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Technology Doesn't Teach, Teachers Teach - 3 views

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shared by Jeffrey Siegel on 07 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Jeffrey Siegel on 07 Sep 12
     
    A nice reminder that throwing tech into a classroom solves nothing without proper teacher training. "That is why our investment in upgrading classrooms needs to focus equally on making sure teachers know how to use digital tools effectively." "the motherboard and the memory chip will never replace the passion and inspiration of a real-life teacher."
  • Cole Shaw on 07 Sep 12
     
    So I think this articles goes along the same lines as the one from Daniel, about "Are Kids Really Motivated by Technology?". Both bring up great points that just technology alone can't solve education--so it's interesting to think about what that means for a lot of the technology-driven initiatives we see now. Khan, digital textbooks, etc., bring in technology to the classroom, but how much do they still depend on teacher proficiency in the classroom? Are they just repackaging traditional education? What about things like Coursera or edX--does interacting with an inspirational and passionate teacher through the Web still positively affect students?
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Rethinking school textbooks - 0 views

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shared by Matthew Ong on 11 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Matthew Ong on 11 Sep 12
     
    Could we see them replacing textbooks in the future?
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Virtual schools are multiplying, but some question their educational value - 1 views

www.washingtonpost.com/...gIQANUzkzN_story.html learning educational_technology online
shared by Diego Vallejos on 29 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • Diego Vallejos on 29 Nov 11
     
    "A Virginia company leading a national movement to replace classrooms with computers - in which children as young as 5 can learn at home at taxpayer expense - is facing a backlash from critics who are questioning its funding, quality and oversight."
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Grading the Digital School - 3 views

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  • Tommie Anthony Henderson on 10 Dec 11
     
    In recent years there has been a major push to equip classrooms with technology, including laptops, overhead projectors, interactive white boards and tablets. It has become big business. But there are questions about whether the investment is paying off. This series explores the push to digitize the American classroom and whether the promises are being fulfilled.
  • Kasthuri Gopalaratnam on 10 Dec 11
     
    This comment from a reader on one of the articles (Inflating the Software Report Card) sums it up rather nicely: "Data-driven, individualized instruction aimed at identifying a student's strengths and weaknesses, is not perfect, nor can it replace great teachers. But it can and does allow gifted students to zoom ahead, average students to keep up, and struggling students to catch up. If we really want math education to become part of the fabric of our kids' lives, not just raising their scores on a standardized test, but helping them become more competent and effective adults, we need to take advantage of all of the technology available".
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Don't Go Back to School - A Handbook - 6 views

www.kickstarter.com/...ol-a-handbook-for-learning-any independent study education learning
shared by Bridget Binstock on 02 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • Bridget Binstock on 02 Dec 11
     
    This was posted by a classmate at the MIT Media Lab and I wanted to get other educator's feedback on this premise. Almost laughable...
  • Chris McEnroe on 04 Dec 11
     
    As with nature, learners who are skilled, motivated, and talented will find a way. Unfortunately, it's the rare employer who will hire someone just because she is smart and knows a lot. The degree is the necessary but insufficient condition if you're after a job. If you're not, you've probably already figured out the strategies in this book. I am totally using this site to fund the writing of my next novel.
  • Billie Fitzpatrick on 04 Dec 11
     
    I think Kiki has a naive and idealistic view of how one "educates oneself" -- yes, it's possible to figure out the "tricks" but that is no replacement for the engagement and learning that occurs in a learning community.
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Online Learning, Personalized - 4 views

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  • anonymous on 07 Dec 11
     
    The New York Times takes on Khan Academy
  • Kasthuri Gopalaratnam on 07 Dec 11
     
    I am getting a bit tired of the 'either/or' scenarios painted by some. Thankfully, some teachers like Ms.Tavenner seem to realize that they can use technology in a useful way to teach effectively. "Ms. Tavenner says she believes that computers cannot replace teachers. But the computer, she recognizes, can do some things a teacher cannot. It can offer personal feedback to a whole room of students as they work. And it can give the teacher additional class time to do more creative and customized teaching."
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The Mackinac Center: Outdated thinking stands in the way of online learning | Detroit F... - 3 views

