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Devon Dickau

Google Instant search feeds our real-time addiction - CNN.com - 0 views

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technology education Google search instant knowledge predictive customized

shared by Devon Dickau on 12 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • By providing results before a query is complete and removing the need to hit the "enter" key, Google claims users will save two to five seconds per search
    • Devon Dickau
      Devon Dickau on 12 Sep 10
       
      Two to five seconds to hit Enter?  In a society obsessed with saving time, even mere seconds are perceived as valuable.
  • Web connections have become significantly faster over time
  • Web connections have become significantly faster over time
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  • quick status updates
    • Devon Dickau
      Devon Dickau on 12 Sep 10
       
      Are the speed and brevity of these messages bypassing the potential exploration of a certain topic area in-depth, or is very topic only superficial?
  • many social sites now use our social connections to recommend content to us without the need to seek it out
    • Devon Dickau
      Devon Dickau on 12 Sep 10
       
      Search engines do the work for us.  We don't even need to know how to find the information ourselves these days.
  • What's more, this feature enables truly personalized discovery by taking into account your search history, location and other factors -- Google is essentially emulating social networks by trying to predict what we're looking for without the need to submit a fully-formed search
  • The next step of search is doing this automatically. When I walk down the street, I want my smartphone to be doing searches constantly: 'Did you know ... ?' 'Did you know ... ?' 'Did you know ... ?' 'Did you know ... ?
    • Devon Dickau
      Devon Dickau on 12 Sep 10
       
      Constant delivery of knowledge.
    • Devon Dickau
      Devon Dickau on 12 Sep 10
       
      In thinking about evolving technology in terms of both formal and informal education, I question whether or not constant and immediate access to information is improving or harming individual knowledge.  By this I mean that because we can so easily search for something online, what motivation is there to actually know anything.  If we have Wikipedia on our phones, and know HOW to find it, can't we just spend 30 seconds finding the page and "know" something for topic of conversation, or a test?  What is the point, then, or learning, of retaining knowledge?  I feel that this may be a problem in coming generations.  What knowledge will our students actually feel they need to retain? I took solace in the fact that at least we have to learn and teach HOW to find the information, but with new technologies like predictive and instant searching, it almost seems like that is a skill that will soon become unneeded as well.  We might as well just be physically plugged in to the Internet with access to all information simultaneously. Thoughts from the group?
Bridget Binstock

Digital Badges - 4 views

moneywatch.bnet.com/...6793

technology Learning badges assessment

shared by Bridget Binstock on 08 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Bridget Binstock on 08 Oct 11
     
    The idea of "showing what you know" and earning badges instead of degrees? In this economic downswing, could something like this become the new emergent way of learning and of assessing? Thoughts?
  • Allison Browne on 10 Oct 11
     
    Sounds like the digital badge is more lke a digital portfolio- which I would more likely support. I find it interesting that our education system (which strives and struggles to provide consistent, high quality education from coast to coast) is seen as deficient but this badge proposal will be the answer? It's like the flood of support for home-schooling after a home-schooler wins a national competition but no one knows about the tens of homescholers I had to remediate in rural NH. Standardization is the key for any system to be integrated into another system. The variety of education models we have in our country makes it difficult for employers to integrate employees. If this digital badge concept relies on a variety of models, they will have the same problem.
  • Bharat Battu on 12 Oct 11
     
    The prospect of digital badges to show what you know is both exciting with its potential affordances and worrisome with some of its limitations and ambiguity. It'd be great if the ideal came to pass that digital badges would allow valid demonstration of super-specific skills and knowledge over a greater range of fields and topics than what having a B.A. or B.S. currently does. Digital badges could represent the most particular concepts or skills at a granular level even-- those that are essential in the real-world (whether that be desired by employers or otherwise). If the task or test or challenge, or whatever else would be the means of assessment for earning a badge, was carefully designed and evaluated to be a truly valid measure of proficiency, then earning a badge for something would be a clear indication that you know something. But like Allison said, standardization would be key. What would these assessments/ badge challenges be- so that they would be truly valid indicators of proficiency? Who would be the purveyors or authorities to determine the assessments or challenges to accomplish a badge? Given the medium (completing badge assessments on one's own computer or mobile device - from any site they're at potentially) - what's to stop a user from going "open book" or "opening another tab" in order to look up answers to questions or tutorials on how to do a task, in order to complete the assessment? Doing this would allow a user to ace the assessment and earn the badge- but would defeat any value of the badge in truly demonstrating knowledge or skill. By imagining if digital badges did reach mass-acceptance and use in the real world, and we were to ultimately find them all over the internet like we're now finding social media widgets, it made me realize that the "prove proficiency anywhere I am in any way I want" won't work. I changed fields and career paths from what I studied in college, so I definitely appreciate the value in being able to truly show e
Billy Gerchick

