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Ayelet R

Texting in the Classroom: Not Just a Distraction | Edutopia - 5 views

www.edutopia.org/...xting-classroom-audrey-watters

texting classroom education technology cellphones

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  • Ayelet R on 25 Sep 11
     
    Ideas for using texting at school.
  • James Glanville on 26 Sep 11
     
    great article. relevant to today's discussion about web 2.0 / social media. for those who didn't read it. Here's there article's list of interesting sms based tools for education use: Remind101: Remind101 allows teachers to send text messages (and email) home -- to students and/or to parents -- to offer reminders and updates for class. Remind101 allows teachers to communicate with their classes without either teacher or students having to share their phone numbers. Poll Everywhere: As the name suggests, Poll Everywhere allows teachers to use cellphones for polling in class. Students text their responses, using their cellphones to give feedback, answer questions, take quizzes. Celly: Celly provides SMS-based group messaging. Classrooms can use the service to take quick polls and quizzes, filter messages, get news updates, take notes, and organize and hold study groups. The groups can be public or private, moderated or open. StudyBoost: StudyBoost allows students to study via SMS-based quizzes. The questions can be self- or teacher-created, and can be multiple choice or open-ended.
  • Kasthuri Gopalaratnam on 27 Sep 11
     
    I like Celly for its group messaging and polling applications. Note: The link to "Poll Anywhere" is broken.
Amanda Bowen

You'll freak when you see the new Facebook - CNN.com - 0 views

www.cnn.com/...index.html

facebook Emerging Technology social

shared by Amanda Bowen on 27 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Amanda Bowen on 27 Sep 11
     
    Facebook is about to roll out profile changes - again - but apparently the new ones are a shocker that will at first disappoint and later enthrall us. 
  • Jennifer Lavalle on 27 Sep 11
     
    Isn't that what they promise with every roll-out? And then we all fight back by creating groups, sending emails, and overall boycotting the new changes, and then they send a message and apologize? Sometimes I want to tell Facebook: "If it ain't broke, don't try and fix it!"
pradeepg

Berkman fellow blog: Is Information Technology Beneficial ? ( in this case economic gr... - 1 views

blogs.law.harvard.edu/...benefits-it

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  • pradeepg on 01 Oct 11
     
    access to information leads to greater economic opportunities. I am sure there are several explanations but.. I post this article, because it got me thinking about a concept from a paper on universal design for learning : access to information is not the same as access to learning. As more and more people have increasing access to large amounts of information , progress for all will depend on making it easily accessible How can we do that online ? I am not sure where I am going with this thread, but it all seems interesting to me.... any thoughts ?
  • Allison Browne on 02 Oct 11
     
    Well, I guess if we equate the spread of the printing press to creating a new market (i.e. purchasing printed materials) then this is how economic opportunities increased. But those printed materials spread more quickly when the readers received content that was designed by the people similar to themselves. Likewise, the spread of online learning environments must also connect to greater usage in general; however, learning may be limited for the user with sites that are designed by an alternative culture that does not represent the user's. What do you think?
Tommie Anthony Henderson

Samsung Windfall: All of South Korea's Textbooks to Go Digital by 2015 - Technology Review - 0 views

www.technologyreview.com/...26960

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  • Tommie Anthony Henderson on 03 Oct 11
     
    WE ARE IN FOR A REALLY RUDE AWAKENING IN THE USA: South Korea will redefine primary school education within three years while creating a massive market for home-grown electronics By 2014, all of South Korea's elementary-level educational materials will be digitized, and by 2015, the entire school-age curriculum will be delivered on an array of computers, smart phones and tablets.
Kinga Petrovai

STEM Innovation Challenge - 1 views

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technology Education

shared by Kinga Petrovai on 04 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Kinga Petrovai on 04 Oct 11
     
    This sounds like an interesting competition for students to be involved in. I think this would serve as a great tool that teachers can design their lessons around in order to make the learning relevant
  • Bharat Battu on 05 Oct 11
     
    very interesting Kinga. To throw in another STEM-related competition, the National STEM Video Game Challenge is about to begin its second year. Open to middle school, high school, and college/graduate students, the contest challenges students to create innovative video games that promote STEM learning while being accessible to underserved populations: main website: http://www.stemchallenge.org
Chris McEnroe

More Schools Embrace the iPad as a Learning Tool - NYTimes.com - 2 views

www.nytimes.com/...05tablets.html

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    • Chris McEnroe
      Chris McEnroe on 05 Sep 11
       
