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Chris Dede

I don't tag and I don't often need the tagging of others to "advance and personalize" m... - 21 views

I believe that many types of resources should be available for learning in a course, because people learn in very different ways. If tagging is not useful for you, fine. I know that a substantial p...

started by Margaret O'Connell on 12 Sep 10 1 follow-up, last by Chris Dede on 12 Sep 10
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Ellen Loudermilk

The 5 Keys to Educational Technology -- THE Journal - 3 views

thejournal.com/...to-educational-technology.aspx

educational_technology

shared by Ellen Loudermilk on 20 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Implementation is essential, especially when one understands that educational technology is about affecting particular outcomes.
  • Certainly, these objects have demonstrable value; however, techniques and processes in teaching and learning are at least equally important
  • use of appropriate tools
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  • human capabilities are not wholly adequate to the demands of the modern teaching and learning enterprise, and this is where technology as facilitator has a role
  • Demonstrations, illustrations, instruction across learning styles
  • If no improvements are made with the adoption of new technology, then there is no point to utilizing any technology except for the most basic required to obtain that unchanging level of learning
  • need to assess our outcomes, make incremental changes in our methodologies to address shortcomings, then assess again
  • Ellen Loudermilk on 20 Sep 10
     
    The author's top 5 keys to successful education technology... do you agree? Is it missing anything?
  • quintintanderson on 21 Sep 10
     
    One of the more powerful messages I have learned in Stone's class is when you are designing an educational intervention you have to know WHEN to ask the question: what technology, if any, will improve our educational problem? Before you ask this question, the problem should be clearly identified, and the steps to assess if the problem is improving should be laid out. When you have this information, you can then tailor the technology to specifically meet the needs of your current problem. In this way, technology is sort of the means (not the ends!) towards improving education. So, in addition to the author's 5 key factors for educational technology, I would like to add: Is the technology a good fit for addressing our clearly defined educational problem?
Cameron Paterson

Schooling: The Hidden Agenda - The Natural Child Project - 1 views

www.naturalchild.org/...daniel_quinn.html

schooling t561

shared by Cameron Paterson on 12 Sep 10 - Cached
  • Wow, just imagine missing school on the day when they were learning blue. You'd spend the rest of your life wondering what color the sky is.
  • Our schools are not failing, they're just succeeding in ways we prefer not to see.
  • the human biological clock is set for two alarms. When the first alarm goes off, at birth, the clock chimes learn, learn, learn, learn, learn. When the second alarm goes off, at the onset of puberty, the clock chimes mate, mate, mate, mate, mate.
Cameron Paterson

Kesmit-ing: The Twitter Experiment - Bringing Twitter to the Classroom at UT Dallas Video - 3 views

vodpod.com/...-to-the-classroom-at-ut-dallas

twitter t561

shared by Cameron Paterson on 01 Sep 10 - Cached
  • Cameron Paterson on 01 Sep 10
     
    How one teacher is using twitter to teach more effectively
  • Margaret O'Connell on 13 Sep 10
     
    Uche, in class today I was thinking about this posting from Cameron. Was wondering your thoughts on it and if/how using Twitter like this relates to OneVille.
Maura Wolk

Houghton Mifflin takes the iPad to school - 0 views

www.boston.com/...houghton_miffli_18.html

T561 iPad school

shared by Maura Wolk on 09 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • The launch of the algebra app "signals the beginning of a new era in curriculum development, where the goal is not just providing world-class content, but also delivering it in a variety of ways so that students and teachers can individualize the learning experience,”
  • Maura Wolk on 09 Sep 10
     
    A not surprising move on the part of educational publishers trying to keep from going extinct. But it does force us to ask, are they just in a rush to utilize the popular technology, or have they really explored its value for learning?
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.
Garron Hillaire

The Case For Social Media in Schools - 3 views

mashable.com/...social-media-in-school

socialmedia education schools social

shared by Garron Hillaire on 30 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Elizabeth Delmatoff started a pilot social media program in her Portland, Oregon classroom, 20% of students school-wide were completing extra assignments for no credit, grades had gone up more than 50%
  • Although Delmatoff is adamant that there’s no way to pin her class’s increased academic success specifically to the pilot program, it’s hard to say that it didn’t play a part in the more than 50% grade increase.
  • Kidblog.org is one of many free tools that allow teachers to control an online environment while still benefiting from social media. Delmatoff managed her social media class without a budget by using free tools like Edmodo and Edublogs.
  • Garron Hillaire on 30 Sep 10
     
    An article that advocates the use of social media in the classroom. It highlights one pilot program in Oregon.
Devon Dickau

