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An article about blending physical and digital toys - 2 views

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also mentions the sandbox summit and learning styles of young people

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Allison Browne on 01 May 12

"These digital natives expect to share information on social media, collaborate, and create their own content." This sentence reminds me of the apparent contradiction of digital natives vs. digital divide. What happens to a student who doesn't have access to these types of tools and then is expected to collaborate and create at the same level? One more piece of evidence that schools need to be committed to 21st century skill development for all children.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"These digital natives expect to share information on social media, collaborate, and create their own content." This sentence reminds me of the apparent contradiction of digital natives vs. digital divide. What happens to a student who doesn't have access to these types of tools and then is expected to collaborate and create at the same level? One more piece of evidence that schools need to be committed to 21st century skill development for all children.</div>

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Therapist-free therapy - 1 views

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Kate O'Donnell on 02 May 12

An article discussing various attempts at providing therapy for anxiety through computer programs and phone apps. One of the research projects targeting social anxiety is currently being conducted at the McNally Lab here at Harvard. The findings are still a little murky but I think it's a great start to providing education about and strategies for treating mental health issues to a broader audience- especially to those who otherwise have very limited or no access to help.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">An article discussing various attempts at providing therapy for anxiety through computer programs and phone apps. One of the research projects targeting social anxiety is currently being conducted at the McNally Lab here at Harvard. The findings are still a little murky but I think it's a great start to providing education about and strategies for treating mental health issues to a broader audience- especially to those who otherwise have very limited or no access to help.</div>

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Jing Jing Tan on 02 May 12

Thank you for sharing this, Kate. I'm a little skeptical about 1) the long-term effectiveness of this technology, 2) the transferability of learning/conditioning, and 3) the subtle implications of "therapist-free" therapy. The debate is similar to when educational technology was first heralded to be able to replace teachers and classrooms, when in fact technology is best supplemented by in-person guidance. It is a fascinating area of research and development though, and I look forward to seeing how this type of therapy can transform standard practice.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Thank you for sharing this, Kate. I'm a little skeptical about 1) the long-term effectiveness of this technology, 2) the transferability of learning/conditioning, and 3) the subtle implications of "therapist-free" therapy. The debate is similar to when educational technology was first heralded to be able to replace teachers and classrooms, when in fact technology is best supplemented by in-person guidance. It is a fascinating area of research and development though, and I look forward to seeing how this type of therapy can transform standard practice.</div>

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Andrew Stanton: The clues to a great story | Video on TED.com - 1 views

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TED Storytelling story

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Anna Ho on 14 Mar 12

Pixar director Andrew Stanton's talk on what guides him as a storyteller parallels what we strive to do as educators: to inspire our audience's sense of wonder, challenge, and relatedness. "The audience," says Stanton, "actually wants to work for their meal. They just don't want to know that they're doing that." I'm not sure if storytelling is an apt metaphor for all learning situations, but I personally am inspired to look to storytellers for tips on how to connect with my learners.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Pixar director Andrew Stanton's talk on what guides him as a storyteller parallels what we strive to do as educators: to inspire our audience's sense of wonder, challenge, and relatedness. "The audience," says Stanton, "actually wants to work for their meal. They just don't want to know that they're doing that." I'm not sure if storytelling is an apt metaphor for all learning situations, but I personally am inspired to look to storytellers for tips on how to connect with my learners. </div>

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Allison Browne on 15 Mar 12

Andrew Stanton is also the brilliance behind "Finding Nemo" one of the better Pixar films. "Working for their meal" and the "2+2" notion relates to honoring people's intelligence and not making the story or lesson or video game too simple or the goal too obvious. Dr. Dede has said in the past that to engage students who struggle, we should give them more dificult conepts and make them accessible. Similar ideas.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Andrew Stanton is also the brilliance behind "Finding Nemo" one of the better Pixar films. "Working for their meal" and the "2+2" notion relates to honoring people's intelligence and not making the story or lesson or video game too simple or the goal too obvious. Dr. Dede has said in the past that to engage students who struggle, we should give them more dificult conepts and make them accessible. Similar ideas.</div>

