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shalani mujer

Reliable and Fast Online Computer Tech Support - 1 views

I love watching movies and I usually get them online. There was this one time that my computer automatically shut down while downloading a movie. Good thing I was able to sign up with an online ...

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Joshua Yeidel

As AAU Admits Georgia Tech to Its Exclusive Club, Other Universities Await the Call - Finance - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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aau higher_education

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  • Joshua Yeidel on 27 Apr 10
     
    "On Tuesday the invitation-only association made it official, naming Georgia Tech to the exclusive group that now numbers 63 universities... but several other university leaders may be scratching their heads and wondering why their campuses haven't made the grade."
Nils Peterson

Discovery News: Etherized: PRI's The World: Technology Podcast 217, Special Election Edition - 0 views

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community obama election public radio international

shared by Nils Peterson on 16 Nov 08 - Cached
  • Nils Peterson on 16 Nov 08
     
    good podcast about roles of internet and other personal technologies. just about mid-way talks about information scarcity (1.0) vs information abundance (2.0). near the end it talks about the tech proclivities of various ethnic groups
Theron DesRosier

An Open Transition - 0 views

open-government.us

2.0 transition

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  • Theron DesRosier on 02 Dec 08
     
    From Tech President:: "Opening the Transition: Overnight, a new site went up detailing a push by Stanford professor Larry Lessig to petition the Obama-Biden transition to abide by not only the letter of open government principles, but the spirit."
Theron DesRosier

techPresident - How the candidates are using the web, and how the web is using them. - 0 views

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networked governance web2.0 politics

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  • Theron DesRosier on 14 Nov 08
     
    While much of the tech industry and blogosphere is pondering who President-elect Barack Obama might appoint as the nation's first Chief technology Officer--Eric Schmidt? Jeff Bezos? Larry Lessig?--a bunch of heavy-hitting public interest groups in Washington and a couple of civic-minded techies out in Seattle have each launched promising interventions in the discussion.
Nils Peterson

Tech's 29 Most Powerful Colleges - Page 1 - The Daily Beast - 0 views

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shared by Nils Peterson on 05 May 10 - Cached
  • which schools really represent a pipeline to the top jobs? To find out, The Daily Beast scoured the biographies of hundreds of key technology executives from the nation’s biggest companies and some of its hottest startups, too. Our goal was to identify which colleges, compared student-for-student (undergraduate enrollment data courtesy of the National Center for Education Statistics), have turned out the most undergraduates destined for high-tech greatness.
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 05 May 10
       
      Post-hoc analysis. Who holds the job, where did they graduate?
  • some schools excel at inculcating a crucial skill for techland: dealing with uncertainty and making the right decision without taking too long to size up a situation quickly.
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 05 May 10
       
      Rubric dimensions.
  • I want someone who’s quick and decisive and a good leader, like a graduate of' and then they'll name certain schools.” Champion says part of that stems from the competitive environment of the top schools, which vet their admittees so heavily. "Is the competition the only the reason they’re successful? No,” Champion says. “But is it the beginning of training in a process that helps them be successful? Yes.”
Gary Brown

Top News - School of the Future: Lessons in failure - 0 views

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transformation technology microsoft 21st Century Skills

