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Grockit Raises Money for Online Test Prep - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by Katherine Tarulli on 17 Oct 11 - No Cached

Katherine Tarulli on 17 Oct 11

This company has raised $7 million dollars in venture capital money to develop an online test prep web site that hopes to encourage students to spend time preparing for tests such as the SAT by eliminating deterrents such as scheduling conflicts and location issues and adding a social networking aspect.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">This company has raised $7 million dollars in venture capital money to develop an online test prep web site that hopes to encourage students to spend time preparing for tests such as the SAT by eliminating deterrents such as scheduling conflicts and location issues and adding a social networking aspect. </div>

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Episode 77: Wired Magazine Co-Founder's Tech Advice for Academics - 1 views

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shared by Brandon Bentley on 11 Nov 10 - No Cached

Brandon Bentley on 11 Nov 10

Kevin Kelly, one of the founders of Wired Magazine, sat down with the Tech Therapy team to talk about his new book What Technology Wants, and what his framework for understanding change means for colleges.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Kevin Kelly, one of the founders of Wired Magazine, sat down with the Tech Therapy team to talk about his new book What Technology Wants, and what his framework for understanding change means for colleges.</div>

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Augmented Earth...cool or really, really scary! Watch this video! - 1 views

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Xavier Rozas on 03 Oct 09

Orwell missed the mark with his vision of a society that is policed by a single panoptical entity (government). WE ARE BIG BROTHER! Regardless of use, taste or even civility, the masses are using their digital recorders to capture everything. These students have developed a very interesting aggrigator of live video cams that layers over Google Earth sat feeds....Check this out!

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Orwell missed the mark with his vision of a society that is policed by a single panoptical entity (government). WE ARE BIG BROTHER! Regardless of use, taste or even civility, the masses are using their digital recorders to capture everything. These students have developed a very interesting aggrigator of live video cams that layers over Google Earth sat feeds....Check this out!</div>

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High Schoolers Can Prep for College Exams with SATLadder Education App for iPhone - 0 views

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Can SAT prep be done on mobile devices?

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Salman Khan: The New Andrew Carnegie? - 2 views

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Diego Vallejos on 22 Nov 11

"Meet Salman Khan, your child's new teacher. If you haven't heard of Khan, rest assured that your son or daughter is in good hands. He has four degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard. He got a perfect score on the math portion of his SAT."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Meet Salman Khan, your child's new teacher. If you haven't heard of Khan, rest assured that your son or daughter is in good hands. He has four degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard. He got a perfect score on the math portion of his SAT."</div>

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More on Quest for Learning - 2 views

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Laura Stankiewicz on 15 Sep 13

Did some digging into the Quest for Learning school that was mentioned in the Connected Learning reading. They're about average on test scores in 2012 (found here: http://projects.nytimes.com/new-york-schools-test-scores/counties/new-york/districts/new-york-city-district-2/schools/quest-to-learn), which could be cited to support arguments on both side the 'gaming v traditional learning' coin with regards to standardized tests. It will certainly be interesting to see how their graduates fair over the next decade or so.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Did some digging into the Quest for Learning school that was mentioned in the Connected Learning reading. They're about average on test scores in 2012 (found here: <a href="http://projects.nytimes.com/new-york-schools-test-scores/counties/new-york/districts/new-york-city-district-2/schools/quest-to-learn" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://projects.nytimes.com/new-york-schools-test-scores/counties/new-york/districts/new-york-city-district-2/schools/quest-to-learn</a>), which could be cited to support arguments on both side the 'gaming v traditional learning' coin with regards to standardized tests. It will certainly be interesting to see how their graduates fair over the next decade or so.</div>

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Grif Peterson on 15 Sep 13

Well spotted, Ms. Laura. Schools like this really do take some leap of faith. Even parents/students/administrators/teachers who really believe in the ideals must realize that the students do not exist in a vacuum and that if/when their kids take the SATs, apply to college, etc., they are buying into the system that they are trying to reject/amend earlier in the students life.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Well spotted, Ms. Laura. Schools like this really do take some leap of faith. Even parents/students/administrators/teachers who really believe in the ideals must realize that the students do not exist in a vacuum and that if/when their kids take the SATs, apply to college, etc., they are buying into the system that they are trying to reject/amend earlier in the students life.</div>

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BBC News - How good software makes us stupid - 1 views

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"No problem - let me just enter that into my sat-nav…"
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unless drivers pass a formidable test - called "The Knowledge" - they are not allowed to head out onto the roads in one of the iconic vehicles
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"The particular part of our brain that stores mental images of space is actually quite enlarged in London cab drivers," explained Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
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The key to making us concentrate, Mr Carr suggests, is perhaps to make tasks difficult - a theory which flies in the face of software designers the world over who constantly strive to make their programs easier to use than the competition.
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Mr Carr says that this simple experiment could suggest that as computer software becomes easier to use, making complicated tasks easier, we risk losing the ability to properly learn something - in effect "short-circuiting" the brain
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Garron Hillaire on 13 Sep 10

An argument that Good Software design is bad for learning

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