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Niko Cunningham

Quantum computing jumping hurdles one by one..Q - 1 views

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quantum computing

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  • Niko Cunningham on 09 Nov 09
     
    We are getting ever and ever closer to the quantum computer.. And when that happens, the watershed moment has happened in computing. This is when the future of education will REALLY be felt in the classroom..
Jennifer Jocz

Mapping $641M in classroom technology - Nextgov - 1 views

www.nextgov.com/...ng_20091106_4210.php

education technology education technology grants

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  • Jennifer Jocz on 08 Nov 09
     
    Map showing the amount of education technology grants received by different states
Jennifer Hern

Currents - Virtual Classrooms Could Create a Marketplace for Knowledge - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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virtual_classroom

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  • The magazine told of a new building at the University of Miami, doughnut-shaped and carved up into 12 rooms. Professors stood in the hole and had their image projected into every room simultaneously. Faculty productivity was said to have soared. What was lost in intimacy would, readers were assured, be made up for by feedback buttons on students’ chairs, including one for “I don’t understand.”
  • Thanks to broadening Internet access, advances in multimedia and the market potential of millions of historically underserved learners among the developing world’s youth and the rich world’s adults, modern versions of the doughnut building are flowering globally: systems through which chunks of teaching can be “scaled up,” in business jargon, and beamed to hundreds of thousands worldwide.
  • Allow anyone anywhere to take whatever course they want, whenever, over any medium, they say. Make universities compete on quality, price and convenience.
  • Jennifer Hern on 08 Nov 09
     
    Virtual professors? I think a virtual Dede would be cool, but I like knowing his mustache is real, and not bought in a virtual hair salon.
Chris Dede

Students discovering online collaboration | New Jersey Real-Time News - - NJ.com - 1 views

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web 2.0 classroom online collaboration

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  • Chris Dede on 09 Nov 09
     
    web 2.0 is a means of fostering collaboration skills
Yan Feng

10 Things That Will Be Obsolete in Education by 2020 - 6 views

www.itslearning.net/-obsolete-in-education-by-2020

education T561

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  • Yan Feng on 20 Oct 11
     
    Interesting.
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  • Bridget Binstock on 20 Oct 11
     
    I thought the word "satchel" was already obsolete? HA! And does anyone else agree that they use the term "obsolete" very loosely in some of their explanations - for example HOMEWORK - doesn't "some work at school and some work at home" still constitute homework? And about Standardized TEACHING - until Standardized TESTING goes away, HG and supporters can advocate for this type of teaching reform, but try as we might (and many of us do offer alternative lessons and assignments to take advantage of the multiple intelligences within our classroom), end of the day, we still have to get our kids to pass those tests. It is how we as students, teachers, schools, districts, states and a nation are continually evaluated as being successful.
  • anonymous on 24 Oct 11
     
    I think this article is a little odd too. I think that a lot of times, writers of articles want to make these large shocking claims in their headlines. When you read the actual body of the text though, it becomes evident that the term "obsolete" isn't what they're after - but rather, it's about renaming or altering the way we think about current systems. Also, I was interested in what they meant by changing the actual architecture of schools. When I looked into the gallery though, it was a group of photos of a bunch of weird structures that didn't really show anything about schools (maybe the outsides?).
  • Ayelet R on 27 Oct 11
     
    Also, I can't imagine that education will make the fear of failure extinct. It may make failing a bit more tolerable with individualized instruction, but I can't image that the pressure on students to succeed will decrease; it seems more likely that it will increase.
  • Erin Sisk on 31 Oct 11
     
    I appreciated that they mentioned learning HTML. I wish I learned that in school -- I think basic web design should be a 21st century skill.
anonymous

At Waldorf School in Silicon Valley, Technology Can Wait - 1 views

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  • anonymous on 24 Oct 11
     
    The chief technology officer of eBay sends his children to a nine-classroom school here. So do employees of Silicon Valley giants like Google, Apple, Yahoo and Hewlett-Packard. But the school's chief teaching tools are anything but high-tech: pens and paper, knitting needles and, occasionally, mud.
Bridget Binstock

Putting Text Messaging BACK in the Classroom - 0 views

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text messaging education emerging technology learning

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  • Bridget Binstock on 12 Oct 11
     
    See a need, build something to meet the need, and go from there... StudyBoost is the result of a brother watching his brother and friend try to study for the GMAT without carrying around the book. Born: an IM client that allows for collaboration on questions and answers applicable to the test by both students and teachers - wherever and whenever. For Wiske's class - wouldn't this fit nicely into the CoI and PI models? If so, why wouldn't school embrace this use instead of worrying about inappropriate use of phones in class? Make the lesson or assignment engaging enough - generative enough - to hook and sustain appropriate interaction on the device that 93% of children have ACCESS to? Sounds like a win-win?
Jennifer Lavalle

Inflating the Software Report Card - 2 views

www.nytimes.com/...-results-despite-the-hype.html

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  • Jennifer Lavalle on 12 Oct 11
     
    Speaking of being wary of marketers pitching 'magical digital products'...this study found "no discernible effects" on high school students standardized test scores - of course, we must ask how the effects were measured (what the test actually tests) and measure in what ways software has a meaningful effect on student's learning...
  • Melinda Schindler on 13 Oct 11
     
