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Chris Dede

Free Digital Learning Transition MOOC for Educators Starts Sept. 30 -- Campus Technology - 3 views

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digital transition MOOC NCSU

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  • Chris Dede on 11 Sep 13
     
    This MOOC has a better design than most, and I could get one of the leaders to teleconference with T561, if desired.
  • Andrea Flores on 13 Sep 13
     
    I think a live teleconference would be great!
Hannah Lesk

NY Times Op-Ed: Long Live Paper - 2 views

www.nytimes.com/...long-live-paper.html

e-readers digital reading textbooks

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  • Hannah Lesk on 10 Oct 12
     
    A point of view challenging the rapid transition to digital textbooks. 
  • Jason Yamashiro on 11 Oct 12
     
    These op-eds and blogs keep popping up, but I have yet to read one that is at all compelling. It was particularly entertaining when this author referenced how digital photography put Polaroid out of business. Hard to understand why one would use that reference when defending the textbook. The funny thing is that textbooks were never a fantastic learning tool to begin with. The real danger is that digital textbooks will not not make the dramatic improvements that they may be capable of when it comes to teaching the material.
Jeffrey Siegel

In digital textbook transition, device availability is just the beginning - 0 views

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digital textbooks technology education

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  • Jeffrey Siegel on 23 Oct 12
     
    Discusses some funding and infrastructure hurdles (e.g.broadband services) in rolling-out digital textbooks
Maung Nyeu

Conference Highlights Importance of Technology in Education | Essential Public Radio - 0 views

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Emerging Technology technology education learning t561

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  • Maung Nyeu on 17 Nov 11
     
    Obama's American job act to spend $944 million for modernization projects for schools in Pennsylvania. Karen Cator, Director of Education Technology for the U.S. Department of Education, says US classrooms are in the midst of transition from print to digital learning environment, that is highly engaging and people focused.
Chris Dede

The Future of Education: Tablets vs. Textbooks - 0 views

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tablets textbooks concerns

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  • Chris Dede on 08 Oct 12
     
    Key concerns about the sudden rush to dump textbooks for open source content
  • Jason Yamashiro on 09 Oct 12
     
    This transition will happen relatively quickly given the current cost of textbooks and the low cost of tablets. Fortunately, I think we will find that the digital textbooks and other features on the tablets will be far more engaging and effective teaching tools than the traditional textbook. The ability of the digital text to read aloud (in several languages) and provide visual support including high def color diagrams, animation, and video, as well as create intuitive links to vocabulary and 'checking for understanding' will be a great support to students and teachers.
Hessa Ahmad

Why haven't districts adopted blended learning faster? - 0 views

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education technology learning t561

shared by Hessa Ahmad on 16 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • Hannah Lesk on 16 Nov 12
     
    Thanks for posting this, Hessa. I would add a few reasons to the list, most pressingly: the lack of research/proven results that districts considering blended learning can cite to justify their transition, and school cultures, which are very difficult to change!
Roshanak Razavi

Twenty Five Million Dollars for Blended Learning - 1 views

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blended learning

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  • Roshanak Razavi on 20 Oct 12
     
    Blended learning got the vote of Brian Greenberg, the former leader of Oakland's Envision Schools and the Fisher Family Foundation to spend on transitioning from the current instructional model of 25 Bay Area Schools.
Jaclyn Ruszala

1-to-1 Computing: Turning Around School Technology - 6 views

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technology education

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  • Bridget Binstock on 07 Dec 11
     
    This article explains why the district chose laptops over tablet and how the community is helping to turn the schools around.
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  • Allison Browne on 08 Dec 11
     
    This is a very throrough article.If replaceing computers every 4 years and maintaining them is only 4% of the budget, I wonder what all the resistence is to schools maintaining computers. Is 4% still too much? Is 4% specific to this Alabama district? Also, I felt individualized instruction for foreign language would be the best way to transition a school towards networked individualized learning in a school environment. It's silly that everyone in elementary schools has to take the same language simply because there is only one foreign language teacher. Instead of a Spanish teacher you would need to hire multi-lingual specialists who are able to monitor langauge acquisition. Cool future!
  • Kasthuri Gopalaratnam on 09 Dec 11
     
