE Journal - 0 views

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google scanning apps education

shared by Phil Taylor on 01 May 14 - No Cached
  • scanning technology used in Gmail was also present in the Apps for Education version of Gmail, though there was never a claim that Google actually mined or even stored any data without permission for purposes other than checking for viruses or spam or conducting other common e-mail services, such as spell checking.
  • Google Apps is a separate offering that provides additional security, administrative and archiving controls for education, business and government customers.
Phil Taylor

The Myth Of Digital Citizenship And Why We Need To Teach It Anyway | EdReach - 3 views

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myth digital citizenship citizenship teach rup aup

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  • “I get that it’s new technology. But aren’t we talking about basically the same behavior? We’ve just shifted from an analog to a digital method, right?
  • if we teach clear and comprehensive expectations about behavior we have pretty much all our technology bases covered in regard to digital citizenship.
  • digital citizenship. It’s just citizenship. The rules don’t change just because you have a screen in front of you.
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  • instead we teach responsible cell phone use consistent with our other behavior expectations.
  • The real way technology challenges us is the impact of misbehavior. The scope and reach is immediate and vast. An infraction that in the analog world would constitute a small gaff can become a full blown media incident in our digital age. What technology has done is taken the social consequences and amplified them beyond the capacity of many of our students to comprehend.  It’s taken what historically has been pretty low price tag infractions and inflated them at a rate many of us are unprepared to deal with. Consequences we engineer should teach.  The consequences brought about by the ramifications of misuse of technology often do not teach. They often do damage. We really have very little control of the coarse reaction the world drops on our children.
Phil Taylor

The Digital Tattoo: Think Before You Ink - etsmagazine - 2 views

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tattoo think ink digital citizenship

shared by Phil Taylor on 08 May 15 - No Cached
  • move the fear-based cybersafety agenda forward towards a conversation about digital empowerment
  • As educators, the solution is obvious – we educate our students and prepare them for a society we cannot control.
John Evans

Education Week: Research Shows Evolving Picture of E-Education - 0 views

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e-learning e-education virtual schooling article

shared by John Evans on 25 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Online classes may be a relatively young instructional practice for K-12 schools, but experts already generally agree on one point: Research shows that virtual schooling can be as good as, or better than, classes taught in person in brick-and-mortar schools.
  • Studies of state-run virtual schools show, for instance, that the courses tend to draw students at the extremes of the academic spectrum—advanced, highly motivated students looking for academic acceleration, and students who are struggling in regular classrooms
  • Not surprisingly, the students with the best academic records in online classes tend to be in that high-ability group, according to experts in the field. But some new research also finds that online courses are beginning to score more successes with the lowest achievers­—possibly because many are high school students who see the online courses as a last chance to earn enough credits to graduate.
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  • Ferdig says the large numbers of academic go-getters taking online classes could account for some of the rosy findings in the first wave of studies of online coursetaking, since highly motivated students are likely to fare well in any academic environment. But later studies controlled more carefully for students’ academic differences at the starting gate and continued to find learning gains.
    • John Evans
      John Evans on 25 Mar 09
       
      Interesting findings.
  • “It isn’t something that’s only for bright kids or only for kids who are well below grade level, because it may not work for many of them, either,” says Saul Rockman, the president and chief executive officer of Rockman et al., a San Francisco research group.
  • Rockman says his research suggests that succeeding in an online course is “more a matter of learning style.” Is the student an independent learner, for instance? Does he or she struggle with reading and writing?
  • Building in student-support mechanisms helps keep less academically motivated students from failing or dropping out of online classes, according to researchers.
    • John Evans
      John Evans on 25 Mar 09
       
