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Chris Dede

BBC News - World of Warcraft cities hacked - 1 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...technology-19869466

WoW hackers

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  • Chris Dede on 09 Oct 12
     
    trouble at WoW
Hannah Williams

Teach At-Risk Students in Leadership and Language Arts with. . . World of Warcraft? - 0 views

www.edutopia.org/...ow-lucas-gillispie-todd-finley

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  • Hannah Williams on 04 Nov 12
     
    "Gillispie: At one of our instructional team meetings, I said, "I have an idea. This is what I want to do. I want to target at-risk students at the middle school level, focus on leadership, language arts, digital citizenship and lots of other things that tend to get less emphasis in our everyday classroom. And I want to use this game, WoW." At the conclusion of my spiel, they said, "We really don't understand all this stuff that you are talking about, but we know it's a good idea. Go for it." The principal said, "Yes, please come do this at my school."
Angela Nelson

Euclideon: Atomic Modeling Demo TBA 2012 - YouTube - 3 views

www.youtube.com/watch

modeling

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  • Angela Nelson on 14 Dec 12
     
    Ok... I am not a gaming person, but if you take the level of detail in the graphics that this company says it can deliver, and combine it with the new LEAP Motion detector I will post next ... wow does this seem to take virtual reality to a new level.
Uche Amaechi

How Technology Is Empowering Teachers, Minting Millionaires, And Improving Education - ... - 3 views

m.techcrunch.com/...naires-and-improving-education

shared by Uche Amaechi on 30 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Cole Shaw on 30 Sep 12
     
    Wow, thanks for this link, Uche. I think that's a really interesting business they have going...kind of a way to spread best practices that in private industry might be spread via other means. It seems to address the PD / collaboration issue mentioned in NETP, too.
  • Maria Anaya on 30 Sep 12
     
    wow, great idea....I really like this model! This is can be great incentive for teachers to put their best work out there... and they finally recognized for their creativeness!
Chris Dede

BBC News - World of Warcraft hobby sparks US political row - 2 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...technology-19842704

gaming WoW political office election

shared by Chris Dede on 06 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Chris Dede on 06 Oct 12
     
    not clear this will lose votes for her, given how many adults are into fantasy gaming. Shows how bizarre the political process has become
  • Matthew Ong on 07 Oct 12
     
    Thanks for sharing Prof. I know of many educators who have actually started playing WoW just so they could understand their students' world a little better. I wonder how many principals would have supported them openly though.
Harley Chang

The King of MOOCs Abdicates the Throne - 3 views

www.slate.com/...cessful_for_most_students.html

MOOC education technology learning educational_technology online

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  • Harley Chang on 21 Nov 13
     
    Sebastian Thrun, CEO of Udacity, has openly admitted that his company's MOOC courses are a lousy replacement for actual university class and instead will be taking his company to focus more on corporate training. I personally will reserve further judgement until after I finish the readings for next week.
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  • Grif Peterson on 21 Nov 13
     
    I posted this article in G+ a day or two ago. Some of the better commentary surrounding this article below. Tressie McMillan Cottom: "Thrun says it wasn't a failure. It was a lesson. But for the students who invested time and tuition in an experiment foisted on them by the of stewards public highered trusts, failure is a lesson they didn't need." Rebecca Schuman: "Thrun blames neither the corporatization of the university nor the MOOC's use of unqualified "student mentors" in assessment. Instead, he blames the students themselves for being so poor." Stephen Downes: "I think that what amuses me most about the reaction to the Thrun story is the glowing descriptions of him have only intensified. "The King of MOOCs." "The Genius Godfather of MOOCs." Really now. As I and the many other people working toward the same end have pointed out repeatedly, the signal change in MOOCs is openess, not whatever it was (hubris? VC money?) that Thrun brought to the table. Rebecca Schuman claims this is a victory for "the tiny, for-credit, in-person seminar." It's not that, no more than the Titanic disaster was a victory for wind-powered passenger transportation."
  • Molly Wasser on 29 Nov 13
     
    Grif - where did the Stephen Downes quote come from ? I read the Rebecca Schuman article and don't really agree with her. To expand on the Schuman quote you posted - it's really interesting how she says the massive lecture format doesn't work but then provides two examples of massive technology that do work - texting and World of Warcraft. This relates directly to some of what we talked about earlier this semester. I don't think it's the 'massive,' as Schuman implies, that causes the failure of a MOOC. It's part of the design. Once the design is better and more engaging, then MOOCs may find that they have higher retention rates. Schuman: Successful education needs personal interaction and accountability, period. This is, in fact, the same reason students feel annoyed, alienated, and anonymous in large lecture halls and thus justified in sexting and playing World of Warcraft during class-and why the answer is not the MOOC, but the tiny, for-credit, in-person seminar that has neither a sexy acronym nor a potential for huge corporate partnerships.
  • Grif Peterson on 09 Dec 13
     
