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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

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.
terenceonline

Google Docs for Android Turns Your Photos into Docs - 0 views

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shared by terenceonline on 27 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • terenceonline on 27 Apr 11
     
    Google Docs for Android. Still no native editor but you can take a picture of physical document and it will convert it to a digital google doc. neat http://on.mash.to/iQ6fIA
Carolyn Kraut

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

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