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Marge Runkle

Dangerously Irrelevant: Top posts - 1 views

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  • Marge Runkle on 28 Jul 09
     
    Scott McLeod - Ruminations on technology, leadership, and the future of our schools. academia, academic, administration, administrator, administrators, assistant principals, CASTLE, college, colleges, district, districts, edublog, edublogosphere, edublogs, education, educational administration, educational leadership, educational technology, educational technology leadership, higher education, leaders, leadership, leadership development, leadership preparation, leadership training, learners, learning, McLeod, postsecondary, principal, principals, professional development, school, school administration, school administrator, school administrators, school districts, school leaders, school principals, school superintendents, schools, Scott McLeod, scottmcleod, staff development, student, students, superintendent, superintendents, teacher, teachers, teaching, technology, technology coordinators, technology integration, technology leadership, training, UCEA, universities, university
Roland Gesthuizen

Many-to-One vs. One-to-Many: An Opinionated Guide to Educational Technology - The Ameri... - 9 views

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  • MOOCs do not benefit most of those who try them. Students differ in their cognitive abilities and learning styles. Even within a relatively homogenous school, you will see students put into separate tracks. If we do not teach the same course to students in a single high school, why would we expect one teaching style to fit all in an unsorted population of tens of thousands?
  • I believe that the future of teaching is not one-to-many. Instead, it is many-to-one. By many-to-one, I mean that one student receives personalized instruction that comes from many educators. To make that work, technology must act as an intermediary, taking the information from the educators and customizing it to fit the student's knowledge, ability, and even his or her emotional state.
  • I am optimistic about tablets in large part because I believe that a magic bullet in educational technology is the adaptive textbook. By that, I mean an electronic textbook that adjusts to the cognitive ability and learning style of the student. Adaptive textbooks will query students in order to make sure that they understand what they have been studying. They will also respond to student queries. Adaptive textbooks will implement the many-to-one teaching model.
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  • There are many horses in the educational technology race. The ones to bet on are adaptive textbooks and independent certification.
  • I do not believe that educators fully understand the process of social learning in the classroom. We do not know exactly what factors make the difference between a classroom where students are of significant help to one another and one where students provide little assistance or even hold one another back
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 23 Sep 12
     
    "This essay will explain why I label various technologies as winners, losers, and magic bullets in the table below. My opinions are not based on exhaustive research. They are based on my experience both as a high school teacher and as an entrepreneur." My evaluations are based on whether I view these technologies as supporting a model of education that is one-to-many or a model that is many-to-one. The latter is the model I prefer, as will become clear in the rest of this essay.
trisha_poole

50 Best Education Technology Blogs You Aren't Reading Yet - 173 views

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  • Early EFL: Leahn is located in Spain, where she works as a freelance language assistant teacher and as a teacher trainer in workshops for primary and secondary school teachers.
  • Box of Chocolates: Join this EFL teacher from Recife, Brazil, who is very passionate about teaching
  • Neslihan Durmusoglu: This blog reflects on the world of EFL and about being a 21st-century learner and teacher.
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  • Reflections of a Teacher and Learner: David teaches kids at a private college in Turkey and he also is a distance student on the University of Manchester’s MA in EdTech & TESOL programme
  • An A-Z of ELT: This blog is managed by the man who wrote An A-Z of ELT in 2006, Scott Thornbury.
  • Authentic Teaching: This blogger has taught EFL in Brazil, and taught ELT for several years as well. He now is earning an MA in Education in London
  • Jeremy Harmer’s Blog: Jeremy is a writer and teacher/teacher-trainer for English to speakers of other languages, and he blogs about presentation.
  • Marisa Constantinides — TEFL Matters: This blogger runs CELT Athens, a teacher development center based in Greece.
  • Shaun Wilden’s Blog: Shaun has been involved in English language teaching for almost twenty years. He also maintains several online teaching sites including ihonlinetraining.net.
  • So this is English… This blog is filled with ideas, thoughts, discoveries, feedback and more about the teaching and learning of English.
  • Teaching Village: Barbara is an English teacher currently living in Kitakyushu, Japan, and using Web 2.0 tools and virtual worlds.
  • trisha_poole on 13 Jan 11
     