    "The teachers that were involved said that if every kid had their own computer, we could do amazing things". It would be interesting to know if the teachers presented some concrete ideas of 'amazing things'. It would also be interesting to know whether they have a bank of spare laptops to loan to the students while the defective ones are getting fixed. I have a feeling that in the not-so-distant future the choice between a tablet and a computer may become a moot point. The hardware that powers a MacBook Air and iPad is very similar. We have laptops that double as tablets and tablets that are paired with a keyboard to be used as a laptop. Eventually these two will merge.
  • Billie Fitzpatrick on 19 Dec 11
     
    Great overview of the issues -- I agree with Kasthuri -- I think the issue will become moot
William Vitale

Startups are about to blow up the textbook - 3 views

A question for anyone from an economics background in the class: are there theories yet about what kind of economic effects we would expect to see as a result of a rapid transition to digital forma...

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Ryan Klinger

Transition to Online Testing Sparks Concerns - 2 views

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educational_technology

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  • Ryan Klinger on 01 Nov 13
     
    The notion of tens of millions of students starting to take common core exams online vs paper and pencil raises questions about the comparability of results.
Jennifer Hern

A library without the books - The Boston Globe - 0 views

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  • Tia Alliy, a 16-year-old junior, said she visits the library nearly every day, but only once looked for a book in the stacks. She’s not alone. School officials said when they checked library records one day last spring only 48 books had been checked out, and 30 of those were children’s books.
  • School officials said when they checked library records one day last spring only 48 books had been checked out, and 30 of those were children’s books.
  • Tia Alliy, a 16-year-old junior, said she visits the library nearly every day, but only once looked for a book in the stacks. She’s not alone. School officials said when they checked library records one day last spring only 48 books had been checked out, and 30 of those were children’s books.
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  • School officials said when they checked library records one day last spring only 48 books had been checked out, and 30 of those were children’s books.
  • Erin McCloskey on 10 Sep 09
     
    Cushing Academy is transitioning from traditional library to a learning center without books, staffed with electronic readers.
Uche Amaechi

Confessions of an Aca/Fan: Archives: Youtube in the Amazon: Rural Peru's Transition to ... - 0 views

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learning technology developing world t561 ed tech

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  • Uche Amaechi on 05 Sep 09
     
    Bringing Wireless Infrastructure to small villages in Peru. Why and how?
  • Jennifer Hern on 12 Sep 09
     
    Jenny, you should check this one out...
Devon Dickau

BBC News - The rights and wrongs of digital books - 2 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...technology-11693222

E-books copyright issues technology

shared by Devon Dickau on 22 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • The latter part of 2010 may mark the point from which future historians date the transition to screen-based reading for literary fiction as well as reference works
  • However, even they are not yet willing to accept that the price of electronic texts is too high, and that readers will not pay the same for a bunch of bits as they will for a bound book, since the market knows that it costs less to send electrons over a network than it does to buy paper, make books out of it and ship the physical objects around the world
  • When you buy an digital copy to read on your e-book reader, phone or laptop all you get is the copyrighted bit, and what you pay for is a licence to have a copy or copies of the text.
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  • Amazon recently announced that it will let Kindle owners "lend" books, but only for two weeks and only once per title.
  • The idea of "intellectual property" deliberately conflates the two and allows politicians to pretend that laws about physical property should extend to digital downloads. We need to challenge this unjustifiable elision if we are to think seriously about copyright and business models in the age of electronics.
Bridget Binstock

Experts Wary of New Tablet for Babies, Toddlers - 1 views

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Emerging Technology children development tablet

shared by Bridget Binstock on 21 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Bridget Binstock on 21 Sep 11
     
    How young is TOO young to get technology in front of children? Baby Einstein DVDs are used as early as a few weeks old to "babysit" (entertain, soothe, and occupy) a baby - is the tablet just the newest "babysitter" on the market?
  • Stephen Bresnick on 24 Sep 11
     
    That's WAY too young to "babysit". We have been learning in Joe's class this week that parents using media as a means of parental substitution can have deleterious effects on a child's emotional development and ability to internalize good media messages and reject dangerous media messages. Giving babies tablets when they are that young reeks of lazy parenting, in my opinion. Unless the tablet becomes that "Transitional Object" that we are reading about in Turkle/Resnick's class....Gotta love when all of the class readings converge into similar ideas!
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