10 Tech Skills Every Student Should Have - 5 views

www.techlearning.com/Default.aspx

skills technology wp1 w4 student competencies tech eng102 mcc research amnoi journalism medialiteracy

shared by Billy Gerchick on 10 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • 1. Internet Search - students need to know how to do a proper internet search, using search terms and modifiers. This skill is needed for school, work and life in general.
  • 2. Office Suite Skills - students need to now how to create, edit, and modify documents, presentations, and spreadsheets. Businesses still use MS Office for the most part, but iWorks, OpenOffice / LibreOffice, and Google Docs are all getting more popular. They all work similarly so the learning curve when switching isn't that big.
  • 3. Self learning of tech and where to go for help - knowing how to search a help menu on software or hardware, where to go to find user forums for help, and where to find the manual for technology is a huge skill that many do not know about.
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  • 6. Netiquette - Internet/Email/Social Media etiquette - proper way to use the internet, write professional emails, use social media in relation to your job (not complaining about the boss).
  • 5. Social Media - how to properly use social media for school and work, how to protect yourself on it, the issues of cyberbullying, connecting with others in your profession (PLN).
  • 4. Typing - yes, typing. I can get much more work done since I know how to type, then people who don't.
  • 7. Security and Safety - antivirus, spam, phishing, too much personal information sharing, stalkers, and more are all issues they need to know about.
  • 8. Hardware basics and troubleshooting - knowing what different parts of technology are called, how to make minor fixes, and how to do basic troubleshooting for WiFi, networks, OS won't load, etc
  • 9. Backup data - with all of the data that students create for school and work, it is important to back it up and have access to it at any time
  • 10. Finding apps and software - how to find, evaluate, and use apps for school and business. Also, how to find quality, free alternatives to paid software, apps and services.
  • Billy Gerchick on 10 Feb 12
     
    Gateway source for all students: high school and college composition and journalism and student of life. Bookmark this source and then bookmark the hyperlinks in this article. Do you have the 10 (11 for the bonus) tech skills down? I certainly can improve in some of these areas.
Laura Johnson

25 EdTech Startups Worth Knowing | Edudemic - 2 views

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edtech startups HGSET561

shared by Laura Johnson on 17 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Laura Johnson on 17 Oct 12
     
    Helpful list for getting to know the edtech space (and possible future employers!) 
  • Maria Anaya on 17 Oct 12
     
    thanks for posting....amazing how many of these I do not know!
Jennifer Hern

Which Came First - The Technology or the Pedagogy? -- THE Journal - 0 views

thejournal.com/...21st-Century-Teaching.aspx

shared by Jennifer Hern on 09 Sep 09 - Cached
  • know the innovation or technology that you're going to then use."
    • Jennifer Hern
      Jennifer Hern on 09 Sep 09
       
      Recent technological advances in the classroom like using interactive whiteboards are fantastic, but little training is provided for teachers on how to use them (or at least in my experience). Knowing the technology and how to use them is the missing link in a lot of classrooms.
  • 'technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK),
  • you have to know three things to use technology well
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  • know the
  • content.
  • know the pedagogy associated with that content
Cole Shaw

Pearson's take on MOOCs - 2 views

fwd.pearson.com/...flipping-the-mooc

MOOC Pearson

shared by Cole Shaw on 30 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Cole Shaw on 30 Sep 12
     
    Kind of like Professor Dede's post about McGraw-Hill's interest in e-learning, here is a blog post from Pearson about MOOCs. I think his take (Jeff Borden, one of their VPs) is pretty accurate, in that we need a version 2 where it's not as lecture-based as version 1. I would guess that they are working on their own "version 2" solution (perhaps with Knewton?).
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  • Maria Anaya on 30 Sep 12
     
    In a couple of weeks a bunch of Pearson people are spending a couple of days at MIT Media Lab learning about the future of learning. Specifically they are interested on how to capitalise on technology and how to make education of all kinds for all ages more widely accessible, more affordable, more effective. Should be interesting, the lab will be doing demos all day of all the projects in the Media Lab.
  • Cole Shaw on 01 Oct 12
     
    Maria, do you know if this event is open to the public, or more a "sponsor-day" event? I would love to go!
  • Maria Anaya on 01 Oct 12
     
    Not sure if it's public event, I only know about it because I will be helping with the App Inventor demo. I'll let you know once I know more info.
Irina Uk

MakerBot Updates 3D Printer Line -- THE Journal - 0 views

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printer emerging technology

shared by Irina Uk on 24 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Irina Uk on 24 Sep 12
     
