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Yan Feng

10 Things That Will Be Obsolete in Education by 2020 - 6 views

www.itslearning.net/-obsolete-in-education-by-2020

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  • Yan Feng on 20 Oct 11
     
    Interesting.
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  • Bridget Binstock on 20 Oct 11
     
    I thought the word "satchel" was already obsolete? HA! And does anyone else agree that they use the term "obsolete" very loosely in some of their explanations - for example HOMEWORK - doesn't "some work at school and some work at home" still constitute homework? And about Standardized TEACHING - until Standardized TESTING goes away, HG and supporters can advocate for this type of teaching reform, but try as we might (and many of us do offer alternative lessons and assignments to take advantage of the multiple intelligences within our classroom), end of the day, we still have to get our kids to pass those tests. It is how we as students, teachers, schools, districts, states and a nation are continually evaluated as being successful.
  • anonymous on 24 Oct 11
     
    I think this article is a little odd too. I think that a lot of times, writers of articles want to make these large shocking claims in their headlines. When you read the actual body of the text though, it becomes evident that the term "obsolete" isn't what they're after - but rather, it's about renaming or altering the way we think about current systems. Also, I was interested in what they meant by changing the actual architecture of schools. When I looked into the gallery though, it was a group of photos of a bunch of weird structures that didn't really show anything about schools (maybe the outsides?).
  • Ayelet R on 27 Oct 11
     
    Also, I can't imagine that education will make the fear of failure extinct. It may make failing a bit more tolerable with individualized instruction, but I can't image that the pressure on students to succeed will decrease; it seems more likely that it will increase.
  • Erin Sisk on 31 Oct 11
     
    I appreciated that they mentioned learning HTML. I wish I learned that in school -- I think basic web design should be a 21st century skill.
Maung Nyeu

Randy Sumrall to Speak at Information OnDemand 2011 - 0 views

www.prweb.com/...prweb8890842.htm

Emerging Technology technology education T561

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  • Maung Nyeu on 20 Oct 11
     
    "It's no longer one-size-fits-all curricula and testing which fosters invisibility" - Randam Samrall, CIO of Education Service Center Region 10, in IBM Conference in Las Vegas, on "Preparing Students for the 21st Century."
Maung Nyeu

At Waldorf School in Silicon Valley, Technology Can Wait - NYTimes.com - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...alley-technology-can-wait.html

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shared by Maung Nyeu on 23 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Maung Nyeu on 23 Oct 11
     
    A contrarian view. "Some education experts say that the push to equip classrooms with computers is unwarranted because studies do not clearly show that this leads to better test scores or other measurable gains."
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  • Bridget Binstock on 23 Oct 11
     
    Maung - I just tweeted this! The irony? I read it on my Android smartphone at the Apple store waiting to buy my iPad2!! Would love to talk more about this in class because I DID learn the "old fashioned" way and here I am as an adult, proficient at technology and attending Harvard...am I any less off for not being a digital native? Am I behind the rest of my HGSE because of it? Or has my learning technology as a late teen and adult benefitted me in some way that cannot be proven unless we conduct research with a control group devoid of technology all together during those early formative years? Would love to continue this discussion!
  • Jennifer Lavalle on 24 Oct 11
     
    First of all - the girl in the picture of this article is reading Nancy Drew - who else spent most of their childhood with their head buried in a mystery series? :-) Secondly, I cannot tell you how valuable mud was to my childhood. Had I not been at a camp every summer where I was able to play around in mud and run through the woods all day, I would not be the person I am today. I think I did most of my growing and much of my learning in informal environments such as camp. It sounds to me like this school is trying to replicate those learning experiences...in a classroom. Not saying it's the way to go...but certainly an interesting model. Thanks for sharing!
  • Allison Browne on 24 Oct 11
     
    Waldorf philosophy is different approach. For example, children learn to write first before they learn to read. As a result children may learn to read as late as 8 or 9. It's based on the anthroposophy philosophy. Children's who parents value these things will do well in a school without technology. Children who are plugged in at home would have a difficult time. This is effective for private school but not public school.
Katherine Tarulli

Study Shows the Effectiveness of Conceptual Learning in Math among Middle School Students - 1 views

www.marketwatch.com/...dle-school-students-2011-10-26

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  • Katherine Tarulli on 26 Oct 11
     
    This article details the findings of a recent study of 6th, 7th and 8th graders in Arizona that found that the students that used a new math and science curriculum called Adaptive Curriculum scored higher on post-tests and assessments than students with the traditional curriculum. The new treatment teaches conceptual understanding of math through content and technology, and emphasizes real-world, informal applications of math and science. 
Cole Shaw

Berkery Noyes Releases Education Industry M&A Report For Third Quarter 2012 - 0 views

www.sacbee.com/...-noyes-releases-education.html

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  • Cole Shaw on 14 Oct 12
     
    A financial / investment perspective of the Education industry is offered in this report. I think the interesting thing is this section: "With the implementation of the Common Core standardized curriculum, the focus on content is becoming less about differentiation and more about delivery through emerging technology platforms," stated Mary Jo Zandy, Managing Director at Berkery Noyes. "Interactive assessment tools that measure student progress, particularly in the quantitative disciplines, will thus become even more important in K-12 education as schools aim to meet specific testing benchmarks."
Jeffrey Siegel

