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Xiaodi Chen

Harvard University-Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics: Public Lectures - 1 views

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ethics public engagement

shared by Xiaodi Chen on 31 Jan 13 - Cached
  • Xiaodi Chen on 31 Jan 13
     
    For those who are interested in the discussion of ethics, politics, citizenship, this seems to be a potential platform for more public engagement! 
Malik Hussain

Flow Theory | Education.com - 4 views

www.education.com/...flow-theory

ApplyingFlowInEdu

shared by Malik Hussain on 08 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • Malik Hussain on 08 Feb 13
     
    Very good synthesis of applying Flow in Education; in time for next Monday's topic on Flow. Good takeaways in the "Implications for Teachers" section.
  • Matthew Ong on 09 Feb 13
     
    Thanks for sharing Malik. I think this article provides a nice overview of flow and one main takeaway was the importance of positive affect. I agree that it is a good predictor of flow in an activity.
Chris McEnroe

Students lead the way with new technology | Acorn-Online.com - 0 views

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shared by Chris McEnroe on 09 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • “These technologies offer a fun, engaging learning experience,”
  • Adam Toris, a 17-year-old junior at the high school, started designing apps over a year ago. He has made four so far, and one has been for sale on iTunes for a year.
  • The game is called iSmash Spider, and for every sale on iTunes, Adam gets 77 cents. So far, the game has earned him over $500.
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  • Jailbreaking is a kind of hacking that frees a device from limits set by Apple.
  • “I’ll jailbreak a phone or an iPad for my friends for free,” Jackson said. “To modify a controller, it takes more time, so I charge maybe $10.”
  • Chris McEnroe on 09 Apr 12
     
    Engagement is a buzz word but who descriptive is it?
Jerald Cole

GoodReader for iPad for iPad - 1 views

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education technology engagement goodreader annotate ipad pdf apps

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  • Jerald Cole on 15 Apr 12
     
    PDF reader for the iPad that lets you "write-on," hi-lite and annotate documents.
Chris McEnroe

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

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shared by Chris McEnroe on 25 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • Chris McEnroe on 25 Mar 12
     
    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.
  • Emily Lovell on 01 Apr 12
     
    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.
Chris Dede

A New Community and Resources for Games for Learning | Edutopia - 0 views

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edutopia games learning community

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  • Chris Dede on 02 Apr 12
     
    yet another resource for games and learning
Leslie Lieman

Apple and the Digital Textbook Counter-Revolution - 3 views

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

iPad iPads textbooks iBooks education technology

shared by Leslie Lieman on 28 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • 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.
Kasthuri Gopalaratnam

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

www.edweek.org/...37incentives.h31.html

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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.
  • 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."
Chris McEnroe

Broken STEM: A failure to teach Science, Technology, Engineering and Math | The Connect... - 3 views

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shared by Chris McEnroe on 04 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • “It suddenly occurred to me that every idea I had memorized or learned or thought I understood in a textbook was actually the result of scientific investigation,
  • “What was missing that it took me so long?”
  • She thinks science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields aren’t taught the right way in the United States
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  • “the U.S. tends to have a curriculum that repeats the same topics over and over
  • Data show that American students actually do well in math and science in the early years (http://nces.ed.gov/timss/results07_math07.asp). By 12th grade, however, their performance has plummeted (http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/seind04/c1/fig01-08.htm).
  • Stephanie Fitzgerald on 04 Mar 12
     
    Thanks for sharing this, Chris. It's both interesting and relevant to my project for this course. A comment at the bottom suggested that really the companies need to change their unrealistic minimum criteria for job candidates. I've heard that argument before, and sometimes I do wonder when I see complaints from companies looking only for people with 5+ years of STEM work experience railing on the state of STEM education. What do you think?
  • Lauren Farrar on 12 Mar 12
     
    Thanks for sharing Chris! I can totally relate to this. I remember having to sit through those "weed out" intro biology and chemistry courses in undergrad. They were the antithesis of motivating but I pushed through because I knew without them I couldn't do the "cool science" I wanted to. I remember at the time thinking these courses were weeding out people who were entertaining the idea of a STEM career but just didn't want to put up with the cut throat nature of these courses. It seemed to me the classes were more concerned about weeding out people than by providing an environment that really fostered learning.
Xavier Rozas

PND - RFPs Entertainment Software Association Foundation Offers Grants for Youth Programs - 1 views

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education engagement entertainment technologies video games

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  • Xavier Rozas on 28 Jan 10
     
    $50, 000 grant for developers to develop engaging video games for children that promote learning. I am thinking about it!
Parisa Rouhani

Report: Facebook to add location features - SciTechBlog - CNN.com Blogs - 0 views

