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Chris Dede

Social Networking in Schools: Incentives for Participation -- THE Journal - 0 views

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social networking schools incentives

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  • Chris Dede on 17 Sep 09
     
    how educators can foster social networking tools in school settings
Jaclyn Ruszala

1-to-1 Computing: Turning Around School Technology - 6 views

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  • Bridget Binstock on 07 Dec 11
     
    This article explains why the district chose laptops over tablet and how the community is helping to turn the schools around.
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  • Allison Browne on 08 Dec 11
     
    This is a very throrough article.If replaceing computers every 4 years and maintaining them is only 4% of the budget, I wonder what all the resistence is to schools maintaining computers. Is 4% still too much? Is 4% specific to this Alabama district? Also, I felt individualized instruction for foreign language would be the best way to transition a school towards networked individualized learning in a school environment. It's silly that everyone in elementary schools has to take the same language simply because there is only one foreign language teacher. Instead of a Spanish teacher you would need to hire multi-lingual specialists who are able to monitor langauge acquisition. Cool future!
  • Kasthuri Gopalaratnam on 09 Dec 11
     
    "The teachers that were involved said that if every kid had their own computer, we could do amazing things". It would be interesting to know if the teachers presented some concrete ideas of 'amazing things'. It would also be interesting to know whether they have a bank of spare laptops to loan to the students while the defective ones are getting fixed. I have a feeling that in the not-so-distant future the choice between a tablet and a computer may become a moot point. The hardware that powers a MacBook Air and iPad is very similar. We have laptops that double as tablets and tablets that are paired with a keyboard to be used as a laptop. Eventually these two will merge.
  • Billie Fitzpatrick on 19 Dec 11
     
    Great overview of the issues -- I agree with Kasthuri -- I think the issue will become moot
Jennifer Jocz

Social Networking in Schools: Incentives for Participation -- THE Journal - 0 views

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  • Jennifer Jocz on 17 Sep 09
     
    Provides a good overview of some social networks used in education
Lindsey Dunn

Teamie | The Collaborative Learning Network - 0 views

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  • Lindsey Dunn on 24 Sep 12
     
    Social Network for teachers in schools? An interesting approach to learning communities. I'm interested to see how schools are using this tool. 
Chris McEnroe

k12wiki - Social Networking Acceptable Use - 0 views

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acceptable use social networks in school Online tools collaboration policy web2.0 wiki school2.0 acceptable_use

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  • Chris McEnroe on 18 Oct 11
     
    Many of the schools with which I come in to contact- including mine- reinvent the wheel when it comes to acceptable use policy at great expense of time and often little influence of "best practice." Why not make use of the good work and attention that has been deliberated by other educators who have already wrestled through the problem.
Billy Gerchick

10 Tech Skills Every Student Should Have - 5 views

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  • 1. Internet Search - students need to know how to do a proper internet search, using search terms and modifiers. This skill is needed for school, work and life in general.
  • 2. Office Suite Skills - students need to now how to create, edit, and modify documents, presentations, and spreadsheets. Businesses still use MS Office for the most part, but iWorks, OpenOffice / LibreOffice, and Google Docs are all getting more popular. They all work similarly so the learning curve when switching isn't that big.
  • 3. Self learning of tech and where to go for help - knowing how to search a help menu on software or hardware, where to go to find user forums for help, and where to find the manual for technology is a huge skill that many do not know about.
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  • 6. Netiquette - Internet/Email/Social Media etiquette - proper way to use the internet, write professional emails, use social media in relation to your job (not complaining about the boss).
  • 5. Social Media - how to properly use social media for school and work, how to protect yourself on it, the issues of cyberbullying, connecting with others in your profession (PLN).
  • 4. Typing - yes, typing. I can get much more work done since I know how to type, then people who don't.
  • 7. Security and Safety - antivirus, spam, phishing, too much personal information sharing, stalkers, and more are all issues they need to know about.
  • 8. Hardware basics and troubleshooting - knowing what different parts of technology are called, how to make minor fixes, and how to do basic troubleshooting for WiFi, networks, OS won't load, etc
  • 9. Backup data - with all of the data that students create for school and work, it is important to back it up and have access to it at any time
  • 10. Finding apps and software - how to find, evaluate, and use apps for school and business. Also, how to find quality, free alternatives to paid software, apps and services.
  • Billy Gerchick on 10 Feb 12
     
