Into the Driver's Seat - 1 views
http://www.scoop.it/t/into-the-driver-s-seat/p/856007214/information-literacy-digital-learning-environments-judy-salpeter Information Literacy | Digital Learning Environments| Judy Salpeter...
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Effective questioning and feedback using Web 2.0 technologies and Social Networking - 2 views
I have recently been researching the use of Web 2.0 technologies and Social Networking as a tool for Assessment for Learning. Thanks to all who responded via Twitter especially @nick_chater @57maso...
Ten Education Predictions for 2012 Answer Sheet - 1 views
10 education predictions for 2012 http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/10-education-predictions-for-2012/2011/12/29/gIQAB2PbPP_blog.html By Valerie Strauss This was written by La...
More Wireless Broadband Is What Consumers Want, U.S. Needs to Close the Digital Divide - 3 views
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The Value of Teachers - 1 views
The Value of Teachers By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF Published: January 11, 2012 Suppose your child is about to enter the fourth grade and has been assigned to an excellent teacher. Then the teac...
Diane Ravitch Calls Herself A Voice For Teachers, In A Cruel Reform Movement - 3 views
Posted: 01/25/2012 2012 Professor Diane Ravitch is a big voice in education policy and a huge critic of No Child Left Behind. Yet, as former Assistant Secretary of Education under Preside...
PLAYBACK: News on Teens and Blogs, Facebook, Twitter and Google+, And Schools That Don'... - 0 views
Spotlight on Digital Media and Learning PLAYBACK: News on Teens and Blogs, Facebook, Twitter and Google+, And Schools That Don't Allow Them Posted: 03 Feb 2012 02:22 PM PST In this week's PLAY...
Want your kid to be a scientist? Start in elementary school. - 0 views
Want your kid to be a scientist? Start in elementary school. By Priya Natarajan, Published: February 2 "What's your major?" Ask a college freshman this question, and the answer may be physics ...
Copyright: Reaching Out to Teachers and Students - 1 views
Copyright: Reaching Out to Teachers and Students February 2nd, 2012 by Cheryl Lederle http://blogs.loc.gov/teachers/2012/02/copyright-reaching-out-to-teachers-and-students/ This is a guest post f...
The True Cost of High School Dropouts - 3 views
The True Cost of High School Dropouts By HENRY M. LEVIN and CECILIA E. ROUSE Published: January 25, 2012 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/26/opinion/the-true-cost-of-high-school-dropouts.html ...
Keep the Internet Open - 1 views
OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR Keep the Internet Open http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/25/opinion/keep-the-internet-open.html?smid=fb-share Daniel Haskett By VINTON CERF Published: May 24, 2012 ...
Unique languages, universal patterns - 1 views
MIT linguist reveals how modern English resembles Old Japanese, and other surprising convergences between far-flung tongues. Peter Dizikes, MIT News Office February 22, 2012 Shigeru Miyagawa, ...
Feds launch open-source 'Learning Registry' - 2 views
A new federal resource will help groups share learning materials and policy recommendations as they strive to improve the quality and availability of learning resources in education. Launched ...
Make: Online | Walled Gardens vs. Makers - 0 views
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Claude Almansi on 02 Jun 11Cory Doctorow. Make. June 2011. "Consider the iPad for a moment. It's true that Apple's iTunes Store has inspired hundreds of thousands of apps, but every one of those apps is contingent on Apple's approval. If you want to make something for the iPad, you pay $99 to join the Developer Program, make it, then send it to Apple and pray. If Apple smiles on you, you can send your hack to the world. If Apple frowns on you, you cannot. What's more, Apple uses code signing to restrict which apps can run on the iPad (and iPhone): if your app isn't blessed by Apple, iPads will refuse to run it. Not that it's technically challenging to defeat this code signing, but doing so is illegal, thanks to the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which makes it a crime to circumvent a copyright-protection technology. So the only app store - or free repository - that can legally exist for Apple's devices is the one that Apple runs for itself. Some people say the iPad is a new kind of device: an appliance instead of a computer. But because Apple chose to add a thin veneer of DRM to the iPad, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act applies here, something that's not true of any "appliance" you've ever seen. It's as if Apple built a toaster that you can only use Apple's bread in (or face a lawsuit), or a dishwasher that will only load Apple's plates. Apple fans will tell you that this doesn't matter. Hackers can simply hack their iPads or shell out $99 to get the developer license. But without a means of distributing (and receiving) hacks from all parties, we're back in the forbidden-knowledge Dark Ages - the poverty-stricken era in which a mere handful of ideas was counted as a fortune."
