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Cole Shaw

Common Core and what the U.S. has learned from other countries - 0 views

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Common Core standards

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  • Cole Shaw on 17 Nov 12
     
    We had a discussion in class a month back or so about standards and international performance versus U.S. One of the talking points was, what can the U.S. learn from other countries (or more appropriate, what is the U.S. willing to learn from other countries). Some people mentioned that the U.S. tends to show an aversion to learning from other countries, but this article notes that the Common Core State Standards is actually based on best practices from other leading countries like Singapore, China, and Finland. So maybe we're not as stubborn as we seem...
Tomoko Matsukawa

Japan's LINE social network could challenge global competitors | The Japan Times Online - 0 views

www.japantimes.co.jp/...nc20120718aa.html

social media children language skill t561

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  • Tomoko Matsukawa on 05 Dec 12
     
    Do any of you know 'LINE'? as of last months, 80mn users globally (36mn users in Japan) and its pace of growth is exceeding that of any other types of social media in the country (Facebook, Twitter, etc). They target 1) users who have smartphones but not PC, 2) those who are interested in communication emotions effectively through ''emoticons'. If some people are concerned about how twitter/facebook/texting would have adverse impact on children language skill, let's talk about the implication of this thing if kids learn to communicate just by selecting emoticons (whose designs and variety are great by the way) and sending that to each other. I still have LINE on my PC but seeing this rapid growth in my home country concerns me a bit. 
Anushka Paul

ICT & Education: Eleven Countries to Watch -- and Learn From | A World Bank Blog on ICT... - 0 views

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education ICT innovation

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  • Anushka Paul on 17 Nov 10
     
    A look at ICT in Education in 11 countries highlighting national programs in the field.
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.
Tomoko Matsukawa

Interesting Results from the WorldReader e-Reader Pilot in Ghana | ICTWorks - 1 views

www.ictworks.org/...rldreader-e-reader-pilot-ghana

t561 e-readers ghana assessment access engagement reading skill IT

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  • Tomoko Matsukawa on 25 Sep 12
     
    Very interesting article. "iREAD (Impact on Reading of E-Readers And Digital content) Ghana Pilot Study" Another example showing us the traditional standardized test doesnt seem to be a suitable type of assessment here. But in addition to that there are many interesting findings related to IT literacy, benefits of the teachers and increased access to learning materials. (never really thought a simple hardware such as e-reader itself will be this 'transformational' to certain countries across the world) 
Carine Abi Akar

Mobile phone boom in developing world could boost e-learning | Global development | gua... - 1 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...one-developing-world-elearning

emerging technology technology mobile education development learning

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  • Carine Abi Akar on 01 Oct 12
     
    Along the lines of the discussions we've been having on the isites, mobile learning has major potential in the developing world. "Mobile phones are increasingly ubiquitous in poor countries, which now account for FOUR IN EVERY FIVE connections worldwide". This means that almost everyone owns or has access to a mobile phone. How can we leverage this reality? Well, we can't impose anything that requires a smart phone, since most of these mobile phones cannot access 3G or wifi networks. Perhaps we can start to send podcasts as voice notes? Audio wikis of information sent via sms? In-phone calculators for math homework completion? I think all we need is an educational system that supports this type of learning, and m-learning can possible change the face of education in the developing world. 
Tomoko Matsukawa

Ghana's presidential candidates: Battling it out online | The Economist - 0 views

www.economist.com/...80%99s-presidential-candidates

dialogue political agenda e-citienship Ghana

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  • Tomoko Matsukawa on 24 Nov 12
     
    Even at a country "With internet penetration ....at only 5-10%," 
Laura Johnson

Education Week: Startups Target Teachers as 'Consumerization' of Education Emerges - 1 views

www.edweek.org/...13consumer_ep.h32.html

startups edtech entrepreneurship HGSET561

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  • Laura Johnson on 06 Dec 12
     
