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Kasthuri Gopalaratnam

Education Week: Spotlight on Implementing Online Learning - 2 views

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  • Kasthuri Gopalaratnam on 01 May 12
     
    "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"
Jerald Cole

Mallet: An open source tool for topic modeling - 1 views

mallet.cs.umass.edu/topics.php

Engagement Theory modeling engagement e-learning

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  • Jerald Cole on 10 Mar 12
     
    Related to the Pew Foundation Study on Tagging we read earlier in the course... Topic models provide a simple way to analyze large volumes of unlabeled text. A "topic" consists of a cluster of words that frequently occur together. Using contextual clues, topic models can connect words with similar meanings and distinguish between uses of words with multiple meanings. Coupling the use of such tools with blogging allows students (plural) to spot trends in their collective writing. The key is to "share-out" their pieces in weekly class review sessions. This "ups" the level of engagement.
Tracy Cordner

ResulTechSchModel_v3.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 0 views

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engagement education model

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  • Tracy Cordner on 31 Jan 10
     
    A model for engagement in classrooms created by an initiative in Maine.
Jerald Cole

FPV Flying with VR goggles and head tracking - RC Groups - 0 views

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flying goggles head tracking technology engagement education games learning

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  • Jerald Cole on 11 Apr 12
     
    VR goggles used to give RC model airplane enthusiasts a view from the cockpit.
Stephanie Fitzgerald

EA CEO John Riccitiello On Gaming Microtransactions - YouTube - 1 views

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exploitation engagement video games

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  • Stephanie Fitzgerald on 31 Mar 12
     
    A very short clip about a "great model" in the game industry (microtransactions) that allows EA to take advantage of a player's engagement.
Leslie Lieman

MIT's New Free Courses May Threaten (and Improve) the Traditional Model, Program's Lead... - 0 views

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technology education online distance learning higher education MITx

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  • Leslie Lieman on 07 Feb 12
     
    A brief interview with L. Rafael Reif, MIT's provost, and Anant Agarwal, director of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory about MITx, a new/developing online certificate program. Interesting how much they can not anticipate how/what this will impact (re: education, jobs, higher ed market).
Tom Keffer

Why French Parents Are Superior by Pamela Druckerman - WSJ.com - 4 views

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french parents discipline education flow

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  • Tom Keffer on 07 Feb 12
     
    Is the French model of child-rearing conducive to a high capacity for flow?
Jerald Cole

SPOTLIGHT: Teachers of autistic students use iPads - Connecticut Post - 0 views

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teachers students ipads

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  • Jerald Cole on 03 Mar 12
     
    Teachers of students with autism say it's the year of the iPad. It provides motivation. It helps with therapy and handwriting practice. It even models appropriate ways to share toys or take turns.
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.
Jennifer Jocz

BBC News - Blio bets against e-reader devices - 0 views

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e-reader disruptive technology

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  • Software originally designed to help blind people read electronic books could turn the emerging e-reader industry on its head, according to its inventor.
  • His vision is to use free software to turn any device into an e-reader, from a PC to a smartphone and from netbooks to tablet computers.
  • "Our aim is to disrupt the e-reader business model and bring the best of the web and bring the best of print together in one model," said Mr Chapman.
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  • At the moment the software offers more than 1 million free books and counting and 200,000 paid books.
  • Jennifer Jocz on 28 Jan 10
     
    Another e-reader option
anonymous

Looking at ourselves first. - 2 views

http://www.cea-ace.ca/blog/bruce-beairsto/2012/03/6/teacher-engagement-key-student-engagement this article describes how important it is for us, as educators, to be engaged in the topics we teach....

engagement learning Motivation T545

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Jen Dick

Researchers Recommend Core Changes in Education | DML Hub - 2 views

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education technology engagement digital framework report

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  • Jen Dick on 23 Jan 13
     
    New report from the Connected Learning Research Network (funded by MacArthur) on a new model. Much of what we've seen before, but it purports to actually address issues of inequity, which is something I don't see talked about very much in these kinds of reports other than to share interactions between effects and variables like race & SES if found. Also interesting: includes Clusters of 21st Century Cognitive Competencies, a mashup of workplace readiness skills, 21st Century Skills, and Habits of Mind. (Is that enough buzzword for ya?)
Kasthuri Gopalaratnam

Quest to Learn - Learning through Play - 1 views

q2l.org/mission

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  • Kasthuri Gopalaratnam on 16 Apr 12
     
    "Quest supports a dynamic curriculum that uses the underlying design principles of games to create academically challenging, immersive, game-like learning experiences for students. Games and other forms of digital media also model the complexity and promise of "systems." Understanding and accounting for this complexity is a fundamental literacy of the 21st century."
Chris McEnroe

Northern Valley Regional High School district using new technology to improve learning,... - 0 views

www.northjersey.com/...pilot_technology_programs.html

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  • Having students use electronic devices is one part of a broader plan for the two high schools, which will eventually include other areas of focus such as distance learning, student assessments, infrastructure, teacher observation and evaluation, course management systems and instructional tools.
  • "Bring Your Own Model"
  • Chris McEnroe on 26 Apr 12
     
    Seems like a lot of experimentation in this implementation. Unusual.
Chris Dede

Digital | Social media and video games in classrooms can yield valuable data for teachers - 2 views

digital.hechingerreport.org/...valuable-data-for-teachers_203

Brookings report games learning

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  • Chris Dede on 28 Apr 12
     
    Brookings report on games and learning
  • Allison Browne on 01 May 12
     
    It's interesting that so many products have a teacher focused data output model but if the software isn't making recommendations, the student must wait for the teacher to analyze the data to make changes. I wonder when software will empower students to make their own curricular choices based on their data. I don't believe I've seen this.
Gozie Nwabuebo

Blended Learning Sports Variety of Approaches - 0 views

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technology education learning

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  • Gozie Nwabuebo on 26 Mar 12
     
    As schools mix online instruction and face-to-face learning, educators are identifying promising hybrid approaches As blended learning models, which mix face-to-face and online instruction, become more common in schools, classroom educators and administrators alike are navigating the changing role of teachers-and how schools can best support them in that new role.
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

Senate approves $20M school technology bill | The Salt Lake Tribune - 1 views

www.sltrib.com/...andards-common-senate.html.csp

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  • o implement online testing.
  • hoping to move to computer-adaptive testing based on the new Common Core standards, which Utah has already adopted, by the 2014-15 school year. Proponents of Common Core standards say they’ll better prepare kids for college and careers. Some, however, remain wary, seeing the standards as a blow to local control,
  • Chris McEnroe on 01 Feb 12
     
    Big state investment in online (old school) testing- new ways to test old models.
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