    The Downes quote was from OLDaily, which is a daily listserve of his that I subscribe too. I think the difference between texting/WoW and MOOCs is that, while both have many many users, the former two have means in which those groups are disaggregated into smaller units that are largely responsible for the UX/individual growth that goes on. I agree with you that massive is not necessarily the failure, in fact, I think it's the best thing they have going for them. However, until the design can leverage meaningful collaboration, like WoW and texting, the massive will remain a burden.
Jennifer Hern

JOURNEY TO THE END OF COAL - Web documentary by Samuel Bollendorff & Abel Ség... - 0 views

doclab.voyageauboutducharbon.com

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  • Chris Johnson on 12 Sep 09
     
    This "Web documentary" provides a unique way to expose an important political and social issue. Focusing on the issues surrounding China's exploitation of its land and people related to coal, the site casts the viewer as an investigating journalist. You can choose to visit the sites and see the conditions for yourself or you can talk to people along the way and gain insight into their lives (as well as the political system). The content is deep, has high replay value, consists of very high-quality media, and represents an innovative approach to sharing experiences about important world issues.
  • Jennifer Hern on 12 Sep 09
     
    Wow. I have seen web documentaries highlighting human rights issues before, but this one's style and tone really captures the juxtaposition between socioeconomic classes. The map and additional information buttons are great for Social Studies and History teachers willing to bring this into the classroom. As a former middle school World Geography teacher, I would be interested in showing this to my class, but also hesitant. Any former teachers who would show this to their students?
  • Jennifer Hern on 22 Sep 09
     
    Wow. I've seen similar attempts at making web documentaries trying to raise public awareness about human rights before, but the filmmaker really hit the nail on the head. The juxtaposition between socioeconomic classes and the attempts mine workers make to brighten their world (i.e. engaging in a Christmas song/dance at the temple) is striking. I'm curious if any teachers would be brave enough to discuss these topics in their social studies classes.
Uly Lalunio

Augmented Reality Could Help With Ordering Your Ferrari's Wheels - NYTimes.com - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...elp-with-ordering-y-10296.html

Augmented Reality AR

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  • Uly Lalunio on 01 Oct 09
     
    wow the audience by staging visual illusion
Tommie Anthony Henderson

Teaching the Mind AND the Body: Education without Technology at cac.ophony.org - 1 views

cac.ophony.org/...y-education-without-technology

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  • Tommie Anthony Henderson on 25 Oct 11
     
    As a recent New York Times article wryly explains, it turns out that even the nation's technological elites-the same engineers, software designers, and idea people, who brought us Google, E-Bay, and Facebook-would prefer that their children grow up and learn in a technology-free environment. WOW -- SIMPLY WOW!! This is real food for thought. I completely challenged my thinking!!
Heather French

The Flip: End of a Love Affair - 4 views

plpnetwork.com/...flip-love-affair

technology educational_technology

shared by Heather French on 14 Oct 12 - No Cached
Lauren Gould liked it
  • Heather French on 14 Oct 12
     
    Really good article about one teacher's experience with a flipped classroom, why she stopped using that model and how the idea of flipping made her a better teacher.
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  • Steve Henderson on 15 Oct 12
     
    Thanks for posting this - a really good synthesis of flipping w/ PBL - and why flipping is more than videos, written by somebody who knows what she is talking about.
  • Lauren Gould on 15 Oct 12
     
    Agreed Steve, and thanks for posting this Heather. It answered questions I didn't even know I had about the "flipped" classroom and is also an empowering example the important role of the teacher in student-centered learning.
  • Cole Shaw on 16 Oct 12
     
    Wow, really interesting article, thanks Heather! Love how the teacher also learned from the experience and changed her in-class teaching style...
  • Tim Johnson on 16 Oct 12
     
    Thanks Heather, for posting, and Lauren, for suggesting...anybody who is taking T440 and loves the concept but feels skeptical about its real-world plausibility should read this article.
Erin Connors

Colleges Awakening to the Opportunities of Data Mining - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...ortunities-of-data-mining.html

higher education data mining assessment

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  • Erin Connors on 25 Sep 12
     
