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Jennifer Jocz

Social Isolation and New Technology - Pew Research Center - 1 views

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technology mobile phones networks social isolation

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  • Americans are not as isolated as has been previously reported. People's use of the mobile phone and the internet is associated with larger and more diverse discussion networks.
  • Our survey results challenge the finding that an increasing number of Americans have no one with whom they can discuss important matters. However, our findings support existing research that suggests that the average size and diversity of core discussion networks have declined.
  • ownership of a mobile phone and participation in a variety of internet activities were associated with larger and more diverse core discussion networks.
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  • Contrary to the assumption that internet use encourages social contact across vast distances, we found that many internet technologies are used as much for local contact as they are for distant communication.
  • Social networking services, such as Facebook, provide new opportunities for users to maintain core social networks.
  • Contrary to the argument that internet use limits people's participation in the local community, local institutions and local spaces, our findings show that most internet activities are associated with higher levels of local activity. However, we find some evidence that use of social networking services (e.g., Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn) substitutes for some level of neighborhood involvement.
  • internet use, and in particular the use of social networking services, are independently associated with higher levels of network diversity.
  • Jennifer Jocz on 05 Nov 09
     
    Interesting report contradicting some previous findings about the link between technology and social isolation.
Kasthuri Gopalaratnam

We know diversity in tech is a problem, but what's the solution? | VentureBeat - 3 views

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  • Kasthuri Gopalaratnam on 28 Nov 11
     
    "This is our second Sputnik moment. At a time when women hold only 24 percent of STEM jobs and blacks and Hispanics also fare poorly in these fields, we better get this argument about diversity of talent right or else it's going to be a very expensive moment, indeed."
  • Allison Browne on 28 Nov 11
     
    I like the ethic and attiude that this article promotes. I have seen this gap for a long time and I have heard the meritocracy argument as well. The fact is that people who benefit from a system want to believe that they inherently earned their spot due to superior intellect, personality, etc. It is difficult to believe that you are a member of an organization because others feel you belong there and your presence reinforces the establishd culture of power.
Tomoko Matsukawa

Degreed Wants To Jailbreak The College Degree | TechCrunch - 2 views

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MOOC credentials higher education informal lifelong learning

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  • Tomoko Matsukawa on 19 Nov 12
     
    Business still early in development. They are trying to provide solution for this problem: 'it's extremely difficult to track, quantify and contextualize the diversity of experiences in informal lifelong learning." Too early to say if this is even a sustainable business model but we will see. 
James Glanville

Expand Horizons Through Expanded Learning Time - Global Learning - Education Week - 1 views

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Emerging Technology online learning time

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  • Amanda Bowen on 17 Dec 11
     
    The role technology can play in expanding the time during which learning can take place.
  • James Glanville on 19 Dec 11
     
    Another article about "expanded learning time" both online and via community-based "brick and mortar" locations like libraries, YMCA, and Boys & Girls Clubs. "Out-of-school programs can be strong partners for schools who want to leverage expanded learning time to help their students achieve global competence. Youth-serving organizations share the broad mission to promote student success in work and life in the 21st century. Out-of-school program organization and management is often based on an asset model that values diversity. In order to attract and retain participants, out-of-school programs are centered around youth engagement through hands-on and experiential learning, often with a focus on 21st century skills, service learning, science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education, and others."
  • Billie Fitzpatrick on 19 Dec 11
     
    I wonder what Helen Haste would think of this organization . . .
Kasthuri Gopalaratnam

What Spurs Students to Stay in College and Learn? Good Teaching Practices and Diversity... - 0 views

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college students retention diversity teaching

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  • Kasthuri Gopalaratnam on 08 Nov 11
     
    "Good teaching was not defined by test results. Instead, its attributes were identified on a nine-item scale, which included student appraisals of how well the teacher organized material, used class time, explained directions, and reviewed the subject matter."
Margaret O'Connell

LilyPad microcontroller's success in welcoming women to electronics - Boing Boing - 0 views

