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Mirza Ramic

Researchers Push MOOC Conversation Beyond 'Tsunami' Metaphors - Wired Campus - Blogs - ... - 0 views

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  • Mirza Ramic on 11 Dec 13
     
    Trying to move the MOOC conversation beyond hype and toward more careful analysis.
Chris McEnroe

Parents of Sippican and Old Rochester Regional Schools - 0 views

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  • Chris McEnroe on 10 Nov 11
     
    This is a Facebook page started by parents at our local Elementary school about school.
  • Chris McEnroe on 10 Nov 11
     
    Much of the conversation seems reasonable enough but it will be interesting to see how adults can model public conversation. I'm not comfortable with having adult conversation displayed for kids within the school environment. I think that this is the equivalent of parents fighting in front of their children. Kids don't process it in a healthy manner and adults who do it I think do so for their own convenience and at the peril of kids. I think if adult in this community can be disciplined in their comments and stick strictly to logistical information with the understanding that kids are watching (FB will never replace parent oversight), it may be a useful tool. I also think the only way teachers can influence this page is by jumping on and using it to communicate because it seems to me that is the real "ask" in establishing the page.
Daniel Melia

The Ann Arbor Chronicle | Ann Arbor School Board OKs Tech Upgrades - 0 views

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  • Daniel Melia on 03 Nov 12
     
    An example of some of the conversation within one school system as they look to change their approach to ed tech. It mirrors some of the kinds of discussions we've had, particularly in section, and there is a link to the new plan, too.
Janet Dykstra

Rethink College: 3 Takeaways from the TIME Summit on Higher Education - 1 views

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  • Janet Dykstra on 22 Oct 12
     
    Squares with our conversations for today! For a room full of academics talking about the future of higher education, the conversation was surprisingly blunt. Yesterday TIME gathered more than 100 college presidents and other experts from across the U.S. to talk about the biggest problems facing higher education, which U.S.
Laura Johnson

EducationSuperHighway Launches School Speed Test | EdSurge News - 0 views

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  • Laura Johnson on 12 Sep 12
     
    article on the National School Speed Test to access the quality of Internet access for K-12 schools - critical information in the conversation regarding technology integration
Maung Nyeu

Tom Vander Ark: Questions About Digital Learning - 4 views

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Emerging Technology technology education learning t561 online

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  • Maung Nyeu on 02 Dec 11
     
    An conversation with Tom Vander Ark, author of "Getting Smart: How DIgital Learning is Changing the World". " It confirms what we discussed in class - technology is an amplifier, "technology amplifies parenting: good parents manage it and make the most of it, but less well supported students sit in front of screens in unsupervised and unproductive activities for far too long. "
James Glanville

Education Week's Digital Directions: As Oklahoma Schools Move Grades Online, Conversati... - 1 views

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  • James Glanville on 29 Nov 11
     
    An effort in Oklahoma schools to better connect with families.  They've deployed a smartphone app "The School Connect Application" to share electronic report cards and email notifications with parents.  Not quite at the level of OneVille but a step in that direction
Diana Mazzuca

Hotseat at Purdue University - 1 views

www.itap.purdue.edu/...hotseat

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  • Diana Mazzuca on 19 Nov 11
     
    Reminded me of our conversation about online chat participation during a class lecture. Hotseat allows students to vote on question priority. 
Simon Rodberg

Conversation with Rocketship CEO - leading blended learning schools - 2 views

www.edexcellence.net/company-it-keeps-preston-smith

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  • Simon Rodberg on 14 Sep 13
     
    Interesting conversation with the CEO of Rocketship, a blended-learning-focused charter school organization. "We should all focus on personalized learning and obsessing daily with how we ensure our students are spending large chunks of their day (80%+) in their optimal zone of learning-meaning exactly at their level. I would bet that students in countries that lead the world in achievement spend maybe 25-40% of their time in these optimal zones. Technology is an incredible tool in this work as there are online programs that immediately allow a student to access content in their optimal zone. Again-technology is not the complete answer, but it is definitely part of the solution."
Eric Kattwinkel

Tea Party Surge; Unemployment & Uninsurance; Elizabeth Warren - Left, Right & Center on... - 1 views

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  • Eric Kattwinkel on 20 Sep 10
     