    Schools throughout the country are experiencing the same teacher-driven adoption of technology tools. Internet-savvy teachers are increasingly finding tools to use in the classroom on their own, and lower business-startup costs mean the tools are more readily available. In response, many education companies are changing how they market and sell their products. Nationwide sales teams and central-office visits are giving way to word-of-mouth and sophisticated business-intelligence software as preferred methods for pushing adoption. Companies offer free products to teachers with the goal of influencing districtwide purchases of more-robust versions-known as the "freemium" pricing model. But in most sectors of the existing K-12 system-with its various stakeholders, budgetary restrictions, and procurement regulations- the so-called "consumerization" of education faces many barriers, experts say, making it difficult to find the right balance between selling directly to teachers and addressing the needs of central-office administrators.
Tomoko Matsukawa

Daily chart: OMG! Texting turns twenty | The Economist - 0 views

www.economist.com/...daily-chart

t561 SMS cell phone

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  • Tomoko Matsukawa on 04 Dec 12
     
    Although we read and hear a lot about smartphones and tablet PC lately, the majority of the cell phone users still have simpler phones (especially in emerging countries). Even those have SMS function. So..learning activities with these SMS still an interesting topic to me.
Tomoko Matsukawa

Education to Employment Report McKinsey on Society - 0 views

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t561 technology employment education skill data

shared by Tomoko Matsukawa on 12 Dec 12 - No Cached
  • Matthew Ong on 12 Dec 12
     
    Thanks for sharing this interesting report Junjie. I like that part which encourages more dialogue between employers and education providers. However, I don't think they addressed the possible problem that could arise from that dialogue which is, employers are asking for solutions to their problems, and these problems may not be the main issues of the time when the students graduate.
  • Junjie Liu on 13 Dec 12
     
    Matthew, I agree that the skill sets the job market asks from future employees are in constant change. So probably the education providers should try to equip those potential employees with the capacity to transfer old skills into new ones so as to meet the ever-changing demand, though it is indeed very difficult to train the transfer-skills.
  • Tomoko Matsukawa on 13 Dec 12
     
    3 distinct groups of employers and  7 distinct youth segments (well positioned, driven, struggling, disheartened, disengaged, too cool, too poor) - they are "identified with different outcomes and motivations", requires "a different set of interventions". also concentration and mix of these segments also varies by country. executive summary is short and TIE relevant. 
Tomoko Matsukawa

New Report: We're Not As Connected As We Think - Pankaj Ghemawat and Steven A. Altman -... - 0 views

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t561 globalization

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  • Tomoko Matsukawa on 13 Dec 12
     
    The DHL's Global Connectedness report is interesting. The pillar is composed of trade/capital/information/people. Total rank of connectedness: US 20th. Each page for country analysis is helpful to think about kind of education is required for each country's future growth. 
Maung Nyeu

Israeli Entrepreneur Opens Online University in West Bank - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...05iht-educBriefs05.html

technology t561 online education learning entrepreneur

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  • Maung Nyeu on 05 Dec 11
     
    An online university offer free online education to students in more than 120 countries. The university recruits volunteers from Brigham Young, Columbia, Harvard, Insead, N.Y.U. and Yale. "We're not trying to create Oxford or Harvard...This is low-cost, high-quality education for people who can't afford anything else."
Kasthuri Gopalaratnam

U.S. Students' Math Skills Sharpen, but Reading Lags - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...-sharpen-but-reading-lags.html

education reading math

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  • “Children spend five times as much time outside the classroom as they do in school, and our country has 30 million parents or caregivers who are not good readers themselves, so they pass illiteracy down to their children.”
  • Kasthuri Gopalaratnam on 04 Nov 11
     
    "Children spend five times as much time outside the classroom as they do in school, and our country has 30 million parents or caregivers who are not good readers themselves, so they pass illiteracy down to their children."
Maung Nyeu

Top Universities Test the Online Appeal of Free - NYTimes.com - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...the-online-appeal-of-free.html

