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Andrea Bush

New York Launches Public School Curriculum Based on Playing Games - 1 views

www.popsci.com/...hool-based-games-set-nyc-debut

learning technology educational_technology augmented reality

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  • Andrea Bush on 28 Oct 12
     
    Fascinating new school in New York, focusing on Science and teaching entirely through educational gaming.
Chris McEnroe

Digital Teaching Platforms Profiles New Learning Technology - MarketWatch - 3 views

www.marketwatch.com/...learning-technology-2012-03-19

shared by Chris McEnroe on 20 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • Chris Dede and John Richards
  • disruptive technology, DTPs offer teachers the curriculum, pedagogy and assessment support they need, and thereby help them make classrooms more effective and more customized to the needs of each learner.
Irina Uk

Students Tackle Video-Game Design - 2 views

www.edweek.org/...03games.h05.html

gaming design education

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  • Irina Uk on 04 Sep 12
     
    This article discusses how students at one school learn by designing their own video games. There is a separate class set up for this. The article exposes many challenges to implementing this type of curriculum.
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.
Uche Amaechi

Discussions § Transforming Education through Emerging Technologies (Fall 2012) - 0 views

isites.harvard.edu/...icb.do

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  • This pooling of professional resources to teach all the students is wonderful. What I wonder is how good the skills based curriculum in this program is at aiding students in making deep connections between individual skills, topics and disciplines. I think this type of teaching has tremendous potential.
    • Uche Amaechi
      Uche Amaechi on 16 Sep 12
       
      Very interesting point about focusing on skills to the detriment of a more holistic synthesis.  And what happens to shared synthesis when each student has a different learning trajectory
  • PD involving looking at models of this personalized learning being successfully implemented into difficult school environments may mitigate some of these fears.
    • Uche Amaechi
      Uche Amaechi on 16 Sep 12
       
      This connects to Laura's observation that teachers are not really mentioned in this part of the plan--they are another piece to be glommed on to the plan. would argue to a more holistic view incorporating the realities of teaching into the fundamental levels of charting learning plans
  • Educators who have learned in teacher-centered classrooms have more difficulty to shift their roles as facilitators. The new model is fascinating as long as it accompanies realistic implementation methods that serve all the parties involved well, at least better that how the situation currently is in terms of workload.
    • Uche Amaechi
      Uche Amaechi on 16 Sep 12
       
      Great points. This focus on realistic assessments of capacity and implementation seems to be everybody's primary focus
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    • Uche Amaechi
      Uche Amaechi on 16 Sep 12
       
      Great points, Laura. Infrastructure and people--a highly overlapping pair, are core challenges to this "flip" of the learning process/system. your concerns are echoed below by your colleagues.
Heather French

107 favorite iPad apps for K-8 - 0 views

askatechteacher.wordpress.com/...107-favorite-ipad-apps-for-k-8

educational_technology IPad apps EDC

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  • Heather French on 16 Sep 12
     
    Reviewed by Jaqui Murray, technology curriculum editor, teacher, and author of two technology in education training books.
Tommie Anthony Henderson

Georgia's largest district launches all-digital learning platform - 1 views

www.eschoolnews.com/...-all-digital-learning-platform

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  • Tommie Anthony Henderson on 02 Dec 11
     
    Georgia's Gwinnett County Public Schools (GCPS) has taken a huge step forward in its move to an all-digital education for its students: The district has partnered with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) to implement a single sign-on platform for delivering curriculum, assessment, analytics, professional development, parent information, and more.
Maria Bueno

Technology integration - 0 views

www.edutopia.org/ology-integration-introduction

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  • Maria Bueno on 13 Nov 13
     
    'Why integrate Technology into the Curriculum?'' This author states that there's a place for tech in every classroom. '. But he also claims that integrating technology into classroom instruction means more than teaching basic computer skills. The purpose of tech integration is enhance the learning process.
Amanda Bowen