    I've heard of 3D printers before. I thought it would be interesting to try out in schools. For example, if students were designing towns to learn volume and surface area. This could help with spatial learning, which is essential to understanding math. I don't know how feasible this it though...
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  • Matthew Ong on 24 Sep 12
     
    One of our classmates, Hongge, is really into 3D printers and knows a lot about it. You could check with him what he's done with this technology in the classroom. If we can 'print' human kidneys, the possibilities seem endless...
  • Kasthuri Gopalaratnam on 24 Sep 12
  • Irina Uk on 24 Sep 12
     
    Thanks Kasthuri. That looks pretty awesome. I bet kids would be really engaged in classes if they were able to creat their own 3D objects for class projects. I wonder if any schools are using this yet.
  • Kasthuri Gopalaratnam on 25 Sep 12
     
    Hi Irina, Yes! Nothing like seeing your ideas take a concrete shape. Looks like the cost of these printers is comparable to that of SmartBoards, so it may be feasible to try them out in classrooms pretty soon. That said, unless the projects are well integrated into the curriculum, they will end up as another fancy toy.
  • Janet Dykstra on 25 Sep 12
     
    Harvey and I had a conversation about these last week - Harvey spoke of the way that these printers could open up opportunities for those who can visualize their creations in their heads, but have trouble putting those ideas in tangible form. We spoke of the potential in art and design.
Tomoko Matsukawa

Time To Know | EdSurge - 1 views

www.edsurge.com/time-to-know

time to know t561 learning platform

shared by Tomoko Matsukawa on 19 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • Tomoko Matsukawa on 19 Nov 12
     
    More info on their PD (coaching service requires additional $), also details on their plan to expand audience (to 5th, 6th grader) and regions (france, singapore and korea)
Ando Endano

Dean Kamen - Don't Tell Me It's Impossible - 0 views

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innovation engineering

shared by Ando Endano on 02 Sep 09 - Cached
  • “Don’t tell me it’s impossible,” he says, “tell me you can’t do it.” “Tell me it’s never been done. Because the only real laws in this world–the only things we really know–are the two postulates of relativity, the three laws of Newton, the four laws of thermodynamics, and Maxwell’s equation–no, scratch that, the only things we really know are  Maxwell’s equations, the three laws of Newton, the two postulates of relativity, and the periodic table. That’s all we know that’s true. All the rest are man’s laws…”
  • Ando Endano on 02 Sep 09
     
    A quote from Dean Kamen, Inventor of the Segway, regarding innovation
Kellie Demmler

7 Things You Should Know About Alternate Reality Games | EDUCAUSE - 0 views

www.educause.edu/...163614

alternate reality augmented reality technology education

shared by Kellie Demmler on 15 Sep 09 - Cached
  • View this resource:
  • Kellie Demmler on 15 Sep 09
     
    Since we dabbled with augmented reality today in class, I thought Educause's statement regarding the 7 things you should know would be an appropriate summary of where this technology may be going. I find their "7 Things" briefs great ways to get an overview of what is up and coming in technology. See PDF link at bottom of page to view the resource.
Billie Fitzpatrick

What's Behind becoming a "Google Certified Teacher"? - 4 views

www.google.com/gta.html

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  • Ashley Lee on 15 Dec 09
     
    you can become a google certified teacher by attending the Google Teacher Academy
  • Billie Fitzpatrick on 31 Oct 11
     
    I'm sure some of you are already aware of this certification program offered through Google -- anybody know what's behind it and how it is viewed by academics and learning scientists?
  • Jennifer Lavalle on 31 Oct 11
     
    I know a lot of educators are super interested in the program, but it is difficult to get to training center for an 8 hour training (often they are in random cities across the the US), and to get funding because it ain't cheap. However, a lot of teachers are taking on the challenge of training each other rather than having "google certified teacher" title. Since Google Educator apps are free - if someone in a district takes ownership, then you can kind of get around the challenges of PD. I am working with the IT specialist in a middle school in Newton, who has done a lot of trainings on Google apps for educators. I'll ask her for more info :-)
Katherine Tarulli

A new way to search? - 4 views

This is an interesting concept. I think that the determining factor for me is dependent on who will have access to that information. If it is private and stored on the tablet that could be an incre...

