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Hamilton Project (i.e. Brookings Institute?) to Publish Paper on Technology in K-12 - 0 views

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shared by Cole Shaw on 21 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Cole Shaw on 21 Sep 12
     
    A set of workshops in DC about transformations in education. Papers about the topics will be released next week (Sept 27), for those of us who can't be in DC. One paper will be about "Harnessing Technology to Improve K-12 Education," so it will be interesting to see what the authors say. Though both authors are business school professors, so I'm not sure how they got chosen to write on this topic? Must be a good business to be in Ed Tech right now...
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Online Class Aims to Earn Millions (Wall Street Journal) - 0 views

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shared by Josh Tappan on 09 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • Josh Tappan on 09 Sep 13
     
    UT-Austin professors pilot "Synchronous Massive Online Class" (SMOC)
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Researchers given funding to put MOOCs under microscope - 0 views

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shared by Trung Tran on 17 Nov 13 - No Cached
  • Trung Tran on 17 Nov 13
     
    Gates Foundation is now rolling out funding for researchers to produce peer-reviewed quality studies on MOOCs. It looks like professors around the world (as far as down south in Australia) are keen to start working on this new tech trend in education.
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Getting to Scale with Educational Practice - 1 views

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  • Simon Rodberg on 04 Nov 13
     
    From 1996 (pre-technology?) - a famed HGSE professor, Richard Elmore, on why education struggles with scale, and what to do about it.
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cMOOCs and xMOOCs - key differences - 2 views

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shared by Ryan Klinger on 23 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • Ryan Klinger on 23 Oct 13
     
    A good overview of the two different pedagogies behind MOOCs.
  • Josh Tappan on 25 Oct 13
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THE QUEST for Innovation - Join THE QUEST! - 0 views

www.questforinnovation.com
shared by Parisa Rouhani on 19 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Participating teams will compete in a high-tech, city-wide scavenger hunt that will take place through downtown Boston on the afternoon of Friday, October 9th.
  • The hunt will be played entirely over your mobile device (yes, any phone can play). Our unique gameboard will challenge your wits, skills and stamina as you trek across the city, deciphering clues and solving challenges.
  • Each company fielding a team must represent themselves with a senior member of the organization.
  • Chris Johnson on 19 Sep 09
     
    This sounds interesting. An interactive game right here in Boston. Would you consider this augmented reality? Anyone want to get a group together and play? It says we "must represent [ourselves] with a senior member of the organization." Would you be interested, professor/TFs? (Post a reply to this link if you do and send me an email just in case - jhnsn.c@gmail.com)
  • Parisa Rouhani on 19 Sep 09
     
    this sounds like it will be fun!
  • Benjamin Berte on 19 Sep 09
     
    That would be a fun adventure. Keep me posted.
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IEEE Spectrum: Outsourcing's Education Gap - 0 views

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shared by Margaret O'Connell on 06 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Lower-tier colleges and universities in both India and China suffer from passive learning styles. Design and project work is typically absent, the curricula do not focus on problem solving or building project management and communication skills, and there are no internships or other work experience. ”Engineering education is much more theoretically oriented, and students don’t really get this fully blended education that allows them to think outside the box,” says Denis Simon, a professor at the Pennsylvania State University School of International Affairs, who focuses on technology and education in China. ”They haven’t had the interaction with real live engineering that grads here have, so they’re very green when they come into the workplace.”
  • The main problem, though, is the sheer mass of students enrolled in engineering classes. ”When you have 100 students per teacher, you really can’t get hands-on and be interactive,” he says.
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Testing, the Chinese Way - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by Eric Kattwinkel on 15 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • In Asia, such a march of tests for young children was regarded as normal, and not evil or particularly anxiety provoking.
  • Professor Cizek, who started his career as a second-grade teacher, said the prevailing philosophy of offering young children unconditional praise and support was probably not the best prescription for successful education. “What’s best for kids is frequent testing, where even if they do badly, they can get help and improve and have the satisfaction of doing better,” he said. “Kids don’t get self-esteem by people just telling them they are wonderful.”
  • Eric Kattwinkel on 15 Sep 10
     
    A mother from New York who raised young children in China argues that the high-pressure testing that made them "feel bad" about themselves at the time was a good thing in the long run.
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People Spend 927 Million Hours Per Month Playing Facebook Games - 1 views

