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Cameron Paterson

2010 Horizon Report » Executive Summary - 0 views

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edtech t561

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  • that are likely to enter mainstream use on campuses within three adoption horizons spread over the next one to five years
  • The format of the main section closely reflects the focus of the Horizon Project itself, centering on the applications of emerging technologies to teaching, learning, and creative inquiry.
  • Cameron Paterson on 01 Sep 10
     
    Emerging edtech trends
Amanda Comperchio

Save the Words - 4 views

savethewords.org

Enlish language words

shared by Amanda Comperchio on 08 Sep 10 - Cached
  • Amanda Comperchio on 08 Sep 10
     
    This site might have some interesting application in a language arts or English class.
Margaret O'Connell

Body Sensing Comes to Smartphones - NYTimes.com - 2 views

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sensing health

shared by Margaret O'Connell on 18 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • John Stivoric, chief technology officer, says the company has been working closely with Apple and Google, to develop its smartphone application. It opens the door to allowing a person to monitor a collection of the 9,000 variables — physical activity, calories burned, body heat, sleep efficiency and others — collected by the sensors in a BodyMedia armband in real-time, as the day goes on.
  • The smartphone, though, is full-fledged computer in hand. “It’s a dashboard for the human body, a great viewer into what your body is doing on the fly,”
  • Margaret O'Connell on 18 Oct 10
     
    Compelling for educational uses, particularly science and health (but the price has to come down some first).
Margaret O'Connell

Hackerspaces - breeding grounds for disruption? - 1 views

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Hackerspaces

shared by Margaret O'Connell on 22 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • One of the most important things about hackerspaces, and an area that differentiates it from other areas in the tech industry, is that most of the ideas and projects aren’t designed for any type of financial return. And unlike academic research labs, hackerspaces are usually very hands-on and focused on practical implementation. In Tokyo Hackerspace, we have a lot of projects or project ideas that revolve around environmental or humanitarian applications of technology as well as art. These types of projects would rarely see the light of day in corporate scenarios (without government subisidies) but are often
  • types of projects that, when further refined, may turn into something that is financially viable or lay the groundwork for something much bigger. 
john edelson

Could a core curriculum for elementary roll out bottom up? - 0 views

I have an educational application - SpellingCity.com - that has widely spread from teacher to teacher across the country. In 3 years, 5% adoption of elementary schools. I'm now contemplating wheth...

started by john edelson on 20 Oct 10 no follow-up yet
Heather French

Online Educator Database list of 50 Great Apps for Educators - 4 views

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EDC educational_technology Mobile apps

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  • Mohammad Hussain on 20 Oct 10
     
    Top 50 iPhone applications for educators and some of them are free.
  • Heather French on 19 Sep 12
     
    While many of the apps listed are organization the teaching tools and media lists have some great apps for the classroom. For EDC
Amanda Valverde

The New Facebook: New Dashboard, Download Your Stuff, and Groups - 0 views

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facebook document_sharing groups technology

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  • Amanda Valverde on 07 Oct 10
     
    New Facebook Groups feature - document sharing, mass email, group chat.
  • Amanda Valverde on 07 Oct 10
     
    Facebook's new application which allows small sub sections of friends to form groups. It includes the ability to have group chats as well as share documents and send out emails to all members of the group. I see a potential for education in that younger students who are already on facebook all the time but know less about other document sharing or collaboration features may have a new outlet for doing group work or getting help with homework.
Devon Dickau

Need a college? There's an app for that - 1 views

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higher education college students mobile applications

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  • Devon Dickau on 02 Nov 10
     
    How can mobile apps help students select colleges and universities? Two Spelman College students designed a phone app to educate others about historically black colleges and universities.
Garron Hillaire

Education Technology News: M State Utilizes EON Reality Software - 0 views

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technology education online university

shared by Garron Hillaire on 07 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • M State will be using EON Reality, Inc., software to commence its instructional program with a three dimensional interactive content.
  • EON Reality, Inc., provides interactive three dimensional software
  • It is critical in instructional content development to have the Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) design the instructional component alongside a 3D developer who can then create and integrate the interactive digital content within a wide range of learning applications
  • Garron Hillaire on 07 Nov 10
     