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MIT STEM female

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  • Our experience suggests a different approach, one we call Building New Clubhouses. Instead of trying to fit people into existing engineering cultures, it may be more constructive to try to spark and support new cultures, to build new clubhouses. Our experiences have led us to believe that the problem is not so much that communities are prejudiced or exclusive but that they're limited in breadth--both intellectually and culturally. Some of the most revealing research in diversity in STEM found that women and other minorities don't join STEM communities not because they are intimidated or unqualified but rather because they're simply uninterested in these disciplines. One of our current research goals is thus to question traditional disciplinary boundaries and to expand disciplines to make room for more diverse interests and passions. To show, for example, that it is possible to build complex, innovative, technological artifacts that are colorful, soft, and beautiful. We want to provide alternative pathways to the rich intellectual possibilities of computation and engineering. We hope that our research shows that disciplines can grow both technically and culturally when we re-envision and re-contextualize them. When we build new clubhouses, new, surprising, and valuable things happen. As our findings on shared LilyPad projects seem to support, a new female-dominated electrical engineering/computer science community may emerge.
  • Margaret O'Connell on 06 Oct 10
     
    The fascinating pdf from the researchers at MIT is linked to on Boing Boing. The comments on Boing Boing are also worth glancing at.
Uly Lalunio

MIT wins Pentagon prize in social networking contest - 0 views

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Social Networking Collaboration

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  • Uly Lalunio on 08 Dec 09
     
    "According to DARPA, the goal of the Network Challenge was to explore how "broad-scope problems can be tackled using social networking tools." It said it aimed to look at such issues as mobilization, collaboration, and trust in diverse social networking constructs."
James Glanville

MassCue - The Power of A Student Response System - 2 views

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  • James Glanville on 15 Sep 11
     
    MassCue article about the effectiveness of Student Response Systems by a tech consultant / researcher for vendor Turning Response Systems (who sells the clickers that HGSE uses). I'm interested in comparing these systems with the FREE adhoc web-based system offered by Socrative.com, co-founded by HGSE TIE grad Ben Berté.
  • Stephen Bresnick on 16 Sep 11
     
    James- very interesting article about Student Response Systems. The clickers are a great tool to facilitate student participation in a teacher-centered classroom, and many of us have seen the Turning Point clickers in action. And they really do help with engaging everyone in the audience. Remember that diversity seminar during orientation week? The rich discussion that ensued in a crowd of 650 was really made possible because of the opening survey questions, the clicker interactivity, and the discussions that sprung up at each individual table which then mushroomed out to the rest of the crowd. I never thought a diversity seminar could be that engaging, and the clickers were definitely a key part of that. My only criticism of the article is that it seems to be pushing hardware capabilities over sound pedagogy, which is always a danger in learning about emerging technologies. Question though: is Socrative not entirely free? it seems like a great tool with many interactive capabilities, ideal for many classroom settings and activities.
  • James Glanville on 16 Sep 11
     
    Steve I agree the article did have a strong sense of hardware pushing. It was written by a research on the the vendor's payroll. I've changed "free" to FREE; I intended the quotes to be for emphasis, not skepticism. Socrative is indeed free.
Shawn Mahoney

Education Week: Twitter Lessons in 140 Characters or Less - 0 views

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

Web 2.0 instruction participation

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  • shared articles on the separation of church and state, pondered the persistence of racism, and commented on tobacco regulation in Virginia now and during the Colonial period—all in the required Twitter format of 140 or fewer characters
  • He and other teachers first found Twitter valuable for reaching out to colleagues and locating instructional resources
  • short-form communications may have for students’ thinking and learning are not known
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  • Twitter has not caught on among school-age children as quickly or universally as other Web 2.0 tools, such as Facebook or MySpace: Only about 1 percent of the estimated 12 million users in the United States are between the ages of 3 and 17, although young adults are the fastest-growing group of users, according to recent reports.
  • get students engaged in the content and processes of school.
  • “It’s getting kids who aren’t necessarily engaged in class engaged in some sort of conversation.”
  • A recent study, however, renewed concerns about the potential negative impact of the latest technological applications. The study, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found that adults who attempted multiple tasks while using a range of media simultaneously had difficulty processing the information or switching between tasks.
  • Mr. Willingham, who is the author of the new book, Why Don’t Students Like School?: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom.
  • Somebody’s got to create something worth tweeting
  • Shawn Mahoney on 24 Oct 09
     
