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jcurtis4082

Dropcam | CrunchBase Profile - 74 views

www.crunchbase.com/...dropcam

news tools resources web camera

shared by jcurtis4082 on 05 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • jcurtis4082 on 05 Apr 12
     
    Wireless camera
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."
Elizabeth Resnick

8 Rules For Creating A Passionate Work Culture | Fast Company - 94 views

www.fastcompany.com/...ting-a-passionate-work-culture

culture passion leadership

shared by Elizabeth Resnick on 01 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • Elizabeth Resnick on 01 Jun 12
     
    inspiring article and an excerpt from a book.
Kate Pok

Idaho Teachers Fight a Reliance on Computers - NYTimes.com - 32 views

www.nytimes.com/...t-a-reliance-on-computers.html

shared by Kate Pok on 04 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • Last year, the state legislature overwhelmingly passed a law that requires all high school students to take some online classes to graduate, and that the students and their teachers be given laptops or tablets. The idea was to establish Idaho’s schools as a high-tech vanguard. To help pay for these programs, the state may have to shift tens of millions of dollars away from salaries for teachers and administrators. And the plan envisions a fundamental change in the role of teachers, making them less a lecturer at the front of the room and more of a guide helping students through lessons delivered on computers.
  • “Teachers don’t object to the use of technology,” said Sabrina Laine, vice president of the American Institutes for Research, which has studied the views of the nation’s teachers using grants from organizations like the Gates and Ford Foundations. “They object to being given a resource with strings attached, and without the needed support to use it effectively to improve student learning.”
    • Kate Pok
      Kate Pok on 04 Jan 12
       
      What a pity, a sign of how little respect people actually give to the profession of teaching; the only profession where people don't take the comments of practitioners seriously.  Can you imagine saying to your doctor, "I know this is your diagnosis, but I'm going to go with my Great Aunt's diagnosis."
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  • They complain that lawmakers listened less to them than to heavy lobbying by technology companies, including Intel and Apple.
  • under the state’s plan, that teacher will not always be in the room. The plan requires high school students to take online courses for two of their 47 graduation credits.
    • Kate Pok
      Kate Pok on 04 Jan 12
       
      I actually find this somewhat troubling...so little research exists as to how students are actually learning online.  Are they using Facebook or are they going through MIT's Open Courseware?  I'm inclined to think the former.  I'm slowly adding more and more technology to my classes and frankly, I'm surprised that students are not more technologically savvy... the first and second digital divides are increasingly evident...
    • Carol Pearsall
      Carol Pearsall on 05 Jan 12
       
      Interesting article, however, you can't ignore that students today will be doing a significant amount of learning on a computer. If our high school students can't master managing an online class in high school, how will they fare later on? It's another learning tool. 2 classes out of 47 credits? How is that detrimental to the development of lifelong learners? We can research until the cows come home, but at some point if we don't dive in, we miss the boat. While we can all wish for all our students to graduate high school and then go on to college, the reality is that most of them won't. That's reality... Preparing our kids for future learning and building those skills necessary to be successful to master online courses is a skill they will need to succeed in their digital world.
dmassicg

Vote: Is technology a boon or burden in the classroom? - The Globe and Mail - 62 views

www.theglobeandmail.com/...article2241783

technology classroom pictogram

shared by dmassicg on 28 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • Back to article Apple vows iBooks 2 will ‘reinvent’ school textbooks Enlarge this image Vote: Is technology a boon or burden in the classroom? Published Monday, Nov. 28, 2011 12:00AM EST Last updated Monday, Nov. 28, 2011 2:29PM EST
  • dmassicg on 28 Jan 12
     
    Globe and Mail visual graph: Is technology a boon or burden in the classroom? As the world becomes increasingly digital, school boards are trying to negotiate technology's role in the classroom. Some have embraced digital tools, enhancing their classrooms with Smartboards, cell phones and social media. Others have favoured tradition, claiming technology is a distraction and a nuisance. Where do Globe readers stand? Each dot on this graph represents one person's response colour-coded by age group.
Carol Caywood

The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman - 95 views

www.gutenberg.org/...1952-h.htm

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    • Carol Caywood
      Carol Caywood on 09 Nov 11
       
