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Tracy Tan

21st century classrooms needed for the future (Jorgen Lindgren Hansen, China Daily[CN],... - 0 views

(Restricted access article, posted here.) The article talks about re-organizing classrooms and schedules in order to cater to the needs of the 21st century classroom. At a time when new technology...

china classroom configuration schedule

started by Tracy Tan on 27 Mar 12 no follow-up yet
Tracy Tan

History in Leeds, then maths in California; The internet has opened up a huge new world... - 0 views

(Restricted access article, so I'm posting it here.) I found what was said about 'engaging online learning experiences' very insightful: "It must be a well ordered, curated experience that underst...

online learning curating

started by Tracy Tan on 27 Mar 12 no follow-up yet
Leslie Lieman

Apple and the Digital Textbook Counter-Revolution - 3 views

hackeducation.com/...he-textbook-counter-revolution

iPad iPads textbooks iBooks education technology

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  • Leslie Lieman on 28 Jan 12
     
    I am posting two articles: 1) Apple's recent announcement about getting into digital textbooks (article/link below) and 2) the criticism (this link) by Hack Education blogger Audrey Watters. Education needs to rethink the need for textbooks altogether. Digitizing them is not the answer. She states, "You can disassemble, reassemble, unbundle, disrupt, destroy the textbook. It is truly an irrelevant format."
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  • Emily Lovell on 30 Jan 12
     
    I thought it was interesting to read Watters's criticism of Apple's textbook plans, although I also thought it felt pretty one-sided. I do have reservations about how Apple is going about this (expecting everyone to own an iPad, requiring textbook authors to surrender rights, etc.) - but I don't think that the overall idea is so unbearable. Digitized textbooks offer many affordances compared to what we're stuck with currently (textbooks that are outdated, heavy, expensive, and limited by static content). Of course, theoretically we could do without textbooks, as Watters suggests in her criticism... but I'm not yet convinced of this in a practical, realistic sense. I suspect that the resources required to realize textbook-free classrooms are beyond what most schools and teachers have access to. (I also realize that iPads are not cheap! But if digitized textbooks were to become popular across a range of platforms, perhaps they would be more accessible to a broader demographic... and it's not as if physical textbooks are cheap either.)
  • Leslie Lieman on 30 Jan 12
     
    Hi Emily - thanks for your thoughts! Bloggers (especially those who use the name Hack in their title) are going to be provocative (one-sided) in their writing... but it helps raise questions about standard practices. I too agree that eTextbooks or iBooks are going to be tremendously more engaging and up-to-date than the ones that weigh down kids bookbags. But now take a look at the other article I posted: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/01/flow-digital-textbooks that suggests how publishers are not open to new and niche ideas that might be incredibly beneficial to education. The publishing market has a hold on education. Is it possible that the textbooks will not be available across a range of platforms, but only on a few that the publishers agree to work with? Maybe it is time we push for a more open source model... that could also work towards digitizing textbooks... or would innovate other ways for students to access "textbook"" knowledge.
  • Emily Lovell on 30 Jan 12
     
    Thanks for the nudge to read the other article that you posted as well! It was a nice counterpoint to Watters and the FLOW platform seems like a promising stab at digital textbooks from an open-source standpoint.
Uche Amaechi

Wi-Fi Turns Arizona Bus Ride Into a Rolling Study Hall - NYTimes.com - 3 views

www.nytimes.com/...12bus.html

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shared by Uche Amaechi on 12 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Uche Amaechi on 12 Feb 10
     
    Turning buses into mobile hotspots. What happens when you 'connect' erstwhile unconnected parts of the day? This article doesn't really ask that question, although it touches on it in its last sentences. Also, presumably most of the kids had data capable phones and could text etc; what is different about access via laptops?
  • Mary Liu on 13 Feb 10
     
    What about the social elements they are missing out on? The difference about access via laptops is the speed and ability to be more efficient compared to a phone. The capabilities of a laptop provide more opportunities for students to be productive/non-productive. This doesn't require them to be connected, however, I wonder what would happen if teachers start to hold students accountable (unintentionally) for using their connected time more wisely?
Emily Watson

Code.org | Anybody can learn - 0 views

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education technology engagement learning

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  • Emily Watson on 04 Mar 13
     
    An effort to engage kids in coding by getting tech and non-tech celebraties to discuss coding in an accessible way. Also, attempts to motivate  them to get into a career where they can work in a really cool office...
Chris McEnroe

Amara launches a free version of its crowdsourced subtitling platform for YouTube users... - 1 views

thenextweb.com/...ing-platform-for-youtube-users

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  • Chris McEnroe on 08 Feb 13
     
    Providing multiple means of access to improve engagement- here is a way to add subtitles to instructional videos posted on Youtube.  
Tracy Tan

School apps go to the top of the class (Chris Griffith, The Australian [AU], 13/3) - 0 views

(Restricted access, article posted here) Some food for thought: if kids are 'learning in snippets of time', does this mean that deep learning is being compromised? Australian schools are getting...

