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Bonnie Sutton

When "New" Gets Old: Redefining Approaches to Digital Literacy and Citizenship - 1 views

Spotlight on Digital Media and Learning http://spotlight.macfound.org/blog/entry/when-new-gets-old-redefining-approaches-to-digital-literacy-and-citizenship/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=emai...

Internet digital literacy tutorial Canada ethical agents in a world. teaching tweeting

started by Bonnie Sutton on 15 Jun 11 no follow-up yet
Bonnie Sutton

NGLC Pumps Funding into Ed Tech Focused on Common Core - 0 views

NGLC Pumps Funding into Ed Tech Focused on Common Core By David Nagel 06/14/11 http://thejournal.com/articles/2011/06/14/nglc-pumps-funding-into-ed-tech-focused-on-common-core.aspx The Next Gener...

Common Core David Nagel Next Generation Learning Challenges Proof of Concept

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Bonnie Sutton

Public Focused on Economy, Media on Weiner Scandal - 1 views

PEW RESEARCH CENTER FOR THE PEOPLE & THE PRESS Public Focused on Economy, Media on Weiner Scandal http://pewresearch.org/pubs/2024/public-interest-too-much-anthony-weiner-palin-coverage Public Se...

Media Economy Weiner Scandal Pew Research

started by Bonnie Sutton on 15 Jun 11 no follow-up yet
Bonnie Sutton

The Nation's Report Card: U.S. History 2010 with Highlights from the 2009 High School T... - 1 views

Now Available! The Nation's Report Card: U.S. History 2010 with Highlights from the 2009 High School Transcript Study The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) has just released The N...

Nation's Report Card US highlights High School transcript study NAEP

started by Bonnie Sutton on 14 Jun 11 no follow-up yet
Bonnie Sutton

The Physics of Animation - 4 views

http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/science_nation/physicsanimation.jsp?WT.mc_id=USNSF_51 Miles O'Brien, Science Nation Correspondent Ann Kellan, Science Nation Producer The best animators k...

started by Bonnie Sutton on 13 Jun 11 no follow-up yet
Bonnie Sutton

Social Learning: Can Facebook and Related Tools Improve Educational Outcomes? - 4 views

ScienceDaily (May 9, 2011) - Online social networking sites, such as Facebook, can help students become academically and socially integrated as well as improving learning outcomes, according to a s...

started by Bonnie Sutton on 12 Jun 11 no follow-up yet
Claude Almansi

Infographic , Online Education - 4 views

Original textual version: http://www.onlineeducation.net/2011/06/10/how-the-internet-is-revolutionizing-education , with link to the original infographic: http://www.onlineeducation.net/internet-re...

online education infographic OnlineEducation.net

started by Bonnie Sutton on 11 Jun 11 1 follow-up, last by Claude Almansi on 12 Jun 11
Bonnie Sutton

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...

twitter social media use utilities groups individualizing the of Facebook

started by Bonnie Sutton on 10 Jun 11 no follow-up yet
Bonnie Sutton

Star Wars: The Old Republic's lead writer on good Sith, evil Jedi - 1 views

By Ben Kuchera http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/06/the-old-republic-interview.ars It's hard to show off an MMO title within the constraints of a trade show, so I rarely feel like I walk aw...

games gaming technology

started by Bonnie Sutton on 10 Jun 11 no follow-up yet
Bonnie Sutton

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...

Information needs of community broadband enabled innovation citizen Journalism

started by Bonnie Sutton on 10 Jun 11 no follow-up yet
Bonnie Sutton

Inside the US-Anglo-French plan to civilize the Internet - 2 views

Inside the US-Anglo-French plan to civilize the Internet Submitted: June 10, 2011 - 8:41am Last updated: June 10, 2011 - 8:55am Source: Ars Technica Author: Nate Anderson Location: Paris, France Ge...