    Technology and teaching - two words that seem to fit together perfectly today for most teachers and learners. So much so that a slew of new blogs have come on board to talk about education technology - or, edTech. This list of the 50 best education technology blogs are not inclusive, as there are so many new blogs available; however, if you look at links provided by many of these blogs to other edTech blogs, you may learn about even more blog that you aren't reading yet.
Glenn Hervieux

Chrome Toolbox for Assistive Technologies - 118 views

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  • Glenn Hervieux on 15 Nov 13
     
    This site is toolbox with tools for Assistive Technology. View the Google Presentation and learn more about how to use Google Chrome tools to provide greater access for students with disabilities.
David Davis

ent2010web.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 71 views

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  • David Davis on 26 Dec 11
     
    PDF booklet on technology that includes topics such as Universal Design for Learning, Reading, Writing, Science, Virtual Worlds, and Assistive Technology. Free to share.
Florence Dujardin

Beyond natives and immigrants: exploring types of net generation students - Kennedy - 2... - 33 views

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  • Florence Dujardin on 28 Sep 10
     
    Abstract: Previously assumed to be a homogenous and highly skilled group with respect to information and communications technology, the so-called Net Generation has instead been shown to possess a diverse range of technology skills and preferences. To better understand this diversity, we subjected data from 2096 students aged between 17 and 26 from three Australian universities to a cluster analysis. Through this analysis, we identified four distinct types of technology users: power users (14% of sample), ordinary users (27%), irregular users (14%) and basic users (45%). A series of exploratory chi-square analyses revealed significant associations between the different types of technology users and the university that students attended, their gender and age and whether the student was local or international. No associations were found for analyses related discipline area, socio-economic status or rurality of residence. The findings are discussed in light of the rhetoric associated with commentaries about the Net Generation, and suggestions about their implications for teaching and learning in universities are offered.
anonymous

Education World: Assistive Technology for Challenged Kids - 40 views

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      anonymous on 13 Jun 15
       
      It is important to understand that there are a variety of students with different learning needs. While we can utilize different teaching strategies for students who have learning disabilities, it is important to remember that there are students with physical disabilities who need a different kind of help. This article really shows us the different types available, gives examples of different students and their experiences, and provides various resources for the parent and teacher to utilize in order to find out what assistive technology may be best for their child or student. less than a minute ago
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      anonymous on 13 Jun 15
       
      It is important for us to remember that there are various resources we can go to in order to help our students. We just have to know where to go to find them.
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      anonymous on 13 Jun 15
       
      This article reminds us that just getting an assistive technology is not what the student needs. We need to make sure that we have the proper training in order to help the student utilize it so he or she can get the most out of the assistive device.
Sandy Dewey

Understand Assistive Technology Loan Libraries - 0 views

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  • Sandy Dewey on 09 Sep 12
     
    Learn about Assistive Technology loan libraries in this video presented by the PACER Simon Technology Center. www.pacer.org/stc
Matt Claxon

Moving beyond technology in designing online learning - 70 views

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  • Some loved them, some hated them, and few were indifferent.
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      Matt Claxon on 09 Feb 15
       
      This is just like my students with the screencasts.  Look for a way to give the TV-haters more options and relevant learning media.
  • At the time (and for many years afterwards) researchers such as Richard Clark (1983) argued that ‘proper’, scientific research showed no significant difference between the use of different media. In particular, there were no differences between classroom teaching and other media such as television or radio or satellite. Even today, we are getting similar findings regarding online learning (e.g. Means et al., 2010).
  • different media can be used to assist learners to learn in different ways and achieve different outcomes. In a sense, researchers such as Clark were right: the teaching methods matter, but different media can more easily support different ways of teaching than others
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  • Thus requiring the television program to be judged by the same assessment methods as for the classroom lecture unfairly measures the potential value of the TV program. In this example, it may be better to use both methods: didactic teaching to teach understanding, then a documentary approach to apply that understanding. (Note that a television program could do both, but the classroom lecture could not.)
  • many media are better than one.
  • The use of different media also allows for more individualization and personalization of the learning, better suiting learners with different learning styles and needs.
  • technology on its own does not lead to the transfer of meaning.
  • This of course is what we do with technology in education. We try either to incorporate new technology into old formats, as with clickers and lecture capture, or we try to create the classroom in virtual space, as we do with learning management systems. What we are still developing but not yet clearly recognizing are formats, symbols systems and organizational structures that exploit the unique characteristics of the Internet as a medium.
  • Given the need to create and interpret meaning when using media, trying to use computers to replace or substitute for humans in the education process is likely to be a major mistake, at least until computers have much greater facility to recognize, understand and apply semantics, value systems, and organizational factors,
  • it is equally a mistake to rely only on the symbol systems, cultural values and organizational structures of classroom teaching as the means of judging the effectiveness or appropriateness of the Internet as an educational medium.
  • Matt Claxon on 09 Feb 15
     