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started by Bridget Binstock on 14 Sep 11 1 follow-up, last by Katherine Tarulli on 15 Sep 11
Heather French

The Flip: End of a Love Affair - 4 views

plpnetwork.com/...flip-love-affair

technology educational_technology

shared by Heather French on 14 Oct 12 - No Cached
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  • Heather French on 14 Oct 12
     
    Really good article about one teacher's experience with a flipped classroom, why she stopped using that model and how the idea of flipping made her a better teacher.
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  • Steve Henderson on 15 Oct 12
     
    Thanks for posting this - a really good synthesis of flipping w/ PBL - and why flipping is more than videos, written by somebody who knows what she is talking about.
  • Lauren Gould on 15 Oct 12
     
    Agreed Steve, and thanks for posting this Heather. It answered questions I didn't even know I had about the "flipped" classroom and is also an empowering example the important role of the teacher in student-centered learning.
  • Cole Shaw on 16 Oct 12
     
    Wow, really interesting article, thanks Heather! Love how the teacher also learned from the experience and changed her in-class teaching style...
  • Tim Johnson on 16 Oct 12
     
    Thanks Heather, for posting, and Lauren, for suggesting...anybody who is taking T440 and loves the concept but feels skeptical about its real-world plausibility should read this article.
Andrea Bush

Ted Talk - Walk Doctors don't know about the drugs they prescribe - 0 views

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learning education technology

shared by Andrea Bush on 01 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Matthew Ong on 01 Oct 12
     
    As we're researching on emerging technology, much of the literature we read is based on credible sources, or so we hope. This talk highlights the danger of publication bias and the importance of knowing where research has shown that things work, and where they don't. By focusing too much on the stuff that works, sometimes, we inadvertently ignore the research that shows it doesn't.
  • Andrea Bush on 28 Oct 12
     
    Ted talk exploring the fairly sad side effects and unintended consequences of drugs prescribed for learning disabilities, as technology is increasingly used on all fronts to improve learning.
Mohit Patel

Aakash 2 - The $20 tablet that could transform computing as we know it | Impact Lab - 1 views

www.impactlab.net/...nsform-computing-as-we-know-it

shared by Mohit Patel on 15 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • Mohit Patel on 15 Nov 12
     
    This is very "hot" in India at the moment. The president of India has given 200 of these to the university I work at and they are distributing it, for free, to loads if other institutes. It costs $25!! I haven't seen the quality of the device, but I have seen other low cost, about $150, tablets and I don't like them AT ALL. D you think e device quality and user experience will not be deterrent given the price point?
  • Sunanda V on 15 Nov 12
     
    Mohit, I've heard a lot about the poor quality of the device and very little about HOW universities intend on using these tablets. It seems like another case of top-down intervention that's tech-driven rather than learning-driven, which is rather unfortunate. Also seems even more unfortunate that even though it's a tech-driven initiative, they haven't thought out the *quality* component of the tech. Oy... See this article for critiques of the tablet: http://www.techulator.com/resources/5523-Most-Annoying-Defects-Flows-Datawinds.aspx
Maria Anaya

Digital Teaching Platform on Vimeo - 0 views

vimeo.com/34088283

shared by Maria Anaya on 19 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • Maria Anaya on 19 Nov 12
     
    video on Time To Know platform
Roshanak Razavi

Save or Save As: Should Third Graders Know How Computers Work? - 1 views

blogs.kqed.org/...raders-know-how-computers-work

educational_technology

shared by Roshanak Razavi on 04 Dec 12 - No Cached
  • Roshanak Razavi on 04 Dec 12
     
    "At a time when education technology is getting a lot of attention, there is no class time allocated to technology education."
Tomoko Matsukawa

Japan's LINE social network could challenge global competitors | The Japan Times Online - 0 views

www.japantimes.co.jp/...nc20120718aa.html

social media children language skill t561

shared by Tomoko Matsukawa on 05 Dec 12 - No Cached
  • Tomoko Matsukawa on 05 Dec 12
     
    Do any of you know 'LINE'? as of last months, 80mn users globally (36mn users in Japan) and its pace of growth is exceeding that of any other types of social media in the country (Facebook, Twitter, etc). They target 1) users who have smartphones but not PC, 2) those who are interested in communication emotions effectively through ''emoticons'. If some people are concerned about how twitter/facebook/texting would have adverse impact on children language skill, let's talk about the implication of this thing if kids learn to communicate just by selecting emoticons (whose designs and variety are great by the way) and sending that to each other. I still have LINE on my PC but seeing this rapid growth in my home country concerns me a bit. 
Tomoko Matsukawa

Controversial UN Internet Treaty Approved After United States Walks Out - 2 views

mashable.com/...un-internet-treaty-approved

shared by Tomoko Matsukawa on 14 Dec 12 - No Cached
Drew Nelson liked it
  • Drew Nelson on 14 Dec 12
     
    I clicked through some related articles on this one a little bit, and it's worth following up on. I want to know how this treaty plans to address spam and cyberattacks. It is certainly high-time for this treaty to be updated, if it has truly not happened since 1988. The internet is certainly important enough to warrant further discussion, but I feel as if I'm speaking out of turn. I do not know what other treaty exist regarding internet based telecommunication in the UN.
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