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Ayelet R

Texting in the Classroom: Not Just a Distraction | Edutopia - 5 views

www.edutopia.org/...xting-classroom-audrey-watters

texting classroom education technology cellphones

shared by Ayelet R on 25 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Ayelet R on 25 Sep 11
     
    Ideas for using texting at school.
  • James Glanville on 26 Sep 11
     
    great article. relevant to today's discussion about web 2.0 / social media. for those who didn't read it. Here's there article's list of interesting sms based tools for education use: Remind101: Remind101 allows teachers to send text messages (and email) home -- to students and/or to parents -- to offer reminders and updates for class. Remind101 allows teachers to communicate with their classes without either teacher or students having to share their phone numbers. Poll Everywhere: As the name suggests, Poll Everywhere allows teachers to use cellphones for polling in class. Students text their responses, using their cellphones to give feedback, answer questions, take quizzes. Celly: Celly provides SMS-based group messaging. Classrooms can use the service to take quick polls and quizzes, filter messages, get news updates, take notes, and organize and hold study groups. The groups can be public or private, moderated or open. StudyBoost: StudyBoost allows students to study via SMS-based quizzes. The questions can be self- or teacher-created, and can be multiple choice or open-ended.
  • Kasthuri Gopalaratnam on 27 Sep 11
     
    I like Celly for its group messaging and polling applications. Note: The link to "Poll Anywhere" is broken.
pradeepg

"Secure social network learning for teachers and students" - 0 views

www.edmodo.com

shared by pradeepg on 04 Oct 11 - Cached
  • pradeepg on 04 Oct 11
     
    This post adds value to the previous one regarding the use of FB in the classroom. I'm thinking of using this tool for a project. Let me know your thoughts if you trial it. Cheers
Tommie Anthony Henderson

Finland moving towards online education and collaboration with cloud computing > Micros... - 0 views

www.microsoft.eu/...tion-with-cloud-computing.aspx

shared by Tommie Anthony Henderson on 03 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Tommie Anthony Henderson on 03 Oct 11
     
    Looking for web-based teaching tools to prepare its students for the future, Kello School in Finland deployed Microsoft Live@edu to give students a rich online learning experience, foster peer collaboration and enable students to work away from school all within a secure online environment.
Kinga Petrovai

STEM Innovation Challenge - 1 views

diigo.com/0k396

technology Education

shared by Kinga Petrovai on 04 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Kinga Petrovai on 04 Oct 11
     
    This sounds like an interesting competition for students to be involved in. I think this would serve as a great tool that teachers can design their lessons around in order to make the learning relevant
  • Bharat Battu on 05 Oct 11
     
    very interesting Kinga. To throw in another STEM-related competition, the National STEM Video Game Challenge is about to begin its second year. Open to middle school, high school, and college/graduate students, the contest challenges students to create innovative video games that promote STEM learning while being accessible to underserved populations: main website: http://www.stemchallenge.org
Tracy Tan

Sorry, Wrong In-Box (Less accessibility despite more communication tools?) - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...sorry-wrong-in-box.html

shared by Tracy Tan on 02 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Tracy Tan on 02 Sep 11
     
    How will teachers cope with so many avenues for communication with students and parents? How can we preempt these issues?
Bharat Battu

Xbox Kinect - Usable in Homebrew / Research / Academic Applications - 1 views

For anyone who is intrigued by Xbox Kinect and potential applications in education, research, or anything beyond Xbox gaming, the peripheral is usable for developer's own projects, for free. What'...

