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Kimberly LaPrairie

picturing the thirties - 2 views

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history virtual social_studies smithsonian museum EED427 photos video virtual worlds

shared by Kimberly LaPrairie on 23 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Kimberly LaPrairie on 23 Sep 09
     
    "Picturing the 1930s," a new educational web site created by the Smithsonian American Art Museum in collaboration with the University of Virginia, allows teachers and students to explore the 1930s through paintings, artist memorabilia, historical documents, newsreels, period photographs, music, and video. Using PrimaryAccess, a web-based teaching tool developed at the university's Curry Center for Technology and Teacher Education, visitors can select images, write text, and record narration in the style of a documentary filmmaker. They can then screen their video in a virtual theater. PrimaryAccess is the first online tool that allows students to combine their own text, historical images from primary sources, and audio narration to create short online documentary films linked to social studies standards of learning, said Glen Bull, co-director of the Curry Center. Since the first version was developed in collaboration with U.Va.'s Center for Digital History and piloted in a local elementary school in 2005, more than 9,000 users worldwide have created more than 20,000 short movies. In creating digital documentaries, students embed facts and events in a narrative context that can enhance their retention and understanding of the material, said Curry research scientist Bill Ferster, who developed the application with Bull. Besides increasing their knowledge about the period, "Picturing the 1930s" enhances students' visual literacy skills, Ferster noted, adding that PrimaryAccess "offers teachers another tool to bring history alive."
Martin Burrett

Study finds cash and coins help engage primary maths students - 9 views

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study research maths math

shared by Martin Burrett on 30 Nov 16 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 30 Nov 16
     
    "Primary school students are more likely to understand and engage with maths if classes use real money and real-life projects, according to a Western Sydney University pilot study. The findings come as Australian students lag behind other countries in maths, with Year 4 students dropping from 18th to 28th out of 49 countries in year 4 maths in the latest Trends in International Mathematics and Science study."
Keith Dennison

Help with free online textbooks - 110 views

To all: Thank you so much. Keep the resources coming! These are wonderful and I am so appreciative of your help. Take care, Keith

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started by Keith Dennison on 14 May 10 5 follow-ups, last by Keith Dennison on 14 May 10
Elizabeth Resnick

How Tech Will Transform the Traditional Classroom| The Committed Sardine - 3 views

www.fluency21.com/blogpost.cfm

technology_integration

shared by Elizabeth Resnick on 17 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • While it may seem obvious, all the iPads in the world are useless without fast WiFi and plenty of power outlets. What’s more, many schools forget that teachers need their own iPads, and must become avid users, too. Speirs reminds educators, “You have to think through how it is to actually live with this device.” Finally, Speirs cautions teachers not to be intimidated by parent and faculty expectations, to gradually introduce the iPad rather than rushing in. Teachers and school administrators may wish to refer to Ruben Puentedura’s excellent argument for tech in education and to the NMC Horizon Report. And look for inspiration in existing iPad pilots.
  • While it may seem obvious, all the iPads in the world are useless without fast WiFi and plenty of power outlets.
  • For instance, one might suggest that more efficient classrooms through the use of technology could allow for a shortened or staggered school day to serve more, smaller classes. But, according to Brovey, “It is difficult for us to imagine a school structure where [class time] becomes more fluid.”
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  • Twitter is the undisputed channel for everything from breaking news to political and cultural debates. How long can schools block access to it before they become completely irrelevant? The important thing when deciding school online policies, says Brovey, is that “you have to show that you’re exercising due diligence.”
  • allow teachers to bypass those filters, and to have a simple, fast whitelisting process, ideally from the page that appears when a user visits a blocked site.
  • Elizabeth Resnick on 17 Apr 12
     
    good apps list but leaves out Reflection: show your iPad/phone on the Mac screen.
maureen greenbaum

