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Maung Nyeu

'Blended learning' at Chandler school under study across Valley, U.S. - East Valley Tri... - 1 views

www.eastvalleytribune.com/...55-11e0-9c29-001cc4c002e0.html

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shared by Maung Nyeu on 04 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • Maung Nyeu on 04 Nov 11
     
    Hybrid learning seems to be a hit in Chandler school. "The key is the teacher involvement, proponents say. Teachers still present the information, and then they monitor students' understanding through online projects, activities or testing."
Maung Nyeu

Top Universities Test the Online Appeal of Free - NYTimes.com - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...the-online-appeal-of-free.html

Emerging Technology t561 educational_technology online

shared by Maung Nyeu on 18 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • Maung Nyeu on 18 Jul 12
     
    Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) - More online courses from top universities. Not surprisingly, most people signing up are from other countries. How long these courses will remain free? At some point, will the universities try to make money from online courses?
Jessica Claremon

Effectiveness of Apps - 2 views

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/03/science/field-testing-the-math-apps.html?ref=education There are so many apps out there, but who knows which ones work? WGBH brought iPads into a preschool clas...

technology education learning tablets applications preschool

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Chris Dede

Why the 'Maker Movement' is Popular in Schools - 0 views

www.centerdigitaled.com/...-Movement-Popular-Schools.html

maker movement schools

shared by Chris Dede on 27 Aug 13 - No Cached
  • Chris Dede on 27 Aug 13
     
    Given the crowded curriculum and the high stakes tests, this article is overly optimistic about the maker movement in schools, as opposed to out of schools
Richard Liuzzi

Glogster EDU - 21st century multimedia tool for educators, teachers and students - 2 views

edu.glogster.com/what-is-glogster-edu

technology multimedia posters education

shared by Richard Liuzzi on 20 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • Richard Liuzzi on 20 Sep 13
     
    Very intriguing creative learning platform. Need to test out to see if its as useful as it seems to be.
Nick Siewert

Education Week: Wyo. Virtual School Students Score Poorly on Test - 0 views

www.edweek.org/...777wyvirtualschooltest_ap.html

T561 virtual school distance learning testing Wyoming

shared by Nick Siewert on 03 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Nick Siewert on 03 Sep 09
     
    Full article requires registration with Ed Week.
  • Nick Siewert on 03 Sep 09
     
    Virtual Schooling gone awry in Wyoming.
Benjamin Berte

U.S. Education Secretary Briefs Stakeholders on 'Investing in Innovation Fund' at... | ... - 0 views

www.reuters.com/...261932+20-Aug-2009+PRN20090820

Arne Duncan Investing in Innovation ACT Rigor and Readiness

shared by Benjamin Berte on 10 Sep 09 - Cached
  • "I want the Department to become an engine of innovation, not a compliance monitor," said Secretary Duncan. "We are looking to you - the districts and nonprofits - to unleash your creativity and build the next generation of education reform."
  • According to research conducted by ACT, currently, -- Fewer than 20 percent of 8th-grade students are on target for being college ready in all four core subject areas of English, math, reading, and science. -- Only 70 percent of ACT-tested 2009 high school graduates took a core curriculum. -- Only 23 percent of ACT-tested 2009 high school graduates were college ready in all four core subject areas of English, math, reading, and science.
  • "We are committed to ensuring that all students are college and career ready in achievement, psychosocial behavior, and career and educational planning," said Erickson. "Rigor & Readiness will also create and advance school change, and build and support high-achieving, self-sustaining schools within scalable, replicable systems.
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  • A recording of Secretary Duncan's presentation is available at http://video.webexlivestream.com/events/webx001/31912/.
Uche Amaechi

Project 'Gaydar': An MIT experiment raises new questions about online privacy - The Bos... - 0 views

www.boston.com/...questions_about_online_privacy

emerging technologies t561 social analytics

shared by Uche Amaechi on 21 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Uche Amaechi on 21 Sep 09
     
    Really? Social Analytics to discover whether you're gay. Their methodology seems like common sense. but I still question the conclusions. Especially since it wasn't tested.
Nick Siewert

Parents still angry even after Palm Beach County makes concessions on testing for high-... - 0 views

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Facebook FCAT protest standardized testing Web 2.0 Florida

shared by Nick Siewert on 02 Oct 09 - Cached
  • But at Tuesday's meeting, parents were too angry to acknowledge that Hernandez had made his first major concession since they began organizing on Facebook
    • Nick Siewert
      Nick Siewert on 02 Oct 09
       
      Does this mean Facebook is so, like, yesterday?
  • Nick Siewert on 02 Oct 09
     
    Facebook as a tool for social protest. Just as soon as schools get their heads around student use of Facebook, here come the parents.
  • Nick Siewert on 02 Oct 09
     
    Facebook as a tool for social protest. Just as soon as schools get their heads around student use of Facebook, here come the parents.
Garron Hillaire

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

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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
Ellen Loudermilk

Kids that can pass the "Marshmellow Test" do better in school? - 1 views

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social marshmallow test

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  • Ellen Loudermilk on 08 Sep 10
     
    A cute video to get you through the week
Devon Dickau

Google Instant search feeds our real-time addiction - CNN.com - 0 views

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technology education Google search instant knowledge predictive customized

shared by Devon Dickau on 12 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • By providing results before a query is complete and removing the need to hit the "enter" key, Google claims users will save two to five seconds per search
    • Devon Dickau
      Devon Dickau on 12 Sep 10
       