'Chalk and Talk' Colleges Are Challenged by India's Company Classrooms - Technology - T... - 0 views

chronicle.com/...124777

higher education college students classrooms technology education international

shared by Devon Dickau on 05 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • The most high-tech classrooms in India are not at a university but at a technology company's training facility.
  • To make up for those perceived deficiencies, Indian companies spent more than $1-billion last year on corporate-training programs for new employees, according to an industry group that has been pushing for change at universities.
  • Each classroom bears the name of a famous innovator—Archimedes, J.P. Morgan, Steve Jobs. In a morning class in the Benjamin Franklin classroom, I observed about 100 students learning the Unix programming language. Each seat had its own PC, and most students had opened a copy of the instructor's PowerPoint presentation and followed along on their own screen, sometimes scrolling back to see what they had missed, sometimes looking ahead.
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  • The trainees, called "freshers" because they are fresh out of college,
  • The trainees said that their undergraduate teaching had been delivered mostly in chalk-and-talk form, with the professor lecturing at the front of the classroom. A few professors had tried PowerPoint, they said, but even that was unusual.
  • "More technology would have meant a lot more knowledge."
  • It turns out, how wired the classrooms are is not the point—the style of teaching is much slower to change than the gear in the rooms.
  • Devon Dickau on 05 Oct 10
     
    Indian college classrooms have not integrated technology into learning and teaching, so private companies - teaching the skills needed to perform in their specific career paths - are taking the lead, showing that universities need to catch up.
Mohammad Hussain

Disruptive innovation in education lecture by Horn - 5 views

mitworld.mit.edu/821

education disruptive innovation

shared by Mohammad Hussain on 17 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Mohammad Hussain on 17 Oct 10
     
    Lecture by one of the authors of Disrupting Class. He describes how disruptive innovation will change the education and along the lecture picks on HBS.
Devon Dickau

The End of the Textbook as We Know It - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 3 views

chronicle.com/...125044

higher education college students textbooks

shared by Devon Dickau on 26 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • For years observers have predicted a coming wave of e-textbooks. But so far it just hasn't happened. One explanation for the delay is that while music fans were eager to try a new, more portable form of entertainment, students tend to be more conservative when choosing required materials for their studies. For a real disruption in the textbook market, students may have to be forced to change.
  • saying that e-textbooks should be required reading and that colleges should be the ones charging for them
  • radical shift
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  • Here's the new plan: Colleges require students to pay a course-materials fee, which would be used to buy e-books for all of them (whatever text the professor recommends, just as in the old model).
  • they're far cheaper to produce than printed texts
  • publishers could eliminate the used-book market and reduce incentives for students to illegally download copies as well
  • When students pay more for new textbooks than tuition in a year, then something's wrong
  • Tricky issues remain, though. What if a professor wrote the textbook assigned for his or her class? Is it ethical to force students to buy it, even at a reduced rate? And what if students feel they are better off on their own, where they have the option of sharing or borrowing a book at no cost?
  • In music, the Internet reduced album sales as more people bought only the individual songs they wanted. For textbooks, that may mean letting students (or brokers at colleges) buy only the chapters they want. Or only supplementary materials like instructional videos and interactive homework problems, all delivered online. And that really would be the end of the textbook as we know it.
  • P Parson on 31 Oct 10
     
    I would be for this. I could not believe a place so big on recycling (Harvard) murdered so many trees with the printing of course packs. I like this idea if you could get the material from other sources than just the school (say the author or publisher directly or something like Amazon). Otherwise, there is no opportunity for competition or bargaining.
Chris Dede

Cell phones emerge as the newest classroom tool - chicagotribune.com - 2 views

www.chicagotribune.com/...class-20101011,0,1580981.story

cellphones learning classrooms T561

shared by Chris Dede on 12 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Doug Pietrzak on 12 Oct 10
     
    schools are starting to concede to allowing cell phones in school -- hopefully grabbing some benefits from them soon...
  • Chris Dede on 14 Oct 10
     
    Administrators finally realize cellphones can aid education
Mydhili Bayyapunedi

If students are capable of self-tutoring, are we putting too much importance on teacher... - 2 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...ugata-mitra-slumdog-teach-self

educational_technology education technology learning

shared by Mydhili Bayyapunedi on 18 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Mydhili Bayyapunedi on 18 Oct 10
     