BetaKit » Is Adaptive Learning the Future of Education? - 2 views

betakit.com/...arning-the-future-of-education

shared by maureen greenbaum on 21 May 12 - No Cached
  • adaptive learning will adjust every question based on a student’s previous answer.
  • Knewton is working on having educational content tagged so it can be placed into a “Knowledge Graph.” This system determines what concepts need to be learned before a student can move on to others, and how they all fit together.
  • The company recently parterned with Pearson to tag every textbook under their imprint work with the Knewton Knowledge Graph.
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  • ata mining and take various inputs, like test question results, activity on the system, what links students clicked, etc. to make a prediction of the next best piece of content for a student to learn.
  • The technology seems to be working. After a pilot project at Arizona State University with 5,000 remedial math students, pass rates improved from 66 percent to 75 percent, with half the class finishing four weeks early
  • “The professors are much better prepared for a single class so that they can give much more individualized instruction,” Lui said. “The practical effectiveness of this means that teachers are now able to use their time more efficiently to hone in on the things that are most troublesome or useful for different groups of students. You’re not teaching to the mean or bottom quartile.”
  • Analyzing and collecting big data is really what Junyo is about, enabling everyone in the education sector to make the learning experience more personal.
  • The students also have their own dashboard to see recommended content.
  • Teachers don’t have the time to do detailed reporting of a student’s progress and even if they did, they wouldn’t be able to provide one on one tutoring for every single student at different stages of learning.
  • students are learning more outside the classroom than in the classroom, and educators are finally starting to acknowledge that.
  • maureen greenbaum on 21 May 12
     
    "The professors are much better prepared for a single class so that they can give much more individualized instruction," Lui said. "The practical effectiveness of this means that teachers are now able to use their time more efficiently to hone in on the things that are most troublesome or useful for different groups of students. You're not teaching to the mean or bottom quartile."
Trevor Cunningham

PicView iPad App Lets You Add Voice Tags To Your Pictures - 81 views

thenextweb.com/...e-tagging-annotations-ipad-app

Library ipad app pilot elementary ELL

shared by Trevor Cunningham on 09 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Trevor Cunningham on 09 Sep 12
     
    Interesting application for voice responses to visual prompts. ELL applications as well.
Roland Gesthuizen

Favorite quotes from Minnetonka's 1:1 iPad Institute « West Des Moines Commun... - 63 views

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  • Roland Gesthuizen on 22 Jul 12
     
    "The district currently has 1,600 iPads deployed to all 9th and 10th graders at Minnetonka High School.  I'll have my notes from the visit posted in the next day or so, but for now, here's my favorite quotes from the visit…"
  • Sam Boswell on 23 Jul 12
     
    Thanks for sharing insights on this large-scale roll out. Gives me further considerations about the next level of our 1:1 pilot programme. Love the shift in paradigm on printing - do you know whether they were using Edmodo for task submissions? Or does Schoology take care of the online exchange?
Rafael Morales_Gamboa

Technology Will Not Replace Teachers | LinkedIn - 40 views

www.linkedin.com/...logy-will-not-replace-teachers

shared by Rafael Morales_Gamboa on 25 Aug 13 - No Cached
  • it is no substitute for experienced human decision-making and intervention in complex, dynamic, high-stakes situations
    • Rafael Morales_Gamboa
      Rafael Morales_Gamboa on 26 Aug 13
       
      But, how many of this situations occur every day, week, month, year in a teacher's practice?
  • Few would argue that without Captain Sully Sullenberger, a former fighter pilot with nearly 30 years of commercial aviation experience, there would have been no miracle on the Hudson
    • Rafael Morales_Gamboa
      Rafael Morales_Gamboa on 26 Aug 13
       
      But, how many of such miracles are required every day? In the UK, for example, giving birth is attended by a nurse in the patient's room, but specialized surgeons and rooms are there in case they are needed. Why wouldn't that apply to teachers?
  • But the highly complex and nuanced demands of teaching cannot be met by computers executing repetitive tasks or simple transactions -- or even sophisticated algorithms. People learn in different ways, at different rates, and numerous variables can affect their progression on any given day -- including those in the social and emotional realm.
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  • The best teachers harness this energy and use it as rocket fuel for learning
    • Rafael Morales_Gamboa
      Rafael Morales_Gamboa on 26 Aug 13
       
