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Chris McEnroe

Technology in Schools Faces Questions on Value - NYTimes.com - 3 views

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      Chris McEnroe on 17 Sep 11
       
      Some of the thinking articulated in this article captures the gridlock of public conversation around the issue of technology in the classroom. I'm reminded of a conversation I had with a colleague in which he was telling me about the many interesting ways he uses powerpoint for instruction. I asked him he ever had his students use powerpoint and he scoffed, "Powerpoint for student presenations is a Middle School right of passage. Please. They're terrible." I told him that if he didn't think powerpoint was a useful means of communication than he wouldn't use it. The fact is we don't teach kids how to use powerpoint well and so they don't use it well. The argument about tech in Ed is much the same. Sometimes when I hear or read about these discussions I think of someone who has an F-14 in his front yard complaing that it is terrible for hanging laundry on. The promise of teaching well in a 21st century classroom focuses on cultivating different skills and more dynamic learning than standardized tests seek to quantify.
Benjamin Berte

Become a PowerPoint Power User - Wired How-To Wiki - 0 views

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shared by Benjamin Berte on 02 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Benjamin Berte on 02 Nov 09
     
    Wiki on improving your PowerPoint skills
Irina Uk

Teachers Find iPad Slide-sharing App Nearpod Like 'PowerPoint on Steroids' -- THE Journal - 0 views

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  • Irina Uk on 31 Oct 12
     
    How teachers use Nearpod, and iPad app similar to PowerPoint to engage students and do formative assessment.
Devon Dickau

'Chalk and Talk' Colleges Are Challenged by India's Company Classrooms - Technology - T... - 0 views

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  • The most high-tech classrooms in India are not at a university but at a technology company's training facility.
  • To make up for those perceived deficiencies, Indian companies spent more than $1-billion last year on corporate-training programs for new employees, according to an industry group that has been pushing for change at universities.
  • Each classroom bears the name of a famous innovator—Archimedes, J.P. Morgan, Steve Jobs. In a morning class in the Benjamin Franklin classroom, I observed about 100 students learning the Unix programming language. Each seat had its own PC, and most students had opened a copy of the instructor's PowerPoint presentation and followed along on their own screen, sometimes scrolling back to see what they had missed, sometimes looking ahead.
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  • The trainees, called "freshers" because they are fresh out of college,
  • The trainees said that their undergraduate teaching had been delivered mostly in chalk-and-talk form, with the professor lecturing at the front of the classroom. A few professors had tried PowerPoint, they said, but even that was unusual.
  • "More technology would have meant a lot more knowledge."
  • It turns out, how wired the classrooms are is not the point—the style of teaching is much slower to change than the gear in the rooms.
  • Devon Dickau on 05 Oct 10
     
    Indian college classrooms have not integrated technology into learning and teaching, so private companies - teaching the skills needed to perform in their specific career paths - are taking the lead, showing that universities need to catch up.
Xavier Rozas

OffiSync - Enabling Collaboration - 0 views

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  • Chris Johnson on 12 Sep 09
     
    Good utility since many people will likely be sharing documents via Google Docs while working on projects for coursework.
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  • Chris Johnson on 12 Sep 09
     
    OffiSync (currently in beta) allows users to access and modify Google Docs from their MS Office applications (like Word, Excel, PowerPoint). The tool requires Windows XP, Vista, or 7 and MS Office 2003 or 2007. Some errors are to be expected in the beta stage, but the benefit of conveniently editing Google Docs is worth the minor annoyances.
  • Jennifer Hern on 12 Sep 09
     
    Hey Chris. Given all the other options we have for creating and sharing documents and information, how do you see this being most useful to you?
  • Xavier Rozas on 12 Sep 09
     
    The 1-step migration of research content to the host document is very nice, but outside of that, I think I would be inclined to stick with google docs if for no other reason than users (and any collaborators) do not need to download an application to their computer.
Diana Mazzuca

Technology in Schools Faces Questions on Value - NYTimes.com - 4 views

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  • Jennifer Lavalle on 05 Sep 11
     
    Good share, Diana. This article is particularly interesting for the issues it chooses to raise and the way in which various arguments are presented. One quote struck me, "We have Smart Boards in every classroom but not enough money to buy copy paper, pencils and hand sanitizer," said Nicole Cates, a co-president of the Parent Teacher Organization at Kyrene de la Colina, an elementary school. "You don't go buy a new outfit when you don't have enough dinner to eat." But she loves the fact that her two children, a fourth-grader and first-grader, are learning technology, including PowerPoint and educational games (Page 5)". How can we work to harmonize these two? This reminds me an article I read in the Boston Globe this morning regarding teachers going out-of-pocket to equip their classrooms with enough supplies for an increasing number of students. The article suggests that budget cuts that make this necessary save teacher positions. There has to be a better way. http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2011/09/05/budgets_cut_teachers_dig_deeper_for_supplies/
Shaheer Khan

E-Learning Software and Authoring Tools | Articulate Rapid eLearning - 1 views

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shared by Shaheer Khan on 27 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Shaheer Khan on 27 Oct 09
     
    With thousands of customers in more than 75 countries, Articulate is the recognized leader in rapid e-learning software and e-learning authoring tools.
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