    Gateway source for all students: high school and college composition and journalism and student of life. Bookmark this source and then bookmark the hyperlinks in this article. Do you have the 10 (11 for the bonus) tech skills down? I certainly can improve in some of these areas.
Maung Nyeu

An open letter to Peter Thiel - The Washington Post - 0 views

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  • Maung Nyeu on 16 Oct 11
     
    "We can do to schools what PayPal did to banks and do to college networks what Facebook did to friendships. We can now make education affordable and pervasive. All this requires is investment in the right technologies and the type of mentoring and support being provided to students, such as the Thiel fellows. You could impact the lives of billions" - Vivek Wadhwa, Senior Research Associate at Harvard Law School and Director of Research at Duke University's Center for Entrepreneurship.
Mydhili Bayyapunedi

Ed 2.0 Social networking and education - 1 views

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technology educational_technology Facebook social social networking education 2.0

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  • Mydhili Bayyapunedi on 02 Nov 10
     
    Great article along with an infographic on the usage of social network in US education "Wikis are an excellent tool for open collaboration and knowledge sharing because they allow everyone to contribute. Roughly 22 percent of United States school districts are involved in creating or maintaining wikis. Educational wikis give teachers and students a place to contribute to the community on the ideas and projects they are working on in the classroom. Wikis teach students how teamwork and collaboration benefit society through knowledge sharing."
Chris Dede

E-Rate funding needs speedy recovery to get schools up to par | Other Views | NewsObser... - 1 views

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  • Chris Dede on 10 Sep 13
     
    Key choices are now being made about the E-Rate in terms of both amount of funding and how that money can be used. I and others are advocating that E-Rate should fund mobile devices and networking outside of schools.
Irina Uk

Mobile phones in the classroom: teachers share their tips | Teacher Network Blog | Guar... - 0 views

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  • Irina Uk on 13 Sep 12
     
    This article describes example of schools that implemented mobile technology into their classrooms, which descriptions of changing policies and uses.
Laura Johnson

Edmodo And Common Sense Media Begin Offering Free Teaching Tools - 0 views

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  • Laura Johnson on 26 Sep 12
     
    Edmodo And Common Sense Media Partner (the authors of the 0-8 report some of us read for Joe Blatt's class this week) to offer free teaching tools based on Dr. Howard Gardner's work at HGSE. The partnership provides teachers with a set of student activities based on Common Sense Media's free K-12 curriculum, "Digital Literacy and Citizenship in a Connected Culture," for the Edmodo platform. The curriculum introduces the basics of using social networks and other digital technologies safely, responsibly and respectfully and is based on the work of Dr. Howard Gardner and the GoodPlay Project at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Ashley Lee

New Class(room) War: Teacher vs. Technology - New York Times - 2 views

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  • Ashley Lee on 07 Dec 09
     
    Conflicting attitudes toward students who "multi-task" with mobile devices in classroom. "All the advances schools and colleges have made to supposedly enhance learning - supplying students with laptops, equipping computer labs, creating wireless networks - have instead enabled distraction. Perhaps attendance records should include a new category: present but otherwise engaged."
Stephen Bresnick

New tablet makes most of 4G service - The Boston Globe - 1 views

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  • Stephen Bresnick on 03 Nov 11
     
    Here is a brand new competitor for iPad, the Jetstream from HTC. This tablet takes advantage of AT&T's 4G data network, but its price tag is a steep $849. However, AS WITH ALL DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGIES< THE MORE COMPETITORS THERE ARE, THE MORE THE PRICE IS DRIVEN DOWN. So, perhaps this is good news for the future of tablets in schools...
Maria Bueno

Two Struggling Schools Got Two Different Results With Ed Tech - 2 views

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  • Maria Bueno on 17 Oct 13
     
    In the beginning, they had a great environment in the classroom using the online software. Later, as more classrooms/users began using online program simultaneously the network failed. Every school is different!
Junjie Liu

Networked Students - 0 views

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  • Junjie Liu on 15 Nov 12
     
    A youtube video demonstrating how a 21st-century high school students integrate all kinds of online tools and resources to study Psychology.
Nick Siewert

Nationwide: Computers Increase Students' Temptation To Cheat -- Courant.com - 0 views

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  • Nick Siewert on 30 Oct 09
     
    Tecahers must now learn how to craft assignments which do not lend themselves easily to cheating. Dealing with network security issues is probably the easier task of the two.
Chris McEnroe

µTorrent 3.0 - µTorrent - a (very) tiny BitTorrent client - 2 views

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  • Chris McEnroe on 29 Oct 11
     
