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Justin Medved

The state of the Digital Union - - 9 views

www.state.gov/...135519.htm

21st_Century_Curriculum

shared by Justin Medved on 27 Jan 10 - Cached
  • This is an important speech on a very important subject. But before I begin, I want to just speak briefly about Haiti, because during the last eight days, the people of Haiti and the people of the world have joined together to deal with a tragedy of staggering proportions. Our hemisphere has seen its share of hardship, but there are few precedents for the situation we’re facing in Port-au-Prince. Communication networks have played a critical role in our response. They were, of course, decimated and in many places totally destroyed. And in the hours after the quake, we worked with partners in the private sector; first, to set up the text “HAITI” campaign so that mobile phone users in the United States could donate to relief efforts via text messages. That initiative has been a showcase for the generosity of the American people, and thus far, it’s raised over $25 million for recovery efforts.
  • Information networks have also played a critical role on the ground. When I was with President Preval in Port-au-Prince on Saturday, one of his top priorities was to try to get communication up and going. The government couldn’t talk to each other, what was left of it, and NGOs, our civilian leadership, our military leadership were severely impacted. The technology community has set up interactive maps to help us identify needs and target resources. And on Monday, a seven-year-old girl and two women were pulled from the rubble of a collapsed supermarket by an American search-and-rescue team after they sent a text message calling for help. Now, these examples are manifestations of a much broader phenomenon.
  • The spread of information networks is forming a new nervous system for our planet. When something happens in Haiti or Hunan, the rest of us learn about it in real time – from real people. And we can respond in real time as well. Americans eager to help in the aftermath of a disaster and the girl trapped in the supermarket are connected in ways that were not even imagined a year ago, even a generation ago. That same principle applies to almost all of humanity today. As we sit here, any of you – or maybe more likely, any of our children – can take out the tools that many carry every day and transmit this discussion to billions across the world.
  • Justin Medved on 27 Jan 10
     
    Recent speech by Hillary Clinton
Barbara Moose

Author: 'iGeneration' requires a different approach to instruction | eSchoolNews.com - 62 views

www.eschoolnews.com/...ferent-approach-to-instruction

'igeneration' instruction technology education eschoolnews

shared by Barbara Moose on 12 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Kathy Malsbenden on 12 Apr 10
     
    Today's middle and high school students learn much differently from students just a few years older-and that's mainly because they've never known a world without the internet or cell phones, says psychology professor and author Larry D. Rosen, whose research could give educators valuable insights into the needs of today's learners.
Amy Hertzog

Industry Pitching Cellphones as a Teaching Tool - NYTimes.com - 21 views

www.nytimes.com/...16phone.html

shared by Amy Hertzog on 19 Apr 10 - Cached
    • Amy Hertzog
      Amy Hertzog on 19 Apr 10
       
      It would be taking a huge leap of faith to just have cell phones out there during the school day. Would it make students text more than they already do, or would it take away the allure if it weren't against the rules?
Steve C

RemoteDroid » Use your Android phone as a wireless keyboard and mouse to remote control your computer - 43 views

www.remotedroid.net

android remotedroid wireless

shared by Steve C on 21 Dec 10 - Cached
  • Steve C on 21 Dec 10
     
    Looks like it would be great for the classroom, controlling Smartboards, playing DVDs, showing PowerPoints, etc.
John Dorn

Quicklyst: Take Outline Notes and Study from Your Amazon Kindle, iPhone, iPad, Android Phone, or Smartphone. - 108 views

www.quicklyst.com

shared by John Dorn on 28 Jan 11 - No Cached
    • John Dorn
      John Dorn on 21 Sep 11
       
      This looks like a great tool for students taking notes during class.
  • Eric Esterline on 28 Jan 11
     
    Quicklyst is a nice tool for taking notes and creating outlines. Quicklyst provides a simple outline template that you can use to take notes.
  • edtechdr on 25 Feb 11
     
    Note taking site
Gerald Carey

Turn Your Cellphone Into a High-Powered Scientific Microscope | Wired Science | Wired.com - 131 views

www.wired.com/...diy-cellphone-microscope

cellphone microscope spectroscope

shared by Gerald Carey on 13 Mar 11 - No Cached
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  • Gerald Carey on 13 Mar 11
     
    This is actually in two parts. One shows how to build a reasonable microscope. The second (which seems a bit more fiddly) shows how to build a spectroscope. Minimal costs.
  • Rob Reynolds on 14 Mar 11
     
    It would be great to see a group evolve from this that shared the multitude of educational uses of cell phones.
Jeff Suarez Grant

