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Rupangi Sharma

A Neurologist Makes the Case for the Video Game Model as a Learning Tool - 4 views

www.edutopia.org/...student-engagement-judy-willis

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  • Kasthuri Gopalaratnam on 21 Oct 11
     
    Excellent article on Video game model as a learning tool. Useful takeaways for motivation.
  • Rupangi Sharma on 08 Oct 12
Maung Nyeu

At Waldorf School in Silicon Valley, Technology Can Wait - NYTimes.com - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...alley-technology-can-wait.html

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  • Maung Nyeu on 23 Oct 11
     
    A contrarian view. "Some education experts say that the push to equip classrooms with computers is unwarranted because studies do not clearly show that this leads to better test scores or other measurable gains."
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  • Bridget Binstock on 23 Oct 11
     
    Maung - I just tweeted this! The irony? I read it on my Android smartphone at the Apple store waiting to buy my iPad2!! Would love to talk more about this in class because I DID learn the "old fashioned" way and here I am as an adult, proficient at technology and attending Harvard...am I any less off for not being a digital native? Am I behind the rest of my HGSE because of it? Or has my learning technology as a late teen and adult benefitted me in some way that cannot be proven unless we conduct research with a control group devoid of technology all together during those early formative years? Would love to continue this discussion!
  • Jennifer Lavalle on 24 Oct 11
     
    First of all - the girl in the picture of this article is reading Nancy Drew - who else spent most of their childhood with their head buried in a mystery series? :-) Secondly, I cannot tell you how valuable mud was to my childhood. Had I not been at a camp every summer where I was able to play around in mud and run through the woods all day, I would not be the person I am today. I think I did most of my growing and much of my learning in informal environments such as camp. It sounds to me like this school is trying to replicate those learning experiences...in a classroom. Not saying it's the way to go...but certainly an interesting model. Thanks for sharing!
  • Allison Browne on 24 Oct 11
     
    Waldorf philosophy is different approach. For example, children learn to write first before they learn to read. As a result children may learn to read as late as 8 or 9. It's based on the anthroposophy philosophy. Children's who parents value these things will do well in a school without technology. Children who are plugged in at home would have a difficult time. This is effective for private school but not public school.
Maung Nyeu

Teachers learning new technology - 1 views

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  • Maung Nyeu on 23 Oct 11
     
    ""As much as we are here to serve the teachers, it is the students who ultimately benefit from the integration of technology in the classrooms," she said. "Students who once felt that they had to 'power down' to go to class, are now experiencing 21st century skills and styles of learning - because their teachers are better able to utilize the tools of the digital age.""
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!!
Tommie Anthony Henderson

Education Week: ACLU Puts Pressure on Districts to Ease Internet Filtering - 1 views

www.edweek.org/...01filter.h05.html

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  • Tommie Anthony Henderson on 23 Oct 11
     
    Published Online: October 17, 2011 Published in Print: October 19, 2011, as When Educational Content Gets Blocked For most of last school year, Nowmee Shehab never thought twice about using school computers to pull up websites of the Trevor Project, the It Gets Better Project, or the Gay-Straight Alliance, as she searched for resources for her high school's own GSA club.
Ayelet R

The All-Digital Library -- THE Journal - 0 views

thejournal.com/...the-all-digital-library.aspx

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  • Ayelet R on 21 Oct 11
     
    A school turns its library digital.
Marium Afzal

EdSurge: Mapping The Edtech World, Flipped Classrooms, And More... - 2 views

www.fastcompany.com/...ld-flipped-classrooms-and-more

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  • Marium Afzal on 25 Oct 11
     
    This article almost provides a nice gist of a lot of topics we've touched on in class.
Marium Afzal

Augmented Identity - 0 views

pairadimes.davidtruss.com/augmented-identity

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  • Marium Afzal on 24 Oct 11
     
    Going back to our class on augmented reality, this article looks at how "augmented identities" might be useful in a classroom in the future
Melinda Schindler

'Blended learning' at Chandler school under study across Valley, U.S. - 1 views

www.eastvalleytribune.com/...55-11e0-9c29-001cc4c002e0.html

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  • Melinda Schindler on 26 Oct 11
     
