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Jason Outlaw

Formal vs informal education - 0 views

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Informal Education Formal Education

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  • Jason Outlaw on 22 Sep 10
     
    I came across this article that talks about informal education vs. formal education based up on the experience of two siblings. It seems to me that over the past few years, the amount of learning materials has increased exponentially, and the my supplemental-informal education parallels my classroom / formal education. Perhaps it is time to begin to start training students to deal with infinite information, and to make it manageable so that they can begin to supplement their educations in novel ways, on their own terms.
Jennifer Jocz

Moving Toward a New Vision of Education - US News and World Report - 0 views

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  • the studies carried out at compulsory education level were not able to show the transformation and improvement of learning in schools that had been promised as a result of incorporating technology into the classroom
  • they are usually integrated in such a way as to continue with current methods, and not to overturn them in any significant way
  • Jennifer Jocz on 16 Sep 09
     
    Describes a group looking at the role of technology in both formal and informal educational settings.
Cameron Paterson

A Case for Disruptive Education - 3 views

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  • Cameron Paterson on 30 Oct 10
     
    A system for personalized learning will not grow from inside formal education. Education is like a field that's been overplanted, with only patches of fertile soil. Too many stakeholders (parents, Unions, adhow to change, acting like weeds or plagues that choke off plant growth. The fresh and fertile soil of the open web can foster the quick growth of a personalized learning system. ministration, faculty) compete with each other with various ideas about
Katherine Tarulli

4 Ways QR Codes Could Revolutionize Education - 4 views

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Smart phone technology education school formal emerging

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  • Katherine Tarulli on 07 Sep 11
     
    This article outlines four ways that Quick Response codes scanned with smart phones could be used in formal education settings. The ideas are intriguing, such as keeping track of a students work throughout their school career and opening up lines of communication to parents.
  • Bridget Binstock on 08 Sep 11
     
    I love the idea of a educational career portfolio using this technology. Can you imagine sending your QR code along with a college application to get a true picture of the type of student you have been and can become? The idea of using the QR codes with parents sounds like a great alternative to all the papers that get sent home (and lost) throughout the year, I just wonder what percentage of parents are equipped to handle that type of technology use.
Chris McEnroe

How to Rescue Education Reform - NYTimes.com - 2 views

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  • No Child Left Behind also let states use statistical gimmicks to report performance
  • ” federal financing should be conditioned on truth in advertisin
  • To shed light on equity and cost-effectiveness, states should be required to report school- and district-level spending; the resources students receive should be disclosed, not only their achievement.
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  • efforts to reduce inequities have too often led to onerous and counterproductive micromanagement.
  • it comes to brain science, language acquisition or the impact of computer-assisted tutoring, federal financing for reliable research is essential. 
  • , competitive federal grants that support innovation while providing political cover for school boards, union leaders and others to throw off anachronistic routines.
  • , dictates from Congress turn into gobbledygook as they travel from the Education Department to state education agencies and then to local school districts
  • it’s not surprising that well-intentioned demands for “bold” federal action on school improvement have a history of misfiring. They stifle problem-solving, encourage bureaucratic blame avoidance and often do more harm than good.
  • Chris McEnroe on 06 Dec 11
     
    The headline promises more than the article delivers. It mainly identifies the limited effectiveness that the federal government can have. There are no specific "how to's" here and no mention of technology whatsoever, perhaps because that would be too specific a focus for the scope of the article. These are prominent figures in a prominent publication having a conversation that could have taken place in 1980. How do we change that? The absence of real civic engagement on issues about education is the missing link in education reform. I wonder if we can organize public discourse on the internet more effectively to have formal impact on civic activism and administration.
Devon Dickau

Google Instant search feeds our real-time addiction - CNN.com - 0 views

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technology education Google search instant knowledge predictive customized

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  • By providing results before a query is complete and removing the need to hit the "enter" key, Google claims users will save two to five seconds per search
    • Devon Dickau
      Devon Dickau on 12 Sep 10
       
      Two to five seconds to hit Enter?  In a society obsessed with saving time, even mere seconds are perceived as valuable.
  • Web connections have become significantly faster over time
  • Web connections have become significantly faster over time
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  • quick status updates
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      Devon Dickau on 12 Sep 10
       
      Are the speed and brevity of these messages bypassing the potential exploration of a certain topic area in-depth, or is very topic only superficial?
  • many social sites now use our social connections to recommend content to us without the need to seek it out
    • Devon Dickau
      Devon Dickau on 12 Sep 10
       
      Search engines do the work for us.  We don't even need to know how to find the information ourselves these days.
  • What's more, this feature enables truly personalized discovery by taking into account your search history, location and other factors -- Google is essentially emulating social networks by trying to predict what we're looking for without the need to submit a fully-formed search
  • The next step of search is doing this automatically. When I walk down the street, I want my smartphone to be doing searches constantly: 'Did you know ... ?' 'Did you know ... ?' 'Did you know ... ?' 'Did you know ... ?
    • Devon Dickau
      Devon Dickau on 12 Sep 10
       
      Constant delivery of knowledge.
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      Devon Dickau on 12 Sep 10
       
