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Rupangi Sharma

8 Great Education and Instructional Technology Infographics - 1 views

www.emergingedtech.com/...tional-technology-infographics

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shared by Rupangi Sharma on 05 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Rupangi Sharma on 05 Sep 12
     
    There's been a surge in the number of Infographics published this year that focus on instructional technologies and how they are evolving and being used.
Bridget Binstock

Apple Announces next generation of textbooks - 1 views

abcnews.go.com/...s-author-for-digital-textbooks

technology education Emerging Technology online apple ibook ipad

shared by Bridget Binstock on 19 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • Bridget Binstock on 19 Jan 12
     
    Check out how Apple partnered with textbook publishers to revolutionize the education space with this new model. Just announced today!
Kasthuri Gopalaratnam

Apple Introduces Tools to (Someday) Supplant Print Textbooks - NYTimes.com - 1 views

bits.blogs.nytimes.com/...ls-tools-for-digital-textbooks

shared by Kasthuri Gopalaratnam on 20 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • Kasthuri Gopalaratnam on 20 Jan 12
     
    "Apple said electronic high school textbooks from its initial publishing partners, including Pearson, McGraw-Hill and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, would cost $15 or less. That is much cheaper than print textbooks, some of which can cost over $100". woo hoo!
  • Bridget Binstock on 20 Jan 12
     
    I can explain the business model to you if you'd like that shows how the $15 price point is feasible in what turns out to be an almost $40 million dollar textbook investment! Just let me know!
  • Kasthuri Gopalaratnam on 20 Jan 12
     
    I would be definitely interested :-)
Bridget Binstock

Classroom iPad use encourages innovation, reading with ease - 2 views

www.news.wisc.edu/20029

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shared by Bridget Binstock on 17 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • Bridget Binstock on 17 Nov 11
     
    Disruptive or Transformative? Katy Culver, a faculty associate at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, uses the iPad in her magazine publishing class, and says overall, it has been a positive experience in her class since it has not made significant changes to the syllabus. New bottle, old wine?
Andrea Bush

More Schools Embrace the iPad as a Learning Tool - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...05tablets.html

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  • Andrea Bush on 22 Sep 12
     
    This New York Times article speaks to a growing number of schools across the nation embracing the iPad as the latest tool to teach. Given that it was published last year, do you feel like the concerns or objections raised are still relevant? Have some been debunked? Is it too early to tell?
Cole Shaw

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

www.hamiltonproject.org/..._achievement_in_k-12_education

educational_technology Brookings Institute K-12

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...
Cole Shaw

Program Director for Ed Tech and Instructional Design warns against "drinking the Ed Te... - 0 views

blogs.edweek.org/...in_a_column_in_this.html

NETP educational_technology

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  • Cole Shaw on 21 Sep 12
     
    Interesting article about not just to believe everything you read about Ed Tech transforming the classroom. I think the report (and Richard Rose, the Program Director) does a pretty good job of basically warning educators not to believe all the results they see published about Ed Tech. And that this actually aligns with the vision in the NETP (try things in small zones before scaling up).
Jeffrey Siegel

Rafter CEO: The innovation curve hasn't hit education yet - 0 views

gigaom.com/...atforms-for-education-mobilize

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shared by Jeffrey Siegel on 22 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Jeffrey Siegel on 22 Sep 12
     
    What education really needs is not more digitized textbooks, but open platforms, where smaller innovators can compete with big publishers.
Harvey Shaw

The New MakerBot Replicator Might Just Change Your World - 0 views

www.good.is/...-class-improved-with-makerbots

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shared by Harvey Shaw on 20 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Harvey Shaw on 20 Sep 12
     
    MakerBot Replicators are 3-D publishers - feed it a 3-D drawing, and it will build it. Could these tools help re-imagine arts classes (fine and industrial) with a renewed focus on design?
Jenny Reuter

biNu Opens Its Feature Phone Platform To Third Party Apps, Starting With Romance Publis... - 1 views

techcrunch.com/...binu-partners-with-harlequin

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  • Jenny Reuter on 17 Sep 13
     
    BiNu makes feature phones a little smarter.
  • Laura Stankiewicz on 18 Sep 13
     
    I'm so excited to see biNu on here, Jenny! I wrote a case study about their technology for a class last year and was blown away how their model of cloud computing could essentially turn "dumb" feature phones into smart phones - and for a fraction of the cost. They've changed their marketing approach and business model substantially since I wrote the case study last fall, but I still see a lot of potential for this type of tech to reach hitherto-unconnected people in the developing world who were still using phones and 2G networks. So interesting, thanks for posting!
Nick Siewert

A Kindle for Every Student - US News and World Report - 0 views

www.usnews.com/...-kindle-for-every-student.html

E-textbook K-12 reading hardware publishing

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  • Nick Siewert on 05 Sep 09
     