Internet regulation copyright infringement France UK and US

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Bonnie Sutton

Carriers Sweat as Texting Cools Off - 2 views

By ANTON TROIANOVSKI Growth in the volume of text messaging is slowing sharply, just as new threats emerge to that lucrative source of wireless carrier profits. Wall Street Journal Read more: ht...

messaging wireless text

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Bonnie Sutton

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...

The Crowded Cloud Online Computing

started by Bonnie Sutton on 07 Jun 11 no follow-up yet
Bonnie Sutton

Will the FCC stay committed to rural America? - 0 views

thehill.com/...tay-committed-to-rural-america

Rural America Broadband FCC communications technology

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  • Bonnie Sutton on 07 Jun 11
     
    Will the FCC stay committed to rural America? The Hill Op-Ed By Former Senator Byron Dorgan Almost every month, a new telecommunications innovation is launched that has a profound impact on our lives. Lately we've seen the impact of these telecommunication changes in ways we never could have imagined. In past months we've witnessed the Egyptian government being toppled by citizens using their cell phones to organize mass rallies and send videos of shocking violence against the demonstrators around the world. And in just recent days we learned it was through sophisticated tracking of a cell phone that led our soldiers to Osama bin Laden's doorstep in Pakistan. In both cases, a broadband wireline network infrastructure transported these important communications and changed history. http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/technology/164691-will-the-fcc-stay-committed-to-rural-america
Jim Shimabukuro

Rupert Murdoch uses eG8 to talk up net's power to transform education | Media | guardia... - 6 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...g8-invest-education-technology

rupert murdoch uses

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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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  • Jim Shimabukuro on 02 Jun 11
     
    From Harry Keller
  • Claude Almansi on 02 Jun 11
     
    Interesting contrast with Murdoch's attitude in 2009 - see http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/nov/09/murdoch-google - but is it really a contrast?
  • Harry Keller on 02 Jun 11
     
    We've had Ely Broad, Bill Gates, and a host of other billionaires (even George Lucas) attempting to "fix" our education system. They're not doing so well. What is so interesting to me about Murdoch, despite his pirate-like business practices, is that he sees what I think is the real direction for the future of education. Oddly unlike his right-wing colleagues, he's not pushing for vouchers or more school privatization. Unlike the technocrats, he's not pushing for more and more computers in schools. He sees the solution to our schooling problems as "targeted and tailored software." Many (maybe most) countries, including the U.S., lack the political will as societies to fix education the way that Finland did. Software is the other path. Much discussion today centers around the platform. Will we use smart phones or e-tablets or netbooks? Will we see $1 apiece apps as the learning modules or cloud-based solutions? Will our new learning software run on iOS or Android? All of that is window dressing and barely worthy of discussion. For me, Murdoch hit the nail on the head. We have too little software "targeted and tailored" to education or, at least, too little highly professional quality software.
  • Claude Almansi on 04 Jun 11
     
    Errh yes about Murdoch pushing "targeted and tailored software" , Harry. But see also: "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." So he is doing at software level what Microsoft etc were doing at hardware - and at times software - level: promoting his wares in a very juicy market. We've had "targeted and tailored to education" software for decades, now: LMSs, addons to office suites, etc. Some good, some bad. The problem with software that is targeted and tailored to education is that it is a) often boring; b) perforce based on an abstract general idea of education; c) often remote from what gets used outside school. 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?
  • Harry Keller on 04 Jun 11
     
    My point is simply that Murdoch gets it. His motives don't have to be pure for us all to benefit from the light he's shining on educational technology. Regarding the software, your points are well-taken. However, one extra qualification must be added. The software must be "good." That means it must avoid the problems you list.
  • 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 11
     
    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
Jim Shimabukuro

Waiting for a School Miracle - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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  • Jim Shimabukuro on 02 Jun 11
     
    From Bonnie Bracey Sutton
Jim Shimabukuro

NationalJournal.com - Eclipsed - Friday, May 27, 2011 - 1 views

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  • Jim Shimabukuro on 02 Jun 11
     
    From Bonnie Bracey Sutton
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