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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.
Chris Dede

Using Farmville to Teach Standards | Edutopia - 2 views

www.edutopia.org/...mville-standards-linda-deneher

farmville standards learning curriculum

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  • Chris Dede on 26 Feb 11
     
    very popular amusement game may have educational value
  • Yang Jiang on 01 Mar 11
     
    This game seems to be very similar to a popular farm game in China. The different types of motivation (such as coin rewards) remind me of the extrinsic and intrinsic motivations mentioned in today's class.
Stephanie Fitzgerald

Glory, A History Board Game - Kickstarter - 0 views

www.kickstarter.com/...s-presents-glory-a-history-boa

education engagement video games history board game

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  • Stephanie Fitzgerald on 14 Apr 12
     
    This Kickstarter project aims to fund a standards-aligned history board game that engages students. The free companion web application will track students' progress, allowing for differentiated instruction while making the game "fun to play again and again: as players answer question cards, they earn badges and can unlock new careers and powers. The game becomes a story, a competition, and a World History simulation with limitless possibilities."
Kiran Patwardhan

All New FASTT Math® Next Generation Helps Students Achieve Math Fact Fluency,... - 0 views

www.marketwatch.com/...mmon-core-standards-2012-04-25

education technology games

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  • Kiran Patwardhan on 26 Apr 12
     
    Scholastic Education, the leading provider of instructional technology for schools in the U.S., today announces FASTT Math® Next Generation, a significantly upgraded version of the country's premier math fact fluency program.
Parisa Rouhani

Texas Conservatives Win Vote on Textbook Standards - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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conservative textbooks

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  • social studies curriculum that will put a conservative stamp on history and economics textbooks, stressing the role of Christianity in American history and presenting Republican political philosophies in a more positive light.
  • Republicans on the board have passed more than 160 amendments to the 120-page curriculum standards affecting history, sociology and economics courses from elementary to high school.
  • They are rewriting history, not only of Texas but of the United States and the world.
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  • reviewed every decade
  • conservative members maintain that they are trying to correct what they see as a liberal bias among the teachers who proposed the curriculum
Chris McEnroe

The Future of Education Isn't Free. It's Open. | Stephen Laster | LinkedIn - 0 views

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  • simple solution to accelerate open edtech for everyone is to support technology standards
  • open standards ensures that educators and students can determine what’s most effective
  • What seems like a simple concern of IT departments has serious implications for learning.
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      Chris McEnroe on 30 Jan 16
       
      In my experience, this where the dysfunction of the relationship between It professionals and academic designers/educators will manifest.  Unless the health of this communication stream is supported directly, the gears of academic technology will crunch like a torn rotator cuff, causing every bit as much pain and chagrin. 
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  • open is technology or content that can integrate painlessly with other resources.
  • Often, they’re unable to use the technology that works best for their students because they’re locked into systems they’ve used in the past or because the complexity of creating a seamless classroom overwhelms them.
    • Chris McEnroe
      Chris McEnroe on 30 Jan 16
       
      Amen. 
  • Closed and rigid learning technology can keep students and educators stuck in place and create frustration.
    • Chris McEnroe
      Chris McEnroe on 30 Jan 16
       
      Self-fulfilling the prophesy of some that technology is an expensive waste of attention- when in fact it simply requires a more refined attention to realize its potential. 
Lisa Schnoll

EdNET Insight | The Evolution of Games in Educational Publishing - 0 views

www.ednetinsight.com/...in-educational-publishing.html

education technology games video games

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  • On a marketing level, barriers to access have largely disappeared. In the old days, games were played on CD-ROMs, and few classrooms had computers. When Internet-delivered games first came out, schools had inadequate bandwidth, they struggled with administrative permissions issues, and there were not enough computers to go around. Now, computers are ubiquitous, broadband is standard, and permissions controls have been mastered.
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  • is that gaming can be a powerful medium for this kind of learnin
  • Lisa Schnoll on 08 Feb 13
     