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shared by Maung Nyeu on 28 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • Maung Nyeu on 28 Nov 11
     
    In the US, 250000 students are enrolled in full-time public virtual schools in 30 states, according to Susan Patrick of the International Association for K-12 Online Learning, a trade association. Although that's just a fraction of the country's 50 million students, it has grown 30% each year. Some schools in Michigan already shown the advantage of digital learning.
  • Stephen Bresnick on 28 Nov 11
     
    This is an interesting article. I am just concerned that it is not unbiased or driven by an agenda other than improving education. I found this information about the Mackinac Center online: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/mackinac-center-public-policy I am starting to realize that a lot of the technology in schools rhetoric is driven by corporate and political interests, and as the industry becomes ever more profitable, I'm worried that companies are going to jump in and try to influence policy, rushing through the movement toward the wrong kind of technology in schools- i.e. sacking half of the teaching staff and replacing them with cheap computers. I think one of our most important jobs as Harvard TIE students is to education the public about the right ways to adapt technology in the classroom, and the important role that teachers will continue to play in this movement.
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1-to-1 Computing: Turning Around School Technology - 6 views

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shared by Jaclyn Ruszala on 07 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • Bridget Binstock on 07 Dec 11
     
    This article explains why the district chose laptops over tablet and how the community is helping to turn the schools around.
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  • Allison Browne on 08 Dec 11
     
    This is a very throrough article.If replaceing computers every 4 years and maintaining them is only 4% of the budget, I wonder what all the resistence is to schools maintaining computers. Is 4% still too much? Is 4% specific to this Alabama district? Also, I felt individualized instruction for foreign language would be the best way to transition a school towards networked individualized learning in a school environment. It's silly that everyone in elementary schools has to take the same language simply because there is only one foreign language teacher. Instead of a Spanish teacher you would need to hire multi-lingual specialists who are able to monitor langauge acquisition. Cool future!
  • Kasthuri Gopalaratnam on 09 Dec 11
     
    "The teachers that were involved said that if every kid had their own computer, we could do amazing things". It would be interesting to know if the teachers presented some concrete ideas of 'amazing things'. It would also be interesting to know whether they have a bank of spare laptops to loan to the students while the defective ones are getting fixed. I have a feeling that in the not-so-distant future the choice between a tablet and a computer may become a moot point. The hardware that powers a MacBook Air and iPad is very similar. We have laptops that double as tablets and tablets that are paired with a keyboard to be used as a laptop. Eventually these two will merge.
  • Billie Fitzpatrick on 19 Dec 11
     
    Great overview of the issues -- I agree with Kasthuri -- I think the issue will become moot
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Startups Aim to Bring Education Industry Into 21st Century | Fox Small Business Center - 5 views

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  • Chris McEnroe on 07 Jan 12
     
    I was intrigued by Howard Gardner's comment at the end of his talk when he (to paraphrase) said that he thought "education" as we know it is coming to an end and being replaced by learning. That's the conclusion I have been straying to as a result of my coursework this past semester. Education cannot respond to innovations the way businesses do.
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Parents of Sippican and Old Rochester Regional Schools - 0 views

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shared by Chris McEnroe on 10 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • Chris McEnroe on 10 Nov 11
     
    This is a Facebook page started by parents at our local Elementary school about school.
  • Chris McEnroe on 10 Nov 11
     
    Much of the conversation seems reasonable enough but it will be interesting to see how adults can model public conversation. I'm not comfortable with having adult conversation displayed for kids within the school environment. I think that this is the equivalent of parents fighting in front of their children. Kids don't process it in a healthy manner and adults who do it I think do so for their own convenience and at the peril of kids. I think if adult in this community can be disciplined in their comments and stick strictly to logistical information with the understanding that kids are watching (FB will never replace parent oversight), it may be a useful tool. I also think the only way teachers can influence this page is by jumping on and using it to communicate because it seems to me that is the real "ask" in establishing the page.
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What would you expect the point of view of McGraw-Hill's chief digital officer to be? - 0 views