    About 16 mins in to this mostly political conversation about economic pressures and the political changes expected this fall, Matt Miller calls out higher education as a place likely to see major disruption in coming years, saying that like the medical establishment, it's a sector "where the costs of delivering services are much higher in the US than anywhere else in the world, [which has] been able...essentially through interest group politics...to keep the income flowing to their sector at the expense of the average consumer... You've got all these new...small firms...that will deliver, like, freshman year for a thousand dollars...and they're being blocked by the...status quo establishment that likes to keep the cost of higher education at 15, 20, 35 thousand dollars a year. If you've got this kind of economic pressure across the board, I think it's only a matter of time before the boom really falls on these sectors."
Devon Dickau

Google Instant search feeds our real-time addiction - CNN.com - 0 views

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  • By providing results before a query is complete and removing the need to hit the "enter" key, Google claims users will save two to five seconds per search
    • Devon Dickau
      Devon Dickau on 12 Sep 10
       
      Two to five seconds to hit Enter?  In a society obsessed with saving time, even mere seconds are perceived as valuable.
  • Web connections have become significantly faster over time
  • Web connections have become significantly faster over time
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  • quick status updates
    • Devon Dickau
      Devon Dickau on 12 Sep 10
       
      Are the speed and brevity of these messages bypassing the potential exploration of a certain topic area in-depth, or is very topic only superficial?
  • many social sites now use our social connections to recommend content to us without the need to seek it out
    • Devon Dickau
      Devon Dickau on 12 Sep 10
       
      Search engines do the work for us.  We don't even need to know how to find the information ourselves these days.
  • What's more, this feature enables truly personalized discovery by taking into account your search history, location and other factors -- Google is essentially emulating social networks by trying to predict what we're looking for without the need to submit a fully-formed search
  • The next step of search is doing this automatically. When I walk down the street, I want my smartphone to be doing searches constantly: 'Did you know ... ?' 'Did you know ... ?' 'Did you know ... ?' 'Did you know ... ?
    • Devon Dickau
      Devon Dickau on 12 Sep 10
       
      Constant delivery of knowledge.
    • Devon Dickau
      Devon Dickau on 12 Sep 10
       
      In thinking about evolving technology in terms of both formal and informal education, I question whether or not constant and immediate access to information is improving or harming individual knowledge.  By this I mean that because we can so easily search for something online, what motivation is there to actually know anything.  If we have Wikipedia on our phones, and know HOW to find it, can't we just spend 30 seconds finding the page and "know" something for topic of conversation, or a test?  What is the point, then, or learning, of retaining knowledge?  I feel that this may be a problem in coming generations.  What knowledge will our students actually feel they need to retain? I took solace in the fact that at least we have to learn and teach HOW to find the information, but with new technologies like predictive and instant searching, it almost seems like that is a skill that will soon become unneeded as well.  We might as well just be physically plugged in to the Internet with access to all information simultaneously. Thoughts from the group?
Chris McEnroe

Technology in Schools Faces Questions on Value - NYTimes.com - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...-faces-questions-on-value.html

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      Chris McEnroe on 05 Sep 11
       
      As journalism, this article observes well the cross conversation in the public debate. Before this conversation even begins it would be useful for the parties to agree on the goal of the interaction between teacher and student. This quote from the article, "digital devices let students learn at their own pace, teach skills needed in a modern economy and hold the attention of a generation weaned on gadgets . . ." Makes broad assumptions that the invitation to learn (things that are pre-conceived by adults) is all the students need. We have a system of education and no matter what we do, the system assumes s significant and active role for adults (rightly so). There is a persistant sense that the system is not working to our expectations, but that hardly argues for the abandonment of personal and substantive interactions among teachers and students. I agree more with this quote, ""Rather than being a cure-all or silver bullet, one-to-one laptop programs may simply amplify what's already occurring - for better or worse (Bryan Goodwin)," because it asserts the point that Technology promises to enhance the value of our effort in education with better tools to do what teachers do. Technology is not (as some seem to think) a replacement of what teachers do and that unspoken assumption seems to be underlying much of what I see as vague public discussion.
Bridget Binstock

Social Media: Evolving From Broadcasting To Conversation - Forbes - 1 views

www.forbes.com/...m-broadcasting-to-conversation

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  • Bridget Binstock on 16 Sep 11
     
    Written by Jason Rosenthal Social media was originally all about broadcasting to the world - or at a minimum, your select group - about your likes, dislikes, or even what kind of eggs you had this morning. But social media today… well, it's not just for breakfast anymore.
Chris McEnroe

