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Jenny Reuter

UDL Book Builder - 1 views

bookbuilder.cast.org

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  • Drew Nelson on 30 Sep 12
     
    This is another project by CAST which has been particularly relevant to the work our research project is involved with. For more information click on the link below: http://jlr.sagepub.com/content/43/1/68 This article was provided to us by our contact at CAST and attempts to validate this type of "Digital Reading Environment." It's also authored by Catherine Show of HGSE, and is just a year old. The statistical data is a little above my comprehension level but it is described at a level I can understand. CAST UDL Book Builder This wonderful and free online tool allows you to create your own interactive "books" to help young readers learn reading strategies to build comprehension. Enter your own text, images, and hints.
  • Jenny Reuter on 03 Oct 13
     
    this was presented in one of my other classes (A-117). it provides an interesting way to use digital text for enhanced learning.
Tim Johnson

Re-imagining a Flipped Classroom - 2 views

www.criticalexplorers.org/...eimagining-a-flipped-classroom

Flipped

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  • Tim Johnson on 07 Nov 12
     
    Brief post decrying traditional concepts of the flipped classroom in favor of a more 'Duckworthian' approach
  • Harvey Shaw on 07 Nov 12
     
    Good point, Tim, the flipped classroom doesn't flip who's listening during the lecture phase, does it? Could the teach then use Duckworth's model in class, or does the existence of a lecture phase at all limit the effectiveness of her approach?
Arthur Josephson

Education's digital future- Our Stanford sister course - 2 views

edf.stanford.edu/educ-403x

Stanford education emerging technology courses

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  • Arthur Josephson on 10 Jan 13
     
    Our sister course at Stanford is called "Educations Digital Future". The masters students of EDUC 403x were asked to compile a collection of "white papers" summarizing the major themes of the course. They are linked here and are an interesting comparison to "Transforming Education..". Many of their discussions, hopes and concerns were similar to those voiced in our class. There is
Pearl Phaovisaid

The Retriever Weekly > Opinions > Finally! Something better than Blackboard - 2 views

www.retrieverweekly.com/?cmd=displaystory&story_id=7529&format=html

online learning education technology blackboard delivery platform EDC ETLO

shared by Pearl Phaovisaid on 31 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • free way
  • Blackboard's interface for discussion boards is very clunky -- it isn't at all visually appealing, doesn't group topics, doesn't have tags, doesn't provide a good search facility and doesn't support formatting
  • "I really like the visual layout, with a timeline of post summaries on the left, and the post itself on the right, with annotations about responses, statistics, poster, etc. Being able to tag posts is very helpful. It's easy to get all of the posts on a particular topic or associated with a particular assignment."
  • Pearl Phaovisaid on 31 Oct 12
  • Pearl Phaovisaid on 31 Oct 12
     
    In light of our recent Blackboard Collaborate class during Sandy, I got curious as to what other good online delivery platforms are out there. I am preparing to teach the MIT App Inventor curriculum to some high school girls on the other side of the world and am wondering if maybe there's a better alternative to Skype. I came across Piazza, which is free and seems to be gaining traction in higher ed. I also once took an online course with Kaplan and really liked their interface, but don't remember what it was and now it seems they are moving toward a platform called "KapX." If anyone can recommend additional platforms, please let me know.
Jason Dillon

Another MOOC - Current/Future State of Higher Education - 2 views

edfuture.net/course-topics

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  • Jason Dillon on 22 Oct 12
     
    I just found a current MOOC, highly relevant to the conversation in class today. --free and accepting new participants now. "Weekly Topics: Change pressures: What is influencing higher education? (Oct 8-14) Net pedagogies: New models of teaching and learning (Oct 15-21) Entrepreneurship and commercial activity in education (Oct 22-28) Big data and Analytics (Oct 29-Nov 4) Leadership in Education (Nov 4-11) Distributed Research: new models of inquiry (Nov 12- 18)"
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
Hannah Williams

The Gates Notes: Students In Los Altos - 0 views

www.youtube.com/watch

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  • Hannah Williams on 22 Oct 12
     
    5th Graders talk about what class was like before and after their teacher began using Khan Academy...
Chip Linehan

5 Ways That edX Could Change Education - 4 views

chronicle.com/...134672

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  • Chip Linehan on 17 Oct 12
     
    Gates funds edX to bring their courses/content to the community college setting. Is K-12 next?
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  • Harvey Shaw on 17 Oct 12
     
