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Harvey Shaw

Iceland's crowdsourced constitution passes national referendum - 0 views

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  • Harvey Shaw on 24 Oct 12
     
    Last year, Iceland began updating the national constitution. Rather than start writing the document immediately, they solicited comments and text from citizens via Facebook and Twitter. They received over 3500 comments - from a country of 230,000 voters. Yesterday, a national referendum approved the final draft, which now goes to Parliament for final approval. Now THAT'S affecting change with social media.
Maung Nyeu

Board approves Idaho online class requirement - Boston.com - 3 views

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  • Maung Nyeu on 04 Nov 11
     
    Online education for high school students is not an option, it is mandatory. Idaho Education Board approved that at least two credits of online class is required to graduate from high school. Idaho is first in the nation to mandate online class. We have read articles and discussed in class pros and cons of online learning. However, should online learning be mandatory for high school students? Do you think it is a good idea?
  • Ayelet R on 04 Nov 11
     
    Having online education for the sake of online education does not seem like a good idea to me. If it saves them enough money that they can improve classroom education, that might be worth it, but I'm not convinced that this is worth doing.
  • Maung Nyeu on 04 Nov 11
     
    Agree with Ayelet. Idaho board of education went through this despite heavy criticism from public. Instead of making it an option, Idaho makes it mandatory. Online education may not work for some students. They may feel that it has been pushed down their throat.
Devon Dickau

One Step Closer to a National Digital Library - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher ... - 0 views

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  • Can the nonprofit world create a national digital library to put America's collective intellectual wealth within everyone's reach?
  • the idea of "a Digital Public Library of America," envisioning it as "an open, distributed network of comprehensive online resources" drawn from the country's libraries, archives, museums, and universities.
  • the biggest obstacle to the Digital Public Library, in his view, is not money but "finding our way through our baroque copyright laws," especially those that govern so-called orphan works, whose copyright status is unclear.
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  • It didn't take long for people there to arrive at a conclusion, which is: We can do it.
Chris Dede

Education Gaming and Simulation Homepage - 3 views

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  • Chris Dede on 04 Oct 09
     
    Link to National Research Council workshop on games and simulations in science education, including all the commissioned papers.
Jennifer Hern

Essay - Is Technology Dumbing Down Japanese? - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • A vertically written language seems to be becoming increasingly horizontal. Novels are being written and read on little screens. People have gotten so used to typing on computers that they can no longer write characters by hand. And English words continue to infiltrate the language.
  • Mizumura contends that the dominance of English, especially with the advent of the Internet, threatens to reduce all other national languages to mere “local” languages that are not taken seriously by scholars. The education system, she argues, doesn’t spend enough time teaching Japanese.
  • Jennifer Hern on 08 Nov 09
     
    Is foreign-language software and technology impacting how Japanese learn their own language and negatively impacting their national culture?
Janet Dykstra

India backs Aakash 2 tablet-based national education project - 1 views

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  • Janet Dykstra on 12 Nov 12
     
    The Aakash 2 was unveiled by the Indian President Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday 11 November, India's National Education Day. It is an upgraded version of the world's cheapest tablet computer.
Kasthuri Gopalaratnam

LEGO® Education Evolves STEM Learning with the Next Generation LEGO MINDSTORM... - 3 views

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  • Kasthuri Gopalaratnam on 08 Jan 13
     
    "The intuitive software platform for EV3 is based on National Instruments LabVIEW™ graphical programming software, and includes new data-logging capabilities that allow students to collect, graph, and calculate their data."
Komal Syed

Powers of Video Based Instructions bridges distances - 2 views

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  • Drew Nelson on 01 Nov 12
     
    We know a good deal about the contents of this article arlready, but its a TIME article and it links to some interesting studies and polls. http://nation.time.com/2012/10/18/higher-education-poll/?pcd=teaser and this should encourage us, as we pay through the nose for this education: David Stavens (Udacity's co-founder, and Stanford alum) concedes. "I think the top 50 schools are probably safe," he says. "There's a magic that goes on inside a university campus that, if you can afford to live inside that bubble, is wonderful." ... I agree with Mr. Stavens . I hope you do too. See you in class!
Angela Nelson

Guess who's winning the brains race, with 100% of first graders learning to code? | Ven... - 1 views

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  • Angela Nelson on 05 Sep 12
     
    Program in Estonia designed to have all students age 7 to 16 learn to write code in a drive to turn children from consumers to developers of technology.
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  • Heather French on 05 Sep 12
     
    I just posted an article from Wired onto twitter about this! http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/09/estonia-reprograms-first-graders-as-web-coders/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=socialmedia&utm_campaign=twitterclickthru I wonder how deeply the program goes in coding or if it is more in line with applications like "Move the Turtle".
  • Angela Nelson on 05 Sep 12
     
    I am very curious, as well, and trying to find more information. I think it would necessarily be a program that expands with their comprehension and maturity... starting with very basic "Move the Turtle" applications and then grown with the student, hopefully to real world application, as they go until age 16!
  • Jeffrey Siegel on 06 Sep 12
     