    Connected to a few class discussions (including one in HT 500 about multitasking)... *potential for greater/more diversity in discussion/participation than in person *what do we mean when we say "multi-task"? *weighty topics/140 characters Somebody's got to create something worth tweeting
Maung Nyeu

Experts Convene to Discuss How Online Learning Is Better Preparing K-12 Students to Com... - 2 views

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technology education learning t561 online

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  • Maung Nyeu on 29 Oct 11
     
    In US alone, 4 million K-12 students are enrolled online. Annual conference on online (and blended) learning in Indianapolis on November 9-11, by the International Association for K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL). Online learning is seen as the solution to allowing greater access to diverse resources curriculum, especially when many schools face serious financial crisis. Expect to hear from experts and educators, such as, such as Gene Wilhoit, Executive Director of the Council of Chief State School Officers; Paul Peterson of Harvard University; Michael Horn, author of Disrupting Class; Steve Midgley of the U.S. Department of Education; and iNACOL president Susan Patrick. Full program details are available at www.virtualschoolsymposium.org.
Drew Nelson

EDUtainment startup at HGSE - 1 views

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edutainment technology education t561 educational_technology online

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  • Drew Nelson on 08 Oct 12
     
    This is what some very talented current students at HGSE are working on. It's a solid plan, with a talented and diverse team of educators and media producers. And it's taking off! So heads up everyone. This is part of the next phase of your plan too ;-) Just look at the production value!
  • Drew Nelson on 08 Oct 12
     
    oh, and give them money. lots of money. and tell your friends to give them money. 'cuz they're actually doing this. http://www.indiegogo.com/drmadd plus this is a great promo video anyway
  • Margaret O'Connell on 08 Oct 12
     
    TEP11 grad here. Now a math teacher in a Title 1 school. Interested. I follow this Diigo feed (since when I took this useful class) so saw the video just now ... edutainment.com not working yet :-( I wanted to see more. Fyi, here's a rare example of a math video my students "tolerated" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7MxGyEaN64
Tomoko Matsukawa

PenPal News Helps Students With Different Opinions Learn From Each Other - 1 views

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Diversity learn from others t561 penpal news online

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  • Tomoko Matsukawa on 10 Nov 12
     
    They had great campaign along with election supporting kids to learn and discuss on topics that mattered a lot as future voters. I believe they will begin international version soon this month.
Chris Dede

Reliving History: Virtual Reality in the Classroom -- Campus Technology - 2 views

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history virtual reality

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  • Chris Dede on 04 Sep 13
     
    One of the few uses of advanced technologies in the history curriculum
  • Grif Peterson on 08 Sep 13
     
    As delivery of history teaching to students becomes more and more realistic, it is more important than ever to ensure that we have in place a robust and diverse oversight network to ensure that the narrative being suggested is an accurate representation of the time and place, as opposed to a history-as-written-by-the-winners narrative, which is pervasive throughout many textbooks. For many students, this sort of immersion will overwhelm any alternative streams of knowledge coming from Harlem in the 20s, so it is vital that the VR be constructed in a way that captures the context of why it was such a dynamic time in New York. As for the creators of this technology having to turn to the porn industry for technical support, that should not come as a surprise, as many claim that porn has revolutionized, or at least been instrumental in, the emergence of many new industries from VHS to the internet.
Jennifer Hern

Top News - The rise of the globally connected student - 0 views

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culture globaliazation iEarn ePals

shared by Jennifer Hern on 25 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Global networks such as iEARN and ePals insulate student communication from the rest of the internet and let teachers monitor eMail accounts, as well as provide for the creation of secure blogs that can only be seen by the recipients. Assisted by standards-based curriculum materials, these networks link participants from a diverse range of countries in a discussion of globally relevant issues.
  • Jennifer Hern on 25 Oct 09
     
    Networks such as IEarn and ePals are facilitating youth-to-youth exchanges and breaking down cultural barriers worldwide.
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