How XSEDE will facilitate collaborative science - 1 views
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The New Digital Divide - 2 views
December 3, 2011 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/opinion/sunday/internet-access-and-the-new-divide.html The New Digital Divide By SUSAN P. CRAWFORD FOR the second year in a row, the Monday...
The Storytelling Project Model: A Theoretical Framework for Critical Examination of Rac... - 2 views
The Storytelling Project Model: A Theoretical Framework for Critical Examination of Racism Through the Arts http://www.tcrecord.org/Content.asp?ContentID=15787 by Lee Anne Bell & Rosemarie...
Keeping Special Ed in Proportion - 1 views
Keeping Special Ed in Proportion Experts say improvements in school instructional cultures can keep some struggling minority kids out of special education. http://www.edweek.org/tsb/article...
ITIF to Privacy Chicken Little's: "The Sky Is Not Falling" - 0 views
For Immediate Release For More Information: Steve Norton (202) 626-5758 snorton@itif.org WASHINGTON (October 11, 2011)-In response to the report released today at a forum sponsored by various pr...
Duncan's equity commission and the 'rising tide' of avarice, hostility, testing - 3 views
I agree ~ and the lessons and sharp reminders in the article are not just for K-12
New Resources for NAEP Researchers Now Available - 0 views
New resources are now available to help researchers use data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). * The NAEP Primer on CD-ROM guides new researchers through the technical h...
Teaching in "Culture of Fear, Intimidation and Retaliation" - 6 views
URLs: quoted article: http://www.educationnews.org/ednews_today/159157.html originally published in http://npe.educationnews.org/Review/Essays/v7n7.htm (with appendices containing many further links)
NCES Announces the 2012 National Forum on Education Statistics and the 25th Annual NCES... - 0 views
NCES Announces the 2012 National Forum on Education Statistics and the 25th Annual NCES Management Information Systems (MIS) Conference The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) will be s...
SC11 June Newsletter - 1 views
http://sc11.supercomputing.org/ Follow SC11: SC11 will feature the latest scientific and technical innovations from around the world. Bringing together scientists, engineers, researchers, educa...
The Pattern on the Rug By Diane Ravitch - 1 views
******************************** From Education Week [American Education's Newspaper of Record], Tuesday, March 27, 2012. See http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/Bridging-Differences/ ------------------...
Overhauling Computer Science Education - 1 views
Overhauling Computer Science Education http://thejournal.com/Articles/2011/12/05/Overhauling-Computer-Science-Education.aspx?Page=1 Students from elementary school through college are learnin...
Rupert Murdoch uses eG8 to talk up net's power to transform education | Media | guardia... - 6 views
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Jim Shimabukuro on 02 Jun 11"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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Harry Keller on 05 Jun 11"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. -
Claude Almansi on 05 Jun 11Taking 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
Best part of 'schools-threaten-national-security' report - 1 views
Best part of 'schools-threaten-national-security' report: The dissents By Valerie Strauss Best part of 'schools-threaten-national-security' report The most interesting part of the new Condoleezza...
The Great Tech War - 1 views
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/160/tech-wars-2012-amazon-apple-google-facebook?partner=homepage_newsletter ilbert Wong, the mayor of Cupertino, California, calls his city council to order. "...
Welcoming Mobile: More Districts Are Rewriting Acceptable Use Policies - 1 views
Hotmail Active View Innovation in ISD 199 ( at the Site_ Play video Inver Grove Heights Community Schools has been nationally recognized for the innovative use of technology in the classroom thro...
Why Tablets in the Classroom Could Save Schools $3 Billion a Year - 1 views
Why Tablets in the Classroom Could Save Schools $3 Billion a Year Submitted: March 29, 2012 - 4:08pm Originally published: March 29, 2012 Last updated: March 29, 2012 - 5:58pm Source: Wall Street J...
Teacher Survey Shows Morale Is at a Low Point - 1 views
By FERNANDA SANTOS Published: March 7, 2012 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/08/education/teacher-morale-sinks-survey-results-show.html?ref=education The slump in the economy, c...
The United Nation's Take on Digital Citizenship - 1 views
Guest Post: The United Nation's Take on Digital Citizenship Christine Kane on the Internet Governance Forum! This week the United Nations' Internet Governance Forum (IGF) met in Kenya. No one is...
Ravitch: What Scrooge might think of modern school reform - 4 views
Ravitch: What Scrooge might think of modern school reform By Valerie Strauss This was written by education historian Diane Ravitch for her Bridging Differences blog, which she co-authors with Debor...