Judith Scott-Clayton: The Dark Side of Choice in Higher Education - NYTimes.com - 0 views

economix.blogs.nytimes.com/...-of-choice-in-higher-education

technology education article news

shared by Jeff Suarez Grant on 25 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Innovative technology and marketing strategies might be able to nudge students toward better decisions without limiting their freedom to choose. For example, it would be much easier for students to identify and compare relevant courses if academic catalogs were less like phone books and more like, say, Netflix. Then students could interactively search and browse on dimensions like course subject, timing, difficulty, prerequisites, major requirements or instructor ratings. Over time, students could be offered personalized suggestions based on their previous choices. New students could even be offered the equivalent of a prix fixe menu, offering a limited selection of prepackaged pathways while still allowing students to choose à la carte.
dec_burke

Sensory Map of Hong Kong - 111 views

www.singapore.edu.hk/...index.html

technology education language web design

shared by dec_burke on 24 May 11 - No Cached
  • dec_burke on 24 May 11
     
    This a great idea for a project that successfully infuses technology into a language class. Students (aged 13-14) were required to go to an area in Hong Kong and use their 5 senses to describe what they experienced. Their English teachers helped them by taking them on walks around the neighbourhood of our school and getting them to think about what they could see, smell, taste, hear and touch. The students then worked in groups, picked an area they wanted to explore and set off to use their newly heighten senses. They used their phones to digitally record what they came across. Later this work was taken into ICT class where this interactive media rich website was created with the help of their ICT teacher. We hope you enjoy it! Check out the teachers' picks at the bottom.
  • Carol Ansel on 25 May 11
     
    I particularly liked the "sound" elements that had actual sound! (usually film footage) - that's an example of truly making the experience multimedia and doing something that we couldn't do with earlier technology.
Steve Ransom

Cell Phones in Learning - 76 views

www.cellphonesinlearning.com

cellphones resource learning education classroom school

shared by Steve Ransom on 20 May 11 - Cached
  • Steve Ransom on 20 May 11
     
    Nice resource
Carol Mortensen

Audio Expert - free online audio editor, converter and recorder - 3 views

www.audioexpert.com

audio converter tools editor recorder free web expert ringtones

shared by Carol Mortensen on 10 Aug 11 - Cached
  • WELCOME AudioExpert is a free and simple online audio editor, file converter and sound recorder. All the standard functionality of an audio editor provides you with an easy way to create a ringtone for your cell phone. You will find AudioExpert useful also as a powerful audio file converter which will allow you to modify the file format of your files, their bit rate, frequency, etc. If your computer is equipped with a camera and microphone, you can use AudioExpert to record your sounds. Main Features: Make use of it to analyse audio files and extract detailed information about the format. Cut or crop audio files in just a few clicks. Merge multiple files into a single audio track. Convert files between all of the popular audio formats (WAV, MP3, OGG, M4A, AAC, FLAC, AU, AMR, WMA, MKA). Record audio off a microphone or another sound device and save it directly to WAV, MP3, WMA, OGG, etc. Convert multiple files at once by means of batch processing.
  • Carol Mortensen on 10 Aug 11
     
    Convert, Edit (make ringtones), and merge audio files easily and quickly.
  • Carol Mortensen on 10 Aug 11
     
    Create free ringtone!
Karen Balnis

Another Look at the Weaknesses of Online Learning - Innovations - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 86 views