    Interesting that MOOCs (at the top of the high-value, high-margin education market) are providing entry-level content. That seems more like disruptive innovation than sustaining innovation.
  • Chip Linehan on 17 Oct 12
     
    Interesting point Harvey - thanks for weighing in! Per Clay Christensen, disruptive innovators often target the least desirable/most under-served segment of the market upon entry - the business that the established folks don't bother to pursue (think Southwest Airlines, etc). They then evolve up the value chain, ultimately displacing the large, established guys.
  • Harvey Shaw on 18 Oct 12
     
    Chip, that's what makes this especially curious: it's the major players (Harvard, MIT, etc.) who are pursuing the least-served part of the market here - Christensen would argue that they are more like to pursue sustaining, not disruptive innovation! In essence, EdX is seeking to disrupt the teaching of entry-level, profit-generating classes at other schools, while possibly undermining their own teaching of the same topics. Should be interesting to see how it plays out.
Komal Syed

Powers of Video Based Instructions bridges distances - 2 views

nation.time.com/...lege-is-dead-long-live-college

educational_technology online

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  • Drew Nelson on 01 Nov 12
     
    We know a good deal about the contents of this article arlready, but its a TIME article and it links to some interesting studies and polls. http://nation.time.com/2012/10/18/higher-education-poll/?pcd=teaser and this should encourage us, as we pay through the nose for this education: David Stavens (Udacity's co-founder, and Stanford alum) concedes. "I think the top 50 schools are probably safe," he says. "There's a magic that goes on inside a university campus that, if you can afford to live inside that bubble, is wonderful." ... I agree with Mr. Stavens . I hope you do too. See you in class!
Chris Dede

Technology Is Changing How Students Learn, Teachers Say - NYTimes.com - 2 views

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

teachers survey impact technology

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  • Chris Dede on 01 Nov 12
     
    The important thing is not the use of technology, but the new types of content, pedagogy, assessment...
  • Heather French on 02 Nov 12
     
    I just logged on to post the same article! The interesting perspective that I got from the article was that the teachers continued to harp on this idea that in order to retain student's attention they needed to constantly "tap-dance" for their class. Instead of learning from this attention shift, teachers are becoming annoyed by it. Use the technology to give the responsibility of engagement to the students and only wear the tap shoes when necessary to facilitate a deeper understanding etc.
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?
pradeepg

edweb webinar: "Put Down Your Pencils and Play: Using Digital Games Successfully in the... - 2 views

www.instantpresenter.com/...Default.aspx

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  • pradeepg on 20 May 12
     
    "In This Session What do teachers really think about digital games in the classroom? Join us for our community's next webinar for the just-released findings of a year-long research project, sponsored by BrainPOP and the Gates Foundation, that investigates teachers' attitudes and beliefs on game-based learning. Michael Levine and Jessica Millstone, Executive Director and Research Consultant at The Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop, will showcase the findings of this national survey that was conducted with 500 teachers nationwide who are currently integrating digital games into their classes.......
Rupangi Sharma

One-to-One Computing - 5 views

http://k12blueprint.com/k12/blueprint/story_video_bridging_our_future.php Occurred to me that it is interesting to map some of the similarities between the Microsoft video we saw in class, today, ...

technology education learning augmented reality Emerging Technology

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Drew Nelson

Our Productivity Future Vision - 2 views

www.youtube.com/watch

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  • Drew Nelson on 04 Sep 12
     
    The Video we watched in Class today
Irina Uk

Students Tackle Video-Game Design - 2 views

www.edweek.org/...03games.h05.html

gaming design education

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  • Irina Uk on 04 Sep 12
     
    This article discusses how students at one school learn by designing their own video games. There is a separate class set up for this. The article exposes many challenges to implementing this type of curriculum.
Angela Nelson

Guess who's winning the brains race, with 100% of first graders learning to code? | Ven... - 1 views

venturebeat.com/...estonia-code-academy

Writing Code Tech Literacy K-12

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  • Angela Nelson on 05 Sep 12
     
    Program in Estonia designed to have all students age 7 to 16 learn to write code in a drive to turn children from consumers to developers of technology.
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  • Heather French on 05 Sep 12
     