      You are right. Best teachers do it, and they cannot be replaced. What percentage of all teachers are we talking about?
fergtoo

the Truth About Being a Hero - WSJ - 14 views

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  • We all want to be special, to stand out; there's nothing wrong with this. The irony is that every human being is special to start with, because we're unique to start with.
  • n the military I could exercise the power of being automatically respected because of the medals on my chest, not because I had done anything right at the moment to earn that respect.
  • I knew many Marines had done brave deeds that no one saw and for which they got no medals at all.
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  • "A lot of people have done a lot more and gotten a lot less, and a lot of people have done a lot less and gotten a lot more."
  • I got my medals, in part, because I did brave acts, but also, in part, because the kids liked me and they spent time writing better eyewitness accounts than they would have written if they hadn't liked me
  • The only people who will ever know the value of the ribbons on their chests are the people wearing them—and even they can fool themselves, in both directions.
  • he whole assault ground to a halt, except for one kid named Niemi, who had sprinted forward when we came under the intense fire and disappeared up in front of us somewhere.
  • alking to a group of us about when it was a platoon leader earned his pay. I knew, floating above that mess, that now that time had come. If I didn't get up and lead, we'd get wiped.
  • I'm most proud of is that I simply stood up, in the middle of all that flying metal, and started up the hill all by myself.
  • I did it for the right reasons.
  • At this point I saw the missing kid, Niemi, pop his head up. He sprinted across the open top of the hill, all alone.
  • He was a black kid, all tangled up in black-power politics, almost always angry and sullen. A troublemaker. Yet here he was, most of his body naked with only flapping rags left of his jungle utilities, begging for a rifle when he had a perfect excuse to just bury his head in the clay and quit. I gave him mine. I still had a pistol. He grabbed the rifle, stood up to his full height, fully exposing himself to all the fire, and simply blasted an entire magazine at the two soldiers in front of us, killing both of them. He then went charging into the fight, leaving me stunned for a moment. Why? Who was he doing this for? What is this thing in young men? We were beyond ourselves, beyond politics, beyond good and evil. This was transcendence.
  • Crashing out of the clouds into this confusion came a flaming, smoking twin-rotor CH-46 helicopter.
  • I saw Niemi pop into sight again. He sprinted to the downed chopper.
  • the only thing he could think to do was sprint across the open hilltop to see if he could find a place from which he could lay down fire to protect them.
  • Niemi got a Navy Cross.
  • I got a Navy Cross.
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  • The kid who borrowed my rifle didn't get anyt
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  • It was just about that time I got knocked out and blinded by a hand grenade. I came to, groggy.
  • hen a kid I knew from Second Platoon, mainly because of his bad reputation, threw himself down beside me, half his clothes blown away. He was begging people for a rifle. His had been blown out of his hands.
Matt McKee

Kindle DX called "poor excuse of an academic tool" in Princeton pilot program - 24 views

www.engadget.com/...-an-academic-tool-in-princeton

kindle Princeton education tools

shared by Matt McKee on 29 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Most of the criticisms center around the Kindle's weak annotation features, which make things like highlighting and margin notes almost impossible to use, but even a simple thing like the lack of true page numbers has caused problems, since allowing students to cite the Kindle's location numbers in their papers is "meaningless for anyone working from analog books."
    • Matt McKee
      Matt McKee on 30 Sep 09
       
      isn't the whole point of having a digital book the ability to manipulate what's on the page?
  • Ed Webb on 29 Sep 09
     
    Note that annotation is a key educational need not currently met by Kindle. If only there was a version of Diigo embedded...
  • Matt McKee on 30 Sep 09
     
    It will be interesting to see if the upcoming Apple Tablet will take the shortcomings of the Kindle and improve on them, or be flawed itself.
Scott Garrigan

DAISY: Digital Accessible Information SYstem (DAISY) Consortium - 0 views

www.daisy.org

Assistive Technology AT ebook audio book DAISY standard accessibility reading publishing

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  • 2009-06-30Amazon Kindle DX Pilot Program Discriminates Against the Blind
    • Scott Garrigan
      Scott Garrigan on 11 Jul 09
       