chronicle.com/...29888

shared by Karen Balnis on 28 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • have been lucky enough to have taught the full range of our freshman / sophmore undergraduate offerings as both an onsite and online instructor. While I have thoroughly enjoyed both formats - and very much so - I must admit that my experiences online have been *much* more positive than onsite instruction. Let me try and elucidate:1. While in the onsite classroom you have the opportunity to think on your feet and challenge and be experiential on your feet to reactions to the students who speak, in the online classroom, you are able to meet *every* class member and challenge their minds and ideas. The students who would normally be lost in a classroom of 35-40 are met and developed each day or week at their level and pushed to consider ideas they might not have considered. 2. I am able to reach the entire class through multimedia exhibits in each of the weekly units - journal articles, non-copyrighted film clips (and many from our university's purchased collection under an agreement for both onsite classroom and online classroom use), photography, art, patents, etc, that the students would not see - or would otherwise ignore - in an onsite classroom. We incorporate this information into our discussions and make it part of the larger whole of history.3. Each student and I - on the phone during office hours or in e-mail - discuss the creation of their term papers - and discuss midterm and final "anxiety" issues - and as they are used to the online format, and regular communication with me through the discussion boards, they respond much more readily than onsite students, whom I have found I have to pressure to talk to me. 4. I am able to accommodate students from around the country - and around the world. I have had enrolled in my class students from Japan, Indonesia, India, England - and many other countries. As a result, I have set up a *very* specific Skype address *only* for use of my students. They are required to set up the time and day with me ahead of time and I need to approve that request, but for them (and for some of my students scattered all over the state and US), the face time is invaluable in helping them feel "connected" - and I am more than happy to offer it. 5. As the software upgrades, the possibilities of what I can offer become more and more amazing, and the ease of use for both me - and for the students -  becomes astronomically better. Many have never known the software, so they don't notice it - but those who have taken online courses before cheer it on. Software does not achieve backwards. As very few of these issues are met by the onsite classroom, I am leaning more and more toward the online classroom as the better mode of instruction. Yes, there are times I *really* miss the onsite opportunities, but then I think of the above distinctions and realize that yes, I am where I should be, and virtually *ALL* the students are getting far more for their money than they would get in an onsite classroom. This is the wave of the future, and it holds such amazing promise. Already I think we are seeing clear and fruitful results, and if academics receive effective - and continuing - instruction and support from the very beginning, I cannot imagine why one would ever go back. The only reason I can think of *not* doing this is if the instructor has his or her *own* fear of computers. Beyond that - please, please jump on the bandwagon, swallow your fears, and learn how to do this with vigor. I don't think you will ever be sorry.PhD2BinUS
  • have been lucky enough to have taught the full range of our freshman / sophmore undergraduate offerings as both an onsite and online instructor. While I have thoroughly enjoyed both formats - and very much so - I must admit that my experiences online have been *much* more positive than onsite instruction. Let me try and elucidate:
  • While I have thoroughly enjoyed both formats - and very much so - I must admit that my experiences online have been *much* more positive than onsite instruction. Let me try and elucidate:
  • S B on 29 Jul 11
     
    I am a graduate student at Sam Houston State University and before I started grad school I never had taken an online course before. My opinion then was that online courses were a joke and you couldn't learn from taking a course online. Now my opinion has done a complete 180. The teachers post numerous youtube videos and other helpful tools for each assignment so that anyone can successfully complete the assignment no matter what their technology skill level is. I do not see much difference between online and face-to-face now because of the way the instructors teach the courses.
Jenny Staley

Teaching with Twitter - turning microblogging into learning | SlideShare Blog - 57 views

blog.slideshare.net/...ng-microblogging-into-learning

twitter teaching microblogging learning

shared by Jenny Staley on 30 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • Jenny Staley on 30 Aug 11
     
    In many cities around the world, kids and adults are returning to the classrooms for a new year at school. So much has changed for students and teachers. First with mobile phones, and now with social media. How can teachers and parents keep up?
Jon Tanner

I Don't Need Your Network (or Your Computer, or Your Tech Plan, or Your…) - 55 views

weblogg-ed.com/...uter-or-your-tech-plan-or-your

future technology phone cellphone willrichardson

shared by Jon Tanner on 02 Dec 09 - Cached
  • Jon Tanner on 02 Dec 09
     
    Will Richardson talks about the impact of smartphones on education. This links nicely to the NPR report (based on the Pew study) that the digital divide is being turned on its head.
  • Jon Tanner on 02 Dec 09
     
    Got to love Will Richardson. Not earth-shattering, but a great synthesis of several things that have been rattling around in my head lately, too.
anonymous

The IT Gap - 28 views

www.governing.com/...innovation-technology-gap.html

it droid apps

shared by anonymous on 30 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • After a technology is developed, it generally takes years if not decades for management to learn how to leverage that technology to create efficiencies. Which means that the recent explosion of technology tools represents a huge untapped opportunity. A case in point: my new Droid smartphone. I have just begun to tap into the incredible stuff it can do. For example, have you ever been listening to the radio and said, 'Oh, I love this song. I wish I knew who sings it'? Well, now you can download an app for it. Your phone will listen to the song, identify it, tell you all about it and even let you buy it on the spot.
Stacey Kertsman

Twitter, Facebook, and social activism : The New Yorker - 43 views

www.newyorker.com/...101004fa_fact_gladwell

shared by Stacey Kertsman on 24 Apr 11 - No Cached
    • Stacey Kertsman
      Stacey Kertsman on 24 Apr 11
       
      Interesting to advocate for strategic change over adaptability.
  • Shirky ends the story of the lost Sidekick by asking, portentously, “What happens next?”—no doubt imagining future waves of digital protesters. But he has already answered the question. What happens next is more of the same. A networked, weak-tie world is good at things like helping Wall Streeters get phones back from teen-age girls. Viva la revolución.
    • Stacey Kertsman
      Stacey Kertsman on 24 Apr 11
       
      Ouch
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  • It makes it easier for activists to express themselves, and harder for that expression to have any impact.
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