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Garron Hillaire

What we can learn from procrastination : The New Yorker - 2 views

www.newyorker.com/...101011crbo_books_surowiecki

procrastination time behavior productivity

shared by Garron Hillaire on 06 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • even Nobel-winning economists procrastinate!
  • “each morning for over eight months I woke up and decided that the next morning would be the day to send the Stiglitz box.”
  • Academics, who work for long periods in a self-directed fashion, may be especially prone to putting things off: surveys suggest that the vast majority of college students procrastinate
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  • dragging our heels is “as fundamental as the shape of time and could well be called the basic impulse.”
  • Most of the contributors to the new book agree that this peculiar irrationality stems from our relationship to time—in particular, from a tendency that economists call “hyperbolic discounting.”
  • Viewed this way, procrastination starts to look less like a question of mere ignorance than like a complex mixture of weakness, ambition, and inner conflict.
  • instead of trusting themselves, the students relied on an outside tool to make themselves do what they actually wanted to do.
  • Garron Hillaire on 06 Nov 10
     
    an interesting article on procrastination. Perhaps worth reading to better understand our own behavior and the behavior of future students we attempt to engage. There is a not a direct technology angle here, but it would be important to think about this topic when looking at technologies for the classroom.
Vafa AK

Social networking sites affect social behavior | Campus Reform - 1 views

www.campusreform.org/...g-sites-affect-social-behavior

social networks education sharing behavior

shared by Vafa AK on 25 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Vafa AK on 25 Nov 09
     
    About the power of social networks, and how they influence our behavior. No doubt social networks can be a powerful tool for education and learning as well!
Tomoko Matsukawa

Digital Passport For Children Encourages Responsible Online Behavior - 0 views

mashable.com/...children-online-behavior

t561 children online ethic HGSE Common Sense Media

shared by Tomoko Matsukawa on 01 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Tomoko Matsukawa on 01 Oct 12
     
    A NPO called Common Sense Media is working with HGSE. They have launched a new web-based interactive tool for 3-5h grade to encourage responsible online behavior
Tomoko Matsukawa

A Bias for Action: How Effective Managers Harness Their Willpower, Achieve ... - Heike ... - 1 views

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multitasking attention procrastination behavior business

shared by Tomoko Matsukawa on 24 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • Tomoko Matsukawa on 24 Nov 12
     
    This is not necessarily related to technology but think is relevant to the concern presented by Dr Turkle on 'multitasking'. Many of us and current management have fostered the bad habit of multitasking, responding to the expectation that we will respond immediately, seek to keep ourselves busy to reward our brain... This famous book by Ghoshal introduces the concept of 'active non-action'. Figure 2-1 provides 4 types of managerial behaviors (the detached, procrastinators, frenzied and the purposeful). how many of us are being 'the purposeful' today? 
Chris Dede

The Science Behind Using Online Communities To Change Behavior | TechCrunch - 1 views

techcrunch.com/...communities-to-change-behavior

online communities behavior change

shared by Chris Dede on 01 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • Chris Dede on 01 Oct 13
     
    people have similar needs online as they do f2f
Jason Hammon

Essay on evolving ideas about technology and education | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

www.insidehighered.com/...about-technology-and-education

technology education

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  • Jason Hammon on 09 Oct 12
     
    Interesting take on the history of Behavioral Psychology in relation to Technology
Bridget Binstock

South Korean Prison To Feature Robot Guards - Forbes - 2 views

www.forbes.com/...prison-to-feature-robot-guards

robots technology

shared by Bridget Binstock on 30 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • Bridget Binstock on 30 Nov 11
     
    I thought this was interesting following our discussion about Sherry Turkle yesterday. Robots assessing "risky behavior?" A South Korean prison will begin a month-long trial to see if robots make good prison guards. (Image Credit: Asian Forum For Corrections) The BBC reports that a jail in Pohang, South Korea, will soon begin a one-month trial of three new robots, which will be there in a support capacity to monitor for "abnormal behavior."
Kellie Demmler

PhotoLapse Makes Time-Lapse Movie Creation a Snap - Time Lapse - Lifehacker - 0 views

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Time-Lapse video

shared by Kellie Demmler on 21 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Kellie Demmler on 21 Sep 09
     
    An easy way to make time-lapse videos could be great in the classroom, especially for science. I can picture setting up a camera on the little seeds that kids plant for mother's day and then when they send home their flowers they can also watch a youtube video with mom showing the flower grow from start to finish - literally. Watch a culture grow.  Document behavior in the classroom and play back for parents quickly...the possibilities are endless.  
Yang Jiang

Internet plays integral role in decision-making: Study - 0 views

www.chinadaily.com.cn/...content_11250274.htm

Internet Integral Decision-making

shared by Yang Jiang on 03 Sep 10 - Cached
  • One of the most interesting findings that we got in the survey, is that although the Internet is by far the most important medium in the lives of consumers, companies continue to under-invest in their online marketing efforts.
  • Beyond the sheer size of this online population, Chinese Internet users are much heavier users of most Internet behaviors, such as researching, communicating or self-expression through using social media tools, than their counterparts in other countries. They also are much more advanced in their use of the Internet across a wide range of activities and behaviors, from researching to using mobile capabilities.
  • Yang Jiang on 03 Sep 10
     
