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Diego Vallejos

Special Report: Learning in the Digital Age | Scientific American Reports - 2 views

www.scientificamerican.com/...digital-education

technology education learning

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  • Diego Vallejos on 29 Sep 13
     
    Special report on the ways technology is remaking every aspect of education-bringing top-notch courses to the world's poorest citizens and reshaping the way all students learn
Simon Rodberg

Two books relevant to class today - 0 views

1) Bror Saxberg has a new book coming out in a couple of months: "Breakthrough Leadership in the Digital Age," with one of my favorite education authors, Rick Hess. An excerpt is here: http://blogs...

education scale

started by Simon Rodberg on 04 Nov 13 no follow-up yet
Sammi Biegler

BBC NEWS | Technology | Youth speak out on digital divide - 0 views

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Digital divide Developing countries

shared by Sammi Biegler on 18 Sep 09 - Cached
  • simultaneously amazed by and afraid of modern technological advances
    • Sammi Biegler
      Sammi Biegler on 18 Sep 09
       
      It's a novel concept to see youths afraid of technology- in America, this attitude is usually reserved for parents, teachers, and other non-digital-natives...
  • these services are expensive and thus digital barriers are widening
    • Sammi Biegler
      Sammi Biegler on 18 Sep 09
       
      In America, we have tried to fix this by offering computer access in the schools. We don't have digital cafes offering computer access in many locations- typically it's just WiFi connections. Unfortunately, this means disadvantaged students are forced to complete any computer-based assignments before, during, and after school, while the building is still open.
  • Now, in the age of Internet 2.0, the web is of no use if only some people have access to it. Perhaps the digital society can help with this - I believe that promoting tele-education in our cities will help these people to get good education.
    • Sammi Biegler
      Sammi Biegler on 18 Sep 09
       
      If you're not yet familiar with it, check out the WIDE World site through HGSE. It's a good example of online learning and community building, and you might be interested in some of the topics! http://wideworld.pz.harvard.edu/en/
  • Sammi Biegler on 18 Sep 09
     
    Hi T561- a bit old, but an international perspective on the inequality of technology access across the globe. This article links in with the TIE list discussions about the One Laptop Per Child effort as well. If we want to use technology to break down international barriers, like Dede's "Microsoft of the future" film, we have to address the issue of accessibility, both across the globe and within our own student population.
Jennifer Hern

A Virtual Revolution Is Brewing for Colleges - washingtonpost.com - 0 views

www.washingtonpost.com/...AR2009091104312.html

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  • When this happens -- be it in 10 years or 20 -- we will see a structural disintegration in the academy akin to that in newspapers now. The typical 2030 faculty will likely be a collection of adjuncts alone in their apartments, using recycled syllabuses and administering multiple-choice tests from afar.
    • Xavier Rozas
      Xavier Rozas on 13 Sep 09
       
      I think this vision is at its core flawed.
  • But within the next 40 years, the majority of brick-and-mortar universities will probably find partnerships with other kinds of services, or close their doors.
    • Jennifer Hern
      Jennifer Hern on 13 Sep 09
       
      I seriously doubt colleges and universities are going to fall by the wayside into cyberspace. The article is focusing on the cost of education at these institutions instead of the quality of education. Yes, more students will have access to higher ed. degrees because they are more affordable, but setting out on your own at eighteen years of age, whether it be going to college or entering the workforce, is a long-held tradition in society. Students at universities aren't just learning about academics, they're learning about social dynamics as well. Based on my personal experience, I probably learned more about why and how people, groups, teams, and large organizations operate and interact (especially in informal settings) than I did about Milton's 15th century Morte D'Arthur. If the author is proposing that MOST high school graduates stay home for an additional two to four years before entering the real world, I think it would create a whole new set of rammifications that would negatively impact our society as a whole.
  • Jennifer Jocz on 13 Sep 09
     
    This article talks about online-learning and the ways it may change the college experience. While I agree that new technology is affecting the way our courses are run, I don't see it leading to the complete shut down of Universities. While it is wonderful that people have access to courses and resources that they may not otherwise have, I believe that there will always be a need for face-to-face interactions that one can only get from a University setting.
Chris Johnson