      In thinking about evolving technology in terms of both formal and informal education, I question whether or not constant and immediate access to information is improving or harming individual knowledge.  By this I mean that because we can so easily search for something online, what motivation is there to actually know anything.  If we have Wikipedia on our phones, and know HOW to find it, can't we just spend 30 seconds finding the page and "know" something for topic of conversation, or a test?  What is the point, then, or learning, of retaining knowledge?  I feel that this may be a problem in coming generations.  What knowledge will our students actually feel they need to retain? I took solace in the fact that at least we have to learn and teach HOW to find the information, but with new technologies like predictive and instant searching, it almost seems like that is a skill that will soon become unneeded as well.  We might as well just be physically plugged in to the Internet with access to all information simultaneously. Thoughts from the group?
Jennifer Bartecchi

How NBC Is Using Instagram to Report the 2012 Election - Businessweek - 0 views

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  • Jennifer Bartecchi on 07 Nov 12
     
    Interesting and innovative use of Instagram for more formal purposes - a nice example for education to consider for its own purposes?
Emma Heeschen

Julian Sefton-Green - Learning in Out-of-School Contexts: Education in Non-Formal Setti... - 0 views

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  • Emma Heeschen on 03 Dec 12
     
    Webinar about out of school learning. Will also be archived by DML.
Jason Dillon

change.mooc.ca ~ #change11 - 0 views

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  • Jason Dillon on 22 Oct 12
     
    This is the link to a MOOC orchestrated by Stephen Downes, "Change in Formal Education Systems". Unlike the MOOCs that are getting all the press, like Coursera and EdX which are largely replicating a model that pushes content to the learner, this MOOC is actually trying to change the dynamics of teacher-learner interactions. The live session described here is about interaction. "Interaction - The various types and methods by which interaction is supported in formal education, especially student-student, student-content and student-teacher interactions. We look especially at the capacity to substitute one form of interaction for another based on funding, time subject and context."
Mohammad Hussain

The hole in the wall - 2 views

www.ted.com/...he_child_driven_education.html

computer education

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  • Mydhili Bayyapunedi on 14 Sep 10
     
    Here is a follow up on this topic of how children learn best when collaborating - this time in a formal setting - http://spotlight.macfound.org/blog/entry/student-centered_learning_in_the_digital_age/ These studies/examples push further the question around technology and if that can replace a teacher. Its perhaps really hard to answer that question with one answer for the various kinds of learning spaces.
  • Mohammad Hussain on 08 Nov 10
     
    Children can teach themselves; education in non-traditional way; child driven education.
Trung Tran

Common Market for MOOCs - 1 views

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  • Trung Tran on 17 Oct 13
     
    Europeans examining a very important feature in MOOCs: credit transfer and its formal system
Bridget Binstock

When expected network reliability and security goes awry - 1 views

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technology education server reliability RIM bandwidth

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  • Bridget Binstock on 15 Oct 11
     
    This opinion article attacks RIM (Blackberry) for the outage fiasco experienced earlier this week and it got me thinking about the server outages, latency, bandwidth issues that schools face routinely even when trying to upgrade their infrastructure to meet the demands of today's technology. If education adopts mobile devices as essential or central tools in the formal learning space, how might the frequency of "dead zones" or transmittal issues effect the synchronous advantage of using such devices in class? If RIM had issues, I guess maybe it just adds one more layer of complexity and consideration to the integration of mobile technology into the classroom that will have to be accounted for and more importantly - tolerated?
  • pradeepg on 15 Oct 11
     
    While this is a factor to consider, we must consider the frequency of such outages.
Brandon Pousley

EmTech Preview: Another Way to Think about Learning - 0 views

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  • Brandon Pousley on 03 Oct 12
     
    Interesting to wonder how much effective learning technologies can teach children with no formal schooling whatsoever.
Maung Nyeu

Founder Institute's Requirement - Create a Company - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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technology education educational_technology t561

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  • Maung Nyeu on 29 Jul 12
     
    Founder Institute goes global using technology and helps entrepreneurs create their own companies.
  • Kasthuri Gopalaratnam on 30 Jul 12
     
    Maung, Thanks for sharing this article. I liked the basic premise but also agreed with the comment by Babson College President "the vast majority of ventures take more than that amount of time [ 4 months] to become operational businesses people can be proud of". I think this 4 month program can be nicely incorporated as a course in a formal entrepreneurship program.
Jacqueline Mason

Formally Modeling Pretend Object Play - 0 views

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  • Jacqueline Mason on 21 Oct 13
     
    Building computational agents that are capable of play-- the promise and impediments.
Uche Amaechi

Non-Formal Education in African Development. Report of a Survey. - 0 views

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  • Uche Amaechi on 27 Aug 09
     
    Sheffield 1972
Rupangi Sharma

Sugata Mitra shows how kids teach themselves - 1 views

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  • Jennifer Lavalle on 08 Sep 11
     
    Saw this over the summer and thought it raised some good questions about IEP initiatives, a child's ability to learn technical frameworks without explicit instruction, community engagement, technological innovation in impoverished areas, etc.
  • Rupangi Sharma on 10 Sep 12
     
    Speaking at LIFT 2007, Sugata Mitra talks about his Hole in the Wall project. Young kids in this project figured out how to use a PC on their own -- and then taught other kids. He asks, what else can children teach themselves? Sugata Mitra's "Hole in the Wall" experiments have shown that, in the absence of supervision or formal teaching, children can teach themselves and each other, if they're motivated by curiosity and peer interest.
  • Cole Shaw on 10 Sep 12
     
    I thought this was a great video when I watched it. Very interesting experiment. It reminded me of how I know people who learned other languages through their love of music--they just memorized song lyrics and practiced until they figured out the language!
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