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Julia Steege-Reimann

Cool teaching tool for using social entrepreneurship for solving real-world problems - 1 views

www.urgentevoke.com

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  • Deidre Witan on 09 Sep 12
     
    Cool alternate reality game that aims to get students involved in solving global problems.
  • Julia Steege-Reimann on 13 Sep 12
     
    This is a really cool online community where students (or participants) get weekly real-world challenges and then use entrepreneurial thinking/skills to solve the problem in their community and then post "evidence" of solving the problem on the website. Students rack up points for solving different real world problems, which can---if they get enough points---get them access to internships with high-level social entrepreneurs and possibly even seed money for a project.
Irina Uk

MITP Mobile - 2 views

www.mitpressjournals.org/...ijlm_a_00076

Mobile Mathematics 'Connection Making' 'Problem Solving'

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  • Irina Uk on 27 Sep 12
     
    This is a great article about the need to integrate mobile learning into mathematics learning. The article claims that right now there is a divide between personal experiences and mathematical problem solving that students learn in school. The article suggests much work and opportunity in using mobile technology to bridge the divide of formal and informal math learning, putting math learning into personal contexts. The article sheds light on how this will help students see mathematics as a discipline they will use outside of school. It is a very good, comprehensive look at the role technology can play in teaching math the "right" way.
Katherine Tarulli

Is SpongeBob SquarePants Bad for Children? - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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children technology learning attention problem solving ADHD development

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  • Katherine Tarulli on 14 Sep 11
     
    A recent study about fast-paced television programs and children's development finds that attention, problem solving and other skills under the umbrella of "executive function" are harmed by watching some shows.
Deidre Witan

Big Thinkers: James Paul Gee on Grading with Games | Edutopia - 1 views

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video game

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  • Deidre Witan on 27 Nov 12
     
    Games as constant assessment, and textbooks as tools for problem-solving
Tomoko Matsukawa

Schumpeter: The great mismatch | The Economist - 1 views

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vocational education t561

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  • Tomoko Matsukawa on 07 Dec 12
     
    expectation on the power of 'technology and education' to solve the current skills shortage in the job market. 
Deidre Witan

Pencils Down? French Plan Would End Homework : NPR - 0 views

www.npr.org/...french-plan-would-end-homework

shared by Deidre Witan on 02 Dec 12 - No Cached
  • Deidre Witan on 02 Dec 12
     
    In the homework vs. no-homework debate, options like flipped classroom or blended learning are not even given a chance. How might technology help solve the educational problems in France?
Jeffrey Siegel

Technology Doesn't Teach, Teachers Teach - 3 views

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teacher training Teachers And Technology Tech Education In The Classroom News

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?
Danna Ortiz

What to test instead - Ideas - The Boston Globe - 2 views

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Dede

shared by Danna Ortiz on 16 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • A new wave of test designers believe they can measure creativity, problem solving, and collaboration – and that a smarter exam could change education.
  • Reengineering tests has become a kind of calling for a group of educators and researchers around the country. With millions of dollars of funding from the federal government, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, as well as from firms like Cisco Systems, Intel, and Microsoft, they have set about rethinking what a test can do, what it can look like, and what qualities it can assess.
  • computer simulations, games, and stealth monitoring
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  • Chris Dede at Harvard
  • Such predictions require a clear sense of the qualities a person needs in order to thrive.
  • There are just a lot fewer jobs where you’re not doing information-seeking, interpreting, problem-solving, and communication than in the past.”
  • engineer tests
  • equire people to exercise a bundle of complex skills at the same time,
  • rafting computer programs that take advantage of so-called stealth assessment, a method of judging test-takers without telling them exactly what’s being judged.
  • When we test, we’re really probing for certain qualities—the particular mix of knowledge and ability—that tell us a student is ready to move ahead, or an employee will be an asset to the firm.
  • developed a 3D video game to test scientific skills
  • students
  • evaluated
  • rocess they go through to attack a problem.
  • Harvard developmental psychologist Howard Gardner participated in an effort to design new kinds of tests in the humanities that could be graded objectively.
  • Ultimately, he found that the nuance required to measure softer skills collided with the demands of standardization.
  • A test becomes a sign post,
  • t becomes an example of what to strive for.”
  • Danna Ortiz on 16 Sep 12
     
    How test designers are trying to move away from standardized tests to computer programs that can measure a myriad of skills simultaneously through simulations and "stealth monitoring."  Both Chris Dede and Howard Gardner are mentioned.
Bharat Battu

Reflex : Math fact fluency - the next generation. - 3 views

www.reflexmath.com

schools math games educational avatar

shared by Bharat Battu on 08 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • Bharat Battu on 08 Feb 12
     
    The school I am interning at (The Carroll School) is using this in their middle school math classes. Small class sizes typically (4-8 kids /  class), and it's a 1:1 school where every child has a laptop. But - it's working well for designated independent work time in the math classes I've observed- where each kid is asked to play the game for 15 minutes on their own. Kids have their own profiles- and there are several different math mini games they can play, each game focusing on different math skills. Each mini game involves different game mechanics and art styles. But all games involve using arithmetic skills and math concepts to solve problems that progress them in the game. Good performance gives the kids in-game credits/money that they can use to customize their in-gam avatar. 
Kasthuri Gopalaratnam

How Computerized Tutors Are Learning to Teach Humans - NYTimes.com - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...-learning-to-teach-humans.html

tutors learning

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  • Kasthuri Gopalaratnam on 21 Sep 12
     