      "It's not about a cool application," Dr. Brenner said. "We are talking about changing the way we do business in the classroom." This is a useful sound bite but this article is a quagmire of the issues facing education. Advocates who would rather spend the money on teachers are speaking into the wind politically but they are also not speaking to the point being raised by the event the ipad purchase or the opportunity to advance learning. Good teaching rests on good, personalized relationships as well excellent management. ipads help with both but the danger in not articulating that more clearly is the fear that ipads (or some such thing) will replace teachers. There are those who love the idea of ipads not as an enhancement to learning but as a way to drive up teacher production. That idea and the fear of it distracts from matter of using technolofy to enhance learning.
    • Stephen Bresnick
      Stephen Bresnick on 05 Sep 11
       
      Really well said, Chris. I was reading the article and couldn't help but chuckle at the quote, "this is this could very well be the biggest thing to hit school technology since the overhead projector," said by the teacher Mr. Wolfe. The quote communicated volumes about Mr. Wolfe's underlying assumption that good teaching rests on good gadgetry, as if the overhead projector was once a panacea for all that ailed education in the 1970s, but that now there is a new panacea, the iPad. I have heard an interesting criticism of use of the iPad in the classroom that I would like to share. Namely, that it is a device designed almost exclusively for the consumption of media, but that it provides little if any opportunity for collaboration. Yes, there are a ton of cool apps in the App Store and the number will continue to grow, and yes, some of them will be pretty darn neat. But without the ability for students to collaborate and create, there is little evidence that this is, in itself, a transformative educational technology, just a faster and more colorful way for students to do the same things they have been doing. I get a bit uncomfortable when I see teachers get really excited about the tools of technology and all of their cool capabilities without thinking about which problems these technologies might be able to solve. So many people are fixated on technology as an end, as if dropping this new gadget in the classroom will, by itself, solve all problems. iPads are really great, but this might just be a case of the tail wagging the dog.
Amanda Bowen

How Khan Academy Is Changing the Rules of Education | Magazine - 3 views

www.wired.com/...ff_khan

education math khan academy teaching article educational_technology

shared by Amanda Bowen on 08 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Amanda Bowen on 08 Sep 11
     
    One teacher claims that "The idea is to invert the normal rhythms of school, so that lectures are viewed on the kids' own time and homework is done at school." - Do you agree that this is a good solution? 
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  • Chris McEnroe on 09 Sep 11
     
    That is the way a couple of my colleagues (science and math) use Khan and they feel it creates more opportunity to use them as a resource for their specific needs. The spend some time at the beginning of class to answer questions as a group and then students begin working on problems and asking for individual help during class.
  • Chris Mosier on 09 Sep 11
     
    I think the idea of distributing video tutorials and courseware for free is a powerful lever for change and education (Khan Academy, MIT OpenCourseWare, etc). While I'm intrigued by Khan Academy and see the benefit to help student who want to pause and replay lessons, there is a limit to it's use as an educational tool. In the article linked below, the Los Altos district currently piloting the program noted that they have not seen any statistical difference between Khan students and the control group. http://losaltos.patch.com/articles/school-district-expands-khan-academy-to-all-schools
  • James Glanville on 09 Sep 11
     
    I too am intrigued by this "inverting" of time spent in the classroom and at home. My idealized model would be to introduce learners to new material at their own pace out of the classroom (allowing for pausing, note taking, reflecting and/or rewinding) and focus classroom time on face to face guiding and coaching of clusters of students or individual students engaged in applying or exploring the current material. To help facilitate this (and assist with accountability) some brief form of pre-assessment before class or at the start of class could illuminate for student and teacher alike what material has been mastered and what needs more attention. The research report from the TIE Foundations summer reading appears to support this type of hybrid approach. => Marsha Lovett, Oded Meyer, and Candace Thille (2008). The Open Learning Initiative: Measuring the effectiveness of the OLI statistics course in accelerating student learning.
  • Katherine Tarulli on 10 Sep 11
     
    An added benefit of tools such as Khan Academy is the option for reinforcement. In a traditional K-12 school environment students do not have the option to watch a video of their class or spend personalized time reviewing a concept they need more time with during class time due to the required pace of school curriculum. An online learning tool allows a student to watch a lesson as many times as needed and to learn from an expert. Often if a student needs help outside the classroom the only people they turn to is parents, who may or may not know about the content themselves.
anonymous

Children's Future Requests for Computers & the Internet - 1 views

latd.tv/kidsTech.pdf

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  • Diego Vallejos on 14 Sep 11
     
    Interesting report
  • anonymous on 29 Sep 11
     
    An amazing study that asked kids 12 and under to draw pictures of what they hope to see computer and the Internet do in the future. Should this be used as a guide to create emerging technologies?
Chris McEnroe

Drowning in Student Data? Two Companies Offer Solutions | MindShift - 5 views

mindshift.kqed.org/...-two-companies-offer-solutions

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      Chris McEnroe on 06 Oct 11
       