    Internet is certaily playing an incredibly important role in our daily life, no matter in the United States, or China.
anonymous

Texting and Risky Behavior - KIMT.com - Iowa & Minnesota Together - 2 views

www.kimt.com/...qIqRDogIEE66ImGVLcC1kg.cspx

texting risky education

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  • anonymous on 11 Nov 10
     
    A new survey is showing one in five students are "hyper texters" - texting 120 times a day. This group is three and half times more likely to have had sex with their peers. The study goes on to show those who just text a lot, are more likely to fight, drink and take illegal drugs.
Drew Nelson

Vineet Madan: Big Data Has Come to Education: Why Openness Must Come Next | Diigo - 0 views

www.diigo.com/...as-come-to-educ_b_1625801.html

t561 emerging technology educational_technology big data analytic

shared by Drew Nelson on 26 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Drew Nelson on 26 Sep 12
     
    It appears I've been posting this wrong, and it hasn't made its way to the HGSET561 thread directly. Sorry about that. This article is relevant to the CAST project I'm working on for this class as well as a general evaluation of this emerging market. Is the big money in the analytics of user behavior? Hmmm...
Jeffrey Siegel

eMee's social gamification for students, parents and teachers. - 1 views

www.emee.co.in/education.html

gamification education technology

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  • Jeffrey Siegel on 03 Oct 12
     
    A company that uses game theories to drive desired behavior - e.g. points, levels and badges based are awarded on courses you take, comments, & contributions you make. See the Value Proposition PDF for details
Junjie Liu

The ethics of MOOC research - 0 views

www.roughtype.com/?p=2005

MOOC Big data ethics

shared by Junjie Liu on 29 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Junjie Liu on 29 Oct 12
     
    MOOC user behavior will be tracked and analyzed for various purposes in this era of big data. Is it ethical?
Jeffrey Siegel

Bubbles on the Brain - 2 views

allthingsd.com/...bubbles-on-the-brain

shared by Jeffrey Siegel on 31 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Cole Shaw on 31 Oct 12
     
    Building on Maria's link from GeekWire, here is another article about a bubble forming in ed tech...and building on Jason's comment about not wanting to investmenting in ed tech, it seems like a lot of wealthy people aren't worried about it! This article goes into the numbers a little more on trying to show the bubble effect, such as the number of investment rounds and startups. It also talks a bit about Christensen's "innovator" profile and how a lot of the ed tech folks now are mission-driven people who are innovating like Christensen describes. Not sure if what they are doing will work, but trying because they are passionate about it
  • Jeffrey Siegel on 31 Oct 12
     
    Can Ed tech start-ups be classified into those driven by a desire to improve education and children's lives or those simply seeking to make a lot of money? Or are motives and intentions always impossible to judge and inextricable from behavior.
  • Tomoko Matsukawa on 03 Nov 12
     
    Thanks for sharing. I liked the last message of this article. "But as long as we remember that it takes both the tool and the teacher to create success, the mission-driven innovators will outnumber the market-driven copycats. And innovation will outshine the bubbles.". EdSurge is one of my favorite source too. One of my former client at Hedge Fund in HK messaged me earlier this month ''btw u might be spot on on this education stuff. this should offer a sizable business opportunity in coming years u should go grab some" - def. he is one of those guys out there who might contribute to the bubble in the future...
Susan Smiley

Technology Changing How Students Learn, Teachers Say - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...udents-learn-teachers-say.html

technology education learning

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  • Susan Smiley on 01 Nov 12
     
    Interesting article with cons and pros of effects of technology on students attention. I know good teachers are competing more and more for kids attention. But I also wonder if students waning abilities to think deeply and critically have as much to do with flaws in our education system/schooling as use of tech.
  • Jeffrey Siegel on 01 Nov 12
     
    Susan, I agree with your comment that waning attention have as much to do with flaws in our education system/schooling as use of tech. There's no reason to assume that kids 30 years ago were any more attentive during class or lecture. They simply had far fewer options on where to place their attention. I wonder if traditional classroom where equipped with as many distractions as one can find online how it would effect children's behavior and attention span?
Benjamin Berte

