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Garron Hillaire

The Case For Social Media in Schools - 3 views

mashable.com/...social-media-in-school

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shared by Garron Hillaire on 30 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Elizabeth Delmatoff started a pilot social media program in her Portland, Oregon classroom, 20% of students school-wide were completing extra assignments for no credit, grades had gone up more than 50%
  • Although Delmatoff is adamant that there’s no way to pin her class’s increased academic success specifically to the pilot program, it’s hard to say that it didn’t play a part in the more than 50% grade increase.
  • Kidblog.org is one of many free tools that allow teachers to control an online environment while still benefiting from social media. Delmatoff managed her social media class without a budget by using free tools like Edmodo and Edublogs.
  • Garron Hillaire on 30 Sep 10
     
    An article that advocates the use of social media in the classroom. It highlights one pilot program in Oregon.
Garron Hillaire

What we can learn from procrastination : The New Yorker - 2 views

www.newyorker.com/...101011crbo_books_surowiecki

procrastination time behavior productivity

shared by Garron Hillaire on 06 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • even Nobel-winning economists procrastinate!
  • “each morning for over eight months I woke up and decided that the next morning would be the day to send the Stiglitz box.”
  • Academics, who work for long periods in a self-directed fashion, may be especially prone to putting things off: surveys suggest that the vast majority of college students procrastinate
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  • dragging our heels is “as fundamental as the shape of time and could well be called the basic impulse.”
  • Most of the contributors to the new book agree that this peculiar irrationality stems from our relationship to time—in particular, from a tendency that economists call “hyperbolic discounting.”
  • Viewed this way, procrastination starts to look less like a question of mere ignorance than like a complex mixture of weakness, ambition, and inner conflict.
  • instead of trusting themselves, the students relied on an outside tool to make themselves do what they actually wanted to do.
  • Garron Hillaire on 06 Nov 10
     
    an interesting article on procrastination. Perhaps worth reading to better understand our own behavior and the behavior of future students we attempt to engage. There is a not a direct technology angle here, but it would be important to think about this topic when looking at technologies for the classroom.
seth kutcher

The Best Remote PC Support I Ever Had - 3 views

The Remote PC Support Now excellent remote PC support services are the best. They have skilled computer tech professionals who can fix your PC while you wait or just go back to work or just simpl...

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started by seth kutcher on 12 Sep 11 no follow-up yet
Jennifer Lavalle

Mobile Gaming is Stationary - 0 views

gigaom.com/...grey-area-mobilize-2011

shared by Jennifer Lavalle on 05 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Jennifer Lavalle on 05 Oct 11
     
    In light of our conversation of mobile learning, this article provides insight as to the stationary nature of the use of mobile technology. Shadow Cities - a game that prizes 'on the go', 'real world' scenarios within the game, found that most people play mobile games in the spaces where they spend the majority of their time - especially the home, which means mobile games compete with traditional gaming devices. Anyway, some food for thought...
  • Bridget Binstock on 08 Oct 11
     
    Jennifer, Thanks for sharing this. In this push for mobile, I guess it makes sense if you step back and realize that most of the gaming systems that people started using (PS3, Xbox, Wii) were not built for mobility or portability and perhaps they haven't realized they can "transfer" the gaming experience to anyWHERE? Or maybe it is that gamers are creatures of habit? or superstition (like baseball players who don't shave their face throughout the playoffs so as to not mess with the karma or mojo?) and don't want to upset the environment that they consider the best for their particular performance of the game? The commercial that Prof Dede showed with the Augmented Reality spin and where Shadow Cities is headed really is a whole new way of approaching gaming and I wonder if the same type of gamers who are traditionalists (sit at home and play) would be interested in this new type of mobile gaming or if it might just open up a whole new set of gamers - who despise the sedentary nature of traditional gaming systems - and push them to get involved?
James Glanville

Harvard Professor Ditches Lectures For Interactive Approach, Launches Startup Learning ... - 1 views

bostinnovation.com/...es-startup-learning-catalytics

harvard interactive startup learning

shared by James Glanville on 02 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • James Glanville on 02 Nov 11
     
    Article about Learning Catalytics  with Eric Mazur and Brian Lukoff
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