    This is a nice article expressing one opinion on where games in educational publishing is going!
Chris McEnroe

Clemson Newsroom - 1 views

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  • 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.”
Kate O'Donnell

Therapist-free therapy - 1 views

www.economist.com/18276234

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  • Kate O'Donnell on 02 May 12
     
    An article discussing various attempts at providing therapy for anxiety through computer programs and phone apps. One of the research projects targeting social anxiety is currently being conducted at the McNally Lab here at Harvard. The findings are still a little murky but I think it's a great start to providing education about and strategies for treating mental health issues to a broader audience- especially to those who otherwise have very limited or no access to help.
  • Jing Jing Tan on 02 May 12
     
    Thank you for sharing this, Kate. I'm a little skeptical about 1) the long-term effectiveness of this technology, 2) the transferability of learning/conditioning, and 3) the subtle implications of "therapist-free" therapy. The debate is similar to when educational technology was first heralded to be able to replace teachers and classrooms, when in fact technology is best supplemented by in-person guidance. It is a fascinating area of research and development though, and I look forward to seeing how this type of therapy can transform standard practice.
Lin Pang

How, and How Not, to Improve the Schools by Diane Ravitch | The New York Review of Books - 0 views

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education Finland

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  • Lin Pang on 27 Mar 12
     
    An article about what we can learn from the Finish education reform - we need to raise the standards for entry into the teaching profession, and future teachers should have intensive professional and academic preparation. Finnish teachers are driven by a sense of intrinsic motivation, not by the hope of a bonus or the fear of being fired. Intrinsic motivation is also what they seek to instill in their students.
Kasthuri Gopalaratnam

Draw Something, a New Twist on Pictionary, Charms Mobile Gamers - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • Mr. Porter attributed the game’s success to its real-time feel. Players can watch animated playbacks of their teammates trying to guess their creation before taking their turn. The word choices are another big selling point; in addition to standard selections like “orange” and “dynamite,” the game is liberally infused with pop culture references, like members of the Wu-Tang Clan and Skrillex, a dubstep DJ. “We’re also benefiting from hitting at a time when a lot of people are moving from feature phones to smartphones,” he said. Mr. Porter thinks that just as Facebook has a social graph — the people its users want to be friends with — OMGPop can learn more about its “gamer graph,” or the people their users like to play games with. “It’s really about relationships,” he said  of the game. “How well do I know you and can guess what you drew. That is part of the fun.”
  • Kasthuri Gopalaratnam on 26 Mar 12
     
    Draw Something was acquired by Zynga this week for $180 million!!!!
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 Mosier

iLearn II: An Analysis of the Education Category on Apple's App Store - 3 views

www.joanganzcooneycenter.org/Reports-33.html

ipad mobile apps technology education

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  • Chris Mosier on 30 Jan 12
     
    The Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop studied almost 200 education apps for Apple's app store. Good insight into what's in the market right now and what the current trends are.
  • Leslie Lieman on 31 Jan 12
     
    Thanks Chris! I am looking forward to reading this thoroughly. It covers so many important topics/questions from: creating standards for apps marketed as educational (right now the developers just need to say it is "educational") to a call to academia to dive into research and help design effective, high quality material for digital age learning.
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?
Brie Rivera

Wi-Fi Turns Arizona Bus Ride Into a Rolling Study Hall - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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wi-fi school bus education Arizona Vail

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  • Brie Rivera on 12 Feb 10
     
    Arizaona district putting wi-fi in school buses
  • Brie Rivera on 12 Feb 10
     
    Vail, Arizona is completely digitizing it's curriculum and has been developing it's own learning materials aligned to AZ state standards. This is the latest development!
Kellie Demmler

Panel Releases Proposal to Set U.S. Education Standards - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...11educ.html

Education academic_standards math English

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  • Kellie Demmler on 11 Mar 10
     
    Not specifically tied to this course, but interesting nonetheless.  
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