      Two to five seconds to hit Enter?  In a society obsessed with saving time, even mere seconds are perceived as valuable.
  • Web connections have become significantly faster over time
  • Web connections have become significantly faster over time
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  • quick status updates
    • Devon Dickau
      Devon Dickau on 12 Sep 10
       
      Are the speed and brevity of these messages bypassing the potential exploration of a certain topic area in-depth, or is very topic only superficial?
  • many social sites now use our social connections to recommend content to us without the need to seek it out
    • Devon Dickau
      Devon Dickau on 12 Sep 10
       
      Search engines do the work for us.  We don't even need to know how to find the information ourselves these days.
  • What's more, this feature enables truly personalized discovery by taking into account your search history, location and other factors -- Google is essentially emulating social networks by trying to predict what we're looking for without the need to submit a fully-formed search
  • The next step of search is doing this automatically. When I walk down the street, I want my smartphone to be doing searches constantly: 'Did you know ... ?' 'Did you know ... ?' 'Did you know ... ?' 'Did you know ... ?
    • Devon Dickau
      Devon Dickau on 12 Sep 10
       
      Constant delivery of knowledge.
    • Devon Dickau
      Devon Dickau on 12 Sep 10
       
      In thinking about evolving technology in terms of both formal and informal education, I question whether or not constant and immediate access to information is improving or harming individual knowledge.  By this I mean that because we can so easily search for something online, what motivation is there to actually know anything.  If we have Wikipedia on our phones, and know HOW to find it, can't we just spend 30 seconds finding the page and "know" something for topic of conversation, or a test?  What is the point, then, or learning, of retaining knowledge?  I feel that this may be a problem in coming generations.  What knowledge will our students actually feel they need to retain? I took solace in the fact that at least we have to learn and teach HOW to find the information, but with new technologies like predictive and instant searching, it almost seems like that is a skill that will soon become unneeded as well.  We might as well just be physically plugged in to the Internet with access to all information simultaneously. Thoughts from the group?
Britt Harris

Classrooms on the cutting edge - 0 views

www.msnbc.msn.com/...39466419

school south carolina

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  • Britt Harris on 04 Oct 10
     
    South Carolina school using technology in the classrooms and the school has raised it's test scores.
Chris Dede

Carnegie Mellon Researchers Test Mobile Phone Games To Teach Children -- THE Journal - 4 views

thejournal.com/...e-games-to-teach-children.aspx

cellphone language learning chinese

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  • Chris Dede on 30 Oct 10
     
    mobile phones for language learning
James Glanville

Brainscape: Learn Faster - Research - 2 views

www.brain-scape.com/...research.html

shared by James Glanville on 22 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Confidence-Based Repetition These combined concepts of Repetition, Active Recall, and Metacognition work together to create Brainscape’s unique process of Confidence-Based Repetition (CBR). CBR acts essentially as your personalized knowledge stream, where bite-sized concepts are repeated one after another, in Question/Answer pairs, and then re-entered into the repetition queue in intervals based on your confidence in how well you know them. Low-confidence items (e.g. the 1’s and 2’s) are repeated more often until you upgrade your confidence to higher levels.
    • James Glanville
      James Glanville on 22 Sep 11
       
      "Confidence-based repitition" looks like the direct application of current thinking in neuroscience about how we learn.   I wonder how well it really works?  It's theory based but not truly field tested.....Not quite iterative research-design-field test-tweak loop Dock's Design course prescribes.
  • James Glanville on 22 Sep 11
     
    Interesting startup.  Building a learning tool based on the neuroscience concept of "confidence-based repetition."  
Diego Vallejos

Swedish daycare to test GPS for tracking kids - 2 views

www.physorg.com/...daycare-gps-tracking-kids.html

technology education

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  • Diego Vallejos on 29 Sep 11
     
    In my opinion this use of technology in education doesn't add any value to the class. Are they are testing it to reduce the number of nursery school teachers?
Uche Amaechi

Computer-Generated Articles Are Gaining Traction - NYTimes.com - 3 views

www.nytimes.com/...cles-are-gaining-traction.html

technology T561 education

shared by Uche Amaechi on 11 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Uche Amaechi on 11 Sep 11
     
    Computers that can pass the Turing test and write. What does this portend for education?
Niko Cunningham

Huffington Post crowdsourcing headlines - 1 views

www.fastcompany.com/...-subtly-crowdsources-headlines

education Technology educational_technology crowdsourcing

shared by Niko Cunningham on 16 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Niko Cunningham on 16 Oct 09
     
    HuffPo is now doing automated A/B testing for its headlines. How does that apply to ed? Online learners all have that liminal moment where they choose to click through or not click through. Proper A/B testing uncovers the motivation of why (or at least the effectiveness) of why some marketing copy and headlines work, and others dont. The best cloud-based ed. tech in the world means nothing if the click-through rate of a passive user is not substantial.
Megan Johnston

Quest Atlantis - 1 views

atlantis.crlt.indiana.edu

MUVEs online learning

shared by Megan Johnston on 27 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Megan Johnston on 27 Oct 09
     
    A 3D multi-user environment that immerses children in real-world, socially and academically meaningful activities. Ran across this doing some research for the VPA. It's the richest example on an online learning environment that I've seen, and similar to something I'd envisioned but dismissed as not currently realistic--apparently I was wrong! I would love to give this a test drive.
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