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Shabbi Luthra

Gates and Pearson Foundations to Offer Online Courses - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by Shabbi Luthra on 19 May 11 - No Cached
  • Shabbi Luthra on 19 May 11
     
    "Two education foundations said Wednesday they are working to develop 24 new online reading and math courses that will be aligned with the common core standards. The courses will be developed by the Pearson Foundation -- associated with the major textbook company -- and will include video, social media, games and other digital materials. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will provide $3 million for four of the courses to be offered free to schools. The initiative appears to be the most ambitious effort so far to align textbooks -- online or otherwise -- with the new standards and may position Pearson as a leader in the market."
Blair Peterson

Professional blog | 21st Century Educator - 0 views

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shared by Blair Peterson on 02 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • Blair Peterson on 02 Jan 11
     
    Blog post with ideas on what textbooks should offer users. Ideas are very interesting.
Blair Peterson

BBC News - Digital textbooks open a new chapter - 0 views

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shared by Blair Peterson on 21 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • students to learn "whenever and wherever"
  • He said the government would support an open content market containing a variety of learning materials, aimed at keeping up quality while keeping down costs.
  • They were best at evaluating information on the internet, assessing its credibility and navigating web pages.
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  • But the Achilles' heel - commonplace with educational technology - was the teachers. They felt they needed far greater training in how to integrate the resources into their lesson plans.
  • Preliminary results from a US military "digital tutor" project suggested the time needed to become an expert in information technology could be reduced from years to months, said the White House.
  • Blair Peterson on 21 Oct 11
     
    Another article on digitizing textbooks. 
Blair Peterson

Trends | Infographic: US Students Prefer Digital Over Paper Textbooks | edtechdigest.com - 0 views

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shared by Blair Peterson on 18 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Blair Peterson on 18 Sep 12
     
    There will no doubt be a movement toward digital in the near future.
Blair Peterson

Reshaping Learning from the Ground Up | Edutopia - 0 views

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shared by Blair Peterson on 23 Feb 11 - Cached
  • Then comes another car. And it's going 10 miles per hour. That's the public education system. Schools are supposed to be preparing kids for the business world of tomorrow, to take jobs, to make our economy functional. The schools are changing, if anything, at 10 miles per hour. So, how do you match an economy that requires 100 miles per hour with an institution like public education? A system that changes, if at all, at 10 miles per hour?
  • I meet teachers who are good and well intentioned and smart, but they can't try new things, because there are too many rules.
  • You need to find out what each student loves.
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  • Much of what we're transmitting is doomed to obsolescence at a far more rapid rate than ever before.
  • The textbooks are the same for every child; every child gets the same textbook. Why should that be? Why shouldn't some kids get a textbook -- and you can do this online a lot more easily than you can in print
  • Maybe it's important for teachers to quit for three or four years and go do something else and come back. They'll come back with better ideas. They'll come back with ideas about how the outside world works, in ways that would not have been available to them if they were in the classroom the whole time.
  • Blair Peterson on 23 Feb 11
     
    Interview with futurist Alvin Toffler. He promotes starting from scratch to redesign our schools.
Blair Peterson

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shared by Blair Peterson on 22 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • Blair Peterson on 22 Jul 12
     
    A project at two Ohio middle schools where the students created digital textbooks. Featured at Alan November's BLC conference. Example of students owning the learning.
Shabbi Luthra

Increase Student Engagement by Getting Rid of Textbooks | Edutopia - 0 views

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shared by Shabbi Luthra on 06 Dec 10 - Cached
  • Shabbi Luthra on 06 Dec 10
     
    The medium does matter.
Shabbi Luthra

Nine Important Trends in the Evolution of Digital Textbooks and E-learning Co... - 0 views

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shared by Shabbi Luthra on 06 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • Shabbi Luthra on 06 Dec 10
     
    Fascinating post on the changes in publishing.
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