Free online courses will change universities - 0 views

afr.com/..._change_7ngMdHAbNt5JXJFgLqR79O

MOOC technology education

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  • Jeffrey Siegel on 24 Sep 12
     
    MOOCs unanswered questions: How can they offer secure and reliable assessment over the internet? Will employers accept their qualifications? How do you assess courses in the humanities which are not suited to multiple-choice testing marked by computer?
Tomoko Matsukawa

Parent Trigger Laws: What Leading Thinkers Have To Say - 0 views

www.huffingtonpost.com/...gger-laws-what-_n_1745500.html

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  • Tomoko Matsukawa on 25 Sep 12
     
    Comments from Kids and Parents complaining the way how teachers teach/assessment is conducted. (very short video clip)
Jennifer Bartecchi

DiscoTest - 0 views

discotest.org/index_discotest.html

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shared by Jennifer Bartecchi on 01 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Jennifer Bartecchi on 01 Oct 12
     
    This online assessment tool, designed by HGSE grad Zach Stein, may feed into last week's discussion re: assessment...
  • Jennifer Bartecchi on 01 Oct 12
     
    This online assessment tool, designed by HGSE grad Zach Stein, may feed into last week's discussion re: assessment... Has anyone seen or used this tool?
Heather French

2U creates online undergraduate school program with leading universities - 2 views

www.edsurge.com/...gram-with-leading-universities

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  • Heather French on 15 Nov 12
     
    A new "Semester Online" program is being tried and tested by ten universities.
Danna Ortiz

Schools Test Personalized Math Program - WSJ.com - 1 views

online.wsj.com/...4024004578169882919930820.html

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  • Danna Ortiz on 10 Dec 12
     
    NY City touting 5 public schools' adoption of School of One curricula in Race to Top application, but the schools' assessment scores show mixed results so far.
Junjie Liu

Fine-tuning online education - 1 views

news.harvard.edu/...fine-tuning-online-education

edx mooc interspersed assessment

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  • Junjie Liu on 09 Apr 13
     
    interspersing online lectures with short tests improved student performance.
Jeffrey Siegel

Big Data for Education: Data Mining, Data Analytics, and Web Dashboards - 5 views

www.brookings.edu/...cation%20technology%20west.pdf

Big Data for Education: Mining Analytics and Web Dashboards

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  • Jeffrey Siegel on 09 Sep 12
     
    "So-called "big data" make it possible to mine learning information for insights regarding student performance and learning approaches. Rather than rely on periodic test performance, instructors can analyze what students know and what techniques are most effective for each pupil. By focusing on data analytics, teachers can study learning in far more nuanced ways."
Cole Shaw

A Free Online University Tests the Waters - NYTimes.com - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...03iht-educlede03.html

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shared by Cole Shaw on 07 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Cole Shaw on 07 Sep 12
     
    An interview with Shai Reshef, who founded the University of the People, a free online university. I think one really interesting part is that NYU agreed that students who finished their first year could apply to NYU Abu Dhabi and finish their free education if accepted! So it's like a portal or proving ground...but for a traditional university.
Tomoko Matsukawa

One Per Cent: Lego's augmented reality game tests your building skills - 0 views

www.newscientist.com/...-augmented-reality-game-t.html

t561 game lego augmented reality

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  • Tomoko Matsukawa on 12 Sep 12
     
    Getting excited about Sesame Street&AR idea that was posted earlier, went to find if Lego is doing anything as Lego Education is getting more active lately to my understanding.  I only found this. This to me is not AR although it is utilizing some level of digital technology (social network/sharing work with others).  I would be more interested to see more work from traditional game/toy players to be aggressive in the tech space. 
Erin Connors

How Social Gaming is Improving Education - 3 views

mashable.com/...social-gaming-education

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  • Erin Connors on 17 Sep 12
     
    Interesting article - highlights the growth of virtual training tools and their capacity to improve real world tasks. Example: "The amazing results of the training and simulation program have led to significantly improved grades on students' critical skills tests, taking scores from a 56% success in 2007, to 95% at the end of 2008 after the simulation was instituted."
Tommie Anthony Henderson

Grading the Digital School - 3 views

topics.nytimes.com/...index.html

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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".
Chris McEnroe

RIT research finds use of technology-rich learning environment improves retention rates... - 1 views

www.brightonpittsfordpost.com/...nment-improves-retention-rates

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  • Chris McEnroe on 29 Nov 11
     
    RIT hosts a school within a school- the National Technical Institute for the Deaf makes it a unique environment to study this question. I wonder though if this passes Prof. Dede's predictable outcome test.
Melinda Schindler

Reed Hastings, John Doerr and others invest $11 million in DreamBox Learnin - 2 views

www.geekwire.com/...t-11-million-dreambox-learning

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  • Melinda Schindler on 08 Dec 11
     
    Is anyone familiar with Dreambox Learning? Looks like it's getting touted as yet another means of boosting test scores.
  • Allison Browne on 10 Dec 11
     
    5% growth? Not astounding but maybe they'll have the secret sauce one day.
Kasthuri Gopalaratnam

What Spurs Students to Stay in College and Learn? Good Teaching Practices and Diversity... - 0 views

www.linkedin.com/news

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  • Kasthuri Gopalaratnam on 08 Nov 11
     
    "Good teaching was not defined by test results. Instead, its attributes were identified on a nine-item scale, which included student appraisals of how well the teacher organized material, used class time, explained directions, and reviewed the subject matter."
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