    Online college M State is offering 3D interactive instructional content
amy hoffmaster

Online Project Receives $2.5 Million Grant To Aid Middle School Science -- THE Journal - 0 views

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simulation middle school science

shared by amy hoffmaster on 07 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • the team plans to use the grant money to develop 35 new simulations specifically geared to middle school physical science education. The existing library of simulations targets concepts and applications generally used in high school- and college-level physics courses.
  • The PhET simulations allow us to conduct experiments, with students at the helm, that we wouldn't otherwise be able to stage or model in the classroom."
Ashley Lee

Chapter 2 - Facebook and Student Engagement.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 0 views

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social media facebook social engagement

shared by Ashley Lee on 14 Dec 09 - No Cached
  • Ashley Lee on 14 Dec 09
     
    can social media use increase the student's social engagement?
Ashley Lee

Computer Games and Traditional CS Courses | December 2009 | Communications of the ACM - 0 views

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computer science education games real world application student engagement

shared by Ashley Lee on 06 Dec 09 - Cached
  • Ashley Lee on 06 Dec 09
     
    "This article examines the ongoing efforts to integrate computer video games in existing traditional CS courses."
Sarah Usher

One Step Closer to My Dream - 3 views

My father was a police officer and he died protecting people and making this world a better place. All my life, I always wanted to follow in my father's footsteps and follow a path with police care...

police careers education

started by Sarah Usher on 02 Jun 11 no follow-up yet
James Glanville

Brainscape: Learn Faster - Research - 2 views

www.brain-scape.com/...research.html

shared by James Glanville on 22 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Confidence-Based Repetition These combined concepts of Repetition, Active Recall, and Metacognition work together to create Brainscape’s unique process of Confidence-Based Repetition (CBR). CBR acts essentially as your personalized knowledge stream, where bite-sized concepts are repeated one after another, in Question/Answer pairs, and then re-entered into the repetition queue in intervals based on your confidence in how well you know them. Low-confidence items (e.g. the 1’s and 2’s) are repeated more often until you upgrade your confidence to higher levels.
    • James Glanville
      James Glanville on 22 Sep 11
       
      "Confidence-based repitition" looks like the direct application of current thinking in neuroscience about how we learn.   I wonder how well it really works?  It's theory based but not truly field tested.....Not quite iterative research-design-field test-tweak loop Dock's Design course prescribes.
  • James Glanville on 22 Sep 11
     
    Interesting startup.  Building a learning tool based on the neuroscience concept of "confidence-based repetition."  
Ayelet R

Texting in the Classroom: Not Just a Distraction | Edutopia - 5 views

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texting classroom education technology cellphones

shared by Ayelet R on 25 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Ayelet R on 25 Sep 11
     
    Ideas for using texting at school.
  • James Glanville on 26 Sep 11
     
    great article. relevant to today's discussion about web 2.0 / social media. for those who didn't read it. Here's there article's list of interesting sms based tools for education use: Remind101: Remind101 allows teachers to send text messages (and email) home -- to students and/or to parents -- to offer reminders and updates for class. Remind101 allows teachers to communicate with their classes without either teacher or students having to share their phone numbers. Poll Everywhere: As the name suggests, Poll Everywhere allows teachers to use cellphones for polling in class. Students text their responses, using their cellphones to give feedback, answer questions, take quizzes. Celly: Celly provides SMS-based group messaging. Classrooms can use the service to take quick polls and quizzes, filter messages, get news updates, take notes, and organize and hold study groups. The groups can be public or private, moderated or open. StudyBoost: StudyBoost allows students to study via SMS-based quizzes. The questions can be self- or teacher-created, and can be multiple choice or open-ended.
  • Kasthuri Gopalaratnam on 27 Sep 11
     
    I like Celly for its group messaging and polling applications. Note: The link to "Poll Anywhere" is broken.
James Glanville

