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The New 3 Es of Education - 0 views

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  • Michael Comins on 15 Mar 12
     
    Project Tomorrow This report is the first in a two part series to document the key national findings from Speak Up 2010. In this report "The New 3E's of Education: Enabled, Engaged, Empowered - How Today's Students are Leveraging Emerging Technologies for Learning," we are building upon that student vision and focusing on three specific key trends that have generated significant interest this past year at conferences, in policy discussions and within our schools and districts: mobile learning, online and blended learning and e-textbooks. Each of these trends include the essential components of the student vision of socially-based, un-tethered and digitally rich learning, but they also directly address the three new "E's of Education" - enable, engage and empower.
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Infographic: Components of a 21st Century Classroom - Getting Smart by Jaclyn Norton - ... - 0 views

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    Infographic: Components of a 21st Century Classroom
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Bring Your Own Device Prompts School Infrastructure Investments - 0 views

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  • Many of the nation's school districts still don't have the bandwidth needed to support mobile devices used by students.
  • Michael Comins on 14 Mar 12
     
    Many of the nation's school districts still don't have the bandwidth needed to support mobile devices used by students.
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Tablet Ownership Triples Among College Students - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Highe... - 0 views

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  • The Pearson Foundation sponsored the second-annual survey, which asked 1,206 college students and 204 college-bound high-school seniors about their tablet ownership.
  • One-fourth of the college students surveyed said they owned a tablet, compared with just 7 percent last year. Sixty-three percent of college students believe tablets will replace textbooks in the next five years—a 15 percent increase over last year’s survey. More than a third said they intended to buy a tablet sometime in the next six months.
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School District In Poor Border Region Gets Technology Rich | Fronteras Desk - 0 views

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  • The outcome will be quite innovative. Within a year, the school district expects all 25,000 students to have an iPad — for grades 3-12 — or an iPod Touch for those in kindergarten through 2nd grade.
  • The total price tag of $20 million — over five years — will be covered with district money.
  • Federal funds will help with infrastructure. Free training will be provided by Abilene Christian University (ACU), a leader in educational technology instruction.
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SmartTech Roundup | Getting Smart - 0 views

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  • PC Mag reports that over 1.5 million are in use in educational institutions (bet it’s a lot more than that).  Boston’s NPR station reports that over 600 districts have ditched textbooks and purchased iPads for all students.
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i-Ready is Ready for Prime Time | Getting Smart - 0 views

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  • i-Ready’s two components, adaptive diagnostic and standards preparation, provide a visually appealing and fun approach to educational materials. Both programs allow teachers, parents and administrators to follow the progress of every student down to the skill level. The diagnostic program not only identifies the grade level a student is at, but pin points the skills needed to improve and adapts lessons accordingly.
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Review: JFF's Curricular Opportunities in the Digital Age | Getting Smart - 0 views

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  • The student-centered classroom harnesses the flexibility of new media to provide a diverse range of students with multiple means of representation, expression, and engagement. The student-centered classroom harnesses the flexibility of new media for the teacher, providing a rich set of tools and resources to elevate and differentiate teaching. In that rich environment, the teacher can be both a content provider and the classroom’s most experienced and savvy teacher/learner, a model of the kind of expert learner students can emulate.
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Ditching a Textbook: An Update - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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  • the experiment was a great success. Students did indeed develop some skill in finding and using sources, and they put great effort into learning about their chosen topics. They also did a wonderful job of running class discussions focused around those topics.
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edReformer: Why Standards-Based Gradebooks & What Next? - 0 views

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  • With the rise of standards-based instruction, districts and schools have been seeking out the best tools to foster it. Standards-Based grade books have been created is response to this need. As with educational changes, there are exciting potentials and pitfalls. First of all, here is what works when using the standards-based grade book:
  • 1)     Ensures targeted Assessment and Rubrics
  • 2)     Continuity across Classes and Teacher
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  • 3)     Leverages Summative Assessmen
  • While the Standards-based grade book is helping to ensure better teaching and instruction, we need to make sure that fosters innovation in education. In general there needs to be some flexibility in the creation and utilization of the grade book between the school and provider. In order to do that, here are some tips for not only those constructing the grade book, but also for the teachers using it. 1)     Make sure the Grade book allows for 21st Century Skills
  • 2)     Make sure there is place for Formative Assessments
  • 3)     Keep Assessments rigorous
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Ditching a Textbook: An Update - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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  • I started off by selecting a few myself (e.g., technology and privacy, technology and civic discourse, immigration), and showing students the kinds of resources they might be able to find. Then, for the latter part of the course, they chose the issues, found sources, and shared them in the class Zotero library. Working in teams or as individuals (depending on which section they were in), they were then responsible for running a class session and assigning readings for that session.
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The 10 Big Issues of Our Time | Getting Smart - 0 views

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  • Big data policy:  more measures for improvement and accountability.  Specific issues: school accountability, teacher evaluation, instructional improvement, and student matriculation.
  • Customized learning: emerging strategies for adaptive, personalized and social learning.  Specific issues: role of curriculum architects, mixing open and proprietary content.
  • Improving conditions & careers: how blended learning is improving the teaching profession. Specific issues:  evaluating in a team-based differentiated environment, managing a distributed staff with dynamic scheduling, and a really big issue–providing rich JIT PD during the shift.
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10 Things You Should Know About eLearning Industry 2013 - Infographic - 0 views

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    10 Things You Should Know About eLearning Industry 2013 - Infographic
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