    Defines the difference between technology and media and provides information (based on academic experience) about how to most effectively create online lessons and media.
Sarah Horrigan

Read The Words - 3 views

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  • Sarah Horrigan on 20 Jan 09
     
    Great accessibility tool
  • Sarah Horrigan on 20 Jan 09
     
    "ReadTheWords.com is a free, web based service that assists people with written material. We do this by using TTS Technology, or Text To Speech Technology. Users of our service can generate a clear sounding audio file from almost any written material. We generate a voice that reads the words out loud, that you request us to read."
  • Andy Whiteway on 05 Feb 09
     
    A great resource, particularly for kids who struggle with literacy. Thankyou for posting.
Sandy Dewey

Assistive Technology in the Library - 0 views

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  • Sandy Dewey on 09 Sep 12
     
    In this scenario, a library customer who has vision loss would like to search the online catalogue using assistive technology. Included is a common sense approach to interacting with a guide dog and getting started on an accessible library workstation
Marc Patton

Assistive Technology Resources - 2 views

www.invergrove.k12.mn.us/tive_Technology_Resources.html

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  • Marc Patton on 10 Sep 12
     
    Additional general information about assistive technology can be found by clicking on one of the links below
Michele Brown

ATTO: Assistive Technology Basics - 21 views

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  • Michele Brown on 09 Sep 13
     
    The AT Basic Modules provide general assistive technology information on a variety of related uses for elementary students with disabilities. They include links to tutorials on the setup and use of several products as well as links to related resources.
Erik Stafford

Education Week: Realizing the Promise of New Education Technologies - 31 views

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  • A Web-browser-based tutoring platform called ASSISTments. Developed at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, ASSISTments, as its name suggests, performs tasks that extend the teacher’s reach in and beyond the classroom. As it generates sets of practice math problems geared to a range of skills, ASSISTments provides hints to students when they cannot answer problems correctly and then furnishes teachers with updated assessments of each student’s progress, as well as aggregated data on the entire class’s performance. The system prompts students to describe the logic they employed in answering specific problems, and teachers can communicate weekly or even daily with parents about their children’s work.
Marc Patton

The Compendium Blog of The A.T.TIPSCAST | Christopher R. Bugaj - 21 views

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  • Marc Patton on 19 Jun 12
     
    The A.T.TIPScast: Assistive Technology Tools In Public Schools is a podcast about using technology to help students meet their educational goals. Each episode features at least one "A.T.TIP" that can be used to differentiate and individualize the learning process.
trisha_poole

Foreign Language & ESOL Technology Integration: Welcome to the Foreign Language & ESOL ... - 76 views

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  • trisha_poole on 13 Jan 11
     
    The purpose of this blog is to assist world language and ESOL teachers with integrating technology into their classrooms.
Richard Lane

Technology will change education - 37 views

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      Richard Lane on 25 Sep 13
       
      This is the Flipped Learning model.
  • begin implementing policies that allow for experimentation and reform rather than protecting the status quo
  • Preliminary indications are that emerging technologies can markedly improve many of the problems observed in education.
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    • Richard Lane
      Richard Lane on 25 Sep 13
       
      We need to be careful that technology does not become the focus here. It can facilitate change, but not drive it. We as educators, and students as learners (among others) will drive it. Technology is simply a tool/vehicle to assist us along the way.
Deven Black

Apps - 153 views

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  • Deven Black on 09 Apr 11
     
    The Louisiana Assistive Technology site has links to dozens of apps sorted by a variety of criteria.
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