      I love that someone is tackling this problem. I love all of the free resources there are on line that can be used in the classroom but the problem is there are too many to really explore appropriately. Having said that, 20,000 resources is still too many. I love that someone is tackling this though.
    • Chris McEnroe
      Chris McEnroe on 06 Oct 11
       
      I signed up.
  • Jaclyn Ruszala on 05 Oct 11
     
    This article talks about two companies that are trying to create dashboards to combine all the data that teachers receive from different programs they use. The goal is to help teachers "avoid an air-traffic-control problem as they try to mix and match the tools they use."
pradeepg

technology review magazine: archives are available online and on my fav audible.com too! - 0 views

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technology magazine

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  • pradeepg on 10 Oct 11
     
    This is a great magazine ( as I am just figuring out ) Best of all, they offer 3 credits on creating a free account and make some of their archived content free. Even better, they are on audible. Love it !
Xavier Rozas

DIY-Virtual Reality...prob. not in Walmart anytime soon - 1 views

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emerging technology disruptive innovation educational technologies

shared by Xavier Rozas on 15 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Epcot on Wednesday opened a new attraction called "Sum of All Thrills," which lets kids use computer tablets to design a virtual roller coaster, bobsled track or plane ride. After inputting their designs, kids climb into a robotic carriage that uses virtual-reality technology to help them experience the ride they've created.
  • in the world of amusement parks and museums. Taking cues from the video game industry, park and ride designers have realized that people -- especially young ones -- want to interact with and even design their own thrill rides
  • Uly Lalunio on 15 Oct 09
     
    Newest Disney attraction called - Sum of All Thrills where kids get to design their own virtual roller coaster. It uses virtual-reality technology. "Disney hopes the interactive nature of the ride would also help kids learn that math and science can be fun."
  • Xavier Rozas on 15 Oct 09
     
    While I would not consider this incredibly expensive ride a 'distruptive innovation' or even an emerging ed technology, what Epcot has done by bringing this DIY-VR concept to the masses (if you are one of the masses that can A- afford Disney and B-have the patience to wait in line for `5-6 hours) is very important to future ed tech innovation strategies. The progression/invention of such cost prohibitive entertainment tools will fall squarely on the high-end theme parks and consumer venues. The challenge has been set by Epcot and now others must either compete directly or develop a better or more accessible solution. Off the top of my head, I can think of a few cost saving innovations that might be developed in this 'race'- Artificial G-Force Engline: variable air pressure, smart-chairs, fans
Ando Endano

Free Online Courses, at a Very High Price - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

chronicle.com/...48777

e-learning

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  • Ando Endano on 14 Oct 09
     
    This story is speculating on the viability of online learning like MIT Opencourseware, and discusses models for creating economically sustainable online learning models.
Lindsay Bellino

AEP Government Relations - 0 views

www.AEPweb.org/...index.htm

shared by Lindsay Bellino on 19 Oct 09 - Cached
  • , "Moving College Into the 21st Century," (October 1, 2009). "The president is proposing to invest $500 million over the next 10 years to create world-class online college and high school courses that will be available to all 24/7/365."
  • Lindsay Bellino on 19 Oct 09
     
    President and Secretary of Education support open source online courses for both higher education and high schools.
Xavier Rozas

-CALICO Awards - CALICO - 0 views

calico.org/page.php

educational technologies emerging technology distance learning

shared by Xavier Rozas on 24 Oct 09 - No Cached
  • Language-learning Website Award--The Esperanto "Access to Language Education Award" CALICO, Lernu.net, and the Esperantic Studies Foundation present this award to a website offering exceptional language-learning resources. The winning website is recognized at CALICO's annual conference banquet, and its developers are presented with an Award Certificate and a prize. Noncommercial (cost-free) websites, created and/or maintained by CALICO members, are eligible for this award.
  • Award Winners 2009 Français interactif [visit the website]
  • Xavier Rozas on 24 Oct 09
     
    Good list of free and pay online language learning resources. See the awards list.
Xavier Rozas

Education Week: Twitter Lessons in 140 Characters or Less - 1 views

www.edweek.org/...08twitter_ep.h29.html

disruptive innovation distance learning educational technologies

shared by Xavier Rozas on 25 Oct 09 - Cached
  • “It’s not a research-based tool,” said Daniel T. Willingham, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, in Charlottesville. “The most important thing to remember is that we have no idea what impact these tools have on learning, and it will take a decade to answer that question.”
  • A few studies have found some positive correlations between text-messaging aptitude and literacy. Research on gaming and educational multimedia programs have also shown some positive impact on learning. But few scientific experiments can show a direct link between the use of such technology and student achievement.
  • “The medium is not enough,” he added. “People talk about the vital importance of Web 2.0 and 3.0, and that kids have got to acquire those skills. But we can’t all just be contributing to wikis and tweeting each other. Somebody’s got to create
  • Xavier Rozas on 25 Oct 09
     