U.S. Education Secretary Briefs Stakeholders on 'Investing in Innovation Fund' at... | ... - 0 views

www.reuters.com/...261932+20-Aug-2009+PRN20090820

Arne Duncan Investing in Innovation ACT Rigor and Readiness

shared by Benjamin Berte on 10 Sep 09 - Cached
  • "I want the Department to become an engine of innovation, not a compliance monitor," said Secretary Duncan. "We are looking to you - the districts and nonprofits - to unleash your creativity and build the next generation of education reform."
  • According to research conducted by ACT, currently, -- Fewer than 20 percent of 8th-grade students are on target for being college ready in all four core subject areas of English, math, reading, and science. -- Only 70 percent of ACT-tested 2009 high school graduates took a core curriculum. -- Only 23 percent of ACT-tested 2009 high school graduates were college ready in all four core subject areas of English, math, reading, and science.
  • "We are committed to ensuring that all students are college and career ready in achievement, psychosocial behavior, and career and educational planning," said Erickson. "Rigor & Readiness will also create and advance school change, and build and support high-achieving, self-sustaining schools within scalable, replicable systems.
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  • A recording of Secretary Duncan's presentation is available at http://video.webexlivestream.com/events/webx001/31912/.
Allison Gevarter

Touchable Gadgets Win Over Users - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...01touch.html

technology education touchable gadgets

shared by Allison Gevarter on 01 Sep 10 - Cached
  • touching screens has seeped into people’s day-to-day existence more quickly and completely than other technological behaviors because it is so natural, intimate and intuitive.
  • natural user interface uses ingrained human movements that do not have to be learned.
  • Allison Gevarter on 01 Sep 10
     
    Interesting article on why touch screens are dominating in new technologies--and the basis for why they're more attractive to us.
amy hoffmaster

Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: New frontiers in social networking - 2 views

www.roughtype.com/...new_frontiers_i_1.php

mobile phones

shared by amy hoffmaster on 09 Sep 10 - Cached
  • NeuroPhones promise, by obviating the need for conscious human agency in the processing and transmission of updates, to bring us much closer to fulfilling the true realtime ideal, opening up enormous new opportunities not only in "human behavior modeling" but also in marketing.
  • amy hoffmaster on 09 Sep 10
     
    NeuroPhones are really scary. True realtime? What will the not so distant future bring?
Eric Kattwinkel

Does Your Language Shape How You Think? - NYTimes.com - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...29language-t.html

shared by Eric Kattwinkel on 02 Sep 10 - Cached
    • Eric Kattwinkel
      Eric Kattwinkel on 02 Sep 10
       
      Old ideas about language affecting thinking have been discredited, but more recent research has revived the idea, with important differences.
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      Eric Kattwinkel on 02 Sep 10
       
      It's not that features of our language prevent or allow certain kinds of thinking; it's that they "oblige" us to consider some things and not others, thereby causing us to develop certain "habits" in how we think.
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      Eric Kattwinkel on 02 Sep 10
       
      Compare different language requirements of making a simple statement ("I had dinner with a neighbor last night"): in French you have to reveal the gender of the neighbor, but in English  you don't; in English you have to reveal when the dinner happened; not so in Chinese.
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      Eric Kattwinkel on 02 Sep 10
       
      Research shows that when languages have different genders for the same objects, speakers of those language think differently about those same objects -- and this can affect their ability to remember those objects. (no reference?)
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      Eric Kattwinkel on 02 Sep 10
       
      How would the habits of mind of a speaker of a geographic-based language be manifest in the way that person learns/remembers/teaches? How do speakers of egocentric languages learn/teach/remember differently?
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      Eric Kattwinkel on 02 Sep 10
       
      Language even affects our perception and experience of color: "Our experience of a Chagall painting actually depends to some extent on whether our language has a word for blue."
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      Eric Kattwinkel on 02 Sep 10
       
      Does an avid user of social media, who makes subtle distinctions among different ways to post something (comment, like, message, poke, etc.), have different habits of mind that affect how he/she relates to other people and/or incoming information?
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      Eric Kattwinkel on 02 Sep 10
       
      Area for potential study?: how to measure the ways habits of mind affect our intuitive/emotional/impulse behavior.
    • Eric Kattwinkel
      Eric Kattwinkel on 02 Sep 10
       
      Very intesting article about how our language affects the way we think. People who speak different languages adopt different "habits of mind" from an early age, and those habits can affect they way they experience the world. Especially fascinating is the discussion (2/3 of the way down) of languages that use a geographical, rather than egotistical, method for describing direction and relative position. (For example, the cup is resting on the north side of the west table in the southern room of the house.) How would a person with this type of view of the world experience a virtual environment? Also interesting implications for kids growing up with social media. Do new technologies impart habits of mind that affect the way kids learn?
Ellen Loudermilk

People Spend 927 Million Hours Per Month Playing Facebook Games - 1 views

gizmodo.com/...r-month-playing-facebook-games

Facebook technology games apps

shared by Ellen Loudermilk on 20 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Brandon Bentley on 21 Oct 10
     
    Hi Ellen, I think this is an interesting topic. You may be interested in Piskorski's work at HBS. Professor Piskorski's current research examines why and how people use on-line social networks, both in the US and abroad. Using extensive fieldwork and large scale empirical analyses, he constructed theories of social failures and networks as covers which allow us to understand numerous facets of people's on-line behaviors. http://drfd.hbs.edu/fit/public/facultyInfo.do?facInfo=ovr&facId=10663
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