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Harvey Shaw

What To Test Instead - 0 views

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t561 Emerging Technology education assessment

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  • Harvey Shaw on 16 Sep 12
     
    Great overview on current efforts to improve assessment, particularly the idea of "stealth assessment". Strongly emphasizes the role of technology in building assessments that track the entire problem solving process - and how these tools can evaluate both hard and soft skills. Last sentence nails it: "That's the promise of a better test: By drawing a map that more accurately reflects our world, we may discover far more promising paths to get where we want to go." Chris Dede gets a big shout out!
  • Daniel Melia on 16 Sep 12
     
    I'd say this is the best piece of writing on education and technology for a general-readership that's been posted thus far. (Thanks for tracking it down, Harvey.) It made me think that someone needs to write the education world's version of "Moneyball"--who will be our Billy Beane?
Jeffrey Siegel

Textbooks to iPads--it's not your parents' education - 1 views

www.mercurynews.com/...its-not-your-parents-education

textbooks ipads technology education flipped classroom

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  • Jeffrey Siegel on 18 Sep 12
     
    Related to section on how iPads are currently being used in a California school. making short videos to taking photos of complex formulas displayed on a blackboard for later review. Language students record themselves reciting lessons, and then upload the files to their teachers' drop boxes for critique. And math teachers use iPads to videotape students working through problems, explaining how they arrived at the solution and thereby demonstrating mastery of a lesson.
  • Jeffrey Siegel on 18 Sep 12
     
    Here's the blog from the school's iLab http://hillbrookilab.com/
Kasthuri Gopalaratnam

We know diversity in tech is a problem, but what's the solution? | VentureBeat - 3 views

venturebeat.com/...tech-diversity-solution

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  • Kasthuri Gopalaratnam on 28 Nov 11
     
    "This is our second Sputnik moment. At a time when women hold only 24 percent of STEM jobs and blacks and Hispanics also fare poorly in these fields, we better get this argument about diversity of talent right or else it's going to be a very expensive moment, indeed."
  • Allison Browne on 28 Nov 11
     
    I like the ethic and attiude that this article promotes. I have seen this gap for a long time and I have heard the meritocracy argument as well. The fact is that people who benefit from a system want to believe that they inherently earned their spot due to superior intellect, personality, etc. It is difficult to believe that you are a member of an organization because others feel you belong there and your presence reinforces the establishd culture of power.
Chris McEnroe

How to Rescue Education Reform - NYTimes.com - 2 views

www.nytimes.com/...o-rescue-education-reform.html

shared by Chris McEnroe on 06 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • No Child Left Behind also let states use statistical gimmicks to report performance
  • ” federal financing should be conditioned on truth in advertisin
  • To shed light on equity and cost-effectiveness, states should be required to report school- and district-level spending; the resources students receive should be disclosed, not only their achievement.
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  • efforts to reduce inequities have too often led to onerous and counterproductive micromanagement.
  • it comes to brain science, language acquisition or the impact of computer-assisted tutoring, federal financing for reliable research is essential. 
  • , competitive federal grants that support innovation while providing political cover for school boards, union leaders and others to throw off anachronistic routines.
  • , dictates from Congress turn into gobbledygook as they travel from the Education Department to state education agencies and then to local school districts
  • it’s not surprising that well-intentioned demands for “bold” federal action on school improvement have a history of misfiring. They stifle problem-solving, encourage bureaucratic blame avoidance and often do more harm than good.
  • Chris McEnroe on 06 Dec 11
     
    The headline promises more than the article delivers. It mainly identifies the limited effectiveness that the federal government can have. There are no specific "how to's" here and no mention of technology whatsoever, perhaps because that would be too specific a focus for the scope of the article. These are prominent figures in a prominent publication having a conversation that could have taken place in 1980. How do we change that? The absence of real civic engagement on issues about education is the missing link in education reform. I wonder if we can organize public discourse on the internet more effectively to have formal impact on civic activism and administration.
Allison Browne

Wolf Creek School Embraces BYOD, Puts Pedagogy First - 4 views

www.convergemag.com/...Creek-Public-Schools-BYOD.html

BYOD

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  • Allison Browne on 08 Dec 11
     