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  • Brandon Bentley on 21 Oct 10
     
    Hi Ellen, I think this is an interesting topic. You may be interested in Piskorski's work at HBS. Professor Piskorski's current research examines why and how people use on-line social networks, both in the US and abroad. Using extensive fieldwork and large scale empirical analyses, he constructed theories of social failures and networks as covers which allow us to understand numerous facets of people's on-line behaviors. http://drfd.hbs.edu/fit/public/facultyInfo.do?facInfo=ovr&facId=10663
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India's $35 tablet is here, for real. Called Aakash, costs $60 -- Engadget - 3 views

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  • Bharat Battu on 05 Oct 11
     
    Tying into discussions this week about bringing access to mobile devices to all via non-prohibitive costs, while still reaching a set of bare-minmum technical specs for actual use: India's "$35 tablet" has been a pipedream in the tech blog-o-sphere for awhile now, but it's finally available (though for a price of roughly $60). Still though, as an actual Android color touch tablet, with WiFi and cellular data capability - I'm curious to see how it's received and if it's adopted in any sort of large scale
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  • Bharat Battu on 05 Oct 11
     
    http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jkCXZtzqXX87-pXex2nn23lWFwkw?docId=87163f29232f400d87ba906dc3a93405 A much better article that isn't so 'tech' oriented. Goes into the origin and philosophy of the $35 tablet, and future prospects
  • Bridget Binstock on 08 Oct 11
     
    I had heard months ago that India was creating this, but was not going to offer it commercially - rather, just for its own country. Just like the Little Professor (Prof Dede) calculator, when tablets get this affordable, educational systems can afford classroom sets of them and then use them regularly. But to Prof Dede's point - can they do everything that more expensive tablets can do? Or better yet - do they HAVE to?
  • Bharat Battu on 08 Oct 11
     
    I think this is what they're aiming to do - all classrooms/students across the country having this particular tablet. They won't be able to do everything today's expensive tablets can do, but I think they'll still be able too to do plenty. This $35 tablet's specs are comparable to the mobile devices we had here in the US in 2008/2009. Even back then, we were able to web browse, check email, use social networking (sharing pics and video too), watching streaming online video, and play basic 2D games. But even beyond those basic features, I think this tablet will be able to do more than we expect from something at this price point and basic hardware, for 2 reasons: 1. Wide-spread adoption of a single hardware. If this thing truly does become THE tablet for India's students, it will have such a massive userbase that software developers and designers who create educational software will have to cater to it. They will have to study this tablet and learn the ins-and-outs of its hardware in order to deliver content for it. "Underpowered" hardware is able to deliver experiences well beyond what would normally be expected from it when developers are able to optimize heavily for that particular set of components. This is why software for Apple's iPhone and iPad, and games for video game consoles (xbox, PS3, wii) are so polished. For the consoles especially, all the users have the same exact hardware, with the same features and components. Developers are able to create software that is very specialized for that hardware- opposed to spending their resources and time making sure the software works on a wide variety of hardware (like in the PC world). With this development style in mind, and with a fixed hardware model remaining widely used in the market for many years- the resultant software is very polished and goes beyond what users expect from it. This is why today's game consoles, which have been around since 2005/6, produce visuals that are still really impressive and sta
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Online education expands for U.S. need, awaits innovation - USATODAY.com - 1 views

www.usatoday.com/...2009-10-04-online-degree_N.htm online education innovation distance-learning
shared by Jennifer Jocz on 06 Oct 09 - No Cached
  • Proponents of online education cite a recent Department of Education study that concluded course work is better absorbed online than material presented in live classrooms.
  • interest in online education may have plateaued for now, awaiting innovations that will transform the experience beyond screen imitations of the brick-and-mortar curriculum
  • Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen predicted half of kindergarten through high school students will attend school online within the next decade.
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Education Week: Twitter Lessons in 140 Characters or Less - 1 views

www.edweek.org/...08twitter_ep.h29.html disruptive innovation distance learning educational technologies
shared by Xavier Rozas on 25 Oct 09 - Cached
  • “It’s not a research-based tool,” said Daniel T. Willingham, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, in Charlottesville. “The most important thing to remember is that we have no idea what impact these tools have on learning, and it will take a decade to answer that question.”
  • A few studies have found some positive correlations between text-messaging aptitude and literacy. Research on gaming and educational multimedia programs have also shown some positive impact on learning. But few scientific experiments can show a direct link between the use of such technology and student achievement.
  • “The medium is not enough,” he added. “People talk about the vital importance of Web 2.0 and 3.0, and that kids have got to acquire those skills. But we can’t all just be contributing to wikis and tweeting each other. Somebody’s got to create
  • Xavier Rozas on 25 Oct 09
     
