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Ben W

Science News / Scientists Get A 2nd Life - 0 views

www.sciencenews.org/...Scientists_Get_a_2nd_Life

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shared by Ben W on 15 May 08 - Cached
  • Through iPods and mp3 players, Facebook, cell phones and texting, young people become familiar with current technologies and often view them as an extension of themselves, Kennedy says. As a result, they’re drawn to learning techniques that employ novel devices. “Most of this younger generation has grown up entirely with the Internet. How can we not incorporate technology into our curriculum?” she says
  • Ben W on 15 May 08
     
    Article describing real science being done in virtual environments. Excellent read. Also discusses use of second life as an educational tool.
Steve Madsen

Values Exchange Selected Oz schools - 0 views

knox.values-exchange.co.nz/

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shared by Steve Madsen on 29 Mar 08 - No Cached
  • Steve Madsen on 29 Mar 08
     
    2008: software written in New Zealand. A pilot program where students respond to case studies which involve values. Responses are quantitatively collated. Good potential for further research for more academic inclined students.
  • Steve Madsen on 29 Mar 08
     
    Values Exchange. Students able to discuss current interests. Has formal approach to discussions.
Maggie Tsai

Recommendation for this group membership setting - 105 views

Vicki Davis wrote: > We would love to be featured, just let us know when you do this, so I will be extra vigilant. k - will do. > > I wish there was a way to request people to send me a comment...

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started by Maggie Tsai on 15 Apr 08 3 follow-ups, last by Maggie Tsai on 20 Jun 08
Ruth Howard

ZaidSwoosh: An Incredibly Useful Guidebook to Internet Searching! - 7 views

zaidswoosh.blogspot.com/...ful-guidebook-to-internet.html

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shared by Ruth Howard on 26 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Ruth Howard on 26 Feb 10
     
    PDF Guide to Searching Internet -current
Ted Sakshaug

PhET Circuit Construction Kit (DC Only) - Electricity, Circuits, Current - 13 views

phet.colorado.edu/...sims.php

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shared by Ted Sakshaug on 08 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Ted Sakshaug on 08 Jan 10
     
    An electronics kit in your computer! Build circuits with resistors, light bulbs, batteries, and switches. Take measurements with the realistic ammeter and voltmeter. View the circuit as a schematic diagram, or switch to a life-like view.
Adrienne Michetti

OLPC Human Interface Guidelines/Design Fundamentals/Key Design Principles - OLPC - 0 views

wiki.laptop.org/...Key_Design_Principles

shared by Adrienne Michetti on 01 Feb 10 - Cached
  • n which provides a low floor to the inexperienced, but doesn't impose a ceiling upon those who are.
  • tailored to the needs of children in the context of their learning
  • n activity ring that contains icons representing each instance of an open activity
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  • limitations
  • mphasis on discoverability and usability
  • the actual behavior of the activities, the layout of the buttons and tools, and the feedback that the interface provides to the children when they interact with it
  • there is no substitute for user testing
  • imple doesn't necessarily mean limited
  • simple—even minimal—controls can have great expressive power.
  • a "fail-soft" approach to their designs
  • five categories of "bad things" software can do: damaging the laptop; compromising privacy; damaging the children's data; doing bad things to other people; and impersonating the child.
  • without the use of menus, pop-up boxes, passwords, etc., as these approaches are meaningless to most people.
  • no noticeable side-effects
  • When children know they have a fallback plan—a way back to the current state of things—they will much more frequently go beyond their comfortable boundaries and experiment with new tools and new creative means of expression
  • the ability to undo one's actions.
  • Interoperability
  • Towards this end, a view source key has been added to the laptop keyboards, providing them with instant access to the code that enables the activities that they use from day to day. This key will allow those interested to peel away layers of abstraction, digging deeper into the codebase as they learn.
  • (without a mouse or trackpad)
Ruth Howard

