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Bradford Saron

The Use of Educational Video Games in Knowledge Retention | 1 to 1 Schools - 1 views

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video games games knowledge retention schools

shared by Bradford Saron on 21 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Chances seem good that video games, once con­sid­ered only an obsta­cle to get­ting home­work done, may take on an impor­tant role in edu­ca­tion in the near future.
  • he two groups that used video games to pre­pare demon­strated a marked increase in knowl­edge reten­tion. The increase was attrib­uted to the psy­cho­log­i­cal effect of par­tic­i­pants being able to engage their minds to a greater degree than that of the group that pas­sively observed the Pow­er­Point presentation.
Bradford Saron

Jim Gee on The Use of Video Games for Learning About Learning | Spotlight on Digital Me... - 4 views

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video games games learning Gee

shared by Bradford Saron on 30 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • Bradford Saron on 30 Mar 12
     
    A new video for James Paul Gee. A must watch 
Bradford Saron

Teaching for America - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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reform education america

shared by Bradford Saron on 23 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Incremental change isn’t going to get us where we need to go. We’ve got to be much more ambitious. We’ve got to be disruptive. You can’t keep doing the same stuff and expect different results.
  • There are three basic skills that students need if they want to thrive in a knowledge economy: the ability to do critical thinking and problem-solving; the ability to communicate effectively; and the ability to collaborate.
  • they insist that their teachers come from the top one-third of their college graduating classes.
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  • They have invested massively in how they recruit, train and support teachers, to attract and retain the best.
  • Duncan’s view is that challenging teachers to rise to new levels — by using student achievement data in calculating salaries, by increasing competition through innovation and charters — is not anti-teacher.
  • How we recruit, train, support, evaluate and compensate their successors “is going to shape public education for the next 30 years,” said Duncan. We have to get this right.
  • All good ideas, but if we want better teachers we also need better parents — parents who turn off the TV and video games, make sure homework is completed, encourage reading and elevate learning as the most important life skill. The more we demand from teachers the more we have to demand from students and parents. That’s the Contract for America that will truly ensure our national security.
  • Bradford Saron on 23 Nov 10
     
    Here, Friedman analyzes Duncan's new approaches to federally initiated school reform. His last point, however, is very thought provoking. 
Bradford Saron

Development - Augmented Reality and Web 3.0 | Delta Publishing - English Language Teaching - 0 views

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augmented reality web3.0

shared by Bradford Saron on 13 May 11 - No Cached
  • What about Web 3.0? So, that’s a very brief description of the shift to Web 2.0, but what about Web 3.0? Does there have to be one? Is it already here? I’ve heard quite a few people speculating about Web 3.0. At one point, when virtual worlds such as Second Life were all the rage, it was being described as Web 3.D and many were predicting that the web would become a 3 dimensional space that we would fly around using our virtual avatars. Others have described Web 3.0 as the ‘semantic web’. The development of semantic web standards was designed to help computers ‘understand’ and read web pages and make connections between them. This would dramatically improve the effectiveness of search engines and help people to access web based information more effectively. One of the most recent predictions is that with the drastic growth of internet able hand-held devices such as phones, gaming consoles and tablet devices Web 3.0 will be all about ‘the mobile web’.
  • Augmented reality is a kind of fusion between our existing physical reality and the internet.
  • What it means in reality is that mobile devices, will help us to access information from the internet which is specific to our physical location and proximity to real world objects places and even people. Check out mobile apps from Gowalla and Foursquare for examples of this.
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  • What’s more devices that have some form of optic, such as a camera, will enable us to see and interact with 3D multimedia visualizations of information which can be overlaid on what the camera shows us of the ‘real’ world. here’s an interesting video of an augmented reality web browser being used on a mobile phone; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b64_16K2e08
  • Bradford Saron on 13 May 11
     
    A current and insightful article on two trends of growing legitimacy. 
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