shared by Gary Brown on 25 Jun 09 - Cached
  • School of the Future: Lessons in failure How Microsoft's and Philadelphia's innovative school became an example of what not to do By Meris Stansbury, Associate Editor   Primary Topic Channel:  Tech Leadership   Students at the School of the Future when it first opened in 2006. <script language=JavaScript src="http://rotator.adjuggler.com/servlet/ajrotator/173768/0/vj?z=eschool&dim=173789&pos=6&abr=$scriptiniframe"></script><noscript><a href="http://rotator.adjuggler.com/servlet/ajrotator/173768/0/cc?z=eschool&pos=6"><img src="http://rotator.adjuggler.com/servlet/ajrotator/173768/0/vc?z=eschool&dim=173789&pos=6&abr=$imginiframe" width="300" height="250" border="0"></a></noscript> Also of Interest Cheaper eBook reader challenges Kindle Carnegie Corporation: 'Do school differently' Former college QB battles video game maker Dueling curricula put copyright ed in spotlight Campus payroll project sees delays, more costs <script language=JavaScript src="http://rotator.adjuggler.com/servlet/ajrotator/324506/0/vj?z=eschool&dim=173789&pos=2&abr=$scriptiniframe"></script><noscript><a href="http://rotator.adjuggler.com/servlet/ajrotator/324506/0/cc?z=eschool&pos=2"><img src="http://rotator.adjuggler.com/servlet/ajrotator/324506/0/vc?z=eschool&dim=173789&pos=2&abr=$imginiframe" width="300" height="250" border="0"></a></noscript> When it opened its doors in 2006, Philadelphia's School of the Future (SOF) was touted as a high school that would revolutionize education: It would teach at-risk students critical 21st-century skills needed for college and the work force by emphasizing project-based learning, Technology, and community involvement. But three years, three superintendents, four principals, and countless problems later, experts at a May 28 panel discussion hosted by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) agreed: The Microsoft-inspired project has been a failure so far. Microsoft points to the school's rapid turnover in leadership as the key reason for this failure, but other observers question why the company did not take a more active role in translating its vision for the school into reality. Regardless of where the responsibility lies, the project's failure to date offers several cautionary lessons in school reform--and panelists wondered if the school could use these lessons to succeed in the future.
  • Gary Brown on 25 Jun 09
     
    The discussion about Microsoft's Philadelphia School of the future, failing so far. (partial access to article only)
  • Gary Brown on 25 Jun 09
     
    I highlight this as a model where faculty and their teaching beliefs appear not to have been addressed.
Joshua Yeidel

Wired Campus: Whitman Takes Manhattan - Chronicle.com - 0 views

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lms_alternative wordpress web_2.0

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  • Joshua Yeidel on 09 Apr 09
     
    How would we integrate information about this effort as a resource in alt.wetpaint?
  • Joshua Yeidel on 09 Apr 09
     
    "The basic idea is to bring all four of these classes together in this one space," Mr. Gold said in an interview. Each class will have its own turf on the Web site, and each will concentrate on a different era of the poet's life. Students at NYU and City Tech will focus on Whitman in mid-19th-century New York, those at Mary Washington will examine his Civil War-era experience, and the Rutgers contingent will turn its attention to his sage-of-Camden period. Each group will work with and annotate the relevant edition or editions of Leaves of Grass. Each will have access to the others' work. So will the general public - at least that's the plan. "We really don't know what these interactions will be like," Mr. Gold said. "It's one of the risks of the project but also one of the exciting things about it."
Gary Brown

Students Unimpressed with Faculty Use of Ed Tech -- Campus Technology - 0 views

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students technology

shared by Gary Brown on 17 Nov 09 - Cached
  • 8 percent of students indicated that their instructors "understand technology and fully integrate it into their classes."
  • 74 percent of higher education instructors polled indicated that they "incorporate technology into every class or nearly every class," and 67 percent said they were "satisfied with their technology professional development."
  • The report also found that students now more than ever are using technology regularly in preparation for class: 81 percent of them this year said they use technology every day before class to prepare compared with 63 percent last year.
  • Gary Brown on 17 Nov 09
     
    The lack of mental models is revealed here in numbers. What faculty perceive as substantial technology integration is perceived somewhat differently by students according to this study.
Gary Brown