    Who initiated this ProgreTiiger program? The Estonian government? Local IT companies? Concerned parents who disparately wanted their children to learn to code? Estonia is very wired country and it's economy has found a niche in IT services, so much so that it's even been dubbed "eStonia" (http://e-estonia.com/). This program seems to be an example of market forces guiding educational policy since there are clear incentives for it's population to be technologically literate to ensure it's competitiveness and dominance in the tech sector (see: The Many Reasons Estonia Is a Tech Start-Up Nation (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303734204577464343888754210.html) A little blurb on how "plug-in" Estonia actually is: "The geeks have triumphed in this country of 1.3 million. Some 40 percent read a newspaper online daily, more than 90 percent of bank transactions are done over the Internet, and the government has embraced online voting. The country is saturated in free Wi-Fi, cell phones can be used to pay for parking or buy lunch, and Skype is taking over the international phone business from its headquarters on the outskirts of Tallinn. In other words, Estonia - or eStonia, as some citizens prefer - is like a window into the future. Someday, the rest of the world will be as wired as this tiny Baltic nation." (http://www.wired.com/politics/security/magazine/15-09/ff_estonia) p.s. I hate sensational titles like "Guess Who's Winning the Brain's Race" Learning coding doesn't automatically make your brain bigger or necessarily increase your intelligence. Sure, it's a very useful skill, but I wonder what classes will be cut out to make time in the school day for coding. Coding vs recess: Tough call.
  • Irina Uk on 06 Sep 12
     
    Hmmm.... I read about Estonia being very plugged in as well. I wonder if there is research on whether the kids are actually learning better as a result. I think that you have a point Jeffrey. It depends what the cost is. If kids are missing some critical lesson because they are coding at such a young age, there may be a trade-off. On the other hand, maybe the skills they are obtaining from coding are more critical. I wonder...
  • Angela Nelson on 06 Sep 12
     
    Ideally, the tech skills would be used to enhance and deepen some of the other curriculum areas. But, yes, 7 years old may be young.
Brandon Pousley

Middle School Moment | Dropout Nation | FRONTLINE | PBS - 0 views

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  • Brandon Pousley on 08 Sep 12
     
    A case-study on how one school is using data to help prevent dropouts in middle school.
Laura Johnson

EducationSuperHighway Launches School Speed Test | EdSurge News - 0 views

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  • Laura Johnson on 12 Sep 12
     
    article on the National School Speed Test to access the quality of Internet access for K-12 schools - critical information in the conversation regarding technology integration
Kasthuri Gopalaratnam

What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's School Success - Anu Partanen - National -... - 3 views

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  • Kasthuri Gopalaratnam on 30 Dec 11
     
    "Yet one of the most significant things Sahlberg said passed practically unnoticed. "Oh," he mentioned at one point, "and there are no private schools in Finland." This notion may seem difficult for an American to digest, but it's true. Only a small number of independent schools exist in Finland, and even they are all publicly financed. None is allowed to charge tuition fees. There are no private universities, either. This means that practically every person in Finland attends public school, whether for pre-K or a Ph.D."
  • Allison Browne on 02 Jan 12
     
    Equity in teaching education would be a good start.
  • Bridget Binstock on 03 Jan 12
     
    I love this quote, too: 'As for accountability of teachers and administrators, Sahlberg shrugs. "There's no word for accountability in Finnish," he later told an audience at the Teachers College of Columbia University. "Accountability is something that is left when responsibility has been subtracted."' American's are SO good at blaming everything and everyone ELSE for what is wrong with education in this country. Good for Sahlberg. I might just have to move my family to Finland!
Maung Nyeu

Reflecting on OLPC in 2011 | One Laptop per Child - 0 views

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  • Maung Nyeu on 31 Dec 11
     
    OLPC report on 2011 - expanding in Peru, Rwanda, Palestine, and Afghanistan. Dedicated volunteers, with invitation from United Nations and African Union, continue to work with local governments and communities for such expansion.
Maung Nyeu

http://www.koreaherald.com/national/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20111110000696 - 1 views

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  • Maung Nyeu on 13 Nov 11
     
    Samsung establishes "smart classroom" which moves class study from pen and paper style learning to tablet based learning, but also allows schools in remote island, that lack educational infrastructure, connect students through electronic dashboards and share ideas and information.
Melinda Schindler

The Nation: America's Online Learning Curve - 0 views

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  • Melinda Schindler on 21 Nov 11
     
    This article profiles Florida's political debate over virtual charter schools.
Chris Dede

Arne Duncan sells benefits of Common Core standards, technology to Arizona students - T... - 0 views

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  • Chris Dede on 12 Sep 13
     
    Duncan pushes technology verbally, but does not act on the national ed tech plan and has eliminated funding for technology. This is bad reporting by someone who does not understand the subject and does not ask tough questions
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