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

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edtech education career

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

Royal Wedding: A Two-Screen Experience Like You've Never Seen - 0 views

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shared by Carolyn Kraut on 29 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • What we’ve come to realize more and more through major events — elections, major celebrations, breaking news events and tragedies — is that the two-screen experience is becoming more and more ubiquitous,” says Morse. “More people are interacting, watching while using their tablets and their iPhones, and we want to create the richest two-screen experience we can.
  • Most unusually, two-dimensional barcodes will appear on-screen throughout the day, prompting viewers with smartphones to scan the code to load additional CNN coverage on their smartphones.
  • networks are beginning to understand the importance of an engaged audience across multiple channels
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  • The challenges involve understanding how consumers use different kinds of devices, and how to optimize the experience for each device
  • The network will also keep track of trending conversations in order to bridge online and on-air discussions
  • Carolyn Kraut on 29 Apr 11
     
    Social media and multi-platform media outlets change the way we experience and interact with history.
Carolyn Kraut

My PLN.png (1292×966) - 0 views

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shared by Carolyn Kraut on 31 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Carolyn Kraut on 31 Mar 11
     
    This is a visual representation of my Personal Learning Network. Each tool obviously has a different purpose. Sometimes I want to share a story through pictures, find inspiration/motivation, talk about articles, books, and current events, and sometimes I just need to look stuff up.
Carolyn Kraut

Einstein, YouTube, and New Media Literacies in the Connected Age | DMLcentral - 0 views

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elearning edtech literacy

shared by Carolyn Kraut on 30 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Moving to a discussion of how attitudes and habits apply to digital literacies, she uses Twitter as a tool that can be a "representation of what the Web seeks to be," namely a source of personal, customized, community-filtered data -- but only to the person who knows how to use it and approaches it with the right mindset.
  • Social media in education, according to Maiers, is "a mindset challenge, not a skill set challenge."
Carolyn Kraut

DIGITAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS: Tools and Technologies for Effective Classrooms - 0 views

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web2.0 technology tools resources skills

shared by Carolyn Kraut on 22 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Carolyn Kraut on 22 Mar 11
     
    Part 1 in this series.
Carolyn Kraut

FERPA and Social Media | Faculty Focus - 0 views

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teaching_tips edtech ferpa socialmedia privacy

shared by Carolyn Kraut on 10 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • FERPA requires schools to maintain control over certain student records
  • medical information, social security numbers, and grades
  • Some people think that students cannot release any personally identifiable student information, but this is also not true
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  • This is an important point if instructors require students to post to a blog, social networking site, or any other site not affiliated with the institution. In this case, “the activity may not be FERPA-protected because it has not been received and therefore is not in the custody of the university, at least until the student submission is copied or possibly just reviewed by the faculty member.”
  • FERPA applies only to information in the possession of the institution
  • When students are assigned to post information to public social media platforms outside of the university LMS, they should be informed that their material may be viewed by others
  • Students should not be required to release personal information on a public site.
  • Instructor comments or grades on student material should not be made public.
Carolyn Kraut

Online Courses, Still Lacking That Third Dimension - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...06digi.html

humantouch interaction online

shared by Carolyn Kraut on 09 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Those relationships — with humans in the flesh — help students to persevere. Online courses are notorious for high dropout rates.
  • There is something motivating about the student’s relationship with the instructor — and with the student’s relationship with other students in the class — that would be absent if each took the course in a software-only environment.
  • We should focus on having at least one great course online for each subject rather than lots of mediocre courses
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  • What is sacrificed when classrooms disappear, the place where good teachers do not merely ‘deliver content’ to students but wake them up, throw them on their feet and pull the chair away? Where ideas can become intoxicating, where an instructor’s ardor for a subject or a dimension of the world can be contagious? Where scientific, literary, ethical or political passions are ignited?
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