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shared by Simon Rodberg on 06 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • Simon Rodberg on 06 Sep 13
     
    I'm sharing this more for an example of author bias & incentives in writing about edtech, than because I think he's right: he doesn't think tech will replace teachers at all. (Keep in mind who his customers are.)
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The King of MOOCs Abdicates the Throne - 3 views

www.slate.com/...cessful_for_most_students.html MOOC education technology learning educational_technology online
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  • Harley Chang on 21 Nov 13
     
    Sebastian Thrun, CEO of Udacity, has openly admitted that his company's MOOC courses are a lousy replacement for actual university class and instead will be taking his company to focus more on corporate training. I personally will reserve further judgement until after I finish the readings for next week.
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  • Grif Peterson on 21 Nov 13
     
    I posted this article in G+ a day or two ago. Some of the better commentary surrounding this article below. Tressie McMillan Cottom: "Thrun says it wasn't a failure. It was a lesson. But for the students who invested time and tuition in an experiment foisted on them by the of stewards public highered trusts, failure is a lesson they didn't need." Rebecca Schuman: "Thrun blames neither the corporatization of the university nor the MOOC's use of unqualified "student mentors" in assessment. Instead, he blames the students themselves for being so poor." Stephen Downes: "I think that what amuses me most about the reaction to the Thrun story is the glowing descriptions of him have only intensified. "The King of MOOCs." "The Genius Godfather of MOOCs." Really now. As I and the many other people working toward the same end have pointed out repeatedly, the signal change in MOOCs is openess, not whatever it was (hubris? VC money?) that Thrun brought to the table. Rebecca Schuman claims this is a victory for "the tiny, for-credit, in-person seminar." It's not that, no more than the Titanic disaster was a victory for wind-powered passenger transportation."
  • Molly Wasser on 29 Nov 13
     
    Grif - where did the Stephen Downes quote come from ? I read the Rebecca Schuman article and don't really agree with her. To expand on the Schuman quote you posted - it's really interesting how she says the massive lecture format doesn't work but then provides two examples of massive technology that do work - texting and World of Warcraft. This relates directly to some of what we talked about earlier this semester. I don't think it's the 'massive,' as Schuman implies, that causes the failure of a MOOC. It's part of the design. Once the design is better and more engaging, then MOOCs may find that they have higher retention rates. Schuman: Successful education needs personal interaction and accountability, period. This is, in fact, the same reason students feel annoyed, alienated, and anonymous in large lecture halls and thus justified in sexting and playing World of Warcraft during class-and why the answer is not the MOOC, but the tiny, for-credit, in-person seminar that has neither a sexy acronym nor a potential for huge corporate partnerships.
  • Grif Peterson on 09 Dec 13
     
    The Downes quote was from OLDaily, which is a daily listserve of his that I subscribe too. I think the difference between texting/WoW and MOOCs is that, while both have many many users, the former two have means in which those groups are disaggregated into smaller units that are largely responsible for the UX/individual growth that goes on. I agree with you that massive is not necessarily the failure, in fact, I think it's the best thing they have going for them. However, until the design can leverage meaningful collaboration, like WoW and texting, the massive will remain a burden.
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Can a School Library Be Replaced by E-Readers? Apparently, it Can - 0 views

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  • Uche Amaechi on 05 Sep 09
     
    18 ereaders>1 Library?
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Could Tag Technology Replace Google Search? | InventorSpot - 0 views

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shared by Jennifer Jocz on 20 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Many believe AR is the tipping point for mobile phones to supplant desktop searches in the next few years.


