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Chris McEnroe

Supercharge a TED video | Projects | Mozilla Webmaker - 3 views

webmaker.org/...supercharge-ted-video

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  • Chris McEnroe on 14 Jan 13
     
    Ted talks are interesting and useful at times in the classroom but will students automatically make connections to class content?  This annotating tool enables either instructors or students to make explicit connections or commentary and share the end product.  
Cole Shaw

Microsoft Europe's take on technology in higher education - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...01iht-educside01.html

Microsoft Europe higher ed

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  • Cole Shaw on 30 Sep 12
     
    Kind of a slightly different perspective from Europe, but some commentary from Microsoft Europe on how they think technology will change higher education and job preparedness. Towards the end he talks about things like personalization, digital resources for all schools, and some MS initiatives in schools (Partners in Learning).
James Glanville

Apple & Ed-Tech Payola | Hack Education - 0 views

www.hackeducation.com/...apple-ed-tech-payola

apple education

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  • James Glanville on 07 Nov 11
     
    Commentary on NYT article by Matt Richtel critical of Apple's "wooing" the ed industry.
David Chen

Why Desktop Touch Screens Don't Really Work Well For Humans - 0 views

www.techcrunch.com/...n-the-desktop-dont-really-work

touch screens computers technology

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  • David Chen on 15 Oct 09
     
    Some interesting commentary on the future of touch screens. Potentially has implications for educational uses as well: "Anyone who has used one for a long time will tell you that they quickly revert to using the keyboard and mouse. And it isn't because of the software or touch technology - both are fine.The problem is that you get tired keeping your hands up and on the screen for a long period of time. Touch experts I've spoken with say it's because your hands are above your heart, which isn't comfortable for very long."
Janet Dykstra

EdWeek - The Rise of the Tech Powered Teacher - 2 views

www.edweek.org/...06khan_ep.h32.html

technology education learning t561 educational_technology

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  • Janet Dykstra on 01 Oct 12
     
    Interesting commentary written by Salman Kahn (Kahn Academy) on his ideas about the correct use of technology in the classroom. He reviews the ways that he feels technology can enhance teaching and learning and the critical role that a teacher plays.
Jeffrey Siegel

Forbes: Why We Need a Fundamental Shift in How We Approach Education - 3 views

www.forbes.com/...t-in-how-we-approach-education

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  • Janet Dykstra on 12 Nov 12
     
    Commentary by Gaby Zedlmayer about disruptive education.
Jason Hammon

Jump Off the Coursera Bandwagon - Commentary - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

chronicle.com/...136307

MOOC online Learning

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  • Jason Hammon on 17 Dec 12
     
    MOOCs and their shorsightedness.
Jeffrey Siegel

Education Researcher Offers Tough Words for Startup Companies - 0 views

www.technapex.com/...gh-words-for-startup-companies

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  • Jeffrey Siegel on 31 Oct 12
     
    Commentary on Reynol Junco's article on Venture Beat posted below
Irina Uk

Overcoming the obstacles to digital learning - 0 views

www.edexcellence.net/...les-to-digital-learning-1.html

'digital learning' obstacles

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  • Irina Uk on 17 Oct 12
     
    This is a very insightful article on the obstacles to digital learning. It is closely linked to topics we touched on in section this week and next week's reading.
Irina Uk

Digital learning: The future of schooling? - 1 views

www.edexcellence.net/...g-the-future-of-schooling.html

future digital learning

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  • Irina Uk on 17 Oct 12
     
    This recaps an event on digital learning. Professor Dede is mentioned in this article.
Irina Uk

Will U.S. education policies advance or throttle online learning? - 0 views

www.edexcellence.net/...-throttle-online-learning.html

policy 'online learning'

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  • Irina Uk on 17 Oct 12
     
    Information about a book being published on necessary education reform and its impact on online learning.
Deidre Witan

Augmented Reality: Coming Soon to a School Near You? | MindShift - 0 views

blogs.kqed.org/...ming-soon-to-a-school-near-you

t561 augmented_reality

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  • Mary Jo Madda on 12 Sep 12
     
    Some of you in Dock's Innovation by Design class might be interested in this... drop down towards the end of the article for commentary on students using augmented reality as a a means of narration.
  • Deidre Witan on 17 Sep 12
     
    discussion of how AR is being used in schools
Harley Chang

The King of MOOCs Abdicates the Throne - 3 views

www.slate.com/...cessful_for_most_students.html

MOOC education technology learning educational_technology online

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  • Harley Chang on 21 Nov 13
     
    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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  • Grif Peterson on 21 Nov 13
     
    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."
  • Molly Wasser on 29 Nov 13
     
    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.
  • Grif Peterson on 09 Dec 13
     
    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.
Eric Kattwinkel

Robert J. Samuelson commentary: Student motivation is at root of educational woe | The ... - 2 views

www.dispatch.com/...t-root-of-educational-woe.html

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  • "Reforms" have disappointed for two reasons. First, no one has yet discovered transformative changes in curriculum or pedagogy, especially for inner-city schools, that are "scalable"
  • The larger cause of failure is almost unmentionable: shrunken student motivation.
  • Eric Kattwinkel on 15 Sep 10
     
    "Motivation is weak because more students don't like school, don't work hard and don't do well." Also see Tom Friedman in the NYTimes referring to this article and concluding that "right now the Hindus and Confucians have more Protestant ethics than we do, and as long as that is the case we'll be No. 11!"
Jennifer Lavalle

A real test for techies: the education market - 3 views

articles.boston.com/...2

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  • Jennifer Lavalle on 19 Sep 11
     
    Entrepreneurs in the classroom. Last paragraph of article reads: "But Michael Goldstein, founder of the MATCH charter high school and middle school in Boston, observes that "there's a history several decades long of technology promising to make education better, and teachers finding it remarkably difficult to implement.'' " (page 2) Good commentary on some initiatives and the challenges teachers face with classroom integration.
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