Technology in Schools Faces Questions on Value - NYTimes.com - 3 views

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      Chris McEnroe on 17 Sep 11
       
      Some of the thinking articulated in this article captures the gridlock of public conversation around the issue of technology in the classroom. I'm reminded of a conversation I had with a colleague in which he was telling me about the many interesting ways he uses powerpoint for instruction. I asked him he ever had his students use powerpoint and he scoffed, "Powerpoint for student presenations is a Middle School right of passage. Please. They're terrible." I told him that if he didn't think powerpoint was a useful means of communication than he wouldn't use it. The fact is we don't teach kids how to use powerpoint well and so they don't use it well. The argument about tech in Ed is much the same. Sometimes when I hear or read about these discussions I think of someone who has an F-14 in his front yard complaing that it is terrible for hanging laundry on. The promise of teaching well in a 21st century classroom focuses on cultivating different skills and more dynamic learning than standardized tests seek to quantify.
Erin McCloskey

Learning & the Brain 24 - 2 views

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  • Erin McCloskey on 05 Oct 09
     
    Those of you interested in our conversation today about the brain, media and learning may be interested in attending part of this conference on Nov 20-22
Jennifer Jocz

Real life subtitles appear in Japan - 1 views

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  • Jennifer Jocz on 08 Nov 09
     
    AR glasses for translating conversations in real time
Chris McEnroe

The Electric Educator: 10 Google Voice Tricks That Will Rock Your Phone! - 0 views

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  • Chris McEnroe on 18 Oct 11
     
    I think this is what Uche is talking about with respect to enabling teachers with a school specific voice mail system that is also mobile. In my department office there is 1 phone for 10 teachers. The department chair is the only one who checks messages (once a day each morning) and it's difficult to use the phone because, even though we often deal in confidential information, we don't have any privacy for conversation. I'm signing up!
Irina Uk

MakerBot Updates 3D Printer Line -- THE Journal - 0 views

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  • Irina Uk on 24 Sep 12
     
    I've heard of 3D printers before. I thought it would be interesting to try out in schools. For example, if students were designing towns to learn volume and surface area. This could help with spatial learning, which is essential to understanding math. I don't know how feasible this it though...
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  • Matthew Ong on 24 Sep 12
     
    One of our classmates, Hongge, is really into 3D printers and knows a lot about it. You could check with him what he's done with this technology in the classroom. If we can 'print' human kidneys, the possibilities seem endless...
  • Kasthuri Gopalaratnam on 24 Sep 12
  • Irina Uk on 24 Sep 12
     
    Thanks Kasthuri. That looks pretty awesome. I bet kids would be really engaged in classes if they were able to creat their own 3D objects for class projects. I wonder if any schools are using this yet.
  • Kasthuri Gopalaratnam on 25 Sep 12
     
    Hi Irina, Yes! Nothing like seeing your ideas take a concrete shape. Looks like the cost of these printers is comparable to that of SmartBoards, so it may be feasible to try them out in classrooms pretty soon. That said, unless the projects are well integrated into the curriculum, they will end up as another fancy toy.
  • Janet Dykstra on 25 Sep 12
     
    Harvey and I had a conversation about these last week - Harvey spoke of the way that these printers could open up opportunities for those who can visualize their creations in their heads, but have trouble putting those ideas in tangible form. We spoke of the potential in art and design.
Jason Dillon

The Committed Sardine - blog list - 0 views

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  • Jason Dillon on 25 Sep 12
     
    If you are not familiar with the 21st Century Fluency project, have a look. When I received this week's newsletter, there was a lot of alignment with the conversation we had in Monday's lecture.
  • Jason Dillon on 25 Sep 12
     
    http://www.fluency21.com/perspectives/LNE_perspective.pdf This is a great intro to the thinking these guys are doing. Their breakdown of the 5 fluencies is probably one of the most actionable representations of what everyone is calling 21st century skills.
Susan Smiley

Collaborative Agenda - @NDI Unconference on #ElecTech - Using Tech in Elections - 0 views

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  • Susan Smiley on 02 Dec 12
     
    I was reading about using tech in elections and I ran across Hackpad. I had never heard of Hackpad, and this is a question for the teaching staff: Might this be a good option to have more of our class conversations in one place? I'd be curious to know how you think it compares as a discussion platform.
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