    Pros and cons of the Kindle in K-12 education. Necessity or "Whack-a-Mole"?
Chris Johnson

Biology Lab Escape ("Escape the room" type flash game) - 0 views

www.escapetheroomgames.net/ay-11710-biologylabescape.html

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shared by Chris Johnson on 08 Sep 09 - Cached
    • Chris Johnson
      Chris Johnson on 08 Sep 09
       
      Try playing through this "escape the room" type flash game. You have to conduct an experiment as part of the solution. In this case the experiment is trivial and its validity is questionable, but couldn't we create a similar game as a performance assessment? If you get stuck, you can click "walkthrough" for help (including a video of the solution). Yes, I know there are many advertisements.
    • Xavier Rozas
      Xavier Rozas on 09 Sep 09
       
      Chris don't you find the spastic picking up and inspecting of random artifacts laying around the castle, maze, forest, etc..hoping for a dialogue box to blurt out '..Just a regular newspaper...But what's this, a secret code puzzle left unfinished?!' is a flat experience. Don't get me wrong, I love easter eggs, but the hunt is a pain in clunky 2D.
  • Chris Johnson on 08 Sep 09
     
    Consider the possibilities for a performance assessment while playing through this simple "escape the room" game. The validity of the experiment involved in the solution is questionable.
  • Lindsay Bellino on 08 Sep 09
     
    Escape games are very big in the publishing industry right now due mostly to their inquiry based assessment and the low development cost compared to highly immersive first-person games. The biology lab escape is one of the better ones that I've seen out there. Thanks Chris!
  • anonymous on 09 Sep 09
     
    I played for about 8 minutes and then grew tired of the game. I am curious how assessors would have graded my performance. I found the easier way to "escape the room" was to close the browser window.
Jennifer Jocz

Books Go 3-D Starting with Ology Series in U.K. - 9/24/2009 12:10:00 PM - Publishers We... - 1 views

www.publishersweekly.com/...CA6698612.html

augmented reality reading

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  • Jennifer Jocz on 26 Sep 09
     
    merging augmented reality with reading
Garron Hillaire

California testing iPads as algebra textbooks - The Hill's Hillicon Valley - 4 views

thehill.com/...ing-ipads-as-algebra-textbooks

ipads california technology digital publishing

shared by Garron Hillaire on 08 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • A pilot project in four California school districts will replace 400 students' eighth-grade algebra textbooks with Apple iPads
  • "This is a seminal moment. It marks the fundamental shift from print delivery of curriculum to digital," said John Sipe, vice president of K-12 sales at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
  • Students with iPads will have instant access to more than 400 videos from teaching experts walking them through the concepts and assignments
  • Garron Hillaire on 08 Sep 10
     
    One example of using Ipads instead of math books. There is a brief mention of incorporating video, but the article does not go into detail about the format of the digital text books
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.
Katherine Tarulli

Many U.S. Schools Adding iPads, Trimming Textbooks - 0 views

www.huffingtonpost.com/...ools-adding-ip_0_n_947927.html

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shared by Katherine Tarulli on 04 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Katherine Tarulli on 04 Sep 11
     
    Giving all students in a school district iPads could have some really positive results. Having all textbooks combined on a tablet has the potential not just to aid in convenience, but can also allow for students to access more up to date texts. I think that there is also a lot to be said for the potential of an iPad to help engage students in the classroom.
  • Bridget Binstock on 08 Sep 11
     
    While in theory, the "allow for students to access more up to date texts" is a fantastic purpose for putting content on line and not burning it to a CD or printing the pages, it is the text book adoption laws in each state that publishers battle with every cycle, many of which won't allow for updates or changes to the one they purchase for the length of the adoption.
Uche Amaechi

BYOD - Worst Idea of the 21st Century? : Stager-to-Go - 7 views

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shared by Uche Amaechi on 09 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Allison Browne on 10 Oct 11
     
    Uche, you keep posting stuff I have a problem with- OK I understand that BYOD policies may not be so great but I really believe that familes should shoulder some of the costs for hardware since degredation is such a problem. The schools can have agreements with vendors to provide certain laptops or tablets for a certain price point and they can design their systems to support these items. Parents are expected to purchase backpacks, binders, and school supplies. When parents can't provide these back-to-school supplies, schools cover it. The same should be for computers. Speaking as a middle class parent (refer to above article) I believe this is an important investment in our schools so that they can focus on hardware support and software implementation/ integration.
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  • Bridget Binstock on 10 Oct 11
     