    Arizona State University is using data mining to collect information on their students and help guide them to the "most appropriate major". also, in class, using data collection methods, teachers collect information to be used in assessment Ex: "Ms. Galayda can monitor their progress. In her cubicle on a recent Monday, she sees the intimacies of students' study routines - or lack of them - from the last activity they worked on to how many tries they made at each end-of-lesson quiz. For one crammer, the system registers 57 attempts on multiple quizzes in seven days. Pulling back to the big picture, a chart shows 15 students falling behind (in red) and 17 on schedule (in green)."
  • Maria Anaya on 26 Sep 12
     
    wow this is kind of bothersome on some levels and kinda amazing on other levels. While I can see the benefit of understanding where and how a student is more likely to succeed, I think there are some potential dangers with such a system. There is the what I would imagine the psychological effect of such a program and I am thinking particularly about STEM fields where women are already way under-represented and often self conscious about their performance, do you really also need a system telling you you shouldn't be majoring in that as well cause you're not performing at that point....or what about a student who really wants to be an engineer but maybe hasn't been fully prepared with the appropriate math courses in high school, would he or she be filtered into another major? I understand using such a system as a means to target help for example if a student could get an assessment of where they currently are, where they want to go and how to get there....
Emily Watson

Providers of Free MOOC's Now Charge Employers for Access to Student Data - Technology -... - 2 views

chronicle.com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/...136117

education technology MOOC

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  • Cole Shaw on 05 Dec 12
     
    Wow, pretty interesting that Coursera is getting into this game. I always thought that was a strong suit of Udacity and one possible way for them to get sustainable revenue.
Jennifer Bartecchi

TED-Ed Launches Innovative Customized Learning Web Initiative | GeekDad | Wired.com - 1 views

www.wired.com/...ted-ed-customized-learning

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  • Jennifer Bartecchi on 02 Oct 12
     
    I like the concept of "flipping"...
  • Cole Shaw on 02 Oct 12
     
    Wow, TED Ed looks pretty cool. The videos are high quality and the explanation for the ones I watched were clear and concise. Nice!
Susan Smiley

Free Online Education is Now Illegal in Minnesota - 0 views

www.slate.com/...nd_against_free_education.html

Education learning online

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  • Chip Linehan on 19 Oct 12
     
    Thought it was April Fool's for a minute
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  • Cole Shaw on 19 Oct 12
     
    I just saw this and was about to post to Diigo--this is quite depressing! I don't understand people's logic, sometimes. Maybe the law should be changed instead of trying to enforce an antiquated rule on new technology...and so does that mean things like Open Course Ware are also illegal in Minnesota?!? Or even syllabi or any sort of "instruction"--web page, article, etc.? Craziness...
  • Susan Smiley on 20 Oct 12
     
    Wow, so online education is a political issue? How could Minnesota government think an arcane law to pay fees is going to deter anyone?
  • Hannah Lesk on 20 Oct 12
     
    Update: apparently this article went viral and the MN state government was so embarrassed by the outcry that they have backed off and said that they will introduce legislation to amend the 20-year-old law in question, noting that it "clearly didn't envision free online classes from accredited universities." Read more about it here: http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2012/10/19/minnesota_coursera_ban_state_won_t_crack_down_on_free_online_courses_after.html
Liliana Polo

Google Releases Open-Source Online-Education Software - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of... - 1 views

chronicle.com/...39882

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  • Liliana Polo on 13 Sep 12
     
    A potentially transformative tool for the narrative of WHO educates and continuing the re-imagination of what constitues valuable knowledge.
  • Cole Shaw on 13 Sep 12
     
    Wow, I think that looks amazingly powerful....they've kind of beat edX to the punch of releasing an open source course platform!
Cameron Paterson

Schooling: The Hidden Agenda - The Natural Child Project - 1 views

www.naturalchild.org/...daniel_quinn.html

schooling t561

shared by Cameron Paterson on 12 Sep 10 - Cached
  • Wow, just imagine missing school on the day when they were learning blue. You'd spend the rest of your life wondering what color the sky is.
  • Our schools are not failing, they're just succeeding in ways we prefer not to see.
  • the human biological clock is set for two alarms. When the first alarm goes off, at birth, the clock chimes learn, learn, learn, learn, learn. When the second alarm goes off, at the onset of puberty, the clock chimes mate, mate, mate, mate, mate.
Jeffrey Siegel

Ed Tech Map - 5 views

www.newschools.org/...edtechmap

interactive graphic K-12 education technology market

shared by Jeffrey Siegel on 19 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Diego Vallejos on 19 Oct 11
     
