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Lucy Gray

Muse - a project of the Internet2 K20 Initiative - 1 views

k20.internet2.edu

education global globaled socialnetworking web2.0 collaboration projects community network

shared by Lucy Gray on 30 Aug 10 - Cached
  • Adrienne Michetti on 30 Aug 10
     
    A social utility that connects you with Internet2-enabled technologies and educators.
  • Adrienne Michetti on 30 Aug 10
     
    This is really a resource-rich site! There is a heavy higher-ed presence here. I encourage a look-through!
Lucy Gray

About GLOBE | GLOBE Program - 7 views

globe.gov/about

globaled education globaleducation climatechange science scienceed collaboration project global

shared by Lucy Gray on 20 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Adrienne Michetti on 20 Sep 10
     
    "Announced in 1994, GLOBE began operations on Earth Day 1995. Today, the international GLOBE network has grown to include representatives from 111 participating countries coordinating GLOBE activities that are integrated into their local and regional communities." "The Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) program is a worldwide hands-on, primary and secondary school-based science and education program. GLOBE's vision promotes and supports students, teachers and scientists to collaborate on inquiry-based investigations of the environment and the Earth system working in close partnership with NASA, NOAA and NSF Earth System Science Projects (ESSP's) in study and research about the dynamics of Earth's environment."
  • Adrienne Michetti on 20 Sep 10
     
    One of the foremost sites for global collaboration in the Science field, for any group of students in K-12 using real scientific data.
Lucy Gray

National Geographic Education Network--EarthCurrent News Digest - 0 views

www.ngsednet.org/index.cfm

del.icio.us global_education globalawareness globaled globaleducation imported

shared by Lucy Gray on 27 Mar 08 - Cached
  • Lucy Gray on 27 Mar 08
     
    The twice-weekly, bite-sized digest contains links to global news stories on classroom-perfect topics such as archaeology and paleontology, exploration and adventure, weather, peoples and cultures, plants and animals, science and technology, and much more
  • Lucy Gray on 27 Mar 08
     
    The twice-weekly, bite-sized digest contains links to global news stories on classroom-perfect topics such as archaeology and paleontology, exploration and adventure, weather, peoples and cultures, plants and animals, science and technology, and much more
  • Lucy Gray on 27 Mar 08
     
    The twice-weekly, bite-sized digest contains links to global news stories on classroom-perfect topics such as archaeology and paleontology, exploration and adventure, weather, peoples and cultures, plants and animals, science and technology, and much more
Lucy Gray

Technology in Schools Faces Questions on Value - NYTimes.com - 4 views

www.nytimes.com/...-faces-questions-on-value.html

technology schools change critique measurement effectiveness integration

shared by Lucy Gray on 04 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • When it comes to showing results, he said, “We better put up or shut up.”
  • Critics counter that, absent clear proof, schools are being motivated by a blind faith in technology and an overemphasis on digital skills — like using PowerPoint and multimedia tools — at the expense of math, reading and writing fundamentals. They say the technology advocates have it backward when they press to upgrade first and ask questions later.
  • how the district was innovating.
  • ...24 more annotations...
  • “We’ve jumped on bandwagons for different eras without knowing fully what we’re doing. This might just be the new bandwagon,” he said. “I hope not.”
  • there is no good way to quantify those achievements — putting them in a tough spot with voters deciding whether to bankroll this approach again
  • district was innovating
  • “Test scores are the same, but look at all the other things students are doing: learning to use the Internet to research, learning to organize their work, learning to use professional writing tools, learning to collaborate with others.”
  • If we know something works
  • it is hard to separate the effect of the laptops from the effect of the teacher training
  • The high-level analyses that sum up these various studies, not surprisingly, give researchers pause about whether big investments in technology make sense.
  • Good teachers, he said, can make good use of computers, while bad teachers won’t, and they and their students could wind up becoming distracted by the technology.
  • “It’s not the stuff that counts — it’s what you do with it that matters.”
  • creating an impetus to rethink education entirely
    • Steve Ransom
      Steve Ransom on 04 Sep 11
       
      Like teaching powerpoint is "rethinking education". Right.
  • “There is a connection between the physical hand on the paper and the words on the page,” she said. “It’s intimate.”
  • “They’re inundated with 24/7 media, so they expect it,”
  • The 30 students in the classroom held wireless clickers into which they punched their answers. Seconds later, a pie chart appeared on the screen: 23 percent answered “True,” 70 percent “False,” and 6 percent didn’t know.
  • rofessor Cuban at Stanford argues that keeping children engaged requires an environment of constant novelty, which cannot be sustained.
  • engagement is a “fluffy
  • term” that can slide past critical analysis.
  • that computers can distract and not instruct.
  • guide on the side.
  • Professor Cuban at Stanford
  • But she loves the fact that her two children, a fourth-grader and first-grader, are learning technology, including PowerPoint
  • $46.3 million for laptops, classroom projectors, networking gear and other technology for teachers and administrators.
  • Mr. Share bases his buying decisions on two main factors: what his teachers tell him they need, and his experience. For instance, he said he resisted getting the interactive whiteboards sold as Smart Boards until, one day in 2008, he saw a teacher trying to mimic the product with a jury-rigged projector setup. “It was an ‘Aha!’ moment,” he said, leading him to buy Smart Boards, made by a company called Smart Technologies.
  • This is big business.
  • “Do we really need technology to learn?” she said. “It’s a very valid time to ask the question, right before this goes on the ballot.”
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