      How has the child ravaged her?
  • I must not let her find me writing
  • sub-pattern in a different shade
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  • John thought it might do me good to see a little company
  • John says if I don't pick up faster he shall send me to Weir Mitchell in the fall
  • nd Jennie is good and lets me alone when I want her to
  • and follow that pattern about by the hour
  • I know this thing was not arranged on any laws of radiation, or alternation, or repetition, or symmetry, or anything else that I ever heard of.
  • optic horror
  • it is such a relie
  • how I wish he would let me go and make a visit to Cousin Henry and Julia
  • He said I was his darling and his comfort and all he had, and that I must take care of myself for his sake, and keep well.
  • I must use my will and self-control and not let any silly fancies run away with me
  • he baby is well and happy
  • There are things in that paper that nobody knows but me, or ever will.
  • ike a woman stooping down and creeping about behind that pattern
  • he faint figure behind seemed to shake the pattern, just as if she wanted to get out.
  • Of course if you were in any danger, I could and would, but you really are better, dear, whether you can see it or not. I am a doctor, dear, and I know. You are gaining flesh and color, your appetite is better, I feel really much easier about you."
  • "she shall be as sick as she pleases!
    • Carol Caywood
      Carol Caywood on 09 Nov 11
       
      talking to her in 3rd person
  • never for one instant let that idea enter your mind! There is nothing so dangerous, so fascinating, to a temperament like yours. It is a false and foolish fancy. Can you not trust me as a physician when I tell you so?"
Lisa Byrd

OVGet - The Ultimate Online Video Downloader - 73 views

www.ovget.com

video downloader online video

shared by Lisa Byrd on 02 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • Beverly Benfer on 03 Aug 12
     
    Lisa, I'm not sure about this site. In reading their Terms, I see this is a product of Discordia Limited. Discordia has been named numerous times for scamming and distributing malware. Maybe they have cleaned up their act, but I suggest caution and some research into the company.
Tonya Thomas

Authoring Tools - The Mobile Learning Edge - 0 views

www.mobilelearningedge.com/...authoring-tools

authoring mobile mobile learning learning edge resources review

shared by Tonya Thomas on 18 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • Udutu, a Canadian company, has a set of rich media interactive course development tools for creating courses on iPads and iPhones. Courses built with the Udutu authoring tool will play on iPads and iPhones because the interactions utilize DHTML or HTML5 as an option instead of Flash, and all the navigation and templates are HTML.
  • Articulate has several tools for publishing learning content to mobile devices, including Presenter ’09 and Screenr.
Randolph Hollingsworth

"Promises" of Online Higher Ed: Profits - Campaign for the Future of Higher Education | Campaign for the Future of Higher Education - 12 views

futureofhighered.org/workingpapers

MOOC future higher education

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  • the burning questions focus squarely and exclusively on what will make money for particular companies
  • use their powerful brand reputations to get ahead of rapid technological changes that could destabilize their residential business models over the long-run
  • good credit news for elite institutions
  • Randolph Hollingsworth on 10 Oct 13
     
    on the revolutionary aspect of MOOCs to break down traditional barriers to higher ed as regularly stated by CEOs Koller and Thrun: "This rhetoric is perhaps the most glittery yet in the public discourse about online higher education. But it is also a diversion shifting attention away from the logic of profit-making. For parents, students, and the general public who focus primarily on what education means for people's futures, for social mobility, for a healthy economy and a robust democracy, a dip into the insider talk of MOOCs, their investors, and industry analysts is both instructive and disorienting."
jlugris

TEDxMarinette Talk - Why Antibullying Approaches Need to be Scrapped | The Hero Construction Company - 85 views

www.theherocc.com/approaches-need-to-be-scrapped

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  • jlugris on 19 Oct 13
     
    "Be a hero, better than do not be a bully"
Kenuvis Romero

Dangerous: an in-depth investigation into the life of John McAfee (Wired UK) - 0 views

www.wired.co.uk/...2

shared by Kenuvis Romero on 23 Jun 13 - No Cached
  •  His business plan: create an antivirus program and give it away on bulletin boards. McAfee didn't expect users to pay. His real aim was to get them to think the software was so necessary that they would install it on their computers at work. They did. Within five years, half of the Fortune 100 companies were running it, and they felt compelled to pay a licence fee. By 1990, McAfee was making $5 million (£3.2 million) a year with few overheads and little investment.
  • His success was due in part to his ability to spread his own paranoia, the fear that there was always somebody about to attack.
Nigel Coutts

Schools as Learning Platforms - 17 views

thelearnersway.net/...schools-as-learning-platforms

education

shared by Nigel Coutts on 16 Aug 15 - No Cached
  • Nigel Coutts on 16 Aug 15
     
    In technology circles the importance of the 'platform' is important and well understood. The companies that have had the most success in recent times are those that have become the platforms upon which great ideas are built. But what would it look like if a school imagined itself as a 'platform' in this model?
anonymous

Kids Create at Google I/O Youth | TIME For Kids - 35 views

www.timeforkids.com/...245831

ArticleOfTheWeek time

shared by anonymous on 08 Jun 15 - No Cached
  • Google I/O conference, now in its seventh year.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 08 Jun 15
       
