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John Evans

For Computer Science Ed Week - Teach Thinking NOT Coding - EdTech Researcher - Education Week - 0 views

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    "With Computer Science in Education (CSED) Week and Hour of Code right around the corner, we have a simple request: Don't teach coding. Instead, we suggest that you introduce computational thinking and creative problem solving into your classroom. This way, you can get at the big ideas behind computer science rather than focus on a single activity or lesson involving "code.""
John Evans

Deepfakes are getting better-but they're still easy to spot | Ars Technica - 0 views

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    "Last week, Mona Lisa smiled. A big, wide smile, followed by what appeared to be a laugh and the silent mouthing of words that could only be an answer to the mystery that had beguiled her viewers for centuries. A great many people were unnerved. Ars Technica Join Ars Technica and Get Our Best Tech Stories DELIVERED STRAIGHT TO YOUR INBOX. SIGN ME UP Will be used in accordance with our Privacy Policy Mona's "living portrait," along with likenesses of Marilyn Monroe, Salvador Dali, and others, demonstrated the latest technology in deepfakes-seemingly realistic video or audio generated using machine learning. Developed by researchers at Samsung's AI lab in Moscow, the portraits display a new method to create credible videos from a single image. With just a few photographs of real faces, the results improve dramatically, producing what the authors describe as "photorealistic talking heads." The researchers (creepily) call the result "puppeteering," a reference to how invisible strings seem to manipulate the targeted face. And yes, it could, in theory, be used to animate your Facebook profile photo. But don't freak out about having strings maliciously pulling your visage anytime soon. "Nothing suggests to me that you'll just turnkey use this for generating deepfakes at home. Not in the short-term, medium-term, or even the long-term," says Tim Hwang, director of the Harvard-MIT Ethics and Governance of AI Initiative. The reasons have to do with the high costs and technical know-how of creating quality fakes-barriers that aren't going away anytime soon."
John Evans

Best Math Lesson Ever: The Sieve of Eratosthenes - RoomToDiscover : RoomToDiscover - 4 views

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    "My favorite math lesson ever is based on a little tool called The Sieve of Eratosthenes. (Pronounced: Siv of Air-a-tos-thin-ease). It's rare that a single math lesson can be used again and again, with students of different ages, while still having an impact. Either it's too challenging for young students, or it's boring for older students. And your students will definitely let you know when you teach them a lesson they learned the year before. But here's why I think the Sieve of Eratosthenes is different. In some ways, it's just a glorified hundreds chart. But once you and your students start seeing the patterns in this hundreds chart, it gets really interesting. No matter how many patterns you find, there's always another layer to be uncovered."
John Evans

Data Doesn't Have to be a Dirty Word - Work in Progress - Education Week Teacher - 1 views

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    "It's all about perspective.  Too often when we hear the word "data" we assume that the person speaking is talking solely about summative test results and the plethora of possibilities for learning we can take away from those numbers.  But this is NOT the only kind of data that exists, it is just the kind that gets the brunt of our ire and frustration as it is a solitary indicator of teaching and learning. And that's what I struggle with. Test data is one single area for determining what kids know and can do and there are often many challenges with these standardized tests that skew the data on top of that. However, most classroom teachers and leaders are gathering data like masterful musicians in their classrooms every day and just don't realize that is what they are doing."
John Evans

How to Download YouTube Videos | PCMag - 0 views

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    "Hours of footage is uploaded to YouTube every single second. What if you want to download it? In some circles, that's considered a big no-no, but you have your reasons, right? Here's how."
John Evans

10 Things to Remember When the Going Gets Tough - 0 views

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    "It's time for a quick story about life, gratitude, and inner strength… Once upon a time there was a woman in her mid-sixties who noticed that she had lived her entire life in the same small town.  And although she had spent decades enthusiastically dreaming about traveling and seeing the world, she had never taken a single step to make this dream a reality."
John Evans

Coaching in and out of the classroom: What is the next chapter for edcuation? - 0 views

  • How are we ALL connected?  Why aren't we capitalizing on it?
  • Increasing anytime and anywhere learning. How long until the tools become invisible? The days with the single teacher in front of the class with the book has passed. Teachers are becoming CO-LEARNERS. How can kids get prepared outside of class to go in-depth inside of class. Every child needs to have THEIR OWN personal device
Phil Taylor

Teachers' Interactive Guide to Creating Professionally Looking Presentations Using Keynote ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning - 5 views