    I just posted an article from Wired onto twitter about this! http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/09/estonia-reprograms-first-graders-as-web-coders/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=socialmedia&utm_campaign=twitterclickthru I wonder how deeply the program goes in coding or if it is more in line with applications like "Move the Turtle".
  • Angela Nelson on 05 Sep 12
     
    I am very curious, as well, and trying to find more information. I think it would necessarily be a program that expands with their comprehension and maturity... starting with very basic "Move the Turtle" applications and then grown with the student, hopefully to real world application, as they go until age 16!
  • Jeffrey Siegel on 06 Sep 12
     
    Who initiated this ProgreTiiger program? The Estonian government? Local IT companies? Concerned parents who disparately wanted their children to learn to code? Estonia is very wired country and it's economy has found a niche in IT services, so much so that it's even been dubbed "eStonia" (http://e-estonia.com/). This program seems to be an example of market forces guiding educational policy since there are clear incentives for it's population to be technologically literate to ensure it's competitiveness and dominance in the tech sector (see: The Many Reasons Estonia Is a Tech Start-Up Nation (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303734204577464343888754210.html) A little blurb on how "plug-in" Estonia actually is: "The geeks have triumphed in this country of 1.3 million. Some 40 percent read a newspaper online daily, more than 90 percent of bank transactions are done over the Internet, and the government has embraced online voting. The country is saturated in free Wi-Fi, cell phones can be used to pay for parking or buy lunch, and Skype is taking over the international phone business from its headquarters on the outskirts of Tallinn. In other words, Estonia - or eStonia, as some citizens prefer - is like a window into the future. Someday, the rest of the world will be as wired as this tiny Baltic nation." (http://www.wired.com/politics/security/magazine/15-09/ff_estonia) p.s. I hate sensational titles like "Guess Who's Winning the Brain's Race" Learning coding doesn't automatically make your brain bigger or necessarily increase your intelligence. Sure, it's a very useful skill, but I wonder what classes will be cut out to make time in the school day for coding. Coding vs recess: Tough call.
  • Irina Uk on 06 Sep 12
     
    Hmmm.... I read about Estonia being very plugged in as well. I wonder if there is research on whether the kids are actually learning better as a result. I think that you have a point Jeffrey. It depends what the cost is. If kids are missing some critical lesson because they are coding at such a young age, there may be a trade-off. On the other hand, maybe the skills they are obtaining from coding are more critical. I wonder...
  • Angela Nelson on 06 Sep 12
     
    Ideally, the tech skills would be used to enhance and deepen some of the other curriculum areas. But, yes, 7 years old may be young.
Jeffrey Siegel

Savor The Value Of Tech-Free Learning - 0 views

www.courant.com/...-0909-20120907,0,7122349.story

technology education t561 banning tech-free luddite

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  • Jeffrey Siegel on 08 Sep 12
     
    This article attempts to balance the 'rah-rah tech is a panacea' view with a reminder that it might not be essential or desirable in all classrooms. Other than citing some studies that show how tech can distract students during class, I don't think her argument is that convincing. I'm curious what people think about this view.
Rupangi Sharma

Design Thinking Toolkit for Educators - IDEO - 3 views

designthinkingforeducators.com

technology design thinking educators education learning Emerging Technology

shared by Rupangi Sharma on 10 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Rupangi Sharma on 10 Sep 12
     
    The Design Thinking Toolkit for Educators contains the process and methods of design, adapted specifically for the context of education. You can download the toolkit by registering on the website.
  • Maria Anaya on 11 Sep 12
     
    I really like this approach. I'm going to check out the toolkit. I like the intro video and it's approach to design thinking in education as part of the story that each teacher has. This reminded me of what Dede spoke about today in class about how he always starts out with asking and understanding why a teacher is teaching...
  • Cole Shaw on 11 Sep 12
     
    Great find, Rupangi, thanks for posting it! I like IDEO's approach to things, and they have been branching out into development, too. It's cool that they are promoting design for education; I definitely think there are lots of application opportunities!
Steven Burns

Site-based testing deals strengthen case for granting credit to MOOC students | Inside ... - 1 views

www.insidehighered.com/...-granting-credit-mooc-students

MOOCs edX

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  • Emily Watson on 10 Sep 12
     
    Taking the next step towards credentialing through MOOC's and establishing greater value for these online classes.
  • Steven Burns on 18 Sep 12
     
    Interesting decision to address a number of common criticisms of online learning: the potential for cheating, the failure of enrollees to complete the course and the lack of certification.
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