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Tomoko Matsukawa

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

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

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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) 
Charles Phillips

E-books catching on with readers - CNN.com - 0 views

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

e-learning e-books technology

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  • Charles Phillips on 14 Sep 09
     
    What are some possibilities for e-books in math? Is it realistic to believe this will entice students to read more? How interactive are these e-books?
Chris Dede

Social Networking Meets Reading -- THE Journal - 2 views

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  • Chris Dede on 06 Oct 10
     
    social e-reading for cellphones - what leverage does this provide?
Yan Feng

Opportunities and Challenges in the E-textbook Industry - 1 views

As for me, I prefer traditional textbook to e-textbook. I do not like reading by Kindle or other digital reading devices. But it is a personal choice. The market for e-books is huge, especially e-t...

http:__blog.xplana.com_2011_08_opportunities-and-challenges-in-the-e-textbook-industry_ education learning t561 educational_technology

started by Yan Feng on 07 Nov 11 no follow-up yet
Nick Siewert

Does the Brain Like E-Books? - Room for Debate Blog - NYTimes.com - 1 views

roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/...does-the-brain-like-e-books

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  • Nick Siewert on 15 Oct 09
     
    Discussion on whether digital reading differs neurologically from paper reading.
Liz Huttner

Novelties - Reading E-Books in All the Colors of the Rainbow - NYTimes.com - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...12novel.html

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  • Liz Huttner on 13 Sep 10
     
    Color e-readers could be very useful for textbook viewing.
anonymous

The Protocol Institute Launches First Interactive Etiquette E-Learning - 0 views

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  • anonymous on 16 Sep 10
     
    Emily Post would be proud. Read this to learn about etiquette for e-communication.
Devon Dickau

The End of the Textbook as We Know It - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 3 views

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  • For years observers have predicted a coming wave of e-textbooks. But so far it just hasn't happened. One explanation for the delay is that while music fans were eager to try a new, more portable form of entertainment, students tend to be more conservative when choosing required materials for their studies. For a real disruption in the textbook market, students may have to be forced to change.
  • saying that e-textbooks should be required reading and that colleges should be the ones charging for them
  • radical shift
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  • Here's the new plan: Colleges require students to pay a course-materials fee, which would be used to buy e-books for all of them (whatever text the professor recommends, just as in the old model).
  • they're far cheaper to produce than printed texts
  • publishers could eliminate the used-book market and reduce incentives for students to illegally download copies as well
  • When students pay more for new textbooks than tuition in a year, then something's wrong
  • Tricky issues remain, though. What if a professor wrote the textbook assigned for his or her class? Is it ethical to force students to buy it, even at a reduced rate? And what if students feel they are better off on their own, where they have the option of sharing or borrowing a book at no cost?
  • In music, the Internet reduced album sales as more people bought only the individual songs they wanted. For textbooks, that may mean letting students (or brokers at colleges) buy only the chapters they want. Or only supplementary materials like instructional videos and interactive homework problems, all delivered online. And that really would be the end of the textbook as we know it.
  • P Parson on 31 Oct 10
     
    I would be for this. I could not believe a place so big on recycling (Harvard) murdered so many trees with the printing of course packs. I like this idea if you could get the material from other sources than just the school (say the author or publisher directly or something like Amazon). Otherwise, there is no opportunity for competition or bargaining.
David Chen

Netflix Awards $1 Million Prize and Starts a New Contest - 0 views

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  • David Chen on 21 Sep 09
     
    Those of you who have read about the Netflix contest probably know it's fascinating, and this NYTimes blog presents a good summary. More interesting is the fact that this type of work on algorithms may have other applications, beyond telling you what other movies you might like (e.g. commercial, scientific, perhaps even educational?). Therefore, it is tangentially related with our discussion on AI :)
Devon Dickau

BBC News - The rights and wrongs of digital books - 2 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...technology-11693222

E-books copyright issues technology

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  • The latter part of 2010 may mark the point from which future historians date the transition to screen-based reading for literary fiction as well as reference works
  • However, even they are not yet willing to accept that the price of electronic texts is too high, and that readers will not pay the same for a bunch of bits as they will for a bound book, since the market knows that it costs less to send electrons over a network than it does to buy paper, make books out of it and ship the physical objects around the world
  • When you buy an digital copy to read on your e-book reader, phone or laptop all you get is the copyrighted bit, and what you pay for is a licence to have a copy or copies of the text.
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  • Amazon recently announced that it will let Kindle owners "lend" books, but only for two weeks and only once per title.
  • The idea of "intellectual property" deliberately conflates the two and allows politicians to pretend that laws about physical property should extend to digital downloads. We need to challenge this unjustifiable elision if we are to think seriously about copyright and business models in the age of electronics.
Rupangi Sharma