      Who knew that there was a Google I/O conference for youth?  How do you get invited to such?
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 08 Jun 15
       
      Where does one go to study to be a web developer?  What kind of degree is that?  Where would one intern?  What other companies hire web developers?  
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  • A web developer’s job
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 09 Jun 15
       
      I notice that the more the folks in my department try to create, individualize, or make unique for our users, the more we need to access embed codes.  So, to learn the language of coding may really be an important part of what students need to know in the near future.
  • “Curiosity is the key to unlocking anything you’re interested in,”
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 09 Jun 15
       
      Isn't this the key to engaging students?  Period.
  • “Mistakes mean that you can improve your ideas.”
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 09 Jun 15
       
      Perhaps this should be posted in classrooms!
Tonya Thomas

Estimating Costs and Time in Instructional Design - 11 views

www.nwlink.com/...costs.html

elearning rates expense costs pricing freelance contracting consulting

shared by Tonya Thomas on 24 Oct 12 - Cached
  • Instructional Designer - $28.00 hour (based on salary of $60,000 per year) eLearning designer - $37.00 hour (based on salary of $78,000 per year) Organizational Specialist - $38.46 (based on salary of $80,000 per year)
  • 200 to 500 man-hours for each instructional hour of IMI
  • Simple Asynchronous: (static HTML pages with text & graphics): 117 hours Simple Synchronous: (static HTML pages with text & graphics): 86 hours Average Asynchronous: (above plus Flash, JavaScript, animated GIF's. etc): 191 hours Average Synchronous: (above plus Flash, JavaScript, animated GIF's. etc): 147 hours Complex Asynchronous: (above plus audio, video, interactive simulations): 276 hours Complex Synchronous: (above plus audio, video, interactive simulations): 222 hours
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  • Course is five days or less, then 3 hours of preparation for each hour of training. Course is between five and ten days, then 2.5 hours of preparation for each hour of training. Course is over 10 days, then 2 hours of preparation for each hour of training.
  • research generally shows that there is at least a 50% reduction in seat time when a course is converted from classroom learning to elearning. Brandon Hall reports it is a 2:1 ratio.
  • Estimated Average Cost Per Hour Of Instruction - $1,901.00 to $2,170.00
  • If your organization is inexperienced, expect your average developmental man-hours to be closer to 450-500 man-hours per instructional hour.
  • 1995 August/September issue of CBT Solutions Magazine reported that 221 hours was the average development time.
  • Category 1: Baseline Presentation
  • 34:1 -- Instructor-Led Training (ILT), including design, lesson plans, handouts, PowerPoint slides, etc. (Chapman, 2007). 33:1 -- PowerPoint to E-Learning Conversion (Chapman, 2006a, p20). 220:1 -- Standard e-learning, which includes presentation, audio, some video, test questions, and 20% interactivity (Chapman, 2006a, p20) 345:1 -- 3rd party courseware. Time it takes for online learning publishers to design, create, test and package 3rd party courseware (Private study by Bryan Chapman 750:1 -- Simulations from scratch. Creating highly interactive content (Chapman, 2006b)
  • Category 2: Medium Simulation Presentation
  • Estimated Average Cost Per Hour Of Instruction - $3,768.00
  • Category 3: High Level Simulation Presentation.
  • Estimated Average Cost Per Hour Of Instruction - $7,183.00
  • Verizon says once they develop enough learning objects, they will be able to build courses in five hours or less ($10,000 to $15,000)
  • includes the instructional designer, project manager, and outsourcing fees (the instructional designer takes the content that is written in instructional design format to three other companies and an in house group for bids)
  • They use a content management system from OutStart
  • between 40 to 80 hours and costs $15,000 to $30,000 to develop one hour of elearning (George & Mcgee, 2003)
  • If the elearning looks more like a PowerPoint presentation, then a 1:1 is probably close, however, the more elearning moves away from looking like a Powerpoint presentation and looks more like an interactive package, then the more the ratio starts to increase.
  • Outside Consultant - $90.00 hour
  • Chapman
  • Category 1: Baseline Presentation
Comrad Compadre

Slavoj Žižek - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 2 views

en.wikipedia.org/...Slavoj_%C5%BDi%C5%BEek

shared by Comrad Compadre on 04 Jul 15 - No Cached
  • Ideology as an unconscious fantasy that structures reality
    • Comrad Compadre
      Comrad Compadre on 04 Jul 15
       
      You want something to be true, perhaps because of some past traumas and maybe a little influence from the media telling you that good always prevails. So you make it your ideology and if you ever end up in a position of even the slightest power, such as a boss at any American company, you make it your mission to tell your employees that they are wrong about their sad ideas and that the right way to go is yours. You're a closeted idealist.
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