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An Examination of Flow and Immersion in Games - 0 views

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This article talks about experiential gaming and making the construct of flow operational for educational games. The study used a business simulation and questionnaire to measure videogame "flow antecedents" like clear goals and challenge-skill balance, flow state indicators like concentration and time distortion, and the "flow consequences" of learning and exploratory behavior for about 100 students attending a school of economics. "This study is part of an ongoing attempt to develop a usable and valid scale for assessing flow experience in educational games." (Log in with Harvard access)

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">This article talks about experiential gaming and making the construct of flow operational for educational games. The study used a business simulation and questionnaire to measure videogame "flow antecedents" like clear goals and challenge-skill balance, flow state indicators like concentration and time distortion, and the "flow consequences" of learning and exploratory behavior for about 100 students attending a school of economics. "This study is part of an ongoing attempt to develop a usable and valid scale for assessing flow experience in educational games." (Log in with Harvard access)</div>

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A teacher can be just one click away; Online tutoring is growing in popularity with par... - 0 views

(Restricted access only to subscribers, so I'm posting the article here. This is possibly the new face of tutoring,) When finding a local tutor to come in and help her daughter Mith with her Engli...

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

Hyping classroom technology helps tech firms, not students - latimes.com - 1 views

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shared by Chris McEnroe on 05 Feb 12 - No Cached

"The media you use make no difference at all to learning," says Richard E. Clark, director of the Center for Cognitive Technology at USC. "Not one dang bit. And the evidence has been around for more than 50 years."
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"does not automatically inspire teachers to rethink their teaching or students to adopt new modes of learning."
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The app is free, and plainly can help users create visually striking textbooks. But buried in the user license is a rule that if you sell a product created with iBooks Author, you can sell it only through Apple's iBookstore, and Apple will keep 30% of the purchase price. (Also, your full-featured iBook will be readable only on an Apple device such as an iPad.)
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Chris McEnroe on 05 Feb 12

This article is a bit snarky but it raises some worthwhile cautions around the buzz of tech in education, particularly Apple.

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Leslie Lieman on 05 Feb 12

It is amazing to me that Apple and technology can take center stage in the education conversation without a word of professional development, best practices, learning outcomes... As I have stated before, I/we are an Apple family... but I am worried about the prospect that Apple's role in the textbook industry will eliminate other platforms and in-turn will limit access to many.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">It is amazing to me that Apple and technology can take center stage in the education conversation without a word of professional development, best practices, learning outcomes... As I have stated before, I/we are an Apple family... but I am worried about the prospect that Apple's role in the textbook industry will eliminate other platforms and in-turn will limit access to many.</div>

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Education Week: Study Finds Timing of Student Rewards Key to Effectiveness - 3 views

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Kasthuri Gopalaratnam on 06 Aug 12

Interesting study on rewards and motivation: Some excerpts - Rewards worked much better if they were given to students before the test, not after. Researchers found students worked significantly harder to keep what they had than they did to win something new. But none of the incentives worked at any age if students knew they wouldn't get the reward for a month. "All motivating power of the incentives vanishes when rewards are handed out with a delay," the researchers concluded. "Especially among children, the difference between right now and tomorrow is a big difference," Ms. Sadoff said. "For all students it's important that the reward be immediate." That impatience creates a massive problem for incentive programs based on state test results, which can often take months to turn around.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Interesting study on rewards and motivation: Some excerpts - Rewards worked much better if they were given to students before the test, not after. Researchers found students worked significantly harder to keep what they had than they did to win something new. But none of the incentives worked at any age if students knew they wouldn't get the reward for a month. "All motivating power of the incentives vanishes when rewards are handed out with a delay," the researchers concluded. "Especially among children, the difference between right now and tomorrow is a big difference," Ms. Sadoff said. "For all students it's important that the reward be immediate." That impatience creates a massive problem for incentive programs based on state test results, which can often take months to turn around.</div>