Levers (Physics flash game) - 1 views

www.vectorpark.com/levers

interactive education educational_technology flash games learning science physics

shared by Chris Johnson on 28 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Chris Johnson on 28 Sep 09
     
    A highly amusing flash game for learning physics concepts. How might a teacher use this in class?
  • Chris Johnson on 28 Sep 09
     
    What age group would benefit most from this? What could the teacher do to make sure students learn about physics and not just learn how to manipulate the simulation?
  • Shaheer Khan on 29 Sep 09
     
    I just played around with it a little bit, and I don't feel that I could use it effectively with grade 9th or grade 7th students that I was teaching last year. It is pretty much just a balancing game, but I don't think it can help learners understand any particular concepts like 'gravity' or the 'principle of moments'. For younger learners, like 6-year olds perhaps, it could help them develop an understanding of weights and balancing forces(?)... I don't know...
Chris Dede

National STEM Video Game Challenge - 4 views

www.joanganzcooneycenter.org/Initiatives-31.html

videogame children STEM prize

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  • Chris Dede on 16 Sep 10
     
    Big money for games that help young children learn STEM
  • Margaret O'Connell on 19 Sep 10
     
    Maybe you or someone could comment on what this has in common with the Tesla project (or what is different). Would love to hear more. As a future middle school teacher, this inspires me. The contest geared toward middle school age validates my conviction that middle schoolers can and should be learning technology ... yes, even in BPS there's got to be a way.
  • Chris Dede on 19 Sep 10
     
    TESLA is studying both how we can make math education more effective and what types of motivational inductions appeal to various types of students in grades 5-9. The emphasis in engagement is on building intrinsic motivation and self-efficacy in math, rather than using external motivation to "sugar-coat" math as yucky, but necessary. The intrinsic/extrinsic distinction is often ignored by game designers,and as a result kids who are momentarily engaged in STEM can actually be demotivated longer term. TESLA is trying to established a more nuanced view of how to build this type of game.
Eric Kattwinkel

Does Your Language Shape How You Think? - NYTimes.com - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...29language-t.html

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    • Eric Kattwinkel
      Eric Kattwinkel on 02 Sep 10
       
      Old ideas about language affecting thinking have been discredited, but more recent research has revived the idea, with important differences.
    • Eric Kattwinkel
      Eric Kattwinkel on 02 Sep 10
       
      It's not that features of our language prevent or allow certain kinds of thinking; it's that they "oblige" us to consider some things and not others, thereby causing us to develop certain "habits" in how we think.
    • Eric Kattwinkel
      Eric Kattwinkel on 02 Sep 10
       
      Compare different language requirements of making a simple statement ("I had dinner with a neighbor last night"): in French you have to reveal the gender of the neighbor, but in English  you don't; in English you have to reveal when the dinner happened; not so in Chinese.
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    • Eric Kattwinkel
      Eric Kattwinkel on 02 Sep 10
       
      Research shows that when languages have different genders for the same objects, speakers of those language think differently about those same objects -- and this can affect their ability to remember those objects. (no reference?)
    • Eric Kattwinkel
      Eric Kattwinkel on 02 Sep 10
       
      How would the habits of mind of a speaker of a geographic-based language be manifest in the way that person learns/remembers/teaches? How do speakers of egocentric languages learn/teach/remember differently?
    • Eric Kattwinkel
      Eric Kattwinkel on 02 Sep 10
       
      Language even affects our perception and experience of color: "Our experience of a Chagall painting actually depends to some extent on whether our language has a word for blue."
    • Eric Kattwinkel
      Eric Kattwinkel on 02 Sep 10
       
      Does an avid user of social media, who makes subtle distinctions among different ways to post something (comment, like, message, poke, etc.), have different habits of mind that affect how he/she relates to other people and/or incoming information?
    • Eric Kattwinkel
      Eric Kattwinkel on 02 Sep 10
       
      Area for potential study?: how to measure the ways habits of mind affect our intuitive/emotional/impulse behavior.
    • Eric Kattwinkel
      Eric Kattwinkel on 02 Sep 10
       