Kinect homebrew gestures hacks

started by Bharat Battu on 01 Sep 11 no follow-up yet
Chris McEnroe

Technology in Schools Faces Questions on Value - NYTimes.com - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...-faces-questions-on-value.html

shared by Chris McEnroe on 05 Sep 11 - No Cached
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      Chris McEnroe on 05 Sep 11
       
      As journalism, this article observes well the cross conversation in the public debate. Before this conversation even begins it would be useful for the parties to agree on the goal of the interaction between teacher and student. This quote from the article, "digital devices let students learn at their own pace, teach skills needed in a modern economy and hold the attention of a generation weaned on gadgets . . ." Makes broad assumptions that the invitation to learn (things that are pre-conceived by adults) is all the students need. We have a system of education and no matter what we do, the system assumes s significant and active role for adults (rightly so). There is a persistant sense that the system is not working to our expectations, but that hardly argues for the abandonment of personal and substantive interactions among teachers and students. I agree more with this quote, ""Rather than being a cure-all or silver bullet, one-to-one laptop programs may simply amplify what's already occurring - for better or worse (Bryan Goodwin)," because it asserts the point that Technology promises to enhance the value of our effort in education with better tools to do what teachers do. Technology is not (as some seem to think) a replacement of what teachers do and that unspoken assumption seems to be underlying much of what I see as vague public discussion.
Katherine Tarulli

A new way to search? - 4 views

This is an interesting concept. I think that the determining factor for me is dependent on who will have access to that information. If it is private and stored on the tablet that could be an incre...

technology Emerging Technology online

started by Bridget Binstock on 14 Sep 11 1 follow-up, last by Katherine Tarulli on 15 Sep 11
Bridget Binstock

iPads for Kindergartners - 1 views

abcnews.go.com/...story

education learning Emerging Technology

shared by Bridget Binstock on 15 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Bridget Binstock on 15 Sep 11
     
    As emergent as we seem to be (or as a society, WANTS to be), notice some of the deep-seeded thoughts around traditional educational practice that are sprinkled throughout the article.
Chris McEnroe

Drowning in Student Data? Two Companies Offer Solutions | MindShift - 5 views

mindshift.kqed.org/...-two-companies-offer-solutions

shared by Chris McEnroe on 05 Oct 11 - No Cached
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      Chris McEnroe on 06 Oct 11
       
      I love that someone is tackling this problem. I love all of the free resources there are on line that can be used in the classroom but the problem is there are too many to really explore appropriately. Having said that, 20,000 resources is still too many. I love that someone is tackling this though.
    • Chris McEnroe
      Chris McEnroe on 06 Oct 11
       
      I signed up.
  • Jaclyn Ruszala on 05 Oct 11
     
    This article talks about two companies that are trying to create dashboards to combine all the data that teachers receive from different programs they use. The goal is to help teachers "avoid an air-traffic-control problem as they try to mix and match the tools they use."
Chris McEnroe

cooltoolsforschools - Home - 1 views

cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/Home

shared by Chris McEnroe on 10 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Chris McEnroe on 10 Oct 11
     
    Here's a mass of tools that can teachers can use right now to turn themselves and their students into a more interactive, personal version of Khan Academy.
Sammi Biegler

Soon, Bloggers Must Give Full Disclosure - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...06adco.html

FTC Blogs SMART Board Advertising Disclosure Education

shared by Sammi Biegler on 07 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Sammi Biegler on 07 Oct 09
     
    I read this article this afternoon, and thought of it when I was doing work for my wiki assignment. I am looking into the blog Teachers Love SMART Boards (http://smartboards.typepad.com/) and I saw that the author of the blog also works for Teacher Online Training, which offers courses (for a fee) for teachers interested in implementing technologies in their classroom, or using the technology they currently have in a more meaningful way. The majority of the blog was reviews of free sites or education-oriented tools from outside sources, but there were a few posts that dealt with the programs offered by TOT. It made me wonder whether the blog was intended to be impartial, or a form of advertising... He mentioned his job in the company at the beginning of most if not all of the posts that promoted their programs, but these new guidelines may put this blogger in a sticky situation.
Benjamin Berte

The Best Web 2.0 Applications For Education - 2009 | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the D... - 0 views

larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/...pplications-for-education-2009

web2.0 education resources tools technology Best of 2009 social learning

shared by Benjamin Berte on 06 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Benjamin Berte on 06 Oct 09
     
