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Maine Learning with Laptop Study - 0 views

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1to1 olpc laptop evaluation

shared by anonymous on 07 May 09 - Cached
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  • The MLLS evaluation team uses a success-based approach to evaluation. We use the research base and the experience of large scale educational technology initiatives to move beyond the question of whether technology can improve student learning to using the idenetified conditions and strategies for using technology which do improve the quality of a school's instructional program as a benchmark for evaluation. Doing so, the MLLS evaluation team can provide critical formative assessment to local project leaders about what they are doing well, what challenges they face, and can make recommendations on how to address the challenges.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 07 May 09
       
      The use of a success-based approach to measuring the effectivness of the initative is interesting. Success for one student or school may not be the same for another.
  • anonymous on 07 May 09
     
    The MLLS evaluation team uses a success-based approach to evaluation. We use the research base and the experience of large scale educational technology initiatives to move beyond the question of whether technology can improve student learning to using the idenetified conditions and strategies for using technology which do improve the quality of a school's instructional program as a benchmark for evaluation. Doing so, the MLLS evaluation team can provide critical formative assessment to local project leaders about what they are doing well, what challenges they face, and can make recommendations on how to address the challenges.
anonymous

Tapped In Home - 0 views

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community technology web2.0 edtech

shared by anonymous on 26 Sep 09 - Cached
  • The online workplace of an international community of education professionals. K-12 teachers, librarians, administrators, and professional development staff, as well as university faculty, students, and researchers gather here to learn, collaborate, share, and support one another.
  • anonymous on 26 Sep 09
     
    The online workplace of an international community of education professionals. K-12 teachers, librarians, administrators, and professional development staff, as well as university faculty, students, and researchers gather here to learn, collaborate, share, and support one another.
anonymous

New Study Finds Time Spent Online Important for Teen Development - MacArthur Foundation - 1 views

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technology study macarthur classroom

shared by anonymous on 04 Oct 10 - Cached
  • The study also finds that young people are learning basic social and technical skills through their use of digital media that they need to participate fully in contemporary society. The social worlds that youth are negotiating offer new dynamics, as online socializing is permanent and public, involves managing elaborate networks of friends and acquaintances, and is always on.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 15 Mar 11
       
      Where are young people learning how to properly use social digital tools?
  • According to researchers, young people are motivated to learn from their peers, as well as adults, online. The Internet provides new kinds of public spaces for youth to interact and receive feedback from one another. This may be different from how students are often asked to learn in schools.
  • In a cautionary note to parents, the study indicates that most youth are not taking full advantage of the learning opportunities of the Internet. While most youth use the Internet socially, they may overlook learning opportunities. Serious learning opportunities are abundant online in such subjects as astronomy, history, creative writing, and foreign languages. Youth can connect with people in different locations and of different ages who share their interests, making it possible follow pursuits that might not be popular or valued with their local peer groups.
anonymous

EDUCAUSE Quarterly | EDUCAUSE CONNECT - 0 views

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research journals education technology

shared by anonymous on 12 Feb 09 - Cached
  • anonymous on 12 Feb 09
     
    EDUCAUSE Quarterly is an online, peer-reviewed, practitioner's journal for college and university managers and users of information resources-information, technology, and services-published quarterly by EDUCAUSE. Materials related to planning for, developing, managing, evaluating, and using information resources on college and university campuses are welcomed. Submissions are evaluated for suitability by the EQ Editor and EQ Editorial Committee.
anonymous

NetFamilyNews - 1 views

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social networks Internet safety technology education cyber bully

shared by anonymous on 16 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Last week Chairman Julius Genachowski unveiled the children-and-family part of the FCC's universal broadband plan, designed to enable, among other things, 21st-century education. There's just one problem: Schools have long turned to law enforcement for guidance in informing their communities about youth safety on the Net, broadband or otherwise, and the guidance they're getting scares parents, school officials, and children about using the Internet.
  • There is a tendency among law enforcement officials to think that scare tactics are effective in reducing risk behavior. Research has never found this to be so."
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 16 Mar 10
       
      Dangerous activity is attractive to many kids.
  • As sociologist H. Wesley Perkins has pointed out, however, this kind of traditional strategy 'has not changed behavior one percent'."
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  • the predominant approach in the field of health promotion sought to motivate behavior change by highlighting risk.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 16 Mar 10
       