    Good article that plainly states, Web 2.0 and 3.0 are tools that if used properly can engage and effect teaching and learning beyond traditional classroom spaces.
Kellie Demmler

Pipes: Rewire the web - 0 views

pipes.yahoo.com/pipes

Yahoo Yahoo Pipes mashups create your own

shared by Kellie Demmler on 28 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Kellie Demmler on 28 Oct 09
     
    "Pipes is a powerful composition tool to aggregate, manipulate, and mashup content from around the web."  I thought this might be appropriate since we just finished talking about Mashups on our wiki a week ago.  
Robert Schuman

Augmented Reality Goggles Give Real-Life +50% Speed Boost to Marine Mechanics - Ar - Gi... - 1 views

gizmodo.com/...peed-boost-to-marine-mechanics

t561 AR augmented reality mechanic vehicle automotive military marine

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  • Robert Schuman on 27 Oct 09
     
    During our augmented reality online discussion, I had mentioned the usefulness of creating an augmented reality application for those wishing to do mechanical work on their vehicles. The marines are nowing making use of an augmented reality application that does just that.
Jennifer Hern

Currents - Virtual Classrooms Could Create a Marketplace for Knowledge - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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virtual_classroom

shared by Jennifer Hern on 08 Nov 09 - Cached
  • The magazine told of a new building at the University of Miami, doughnut-shaped and carved up into 12 rooms. Professors stood in the hole and had their image projected into every room simultaneously. Faculty productivity was said to have soared. What was lost in intimacy would, readers were assured, be made up for by feedback buttons on students’ chairs, including one for “I don’t understand.”
  • Thanks to broadening Internet access, advances in multimedia and the market potential of millions of historically underserved learners among the developing world’s youth and the rich world’s adults, modern versions of the doughnut building are flowering globally: systems through which chunks of teaching can be “scaled up,” in business jargon, and beamed to hundreds of thousands worldwide.
  • Allow anyone anywhere to take whatever course they want, whenever, over any medium, they say. Make universities compete on quality, price and convenience.
  • Jennifer Hern on 08 Nov 09
     
    Virtual professors? I think a virtual Dede would be cool, but I like knowing his mustache is real, and not bought in a virtual hair salon.
Chris McEnroe

Any ideas for a Forum platform? - 5 views

T561, I'm looking for ideas. I'm helping to develop a training for teachers in an inner city school. The training involves the Teaching for Understanding with Technology Framework and I want to c...

forum; technology education Online

started by Chris McEnroe on 21 Oct 11 no follow-up yet
Kasthuri Gopalaratnam

Education Week Teacher Professional Development Sourcebook: Applicable Teaching Tools - 1 views

www.edweek.org/...01tablets.h05.html

education apps iPad technology disability

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  • Kasthuri Gopalaratnam on 18 Oct 11
     
    Educators are discovering that iPads and other tablet computers offer new routes to learning for students with disabilities
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  • Bridget Binstock on 18 Oct 11
     
    Kasthuri - I attended a session at ISTE last summer on using the iPad with Special Needs students (my oldest son has special needs) and discovered many apps that are created for "typical" learners can be adapted for students with special needs. The particular app and use in this article has (in my opinion) one huge advantage and one huge disadvantage. The advantage is price and therefore more widespread accessibility. Augmented Communicative Devices (http://www.abilityhub.com/aac/aac-devices.htm) can cost thousands of dollars. The iPad ($500-800) and app ($100) keeps the cost well below that and can give SES students with this particular need a greater chance in getting the device. The Disadvantage (in my opinion) is the FINE MOTOR skills necessary to operate the touch screen feature of the iPad. The children that I have seen who need this device to communicate have multiple issues at work that prevent them from isolating their fingers in such a way to make this a feasible way for them to communicate effectively. Some of the devices you can see in the link have distinct boundaries that account for mobility and fine motor deficiencies that make the use of the device successful to those who need that adaptation. I am not knocking the iPad for Special Needs students, simply pointing out that it is not the best tool for everyone.
  • Kasthuri Gopalaratnam on 18 Oct 11
     
    Hi Bridget, I agree that it may not be for everyone. Would the use of a stylus rather than fingers make it easier to use the app?
  • Bridget Binstock on 18 Oct 11
     
    Strictly speaking from my experience, the children that I have observed using these devices have Cerebral Palsy (or other muscular issues at work) to the extent where holding any device is not feasible for them. But I can see how a stylus might help specific students overcome this deficiency. Allison has had even more exposure to SN students than I have, so perhaps she can share some insight here.
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