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Sunanda V

10 Truths About Books and What They Have to Do With Video Games - 1 views

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  • Sunanda V on 30 Oct 12
     
    Great post about the ways that books and video games are actually quite similar. My favorites: "1. Books are a powerful technology. They can lead to aggression and violence (witness the Bible, the Koran, and the Turner Diaries in the wrong hands). Nazi Germany was a highly literate society. Games, so far, do not have this much power, but some day they may. 4. Books can make you stupid by not questioning what they say. 8. Just giving people books does not make them smarter; it all depends on what they do with them and who they do it with. For young people, it depends, too, on how much and how well they get mentored. Mentoring is, in fact, crucial."
  • Jason Yamashiro on 30 Oct 12
     
    Thanks for tagging this- definitely thought provoking. I might argue that both books and games can, in fact, make people 'smarter' in and of themselves, but that both are far better when used socially with mentor support and quality teaching.
Kasthuri Gopalaratnam

Online Mentoring Program to Encourage Women in Sciences - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • Maria Anaya on 17 Sep 12
     
    This is great! I'm very curious to see how this is being used, what types of conversations are being asked, and how and if this turns into longer term mentorships. Our team for Innovation be Design class is looking to create something like this for high school girls already engaged in STEM...so we are looking at the step right before this so making sure that the "interested" girls actually major in STEM fields.
Kinga Petrovai

Technology: education divider or equalizer? - 3 views

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  • Kinga Petrovai on 01 Dec 11
     
    Great article looking at how Canada's North is getting connected in order to help students succeed. Something as simple as email, makes a big difference for this mentoring project. This is a great article because it not only looks at technology as a solution, but how mentoring is key to student success.
Jennifer Hern

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

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  • Field experiences that pair a preservice teacher with an experienced teacher who acts as a mentor while picking up information on how to use the latest technology tools are essential
    • Jennifer Hern
      Jennifer Hern on 10 Sep 09
       
      ??? Mentoring sounds great... but aren't veteran teachers less likely to use technology in the classroom since they are less familiar with available technology (on the whole)? Most veteran teachers I worked with loathed even searching the Internet.
  • teacher residency program
  • spends the first year out of school as an apprentice to a veteran teacher.
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  • compares the arrangement to a medical residency.
Maung Nyeu

An open letter to Peter Thiel - The Washington Post - 0 views

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  • Maung Nyeu on 16 Oct 11
     
    "We can do to schools what PayPal did to banks and do to college networks what Facebook did to friendships. We can now make education affordable and pervasive. All this requires is investment in the right technologies and the type of mentoring and support being provided to students, such as the Thiel fellows. You could impact the lives of billions" - Vivek Wadhwa, Senior Research Associate at Harvard Law School and Director of Research at Duke University's Center for Entrepreneurship.
Chris Dede

Robots used to help autistic children - latimes.com - 0 views

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  • Chris Dede on 18 Oct 11
     
    To what extent can robots substitute for human mentors and therapists?
Janet Dykstra

Connectwerks.com - Home Page - 0 views

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  • Janet Dykstra on 22 Oct 12
     
    This site advertizes that it is the first virtual mentoring site app. It is intended to be a way for educators, parents, students, and/or at-risk youth to stay connected using a single platform. It even has a built in VRM (Virtual Relationship Management) tool.
Chris McEnroe

Idaho teachers union leader has tough task ahead - Boston.com - 2 views

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  • "But I worry, are we experimenting on our kids? Where's the research that shows one-to-one computing devices, requiring online course, is going to help students achieve greater?"
    • Chris McEnroe
      Chris McEnroe on 26 Nov 11
       
      I don't know what good decision making should look like in Idaho but this particular comment by Penni Cyr has gut-wrenching irony when you consider how much experimentation goes on in schools. I commented in class a few weeks ago about how Student-teaching is experimentation with no measurement for the net loss of learning as the result of having an apprentice teacher. I don't mind having good discussion and even arguments- but let's start with substantive premises. Yikes!
    • Allison Browne
      Allison Browne on 28 Nov 11
       
