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Maung Nyeu

http://www.koreaherald.com/national/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20111110000696 - 1 views

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    Samsung establishes "smart classroom" which moves class study from pen and paper style learning to tablet based learning, but also allows schools in remote island, that lack educational infrastructure, connect students through electronic dashboards and share ideas and information.
Maung Nyeu

ePals Enables SchoolSafe Access to Third-Party Applications Starting with Microsoft Off... - 0 views

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    LearningSpace, a new tool from ePals that is also COPPA (Children's Online Privacy Protection Act) and FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act) compliant, provides K-12 appropriate selective access to the applications within a protected, customizable social learning environment. Schools and districts can customize the rules and policies that determine which groups, classes and projects have access to third-party applications.
Bridget Binstock

Classroom iPad use encourages innovation, reading with ease - 2 views

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    Disruptive or Transformative? Katy Culver, a faculty associate at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, uses the iPad in her magazine publishing class, and says overall, it has been a positive experience in her class since it has not made significant changes to the syllabus. New bottle, old wine?
Diana Mazzuca

Hotseat at Purdue University - 1 views

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    Reminded me of our conversation about online chat participation during a class lecture. Hotseat allows students to vote on question priority. 
Maung Nyeu

SETDA Leadership Summit Features U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, Marks a Decad... - 1 views

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    Secretary of Education Arne Duncan leads a team to State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) Leadership Summit, "Leveraging Technology for Learning." Th panels focus on making shift to digital textbook, increasing broadband access, STEM, assessment, and improving teacher effectiveness - many of these we discussed in our T561 class.
Adrian Melia

Technological advances at Norwell Middle School - Norwell, Massachusetts - Norwell Mariner - 0 views

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    Follow up to our class design challenge, this middle school in Norwell recently rolled out iPads to all of its students.
Irina Uk

Making Progress: Rethinking State and School District Policies Concerning Mobile Techno... - 0 views

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    Contains many arguments for rewriting AUPs, with insight on how to make the policies work. For example, there is a focus on implementing acceptable use lessons, focusing on web safety, in classes.
Laura Johnson

Edmodo And Common Sense Media Begin Offering Free Teaching Tools - 0 views

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    Edmodo And Common Sense Media Partner (the authors of the 0-8 report some of us read for Joe Blatt's class this week) to offer free teaching tools based on Dr. Howard Gardner's work at HGSE. The partnership provides teachers with a set of student activities based on Common Sense Media's free K-12 curriculum, "Digital Literacy and Citizenship in a Connected Culture," for the Edmodo platform. The curriculum introduces the basics of using social networks and other digital technologies safely, responsibly and respectfully and is based on the work of Dr. Howard Gardner and the GoodPlay Project at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Josh Tappan

Online Class Aims to Earn Millions (Wall Street Journal) - 0 views

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    UT-Austin professors pilot "Synchronous Massive Online Class" (SMOC)
Chris Dede

Creativity MOOC Draws 120,000 Students -- Campus Technology - 0 views

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    MOOCs are losing momentum as word spreads that they are not wonderful, but a popular topic still can get a big initial enrollment.
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    Are MOOCs really losing momentum? It seems as if there is still a lot of hype in the media about it, and campuses are continuing to add classes based on the MOOC concept. Even here at HGSE, there is talk of MOOC type classes.
Krithika Jagannath

http://www.centerdigitaled.com/news/Astronomy-Class-Online-Learning-Human.html - 7 views

The strategies that Ringham shares (welcome project, videos and audio interactions) sounds like a positive step towards achieving promotive interaction. I suppose next, in designing the online plat...

Krithika Jagannath

AVID | Decades of College Dreams - 1 views

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    Comment: As we're talking about the Common Core Standards, this is a concept which aligns itself to the CCSS. I volunteered through a non-profit organization this summer to teach AVID classes concepts about the world of work, entrepreneurship and personal finances. (AVID is advancement via Individualistic Determination) 
Harley Chang

The King of MOOCs Abdicates the Throne - 3 views

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    Sebastian Thrun, CEO of Udacity, has openly admitted that his company's MOOC courses are a lousy replacement for actual university class and instead will be taking his company to focus more on corporate training. I personally will reserve further judgement until after I finish the readings for next week.
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    I posted this article in G+ a day or two ago. Some of the better commentary surrounding this article below. Tressie McMillan Cottom: "Thrun says it wasn't a failure. It was a lesson. But for the students who invested time and tuition in an experiment foisted on them by the of stewards public highered trusts, failure is a lesson they didn't need." Rebecca Schuman: "Thrun blames neither the corporatization of the university nor the MOOC's use of unqualified "student mentors" in assessment. Instead, he blames the students themselves for being so poor." Stephen Downes: "I think that what amuses me most about the reaction to the Thrun story is the glowing descriptions of him have only intensified. "The King of MOOCs." "The Genius Godfather of MOOCs." Really now. As I and the many other people working toward the same end have pointed out repeatedly, the signal change in MOOCs is openess, not whatever it was (hubris? VC money?) that Thrun brought to the table. Rebecca Schuman claims this is a victory for "the tiny, for-credit, in-person seminar." It's not that, no more than the Titanic disaster was a victory for wind-powered passenger transportation."
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    Grif - where did the Stephen Downes quote come from ? I read the Rebecca Schuman article and don't really agree with her. To expand on the Schuman quote you posted - it's really interesting how she says the massive lecture format doesn't work but then provides two examples of massive technology that do work - texting and World of Warcraft. This relates directly to some of what we talked about earlier this semester. I don't think it's the 'massive,' as Schuman implies, that causes the failure of a MOOC. It's part of the design. Once the design is better and more engaging, then MOOCs may find that they have higher retention rates. Schuman: Successful education needs personal interaction and accountability, period. This is, in fact, the same reason students feel annoyed, alienated, and anonymous in large lecture halls and thus justified in sexting and playing World of Warcraft during class-and why the answer is not the MOOC, but the tiny, for-credit, in-person seminar that has neither a sexy acronym nor a potential for huge corporate partnerships.
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    The Downes quote was from OLDaily, which is a daily listserve of his that I subscribe too. I think the difference between texting/WoW and MOOCs is that, while both have many many users, the former two have means in which those groups are disaggregated into smaller units that are largely responsible for the UX/individual growth that goes on. I agree with you that massive is not necessarily the failure, in fact, I think it's the best thing they have going for them. However, until the design can leverage meaningful collaboration, like WoW and texting, the massive will remain a burden.
Natalie Bartlett

ADmented Reality - Google Glasses Remixed with Google Ads - YouTube - 1 views

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    If anyone wants to access this video from class, here it is!
Trung Tran

UB hopes new type of online class will transform education - 1 views

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    See why online education might be more benefiting for large state school systems who capitalize effectively on its flexibility while providing the same type of credentials.
Mirza Ramic

A Manifesto for Active Learning - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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    Great read on cultivating active learning, including the role of technology (though not transformative technology) in the classroom. Talks about engaging the more "shy" / deeply thinking students in class via Twitter chat - "smart students like to talk, smarter students like to listen."
Simon Rodberg

The very nitty-gritty of iPad implementation - 1 views

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    It's kind of hilarious to read this "instructions to give students" in the context of our class. "Charge your iPad" is first.
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.
Chris Dede

Degrees Based on What You Can Do, Not How Long You Went - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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    consistent with our discussion in class.
Mirza Ramic

Men Take Computer Science; Women Take Cooking Classes - Julia Ryan - The Atlantic - 1 views

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    A demographic survey of 200,000 students conducted last fall by Coursera. The average age of a Coursera student: 37.
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