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Bridget Binstock

Digital Badges - 4 views

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    The idea of "showing what you know" and earning badges instead of degrees? In this economic downswing, could something like this become the new emergent way of learning and of assessing? Thoughts?
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    Sounds like the digital badge is more lke a digital portfolio- which I would more likely support. I find it interesting that our education system (which strives and struggles to provide consistent, high quality education from coast to coast) is seen as deficient but this badge proposal will be the answer? It's like the flood of support for home-schooling after a home-schooler wins a national competition but no one knows about the tens of homescholers I had to remediate in rural NH. Standardization is the key for any system to be integrated into another system. The variety of education models we have in our country makes it difficult for employers to integrate employees. If this digital badge concept relies on a variety of models, they will have the same problem.
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    The prospect of digital badges to show what you know is both exciting with its potential affordances and worrisome with some of its limitations and ambiguity. It'd be great if the ideal came to pass that digital badges would allow valid demonstration of super-specific skills and knowledge over a greater range of fields and topics than what having a B.A. or B.S. currently does. Digital badges could represent the most particular concepts or skills at a granular level even-- those that are essential in the real-world (whether that be desired by employers or otherwise). If the task or test or challenge, or whatever else would be the means of assessment for earning a badge, was carefully designed and evaluated to be a truly valid measure of proficiency, then earning a badge for something would be a clear indication that you know something. But like Allison said, standardization would be key. What would these assessments/ badge challenges be- so that they would be truly valid indicators of proficiency? Who would be the purveyors or authorities to determine the assessments or challenges to accomplish a badge? Given the medium (completing badge assessments on one's own computer or mobile device - from any site they're at potentially) - what's to stop a user from going "open book" or "opening another tab" in order to look up answers to questions or tutorials on how to do a task, in order to complete the assessment? Doing this would allow a user to ace the assessment and earn the badge- but would defeat any value of the badge in truly demonstrating knowledge or skill. By imagining if digital badges did reach mass-acceptance and use in the real world, and we were to ultimately find them all over the internet like we're now finding social media widgets, it made me realize that the "prove proficiency anywhere I am in any way I want" won't work. I changed fields and career paths from what I studied in college, so I definitely appreciate the value in being able to truly show e
Liz Weinbloom

Raytheon unveils math fun ride at Disney World - Daily Business Update - The Boston Globe - 0 views

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    Using math to design your own Disney World ride!
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    Haha! Read this one today. Considered bookmarking it. I don't know how much fun a ride would be after standing in line for two hours than having to think about what it is you are going to ride.
Uly Lalunio

How Tech for the Disabled Is Going Mainstream - BusinessWeek - 0 views

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    "Apple is widely celebrated for making devices as easy to use as they are elegantly designed. What customers probably don't know is that some of these features aren't exactly new-they evolved from software Apple created to help disabled people use PCs. "
Shawn Mahoney

Newest Professions, Growing Salaries - 1 views

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    Descriptions and salaries for "new" jobs that involve social media, software/curriculum development, and web-based technologies
Jennifer Hern

Ning Opens a Virtual Gift Shop With Custom-Made Gifts - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Ning, which lets Web users create their own social networks about any topic they want, plans to open a virtual gift shop on Wednesday. Users will be able to buy and sell virtual gifts, as they can on some other social networks, including Facebook. On Ning, they will also be able to create and sell their own, custom-designed virtual gifts.
Jennifer Hern

Can Apple Out-Innovate Microsoft and Google? | Newsweek Daniel Lyons | Techtonic Shifts... - 0 views

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    "The question is, will Apple do with the iPhone what it did with the Mac? Will it leap out to a technological lead and then find a way to clutch defeat from the jaws of victory? Or has Apple learned from its previous experience and figured out a way to turn its superior design and wonderful technology into market domination?"
Kellie Demmler

BBC News - Google previews Chrome open source operating system - 0 views

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    Google is going after Microsoft with their new open source operating system designed originally for netbook users - so no software has to be installed.  It is all browser based and stores docs on Google servers - great for computer crashes - security???
Noor Alkhater

Evaluation Rubric for Educational Apps - 0 views

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    A rubric (in progress) designed for educational apps by a doctoral student at John Hopkins University. For those hesitant to make the shift to mobile devices, how would rubrics like this impact policy making, especially in regards to accountability?
Emily Watson

Designing a New Learning Environment - 0 views

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    Stanford's new online course on blended learning environments.
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    I think this is a really important experiment. Venturelab is a MOOC that is using a teams based model. Participants fill out assessments which are used to "build" teams. Team members rate each other's work. Interesting to see how they progress.
Rupangi Sharma

The SPINNER project from the Responsive Environments Group at MIT Media Lab - 0 views

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    The SPINNER project from the Responsive Environments Group at MIT Media Lab is the first research platform designed to investigate the world of ubiquitous video devices. The Spinner can automatically edit video to fit a narrative structure. It uses video from cameras installed at the Media Lab and sensor data from people generated by wearable smart badges to track their activity and location. The system then creates a video using the characteristics detected from the sensor data with the video captured by the cameras.
Jennifer Bartecchi

Creating Assessment Rubrics online | National Center On Universal Design for Learning - 0 views

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    Here are some resources for generating assessment rubrics in UDL fashion...
Chris Dede

epic-ed Newsletter - 2 views

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    2 webinars of interest, including David Rose and Chris Dede doing tag-team on emerging technologies
Rupangi Sharma

Looking to the Future with Chris Dede and David Rose - 2 views

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    Must see webinar. >>Dr. Glenn Kleiman, Executive Director of the Friday Institute of Educational Innovation in the College of Education at North Carolina State University moderated this discussion with Chris Dede and David Rose held on November 15, 2012. The intersection of mobile computing, social software, and augmented realities enhances and increases opportunities for personalized learning. How do we capitalize on the rich array of technologies to not only engage students, but to provide multiple pathways for expression by all students? David and Chris, both members of the working group that developed the National Education Technology Plan in 2010, discussed future directions for digital learning, including universal design for learning, augmented realities, and social and mobile technologies.
Janet Dykstra

Right Brain World: Ambitious Experiment in Educational Innovation to Take Place in Sacr... - 0 views

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    Sacramento, CA, November 26, 2012- They had a simple idea: Find a brilliant mix of innovative people from different professions. Get them together in one space for a day. Invite teachers, EdTech visionaries, hackers and entrepreneurs and encourage them to work on ideas, partnerships, networks, even businesses with the goal of jump starting the economy and revolutionizing education. This should be an interesting conference to monitor - maybe a new educational disruptive design will emerge!
Chris McEnroe

Solutions Showcase - 0 views

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    Another program using AI and gaming design for fundamental instruction in math.
Hessa Ahmad

New Survey Highlights Best Practices For Online Learning Programs - 0 views

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    Survey participants identified four key factors as "extremely important" in building a successful K-12 online education program: -Reporting and progress monitoring tools that enable teachers to assess student comprehension and identify those that need additional help; -Teacher who are readily available to assist struggling students; -Educators specially trained to teach in an online environment; -Rigorous curriculum, designed to accommodate different learning styles, that keeps students focused and engaged.
Chris McEnroe

A model for institutional PD - 3 views

shared by Chris McEnroe on 14 Dec 12 - No Cached
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    Schools often work in isolation or from top down directives. This site has some interesting components to its design around methodologies for digitally delivered PD: Individualization, institutional buy-in, top to bottom integration and support.
Harvey Shaw

Strategies for Learning from Failure - 0 views

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    Courtesy of the Innovation by Design class, a thoughtful review of the importance of failure in how people and organizations learn and improve, particularly when working on the cutting edge.
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