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Leslie Lieman on 07 Aug 12

Thanks for this Kasthuri! This gives additional strength to the immediacy of digital rewards and students having access to their own "stats" (both potentially available in games and simulations). The thought of actual green-back monetary rewards for study/learning gives me the heebie-jeebies. I appreciated Alexandra M. Usher's comment, that "it's really important to reward inputs, not outputs [and] to reward behavior that kids can control, rather than just telling them to get better grades."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Thanks for this Kasthuri! This gives additional strength to the immediacy of digital rewards and students having access to their own "stats" (both potentially available in games and simulations). The thought of actual green-back monetary rewards for study/learning gives me the heebie-jeebies. I appreciated Alexandra M. Usher's comment, that "it's really important to reward inputs, not outputs [and] to reward behavior that kids can control, rather than just telling them to get better grades."</div>

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Mooresville School District, a Laptop Success Story - (It's Not Just About the Laptops) - 0 views

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Kasthuri Gopalaratnam on 13 Feb 12

Some very useful lessons to learn fro Mooresville. Looks like the broader ecosystem (such as cheper access to broadband internet) has been thought through rather than just dropping a laptop into the classroom.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Some very useful lessons to learn fro Mooresville. Looks like the broader ecosystem (such as cheper access to broadband internet) has been thought through rather than just dropping a laptop into the classroom.</div>

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Irish schools make switch to ebooks; Textbooks go hi-tech as students learn on iPads an... - 0 views

Access to the site is by subscription, so I am including the article here: T'S a sad day for doodlers. The dog-eared textbook is on its final chapter in Ireland as schools switch to ebooks. More t...

ipads proliferation

started by Tracy Tan on 29 Feb 12 no follow-up yet

Solar Ipads for schools in rural South Africa (Gabrielle Monaghian, The Sunday Times [... - 0 views

Access to the site is by subscription only, so I am including the article here: A solar-powered iPad described as a "school in a box" has been developed by the Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Desi...

solar ipad soth africa

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School leavers given 'de-text' lessons to speak the language business needs; Social med... - 2 views

I've been reading a lot about this trend - I think it's equally prevalent in the US. I wonder how much of it is caused by our move away from school as preparation for career to school as a place fo...

social media text-speak sms language poor skills

started by Tracy Tan on 29 Feb 12 1 follow-up, last by Katerina Manoff on 03 Mar 12

Raspberry Pi goes on general sale - 3 views

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Kinga Petrovai on 02 Mar 12

Interesting article and video about a new way of teaching children to program. A credit-card sized computer designed to help teach children to code has gone on sale for the first time. The Raspberry Pi is a bare-bones, low-cost computer created by volunteers mostly drawn from academia and the UK tech industry.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Interesting article and video about a new way of teaching children to program. A credit-card sized computer designed to help teach children to code has gone on sale for the first time. The Raspberry Pi is a bare-bones, low-cost computer created by volunteers mostly drawn from academia and the UK tech industry.</div>

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Emily Lovell on 11 Mar 12

I just heard about this from a friend and then stumbled across your link - and then wound up on the Raspberry Pi website to try to find out more about the education component of it (which is supposedly the whole motivation). Right now, the website is focused on showcasing the capabilities of the device and the hardware/software choices that they made. I was disappointed to find, when looking through their FAQ, that there is only one small blurb about educational material in which they vaguely state that support resources are currently under development. No doubt they are allowing a greater number of people access to a cheap Linux machine, but that does not mean those people are going to use it to learn to program. I'll be interested to see if the focus really does shift to education as the resources come together... right now it just seems like a cool new toy for a Linux geek (with the potential to be so much more!)