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Claude Almansi on 05 Jun 11We discussed this article in the forum of lascuolachefunziona.it. Someone objected that the iPad was a great tool and gave far more liberty to developers than traditional print publishers. I retorted that it was precisely because the iPad was such a great tool that its proprietariness about content for it was irritating. Then Elena Favaron made an illuminating comparison: "There are also people who make coffee machines that work only with dedicated coffee capsules, and there are folks who even buy them..."
Rupert Murdoch uses eG8 to talk up net's power to transform education | Media | guardia... - 6 views
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"Rupert Murdoch uses eG8 to talk up net's power to transform education News Corp chairman claims 'Victorian' schools are 'last holdout from digital revolution' Kim Willsher in Paris guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 24 May 2011 18.10 BST Rupert Murdoch, the News Corporation founder and chairman, used his address to the eG8 Forum in Paris on Tuesday to call for more investment in education and "unlocking the potential" of the world's children. Murdoch said it was not a question of putting a computer in every school, but concentrating on opening up opportunities for youngsters to flourish by using targeted and tailored software. News Corp moved into the $500bn (£310bn) US education sector in late 2010, paying about $360m in cash for 90% of technology company Wireless Generation, which provides mobile and web software to enable teachers to use data to assess student progress and deliver personalised learning."
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"Would it not be better to train teachers in adapting whatever software is generally available, be it desktop or on the cloud, to fit their and their specific students' needs?' I disagree with this analysis. Software not created for educational purposes will only adapt so far. It is, for example, word processing substituting for paper and pencil. That's worthy of doing but really makes no difference in instruction. When software is created specifically for learning, it can reach much more deeply into the learning processes. It's not just peripheral but central to learning. You can adapt lots of software to education in lots of ways, and I've read of many very clever adaptations. Almost all could be done without the use of a computer, albeit somewhat less efficiently but nonetheless effectively. I read Murdoch's call, which echoes something I've been saying for many years, as meaning that we have to build software that answers the necessities of learning. We don't have much today. -
Taking up your example of word processing as substitute for pen and pencil , Harry: true, and that's what I retorted in the late 1990's to a digitalophobe academic, when we met about the Italian translation of one of his books, and he boasted of having got a letter from a publisher saying he was their last author to deliver typescripts on paper and not as a digital file. I pointed out that cut and paste, copy and paste (the things he particularly hated the ease of in digital media) existed in the real world looooooong before computers, let alone PCs, let alone the Web. And yet... in 2007 I was asked to set up at very short notice an intensive preliminary French workshop for participants in a master course in intercultural studies: though in Lugano, the course was to be in French and English. I asked for access to the Moodle for the course, to store course materials there etc. The organizers refused: "The Moodle will only be explained to the students in the first week of the course proper". The idea that graduate students needed to have a Moodle explained to them in 2007 seemed peregrine, but rather than arguing, I set up a for-free wiki instead. At our first meeting, the students asked why we weren't using the Moodle, I repeated the official explanation, they laughed and got the hang of the wiki immediately. Then, for reading comprehension, they chose one of the assigned texts for the course: a longish book chapter they had received by e-mail as a grayish PDF based on a low-resolution scan, based on a reduced photocopy to make 2 pages fit on an A4 sheet: i.e. with no margin to take notes on. So we printed the PDF, separated the pages with scissors, pasted the separate pages with glue sticks on new A4 sheets, to get wider margins to write in. And then we made a wiki page for it, copied in it the subheadings, between which the students, added the notes they were taking, working in groups on the new paper version. Result: http://micusif.wikispaces.com/Vinsonneau
Online Computing The Crowded Cloud - 1 views
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/105d71a0-8e24-11e0-bee5-00144feab49a.html#ixzz1OcouyIYM Online computing: The crowded cloud By Richard Waters, Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson and Joseph Menn Published: June...
How teachers Facebook & tweet for students - 2 views
Net Family News Anne Collier Facebook and Twitter are very different but social utilities just the same, so there are about as many ways teachers use them as there are teachers. And their creativi...
Information Needs of Communities: The Changing Media Landscape in a Broadband Age - 1 views
Submitted: June 9, 2011 - 3:29pm Originally published: June 9, 2011 Last updated: June 9, 2011 - 3:35pm Source: Federal Communications Commission Author: press release Location: Federal Communicati...
Why Johnny Can't Program - 1 views
Why Johnny can't program -- and how that can change Today's schools are actually turning kids away from computer science, and it will take innovative programs to reverse the trend By Neil McAll...
How XSEDE will facilitate collaborative science - 1 views
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