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Mirza Ramic

3 Quick Tips For Building Digital Citizenship - Edudemic - Edudemic - 0 views

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    Building digital citizenship - especially relevant with regard to the backchannel discussion in Monday's class.
Margaret O'Connell

LilyPad microcontroller's success in welcoming women to electronics - Boing Boing - 0 views

  • Our experience suggests a different approach, one we call Building New Clubhouses. Instead of trying to fit people into existing engineering cultures, it may be more constructive to try to spark and support new cultures, to build new clubhouses. Our experiences have led us to believe that the problem is not so much that communities are prejudiced or exclusive but that they're limited in breadth--both intellectually and culturally. Some of the most revealing research in diversity in STEM found that women and other minorities don't join STEM communities not because they are intimidated or unqualified but rather because they're simply uninterested in these disciplines. One of our current research goals is thus to question traditional disciplinary boundaries and to expand disciplines to make room for more diverse interests and passions. To show, for example, that it is possible to build complex, innovative, technological artifacts that are colorful, soft, and beautiful. We want to provide alternative pathways to the rich intellectual possibilities of computation and engineering. We hope that our research shows that disciplines can grow both technically and culturally when we re-envision and re-contextualize them. When we build new clubhouses, new, surprising, and valuable things happen. As our findings on shared LilyPad projects seem to support, a new female-dominated electrical engineering/computer science community may emerge.
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    The fascinating pdf from the researchers at MIT is linked to on Boing Boing. The comments on Boing Boing are also worth glancing at.
Mohit Patel

Will Google Course Builder Challenge Blackboard Dominance? - Online Colleges - 2 views

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    Thank you for posting - this is fascinating. This is not only a threat to Blackboard, but also the MOOC companies (Coursera, Udacity, etc.). If the tool continues to be developed in terms of functionality and ease of use, AND third party developers build out applications that plug into this platform, then colleges and universities will start to build their own online courses, and not farm out their content to the Coursera's of the world... This reminds of the dot com era (circa 2000) when companies large and small hired "web development" firms to create websites for them. Now companies largely do this themselves...
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    Thanks for sharing Mohit. It's great that it's open source and allows teachers all over the world to build their own courses. I wonder what this would do to the larger online course companies...
Maung Nyeu

Education Week: U.S., Chinese Schools Build Virtual Ed. Partnerships - 2 views

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    US and Chinese schools build online virtual education partnership.
pradeepg

computer based tools for modeling systems - 3 views

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    Conceptual change is aided by model building. Visualizing the relationships between different components of the model using a graphical interface is a powerful technological capability. Powersim is one such tool. Such an iterative model building activity to predict theoretically principled outcomes is stated to be conceptually engaging. There are other tools like Stella and VSim that fall into the same category.
Lindsey Dunn

How A School Becomes A Startup Whisperer | EdSurge News - 2 views

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    Some quick "look fors" for schools when assessing what type of edtech venture to partner with.
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    Great post! We definitely need more discussion about how edtech ventures can partner with schools, districts, and CMO's. This post is right to the point- helpful to both the schools and the edtech companies.
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    Schools describe what is needed to build a strong relationship between startups and schools. 
Malik Hussain

Into the wild: Checking learning environments against learning science - Bror's Blog - 0 views

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    Definitely worthwhile to keep a pulse on Dr. Bror Saxberg's work, esp. if you are interested in learning science. He is the Chief Learning Office at Kaplan and has a unique academic background (a Rhodes Scholar with MD from Harvard, PhD from MIT, Masters from Oxford, etc.) Professor Dede had also mentioned him in one of our previous lectures. Your's truly had the honor of having breakfast, one-on-one, with Dr. Bror Saxberg at his office in DC. :-) This posting talks about a beta course at Kaplan to train "learning architects" on how to build learning environments.
Matthew Ong

The next big lego - 0 views

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    Interesting project that builds sound, light sensors, motion detectors into building blocks.
Jason Yamashiro

How To Build An LED Lightsaber [Infographic] | Popular Science - 0 views

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    Just in time for the holidays! Popsci (popular science) is a pretty cool website. Could be useful for students, teachers, or pretty much anybody. How could we make time for a little more "making" in our schools?
Adrian Melia

How Google Plans to Find the UnGoogleable - 1 views

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    Google is building a new search tool that pre-guesses what you are looking for. This is a step beyond children being able to look up answers to any questions they have without thinking.
Brandon Pousley

How Portal 2 Developers Became The Best 6th Grade Physics Teachers Ever | Fast Company - 0 views

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    Game Developers recognizing learning opportunities within their games and building a platform that allows students to create their own worlds and test them.
Cole Shaw

Jeb Bush on education - 1 views

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    Just thinking about Professor Dede's experience with the Bush Foundation, I found this interview with Jeb Bush interesting. He talks some about the Bush Foundation's recent Education in Excellence conference and what kinds of issues are at stake for education reform to stick. Obviously a little bit political, but not too much. Building on some of the previous posts, politics does impact change in education so I think it's important for us to keep these things in mind.
Irina Uk

Florida Department of Education Proposes $441.7 Million in New Technology Funding -- TH... - 0 views

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    More money potentially being allocated to build a better tech infrastructure in Florida education system.
Kasthuri Gopalaratnam

Google Course Builder - 0 views

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    The package of software and technology that Google used to build its "Power Searching with Google" MOOC.
Jeffrey Siegel

Bubbles on the Brain - 2 views

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    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
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    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.
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    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...
Cole Shaw

Anti-Distraction Apps | Inside Higher Ed - 2 views

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    Kind of building on Jason's post about the Slow Web movement, this article talks about some apps that help you stay focused on coursework!
Irina Uk

Augmented Reality Apps Transform Class Time -- THE Journal - 0 views

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    This article outlines various augmented reality apps that are being used in classes. I've actually used Google Sketchup when teaching, giving students an opportunity to design their own buildings and use it to study geometric properties. It was very cool.
Heather French

Google launches open source course building web application - 1 views

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    Google is hoping that schools like Stanford and MIT will use the light weight web application to build rudimentary online courses.
Diego Vallejos

Awesome New Apps for Building, Reading, X-Raying and More - 0 views

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    A review of educational apps
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