      I think that the union position would be that experimentatin should be carried out on pilot programs first to create stronger buy-in from the communities. Also, the student-teacher "experiment" is supposed to be monitored by a mentor teacher who hopefully prevents large losses of learning. The relationship between states and unions right now is very negative and it would be helpful if the union could make statements that are embracing of change but the legislation has pushed them into a corner so both sides sound as intractible as Congress. Very frustrating.
Kasthuri Gopalaratnam

Why College Students Leave the Engineering Track - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • Kasthuri Gopalaratnam on 20 Jan 12
     
    "What accounts for the high attrition rates? Maybe some of it has to do with aptitude, or encouragement, or good role models and mentors. But Philip Babcock, an economist at the University of California, Davis, suggests that a lot of it has to do with homework. Professor Babcock has written extensively about college students' evolving study habits (or lack thereof) over the last 50 years. He found that in 1961, full-time students spent about 40 hours each week in class and studying. By 2003, they were investing about 27 hours a week". But then, we did not have Facebook, Twitter and Videogames in 1961 :-)
Harley Chang

The King of MOOCs Abdicates the Throne - 3 views

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  • Harley Chang on 21 Nov 13
     
    Sebastian Thrun, CEO of Udacity, has openly admitted that his company's MOOC courses are a lousy replacement for actual university class and instead will be taking his company to focus more on corporate training. I personally will reserve further judgement until after I finish the readings for next week.
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  • Grif Peterson on 21 Nov 13
     
    I posted this article in G+ a day or two ago. Some of the better commentary surrounding this article below. Tressie McMillan Cottom: "Thrun says it wasn't a failure. It was a lesson. But for the students who invested time and tuition in an experiment foisted on them by the of stewards public highered trusts, failure is a lesson they didn't need." Rebecca Schuman: "Thrun blames neither the corporatization of the university nor the MOOC's use of unqualified "student mentors" in assessment. Instead, he blames the students themselves for being so poor." Stephen Downes: "I think that what amuses me most about the reaction to the Thrun story is the glowing descriptions of him have only intensified. "The King of MOOCs." "The Genius Godfather of MOOCs." Really now. As I and the many other people working toward the same end have pointed out repeatedly, the signal change in MOOCs is openess, not whatever it was (hubris? VC money?) that Thrun brought to the table. Rebecca Schuman claims this is a victory for "the tiny, for-credit, in-person seminar." It's not that, no more than the Titanic disaster was a victory for wind-powered passenger transportation."
  • Molly Wasser on 29 Nov 13
     
    Grif - where did the Stephen Downes quote come from ? I read the Rebecca Schuman article and don't really agree with her. To expand on the Schuman quote you posted - it's really interesting how she says the massive lecture format doesn't work but then provides two examples of massive technology that do work - texting and World of Warcraft. This relates directly to some of what we talked about earlier this semester. I don't think it's the 'massive,' as Schuman implies, that causes the failure of a MOOC. It's part of the design. Once the design is better and more engaging, then MOOCs may find that they have higher retention rates. Schuman: Successful education needs personal interaction and accountability, period. This is, in fact, the same reason students feel annoyed, alienated, and anonymous in large lecture halls and thus justified in sexting and playing World of Warcraft during class-and why the answer is not the MOOC, but the tiny, for-credit, in-person seminar that has neither a sexy acronym nor a potential for huge corporate partnerships.
  • Grif Peterson on 09 Dec 13
     
    The Downes quote was from OLDaily, which is a daily listserve of his that I subscribe too. I think the difference between texting/WoW and MOOCs is that, while both have many many users, the former two have means in which those groups are disaggregated into smaller units that are largely responsible for the UX/individual growth that goes on. I agree with you that massive is not necessarily the failure, in fact, I think it's the best thing they have going for them. However, until the design can leverage meaningful collaboration, like WoW and texting, the massive will remain a burden.
Margaret O'Connell

Second Thoughts on Online Education - 3 views

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  • Certain groups did notably worse online. Hispanic students online fell nearly a full grade lower than Hispanic students that took the course in class. Male students did about a half-grade worse online, as did low-achievers, which had college grade-point averages below the mean for the university.
  • A policy issue raised by the study, Mr. Figlio said, was whether a shift to online education will serve to widen the achievement gap between the best students and others.
  • “But what we are saying is that there’s no free lunch” in the drive to online education, he said.
  • Maura Wolk on 09 Sep 10
     