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">I just heard about this from a friend and then stumbled across your link - and then wound up on the Raspberry Pi website to try to find out more about the education component of it (which is supposedly the whole motivation). Right now, the website is focused on showcasing the capabilities of the device and the hardware/software choices that they made. I was disappointed to find, when looking through their FAQ, that there is only one small blurb about educational material in which they vaguely state that support resources are currently under development. No doubt they are allowing a greater number of people access to a cheap Linux machine, but that does not mean those people are going to use it to learn to program. I'll be interested to see if the focus really does shift to education as the resources come together... right now it just seems like a cool new toy for a Linux geek (with the potential to be so much more!)</div>

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Phones, paper 'chips' may fight disease - CNN.com - 0 views

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medical technology

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George Whitesides has developed a prototype for paper "chip" technology that could be used in the developing world to cheaply diagnose deadly diseases such as HIV, malaria, tuberculosis, hepatitis and gastroenteritis.
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Patients put a drop of blood on one side of the slip of paper, and on the other appears a colorful pattern in the shape of a tree, which tells medical professionals whether the person is infected with certain diseases.
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hey test for multiple diseases at once. They also show how severely a person is infected rather than producing only a positive-negative reading
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solutions to complicated problems often are found in simple, low-cost technologies.
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he paper may mold in humid, hot climates. And it's still important for people to get access to doctors so they know what to do about their diagnoses,
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8th-graders, get ready now | IndyStar.com | The Indianapolis Star - 0 views

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Several free online resources can help inspire academic achievement and the development of good study habits.
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the ACT's researchers found, "The level of academic achievement that students attain by eighth grade has a larger impact on their college and career readiness. . . than anything that happens academically in high school.
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these Web sites also can be used by mentors, youth workers and educators to prime middle-schoolers for college readiness, access and success.
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Jennifer Jocz on 04 Feb 10

This article lists some free online resources 8th gradel students can use to learn about college and careers

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Latinos and Digital Technology, 2010 - Pew Hispanic Center - 1 views

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Latinos Hispanics Digital Media Internet Use Access

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Jerusha Saldaña Yanez on 10 Feb 11

PEW report regarding Latino/Hispanic use of internet, cell phones and etc.

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Mobile devices for news - 3 views

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iPad iPhone smart phones tablets PDAs

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Use of mobile devices for accessing news

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Education Week: Games and Simulations Help Children Access Science - 0 views

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Evidence on whether games help children learn science

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Education Week: Games and Simulations Help Children Access Science - 0 views

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whyville games simulations

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WolfQuest, WhyPox are highlighted as tools for informal science learning.

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Homeless and education - 1 views

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Homeless fined $15,000 for sending her kid to a school for higher income families by providing false address and may be prosecuted.

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An article about blending physical and digital toys - 2 views

Therapist-free therapy - 1 views

Andrew Stanton: The clues to a great story | Video on TED.com - 1 views

An Examination of Flow and Immersion in Games - 0 views

A teacher can be just one click away; Online tutoring is growing in popularity with par... - 0 views

Hyping classroom technology helps tech firms, not students - latimes.com - 1 views

Education Week: Study Finds Timing of Student Rewards Key to Effectiveness - 3 views

Mooresville School District, a Laptop Success Story - (It's Not Just About the Laptops) - 0 views

Irish schools make switch to ebooks; Textbooks go hi-tech as students learn on iPads an... - 0 views

Solar Ipads for schools in rural South Africa (Gabrielle Monaghian, The Sunday Times [... - 0 views

School leavers given 'de-text' lessons to speak the language business needs; Social med... - 2 views

Raspberry Pi goes on general sale - 3 views

Phones, paper 'chips' may fight disease - CNN.com - 0 views

8th-graders, get ready now | IndyStar.com | The Indianapolis Star - 0 views

Latinos and Digital Technology, 2010 - Pew Hispanic Center - 1 views

Mobile devices for news - 3 views

Education Week: Games and Simulations Help Children Access Science - 0 views

Education Week: Games and Simulations Help Children Access Science - 0 views

Homeless and education - 1 views

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