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Andrea Bush

The Anatomy of an Education-Technology Startup - 0 views

www.edweek.org/...incubator-snapshot.html

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  • Janet Dykstra on 17 Sep 12
     
    Ed Week reviews the 11 companies in Imagine K12 -"the only startup incubator program specifically for K-12 education technology"
  • Andrea Bush on 28 Oct 12
     
    I love the entrepreneurial spirit, and this article shows how it can be applied to both improving education and making a profit at the same time.
Heather French

Steve Ballmer and Microsoft announce Youth Spark - 0 views

www.microsoft.com/...youthspark

Emerging Technology educational_technology online youth spark Microsoft

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  • Heather French on 21 Sep 12
     
    Quoting directly from the company-wide email (to Microsoft) "Microsoft YouthSpark is a new companywide initiative that will create opportunities for 300 million young people around the world over the next three years. We know young people everywhere face real challenges....Yet, this is more than philanthropy. We are mobilizing the company. From Partners-in-Learning to Office365 for EDU to Skype in the Classroom, we're marshaling a wide range of company's programs to support youth. As Steve said this morning, "We believe that working with our partners we can help empower young people to change their world, and we are committed to using our technology, talent, time and resources to do that."" (Personal Communication)
Matthew Ong

5 myths about education, technology and 21st century skills - 1 views

www.waldenu.edu/...ry_-_Dispelling_Five_Myths.pdf

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  • Matthew Ong on 18 Sep 12
     
    An interesting article that debunks certain myths like administrators and teachers having a shared understanding of technology and 21st century skills and that teachers feel prepared to use technology or teach 21st century skills after their preservice training.
Simon Rodberg

Conversation with Rocketship CEO - leading blended learning schools - 2 views

www.edexcellence.net/company-it-keeps-preston-smith

blended learning educational_technology

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  • Simon Rodberg on 14 Sep 13
     
    Interesting conversation with the CEO of Rocketship, a blended-learning-focused charter school organization. "We should all focus on personalized learning and obsessing daily with how we ensure our students are spending large chunks of their day (80%+) in their optimal zone of learning-meaning exactly at their level. I would bet that students in countries that lead the world in achievement spend maybe 25-40% of their time in these optimal zones. Technology is an incredible tool in this work as there are online programs that immediately allow a student to access content in their optimal zone. Again-technology is not the complete answer, but it is definitely part of the solution."
Simon Rodberg

OPINION: Why Chromebooks Should Rule The School - 2 views

www.edsurge.com/...mebooks-should-rule-the-school

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  • Simon Rodberg on 25 Sep 13
     
    How should schools choose devices to run all the great programs we're talking about? Despite the title, this article includes criteria as well as the author's own answer.
Kasthuri Gopalaratnam

Software Circle & EdTech Group Event: The Future of MOOCs: Prospects and Pitfalls - the... - 0 views

www.mitforumcambridge.org/...s-and-pitfalls-mit-perspective

MOOC technology education digital learning

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  • Kasthuri Gopalaratnam on 23 Sep 13
     
    September 26, 2013: 6:00pm - 8:00pm A Fireside Chat with MIT and edX leaders, Sanjay Sarma, Director, Office of Digital Learning, MIT and Kathy Pugh, Vice President of Academics, edX Registration and refreshments: 6:00-6:30pm Program 6:30-8:00pm Moderated by Nish Sonwalkar, Editor-in-Chief, MOOC FORUM Journal The Educational Technology field is exploding with innovation, and in response the MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge brings you a look at this field with two experts from MIT.
Chris Dede

EdTech Leaders OnlineA case study of scalable online professional development programs ... - 2 views

www.christenseninstitute.org/...edtech-leaders-online

online teacher professional development ETLO scale

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  • Chris Dede on 29 Oct 13
     
    ETLO is a very successful model of scaling up
Josh Tappan

Integrating Design Thinking into K-12 Education - 4 views

dschool.stanford.edu/...stories.php

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  • Josh Tappan on 12 Oct 13
     
    Details some efforts, challenges, and successes to bringing design thinking and creativity into K-12 education. Reminded me of some of the programs presented by the CEEO in class last Monday
Ryan Klinger

Parents Press for Attention to Programs for Gifted Students - 1 views

www.edweek.org/...06giftedparents_ep.h33.html

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  • Ryan Klinger on 08 Oct 13
     
    An article sort of centered around the notion for more "maker-movement" centers for gifted students.
Josh Tappan

Dash - Learn to code website - 0 views

dash.generalassemb.ly

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shared by Josh Tappan on 20 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • Josh Tappan on 20 Oct 13
     
    Newly launched Dash website (similar to Code Academy, code.org, lynda.com) to teach coding, uses project based learning to teach HTML, CSS, Javascript. Haven't tried it yet but for those of you interested in learning to code/evaluating code-learning platforms, here's another resource.
Maria Bueno