    Article from July 2011 that is an example of how to transistion to a BYOD school.
  • Kasthuri Gopalaratnam on 09 Dec 11
     
    I like it that "the district has focused on making sure that technical staff understand the educational goals of the initiative and that educators understand the technical challenges to enabling it". I my previous experience in non-educational settings, whenever the user community and the technology community were aligned and focused on solving a 'business' problem it was likely to lead to a successful conclusion.
Chris McEnroe

Centennial Citizen: News - 4 views

www.ourcoloradonews.com/...5e-11e1-817d-001871e3ce6c.html

shared by Chris McEnroe on 21 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • Technology is best when it enhances and extends human relationships.
  • the “killer app” of 21st-century learning is a good teacher.
  • The problem with these systems is not the technology, but how they are used today.
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  • these powerful tools are swarmed by children and adults who have no formal training for their use
shalani mujer

PC Tech Support Saved the Day - 1 views

I am an owner of a small business office in Lancaster, California. I specialize in SEO, providing services to several people, most of them are in my own locality too. However, there was a day when ...

PC tech support

started by shalani mujer on 10 Nov 11 no follow-up yet
Chris McEnroe

RSA Animate - Language as a Window into Human Nature - YouTube - 0 views

www.youtube.com/watch

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  • Chris McEnroe on 21 Nov 11
     
    This is an RSA I shared with the blog class I teach. I think the event of "shared knowledge" and its effect on groups dynamics is very interesting. The prompt I used is below: Here are the three questions asked by James Surowiecki in the post below. Please consider them and answer one or all three in a comment. What does the blogosphere tell us about what we believe motivates people to do what they do? Do blogs have the possibility of accessing a collective intelligence that has previously remained untapped? What are the potential problems of blogs as we know them?
Maria Bueno

Two Struggling Schools Got Two Different Results With Ed Tech - 2 views

blogs.kqed.org/...-schools-handled-tech-problems

EdTech

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  • Maria Bueno on 17 Oct 13
     
    In the beginning, they had a great environment in the classroom using the online software. Later, as more classrooms/users began using online program simultaneously the network failed. Every school is different!
Simon Rodberg

Why government technology fails so often - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...om-of-healthcaregovs-flop.html

technology business

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  • Simon Rodberg on 25 Oct 13
     
    This is about healthcare.gov / Obamacare, and the federal government, but it's thought-provoking about educational technology, much of which is purchased by government agencies (i.e., school districts). How can school districts avoid these problems? (I'm a pro-government liberal, let's be clear!)
Jennifer Rice

24 Essential Mind Mapping and Brainstorming Tools - 2 views

mashable.com/...mind-mapping-tools

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  • Jennifer Rice on 27 Oct 13
     
    Mind mapping is the process of using visual diagrams to show the relationships between ideas or information. Its popular uses include project planning, collecting and organizing thoughts, brainstorming and presentations - all in order to help solve problems, map out resources and uncover new ideas.
Simon Rodberg

All the problems with tablets in schools - 0 views

www.businessweek.com/...in-schools-what-could-go-wrong

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  • Simon Rodberg on 21 Oct 13
     
    I wouldn't have expected BusinessWeek to not be a cheerleader, but...
Kellie Demmler

Implementing Authentic Tasks in Web-Based Learning Environments (EDUCAUSE Quarterly) |... - 0 views

www.educause.edu/...161831

Authentic learnng

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  • Of course, information is not sufficient for learning. Students must be challenged with authentic tasks that drive the need to use, transform, apply, and reinterpret that information.
  • discuss problems, debate issues, and exchange information regarding task completion
  • Kellie Demmler on 16 Sep 09
     
    The article defines and describes the characteristics of authentic learning.
Uche Amaechi

Importing bookmarks from Delicious - 12 views

As I mentioned earlier, I had difficulty importing my bookmarks from Delicious. I sent in a help request and the issue got fixed (sort of). If you were also having difficulty, just keep trying. App...

