New Survey: Half of Teachers Use Digital Games in Class - 1 views
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Briana Pressey on 02 May 12Based on a survey by the Joan Ganz Cooney Center
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Education Week: Digital Gaming in Classrooms Seen Gaining Popularity - 2 views
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Cooney center survey digital games classroom
The Professors Behind the MOOC Hype - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views
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Chronicle of Higher Ed's results from a survey of MOOC professors.
Rise in E-Book Readership Is Good News for Reading Over All, Report Says - Wired Campus... - 0 views
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Although print books win out (in survey) when reading to children... I just met a 5th grader who described reading more because of her Kindle.
Speak Up Reports - 0 views
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The second part of Project Tomorrow's Speak Up 2011 report (based on a national survey of teachers, librarians and administrators), was just released. This part focuses on how "today's educators are personalizing the learning process for students," and how they are personalizing the classroom experience with online, socially-networked media and digital content.
Media Engagement Barometer - 0 views
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Survey reveals shift in media consumption habits across generations... my gran uses email at 92 so....
University World News - US: Women gain in science while video games hold back boys - 0 views
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Last year, Iowa State University researcher Douglas Gentile published a survey of American 8-to-18 year-olds which found 12% of boys were video-game addicted, having at least six symptoms out of 11, similar to a scale for gambling addiction. Yet only 3% of girls were video game addicts.
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Robert Weis and Brittany C Cerankosky of Denison University measured a group of boys' academic baseline achievement and surveyed their parents and teachers as well. They then gave half the boys video-game units. Boys receiving the video-game stations experienced an academic nosedive. The control group of boys without video games continued with solid schoolwork.
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Although this study is just correlative, it still poses some interesting questions about video games and academic achievement.
Education Week: Digital Gaming in Classrooms Seen Gaining Popularity - 4 views
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Game on!
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Definition of "digital games" probably too broad... but three video case studies of teachers using "games" referenced in article worth watching: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA3C69D48D4FFE87E
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Agreed about the definition. However, "Almost all the teachers surveyed who said they used games reported that they used ones specifically designed for education, and the games most often corresponded with literacy and reading (50%) and math (35%).", which is encouraging. Kurt Squire is correct in that the data may include a good number of 'trivial games', but that is probably to be expected since the biggest barriers seems to be cost (50% respondents) and technology (46%).
Digital Learning: What Kids Really Want - 3 views
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Data from Project Tomorrow's Speak Up Survey outlining what kids really want when it comes to technology and digital learning
10 building blocks for employee engagement - 0 views
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Surveys show a high percentage of people in the work force are not engaged in their work. They are simply going through the motions for a paycheque. This article uses many of the same strategies that we discuss as effective for students, but this if for the workforce.
Your Facebook profile: An open invite to crime? - Technotica- msnbc.com - 0 views
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consider how you, yourself may be actively violating not only our personal privacy, but your physical existence with the stuff you post on social networks every single day.
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Thirty-eight percent of the Facebook and Twitter users surveyed posted their holiday plans online, and 33 percent shared information about weekends away. "Coupled with the finding that an alarmingly high proportion of users are prepared to be 'friends' online with people they don't really know, this presents a serious risk to the security of people's home and contents," the insurance company said in a statement.
Superwoman syndrome fuels pill-popping - Behavior- msnbc.com - 0 views
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While men make up the majority of abusers of street drugs, including meth, cocaine and heroin, women are just as likely to abuse prescription pills as men.
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tudies show that women are more likely — in some cases, 55 percent more likely — to be prescribed an abusable prescription drug, especially narcotics and anti-anxiety drugs.
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Abuse of prescription drugs has risen right along with increases in the number of prescriptions for stimulants and painkillers seen since the early '90s,
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