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Carolyn Kraut

Why Career & Technical Education Should Be a Priority for the U.S. [OPINION] - 0 views

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shared by Carolyn Kraut on 11 May 11 - No Cached
  • Students enter a world cut off from their own where they are asked to turn off all electronic devices. They can feel trapped
  • At all levels, businesses need employees that are more creative, more technical, and more connected than ever. This means that technical literacy is no longer “nice to have,” but a requirement for success.
  • At the same time, a recent study found that 14% of employers in the U.S. reported having difficulty finding employees to fill high-skill positions, including jobs like technicians, sales people, office support, and skilled tradespeople.
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  • By placing so much emphasis on testing, the curriculum became centered around those tests. Since students’ day-to-day lives are vastly different from what they see on standardized tests, they have little context for the content they are asked to learn. The result: 21st century skills involving creativity, critical thinking, collaboration, and communication are devalued or absent from classrooms.
  • immersing students in a specific career provides a stronger context for learning. Students can connect the rationale for learning new content to a career skill or objective. Instead of being viewed as a distraction, technology becomes a critical tool to give students 21st Century skills in creativity, critical thinking, and communications.
Carolyn Kraut

Smithsonian Oral and Video Histories: Steve Jobs - 0 views

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apple smithsonian stevejobs education

shared by Carolyn Kraut on 06 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • I've helped with more computers in more schools than anybody else in the world and I absolutely convinced that is by no means the most important thing. The most important thing is a person. A person who incites your curiosity and feeds your curiosity; and machines cannot do that in the same way that people can. The elements of discovery are all around you. You don't need a computer.
  • Computers are very reactive but they're not proactive; they are not agents
  • What children need is something more proactive. They need a guide. They don't need an assistant
  • Carolyn Kraut on 06 Oct 11
     
    Steve Jobs on the importance of education and the computer's role.
Carolyn Kraut

College 2.0: 6 Top Smartphone Apps to Improve Teaching, Research, and Your Life - Techn... - 0 views

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edtech mobile teaching

shared by Carolyn Kraut on 03 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • Taking Attendance
  • building a personal virtual library
  • allow readers to highlight and take notes on any PDF saved to the system
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  • I store all my syllabuses there,
  • Dropbox for both scholarly reading and keeping track of documents
  • snap a picture of his whiteboard before he erases it
  • uses his iPhone's camera as a document scanner, with an app called JotNot Pro
  • Inkling creates textbooks made for iPads, with interactive features and videos
  • mind mapping
  • smartphones or tablet computers enhances the process, letting scholars toss around ideas with a flick of the finger
  • touch-screen interface of
  • crowd science," in which the public is invited to add structured data to an online database
  • a flashcard function that helps them learn the names of their students
  • Attendance
  • app (which now sells for $4.99
Matthew Mieure

The Social Layer - 0 views

An interesting video discussing the "Social Layer" and video games: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn9fTc_WMbo

Tech Education

started by Matthew Mieure on 27 May 11 no follow-up yet
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