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Leslie Lieman

Q and A: Imagining a Virtual Education Oasis [Interview with novelist Ernest Cline] - 0 views

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virtual reality novel

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  • Leslie Lieman on 18 Feb 12
     
    Virtual Education Oasis... humm? Where do you think we will be in 2044? Author Ernest Cline, is interviewed about his novel Ready Player One, where "schools are built like palaces on the violence-free planet Ludus, and students take daytrips through both the Louvre and the human heart. These are but some of the benefits offered by the OASIS, a massive, multiplayer online game where most people in 2044 choose to spend their existence, away from the troubles of the real world. The OASIS combines the scope of a galaxy with the immersion of the Matrix; it is a near-perfect virtual reality."
Stephanie Fitzgerald

When Children Read Because They Want To, Not Because They Have To | Education.com - 4 views

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children education engagement motivation literacy self-efficacy

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  • Stephanie Fitzgerald on 22 Mar 12
     
    This article applies what we've learned about self-efficacy, interest, and engagement to literacy: "What makes a child an engaged reader?"
  • Anna Ho on 22 Mar 12
     
    Thanks for sharing this, Stephanie. Part of my job is to select books for a reading & writing academy in Seoul, and after reading this article I realized that affective elements of reading play a significant role in my book selections.
  • Leslie Lieman on 25 Mar 12
     
    Hi Stephanie - The author is listed as working for Reading is Fundamental, which is an organization I now follow for my work on the T545 class project. Part of their agenda is to "prepare and motivate children to read by delivering free books and literacy resources to those children and families who need them most." They focus on reaching underserved children from birth to age 8. I am hoping my website project addresses some of the issues raised in this article. Thanks.
pradeepg

The modern parents guide to kids and video games - 1 views

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  • pradeepg on 21 Mar 12
     
    The book is available for a free download. The author is the post of the article below. I have not read the book.
Leslie Lieman

Apple and the Digital Textbook Counter-Revolution - 3 views

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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.
Leslie Lieman

New Media Consortium Names 10 Top 'Metatrends' Shaping Educational Technology - 0 views

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technology education learning online open mobile individual individualized trends

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  • Leslie Lieman on 03 Feb 12
     
    Suggests classrooms of the future will be "open, mobile, and flexible enough to reach individual students-while free online tools will challenge the authority of traditional institutions." Nothing new to T545ers, but a good summary of trends.
Chris McEnroe

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

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  • "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."
  • "does not automatically inspire teachers to rethink their teaching or students to adopt new modes of learning."
  • 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.)
  • 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.
  • 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.
Chris McEnroe

Lighten that backpack: Obama administration challenges schools to embrace digital textb... - 1 views

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  • Ryan Brown on 01 Feb 12
     
    Another article on digital textbooks. The author describes how students in Joplin, MO, went digital after the tornado destroyed their schools. Mixed results.
  • Chris McEnroe on 02 Feb 12
     
    With the Secretary calling for digital books, how does he envision teacher training programs to be transformed?
Tom Keffer

E-Books on Tablets Fight Digital Distractions - NYTimes.com - 3 views

www.nytimes.com/...ight-digital-distractions.html

tablets reading distractions readers

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  • Tom Keffer on 05 Mar 12
     
    Good summary of the dilemma with iPads and tablets: are they good readers or do that make distractions too available?
  • Katerina Manoff on 05 Mar 12
     
    Great article. Since readers require a higher degree of motivation when reading any given book on a tablet (to actively ignore distractions), this puts more pressure on publishers/authors to make their content meaningful and engaging. Perhaps this might result in higher standards for books/fewer books being published?
Xavier Rozas

Web is among world's 'destructive' technologies - 0 views

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Internet innovation disruptive EMF

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  • "Increasingly the Internet itself, given our reliance on it, is a source of destructive technology. I think we really have to worry about cyber terrorism and cyber crime increasingly. But there's obviously nuclear proliferation and bio-weapons and chemical weapons."
  • "I think it's had two diametrically opposed effects. One effect has been really good. It's created transformation and empowered people and allowed us to debunk bad ideas in a very ... decisive way. It's almost created a cognitive immune system for the planet."
  • He continued: "It's also empowered pranks and pseudoscience and bad information because every person on the Internet can sort of find the people like them and everyone can find an audience so there are certain forms of ignorance that would more or less be unthinkable without the Internet. Global jihad has been massively empowered by the Internet. Even things like the 911 truth conspiracy. That, to my mind, is an Internet phenomenon. No one would publish those books. This is something that is born of Web sites and Internet commentary."
  • Xavier Rozas on 01 Mar 10
     
    Distructive...? Disruptive, yes. Internet is still finding ways to upend business models and psycho-social norms.
Parisa Rouhani

Studies Reveal Why Kids Get Bullied and Rejected - Children's Health - FOXNews.com - 0 views

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social isolation interaction

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  • when children interact without the guidance of an authority figure — is when children experiment with the relationship styles they will have as adults,
  • parents should teach social skills with the same tone they use for teaching long division or proper hygiene
  • Parisa Rouhani on 03 Feb 10
     
    Children who cannot pick up context and facial cues from peers more likely to face social isolation. I wonder if social gaming environments using avatars as virtual selves help or hinder a child's ability to pick up such social cues.
Jennifer Jocz

Video gamers: Size of brain structures predicts success | R&D Mag - 0 views

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video games

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  • The new study, in the journal Cerebral Cortex, found that nearly a quarter of the variability in achievement seen among men and women trained on a new video game could be predicted by measuring the volume of three structures in their brains.
  • pre-existing individual differences in the brain might predict variability in learning rates, the authors wrote.
  • Such information might be useful in education, where longer training periods may be required for some students, or in treating disability or dementia, where information about the brain regions affected by injury or disease could lead to a better understanding of the skills that might also need attention
  • Jennifer Jocz on 28 Jan 10
     
    Interesting article discussing a study showing that the size of certain brain structures can predict video game performance
Brie Rivera

Authority in the Internet Age - NewsTrust.net - 0 views

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  • Brie Rivera on 12 Apr 10
     
    D.C. Circuit Court decision has called into question the FCC's ability to regulate the Internet.
  • Brie Rivera on 12 Apr 10
     
    D.C. Circuit Court decision has called into question the FCC's ability to regulate the Internet.
Vanessa M

Why Location-Based Gaming Is The Next Killer App - 0 views

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games engagement technology mobile augmented reality

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  • Vanessa M on 24 Jul 11
     
    This post reflects the opinions of the author and not necessarily those of Mashable as a publication. Greg Steen currently serves as a trendspotter for Moxie, discovering and assessing marketing implications for global trends. He has over five years experience in analyzing trends and creating strategic campaigns for brands such as Verizon Wireless, Marriott and the Alzheimer's Association.
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