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Stephanie Fitzgerald

WPI Receives Grant for Development of Software Tools to Enhance Student Learning - 0 views

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    This blurb announces a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop software tools that detect student engagement while using educational software--and use the data to improve learning. "To study engagement, robust learning, and emotion in real classrooms, [Ryan S.J.d. Baker's] research combines quantitative field observations of student behavior while using educational software with data mining to detect patterns in the ways students tackle the tasks that [his educational] software presents."
Stephanie Fitzgerald

Study of the effective use of social software to support student learning and engagemen... - 3 views

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    Scroll down on this page to download the final report and case studies from a study that "examined the use of social software in the UK further and higher education sectors to collect evidence of the effective use of social software in enhancing student learning and engagement" (p. 9 of final report). For anyone considering boosting engagement through social media, this is a gold mine.
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    Hi Stephanie - Thanks for this! I just wrote in my mid-semester assignment that I need to find research about engagement through crowd-sourcing and social media in education! I've downloaded the report and can tell that with sentences like, "The results highlight the different pedagogical roles of social software: communication, nurturing creativity and innovation, and collaborative learning," you've definitely found great resources. ~ Leslie
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.
Tracy Tan

» Tutoring Software, AutoTutor, Responds to Student's Emotions - Psych Centra... - 2 views

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    Emotion-sensing computer software that responds to students' cognitive and emotional states, including frustration and boredom. This tool seems to address all the issues we've been talking about in T545! Could this be the tool that replaces teachers?!
Jennifer Jocz

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

  • 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.
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    Another e-reader option
Brandon Pousley

Brain Activity Map - 1 views

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    This is a very interesting project, especially in light of our conversation about ways that physiological and psychological markers can inform learning systems (adaptive learning, responsive software, etc.)
Tomoko Matsukawa

Fast Analytics and Rapid-fire Business Intelligence from Tableau Software | Tableau Sof... - 1 views

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    Visualization tool. referred by junjie. 
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    Tomoko, can you say more about this tool--and why you shared it?
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    I am so sorry... I posted by mistake....was meant to be for different diigo group....
Chris Dede

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

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    Brookings report on games and learning
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    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.
Stephanie Fitzgerald

Solve for X: Adrien Treuille on collaborative science - YouTube - 3 views

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    This ten-minute video uses the protein-folding game FoldIt and another crowdsourced science game called EteRNA as examples. Speaker Adrien Treuille (from CMU) talks about rewards in these types of crowdsourcing games starting around 5:50. He envisions scientific discovery, software development, product design, and societal change being "solved" in the future through a platform that allows for finding, engaging, and paying people at a very individual level: "Find Me, Engage Me, Pay Me."
Jorge Mazal

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

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    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
Xavier Rozas

Heritage Key | Unlock the Wonders - 0 views

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    Virtual world that allows people to learn about ancient history is actually holding a live music festival in the virtual space to motivate new users to interact and to entice would-be users to download the software the game requires
Kellie Demmler

Why Integrate Technology into the Curriculum?: The Reasons Are Many | Edutopia - 0 views

  • s and software programs in a separate computer class. Effective tech integration must happen across the curriculum in ways that research shows deepen and enhance the learning process. In particular, it must support four key components of learning: active engagement, participation in groups, frequent interaction and feedback, and connection to real-world experts.
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  • Effective tech integration must happen across the curriculum in ways that research shows deepen and enhance the learning process. In particular, it must support four key components of learning: active engagement, participation in groups, frequent interaction and feedback, and connection to real-world experts.
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    This article proposes that one of the reasons to integrate technology into the curriculum is to support active engagement in learning.  
amy hoffmaster

Gates and Pearson Foundations to Offer Online Courses - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    The 24 new courses will use video, interactive software, games, social media and other digital materials to present math lessons for kindergarten through 10th grade and English lessons for kindergarten through 12th grade..
Kim Frumin