  • Tagword search on cellphones, like keyword search on desktops might become the dominant format to search for items in real-time.
  • Things in our real-world tagged with barcodes could provide much more information, which could Internet of Thingsthen be updated without having to change the original tag
  • Jennifer Jocz on 20 Sep 09
     
    An article describing how AR apps for cellphones could provide users with location-based data using barcode tagging.
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California testing iPads as algebra textbooks - The Hill's Hillicon Valley - 4 views

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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
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ARM Chips May Spread Into Everyday Items - NYTimes.com - 3 views

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shared by Margaret O'Connell on 21 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • This is the so-called Internet of Things, when all sorts of everyday objects will have tiny chips placed inside them and gain the ability to process information and talk to the Web.
  • ARM chips, by contrast, are made by a handful of contract chip manufacturers and cost 65 cents to $20 each.
  • ARM executives agree that the future is with the billions of coming things — cars, refrigerators, TVs, clothes, buildings — that will have full-blown chips or at least Web-ready sensors inside them. In many cases, they say, these things will need the lowest-power chips possible because they will be out in the world and away from a plug. Energy has replaced horsepower as the prime concern, and it is here, ARM executives said, that the company’s skills will really shine.
  • Margaret O'Connell on 21 Sep 10
     
    I especially love the last quote of this interesting article: "... Now, it's all about penetrating these weird markets that we can't even fully fathom yet." Maybe the ARM chip will be behind a disruptive innovation - it's fun to think about the possibilities
  • Chris Dede on 26 Sep 10
     
    We have a reading on "ubiquitous computing" later in the semester that gets into these fascinating issues and how they might affect education.
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The hole in the wall - 2 views

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shared by Mohammad Hussain on 13 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Mydhili Bayyapunedi on 14 Sep 10
     
    Here is a follow up on this topic of how children learn best when collaborating - this time in a formal setting - http://spotlight.macfound.org/blog/entry/student-centered_learning_in_the_digital_age/ These studies/examples push further the question around technology and if that can replace a teacher. Its perhaps really hard to answer that question with one answer for the various kinds of learning spaces.
  • Mohammad Hussain on 08 Nov 10
     
    Children can teach themselves; education in non-traditional way; child driven education.
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Should Math Education Be Replaced by Video Games? - 2 views

www.technologyreview.com/...25760 Math TESLA DimensionM Innovation Charles_Leadbeater TED
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  • Brandon Bentley on 07 Oct 10
     
    Wondering if this idea of "Pulling people into education, rather than pushing them into it" can work for the world's "worst-off Children"? Most interesting ideas found in the TED talk here: http://www.good.is/post/education-innovation-in-the-worst-situations/ Q: Are there smart-phone/cell-phone-based MUVE games?
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eGFI - Student Blog » Bendable Computer Screens - 2 views

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shared by Natalie Hebshie on 04 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Natalie Hebshie on 04 Oct 10
     
    Will bendable computer screens save newspapers?
  • quintintanderson on 04 Oct 10
     
    Ha-hah! Thats awesome. I guess it was only a matter of time until we had flexible computer screens. I'm not sure if it will save and/or replace newspapers. I could definitely see consumers buying this screen and having their news constantly updated. Sure you can look to a computer or smartphone for news, but there's something appealing about this newspaper-like screen...
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Cal State Bans Students From Using Online Note-Selling Service - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by Devon Dickau on 21 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • selling their class notes online
  • NoteUtopia is meant to function as an online community where students can share information, discuss courses and rate professors - a supplement to, not a replacement for, offline education
  • levels the playing field
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  • Indeed, the provision of the state education code does some raise questions about intellectual property and the ownership of ideas and course content. If the students don't own their class-notes - or at least, cannot sell them commercially - who does? The professor? The university? The state?
  • Devon Dickau on 21 Oct 10
     
    Interesting article about how technology is changing the way we define and share intellectual property. Is a professor's lecture the property of the professor, the University or neither? Does a student "own" the notes he takes in class?
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