Groups | HASTAC - 1 views

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facebook Emerging Technology educational_technology HASTAC

shared by James Glanville on 04 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • James Glanville on 04 Oct 11
     
    Jennifer Dick shared this on the TIE2012 Facebook page.  Looks like a great forum to check out on topics relevant to T-561.   Topical groups included "Badges for LifeLong Learning," "Pedagogy", and "Semantic Web."  check it out.
  • Stephen Bresnick on 05 Oct 11
     
    James- I had a really interesting conversation about badges for lifelong learning yesterday, and as I'm sure you know it's a controversial topic, especially among academics who resent the premise that people need extrinsic motivators like badges as incentives to be lifelong learners. One major advantage to badges, according the the people I was talking with, is that they can be used as a kind of shorthand validation of somebody's credentials. So, for example, if you wanted to hire a freelancer to build you a website, write you some content, or re-tile your kitchen, you would be able to get a quick idea of how good they were by seeing what kinds of badges they had earned. I found this to be an interesting application to the badge system, whereas I was quite against the idea before of incentivizing lifelong learning. What does everyone think of HASTAC badges?
Katherine Tarulli

4 Ways QR Codes Could Revolutionize Education - 4 views

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Smart phone technology education school formal emerging

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  • Katherine Tarulli on 07 Sep 11
     
    This article outlines four ways that Quick Response codes scanned with smart phones could be used in formal education settings. The ideas are intriguing, such as keeping track of a students work throughout their school career and opening up lines of communication to parents.
  • Bridget Binstock on 08 Sep 11
     
    I love the idea of a educational career portfolio using this technology. Can you imagine sending your QR code along with a college application to get a true picture of the type of student you have been and can become? The idea of using the QR codes with parents sounds like a great alternative to all the papers that get sent home (and lost) throughout the year, I just wonder what percentage of parents are equipped to handle that type of technology use.
Chris McEnroe

More Schools Embrace the iPad as a Learning Tool - NYTimes.com - 2 views

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    • Chris McEnroe
      Chris McEnroe on 05 Sep 11
       
      "It's not about a cool application," Dr. Brenner said. "We are talking about changing the way we do business in the classroom." This is a useful sound bite but this article is a quagmire of the issues facing education. Advocates who would rather spend the money on teachers are speaking into the wind politically but they are also not speaking to the point being raised by the event the ipad purchase or the opportunity to advance learning. Good teaching rests on good, personalized relationships as well excellent management. ipads help with both but the danger in not articulating that more clearly is the fear that ipads (or some such thing) will replace teachers. There are those who love the idea of ipads not as an enhancement to learning but as a way to drive up teacher production. That idea and the fear of it distracts from matter of using technolofy to enhance learning.
    • Stephen Bresnick
      Stephen Bresnick on 05 Sep 11
       
      Really well said, Chris. I was reading the article and couldn't help but chuckle at the quote, "this is this could very well be the biggest thing to hit school technology since the overhead projector," said by the teacher Mr. Wolfe. The quote communicated volumes about Mr. Wolfe's underlying assumption that good teaching rests on good gadgetry, as if the overhead projector was once a panacea for all that ailed education in the 1970s, but that now there is a new panacea, the iPad. I have heard an interesting criticism of use of the iPad in the classroom that I would like to share. Namely, that it is a device designed almost exclusively for the consumption of media, but that it provides little if any opportunity for collaboration. Yes, there are a ton of cool apps in the App Store and the number will continue to grow, and yes, some of them will be pretty darn neat. But without the ability for students to collaborate and create, there is little evidence that this is, in itself, a transformative educational technology, just a faster and more colorful way for students to do the same things they have been doing. I get a bit uncomfortable when I see teachers get really excited about the tools of technology and all of their cool capabilities without thinking about which problems these technologies might be able to solve. So many people are fixated on technology as an end, as if dropping this new gadget in the classroom will, by itself, solve all problems. iPads are really great, but this might just be a case of the tail wagging the dog.
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