Internet as Playground and Factory :: Intro - 6 views

digitallabor.org

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shared by Ruth Howard on 25 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Large corporations then profit from this interaction by collecting and selling this data.  Social participation is the oil of the digital economy. Today, communication is a mode of social production facilitated by new capitalist imperatives and it has become increasingly difficult to distinguish between play, consumption and production, life and work, labor and non-labor.  
  • The revenues of today's social aggregators are promising but their speculative value exceeds billions of dollars. Capital manages to expropriate value from the commons; labor goes beyond the factory, all of society is put to work. Every aspect of life drives the digital economy: sexual desire, boredom, friendship — and all becomes fodder for speculative profit.
  • Free Software and similar practices have provided important alternatives to and critiques of traditional modes of intellectual property to date but user agency is not just a question of content ownership. Users should demand data portability, the right to pack up and leave the walled gardens of institutionalized labor à la Facebook or StudiVZ. We should ask which rights users have beyond their roles as consumers and citizens.
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  • How much should Google pay them to tag an image? Such payment could easily become more of an insult than a remuneration. Currently, there are few adequate definitions of labor that fit the complex, hybrid realities of the digital economy.
  • The Internet as Playground and Factory poses a series of questions about the conundrums surrounding labor (and often the labor of love) in relation to our digital present:
Dave Truss

The Power of Educational Technology: Here Comes the Educators: Experiences of early mem... - 8 views

edtechpower.blogspot.com/...-taking-course-at-berkman.html

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shared by Dave Truss on 23 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Dave Truss on 23 Mar 10
     
    Before joining this network, more than two thirds of these early adopters were reading and writing blogs, and using the Delicious social bookmarking tool. Half were using wikis and watching YouTube videos. Today these respondents are highly involved with social media.
Ruth Howard

Jukes+-+Understanding+Digital+Kids.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 12 views

edorigami.wikispaces.com/...Understanding+Digital+Kids.pdf

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shared by Ruth Howard on 07 Mar 10 - No Cached
  • Ruth Howard on 07 Mar 10
     
    Although this lecture by the futurists from Info Savvy Group is dated 2006 it is an essential and clearcut distillation of current issues for teachers of youth in the classroom. The Info Savvy website-CommittedSardine has plenty other free resources, I located this elsewhere as you can see. http://www.committedsardine.com/handouts.cfm
Jackie Gerstein

Google Search Tricks by Tony Vincent on Prezi - 20 views

prezi.com/...google-search-tricks

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shared by Jackie Gerstein on 05 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Dave Truss on 05 Apr 10
     
    Use the Google search box to find exactly what you're looking for, including answers to math problems and the current weather.
Ed Webb

High-Tech Cheating on Homework Abounds, and Professors Are Partly to Blame - Technology... - 15 views

chronicle.com/...64857

shared by Ed Webb on 03 Apr 10 - Cached
  • "The feeling about homework is that it's really just busywork,"
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 03 Apr 10
       
      The real core of the problem
  • professors didn't put much effort into teaching, so students don't put real effort into learning
  • "The current system places too great a burden on individual faculty who would, under the circumstances, appear to have perverse incentives: Pursuing these matters lowers course evaluations, takes their severely limited time away from research for promotion, and unfortunately personalizes the issue when it is not personal at all, but a violation against the university."
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  • In the humanities, professors have found technological tools to check for blatant copying on essays, and have caught so many culprits that the practice of running papers through plagiarism-detection services has become routine at many colleges. But that software is not suited to science-class assignments.
  • a "studio" model of teaching
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 03 Apr 10
       
      At Dickinson we do workshop physics - I bet cheating is reduced.
  • The parents paid tuition in cash
  • The idea that students should be working in a shell is so interesting. It never even occurred to me as a student that I shouldn't work with someone else on my homework. How else do you figure it out? I guess that is peer-to-peer teaching. Copying someone else's work and presenting it as your own is clearly wrong (and, as demonstrated above, doesn't do the student any good), but learning from the resources at hand ought to be encouraged. Afterall, struggling through homework problems in intro physics is how you learn in the first place.
Tom Mussoline

How to use Google Plus in the classroom - 16 views

www.mnn.com/...e-google-plus-in-the-classroom

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shared by Tom Mussoline on 23 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • Kelly Faulkner on 23 Jul 11
     
    some good ideas. am hoping google will offer a version of plus for education. currently must be 18.
Ruth Howard