    This article profiles a school in Arizona that has adopted a blended learning model.
Kinga Petrovai

Why university shouldn't just be a ticket to a job - 0 views

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  • Kinga Petrovai on 25 Oct 11
     
    A look at what makes universities special and important. It's interesting that what they note are aspects that require smaller classes and more resources. I thought this is a good article to think about some of the key features of universities, and how they can be replicated in the virtual world.
Allison Browne

Education Week: Lectures Are Homework in Schools Following Khan Academy Lead - 1 views

www.edweek.org/...05khan_ep.h31.html

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  • Allison Browne on 28 Oct 11
     
    Is this the start of a movement?
Yan Feng

Education Week: Kindergartners Blend E-Learning, Face-to-Face Instruction - 0 views

www.edweek.org/...09blended_ep.h31.html

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  • Yan Feng on 27 Oct 11
     
    Published Online: October 25, 2011 Published in Print: October 26, 2011, as 'Blended Learning' for the Little Ones By Jill Barshay, The Hechinger Report Los Angeles 1st grader Lena Barrett clicks through a series of icons and logs on to a laptop under the fluorescent lights of her classroom.
Marium Afzal

Kindergarten Augmented Reality Tool Gets Performance Boost -- THE Journal - 2 views

thejournal.com/...ol-gets-performance-boost.aspx

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  • Marium Afzal on 27 Oct 11
     
    Logical Choice Technologies has released an update to Letters Alive, an augmented reality education app for kindergarten and preschool. Letters Alive is a reading curriculum for preschool and kindergarten (and grades 1 through 5 for remediation and ESL) that consists of augmented reality-infused animal cards, augmented reality-infused word cards, software, teacher resources, and student activity sheets.
  • Bridget Binstock on 29 Oct 11
     
    This is incredible. They REALLY took the AR capabilities and built out a robust curriculum. They didn't just stop with what I have seen as a "typical" use of AR (making the image or the letter appear as 3D objects), rather, they made the cards interactive and educational with sounds, changing color, sentence structure, punctuation, etc. Incredible!
Jennifer Lavalle

WSD Board Ponders 21st Century Learning with $7M Price Tag - 1 views

ambler.patch.com/...ury-learning-with-7m-price-tag

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  • Jennifer Lavalle on 31 Oct 11
     
    Interesting, real-time, questions about the topics we are covering in T561. Illuminates some of the key pieces (and challenges there within) of the scaling process... "Wissahickon School District (WSD) board members are divided on how to meet educational technology goals that bridge the "digital divide" and foster 21st Century Learning skills for students. A "1:1" plan presented to board members calls for giving every secondary student a computer to bridge the digital divide for students who do not have a computer, and enhance learning for all."
Allison Browne

Education Week: States, Districts Move to Require Virtual Classes - 0 views

www.edweek.org/...01required.h05.html

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  • Allison Browne on 24 Oct 11
     
    Published Online: October 17, 2011 Published in Print: October 19, 2011, as No Longer Optional Two years ago, Tennessee's Putnam County school system adopted an online-learning graduation requirement for its high school students. But district officials realized that not all students had high-speed Internet access at home, or even computers, so they came up with a variety of options to allow students to fulfill the requirement.
Chris McEnroe

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

www.utorrent.com/ut3

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  • 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 :).
Bridget Binstock

Top 10 Mobile Internet Trends - Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers - 2 views

www.kpcb.com/...top-10-mobile-internet-trends

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  • Bridget Binstock on 29 Oct 11
     
    Does anybody know much about KPCB? Here are some good statistics about mobile internet trends from February. They also have this article http://www.kpcb.com/insights/internet-trends-2011 from the Web 2.0 Summit in San Fran just last week. Just curious as to their background and credibility. Published February 2011 by Matt Murphy and Mary Meeker This multimedia presentation co-authored by KPCB partners Matt Murphy and Mary Meeker outlines and analyzes the top 10 trends defining the current worldwide mobile Internet industry.
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