    I get really nervous about these "shifts" when they become sensationalized. Despite our insistence that students are not created equal, we keep searching for the one-size-fits-all solution to education, and in this era that solution is bolstered by anything containing the word DIGITAL. How much socioemotional development will students lose if this trend increases over time? How do we provide for human relationships, mentors, even confrontation and conflict resolution when we are all hiding behind computer screens? It has to be about more than convenience.
Kasthuri Gopalaratnam

GOOD Video: Future Learning Engages Students with Lessons On Demand - Education - GOOD - 0 views

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  • Kasthuri Gopalaratnam on 27 Sep 11
     
    Nice Video of Mr. Salman Khan talking about lessons on demand and teachers as mentors and not delivering a script.
James Glanville

Learning: Engage and Empower | U.S. Department of Education - 4 views

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  • more flexible set of "educators," including teachers, parents, experts, and mentors outside the classroom.
    • Chris McEnroe
      Chris McEnroe on 05 Sep 11
       
      This is an example of the promise of Tech in Teaching. It promotes the Psycho/Social pedogogical reality of the learner's sphere of influences into the vital center of our concept of school. To me, it transforms academic discourse into intentional design. Because school experience is so culturally endemic, this is a change in cultural self-concept.
  • The opportunity to harness this interest and access in the service of learning is huge.
    • Chris McEnroe
      Chris McEnroe on 08 Sep 11
       
      This sentence makes me think of an explorer who has discovered a vast mineral deposit and is looking for capital investment. To persuade teachers, parents, and school boards the explorer will need to show tangible evidence that ". . . our education system [can leverage] technology to create learning experiences that mirror students' daily lives and the reality of their futures." The sixth grade teacher will need to be able to demonstrate to the parent of a student the tangible benefits of a technology infused paradigm.
  • The challenge for our education system is to leverage technology to create relevant learning experiences that mirror students' daily lives and the reality of their futures.
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  • large groups, small groups, and activities tailored to individual goals, needs, and interests.
  • What's worth knowing and being able to do?
  • English language arts, mathematics, sciences, social studies, history, art, or music, 21st-century competencies and expertise such as critical thinking, complex problem solving, collaboration, and multimedia communication should be woven into all content areas.
  • expert learners
  • "digital exclusion"
    • Chris McEnroe
      Chris McEnroe on 08 Sep 11
       
      Isn't this just another iteration of the general disparity in all kinds of resource allocation? This could just as well be articulated by debilitating student/teacher rations, or text book availability, or the availability of paper, or breakfast, or heat in the he building?
  • School of One uses technology to develop a unique learning path for each student and to provide a significant portion of the instruction that is both individualized and differentiated
  • Advances in the learning sciences, including cognitive science, neuroscience, education, and social sciences, give us greater understanding of three connected types of human learning—factual knowledge, procedural knowledge, and motivational engagement.
    • James Glanville
      James Glanville on 09 Sep 11
       
      I'm interested in how our current understanding of how learning works can inform best practices for teaching, curriculum design, and supports for learning afforded by technology.
    • Erin Sisk
      Erin Sisk on 12 Sep 11
       
      I found the neuroscience discussion to be the most interesting part of the Learning section. It seems to me that the 21st century learner needs more emphasis on the "learning how" and the "learning why" and less focus on the "learning that." I think teaching information literacy (as described in the Learning section) is one of the most important kinds of procedural knowledge (learning how) students should master so they can access facts as they need them, and worry less about memorizing them.
  • James Glanville on 09 Sep 11
     
    "School of One uses technology to develop a unique learning path for each student and to provide a significant portion of the instruction that is both individualized and differentiated." I liked the definitions of individualized (pacing), differentiated (learning preferences/methods), and personalized (pacing, preferences, and content/objectives).
Bridget Binstock

Digital Library Aims to Expand Kid's Media Literacy - 0 views

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  • Bridget Binstock on 10 Oct 11
     
    I love these lines from the article: "Just as schools have always pushed teens to read critically and pick apart authors' arguments, she says, educators must now teach kids how to consume media critically and, ideally, to produce it. 'It's really a shift from thinking of a library as a repository to a community center, a place where things actually happen,' says Taylor Bayless, 27, a librarian and one of the center's mentors."
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