Technology Integration Matrix - 0 views

fcit.usf.edu/matrix

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shared by Ruth Howard on 21 Apr 09 - Cached
  • What is the history behind the tool? The Technology Integration Matrix (TIM) was developed to help guide the complex task of evaluating technology integration in the classroom. Basic technology skills and integration of technology into the curriculum go hand-in-hand to form teacher technology literacy. Encouraging the seamless use of technology in all curriculum areas and promoting technology literacy are both key NCLB:Title II-D/EETT program purposes. The Inventory for Teacher Technology Skills (ITTS) companion tool is designed to help districts evaluate teachers’ current levels of proficiency with technology and is also used as a professional development planning and needs assessment resource. The TIM is envisioned as an EETT program resource which can help support the full integration of technology in Florida schools. What is in each cell? Each cell in the matrix will have a video (or several videos) which illustrate the integration of technology in classrooms where only a few computers are available and/or classrooms where every student has access to a laptop computer.
  • Transformation  The teacher creates a rich learning environment in which students regularly engage in activities that would have been impossible to achieve without technology.
  • Active
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  • Indicator: Given ongoing access to online resources, students actively select and pursue topics beyond the limitations of even the best school library.
  • Collaborative
  • Indicator: Technology enables students to collaborate with peers and experts irrespective of time zone or physical distances.
  • Constructive
  • Indicator: Students use technology to construct, share, and publish knowledge to a worldwide audience.
  • Authentic
  • Indicator: By means of technology tools, students participate in outside-of-school projects and problem-solving activities that have meaning for the students and the community.
  • Goal Directed
  • Indicator: Students engage in ongoing metacognative activities at a level that would be unattainable without the support of technology tools.
  • You can download the Technology Integration Matrix for printing as a PDF.
Maggie Verster

Next Generation User Skills Working, Learning & Living Online in 2013 - 0 views

www.sqa.org.uk/...t_NextGenerationUserSkills.pdf

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shared by Maggie Verster on 12 May 09 - No Cached
  • Maggie Verster on 12 May 09
     
    In order to ensure the relevance and influence the ongoing enhancement of user ICT provision and the associated awards, Digital 2010 (the regional digital skills partnership for Yorkshire & Humber) and the Scottish Qualifications Authority jointly commissioned Sero Consulting Ltd in spring 2008 to undertake research in ICT User skills. The focus was exclusively on the vision for ICT user skills in 2013 - referenced as 'Next Generation User Skills' - taking account of: * Skills that all employers will need, which they may not currently recognise - including web presence, information productivity, market research, infrastructure management * Skills that people (especially young people) will already have, but which may not be recognised or accredited * Generic occupational skills that people will need - such as remote working, online communication, information research, lifelong learning and, not least, management of their digital environment * Essential skills for living and learning in a digital age - including communication, accessing public services and underpinning personal econfidence
Thomas Ho

Beyond Social Networking: Building Toward Learning Communities -- THE Journal - 0 views

thejournal.com/...ward-Learning-Communities.aspx

shared by Thomas Ho on 15 Jul 09 - Cached
  • Collective intelligence
    • Thomas Ho
      Thomas Ho on 15 Jul 09
       
      This is where I am concentrating my current efforts.
Thomas Ho

Beyond Social Networking: Building Toward Learning Communities -- THE Journal - 0 views

thejournal.com/...ward-learning-communities.aspx

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shared by Thomas Ho on 15 Jul 09 - Cached
  • intentionally and is where the instructor is very much a necessary support to the process
    • Thomas Ho
      Thomas Ho on 15 Jul 09
       
      this observation is borne out by my experience documented in http://blog.cit499.info
  • Thomas Ho on 15 Jul 09
     
    I am currently writing a paper about my experiences with http://cit499.info & I will be using this paper as a reference
Vicki Davis

Kids in the Mid - 0 views

sormid67.edublogs.org

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shared by Vicki Davis on 07 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Ruth Howard on 07 Sep 09
     
    middle school bloggers Tasmania
  • Ruth Howard on 07 Sep 09
     
    Great blogs middle school,tech teacher Sue Wyatt is currently running the Edublogs Blogger challenge...
  • Vicki Davis on 08 Sep 09
     
    Students in Tasmania that are blogging on edublogs. We are using Edublogs and I'm really enjoying it for our classroom.
Anne Bubnic

New Image for Computing [PDF] - 0 views

www.zephoria.org/...NICReport.pdf

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shared by Anne Bubnic on 13 Jun 09 - No Cached
  • Anne Bubnic on 13 Jun 09
     
    Supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation, New Image for Computing (NIC) is currently in the first stage of what is planned as a multi-phase project that aims to improve the image of computer science among high school students (with a special focus on gender and ethnic disparities) and encourage greater participation in computer science at the postsecondary level. Download the full report.
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