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    "Keynote is one of the best presentation apps out there. We have repeatedly featured it in several of our app lists in the past. Keynote provides users with a bunch of powerful features that makes creating professionally looking presentations 'as easy as touching and tapping'. Some of these features include: users can work collaboratively on a single presentation in realtime; select from a wide variety of Apple-designed themes; add animations, charts, cinematic transitions and several other elements to your presentations; use a wide variety of predefined text styles and interactive features; present your slideshows live from Mac, iPad or any other iOS enabled device and many more. In today's post we are sharing with you two great guides designed and shared by Apple Education. The purpose of the guides is to help teachers make the best of Keynote on both iPad and Mac. The guides are free to download and read on your iBooks. Enjoy"
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.”
Louise Robinson-Lay

iPad Literature Circles - Literature Circles - 1 views

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    "Conducting Literature Circle with mobile devices such as the iPad, not only provides immediate access to a diverse selection of books, but also to reference materials, research tools, interactive maps, and a slew of creation and dynamic notebook apps. Within this single device, students can quickly check the meaning of a word, run a quick background check on a historic event, or articulate their understanding of text with a range of multimedia apps. Teachers can now easily differentiate the processes students can use to demonstrate understanding. "
Phil Taylor

Powerpoint Schmowerpoint: Teach kids to create really engaging presentations - 9 views

  • At its core, what’s the point of tech integration? I would argue that it isn’t to teach students how to use a single tool – any tool we teach kids to use now will most likely be obsolete by the time they enter the workforce. But just like we don’t teach students to read every book they’ll ever encounter, we don’t need to teach them to use every tech tool they’ll ever encounter. Rather, we need to teach them the skills – the grammar, the phonics – that will allow them to navigate the tech tools they will eventually use.
Phil Taylor

New technologies enter our lives and society in four stages. - Slate Magazine - 4 views

  • smartphones just haven’t been around as long as TV; we haven’t yet established norms, or language, for what's socially acceptable and what's off limits.
  • struggling to make sense of a technology he didn't completely understand and the affect
  • smartphones move from Stage 2 to Stage 3. What is the indicator for this grand cultural shift? Dilbert
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  • This holiday season, Stage 3 technologies lined big-box stores and the pages of online retailers. This year, it was the iPad 2 and the Kindle Fire.
  • When a technology becomes mundane, it gets absorbed into the fabric of our lives and the history of our culture.
  • living in fear that texting and the Internet were stealing his girls, about 12 and 14, from him and his wife.
John Evans

Makers in the Classroom: A How To Guide | EdSurge News - 5 views

  • At Lighthouse Charter School, we use three Making-inspired models: open-ended student-driven projects, integration into curriculum, and Making-focused curriculum. While a single project may involve more than one of these models, you can use these categories to start thinking about Making in your own classroom, school, or educational program.
  • Open-ended student-driven projects ask students to do most of the heavy lifting. The open-ended projects have a strong focus initially on the heart, and a student’s interests--”What are you passionate about? What gets you excited? What would just be cool?” But to create a final project, the mind and hands must get involved as well.
  • Integrating Making into curriculum happens when Making is tied to core academic curriculum or standards, in order to enhance student understanding. For example, when students build circuits using open-ended materials to introduce to concepts about electricity, design bridges to withstand an earthquake as part of a geology study, and deepen their understanding of geometry by programming shapes in LOGO (a computer language developed as a tool for learning), they engage their hands to solidify and deepen the concepts that they are already learning in the classroom.
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  • In Making-focused curriculum, the goal is to focus on the Making process and skills, shifting from a focus on academic content/standards to a focus on the Making itself. A kindergarten study of sewing, a robotics elective, or a few class sessions on programming with Scratch fit this model. An important consideration is whether to concentrate on process (such as ideation and prototyping), skills (such as soldering, programming, and sewing), or both, and then tailor instruction to fit those goals. When I design Making classes that focus on process, I have my students write reflections and engage in whole-class discussions to help students think about how they worked through obstacles throughout the project process.
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    "You see it everywhere in K-12. Kindergarteners design toys for their friends to practice empathy, while learning to use a saw and glue-gun along the way. Second graders deepen their understanding of character traits while designing and sewing puppets to represent a character in a folk-tale. In high school physics, students make wind turbines in order to internalize an understanding of how magnetism can create electricity. The "it" I'm referring to is "Making," and simply put, Making is any activity where people create something, often with their hands. I often define Making by looking at what people bring to the Maker Faire, which does include more technical aspects like 3D printing, physical computing and programming. But Making also includes woodworking, growing food, making art and crafts."
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