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facebook location finder

shared by Parisa Rouhani on 11 Mar 10 - Cached
  • This is seen by some as a helpful way for friends to find each other and meet up in real life.
  • Parisa Rouhani on 11 Mar 10
     
    facebook is considering using a location feature that will tell others where people are. it is an interesting use of technology for social purposes and with it comes the opportunity for robberies while people are away from home, stalking, etc.
Lisa Schnoll

Playing for Words | The Scientist Magazine® - 0 views

www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/34550/title/Playing-for-Words/

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  • Lisa Schnoll on 03 Mar 13
     
    I found this via the IFLS (ask me in person for the full name, it contains expletives) facebook page. It is so exciting to see that the word is getting out the video games are not bad at all!
Chris Dede

Game-based Learning Is Playing for Keeps -- THE Journal - 1 views

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Salen game-based learning

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  • Chris Dede on 25 Jan 13
     
    Arguments for game-based learning
Stephanie Fitzgerald

How Schools Can Teach Innovation - WSJ.com - 1 views

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education technology engagement motivation

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  • Stephanie Fitzgerald on 15 Apr 12
     
    This talks about the practices at some programs that are known for educating innovators:  "The culture of learning in programs that excel at educating for innovation emphasize what I call the three P's-play, passion and purpose. The play is discovery-based learning that leads young people to find and pursue a passion, which evolves, over time, into a deeper sense of purpose."
Leslie Lieman

For Women to Think Mathematically, Colleges Should Think Creatively - Commentary - The ... - 2 views

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education STEM women engagement

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  • Leslie Lieman on 19 Apr 12
     
    Also as a follow-up to our conversation on Monday. Although more women are in STEM careers, there is still a lag in those considered "hard sciences." Most people look at mathematics as the core difference, these authors look at creativity. "For instance, three factors that are widely accepted as being positively correlated with creativity are playfulness, curiosity, and willingness to take risks. Studies have found that boys and men are generally more playful than girls and women, and are more curious and more willing to take risks, which could help explain why men are more creatively productive than women in general, and in particular, in the hard sciences."
Leslie Lieman

'Free-Range Learners': Study Opens Window Into How Students Hunt for Educational Conten... - 0 views

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online higher education

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  • Leslie Lieman on 26 Apr 12
     
    Undergrads use "free range learning," exploring the web for material about subjects of study and do not rely on the texts and assigned readings.
Kiran Patwardhan

Education with Augmented Reality: AR textbooks released in Japan - 1 views

www.zdnet.com/...1541

education technology AR

shared by Kiran Patwardhan on 05 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • Kiran Patwardhan on 05 Apr 12
     
    Although the idea of an iPad for every student may struggle to come to fruition for a few years, Augmented Reality textbooks are paving the way for a smooth transition. Japanese publishing company Tokyo Shoseki is producing textbooks that support AR apps on smartphones, bringing characters to life for students to listen to.
Jorge Mazal

Software program allows for smarter music education | News | eClassroom News - 0 views

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technology education Learning motivation T545

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  • Jorge Mazal on 18 Feb 12
     
    I wonder if the instant feedback and scoring feature helps these kids go into a state of flow more easily while learning an instrument. The experience provides the beginner with all the requirements for flow: clear goals, right level of challenge, and instant feedback
Kasthuri Gopalaratnam

F.T.C. Finds Privacy Problems With Apps for Children - NYTimes.com - 2 views

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shared by Kasthuri Gopalaratnam on 18 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • Kasthuri Gopalaratnam on 18 Feb 12
     
    Makers and users of mobile apps for children, take note!
  • Leslie Lieman on 18 Feb 12
     
    The actual report itself is excellent, "Mobile Apps for Kids: Current Privacy Disclosures Are Disappointing." [The link is embedded in the article.] Improvement in this area is critical. When apps came on the market, they were like "valet parking"... where a user could get directly to a software without roaming the web. This was an attractive feature (and avoided unwanted advertising, a plus for parents.). Now, not only are apps collecting data that we are unaware of (PRIVACY!), but many are engaged in advertising, some that we are aware of and some that we are not (click through to a website, etc.) "Staff found that about 7% of the 400 app store promotion pages indicated that the app contained advertising. As above, this number is likely to understate the number of apps containing advertising because app stores do not appear to require developers to disclose in-app advertising on their promotion pages, and because advertising is a common way to monetize apps." Free? Not so much.
Leslie Lieman

TED, Known for Idea Talks, Releases Educational Videos - Wired Campus - The Chronicle o... - 1 views

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education technology video YouTube

shared by Leslie Lieman on 13 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • Leslie Lieman on 13 Mar 12
     
    The nonprofit group called TED, known for streaming 18-minute video lectures about big ideas, today opened a new YouTube channel designed for teachers and professors, with videos that are even shorter. The new channel, called TED-Ed, was announced a year ago, but its leaders are only now unveiling the project's first videos.
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