Print Books vs E-Books - 0 views

www.joanganzcooneycenter.org/...jgcc_ebooks_quickreport.pdf

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  • Rupangi Sharma on 10 Sep 12
     
    Comparing parent-child co-reading on print, basic, and enhanced e-book platforms...'Quick studies' by the Joan Ganz Cooney Center to address the problem of how fast technologies seem to be growing and the gap between their emergence and research to back up their effectiveness.
Benjamin Berte

BBC NEWS | Technology | Google invites users to join Wave - 2 views

news.bbc.co.uk/...8280864.stm

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  • Benjamin Berte on 30 Sep 09
     
    Google Wave, which combines email, instant messaging and wiki-style editing will go on public trial today. The search giant hopes the tool, described as "how e-mail would look if it were invented today", will transform how people communicate online.
  • Jennifer Hern on 02 Oct 09
     
    Agh! Not another way to communicate! I can't even remember my passwords to all these things! I can't even remember I have a Facebook account until someone "friends" me! What happened to isolation and Transcendentalism? Needing to read Walden in the woods alone right now...
Hannah Lesk

NY Times Op-Ed: Long Live Paper - 2 views

www.nytimes.com/...long-live-paper.html

e-readers digital reading textbooks

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  • Hannah Lesk on 10 Oct 12
     
    A point of view challenging the rapid transition to digital textbooks. 
  • Jason Yamashiro on 11 Oct 12
     
    These op-eds and blogs keep popping up, but I have yet to read one that is at all compelling. It was particularly entertaining when this author referenced how digital photography put Polaroid out of business. Hard to understand why one would use that reference when defending the textbook. The funny thing is that textbooks were never a fantastic learning tool to begin with. The real danger is that digital textbooks will not not make the dramatic improvements that they may be capable of when it comes to teaching the material.
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.
Lin Pang

Textbooks Finally Take a Big Leap to Digital - 3 views

www.nytimes.com/...-up-in-rush-to-go-digital.html

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  • Lin Pang on 02 Dec 11
     
    For the first time, Amazon's digital books had outsold paper books. While many popular consumer books have successfully made the switch into the new format, textbooks are still widely read on paper. However, textbooks as e-books ought to be seen as a stepping stone to the future. And we need to design devices that are specifically made to support academic reading.
Felicity Fu

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jon-hotchkiss/e-reading-retention-comprehension_b_4373821... - 1 views

How do sites and online learning sources monitor the information and subtle differences of posts?

started by Felicity Fu on 04 Dec 13 no follow-up yet
Nick Siewert

A Kindle for Every Student - US News and World Report - 0 views

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E-textbook K-12 reading hardware publishing

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  • Nick Siewert on 05 Sep 09
     
    Pros and cons of the Kindle in K-12 education. Necessity or "Whack-a-Mole"?
Lisa Estrin

2 Brothers Await Broad Use of Medical E-Records - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...04pad.html

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  • Lisa Estrin on 04 Oct 10
     
    Article about how I-Pads will make electronic patient records easier to use, less expensive, and eventually transform health care. Interesting to read after our online discussion about AI in informal learning- health communication and medical training.
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  • quintintanderson on 04 Oct 10
     
    I just posted something about iPads and this caught my eye. I think that this use of the iPad makes sense. There is really no existing technology (to my knowledge) out there that can mobilize patient records. Also, with the current trend of digitalising medical records, it seems like doctor offices will already have the necessary infrastructure available to push the Pad.
  • anonymous on 05 Oct 10
     
    With the privacy concerns surrounding medical records, HIPPA legislation and the password security that is now required of personnel in hospitals to access medical records with ever changing password authentication tokens, I wonder if iPad wireless communication poses any risk to data being hijacked.
  • Lisa Estrin on 05 Oct 10
     
    Cherie- I actually discussed this issue with a relative who is a doctor and he said that while his office is trying to switch to digital records, he is also concerned about privacy, increased government/insurance company regulation, and a disconnect in patient care/communication (looking down instead of talking to the patient). He also is concerned about time management with so many patients- the time it will take to record information on a tablet instead of the time he takes verbally recording patient information in just a few seconds.
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