    Does anyone have any experience with this tool. It looks like a very interesting example of a Intelligent Web Filtering. Wow! Good side is that this is like Tivo for the web. Bad side is that you better have nothing else to do but look at the web. Also an interesting take on Personal Learning Networks.
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  • Bharat Battu on 30 Oct 11
     
    I am familiar with BitTorrent, and it's interesting Chris that you came about it excited for its uses in education. But have you read or heard about the controversy surrounding it? In a nutshell- BitTorrent is a technology that allows large collections of files and data to be shared across the internet in a decentralized, peer-to-peer manner. A person who has the original files decides to share them via BitTorrent, so others can download from him/her. But as the others begin downloading the files, they also start sharing the pieces they've downloaded with the ever-growing set of new users asking for the file. BitTorrent works like a growing web- in order to download files shared via BitTorrent - you have to share the pieces you get with others. More downloaders = more uploaders as well, ensuring popular files will always be accessible. The benefits - this is cheap and decentralized, no need to pay to host the files on the web. The users who have the file are sharing the file from their own computers with others requesting it. And this can be permanent - if you host a BitTorrent to share a file, you have that sharing channel last forever (not relying on external services that cost $ or can be shut down).
  • Bharat Battu on 30 Oct 11
     
    BitTorrent is a really powerful technology that allows large amounts of files and data to be shared quickly with a limitless number of people. It's scalability at no cost. Could be a great tool for educators to share content across the globe in a hassle-free way. Even the folks at Khan Academy are excited to use it: from: http://blog.vipeers.com/vipeers/2008/10/bittorrent-is-a.html "For Khan Academy, BitTorrent was a natural extension for it stated mission of "a world-class education for anyone anywhere," Sal Khan tells Fast Company. Kahn was excited for activist educators to be able to download the Academy's entire portforlio, burn it on a CD, and distribute it to rural or underdeveloped areas otherwise unable to access it without a broadband connection. "I think the single most fun thing about BitTorrent," Khan adds, "is this content will never die. A nuclear bomb could hit our offices tomorrow and could take down our servers, but its going to sitting somewhere in the world on somebody's server." He added, "We don't care about monetizing the content; we just care that it gets used."
  • Bharat Battu on 30 Oct 11
     
    But despite the prospects of BitTorrent being a great technology to allow sharing of digital content freely, to allow downloading of vast amounts of data that can then be stored offline and shared with anyone... the rest of the article (http://blog.vipeers.com/vipeers/2008/10/bittorrent-is-a.html) mentions that Google was unhappy with Khan's decision to use BitTorrent. Google actually blacklists BitTorrent content from its searches, and so is actually blacklisting Khan Academy content, despite being a recent financial backer of Khan. Why? This is the controversy: BitTorrent's power to share digital content in a decentralized way, where the more popular a file is, the faster it'll spread-- has led it to become the most popular method of digital piracy out there today. This has quickly become the most common use of BitTorrent, far exceeding the sharing of legitimate digital content. It's become a nightmare for the movie, music, software, and video gaming industries. A summary of the legal issues surrounding BitTorrent: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_issues_with_BitTorrent
  • Chris McEnroe on 30 Oct 11
     
    Hey Bharat, I am so glad I asked. I had no idea. Very interesting. New dimension to the concept of free knowledge vs. intellectual property. I think the kids at my school are using this to share music. I'll have to check it out. I find this conflict- "Google actually blacklists BitTorrent content from its searches, and so is actually blacklisting Khan Academy content, despite being a recent financial backer of Khan. " so intriguing. At first glance it looked to me like a vision of networked learning that was aimed at an authentic task with authentic participants (as portrayed by actors :).
Maung Nyeu

Knewton Strikes A Deal To Power Pearson's Digital Education Courses | TechCrunch - 1 views

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  • Maung Nyeu on 02 Nov 11
     
    The partnership of Knewton and publisher Pearson will give a boost to digital textbooks and online course materials. The objective is to present educational content personalized to each student's learning pace and abilities. This deal will give it access to millions of students for the first time. Knewton uses alogrithm to personalize education, and the Pearson deal will give it access to millions of titles to create the network effects necessary for its algorithms to be adopted.
  • Bridget Binstock on 02 Nov 11
     
    This is HUGE! School for One will have a run for its money against the breadth and depth of content that Pearson has that can be tied to individualized learning through this type of algorithm and logic! Its a nice place for Pearson (and me) to be!
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