      This sounds like the key aspect for success. Teachers who are already building this into their classes either by responding to emails, online chats or setting up an atmosphere that encourages chatting within the context of their course, often late at night amongst students only, are seeing this success. Ex. Darren Kuropatwa's SH Math class blogs
  • “Whether that’s 24-hour technical support, tutorial support, parental vigilance, or face-to-face site coordinators or mentors,” Cavanaugh says. Mentors and site coordinators seem to be especially linked to marked improvements in student results in large high schools, she adds.
  • “The mentor plays an important role in making sure Johnny or Susie logs in to the course on a regular basis and provides a point of contact for the instructor,” says Jamey Fitzpatrick, the president and chief executive officer of Michigan Virtual University, which currently enrolls 15,000 students, mostly in middle and high school
  • Some of the early studies emerging from the database helped dispel some concerns about potential detrimental effects of online coursetaking on students’ social development, according to Ferdig. Very few online students, those studies showed, took electronic classes full time. Rather, they combined virtual schooling with traditional courses. The studies also showed that students communicated regularly online with teachers and classmates.
  • Cavanaugh, of the University of Florida, says there is also a “general consensus”—if not air-tight research findings—that the more interactive the courses can be, the higher their success rates.
  • Ongoing studies are also beginning to look at whether so-called “hybrid” or “blended” courses—classes in which only 30 to 70 percent of the instruction takes place online and the rest is in person—are any more successful than all-electronic versions
    • John Evans
      John Evans on 25 Mar 09
       
      ala Dean Shareski (@shareski) and Alec Couros (@courosa) courses
  • “In general,” Russell says, “I don’t think this body of research [on online education] is totally developed at this stage.”
  • John Evans on 25 Mar 09
     
    Online classes may be a relatively young instructional practice for K-12 schools, but experts already generally agree on one point: Research shows that virtual schooling can be as good as, or better than, classes taught in person in brick-and-mortar schools.
John Evans

Remote Access: Expanding Your Classroom's Global Perspective - 0 views

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classroom collaboration ideas remoteaccess

shared by John Evans on 04 Mar 09 - Cached
  • How does information come into your classroom? Who controls it? Who gets to find it and mandate it for use?
  • A lot of the work I've done this year focuses on getting quality information from global sources into my classroom and for my students to use on a daily basis.
  • RSS is your friend.
    • John Evans
      John Evans on 04 Mar 09
       
      I've learned more through my use of RSS feeds than I ever did before. What tools do you use to take advantage of the power of RSS?
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  • Get flickr and Youtube unblocked
    • John Evans
      John Evans on 04 Mar 09
       
      Sometimes easier said than done. Who in your school or division makes the decision on what is blocked or accessiable?
John Evans

The Educational Technology Site: ICT in Education: --> A Preview of 2DIY - 0 views

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2diy game builders review

shared by John Evans on 14 Jan 09 - Cached
  • I like the idea that children could use this to devise activities which, rather than testing or extending their skills by doing the activity itself, does so by requiring them to design the activity themselves
  • For example, when creating a quiz they may have to think about issues like the path taken by the user, how to frame the question, show the scoring will work, and what sounds (if any) to use for the feedback.
  • News & Views A Preview of 2DIY By Terry Freedman Created on Wed, 14 Jan 2009, 09:33 Email this article  Printer friendly page Email the author Listen to this article if ("">"") { document.write (""); document.write (""); document.write (""); } I've just received a link to download the latest program from 2Simple. Called 2DIY (for non-Brits, DIY = do-it-yourself, a shorthand term for home making things like bookshelves for the home), it enables users to create their own games and exercises.I've had a quick exploration, and it is looking very good. Read on for a quick thumbnail sketch, and why I think you should look into it.Back in the 1990s I used to love looking at shareware games developed for the educational sector. Some of the games were quite fun, but the problem for me was either that the game wasn't really educational at all, or that it didn't quite do what I'd have liked. Unfortunately, I never had the time to develop my games programming skills in order to rectify the situation.I think 2DIY would have been a step in the right direction.I think the best way of describing the program -- bearing in mind I've had it installed for less than an hour -- is that it's the programming equivalent of a painting or desktop publishing program. What you have  is a suite of specialised  tools, and you can use them to build yourt own games and activities.You can see from the screenshot that the range is quite extensive. The manual is easy to use, and there are videos and examples available.It has the ability to let you import pictures or select from a range of ones provided. Indeed, there is quite a lot of control over what your completed game or activity will look like.What's more interesting to me, however, is what boxes it ticks if you put it into the hands of youngsters -- and I use the term "youngsters" rather than "children" for reasons which will become apparent
John Evans