import support delicious problems

started by Chris Johnson on 04 Sep 09 1 follow-up, last by Uche Amaechi on 04 Sep 09
Garron Hillaire

BBC News - How good software makes us stupid - 1 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...technology-11263559

brain learning software education google neuroscience

shared by Garron Hillaire on 13 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • "No problem - let me just enter that into my sat-nav…"
  • unless drivers pass a formidable test - called "The Knowledge" - they are not allowed to head out onto the roads in one of the iconic vehicles
  • "The particular part of our brain that stores mental images of space is actually quite enlarged in London cab drivers," explained Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
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  • The key to making us concentrate, Mr Carr suggests, is perhaps to make tasks difficult - a theory which flies in the face of software designers the world over who constantly strive to make their programs easier to use than the competition.
  • Mr Carr says that this simple experiment could suggest that as computer software becomes easier to use, making complicated tasks easier, we risk losing the ability to properly learn something - in effect "short-circuiting" the brain
  • Garron Hillaire on 13 Sep 10
     
    An argument that Good Software design is bad for learning
Jessica O'Brien

Higher Education's Tech Dilemmas - Science and Tech - The Atlantic - 2 views

www.theatlantic.com/...61363

Higher education electronic readers

shared by Jessica O'Brien on 05 Sep 10 - Cached
  • Electronic readers and textbooks, while an interesting concept and potentially lucrative for publishers, so far aren't meeting student needs
  • A host of research over the past decade has shown that even the option to click hyperlinks to related material can create confusion and weaken understanding.
  • The iPad measured at 6.2% lower reading speed than the printed book, whereas the Kindle measured at 10.7% slower than print
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  • Education's real problem with readers is the dismaying fact that mass information technology out of the box was not developed for education.
  • Jessica O'Brien on 05 Sep 10
     
    This article summarizes some research findings that suggest that electronic readers, such as the Kindle and iPad, are still inferior to the printed page and may even worsen student comprehension of material. The most up-to-date information technology seems inadequate for educational and academic needs.
Cameron Paterson

Is it Live or is it Internet? Experimental Estimates of the Effects of Online Instructi... - 2 views

www.nber.org/w16089

e-learning t561

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  • Cameron Paterson on 19 Sep 10
     
    This paper presents the first experimental evidence on the effects of live versus internet media of instruction. Students in a large introductory microeconomics course at a major research university were randomly assigned to live lectures versus watching these same lectures in an internet setting, where all other factors (e.g., instruction, supplemental materials) were the same. Counter to the conclusions drawn by a recent U.S. Department of Education meta-analysis of non-experimental analyses of internet instruction in higher education, we find modest evidence that live-only instruction dominates internet instruction. These results are particularly strong for Hispanic students, male students, and lower-achieving students. We also provide suggestions for future experimentation in other settings.
  • Chris Dede on 19 Sep 10
     
    The authors are very misleading in their claim that this study is the first on live versus internet. There is a huge literature on this topic stretching back decades. The claims about the generalizability of the study are also very suspect.
  • Justin Reich on 20 Sep 10
     
    Chris, I think the authors are claiming it is the first experimental trial where participants were randomly assigned to a treatment or control condition. They contrast their study with the DOE meta-analysis, which I don't think includes experimental studies--at least as experiments are defined within econometrics. My problem with the study is that they are aren't really comparing live vs. internet so much as live vs. recorded video. They are very careful to not take advantage of any of the potential affordances of internet mediated instruction, except broadcasting a lecture, to preserve the "purity" of their experiment. Of course, that's not a terribly interesting experiment. The more interesting experiments, which they deride as "not apples-to-apples," is to compare a traditional lecture format with an online course that takes full advantage of the affordances of the internet. These studies would confound the carefully balanced design of an apples-to-apples comparison, but no serious education technologist thinks we should just record all the lectures and post them...
Devon Dickau