    This is an "K-12 education technology market map with the entrepreneurial, philanthropic, and education communities". Worth to take a look.
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  • Jeffrey Siegel on 10 Oct 12
     
    Very cool interactive graphic detailing the K-12 education technology market
  • Maria Anaya on 10 Oct 12
     
    oh wow thanks for sharing....nice visual of what areas are more saturated....and where needs are.
  • Irina Uk on 12 Oct 12
     
    This is an awesome resource. This would be great for curriculum specialists and technology coordinators in schools to draw from, and even teachers to be introduced to in PD...
Chris McEnroe

µTorrent 3.0 - µTorrent - a (very) tiny BitTorrent client - 2 views

www.utorrent.com/ut3

shared by Chris McEnroe on 29 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Chris McEnroe on 29 Oct 11
     
    Does anyone have any experience with this tool. It looks like a very interesting example of a Intelligent Web Filtering. Wow! Good side is that this is like Tivo for the web. Bad side is that you better have nothing else to do but look at the web. Also an interesting take on Personal Learning Networks.
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  • Bharat Battu on 30 Oct 11
     
    I am familiar with BitTorrent, and it's interesting Chris that you came about it excited for its uses in education. But have you read or heard about the controversy surrounding it? In a nutshell- BitTorrent is a technology that allows large collections of files and data to be shared across the internet in a decentralized, peer-to-peer manner. A person who has the original files decides to share them via BitTorrent, so others can download from him/her. But as the others begin downloading the files, they also start sharing the pieces they've downloaded with the ever-growing set of new users asking for the file. BitTorrent works like a growing web- in order to download files shared via BitTorrent - you have to share the pieces you get with others. More downloaders = more uploaders as well, ensuring popular files will always be accessible. The benefits - this is cheap and decentralized, no need to pay to host the files on the web. The users who have the file are sharing the file from their own computers with others requesting it. And this can be permanent - if you host a BitTorrent to share a file, you have that sharing channel last forever (not relying on external services that cost $ or can be shut down).
  • Bharat Battu on 30 Oct 11
     
    BitTorrent is a really powerful technology that allows large amounts of files and data to be shared quickly with a limitless number of people. It's scalability at no cost. Could be a great tool for educators to share content across the globe in a hassle-free way. Even the folks at Khan Academy are excited to use it: from: http://blog.vipeers.com/vipeers/2008/10/bittorrent-is-a.html "For Khan Academy, BitTorrent was a natural extension for it stated mission of "a world-class education for anyone anywhere," Sal Khan tells Fast Company. Kahn was excited for activist educators to be able to download the Academy's entire portforlio, burn it on a CD, and distribute it to rural or underdeveloped areas otherwise unable to access it without a broadband connection. "I think the single most fun thing about BitTorrent," Khan adds, "is this content will never die. A nuclear bomb could hit our offices tomorrow and could take down our servers, but its going to sitting somewhere in the world on somebody's server." He added, "We don't care about monetizing the content; we just care that it gets used."
  • Bharat Battu on 30 Oct 11
     
    But despite the prospects of BitTorrent being a great technology to allow sharing of digital content freely, to allow downloading of vast amounts of data that can then be stored offline and shared with anyone... the rest of the article (http://blog.vipeers.com/vipeers/2008/10/bittorrent-is-a.html) mentions that Google was unhappy with Khan's decision to use BitTorrent. Google actually blacklists BitTorrent content from its searches, and so is actually blacklisting Khan Academy content, despite being a recent financial backer of Khan. Why? This is the controversy: BitTorrent's power to share digital content in a decentralized way, where the more popular a file is, the faster it'll spread-- has led it to become the most popular method of digital piracy out there today. This has quickly become the most common use of BitTorrent, far exceeding the sharing of legitimate digital content. It's become a nightmare for the movie, music, software, and video gaming industries. A summary of the legal issues surrounding BitTorrent: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_issues_with_BitTorrent
  • Chris McEnroe on 30 Oct 11
     
    Hey Bharat, I am so glad I asked. I had no idea. Very interesting. New dimension to the concept of free knowledge vs. intellectual property. I think the kids at my school are using this to share music. I'll have to check it out. I find this conflict- "Google actually blacklists BitTorrent content from its searches, and so is actually blacklisting Khan Academy content, despite being a recent financial backer of Khan. " so intriguing. At first glance it looked to me like a vision of networked learning that was aimed at an authentic task with authentic participants (as portrayed by actors :).
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