      Check out this link. It highlights the difference between a "text reader," which many applications provide, and a "book reader" that includes navigation by chapter and page number, the ability to skip parts, and a knowledge of the normal parts of a book (like table of contents, footnotes, sidebar, etc.)
  • DAISY Makes Reading Easier (YouTube Video)  transcript
  • Scott Garrigan on 11 Jul 09
     
    DAISY Consortium for an international standard in audio book publishing and reading.
Martin Burrett

Yammer : The Enterprise Social Network - 24 views

www.yammer.com

microblogging collaboration social networking chat

shared by Martin Burrett on 08 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Kate Tabor on 08 Mar 10
     
    Closed microblogging program
  • Florence Dujardin on 08 Mar 10
     
    I hope to do a pilot use of Yammer after Easter. It depends on my Uni adopting it officially so that I can set up a student group. I have used Yammer with other staff members: it's easy to use and it's nice to have a channel for quick communication - away from the tsumamis of emails... Yammer could well be to students' liking for that very reason, particularly if their studies are partly or wholly online.
  • Martin Burrett on 11 Jul 11
     
    Use social networking to organise your school by setting up it's own with this site, which is very similar to Twitter. The free version does have some limitations which means it is not very suitable for students to use, but this communication and collaboration tool would be great for the staff. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+&+Web+Tools
Jim Peterson

HC iPad User Group - 95 views

walden.hollandchristian.org/...hcipadusergroup

iPad ideas

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  • Jim Peterson on 24 Dec 10
     
    A wiki of educational iPad uses being created by the pilot group in my district.
Frank Noschese

What Khan Academy looks like in my classroom… | LASD and Khan Academy Pilot - 22 views

lasdandkhanacademy.edublogs.org/...emy-looks-like-in-my-classroom

Khan Academy pedagogy science math

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  • Frank Noschese on 05 Apr 11
     
    While students do Khan Academy, teacher can show "Class Energy Points Per Minute" data for motivation: http://bit.ly/gbGqIH #factorymodel
Frank Noschese

Sun Badges and Beyond | LASD and Khan Academy Pilot - 5 views

lasdandkhanacademy.edublogs.org/...sun-badges-and-beyond

Khan Academy pedagogy science math

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  • Frank Noschese on 05 Apr 11
     
    LASD students using Khan Academy are ignoring exercises and videos, focusing on earning KA badges instead: http://bit.ly/eAN1aV #nosurprise
Maureen Greenbaum

These 10 trends are shaping the future of education | Education Dive - 74 views

www.educationdive.com/...404406

shared by Maureen Greenbaum on 29 Aug 15 - No Cached
  • e demands for innovation probably won't create an all-new landscape, the resulting product of ongoing changes is likely to be unrecognizable compared to that of the last several decades.
  • alternative credentialing and changing demographics to testing concerns and the rise of STEM
  • America's 629 public four-year institutions, 1,845 private four-year institutions, 1,070 public two-year institutions, and 596 private two-year institutions will soon be competing over a smaller pipeline of potential incoming students. 
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  •  expect to see a number of for-profits make the transition to nonprofit or benefit corporation
  • 5. Open educational resources gaining popularity as textbook prices rise
  • Digital textbooks have solved some of those issues to an extent, carrying a lower price point on average and being capable of receiving updated content. But many in higher ed and K-12 are looking beyond the traditional-textbook-
  • 15 Virginia community colleges are using OER to pilot a "zero textbook cost" program that is expected to save 50,000 students $5 million in its first year.
meghankelly492

Gale OneFile: Health and Medicine - Document - The effects of music-assisted coping sys... - 0 views

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world Music

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  • However, this investigation does present a promising music-assisted treatment approach.
  • Factors contributing to the lack of findings from the cognitive measures included small sample size and inconsequential performance conditions. The results of this pilot study found a non-statistically significant trend in reduced cognitive symptoms of anxiety.
  • . Though relaxation training home-practice was monitored informally (i.e., via review of relaxation record sheets), a more formal record of compliance data would have helped to determine the impact of treatment adherence on treatment outcome.
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