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Jing Jing Tan

Hacking Edu: tech's role in the future of higher education - GeekWire - 0 views

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higher education education technology

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  • Jing Jing Tan on 28 Apr 12
     
    This article discusses trends in technology use in higher ed institutions, including a growing role of blended learning and technology-integrated meetings.
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 Digitized textbooks offer many affordances compared to what we're stuck with currently (textbooks that are outdated, heavy, expensive, and limited by static content).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.
Chris McEnroe

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

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  • “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?
Leslie Lieman

Live from Apple's education event at the Guggenheim - Apple 2.0 - Fortune Tech - 1 views

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iPad iPads textbooks iBooks education technology interactive

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  • Leslie Lieman on 28 Jan 12
     
    I am posting two articles: 1) Apple's recent announcement (here) and 2) the criticism (above) by Hack Education blogger Audrey Watters This article is about Apple's announcement to "reinvent the textbook" around the iPad. "The message: it's going to be a lot easier in the future for publishers and educators to create a new generation of interactive textbooks."
jwp763

VC Funding for education - 2 views

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funding education

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  • jwp763 on 17 Feb 10
     
    Very interesting opinions on why current educational institutions fail to both engage and teach students.
Meghan Young

Encouraging the Hand-Mind Connection in the Classroom - 1 views

www.edweek.org/...19honey.h30.html

STEM Maker Movement tinkering hacking creating

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  • Meghan Young on 02 Feb 11
     
    Interesting article on the "Maker Movement" in STEM education. Really liked this last sentence, "It is our natural inclination to create as we learn and to learn as we create that is at the heart of this movement."
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