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Kellie Demmler

Learning Principles and Practices | EDUCAUSE - 0 views

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    Collection of research from Educause dealing with learning principles and practices. Nice background info to help understand where technology fits into the big picture.
Ryan Klinger

New Council to Develop Standards, Best Practices for Online Learning - 1 views

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    "Carnegie Mellon University is convening a high-powered consortium of educators, researchers, and technology-company executives that will spearhead efforts to develop standards and promote best practices in online education."
Angela Nelson

You won't need a driver's license by 2040 - CNN.com - 1 views

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    Ok... maybe the tie in to education is not immediately obvious. Mostly, I just think this is so cool that I had to post it. But think for a moment about carpool, soccer practice, and sports as a starter. No longer does a kid's participation in extracurricular activities require them to get a ride from mom. Go a little further... field trips, classes that are only offered at the charter school across town, on-site science explorations. How many more kids could venture out of their neighborhood for educational opportunities? There was a time 20 years ago I never would have believed that elementary school children would be carrying their own phone, but now will they all get their own car in 2nd grade??
Laura Johnson

AEM Professor to Students: Don't Put Away Cell Phones | The Cornell Daily Sun - 0 views

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    A news story from Cornell talking about integrating mobile devices into higher ed...paints an unfortunate, yet realistic picture of the discrepancies between research/trends and practice  
Drew Nelson

Neuroscience and the Classroom - 1 views

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    Interactive insights drawn from neuroscience not only provide educators with a scientific basis for understanding some of the best practices in teaching, but also offer a new lens through which to look at the problems teachers grapple with every day. By gaining insights into how the brain works-and how students actually learn-teachers will be able to create their own solutions to the classroom challenges they face and improve their practice
Jeffrey Siegel

Mobiles For Teaching And Learning: Translating Theory into Practice " Educational Techn... - 1 views

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    Supporting Teachers With Mobile Content And Methods For Reading Instruction
Hessa Ahmad

New Survey Highlights Best Practices For Online Learning Programs - 0 views

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    Survey participants identified four key factors as "extremely important" in building a successful K-12 online education program: -Reporting and progress monitoring tools that enable teachers to assess student comprehension and identify those that need additional help; -Teacher who are readily available to assist struggling students; -Educators specially trained to teach in an online environment; -Rigorous curriculum, designed to accommodate different learning styles, that keeps students focused and engaged.
Steve Henderson

Play, passion, purpose: Tony Wagner at TEDxNYED - YouTube - 3 views

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    Also not directly about technology, but more certainly about transformation of established school practice. Connected to what we have studied in T561, the possibilities seem palpable.
Steve Henderson

Education Week: Competency-Based Schools Embrace Digital Learning - 3 views

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    Competency Based Learning is Badge Learning. A district in California is putting it into practice.
Deidre Witan

It's Official: Using Twitter Makes Students More Engaged | Edudemic - 2 views

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    Tweeting as a literary practice...
Hannah Lesk

"Technology in the Classroom: What's Next?" Town Hall Forum at MIT Media Lab - 0 views

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    There was a great forum on the future of technology in the classroom at the MIT Media Lab today. For those who couldn't make it, the video should be posted on this site soon and will also air on NBC on Sunday, September 23. I found it to be a nice blend of policy and practice-focused discussion, and despite weak moderation, I think it's worth the time to watch!
Chris Dede

Augmented Reality Apps Transform Class Time -- THE Journal - 5 views

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    This shows the influence the Horizon Report has on practice and on vendors
Diego Vallejos

Proof in Study: Math App Improves Test Scores (And Engagement) - 7 views

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    Ipad app that teaches fractions
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    I tend to agree with Professor Cuban - "IPads are marvelous tools to engage kids, but then the novelty wears off and you get into hard-core issues of teaching and learning." The real challenge is to convert the initial excitement and performance improvement into sustained progress. The key may be in leveraging the increased self-efficacy of students.
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    This article makes me wonder about the novelty bump you get when you try anything new. In EcoMuve, they researched the effectiveness of EcoMuve vs a new ecology classroom based activity. This tactic is measuring the effectiveness of the technology. However in these studies, if they had kids using a computer game to practice fractions, did the control group practice fractions using a classroom based activity? 15% growth is not much to get excited about.
Kasthuri Gopalaratnam

How Do We Train Teachers in Formative Assessment? - Teacher Beat - Education Week - 2 views

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    "The best professional-development research shows that teachers need sustained contact hours (between 30 and 100) of training before altering their practices. So, she did a back-of-the envelope calculation about how much time it would take to implement 50 hours of formative-assessment training over the course of a school year...... Teachers would need about six hours a month, for eight months, which amounts to one early-close afternoon a month plus two additional hours. (Good luck with that in this economy.)"
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    Perhaps this is where technology can play an enabling role. Easy to use and real-time tools like Socrative or technology based learning environments with embedded formative assessments (like my formative assessment design proposal for VPA) could help reduce the time / training barriers for teachers to incorporate formative assessment into the teaching practice. At the very least, new curriculum initiatives aligned with common core standards SHOULD BE REQUIRED to incorporate formative-assessments. Unfortunately on PARCC is. "Of the two assessment consortia, the Partnership for the Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, or PARCC, is not developing formative-assessment resources as part of its federal grant. The other consortium, known as SMARTER Balanced, is."
Kasthuri Gopalaratnam

Geoffrey Canada of Harlem Children's Zone, on Remembering Basics - NYTimes.com - 2 views

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    Words of wisdom from a leader in education.
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    I like this guy; he's wise and practical -- a great combination
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    I agree, great and rare combination. I like what he says about learning from others and setting yourself a benchmark based on a high performance. That is a good thing for anybody to learn and practice.
Maung Nyeu

12/21/2011 - Higher Education Commission Launches Online Learning - Student Scene - Cha... - 3 views

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    Online courses are not students only, they are for teachers too. Tennessee offers free online courses to help educators maximize their knowledge of balanced assessment systems, including formative instructional practices, value-added progress measures and effective strategies to improve teaching and learning. Since Fall 2010, more than 270,000 courses have been completed throughout Tennessee by 42,000 educators.
Kasthuri Gopalaratnam

What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's School Success - Anu Partanen - National -... - 3 views

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    "Yet one of the most significant things Sahlberg said passed practically unnoticed. "Oh," he mentioned at one point, "and there are no private schools in Finland." This notion may seem difficult for an American to digest, but it's true. Only a small number of independent schools exist in Finland, and even they are all publicly financed. None is allowed to charge tuition fees. There are no private universities, either. This means that practically every person in Finland attends public school, whether for pre-K or a Ph.D."
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    Equity in teaching education would be a good start.
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    I love this quote, too: 'As for accountability of teachers and administrators, Sahlberg shrugs. "There's no word for accountability in Finnish," he later told an audience at the Teachers College of Columbia University. "Accountability is something that is left when responsibility has been subtracted."' American's are SO good at blaming everything and everyone ELSE for what is wrong with education in this country. Good for Sahlberg. I might just have to move my family to Finland!
Maung Nyeu

Overcoming the Divide Between Curriculum and Technology Leaders | EdTech Magazine - 3 views

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    Communication and ­collaboration between curriculum and technology leaders are necessary to impact teaching and learning. Educators are knowledgeable about ­research on effective ­instructional ­strategies while tech leaders are familiar with educational technology trends and emerging applications and mobile devices. Together, these leaders can ­develop a common language that aligns ­evidence-based instructional practices.
Maung Nyeu

MediaShift . 8 Lessons in the Art of Teaching Journalism Online | PBS - 1 views

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    Best practices and lessons learned for online learning.
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