    @Allison and Uche - I am torn. While I initially thought BYOD was a good idea so that schools would have to stop "blaming" their fiscal woes on their inability to integrate emerging technologies into the curriculum, I now have some appreciation with points from this article - especially around "false equivalences" and "enshrining inequities" in light of my own children's "bring your own electronic device" day that took place two weeks ago. As a school wide reward for meeting their Accelerated Reading goal, all students were told they could bring an electronic device to school to "play" with on Friday afternoon. This prompted my kids to call me (Skype) on Thursday night and ask me if I could buy them a DS or a SmartPhone that NIGHT so that they could bring either of those devices to school for the celebration. Now mind you, my kids have access to lap tops, iPad, Smart Phones, Wii games, GameBoy, iPods, Flip camera, digital camera, etc - albeit not their OWN - but still access to them for use (when Mom and Dad are not using them). But apparently, of the devices left that Mom and Dad weren't using, none of them were "cool" enough for this event. That got me wondering if BYOD might have the same effect on our learners making those who don't have the latest and greatest feel bad or less adequate then their friends or classmates who could bring something they deemed as "better?" Allison, your point seems to be that requiring parents to cover the expense of a digital device as a requirement for school is not a bad idea, but I think you are referring to expecting the SAME device to be purchased and used, not myriad devices with various capabilities, features and functions - am I understanding you correctly? And if we did try to mandate parental supply of digital devices, would we have a different kind of fight on our hands because, as consumers, parents might have their own biases around what they deem is the best device of all (not just PC vs MAC or iOS vs Android, but sma
  • Allison Browne on 10 Oct 11
     
    I still believe that a system properly designed could mitigate some of your concerns. In reality, schools can not support any device that a student brings in. They are capable of supporting a certain number and if they build relationships with the vendors to sell those devices that the school is capable of supporting then families will be aware that the school will offer the best deal on the items that are compatible. Every year the school recommends items for back to school supplies. If the laptop could replace all of the binders it might be worth it. There are many factors to consider but the biggest obstacle is that schools maintain such old equipment because of their budget woes. Even when we can purchase the latest and greatest software, the computers can't run it.
  • Erin Sisk on 12 Oct 11
     
    What a great debate you guys are having! One point worth considering is that typically the parents are responsible for purchasing the supplies, while the school is responsible for providing the content (textbooks, workbooks, handouts, worksheets, videos, etc). In the near future these devices may also be the primary sources of content, replacing textbooks altogether. I would hope perhaps funding for textbooks could be transferred to funding for these devices. I would also hope that the price of these devices drops significantly (is the $35 tablet in our future?). Then of course the question of who pays is less important. In my job producing educational video for publishing companies, I spend way too much time dealing with various formats and compatibility problems with browsers, so I'd love to see a future where this becomes more standardized.
Niko Cunningham

Libraries begin to rent out e-books - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...15libraries.html

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  • Niko Cunningham on 15 Oct 09
     
    More fears of publishers who hold the rights to intellectual property. Folks, you think health care is a big debate? Wait until our patent system changes - that will be a gladiator battle with everyone in the world (free and not free) participating... "As digital collections grow, Mr. Sargent said he feared a world in which "pretty soon you're not paying for anything." Partly because of such concerns, Macmillan does not allowits e-books to be offered in public libraries. Simon & Schuster, whose authors include Stephen King and Bob Woodward, has also refrained from distributing its e-books to public libraries. "We have not found a business model that works for us and our authors," said Adam Rothberg, a spokesman."
Shawn Mahoney

Education Week: Twitter Lessons in 140 Characters or Less - 0 views

www.edweek.org/...08twitter_ep.h29.html

Web 2.0 instruction participation

shared by Shawn Mahoney on 24 Oct 09 - Cached
  • shared articles on the separation of church and state, pondered the persistence of racism, and commented on tobacco regulation in Virginia now and during the Colonial period—all in the required Twitter format of 140 or fewer characters
  • He and other teachers first found Twitter valuable for reaching out to colleagues and locating instructional resources
  • short-form communications may have for students’ thinking and learning are not known
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  • Twitter has not caught on among school-age children as quickly or universally as other Web 2.0 tools, such as Facebook or MySpace: Only about 1 percent of the estimated 12 million users in the United States are between the ages of 3 and 17, although young adults are the fastest-growing group of users, according to recent reports.
  • get students engaged in the content and processes of school.
  • “It’s getting kids who aren’t necessarily engaged in class engaged in some sort of conversation.”
  • A recent study, however, renewed concerns about the potential negative impact of the latest technological applications. The study, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found that adults who attempted multiple tasks while using a range of media simultaneously had difficulty processing the information or switching between tasks.
  • Mr. Willingham, who is the author of the new book, Why Don’t Students Like School?: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom.
  • Somebody’s got to create something worth tweeting
  • Shawn Mahoney on 24 Oct 09
     
    Connected to a few class discussions (including one in HT 500 about multitasking)... *potential for greater/more diversity in discussion/participation than in person *what do we mean when we say "multi-task"? *weighty topics/140 characters Somebody's got to create something worth tweeting
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