      As soon as teachers start talking about the dangers of the Internet, students want to try it.
  • What has "revolutionized the field of health promotion," according to the UVA Institute: the social-norms approach.
  • as a society, we can lower public resistance to broadband adoption and begin to free up American education to do for children's use of new media what it has long done for their use of books: guide and enrich them (examples here and here). But not only that: School will become more relevant to our highly new-media-engaged kids, and students will become more engaged.
  • anonymous on 16 Mar 10
     
    "Last week Chairman Julius Genachowski unveiled the children-and-family part of the FCC's universal broadband plan, designed to enable, among other things, 21st-century education. There's just one problem: Schools have long turned to law enforcement for guidance in informing their communities about youth safety on the Net, broadband or otherwise, and the guidance they're getting scares parents, school officials, and children about using the Internet. "
anonymous

Open Educational Resources infoKit / What are Open Educational Resources - 0 views

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shared by anonymous on 15 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Several of these 'movements' or 'philosophies' have been significant within the education community both in terms of research and learning & teaching (particularly educational technology).
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 15 Mar 11
       
      What are the "movements"
  • Whilst the terms 'Open content' and 'Open courseware' are
anonymous

Berkman Center - 0 views

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Education research technology Internet

shared by anonymous on 25 Mar 11 - Cached
  • anonymous on 25 Mar 11
     
    Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law
anonymous

Project Based Learning | BIE - 1 views

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pbl research projects learning

shared by anonymous on 20 Aug 11 - Cached
  • In Project Based Learning (PBL), students go through an extended process of inquiry in response to a complex question, problem, or challenge. Rigorous projects help students learn key academic content and practice 21st Century Skills (such as collaboration, communication & critical thinking).
  • anonymous on 20 Aug 11
     
    In Project Based Learning (PBL), students go through an extended process of inquiry in response to a complex question, problem, or challenge. Rigorous projects help students learn key academic content and practice 21st Century Skills (such as collaboration, communication & critical thinking).
anonymous

The New Literacies - 0 views

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literacy Information_Literacy web2.0 new_literacies

shared by anonymous on 18 Sep 11 - Cached
  • "Knowing truth from fiction on the Internet is a huge problem," says Kenneth Eastwood, superintendent of Middletown City (N.Y.) School District. "Students might be good researchers, but they tend not to scrutinize the information."
  • It might seem that evaluating information online-just one form of "new literacy"-and reading a book-more of a foundational literacy-are pretty much the same thing. After all, you can't trust everything you read, either. But there are differences. And those differences, when brought into the classroom and incorporated into curricula, are enriching the educational experiences of many K12 students. Unfortunately, many administrators, although they are beginning to recognize the need to revise their districts' media skills instruction, lack the resources, and more importantly the vision, to bring the new literacies into the classroom.
  • anonymous on 18 Sep 11
     
    What are the New Literacies and why should we teach them?
anonymous

Why We Learn More From Our Successes Than Our Failures - 0 views

www.sciencedaily.com/...090729121557.htm

Learning brain research LD

shared by anonymous on 03 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Brain cells may only learn from experience when we do something right and not when we fail.
  • The study sheds light on the neural mechanisms linking environmental feedback to neural plasticity — the brain's ability to change in response to experience. It has implications for understanding how we learn, and understanding and treating learning disorders.
  • The neural activity following a correct answer and a reward helped the monkeys do better on the trial that popped up a few seconds later.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 03 Aug 09
       
      So a reward needs to very quickly follow a correct response.
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  • The prefrontal cortex orchestrates thoughts and actions in accordance with internal goals while the basal ganglia are associated with motor control, cognition and emotions. This work shows that these two brain areas, long suspected to play key roles in learning and memory, have full information available to them to do all the neural computations necessary for learning.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 03 Aug 09
       
      What if the connections are not working well?
  • anonymous on 03 Aug 09
     
    An article about how we learn more from success than failure. More info about neuro-science and learning
anonymous

sleeping alone and starting out early: on answers that question the wrong claims - 0 views

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media literacies MIT

shared by anonymous on 11 Jun 09 - Cached
  • I’m the kind of person who’s paranoid about having something stuck in her teeth or toilet paper trailing from her shoe, so I always appreciate friends who are willing to point these things out to me. As a member of Project New Media Literacies, then, I’m grateful for the impetus of blogger and author Liz Losh in pointing out places where our hem appears to be showing.
  • I believe, deeply and honestly, that integrating new media literacy practices into the classroom is a matter of social justice.
  • Educational researcher Lisa Delpit, whose work has focused on how schools undermine and devalue the abilities of cultural minorities (mainly black children), identifies five aspects of what she calls "the culture of power":
  • anonymous on 11 Jun 09
     
    Jenna McWillams is a staff member at New Media Literacies
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