    Good article that plainly states, Web 2.0 and 3.0 are tools that if used properly can engage and effect teaching and learning beyond traditional classroom spaces.
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WatchKnow - Videos for kids to learn from. Organized. - 3 views

www.watchknow.org web2.0 video education learning educational_technology
shared by Chris Johnson on 04 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Chris Johnson on 04 Nov 09
     
    This is a website that allows users to find videos from which children (3-18) can learn. All videos are hosted by other sites like YouTube, but content is approved and moderated separately. Comments and discussions are separate from the comments on the original post (i.e. WatchKnow comments do not get added to YouTube and YouTube comments do not appear on WatchKnow). There is heavy emphasis on transparent, widespread monitoring of content. This is accomplished in ways very reminiscent of Wikipedia's moderation methods. Right now, the site has a good number of videos, but lacks a rich community of active users. This means that it is harder to locate quality videos since few users have rated and discussed content.
  • Chris Johnson on 04 Nov 09
     
    This website is very similar to an idea I've been brewing for a while (though I believe this site is missing some of the more promising features). I was pleasantly surprised to see professor Dede's name on the Advisory Committee.
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News: Tweeting in Class - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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shared by Jennifer Jocz on 05 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Suddenly, I’m not just the one at the front just dispensing everything, and the students aren’t just sort of milling about doing their thing — we’ve actually got a team of people working together. And Twitter is the glue that holds the team together.”
  • It’s also a data-gathering resource. Live discussion threads, Campbell noted, give professors loads of data on the previously mysterious question of what exactly is going on inside the heads of students during a lecture. No longer is a student’s ability to participate in classroom discussions contingent upon whether he is willing to raise his hand and has the good fortune to be called on, he said.
  • Jennifer Jocz on 05 Nov 09
     
    Discusses some pros and cons of using twitter in the classroom
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Enrollment in Online Courses Increases at the Highest Rate Ever - 2 views

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shared by Jennifer Lavalle on 12 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Jennifer Lavalle on 12 Oct 11
     
    For those of you in Professor Wiske's class, this makes our course work all the more relevant. For the purposes of this class, what technologies are effective in providing the tools for teachers and students to engage in quality online education? Certainly a question that, based on these numbers, is only going to grow more complex with time...
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Facebook's Impact on Student Grades - 0 views

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shared by Jennifer Lavalle on 24 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Jennifer Lavalle on 24 Oct 11
     
    Interesting study for how students use facebook, and how that might affect academic performance. Those who used facebook to post statuses did worse academically then those who used it to share links/comment on others' links etc. Obviously, self-reporting of facebook use is limiting, as well as the myriad of other factors that influence academic performance. Still, something to look for when it gets published in the journal of Computers in Human Behavior. "How does Facebook activity affect a student's grades? Reynol Junco, a professor at Lock Haven University in Pennsylvania, recently set out to determine exactly that. Mr. Junco assembled a sample of nearly 2,000 college students who self-reported details of their Facebook use: not just total time spent on the social networking site, but specific actions taken such as commenting, chatting, uploading photos or seeing what others are doing - "lurking," as Mr. Junco calls it."
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Augmented Reality App Translates Street Signs Instantly - 2 views

www.wired.com/...nslates-street-signs-instantly augmented reality Emerging Technology
shared by Marium Afzal on 13 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Marium Afzal on 13 Oct 11
     
    Going back to our discussions on augmented reality, here's an app that takes us a step closer to the kind of future that was shown in a video in one of Professor Dede's presentations - instant translation!
  • Bridget Binstock on 15 Oct 11
     
    I wonder if this type of technology might be augmented to "replace" physical QR codes and instead, if you hold up your phone to a building name plaque (e.g.Empire State Building) - could you get statistical/historical data associated with just the name text?
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