      Very intesting article about how our language affects the way we think. People who speak different languages adopt different "habits of mind" from an early age, and those habits can affect they way they experience the world. Especially fascinating is the discussion (2/3 of the way down) of languages that use a geographical, rather than egotistical, method for describing direction and relative position. (For example, the cup is resting on the north side of the west table in the southern room of the house.) How would a person with this type of view of the world experience a virtual environment? Also interesting implications for kids growing up with social media. Do new technologies impart habits of mind that affect the way kids learn?
Amanda Comperchio

iPhone apps for your rug rats - 2 views

www.greatschools.org/...age-appropriate-iPhone-apps.gs

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  • Amanda Comperchio on 10 Oct 10
     
    My toddler plays with the First Words game, but the iAmino and myHomework was interesting too.
Garron Hillaire

Will Wright Takes the Sims to Current TV with Bar Karma | Magazine | Wired.com - 1 views

www.wired.com/...s-to-current-tv-with-bar-karma

technology social television

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  • Earlier this month, Current TV announced its new tv series, Bar Karma, scheduled to debut in the first quarter of 2011. Created by game designer Will Wright, known for his popular video games including The Sims and SimCity,  Bar Karma’s production model promises to provide a high level of audience involvement with the show
  • Garron Hillaire on 02 Nov 10
     
    Interactive tv Perhaps educators could have an impact if they coordinated?
  • kshapton on 03 Nov 10
     
    This is a really interesting and cool idea. I know that Disney's intense storyboarding model in its 'golden age' relied on months and sometimes years of collaborative, co-creation of a story between 10s-100s of people. And their decline in quality is often attributed to adopting a one-author/screenwriter process (The book: The Illusion of Life, Disney Animation; by Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston talks about the company's process with lots of beautiful illustrations, how-to advice, and historical narratives..). What will happen when the general public, with potentially 1000s to millions of viewers put their minds together to evolve the best story?
Devon Dickau

Gates Announces $20-Million for New Education-Technology Program - Wired Campus - The C... - 1 views

chronicle.com/...27564

higher education online learning

shared by Devon Dickau on 04 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • new program aimed at harnessing technology to prepare students for college and get them to graduation
  • the first wave of grants will focus on four areas: blended learning, open courseware, learning analytics, and increasing engagement through interactive technology like games and social media.
  • By 2018, 63 percent of all job openings will require postsecondary education, according to the foundation. But fewer than half of Americans have earned a college degree by the age of 30.
Devon Dickau

BBC News - The rights and wrongs of digital books - 2 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...technology-11693222

E-books copyright issues technology

shared by Devon Dickau on 22 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • The latter part of 2010 may mark the point from which future historians date the transition to screen-based reading for literary fiction as well as reference works
  • However, even they are not yet willing to accept that the price of electronic texts is too high, and that readers will not pay the same for a bunch of bits as they will for a bound book, since the market knows that it costs less to send electrons over a network than it does to buy paper, make books out of it and ship the physical objects around the world
  • When you buy an digital copy to read on your e-book reader, phone or laptop all you get is the copyrighted bit, and what you pay for is a licence to have a copy or copies of the text.
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  • Amazon recently announced that it will let Kindle owners "lend" books, but only for two weeks and only once per title.
  • The idea of "intellectual property" deliberately conflates the two and allows politicians to pretend that laws about physical property should extend to digital downloads. We need to challenge this unjustifiable elision if we are to think seriously about copyright and business models in the age of electronics.
Jennifer Lavalle

Third of under-tens 'own mobiles' - 1 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...technology-15003500

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  • Jennifer Lavalle on 28 Sep 11
     
    "Nearly a third of children aged ten or under now have their own mobile phone, according to survey of parents. One in ten said their child was using an internet capable smartphone, such as the iPhone or Android devices." And yet, most schools make kids 'check' their technology at the door. Things that make you go "hmmmmm".
  • anonymous on 28 Sep 11
     