Education Week: Building the Digital District - 2 views

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

Emerging Technology educational_technology

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  • James Glanville on 29 Nov 11
     
    In contrast with the deployment issues of OLPC, here's an article on 1-1 initiative that focused on professional development, teacher collaboration, switching to a teacher selected, digital based curriculum with formative assessments, and a leased laptop support & deployment model.  (Full disclosure - the vendor is Apple).
Kasthuri Gopalaratnam

How Do We Train Teachers in Formative Assessment? - Teacher Beat - Education Week - 2 views

blogs.edweek.org/...o_we_train_teachers_to_us.html

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  • Kasthuri Gopalaratnam on 19 Dec 11
     
    "The best professional-development research shows that teachers need sustained contact hours (between 30 and 100) of training before altering their practices. So, she did a back-of-the envelope calculation about how much time it would take to implement 50 hours of formative-assessment training over the course of a school year...... Teachers would need about six hours a month, for eight months, which amounts to one early-close afternoon a month plus two additional hours. (Good luck with that in this economy.)"
  • James Glanville on 19 Dec 11
     
    Perhaps this is where technology can play an enabling role. Easy to use and real-time tools like Socrative or technology based learning environments with embedded formative assessments (like my formative assessment design proposal for VPA) could help reduce the time / training barriers for teachers to incorporate formative assessment into the teaching practice. At the very least, new curriculum initiatives aligned with common core standards SHOULD BE REQUIRED to incorporate formative-assessments. Unfortunately on PARCC is. "Of the two assessment consortia, the Partnership for the Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, or PARCC, is not developing formative-assessment resources as part of its federal grant. The other consortium, known as SMARTER Balanced, is."
Ayelet R

For today's learners, it just clicks - 3 views

www.smh.com.au/...ust-clicks-20111113-1ndwi.html

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  • Katherine Tarulli on 17 Nov 11
     
    This articles featuring various stances on technology in the classroom. Arguments are made for technology-heavy curriculum, classrooms free of technology and responsible and effective technology use with thorough professional development and teacher facilitation. Another voice adding their two cents to the technology in the classroom conversation. I think that the most well informed angle expressed in the article is the opinion that we need better teachers and careful use of technology when it's inclusion will improve the learning potential more than if it weren't used.
Jenny Reuter

NEA - NEA Policy Statement on Digital Learning - 3 views

www.nea.org/55434.htm

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  • Nate Justis on 05 Dec 13
     
    This line caught my eye - "The appropriate use of technology in education-as defined by educators rather than entities driven by for-profit motives..." Thanks for sharing Jenny!
  • Krithika Jagannath on 08 Dec 13
     
    Great read, thank you for sharing. Nicely touches upon a lot of topics from our course -- blended and hybrid learning, student-centered learning, teachers as curriculum designers, equity, technology as a tool...
Maria Bueno

Can Mobile Devices Transform Education? - 1 views

www.ascd.org/publications/newsletters/education-update/feb11/vol53/num02/can-mobile-devices-transform-education¢.aspx

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  • Maria Bueno on 27 Oct 13
     
    Founded in 1943, ASCD (formerly the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development) is an educational leadership organization dedicated to advancing best practices and policies for the success of each learner. ''Mobile devices are cheaper, more portable and less obtrusive than other technologies. Yet the challenges of how training students to use sophisticated technology tools is an economic imperative.''
Benjamin Berte

U.S. Education Secretary Briefs Stakeholders on 'Investing in Innovation Fund' at... | ... - 0 views

www.reuters.com/...261932+20-Aug-2009+PRN20090820

Arne Duncan Investing in Innovation ACT Rigor and Readiness

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  • "I want the Department to become an engine of innovation, not a compliance monitor," said Secretary Duncan. "We are looking to you - the districts and nonprofits - to unleash your creativity and build the next generation of education reform."
  • According to research conducted by ACT, currently, -- Fewer than 20 percent of 8th-grade students are on target for being college ready in all four core subject areas of English, math, reading, and science. -- Only 70 percent of ACT-tested 2009 high school graduates took a core curriculum. -- Only 23 percent of ACT-tested 2009 high school graduates were college ready in all four core subject areas of English, math, reading, and science.
  • "We are committed to ensuring that all students are college and career ready in achievement, psychosocial behavior, and career and educational planning," said Erickson. "Rigor & Readiness will also create and advance school change, and build and support high-achieving, self-sustaining schools within scalable, replicable systems.
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  • A recording of Secretary Duncan's presentation is available at http://video.webexlivestream.com/events/webx001/31912/.
Xavier Rozas