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

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

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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!
Kasthuri Gopalaratnam

A New Scan For 3D Printing And Augmented Reality - 0 views

www.forbes.com/...printing-and-augmented-reality

3D Printing Scanner Augmented Reality

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  • Kasthuri Gopalaratnam on 22 Oct 13
     
    The developer kit would especially be helpful to developers planning on using the device to develop augmented reality applications. Typically, augmented reality refers to an enhanced (and, sometimes, fantastic) vision of reality.
  • Josh Tappan on 22 Oct 13
     
    This would also be very powerful for engineering applications, virtually "adding" prototypes from solidworks or 3D modeling programs to see their impact on objects or spaces. I also see a cool educational aspect where students could build theoretical bridges, building models, or art installations to see how they would impact the real space they might inhabit.
Mirza Ramic

Should Coding be the "New Foreign Language" Requirement? | Edutopia - 1 views

www.edutopia.org/...guage-requirement-helen-mowers

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  • Mirza Ramic on 04 Nov 13
     
    This reflects on our discussion from earlier in the semester on the merits of teaching coding in schools.
Chris Dede

Education, psychology and technology: Games lessons | The Economist - 1 views

www.economist.com/...displayStory.cfm

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  • Chris Dede on 04 Sep 09
     
    a school with a curriculum based on videogames
  • Benjamin Berte on 06 Sep 09
     
    While I applaud the concept of their program, I believe it tips the scale too far in the direction of technology. Unless the students plan to solely work in a digital world the removal of a physical classroom and interaction will greatly affect their social development. For example, physics lab was partially about the smell of the chemicals, the viewing of the wave pools, the teamwork and the mistakes that were real life.
Uly Lalunio

Innovative math program boosts scores at O.C. schools -- latimes.com - 0 views

www.latimes.com/...na16-2009sep16,0,3422798.story

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  • Uly Lalunio on 20 Sep 09
     
    Using computer games as well as interactive visuals in the classroom, students are taught fractions, equations, comparisons and other math processes. Later, they learn the vocabulary and symbols that go with the subject matter. It's a high-tech version of the paper money and metal coins that instructors have long used to teach about currency.
Jennifer Hern

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

thejournal.com/...21st-Century-Teaching.aspx

shared by Jennifer Hern on 10 Sep 09 - Cached
  • 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.
Uche Amaechi

Roca : Strategy - 1 views

www.rocainc.org/strategy.php

shared by Uche Amaechi on 27 Aug 09 - Cached
  • 1) Pre-contemplation: The young person is not thinking about or has explicitly rejected change; 2) Contemplation: The young person is now thinking about change and perhaps seeks out a youth worker or some other program; she or he may respond to some suggestions from staff; 3) Planning: The young person and case manager talk about what it would take to make change happen and what the young person wants for the future; 4) Action: The young person begins to take positive steps toward improving his or her life through practice (trial and error) in the context of a plan that has been discussed in detail between the young person and case manager; and, 5) Sustaining: Through continuing staff support during difficult times and new cooperative efforts, the young person is able to achieve concrete improvements in his or her life, move demonstrably toward achieving a self-sustaining lifestyle, and is living in safety.
    • Uche Amaechi
      Uche Amaechi on 27 Aug 09
       
      Precontemplation Contemplation Planning Action (Reflection) Sustaining
Xavier Rozas

Outdoor AR Software Download | Scheller Teacher Education Program - 0 views

education.mit.edu/...OutdoorARSoftware

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  • Xavier Rozas on 13 Sep 09
     
    Start building your own AR experience with this download. I have not tried as I am a Mac
  • Jennifer Hern on 13 Sep 09
     
    Dang! I have a Mac, too. Anyone in class with a PC desktop/laptop and handheld? I'd love to try it out. Let me know.
Garron Hillaire

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

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

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  • "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
Devon Dickau

Harrisburg University Plans Week-Long Social Media Blackout - 0 views

www.huffingtonpost.com/...university-pla_1_n_716197.html

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shared by Devon Dickau on 17 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • A Pennsylvania college is requiring students to power down and unplug from social media -- for an entire week.
    • Devon Dickau
      Devon Dickau on 17 Sep 10
       
      Interesting social experiment
  • He decided to conduct an experiment using a convenient sample: Harrisburg's student body
    • Devon Dickau
      Devon Dickau on 17 Sep 10
       
      What do you think about using a college student body for this type of experimentation? Do the students feel violated?
  • Devon Dickau on 17 Sep 10
     
    What are the implications of being "off the grid" in terms of the Internet while in college? How dependent are we on this technology?
  • Margaret O'Connell on 19 Sep 10
     
    I saw some (bad) reality tv program about a family who did this and the wonders it resulted in for this family's quality of life ... I like this idea, especially coupled with discussion afterward among the participants who can, perhaps, realize what all the time spent in Facebook, Twitter, texting, etc. takes away from ....
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