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Jackie Iger

Intel Unveils New, $200 Tablet for Education - Digital Education - Education Week - 0 views

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    Intel announced the launch of its durable 7-inch tablets, called "Intel studybooks."  The tablets will cost less than $200 each, half the price of the new iPads.  Will the affordability of this device beat out the all-popular iPad?
Leslie Lieman

Man vs. Computer: Who Wins the Essay-Scoring Challenge? - Curriculum Matters - Educatio... - 2 views

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    If computers can score writing, of course the first use will be for assessment. No surprise there. But how might we use this more creatively?
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    I tried to bring an scoring software program into my school. Nobody liked it except for myself. I thought the objective measure would be more motivating to students. But the other teachers thought that the students should have more practice with rubrics themselves. My school focused heavily on peer editing and scoring. Also, when teachers see such a large number of average scores they tend to disbelieve the results. For example, when I score the essays, there may be a lot of 'B's but I've sees the difference in between Betty's 'B' and Joe's 'B'. The grade is more of a reminder of my experience scoring Betty's writing. When the software scores it, I haven't necessarily seen the essay therefore the score doesn't mean as much. Of course the scoring makes much more sense for official assessments. Open Ended Responses are a much better measure of a student's understanding than multiple choice, if the software is able to distinguish the nuance of language. Some programs are scoring grammatical patterns, sentence length, and paragraph length; therefore, a student can be totally off topic and get a high score. I'm curious if this latest software corrected for this.
Kasthuri Gopalaratnam

Video Game Competition With STEM Focus Launched - Digital Education - Education Week - 2 views

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    'DU The Math' (http://www.duthemath.com/) is an educational game and this competition touts prizes and pop stars. Interestingly, the reporter asks important questions, such as : But is competition between students the best way for educational gaming to increase its penetration into formal K-12 education? Or would game makers be better served to focus gaming on competition between the student and him or herself, especially for players who are struggling to keep pace with class and feel left behind?
Jackie Iger

New Ed. Videos from MIT, Khan Academy, and TED - Digital Education - Education Week - 2 views

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    MIT students are creating and sharing short videos about STEM subjects for K-12 learners.  
Kasthuri Gopalaratnam

Serious Games Association to Launch Directory - Digital Education - Education Week - 3 views

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    I now know where the EMF Rater should live or at least get a link...
Kasthuri Gopalaratnam

Educational Ratings For Digital Content Launched - Digital Education - Education Week - 0 views

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    More help to sort out the wheat from the chaff.
Kasthuri Gopalaratnam

Education Week: Spotlight on Implementing Online Learning - 2 views

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    "Identifying promising models for mixing online learning and face-to-face instruction Challenges in e-learning Building partnerships to increase virtual learning collaboration among districts Teaching a "flip model" of instruction with online lectures as homework"
Chris Dede

Education Week: Digital Gaming in Classrooms Seen Gaining Popularity - 2 views

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    Cooney center survey digital games classroom
Chris Dede

President's Fitness Council Launches Video-Game Health Challenge - Schooled in Sports -... - 0 views

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    exergaming advocated by president's fitness council
Kasthuri Gopalaratnam

Education Week: Digital Gaming in Classrooms Seen Gaining Popularity - 4 views

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    Game on!
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    Definition of "digital games" probably too broad... but three video case studies of teachers using "games" referenced in article worth watching: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA3C69D48D4FFE87E
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    Agreed about the definition. However, "Almost all the teachers surveyed who said they used games reported that they used ones specifically designed for education, and the games most often corresponded with literacy and reading (50%) and math (35%).", which is encouraging. Kurt Squire is correct in that the data may include a good number of 'trivial games', but that is probably to be expected since the biggest barriers seems to be cost (50% respondents) and technology (46%).
Kasthuri Gopalaratnam

Education Week: In Neb. School, Kindles Spark Interest in Reading - 1 views

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    In a world dominated by iPad news , a story on Kindle - motivating kids to read
Leslie Lieman

Q&A: Khan Academy Creator Talks About K-12 Innovation - 0 views

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    Salman Khan (graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Harvard Business School) talks about the flipped classroom and how tech changes the shape of future "classrooms" in an Education Week interview.
pradeepg

Kids and Video games: Why children should play more - 2 views

shared by pradeepg on 21 Mar 12 - No Cached
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    An article from the popular press that I think is worth reading. It mentions the increasing importance of virtual worlds and simulations, a topic we will be covering next week !
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    Everything in moderation, but this article helps people see how well-developed, age-appropriate video games are a positive.
Chris McEnroe

Students vie for spots at the Kootenai Technical Education Campus | North Idaho - KXLY.com - 0 views

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    I think vocational schools give students the means for making time spent in school relevant and useful to them. They pursue an interest and see it connected to a relevant future. In the current age where interdisciplinary work is the norm, jobs are mutable, and careers are evolutionary, vocational education is no longer preparing students for a job or career; just their first one.
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    I completely agree! I have a good friend who dropped out of high school, earned his GED the same week, and went on to a technical vocational school to study IT/systems management. Turned out that once he got to the vocational school, he became the top student in most of his classes, and well-known for staying after class to engage instructors in intellectual debate. I find it disappointing that our society tends to devalue vocational schools; it seems to me that we should instead be focusing on what fits each student best.
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...

school apps ipad

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

Draw Something, a New Twist on Pictionary, Charms Mobile Gamers - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • Mr. Porter attributed the game’s success to its real-time feel. Players can watch animated playbacks of their teammates trying to guess their creation before taking their turn. The word choices are another big selling point; in addition to standard selections like “orange” and “dynamite,” the game is liberally infused with pop culture references, like members of the Wu-Tang Clan and Skrillex, a dubstep DJ. “We’re also benefiting from hitting at a time when a lot of people are moving from feature phones to smartphones,” he said. Mr. Porter thinks that just as Facebook has a social graph — the people its users want to be friends with — OMGPop can learn more about its “gamer graph,” or the people their users like to play games with. “It’s really about relationships,” he said  of the game. “How well do I know you and can guess what you drew. That is part of the fun.”
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    Draw Something was acquired by Zynga this week for $180 million!!!!
Tracy Tan

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...

online tutoring

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

Education Week Teacher: Why Twitter and Facebook Are Not Good Instructional Tools - 1 views

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    Thoughtful reflection by 8th grade teacher... enjoys experimenting with technology, but stresses the importance of questioning the pedagogical value of integrating tech in classrooms
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    Hi Leslie, Thanks for sharing. The article not only talks about the effectiveness of social media tools but a range ot technology which I found useful.
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