Microsoft researcher converts his brain into 'e-memory' - CNN.com - 6 views

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future ePortfolio

shared by Gary Brown on 29 Sep 09 - Cached
  • In sum, this mountain of data -- more than 350 gigabytes worth, not including the streaming audio and video -- is a replica of Bell's biological memory. It's actually better, he says, because, if you back up your data in enough places, this digitized "e-memory" never forgets. It's like having a multimedia transcript of your life.
  • Gary Brown on 29 Sep 09
     
    ePortfolio X-treme
Gary Brown

Web Site Lets Students Bet on What Grades They'll Earn - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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grades

shared by Gary Brown on 11 Aug 10 - Cached
  • Students can make a small bet on how well they'll do in a course, with a starting limit of $25 on how much they can earn. The students contribute a chunk of the money, and Ultrinsic puts up the rest. If they make the grade, they win it all.
  • In 2009, they piloted the idea with a different model that put students in the same course in direct competition with each other. Last year, about 600 students from the University of Pennsylvania and New York University, the first two campuses where the company's most recent iteration became available, made wagers on Ultrinsic.
  • Gary Brown on 11 Aug 10
     
    Betting on the perception that school is a game.....
Gary Brown

Recruiters Pick State Schools, Pass on Ivies - WSJ.com - 0 views

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employers

shared by Gary Brown on 13 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Recruiters say graduates of top public universities are often among the most prepared and well-rounded academically, and companies have found they fit well into their corporate cultures and over time have the best track record in their firms.
  • Recruiter salaries, travel expenses, advertising and relocation costs run upwards of $500,000 to recruit 100 college grads, according to the National Association of Colleges and Employers.
  • The Journal asked companies to rank schools that produce the best-qualified graduates—overall and by major. Recru
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  • Partnerships also play a key role. Universities and companies strike research collaborations that often include student participation. Companies get an early look at promising students, leading to internships and job offers.
  • Partnerships can help boost brand awareness among talented students. The economic climate led Dennis Cornell, head of recruiting for LSI Corp. of Milpitas, Calif., to narrow his on-campus recruiting to three schools where the tech firm wanted to expand its reputation:
  • Gary Brown on 13 Sep 10
     
    Note that WSU is rated in a tie as number 25 (Wall Sreet)
Gary Brown

Disciplines Follow Their Own Paths to Quality - Faculty - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 2 views

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assessment accreditation critical thinking

shared by Gary Brown on 29 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • But when it comes to the fundamentals of measuring and improving student learning, engineering professors naturally have more to talk about with their counterparts at, say, Georgia Tech than with the humanities professors at Villanova
    • Gary Brown
      Gary Brown on 29 Oct 10
       
      Perhaps this is too bad....
  • But there is no nationally normed way to measure the particular kind of critical thinking that students of classics acquire
  • er colleagues have created discipline-specific critical-reasoning tests for classics and political science
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  • Political science cultivates skills that are substantially different from those in classics, and in each case those skills can't be measured with a general-education test.
  • he wants to use tests of reasoning that are appropriate for each discipline
  • I believe Richard Paul has spent a lifetime articulating the characteristics of discipline based critical thinking. But anyway, I think it is interesting that an attempt is being made to develop (perhaps) a "national standard" for critical thinking in classics. In order to assess anything effectively we need a standard. Without a standard there are no criteria and therefore no basis from which to assess. But standards do not necessarily have to be established at the national level. This raises the issue of scale. What is the appropriate scale from which to measure the quality and effectiveness of an educational experience? Any valid approach to quality assurance has to be multi-scaled and requires multiple measures over time. But to be honest the issues of standards and scale are really just the tip of the outcomes iceberg.
    • Gary Brown
      Gary Brown on 29 Oct 10
       
      Missing the notion that the variance is in the activity more than the criteria.  We hear little of embedding nationally normed and weighted assignments and then assessing the implementation and facilitation variables.... mirror, not lens.
  • the UW Study of Undergraduate Learning (UW SOUL). Results from the UW SOUL show that learning in college is disciplinary; therefore, real assessment of learning must occur (with central support and resources)in the academic departments. Generic approaches to assessing thinking, writing, research, quantitative reasoning, and other areas of learning may be measuring something, but they cannot measure learning in college.
  • It turns out there is a six week, or 210+ hour serious reading exposure to two or more domains outside ones own, that "turns on" cross domain mapping as a robust capability. Some people just happen to have accumulated, usually by unseen and unsensed happenstance involvements (rooming with an engineer, son of a dad changing domains/careers, etc.) this minimum level of basics that allows robust metaphor based mapping.
Corinna Lo