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started by Tracy Tan on 27 Mar 12 no follow-up yet
Stephanie Fitzgerald

Challenge and hindrance stress: relationships with exhaustion, motivation to learn, and... - 0 views

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/...15506867

challenge stress hindrance motivation learning

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  • Stephanie Fitzgerald on 25 Mar 12
     
    This article talks about a study on the positive and negative effects of "challenge stress" and "hindrance stress" on motivation to learn and learning performance. I linked the citation here; to access the full text, I recommend using Harvard's E-Research site to search for the Journal of Applied Psychology and then getting to the article via the EBSCO link in the catalog record. (Or else find J Appl Psuchol through EBSCO and log in with Harvard LibX.)
Uche Amaechi

Sorry, English major, the engineers have triumphed - 0 views

arstechnica.com/...e-engineers-have-triumphed.ars

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  • Uche Amaechi on 20 Feb 10
     
    Is Google "really" making us stupid? How does the ability to easily access a breadth of information affect our motivation to go for depth?
amy hoffmaster

Colleges worry about always-plugged-in students - The Boston Globe - 0 views

www.boston.com/...out_always_plugged_in_students

higher ed

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  • amy hoffmaster on 25 Apr 11
     
    cutting back on wireless access in Higher Ed. classes because students think they are great at multitasking, but aren't.
amy hoffmaster

'Bring your own device' catching on in schools | Curriculum | eSchoolNews.com - 0 views

www.eschoolnews.com/...-device-catching-on-in-schools

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  • amy hoffmaster on 02 May 11
     
    Overview of discussion of access issues for one-to-one devices and using personal phones in the classroom.
Kim Frumin

No Rich Child Left Behind - 1 views

opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/...no-rich-child-left-behind

education learning

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  • Kim Frumin on 30 Apr 13
     
    This op-ed reminded me of the Warschauer and Matuchniak article and our 4/15 discussion of equity and access.
Malik Hussain

http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2013-horizon-report-HE.pdf - 1 views

www.nmc.org/...2013-horizon-report-HE.pdf

HorizonReport

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  • Matthew Ong on 01 May 13
     
    Thanks for sharing this Malik. I was wondering about accessibility in the middle of the report. Then when I came to wearable technology and the list of products available, I realized that there's so much more we could do for students who have special physical needs.
Rupangi Sharma

Emotion Technology at TEDxSF - 2 views

www.youtube.com/watch

technology engagement learning education

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  • Rupangi Sharma on 02 Feb 13
     
    Professor Rosalind W. Picard, ScD is founder and director of the Affective Computing research group at the MIT Media Lab, co-director of the Things That Think consortium, and leader of the new and growing Autism & Communication Technology Initiative at MIT. In April 2009 she co-founded Affectiva, Inc., where she serves as chairman and chief scientist.
  • Matthew Ong on 03 Feb 13
     
    Thanks for sharing Rupangi. This tool could provide so much valuable feedback to educators as they design formal and informal learning environments for students. There are two things which I think any educator should be very aware about before implementing it though: 1. The privacy of the data and who has access to it 2. The steps that can be taken to prevent a misinterpretation of the data.
Lisa Schnoll

EdNET Insight | The Evolution of Games in Educational Publishing - 0 views

www.ednetinsight.com/...in-educational-publishing.html

education technology games video games

shared by Lisa Schnoll on 08 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • On a marketing level, barriers to access have largely disappeared. In the old days, games were played on CD-ROMs, and few classrooms had computers. When Internet-delivered games first came out, schools had inadequate bandwidth, they struggled with administrative permissions issues, and there were not enough computers to go around. Now, computers are ubiquitous, broadband is standard, and permissions controls have been mastered.
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  • Lisa Schnoll on 08 Feb 13
     
    This is a nice article expressing one opinion on where games in educational publishing is going!
Allison Browne

Home - 1 views

www.parentengagementtracker.com

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  • Allison Browne on 14 Apr 12
     
    The Parent Engagement Tracker (PET) is a secured information system developed to easily track, measure and link parental involvement to student achievement. The software is available via the Internet and Microsoft Access Principals are able to measure parent attendance of various parent activities, school compact parent requirement hours, and the popularity of the different types of activities on a daily, monthly, quarterly or annual basis. This is really new. I have never seen something that tries to incentivize parenting.Do you think this would be a good initiative for a school.
  • Leslie Lieman on 14 Apr 12
     
    How did you stumble on this? The copyright date is still listed as 2010 and three of the 5 links, including "About Us" are not working. In addition to the fact that I do not think it would be successful or a good idea and PET is a terrible name, the company simply does not seem to be up and working. Perhaps it is the wireframe for a college project :)
  • Allison Browne on 04 May 12
     
    I'm sorry that I didn't see this earlier. I definitely think this may have been a real organization. The Connecticut parents union seemed to be doing something with it and here is a link to their brochure http://ctparentsunion.org/PETBrochureFinal.pdf, IN addition, the Hartford Public Schools piloted the program in 2010. They might have disappeared but there is definitely evidence that they were an actual organization.
Kasthuri Gopalaratnam

Why HTML5 is No Longer a Dirty Word - 0 views

blog.mitx.org/...tml5-is-no-longer-a-dirty-word

mobile device technology interface design

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  • Kasthuri Gopalaratnam on 24 Apr 12
     
    For those looking to develop educational content that can be accessed on any platform, HTML 5 offers promise.
Kiran Patwardhan

Why gamification is changing the face of the 21st century education - 2 views

www.digitaltrends.com/...-of-the-21st-century-education

education technology games

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  • Kiran Patwardhan on 24 Apr 12
     
    How can we make learning easier and more likable with the help of technology? Speakers at Skillshare's first ever Penny Conference discuss ways we can redefine education, from the way we think about learning to distributing and accessing education.
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