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Top News - Students want more use of gaming technology - 0 views

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shared by Carol Holzberg on 16 Apr 08 - Cached
  • New York-based Tabula Digita makes a series of immersive educational video games, called DimensionM, designed to help students master key algebraic concepts.
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      Carol Holzberg on 16 Apr 08
anonymous

Benefits - 0 views

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shared by anonymous on 25 Jun 08 - Cached
  • After more than 10 years studying laptop computing in schools, Saul Rockman (2003) concludes that one of the most important benefits of a laptop program is an increase in 21st century skills. "Developing the ability to learn independently, collaborate with peers to accomplish work, and communicate the conclusions of your work are the core of 21st century skills, and a highly valued set of competencies in the world outside of school.
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      anonymous on 25 Jun 08
       
      These skills are critical for students in a vocational school
  • Although laptops primarily provide students with opportunities to develop 21st century skills, their use also impacts state achievement tests.
  • A 2000 study, also by Rockman, found that teachers in laptop schools showed significant movement toward constructivist teaching.
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  • This is not about technology or software, it is about teaching kids."
  • Laptop schools often report a surge in parental and community involvement once laptops have been introduced.
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."
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      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.
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      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).
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      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

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

No Registration Needed for Students - List | Diigo - 1 views

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technology education web2.0

shared by anonymous on 31 May 12 - No Cached
  • anonymous on 31 May 12
     
    Nathan Hall's List: No Registration Needed for Students
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