BBC NEWS | Technology | The best of the Tech that teaches - 0 views

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education_technology

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  • Corinna Lo on 16 Jan 09
     
    This is from BBC news this morning on the education technology trade show, BETT, in London.
Nils Peterson

How Web-Savvy Edupunks Are Transforming American Higher Education | Fast Company - 0 views

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  • "Colleges have become outrageously expensive, yet there remains a general refusal to acknowledge the implications of new technologies," says Jim Groom, an "instructional technologist" at Virginia's University of Mary Washington and a prominent voice in the blogosphere for blowing up college as we know it. Groom, a chain-smoker with an ever-present five days' growth of beard, coined the term "edupunk" to describe the growing movement toward high-tech do-it-yourself education. "Edupunk," he tells me in the opening notes of his first email, "is about the utter irresponsibility and lethargy of educational institutions and the means by which they are financially cannibalizing their own mission."
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 24 Sep 09
       
      Several people to follow in this article. They are moving from open content up the ladder. I don't see them pointing to open assessment as Downes did a couple years back, but that may make a place for us to play with them
  • Joshua Yeidel on 04 Sep 09
     
    A good overview of how higher ed's core functions are being remixed online. As you might expect from the source, the emphasis is on the positive.
Nils Peterson

Mod7: One-to-one Technologies - ETEC522 - Ventures in Learning Technology - September 2009 - 0 views

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shared by Nils Peterson on 18 Sep 09 - Cached
  • The reason that 1-1 environments is such an important emerging market is that it’s almost certain that most learners of the world will have some kind of device put in their hands over the next decade.
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 18 Sep 09
       
      This is a class on ed tech. This post starts out on the topic of hardware. The significance of this sentence caught my attention becaue my 8-year old daughter has added to her go to school ritual the finding of her cell phone. The phone does not have service, but it will play a simple game and make sounds, It seems to be a talisman for her awareness of the connected world around her
Gary Brown

No Tests, No Grades = More Graduates? - 0 views

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tests learning & work

shared by Gary Brown on 08 Sep 09 - Cached
  • At an alternative high school in Newark, students will make presentations instead of taking tests and receive written progress reports instead of grades. They will use few textbooks and divide their school weeks between the classroom and an internship,
  • Gary Brown on 08 Sep 09
     
    inch by inch new models make the news and subsequently make progress
Nils Peterson

Arianna Huffington: All for Good: A New "Craigslist for Service" - 0 views

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shared by Nils Peterson on 13 Jun 09 - Cached
  • This summer, the White House is planning to issue a national call to service. But already a group of individuals from the worlds of tech, marketing, academia, and public service, inspired by President Obama's vow to make service a "a central cause" of his presidency, have banded together to create a new website that aims to become a craigslist for service. It's called All For Good.
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 13 Jun 09
       
      Back in November I blogged about this idea http://www.nilspeterson.com/2008/11/10/implementing-obama%E2%80%99s-100-hours-of-service-plan/ following a Craig Newmark posting in HuffPost in response to a suggestion for a "Craigslist for service." This is the alpha version of that concept.
Gary Brown

Has Accreditation Produced an Ethical Business Climate? - Letters to the Editor - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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accreditation

shared by Gary Brown on 10 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Institutions that choose to seek program accreditation must, in the finite world of budgets, shift funds away from many struggling departments and toward the chosen few to ensure that all criteria, from faculty credentials and salaries to high-tech classrooms and generous support staff, are not only met but exceeded.
  • Last year's economic crisis, fueled largely by the graduates of elite, accredited M.B.A. programs who flocked into banking and Wall Street, suggests a startling ethical blindness, social irresponsibility, and historical ignorance.
  • What good are accrediting agencies that take no responsibility for the behavior of those they accredit?
  • Gary Brown on 10 Nov 09
     
    We might choose to help our accreditors by forwarding a response to this letter in our Rain King write up.
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