How is a bad radio station like our public school system | Freakonomics - 2 views
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Diego Vallejos on 04 Jan 12This article talks about the school of one
RISE has helped 280 communities to open preschool learning centers.
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Preschool Comes Alive in Zanzibar | Education Development Center - 0 views
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A recent study showed that grade 1 students who had attended a preschool learning center, such as Kisongoni, scored higher than their counterparts who did not attend preschool. Further, grade 1 students who listened to IRI programs scored 10 percent higher than students in classrooms that didn’t use IRI.
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A look at Radio Instruction for pre-school children in Zanzibar.
Southeastern Researchers Explore Approach to Improve Deaf Education - 0 views
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An article describing the use of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology to help deaf children learn American Sign Language (ASL).
Education Technology: Forum | KQED Public Media for Northern CA - 1 views
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"School life should become more like real life. If school were not such an artificial environment for students -- if they could do the kind of learning that people do outside of the school building in their professions, sometimes in their after-school activities -- if they could connect what they're learning in schools with community issues... you see students beginning to act like scientists, act like writers... That's what we want to see."
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Milton Chen and Tina Barseghian interviewed on KQED's Forum (San Francisco public radio) about using technology and media in the classroom.
The American Diet: 34 Gigabytes a Day - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com - 1 views
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This article is not directly related to education, but it gives you a sense of how much information youth today might be consuming. An average American consumed 34 gigabytes per day in 2008. From the executive summary: 'In 2008, Americans consumed information for about 1.3 trillion hours, an average of almost 12 hours per day. Consumption totaled 3.6 zettabytes and 10,845 trillion words, corresponding to 100,500 words and 34 gigabytes for an average person on an average day. A zettabyte is 10 to the 21st power bytes, a million million gigabytes. These estimates are from an analysis of more than 20 different sources of information, from very old (newspapers and books) to very new (portable computer games, satellite radio, and Internet video). Information at work is not included.'
Online University For All Balances Big Goals, Expensive Realities - WNYC - 1 views
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Through an example of the University of the People (online, tuition-free, non profit university), the article highlights the hardships such organization face to be successful in achieving their vision/mission. Credibility issue for online university issued certificate is also mentioned.
Conference Highlights Importance of Technology in Education | Essential Public Radio - 0 views
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Obama's American job act to spend $944 million for modernization projects for schools in Pennsylvania. Karen Cator, Director of Education Technology for the U.S. Department of Education, says US classrooms are in the midst of transition from print to digital learning environment, that is highly engaging and people focused.
Personalized Learning Radio Documentary - 0 views
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If you like your learning aurally -- this is a good hourlong documentary (yeah, you could read it too, but what's the point?) downloadable as a podcast or playable through the web.
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