Education Week: 'School of Future' Struggles to Break From the Past - 0 views

www.edweek.org/...05future_ep.h29.html

emerging technology school reform leadership policy

shared by Xavier Rozas on 25 Sep 09 - Cached
  • The hiring of teachers and administrators is bound by district policies, which add layers to the task of finding those best suited for the job. Students are selected through a lottery system, but there is no academic standard for admission. And the school has to meet the same testing and accountability requirements as others in the district.
  • “The fact that you know what needs to be done doesn’t mean organizationally you are always capable of doing it.”
  • “Do we have a school of the future? I don’t think so,” writes Jan Biros, a researcher at Drexel University and a contributor to the book project. “We have a beautiful building that is still a safe haven for its students. We have a traditional curriculum being taught in a conventional way. We even have some teachers who insist on using the books they are used to and not creating online materials or using the portal and the Internet.”
  • Xavier Rozas on 25 Sep 09
     
    As I chew through the Visions 2020 readings, I can't help my skepticism...and not due to the seamless integration of emerging ed technology. Alas, PEOPLE and the existing power structure of schools (reform) are not guided by a mission to reinvent, but to move the goal posts on ed standards around so as to insulate and protect the paradigm. Read on...
Garron Hillaire

California testing iPads as algebra textbooks - The Hill's Hillicon Valley - 4 views

thehill.com/...ing-ipads-as-algebra-textbooks

ipads california technology digital publishing

shared by Garron Hillaire on 08 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • A pilot project in four California school districts will replace 400 students' eighth-grade algebra textbooks with Apple iPads
  • "This is a seminal moment. It marks the fundamental shift from print delivery of curriculum to digital," said John Sipe, vice president of K-12 sales at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
  • Students with iPads will have instant access to more than 400 videos from teaching experts walking them through the concepts and assignments
  • Garron Hillaire on 08 Sep 10
     
    One example of using Ipads instead of math books. There is a brief mention of incorporating video, but the article does not go into detail about the format of the digital text books
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!"
Allison Gevarter

N.J. schools explore using iPads as teaching devices | NJ.com - 5 views

www.nj.com/...hools_explore_using_ipads.html

ipad schools classroom education

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  • Allison Gevarter on 23 Sep 10
     
    Really interesting article on a school district in New Jersey that is testing iPad use across multiple classroom subjects . The district purchased 60 devices for students in the testing program. Pending the results, they are considering providing all of their high school students with the device as early as next year.
  • tyreek moore on 24 Sep 10
     
    Thanks for contributing this great article. I am going to closely monitor this "experiment" and may potentially seek to interview some of the teachers who created this iPad curriculum for the various courses.
  • Maura Wolk on 24 Sep 10
     
    I'd really like to see one of these lessons in action- this sounds cool. I wonder, do the ipads stay in the classrooms?
Jessica O'Brien

A 3D computer animation of the axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) procedure on Vimeo - 1 views

vimeo.com/14669290

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  • kshapton on 03 Sep 10
     
    The first (or at least most comprehensive!) 3D visualization of this kind of surgical procedure; arguably these kinds of animations are superior to 2D animations for showing anatomy. Next step for education: interactive surgical media?
  • Jessica O'Brien on 05 Sep 10
     
    These kind of videos would be helpful for medical students to watch in their surgery clerkship before observing a particular surgery, especially since anatomy curriculum has been shortened and cut throughout national medical school programs.
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