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Gates Announces $20-Million for New Education-Technology Program - Wired Campus - The C... - 1 views

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shared by Devon Dickau on 04 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • new program aimed at harnessing technology to prepare students for college and get them to graduation
  • the first wave of grants will focus on four areas: blended learning, open courseware, learning analytics, and increasing engagement through interactive technology like games and social media.
  • By 2018, 63 percent of all job openings will require postsecondary education, according to the foundation. But fewer than half of Americans have earned a college degree by the age of 30.
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Jeb Bush, Melinda Gates, Sal Khan and the Coming Digital Learning Battle - 3 views

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  • Diego Vallejos on 19 Oct 11
     
    Article about digital learning
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Apple Woos Educators With Trips to Silicon Valley - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • Maung Nyeu on 05 Nov 11
     
    After School officias from Little Falls, Minn., visited Apple HQ, they decided to spend $1.2m on 1700 iPads. Late Mr. Jobs in an interview with Wired mangazine said, "what's wrong with education cannot be fixed with technology." "Mr. Jobs blamed teachers' unions for the decline in education." Walter Issacson, the biographer of Steve Jobs, writes Bill Gates and Steve Jobs "agreed that computers had, so far, made surprisingly little impact on schools - far less than on other realms of society such as media and medicine and law."
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The Gates Notes: Students In Los Altos - 0 views

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  • Hannah Williams on 22 Oct 12
     
    5th Graders talk about what class was like before and after their teacher began using Khan Academy...
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5 Ways That edX Could Change Education - 4 views

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shared by Chip Linehan on 17 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Chip Linehan on 17 Oct 12
     
    Gates funds edX to bring their courses/content to the community college setting. Is K-12 next?
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  • Harvey Shaw on 17 Oct 12
     
    Interesting that MOOCs (at the top of the high-value, high-margin education market) are providing entry-level content. That seems more like disruptive innovation than sustaining innovation.
  • Chip Linehan on 17 Oct 12
     
    Interesting point Harvey - thanks for weighing in! Per Clay Christensen, disruptive innovators often target the least desirable/most under-served segment of the market upon entry - the business that the established folks don't bother to pursue (think Southwest Airlines, etc). They then evolve up the value chain, ultimately displacing the large, established guys.
  • Harvey Shaw on 18 Oct 12
     
    Chip, that's what makes this especially curious: it's the major players (Harvard, MIT, etc.) who are pursuing the least-served part of the market here - Christensen would argue that they are more like to pursue sustaining, not disruptive innovation! In essence, EdX is seeking to disrupt the teaching of entry-level, profit-generating classes at other schools, while possibly undermining their own teaching of the same topics. Should be interesting to see how it plays out.
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edweb webinar: "Put Down Your Pencils and Play: Using Digital Games Successfully in the... - 2 views

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  • pradeepg on 20 May 12
     
    "In This Session What do teachers really think about digital games in the classroom? Join us for our community's next webinar for the just-released findings of a year-long research project, sponsored by BrainPOP and the Gates Foundation, that investigates teachers' attitudes and beliefs on game-based learning. Michael Levine and Jessica Millstone, Executive Director and Research Consultant at The Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop, will showcase the findings of this national survey that was conducted with 500 teachers nationwide who are currently integrating digital games into their classes.......
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What to test instead - Ideas - The Boston Globe - 2 views

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shared by Danna Ortiz on 16 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • A new wave of test designers believe they can measure creativity, problem solving, and collaboration – and that a smarter exam could change education.
  • Reengineering tests has become a kind of calling for a group of educators and researchers around the country. With millions of dollars of funding from the federal government, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, as well as from firms like Cisco Systems, Intel, and Microsoft, they have set about rethinking what a test can do, what it can look like, and what qualities it can assess.
  • computer simulations, games, and stealth monitoring
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  • Chris Dede at Harvard
  • Such predictions require a clear sense of the qualities a person needs in order to thrive.
  • There are just a lot fewer jobs where you’re not doing information-seeking, interpreting, problem-solving, and communication than in the past.”
  • engineer tests
  • equire people to exercise a bundle of complex skills at the same time,
  • rafting computer programs that take advantage of so-called stealth assessment, a method of judging test-takers without telling them exactly what’s being judged.
  • When we test, we’re really probing for certain qualities—the particular mix of knowledge and ability—that tell us a student is ready to move ahead, or an employee will be an asset to the firm.
  • developed a 3D video game to test scientific skills
  • students
  • evaluated
  • rocess they go through to attack a problem.
  • Harvard developmental psychologist Howard Gardner participated in an effort to design new kinds of tests in the humanities that could be graded objectively.
  • Ultimately, he found that the nuance required to measure softer skills collided with the demands of standardization.
  • A test becomes a sign post,
  • t becomes an example of what to strive for.”
  • Danna Ortiz on 16 Sep 12
     
    How test designers are trying to move away from standardized tests to computer programs that can measure a myriad of skills simultaneously through simulations and "stealth monitoring."  Both Chris Dede and Howard Gardner are mentioned.
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Researchers given funding to put MOOCs under microscope - 0 views

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shared by Trung Tran on 17 Nov 13 - No Cached
  • Trung Tran on 17 Nov 13
     
    Gates Foundation is now rolling out funding for researchers to produce peer-reviewed quality studies on MOOCs. It looks like professors around the world (as far as down south in Australia) are keen to start working on this new tech trend in education.
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Enhancing Student Success in Online Learning - 4 views

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  • Josh Tappan on 23 Sep 13
     
    With funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, SRI International is conducting a study investigating to what extent, why, when, and how online learning models that target Algebra 1 work or do not work for different student populations, especially those that are historically disadvantaged or underserved.
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