Emerging Technology t561 educational_technology online

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  • Maung Nyeu on 18 Jul 12
     
    Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) - More online courses from top universities. Not surprisingly, most people signing up are from other countries. How long these courses will remain free? At some point, will the universities try to make money from online courses?
Mirza Ramic

Online Courses Attract Degree Holders, Survey Finds - NYTimes.com - 2 views

www.nytimes.com/...gree-holders-survey-finds.html

nytimes educational_technology MOOC learning online Education

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  • Mirza Ramic on 23 Nov 13
     
    "Although Coursera's founders have presented their MOOCs as a way to democratize higher education by making it available online, free, to anyone in the world, the Penn survey found that in the United States and developing countries alike, most Coursera students were well educated, employed, young and male."
  • Trung Tran on 24 Nov 13
     
    FYI, I went to Penn last year and was aware of this type of survey. Apparently, if you have a chance to look into their methodology, then they probably select a far larger number of Penn alumni than a representative portion. Considering that many Penn alumni love the idea of taking classes for free at their Alma Mater, I feel a bit skeptical about that reported unusually high percentage of bachelor's degree holders.
  • Molly Wasser on 29 Nov 13
     
    I think that this makes a lot of sense. You have to be very self-motivated with a desire to learn AND have the online resources and time to take a MOOC. That's a lot - and I would guess that people who are highly educated tend to be self-motivated. And then young men probably have more time than working parents. There's a lot of constraining factors despite the 'openness' of a MOOC.
Uly Lalunio

A special report on telecoms in emerging markets: : Finishing the job | The Economist - 0 views

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Internet Technology Telecom Mobile

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  • Uly Lalunio on 28 Sep 09
     
    "Leading the computer camp is Nicholas Negroponte of MIT, the man behind the $100 laptop. He and his followers argue that bringing down the cost of laptops, and persuading governments in developing countries to buy and distribute millions of them, could have enormous educational benefits."
Yang Jiang

Buyers in New York Purchasing iPhones That Are Resold in China - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...23iphone.html

iPhone China

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  • Yang Jiang on 24 Sep 10
     
    iPhone is China cannot be labelled as luxury products, actually. The need for the latest iPhone (iPhone 4), shows the demand for latest technology in this country.
Julia Jacobsen

Journey North: A Global Study of Wildlife Migration - 0 views

www.learner.org/jnorth

collaboration science t561

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  • Julia Jacobsen on 01 Sep 10
     
    This website has several curricula that connect classrooms across the country (and the world) and help students learn about seasonal change.
Devon Dickau

BBC News - US schools may get unused fibre links - 0 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...technology-11387134

Internet technology education classrooms K-12

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  • high-speed web access for schools was vital "in order to participate in a 21st Century economy"
  • looking at the role of technology in learning
  • educational opportunities like properly wired classrooms, the right kinds of software or textbook opportunities they should hav
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  • We are falling behind and it's obvious in a global economy that other countries are doing a better job than we are
  • The back-to-school forum highlighted three main goals to help move the country towards a digital future that puts the US back on the map: ensuring every child is digitally literate by 8th grade, around 14 years old educating parents about technology and its value
  • making every classroom a 21st-Century classroom
  • Digital literacy is vital
  • there is a huge entrepreneurial opportunity to fill in that gap
  • Devon Dickau on 23 Sep 10
     
    Really interesting article about the perceived importance of Internet to the K-12 student and suggesting how other entities and organizations are supporting equal access in this way.
Cameron Paterson

OECD Inspired by technology - 0 views

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t561 pedagogy

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  • Cameron Paterson on 02 Dec 10
     
    This report highlights key issues to facilitate understanding of how a systemic approach to technology-based school innovations can contribute to quality education for all while promoting a more equal and effective education system. It focuses on the novel concept of systemic innovation, as well as presenting the emerging opportunities to generate innovations that stem from Web 2.0 and the important investments and efforts that have gone into the development and promotion of digital resources. It also shows alternative ways to monitor, assess and scale up technology-based innovations. Some country cases, as well as fresh and alternative research frameworks, are presented.
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