    Very impressive list of 32 Web 2.0 applications. Especially fitting after today's class.
  • Chris Johnson on 06 Oct 09
     
    I was wondering if I should add this bookmark to the Diigo group but you've already found it. Awesome. By the way, he (Larry Ferlazzo) makes some pretty good blog posts, though he can tend to get a bit wordy.
Xavier Rozas

Who's the better translator: Machines or humans? - 0 views

www.cnn.com/...index.html

emerging technology translation tools

shared by Xavier Rozas on 08 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Facebook
  • Facebook
  • Pros and cons: People are good at knowing idioms and slang, so Facebook tends to get these right, but there are limited numbers of multi-lingual volunteers who want to spend time helping Facebook translate things.
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  • Pros and cons: People are good at knowing idioms and slang, so Facebook tends to get these right, but the
  • Google uses mathematical equations to try to translate the Web's content. This fits in line with the company's mission, which is to organize the world's information and make it useful and accessible to all.
  • Xavier Rozas on 08 Oct 09
     
    Without a doubt Google will develop a user powered and 'usefulness' powered idiom aggregate. In fact, they could use web-bots to scour their translated pages/content for user consensus on 'busted-up lingo, yo'.
Uly Lalunio

A New Web Tool to Take Control of Your Health - NYTimes.com - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...06bosworth.html

Healthcare Technology

shared by Uly Lalunio on 12 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Uly Lalunio on 12 Oct 09
     
    "The national health care debate right now is all about giving more people affordable access to doctors and hospitals. Yet the vast majority of health care decisions - 80 percent or more, experts say - are really made by individuals, instead of medical professionals..."
Xavier Rozas

Webinar--Event Registration (EVENT: 167627) - 0 views

event.on24.com/...EventLobbyServlet

educational technologies emerging technology

shared by Xavier Rozas on 15 Oct 09 - No Cached
  • Webinar guests will detail specific tactics for deploying educational technology to improve student learning, including: • How districts can more effectively analyze data to help improve academic achievement, including specific advice on how teachers should be using data-based decisionmaking to guide instruction. • How one-to-one computing is giving students access to higher-quality curriculum, topical experts, and multimedia tools. • How online courses can affordably help rescue students who are in danger of dropping out, giving them a second chance in real time that would otherwise not be available in their brick-and-mortar schools.
  • Xavier Rozas on 15 Oct 09
     
    I have viewed these webinars before and I would advise you to give it a go.
Shawn Mahoney

Education Week: Twitter Lessons in 140 Characters or Less - 0 views

www.edweek.org/...08twitter_ep.h29.html

Web 2.0 instruction participation

shared by Shawn Mahoney on 24 Oct 09 - Cached
  • shared articles on the separation of church and state, pondered the persistence of racism, and commented on tobacco regulation in Virginia now and during the Colonial period—all in the required Twitter format of 140 or fewer characters
  • He and other teachers first found Twitter valuable for reaching out to colleagues and locating instructional resources
  • short-form communications may have for students’ thinking and learning are not known
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  • Twitter has not caught on among school-age children as quickly or universally as other Web 2.0 tools, such as Facebook or MySpace: Only about 1 percent of the estimated 12 million users in the United States are between the ages of 3 and 17, although young adults are the fastest-growing group of users, according to recent reports.
  • get students engaged in the content and processes of school.
  • “It’s getting kids who aren’t necessarily engaged in class engaged in some sort of conversation.”
  • A recent study, however, renewed concerns about the potential negative impact of the latest technological applications. The study, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found that adults who attempted multiple tasks while using a range of media simultaneously had difficulty processing the information or switching between tasks.
  • Mr. Willingham, who is the author of the new book, Why Don’t Students Like School?: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom.
  • Somebody’s got to create something worth tweeting
  • Shawn Mahoney on 24 Oct 09
     
    Connected to a few class discussions (including one in HT 500 about multitasking)... *potential for greater/more diversity in discussion/participation than in person *what do we mean when we say "multi-task"? *weighty topics/140 characters Somebody's got to create something worth tweeting
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