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Natalie Hebshie

Sal Khan: Bill Gates' favorite teacher - Aug. 24, 2010 - 3 views

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  • Amanda Valverde on 06 Sep 10
     
    After reading this I wonder what other resources there are online for learning all those things that I have found difficult to master in my life.
  • Natalie Hebshie on 27 Sep 10
     
    A great read and resource that came up through another one of my classes. The Harvard Business School grad makes free online videos that explore math and science concepts. Bill Gates is a big fan.
Anushka Paul

Edufire: an open platform for teaching and learning - 1 views

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  • Anushka Paul on 14 Sep 10
     
    Edufire is an open platform that connects students and teachers from around the world and enables teachers to tutor over the internet. Initiatives like this one, support Bill Gates' view that in 5 years the best education will come from the Web. (Reference this article: http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/06/bill-gates-education/)
Maung Nyeu

Gates and Hewlett Foundations Focus on Online Learning - NYTimes.com - 3 views

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shared by Maung Nyeu on 29 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Maung Nyeu on 29 Oct 11
     
    The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and four nonprofit education organizations are investing to accelerate the development online learning tools. According to Mr. Gates, "Innovation is our only hope", and "And the nly new game in town is Technology."
  • Bridget Binstock on 29 Oct 11
     
    The link within the article to the hybrid education 2.0 article really speaks to the new "badge" movement online. What they say makes sense in support for these. Will be interesting to see how this evolves.
Mirza Ramic

MOOCs Could Help 2-Year Colleges and Their Students, Says Bill Gates - Technology - The... - 2 views

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  • Mirza Ramic on 04 Oct 13
     
    Bill Gates on MOOCs.
Mydhili Bayyapunedi

Bill Gates - What I'm Thinking - Improving College Completion in the U.S. - The Gates N... - 1 views

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  • I’m excited about an initiative announced this week – Next Generation Learning Challenges – that will accelerate the integration of technology in ways that substantially improve learning. The foundation joined with several education organizations and other funders to establish Next Generation Learning Challenges. Its objective is to identify the most promising uses of technology in education and expand them to reach more students, teachers, and schools.
Yang Jiang

Gates and Hewlett Foundations Focus on Online Learning - NYTimes.com - 4 views

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shared by Yang Jiang on 13 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and four nonprofit education organizations are beginning an ambitious initiative to address that challenge by accelerating the development and use of online learning tools.
  • Just how effective technology can be in improving education — by making students more effective, more engaged learners — is a subject of debate. To date, education research shows that good teachers matter a lot, class size may be less important than once thought and nothing improves student performance as much as one-on-one human tutoring.
Heather French

Gates, MOOCs and Remediation - 1 views

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  • Cole Shaw on 15 Sep 12
     
    Looks like there is some funding available to scientifically evaluate MOOCs for remedial education! I think the results will be interesting to see, since I remember from discussion or a reading that some ed tech seems to work for autism and special needs students...so maybe MOOCs also have a niche.
  • Heather French on 17 Sep 12
     
    The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation is offering ten grants for MOOCs that reach lower achievers in schools.
Malik Hussain

8 Great TED Talks About The Future Of Education And Teaching | Emerging Education Techn... - 0 views

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  • Malik Hussain on 14 Oct 12
     
    Some interesting videos on this topic from Sir Ken Robinson, Conrad Wolfram, Salman Khan, Bill Gates and others.
Maung Nyeu

GPS Special: Fixing education - Global Public Square - CNN.com Blogs - 0 views

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  • Maung Nyeu on 07 Nov 11
     
    CNN on "Fixing Education." Secrets of Seoul and Mr. Bill Gates focus on teachers.
anonymous

International Society for Technology in Education Group News | LinkedIn - 2 views

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  • anonymous on 15 Oct 10
     
    Bill Gates: In Five Years The Best Education Will Come From The Web
Anushka Paul

New Initiative Will Advance the Best Uses of Technology to Improve College Readiness an... - 0 views

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  • Anushka Paul on 21 Oct 10
     
    The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Next Generation Learning Challenges, a collaborative, multi-year initiative, which aims to help dramatically improve college readiness and college completion in the United States through the use of technology.
Maung Nyeu

Apple Woos Educators With Trips to Silicon Valley - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • Maung Nyeu on 05 Nov 11
     
    After School officias from Little Falls, Minn., visited Apple HQ, they decided to spend $1.2m on 1700 iPads. Late Mr. Jobs in an interview with Wired mangazine said, "what's wrong with education cannot be fixed with technology." "Mr. Jobs blamed teachers' unions for the decline in education." Walter Issacson, the biographer of Steve Jobs, writes Bill Gates and Steve Jobs "agreed that computers had, so far, made surprisingly little impact on schools - far less than on other realms of society such as media and medicine and law."
Danna Ortiz

What to test instead - Ideas - The Boston Globe - 2 views

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  • A new wave of test designers believe they can measure creativity, problem solving, and collaboration – and that a smarter exam could change education.
  • Reengineering tests has become a kind of calling for a group of educators and researchers around the country. With millions of dollars of funding from the federal government, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, as well as from firms like Cisco Systems, Intel, and Microsoft, they have set about rethinking what a test can do, what it can look like, and what qualities it can assess.
  • computer simulations, games, and stealth monitoring
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  • Chris Dede at Harvard
  • Such predictions require a clear sense of the qualities a person needs in order to thrive.
  • There are just a lot fewer jobs where you’re not doing information-seeking, interpreting, problem-solving, and communication than in the past.”
  • engineer tests
  • equire people to exercise a bundle of complex skills at the same time,
  • rafting computer programs that take advantage of so-called stealth assessment, a method of judging test-takers without telling them exactly what’s being judged.
  • When we test, we’re really probing for certain qualities—the particular mix of knowledge and ability—that tell us a student is ready to move ahead, or an employee will be an asset to the firm.
  • developed a 3D video game to test scientific skills
  • students
  • evaluated
  • rocess they go through to attack a problem.
  • Harvard developmental psychologist Howard Gardner participated in an effort to design new kinds of tests in the humanities that could be graded objectively.
  • Ultimately, he found that the nuance required to measure softer skills collided with the demands of standardization.
  • A test becomes a sign post,
  • t becomes an example of what to strive for.”
  • Danna Ortiz on 16 Sep 12
     
    How test designers are trying to move away from standardized tests to computer programs that can measure a myriad of skills simultaneously through simulations and "stealth monitoring."  Both Chris Dede and Howard Gardner are mentioned.
Josh Tappan

Enhancing Student Success in Online Learning - 4 views

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shared by Josh Tappan on 23 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • Josh Tappan on 23 Sep 13
     
    With funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, SRI International is conducting a study investigating to what extent, why, when, and how online learning models that target Algebra 1 work or do not work for different student populations, especially those that are historically disadvantaged or underserved.
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