Classroom iPad Programs Get Mixed Response - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Edu... - 0 views

chronicle.com/...27046

higher education education technology college students ipad classroom

shared by Devon Dickau on 21 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • At those early-adopter schools, iPads are competing with MacBooks as the students' go-to gadget for note taking and Web surfing.
  • the iPad's technological limitations—its inability to multitask and print, and its limited storage space—have kept students dependent on their notebooks. "That's the problem with the iPad: It's not an independent device,
  • really excited about the technology but have not been "pushing the capabilities" of the device.
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  • Seton Hill University, which gave iPads to all full-time students, are working with the developers of an e-book app called Inkling to come up with new ways to integrate the iPad into classroom instruction
  • he faculty at Indiana University has formed a 24-member focus group to evaluate iPad-driven teaching strategies.
  • Devon Dickau on 21 Sep 10
     
    What about providing students iPads so that they purchase textbooks on these devices to save resources for both the students and the school? Can we assume that all students will be comfortable using an iPad, or might there be implications for students with learning differences? What about the socioeconomic gap for students who cannot afford a computer to LOAD the books onto their iPads (even if the iPads themselves were provided)?
Devon Dickau

The End of the Textbook as We Know It - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 3 views

chronicle.com/...125044

higher education college students textbooks

shared by Devon Dickau on 26 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • For years observers have predicted a coming wave of e-textbooks. But so far it just hasn't happened. One explanation for the delay is that while music fans were eager to try a new, more portable form of entertainment, students tend to be more conservative when choosing required materials for their studies. For a real disruption in the textbook market, students may have to be forced to change.
  • saying that e-textbooks should be required reading and that colleges should be the ones charging for them
  • radical shift
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  • Here's the new plan: Colleges require students to pay a course-materials fee, which would be used to buy e-books for all of them (whatever text the professor recommends, just as in the old model).
  • they're far cheaper to produce than printed texts
  • publishers could eliminate the used-book market and reduce incentives for students to illegally download copies as well
  • When students pay more for new textbooks than tuition in a year, then something's wrong
  • Tricky issues remain, though. What if a professor wrote the textbook assigned for his or her class? Is it ethical to force students to buy it, even at a reduced rate? And what if students feel they are better off on their own, where they have the option of sharing or borrowing a book at no cost?
  • In music, the Internet reduced album sales as more people bought only the individual songs they wanted. For textbooks, that may mean letting students (or brokers at colleges) buy only the chapters they want. Or only supplementary materials like instructional videos and interactive homework problems, all delivered online. And that really would be the end of the textbook as we know it.
  • P Parson on 31 Oct 10
     
    I would be for this. I could not believe a place so big on recycling (Harvard) murdered so many trees with the printing of course packs. I like this idea if you could get the material from other sources than just the school (say the author or publisher directly or something like Amazon). Otherwise, there is no opportunity for competition or bargaining.
Margaret O'Connell

LilyPad microcontroller's success in welcoming women to electronics - Boing Boing - 0 views

www.boingboing.net/...lilypad-microcontrol.html

MIT STEM female

shared by Margaret O'Connell on 06 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Our experience suggests a different approach, one we call Building New Clubhouses. Instead of trying to fit people into existing engineering cultures, it may be more constructive to try to spark and support new cultures, to build new clubhouses. Our experiences have led us to believe that the problem is not so much that communities are prejudiced or exclusive but that they're limited in breadth--both intellectually and culturally. Some of the most revealing research in diversity in STEM found that women and other minorities don't join STEM communities not because they are intimidated or unqualified but rather because they're simply uninterested in these disciplines. One of our current research goals is thus to question traditional disciplinary boundaries and to expand disciplines to make room for more diverse interests and passions. To show, for example, that it is possible to build complex, innovative, technological artifacts that are colorful, soft, and beautiful. We want to provide alternative pathways to the rich intellectual possibilities of computation and engineering. We hope that our research shows that disciplines can grow both technically and culturally when we re-envision and re-contextualize them. When we build new clubhouses, new, surprising, and valuable things happen. As our findings on shared LilyPad projects seem to support, a new female-dominated electrical engineering/computer science community may emerge.
  • Margaret O'Connell on 06 Oct 10
     
    The fascinating pdf from the researchers at MIT is linked to on Boing Boing. The comments on Boing Boing are also worth glancing at.
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