    "As the session continued, Lindquist gestured, pointed, made eye contact, modulated her voice. "Cruising!" she exclaimed, after the student answered three questions in a row correctly. "Did you see how I had to stop and think?" she inquired, modeling how to solve a problem. "I can see you're getting tired," she commented sympathetically near the end of the session. How could a computer program ever approximate this? "
  • anonymous on 23 Sep 12
     
    Thanks to Dr. Dede for inviting Neil Heffernan to speak to our class a while back. Great to see Dr. Heffernan's work being covered in the press.
Tim Johnson

Gamers Help Scientists Solve Puzzle That Could Lead to AIDS Vaccine - 0 views

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Gaming

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  • Tim Johnson on 18 Sep 12
     
    This is a bit of an older article, but I think it's a great illustration of the way that 'gamification' can transform the exploration of a real-world conundrum into an engaging, appealing experience (with very practical applications).
  • Tim Johnson on 18 Sep 12
     
    Also a neat example of the ability of modern formats to draw upon the expertise and skills of an enormous (but broadly distributed and amorphous) community
Adrian Melia

Five secret ways that games are changing the world. - Kill Screen - 0 views

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technology games education learning educational_technology social

shared by Adrian Melia on 21 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Adrian Melia on 21 Sep 12
     
    Interesting examples of how some games are used for more than just entertainment including crowdsourcing for scientific progress, helping support research, and bridging the language gap.
  • Matthew Ong on 22 Sep 12
     
    Hi Adrian, thanks for sharing this. I think that the crowdsourcing potential for online games is great for solving real-life problems. Maybe educators could actually use such a platform for engaging students in school too, like crowdsourcing to solve problems in school.
Jennifer Hern

STLtoday - Associated Press News - 0 views

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energy environment international G20 World_Affairs_Council

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  • Jennifer Hern on 18 Sep 09
     
    Students around the world join together to solve global issues, such as the environment, energy, and the global recession, via Webcasts, the Internet, and VChat.
Jennifer Hern

FFFBI Home - 0 views

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webby_award HOTS national_geographic

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  • Jennifer Hern on 12 Sep 09
     
    Cute site asking students to use HOTS to solve crimes while learning information about the world. National Geographic hosts.
Yang Jiang

Leaving Tumblr for Instapaper - NYTimes.com - 3 views

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Instapaper technology

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  • Yang Jiang on 24 Sep 10
     
    A new project named Instapaper is developed to solve the time and space difference problems in reading on computers.
K Kelly

Facebook CEO Zuckerberg to Donate $100 Million to Newark Schools - WSJ.com - 0 views

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Facebook zuckerberg Newark

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  • K Kelly on 23 Sep 10
     
    I'm a cynic, so I can't decide how much of this is a PR move by Zuckerberg. Regardless of his motive, it's a lot of money for Newark. Will it solve anything?
kshapton

RoboCup - International Robotic Soccer Competition - 0 views

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soccer STEM education robots robotics competition collaboration

shared by kshapton on 29 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • By mid-21st century, a team of fully autonomous humanoid robot soccer players shall win the soccer game, comply with the official rule of the FIFA, against the winner of the most recent World Cup.
  • kshapton on 29 Sep 10
     
    An appealing way for students and researchers in the STEM fields to work together and solve a problem- robots that play soccer better than humans?
Sabita Verma

Video Games Win a Beachhead in the Classroom - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...19video-t.html

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  • Sabita Verma on 02 Dec 10
     
    New York classroom where curriculum is entirely in video games. The program is called "Quest to Learn". Students learn math, english and other core subjects by playing multi user video games. The games are designed by learning games designers and are focused on problem solving.
Chris McEnroe

More Schools Embrace the iPad as a Learning Tool - NYTimes.com - 2 views

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

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    • Chris McEnroe
      Chris McEnroe on 05 Sep 11
       
      "It's not about a cool application," Dr. Brenner said. "We are talking about changing the way we do business in the classroom." This is a useful sound bite but this article is a quagmire of the issues facing education. Advocates who would rather spend the money on teachers are speaking into the wind politically but they are also not speaking to the point being raised by the event the ipad purchase or the opportunity to advance learning. Good teaching rests on good, personalized relationships as well excellent management. ipads help with both but the danger in not articulating that more clearly is the fear that ipads (or some such thing) will replace teachers. There are those who love the idea of ipads not as an enhancement to learning but as a way to drive up teacher production. That idea and the fear of it distracts from matter of using technolofy to enhance learning.
    • Stephen Bresnick
      Stephen Bresnick on 05 Sep 11
       
      Really well said, Chris. I was reading the article and couldn't help but chuckle at the quote, "this is this could very well be the biggest thing to hit school technology since the overhead projector," said by the teacher Mr. Wolfe. The quote communicated volumes about Mr. Wolfe's underlying assumption that good teaching rests on good gadgetry, as if the overhead projector was once a panacea for all that ailed education in the 1970s, but that now there is a new panacea, the iPad. I have heard an interesting criticism of use of the iPad in the classroom that I would like to share. Namely, that it is a device designed almost exclusively for the consumption of media, but that it provides little if any opportunity for collaboration. Yes, there are a ton of cool apps in the App Store and the number will continue to grow, and yes, some of them will be pretty darn neat. But without the ability for students to collaborate and create, there is little evidence that this is, in itself, a transformative educational technology, just a faster and more colorful way for students to do the same things they have been doing. I get a bit uncomfortable when I see teachers get really excited about the tools of technology and all of their cool capabilities without thinking about which problems these technologies might be able to solve. So many people are fixated on technology as an end, as if dropping this new gadget in the classroom will, by itself, solve all problems. iPads are really great, but this might just be a case of the tail wagging the dog.
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