    Following up on the discussion we had in class today, do you think we are focusing too much of our attention on teacher training? If students have the ability to not only understand a certain technology but can also use that technology to self train, isn't the role of the teacher in that respect, highly reduced? Perhaps its easier and would prove fruitful if we redirected our strengths to developing software and devices that are intuitive and help children learn rather than spending the resources on helping a different generation of learners (i.e., the teachers) understand this technology? Also, if you think about it, we are probably only one generation away from the teachers who see the value of technology in teaching. This ideal generation is of course the current students who are using technology and find it extremely helpful. They wouldn't need any convincing or training to use technology in their classroom
Chris Dede

Palm Beach County students benefit from virtual classroom at home - 4 views

www.palmbeachpost.com/...-virtual-classroom-977282.html

Florida virtual schooling T561

shared by Chris Dede on 19 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Chris Dede on 19 Oct 10
     
    virtual education meets some students' needs
  • Lisa Estrin on 20 Oct 10
     
    Thanks for sharing this link. This is interesting for me to read because I grew up in this district. I also think virtual classrooms are a valuable tool for children who suffer from illness and might otherwise have to miss extended periods of class time. My younger brother is a college student and is currently stuck at home with Mono and might have to drop the semester- it would be great if he could keep up with his work online, while resting at home.
  • Chris Dede on 20 Oct 10
     
    It is frustrating that his college does not have a distance learning option. Hope your brother feels better soon.
amy hoffmaster

A Web 2.0 Class: Students Learn 21st Century Skills, Collaboration, and Digital Citizen... - 1 views

www.edutopia.org/...laboration-digital-citizenship

collaboration digital citizenship

shared by amy hoffmaster on 13 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • "I have been able to virtually meet the people that can help me get the answers I need for what I am searching for in school and one day, in my career."
  • These students are learning how to be critical readers and thinkers, while opening up rich, academic conversations via blogs, Twitter, and Skype.
  • amy hoffmaster on 13 Oct 10
     
    Students realize that with Web 2.0 lots of resources are available.
Eric Kattwinkel

Blekko, an Interesting First Draft of a New Way to Search the Web - 3 views

www.pcworld.com/...new_way_to_search_the_web.html

t561

shared by Eric Kattwinkel on 02 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Eric Kattwinkel on 02 Nov 10
     
    This relates to today's class discussion about search: a model based not on popularity or paid placement, but on Wikipedia-style editing by users.
Eric Kattwinkel

NYTimes: Learning in Dorm, Because Class Is on the Web - 2 views

www.nytimes.com/...05college.html

online

shared by Eric Kattwinkel on 05 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Eric Kattwinkel on 05 Nov 10
     
    A mostly negative take on the growth of online learning in higher ed.
Margaret O'Connell

New Dan Meyer video prez, "Math Class Makeover" - 2 views

www.blip.tv/4347311

math teaching

shared by Margaret O'Connell on 07 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Margaret O'Connell on 07 Nov 10
     
    Another great Dan Meyer video. (His Ted talk has gotten a lot of attention but this one is even better!) Dan describes the creative way he teaches math, including the active use of technology (rather than the "tired, dead tree format").
Yang Jiang

British Kids Log On and Learn Math - in Punjab - NYTimes.com - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...25iht-teach25.html

Online technology educational_technology education

shared by Yang Jiang on 27 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • LONDON — Once a week, year six pupils at Ashmount Primary School in North London settle in front of their computers, put on their headsets and get ready for their math class. A few minutes later, their teachers come online thousands of kilometers away in the Indian state of Punjab.
Margaret O'Connell

projector for iPhone? (that projects the entire screen as you use it) - 2 views

Does anyone know of a projector for the iPhone (or other smartphone) which can project the entire screen (and not just handle videos and photos)? I do not and I can not find one (but, admittedly, ...

projector

started by Margaret O'Connell on 15 Nov 10 no follow-up yet
Eric Kattwinkel

The Future of Reading and Writing is Collaborative - 2 views

spotlight.macfound.org/...g-and-writing-is-collaborative

collaboration

shared by Eric Kattwinkel on 23 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Boardman teaches students how to express their ideas and how to tell stories —and he encourages them to use video, music, recorded voices and whatever other media will best allow them to communicate effectively. He is part of a vanguard of educators, technologists, intellectuals and writers who are reimagining the very meaning of writing and reading.
  • the idea of the author as someone who works alone to produce something that is hers comes from the Enlightenment—and from then until now is only a “blip in time.”
  • “The 6th graders were running down to library class, banging down the door to get in, which you don’t often see,” Flemming said.
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  • Consider a party, he says. A guy named Bob may have hosted, but if there weren’t any guests, the party wouldn’t exist. We call it Bob’s party, but is it really his?
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