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richtasks inquiry project AU

shared by John Evans on 29 Jan 09 - Cached
  • What is a “rich task”? A rich task involves both process and product, following an inquiry-based model of learning. Students learn large amounts of new content, develop important skills and develop in interdisciplinary learning. This includes personal-management, interpersonal development, communication, ICT and particularly in thinking. Usually a “rich task” might be classified as a term’s worth of learning under the guise of “integrated studies”, but a rich task could be equally as applicable in literacy and mathematics programs (or indeed any other area of learning). Here are some key areas that I think people need to consider when aiming to plan rich tasks: 
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education teaching technology learning edublogs

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  • RSS is your friend.
    • John Evans
      John Evans on 04 Mar 09
       
      I Agree! Bloglines is the only RSS reader to use.
  • How does information come into your classroom? Who controls it? Who gets to find it and mandate it for use? A lot of the work I've done this year focuses on getting quality information from global sources into my classroom and for my students to use on a daily basis.
John Evans

Educational Leadership:Health and Learning:How to Teach Students About the Brain - 5 views

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brain learning health leadership educational

shared by John Evans on 24 Feb 10 - Cached
  • If we want to empower students, we must show them how they can control their own cognitive and emotional health and their own learning. Teaching students how the brain operates is a huge step. Even young students can learn strategies for priming their brains to learn more efficiently; I know, because I've taught both 5th graders and 7th graders about how their brains learn
Phil Taylor

The Valleywag Guide to Restoring Your Privacy on Facebook - Facebook Privacy Changes 20... - 5 views

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reputations cyber-savvy facebook privacy

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  • Phil Taylor on 06 Jan 10
     
    How to regain control of privacy on facebook.
Phil Taylor

Let Faculty Off The Hook -- Campus Technology - 3 views

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faculty resources change plan education

shared by Phil Taylor on 18 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Still, and this may be true for many decades to come, most college and university classrooms are designed for teacher presentation; the shape of the room, the acoustical design, control of lighting, lack of sufficient technology in the room, the furniture, security, window treatment, and so on, the space itself screams lecture. Likewise, parent and incoming student expectations have the force of centuries of fixed models about what teaching and learning are supposed to be. Such cultural memes (like physical genes), so ingrained, change ever so slowly.
Phil Taylor

Time for debate on how Twitter, Facebook affect courts says Ontario's AG - Winnipeg Fre... - 0 views

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debate social media law courts Canada

shared by Phil Taylor on 17 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Edelson said he'd like to see a forum where senior journalists, judges and lawyers could get together and "throw around ideas" about whether social media tools should be controlled inside the courtroom.
Phil Taylor

For Computer Chip Builders, Only One Way to Go: Up| The Committed Sardine - 0 views

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computer chip future

shared by Phil Taylor on 31 May 11 - No Cached
  • race to build a faster computer chip, there is literally nowhere to go but up
  • It opens the way for faster smartphones, lighter laptops and a new generation of supercomputers
  • Gordon Moore made his famous prediction in 1965 that computers should double in power every two years.
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  • the transistor three "gates" to control the flow of electric current, instead of just one
Phil Taylor

iOS 5, iCloud and Education: To what degree will iBenefit? - iPads in Education - 0 views

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iOS iCloud iBenefit iPads education

shared by Phil Taylor on 10 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • Typically in a school scenario that will be when they are left charging overnight in a cart. Score one for IT administrators.
  • AirPlay mirroring will now allow anyone with an iPad 2 to project whatever is on their screen wirelessly to any HD television connected to an Apple TV. For those that aren’t familiar with Apple TV, frankly you’re in the majority. There haven’t been many compelling reasons to consider purchasing this $99 device … until now.
  • iMessage: OK, so let’s just call it Blackberry Messaging for iOS devices and leave it at that.
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  • iCloud focuses on integration with apps as opposed to DropBox or SugarSync which are more of a generic file storage mechanism.
  • With iCloud, the student has a web based account and the document is automatically stored and backed up from the iPad. Further, the student can access the account off-campus and retrieve the document for further editing before returning it to the iCloud account.
  • Add to that tabbed browsing and speed improvements and Safari may finally be a capable mobile browser.
  • inadequacy of the mobile Safari text editor control has made it next to impossible to use popular text editing tools to edit blog posts or Google Docs. The jury’s still out on this feature but it appears that an enhanced version could still be included with iOS 5. This would be a dramatic and very desirable improvement.
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