Hardware makes a comeback - 0 views

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    This article provides a great overview of the new technologies profiled at SXSW and makes the case that it's now cheaper than ever before to bring prototypes to market. The author notes, "The dropping costs of designing and building inventive new hardware products has prompted a wave of creativity and innovation that echoes the software boom a decade or two ago in Silicon Valley." Makes me wonder... what's next?
Kasthuri Gopalaratnam

Berkeley Group Tries to Make Sense of Big Data - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    The most difficult aspect to analyzing Big Data or even programming software to analyze Big Data is to resist the temptation to take our current understanding of data analysis and push it into a new platform. WHAT is the information we need and HOW can we present it in order help educators make decisions that truly impact student achievement? Holy Grail!
Allison Browne

Home - 1 views

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    The Parent Engagement Tracker (PET) is a secured information system developed to easily track, measure and link parental involvement to student achievement. The software is available via the Internet and Microsoft Access Principals are able to measure parent attendance of various parent activities, school compact parent requirement hours, and the popularity of the different types of activities on a daily, monthly, quarterly or annual basis. This is really new. I have never seen something that tries to incentivize parenting.Do you think this would be a good initiative for a school.
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    How did you stumble on this? The copyright date is still listed as 2010 and three of the 5 links, including "About Us" are not working. In addition to the fact that I do not think it would be successful or a good idea and PET is a terrible name, the company simply does not seem to be up and working. Perhaps it is the wireframe for a college project :)
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    I'm sorry that I didn't see this earlier. I definitely think this may have been a real organization. The Connecticut parents union seemed to be doing something with it and here is a link to their brochure http://ctparentsunion.org/PETBrochureFinal.pdf, IN addition, the Hartford Public Schools piloted the program in 2010. They might have disappeared but there is definitely evidence that they were an actual organization.
Jen Dick

Interactive eBook Apps: The Reinvention of Reading and Interactivity | UX Magazine - 1 views

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    "Interactive books are everywhere, and have revolutionized the way people consume the printed word. With the recent software available to allow easy creation of interactive books and with the race to bring these products to market, there seems to be a more and more dilution of quality and a loss for the meaning of interactivity." ...And will they engage a larger group of readers than traditional flat text does? (Would love to see a study)
Jing Jing Tan

At Virginia Tech, computers help solve a math class problem - The Washington Post - 2 views

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    Computer-led math learning at Virginia Tech.
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    Interesting article and very ambitious to address an academic need, but I wonder if the instruction/test environment addresses UDL principles to appeal to a variety of learners or if the multiple choice tests target a narrow definition of math success. I added a blog post above that highlights some of technology's short comings as a platform.
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    Great point. My feeling is that a lot of higher ed institutions use technology as a way to cut costs, so not much attention is paid to accommodating diverse learners. If I may think back to my own undergrad experience, the prevalent assumption is that you're old enough to seek out additional support on your own when you're stuck or want to learn more. I definitely think though that more attention should be paid to applying UDL principles to educational software (yes, even for adults), so that learning can move beyond passing multiple-choice tests!
Chris McEnroe

Clemson Newsroom - 1 views

  • Senior higher education executives announced Wednesday they will use the nation’s fastest coast-to-coast network to implement new technologies that support scientific “Big Data” and cloud applications to drive innovation in global collaborative research.
  • Software Defined Networking (SDN) and OpenFlow standards
  • By connecting to Internet2’s 100 Gigabit per second platform, Ohio's and the other organizations' ability to analyze this data and collaborate globally increases exponentially.”
Katerina Manoff

Behavior Management Software - ClassDojo - 3 views

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    Check out this edtech start-up: I spoke to the founder today, and their philosophy sounds like it's right out of T-545. It's all about promoting intrinsic motivation for positive classroom behaviors and increasing kids' engagement through technology and immediate feedback.
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    David Rose featured this in a 560 lecture and I spoke a little about how I use it at homeschool. I don't use the negative behavior options and D. Rose said Skinner did not think negative reinforcement was useful. I use it as a way of facilitating conversation around positive actions that promote a pleasant social environment.
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