    I saw this on the LabNotes today. It's pretty amazing! What could these kids possibly be using these internet ready cellphones for that isn't learning?
Tommie Anthony Henderson

Samsung Windfall: All of South Korea's Textbooks to Go Digital by 2015 - Technology Review - 0 views

www.technologyreview.com/...26960

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  • Tommie Anthony Henderson on 03 Oct 11
     
    WE ARE IN FOR A REALLY RUDE AWAKENING IN THE USA: South Korea will redefine primary school education within three years while creating a massive market for home-grown electronics By 2014, all of South Korea's elementary-level educational materials will be digitized, and by 2015, the entire school-age curriculum will be delivered on an array of computers, smart phones and tablets.
Tommie Anthony Henderson

The Web Is Reborn - Technology Review - 0 views

www.technologyreview.com/...26565

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  • Tommie Anthony Henderson on 03 Oct 11
     
    The last decade expanded what we could do online, but the Web's basic programming couldn't keep up. That threatened to fracture the world's greatest innovation engine-until a small group of Web rivals joined forces to save it. The Web has been showing its age.
Nick Siewert

How video games are good for the brain - The Boston Globe - 2 views

www.boston.com/...o_games_are_good_for_the_brain

shared by Nick Siewert on 13 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Generalizability to non-game situations is the big question surrounding other emerging games, particularly software that is being marketed explicitly as a way to keep neurons spry as we age. The jury is still out on whether practicing with these games helps people outside of the context of the game.
    • Nick Siewert
      Nick Siewert on 13 Oct 09
       
      The central quation is generalizability of skills learned or transferrence of acquired knowledge.
Sammi Biegler

Dive In Digital - 1 views

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Wiki Authorship Class Teachers Dive In Digital

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  • Sammi Biegler on 07 Oct 09
     
    I made this wiki for a class I took last semester on Authorship and Learning in the Digital Age. It was designed as a resource for teachers who are interested in using the internet in the classroom, but want to make sure they are preparing their students for safe internet use. It deals with COPPA, privacy and safety concerns, and touches on media literacy and informs teachers what researchers have found about young kids' processing of online content. I'd love to hear your feedback on the site, and if you find it useful, please forward the link along!
Jennifer Hern

by : Yahoo! Tech - 0 views

tech.yahoo.com/...us_twitter_literature

Twitter Twitterature tweets literature

shared by Jennifer Hern on 25 Oct 09 - Cached
  • The "tweets" of Emmett Rensin and Alexander Aciman combine the knowledge of an English major with the snarky shorthand of a teenager's text message.
  • "It's funny if you've read the books," said Rensin, who has read them at his tender age of 19.
  • "I'm not going to say it's high art," said Aciman, whose favorite author is Marcel Proust. "There is some value to it, I feel, aside from the fact we're making available the idea behind great works of art."
    • Jennifer Hern
      Jennifer Hern on 25 Oct 09
       
      Not really propelling education in my book. Ha ha. Book... twitterature...
Anna Ho

Zero to Eight: Children's Media Use in America | Common Sense Media - 1 views

www.commonsensemedia.org/...ht-childrens-media-use-america

media children technology research

shared by Anna Ho on 26 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Bridget Binstock on 27 Oct 11
     
    Thanks for this, Anna. I saw this group as part of an interview on ABC about iPads. Their data really gets me thinking about the educational and home space and how we need to design content to leverage the technology that is most accessible to them - and the iPad isn't the "golden ticket" (at least in this age span).
  • Jennifer Lavalle on 27 Oct 11
     
    CommonSense is a strong organization - they have a comprehensive database of reviews of content, so if you are a parent looking for the low down on a media product (whether it be a TV show, video game, movie, etc.), commonsense is a good place to get an overview of the product. I have heard arguments, however, that their tendency is to be more conservative in their reviews. May not work for every parent, but definitely a good resource! For other groups like this one, check out the following: Temple's Media Education Lab, http://mediaeducationlab.com/ ; Children Now, http://www.childrennow.org/index.php/learn/talking_with_kids//television.html ; The LAMP http://www.thelampnyc.org/ ; and Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood http://www.commercialfreechildhood.org/
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