    I think Karen Cator makes a good point in the article when she talks about standardized tests being the sole gauge for assessing the effectiveness of the programs. While the programs may be used with the intent to improve test scores, I'd also argue it's important for digital literacy to be valued as a skill in its own right. Thus while test scores may not reflect the sought-after results, other important skills may still have been developed by using the programs.
Billie Fitzpatrick

Big Thinkers: Salman Khan on Liberating the Classroom for Creativity - 0 views

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  • Billie Fitzpatrick on 11 Oct 11
     
    A lilttle more from Salman Khan -- a great video!
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.
Bridget Binstock

Educators Evaluate Learning Benefits of iPad - 1 views

www.edweek.org/...03mobile.h04.html

education technology iPad

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  • Bridget Binstock on 20 Oct 11
     
    I know that some of us in our other classes have been discussing iPads and their use in the education space, and I dug this up from my archives as some of what teachers and admins have to say about buying and using the iPad in their schools.
  • Maung Nyeu on 22 Oct 11
     
    Bridget, The potential for iPad may realize even more with the availability of online textbooks, which may include videos. The availability of various apps will influence the proliferation of iPad. Upside - novelty, excitement, and no back breaking bag packs, downside- penmanship may suffer and teachers may have to do some extra homework! http://thejournal.com/articles/2011/07/11/putting-the-ipad-to-work-in-elementary-classrooms.aspx
  • Bridget Binstock on 24 Oct 11
     
    Maung - I actually attended Gagliolo's session at ISTE this summer as I, too, am a proponent of this new technology, but as you point out, this means "extra homework" for the teacher. And most teachers I know are already strapped for time and professional development and are not interested in a new device that is "one more thing" they have to learn and use in an overwhelming standards based curriculum environment. The only way (in my opinion) that we can get teachers to embrace this new technology is to have it do something MORE efficiently and easily than something THEY ALREADY do. It cannot be an add-on. It has to replace something overtasking from their plate.
Diego Vallejos

NY Times - Inflating the Software Report Card - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...-results-despite-the-hype.html

technology education software learning

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  • Diego Vallejos on 12 Oct 11
     
    An article about educational software that apparently doesn't get the results that manufacturers say it does.
Marium Afzal

Augmented Identity - 0 views

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AR Emerging Technology

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  • Marium Afzal on 24 Oct 11
     
    Going back to our class on augmented reality, this article looks at how "augmented identities" might be useful in a classroom in the future
Bridget Binstock

Digital Media & Learning Competition Aims to Recognize and Reward Learning Outside the ... - 2 views

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technology learning badges

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  • Bridget Binstock on 27 Oct 11
     
    This is more of an FYI. It was posted on the TIE Facebook site, but just in case you didn't see it, I thought this was interesting if you wanted to either read about it or compete in it!
Yan Feng

Education Week: Kindergartners Blend E-Learning, Face-to-Face Instruction - 0 views

www.edweek.org/...09blended_ep.h31.html

technology education learning t561

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  • Yan Feng on 27 Oct 11
     
    Published Online: October 25, 2011 Published in Print: October 26, 2011, as 'Blended Learning' for the Little Ones By Jill Barshay, The Hechinger Report Los Angeles 1st grader Lena Barrett clicks through a series of icons and logs on to a laptop under the fluorescent lights of her classroom.
Jennifer Lavalle

An Indiana School System Goes Digital - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...19textbooks.html

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  • Jennifer Lavalle on 24 Oct 11
     
    Another example of a one-to-one laptop program in schools. Interesting to think of this from the standpoints of the various stakeholders, and how awesome is it that we have so many representatives in our classroom alone - teachers, parents, siblings, caregivers, researchers, and of course, publishers :-) Sally Ryan for The New York Times MUNSTER, Ind. - Laura Norman used to ask her seventh-grade scientists to take out their and flip to Page Such-and-Such. Now, she tells them to take out their laptops.
Bharat Battu

iPads in schools: 'The last generation with backpacks'? - Apple 2.0 - Fortune Tech - 1 views

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ipad classroom survey testing

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  • Bharat Battu on 01 Nov 11
     
    A survey of 25 ed tech directors conducted by Piper Jaffray that is making the rounds in the tech blogosphere. Seems to fall in line with what we're learning and today's trends: all surveyed IT directors are interested in the iPad, not Android, they like the flexibility tablets would offer over computers, it's going to take some time for schools to achieve one tablet per child. Cost is an obvious concern, but so is device management.
Diego Vallejos

Solar-powered internet school set to benefit children in rural Africa - 0 views

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technology education learning Africa rural

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  • Diego Vallejos on 28 Oct 11
     
    "Resilient mobile classroom incorporating laptops, video camera and electronic blackboard will work in areas without electricity"
Diego Vallejos

South Korea Says Good-Bye To Print Textbooks, Plans To Digitize Entire Curriculum By 20... - 2 views

singularityhub.com/...ntire-curriculum-by-2015-video

technology education South_Korea curriculum

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  • Ayelet R on 04 Nov 11
     
    I noticed in the video that despite the kids all having computers, the classroom set-up seems to still be the same as the traditional one, with the teacher in front and the students all sitting at individual desks facing the teacher. Where's the group work/peer-to-peer interaction?
Marium Afzal

Blended Learning Demands Big Open Spaces - 2 views

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  • Marium Afzal on 02 Nov 11
     
    Designing a blended learning classroom/school "More significant than the shift from print to digital will be the shift from cohort matriculation to individual progress. Personalized digital learning will increasingly enable competency-based progress-advancement based on demonstrated mastery."
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