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Matt Riecken

Redefining Learning Through Screencasting | Edutopia - 2 views

www.edutopia.org/...ugh-screencasting-beth-holland

shared by Matt Riecken on 05 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • in the classrooms where I have been conducting research on student screencasting, one of the most remarkable and consistent unintended outcomes was that students, no matter how young or old, and no matter what discipline, intrinsically reflected, self-­assessed, and adjusted their articulation of understanding. Even when the screencasts were being made for an audience of zero, this phenomenon occurred. None of the teachers involved in the study ever instructed students to play back their screencasts or make revisions. The students just did it.
  • Matt Riecken on 05 Sep 13
     
    This is a very interesting use of tablets in the classroom. Students are using iPads to create 'Screencasts' that allow the them to create a kind of 'tutorial' using a mixture of elements (audio, images, drawing and text) to showcase what they have learned.
Ryan Klinger

Should Children Really Be Expected to Have Grit? - 1 views

blogs.edweek.org/..._be_expected_to_have_grit.html

education learning

shared by Ryan Klinger on 12 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • Ryan Klinger on 12 Sep 13
     
    op-ed that centers on the concept of "students need to understand that failure is a part of life." A nice take away is that playing it safe and not taking risks will restrict news ideas and new practices.
Krithika Jagannath

http://www.centerdigitaled.com/news/Astronomy-Class-Online-Learning-Human.html - 7 views

The strategies that Ringham shares (welcome project, videos and audio interactions) sounds like a positive step towards achieving promotive interaction. I suppose next, in designing the online plat...

started by William Vitale on 15 Sep 13 2 follow-ups, last by Krithika Jagannath on 15 Sep 13
William Vitale

What roles will AI begin to fill in classes? - 2 views

http://edtechtimes.com/2013/04/05/10-ways-artificial-intelligence-can-change-education/ The idea of having access to an AI tutor is in all honesty pretty amazing. At this point when I don't under...

started by William Vitale on 13 Dec 13 no follow-up yet
Jennifer Hern

Understanding Users of Social Networks - HBS Working Knowledge - 0 views

hbswk.hbs.edu/6156.html

social_networks gender_differences Twitter Facebook MySpace social_media

shared by Jennifer Hern on 19 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Jennifer Hern on 19 Sep 09
     
    Online social networks are most useful when they address failures in the real world. Pictures are the killer app of social networks. Women and men use these sites differently. Businesses shouldn't consider SNs as just another channel.
Xavier Rozas

Technology Review: An Advert for In-Game Violence - 0 views

www.technologyreview.com/...23336

business recall violence games

shared by Xavier Rozas on 09 Sep 09 - Cached
  • A team of European and U.S. researchers found ads displayed along with violent scenes to be more memorable to players than those shown with nonviolent content, even though players spent less time looking at them. The results are contrary to expectations stemming from research on television, where violence has been shown to decrease attention to advertisements. Developing a better understanding of the way advertising works in games could help game companies enhance their advertising strategies.
  • Those who played a violent version of the game, where the goal was to run down pedestrians, resulting in a blood-splattered screen, demonstrated significantly better recall of advertised brands than those who played the regular version. The researchers presented their work at the International Conference on Entertainment Computing last year.
  • Xavier Rozas on 09 Sep 09
     
    The unholy marrage of violent gaming and hightened advert recall...Clearly there are educational implications to be considered here.
Jennifer Hern

Which Came First - The Technology or the Pedagogy? -- THE Journal - 0 views

thejournal.com/...21st-Century-Teaching.aspx

pedagogy teaching_with_technology

shared by Jennifer Hern on 09 Sep 09 - Cached
    • Jennifer Hern
      Jennifer Hern on 09 Sep 09
       
      Yes! School systems should provide (and require) technology professional development for teachers.
  • teachers more knowledgeable about technology than any before it arriving in classrooms with little understanding of how to teach with it?
  • Jennifer Hern on 09 Sep 09
     
    trying this out first...
Parisa Rouhani

Obama urges students to work hard, stay in school - CNN.com - 0 views

edition.cnn.com/...index.html

shared by Parisa Rouhani on 09 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Parisa Rouhani on 09 Sep 09
     
    I'm missing something because i don't understand why she feels scared to be in the country because POTUS is telling kids to stay in school.
Uche Amaechi

Importing bookmarks from Delicious - 12 views

As I mentioned earlier, I had difficulty importing my bookmarks from Delicious. I sent in a help request and the issue got fixed (sort of). If you were also having difficulty, just keep trying. App...

import support delicious problems

started by Chris Johnson on 04 Sep 09 1 follow-up, last by Uche Amaechi on 04 Sep 09
Jessica O'Brien

First virtual school in Mass. opens Thursday - Boston.com - 4 views

www.boston.com/..._school_in_mass_opens_thursday

shared by Jessica O'Brien on 01 Sep 10 - Cached
    • Jessica O'Brien
      Jessica O'Brien on 05 Sep 10
       
      Poor student health is associated with educational gaps. It seems possible that virtual schools may one day offer an effective alternative to traditional schools for children with chronic disease. However, it seems far too premature to consider that application yet.
  • Chris Dede on 01 Sep 10
     
    Very few virtual schools have worked with students this young, so there are interesting questions about jumping from no virtual schooling all the way to this model.
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  • P Parson on 01 Sep 10
     
    I wonder what the purpose would be of having a school entirely virtual. I can see this being a better opportunity for children in rural communities who are limited by distance (overlooking the financial aspect, of course). I also see this as a subtle way to eventually reduce staffing (not as many teachers and support staff workers needed). Have we evaluated the physical effects of children being glued to a screen for six hours a day?
  • Justin Reich on 01 Sep 10
     
    There is a really fascinating and controversial policy story behind this. Through "legislative sausage-making" the states first virtual school is being run by a single district out in Western Mass., mostly as a result of the entrepreneurial spirit of the superintendent. There are big questions about what will happen as students across the state sign up for the virtual school and their districts are required to pay tuition to Greenfield. And Greenfield isn't really providing a school, they are just enrolling students to be taught by a for-profit company, K-12. There are quite a few very interesting policy issues that would be worth digging into as the state launches this new venture in an unusual way.
  • P Parson on 01 Sep 10
     
    When I first read the article, I immediately thought "an idealist gone rogue." I wondered if there was even any research/method behind this decision, and you mentioned there is a fee. Did I understand correctly that the school district will have to pay this fee for the student like some sort of voucher? If I get a chance I'm going to look for more articles out there on this project. Thanks for mentioning it, Justin. Interesting, indeed.
Jessica O'Brien

Higher Education's Tech Dilemmas - Science and Tech - The Atlantic - 2 views

www.theatlantic.com/...61363

Higher education electronic readers

shared by Jessica O'Brien on 05 Sep 10 - Cached
  • Electronic readers and textbooks, while an interesting concept and potentially lucrative for publishers, so far aren't meeting student needs
  • A host of research over the past decade has shown that even the option to click hyperlinks to related material can create confusion and weaken understanding.
  • The iPad measured at 6.2% lower reading speed than the printed book, whereas the Kindle measured at 10.7% slower than print
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  • Education's real problem with readers is the dismaying fact that mass information technology out of the box was not developed for education.
  • Jessica O'Brien on 05 Sep 10
     
    This article summarizes some research findings that suggest that electronic readers, such as the Kindle and iPad, are still inferior to the printed page and may even worsen student comprehension of material. The most up-to-date information technology seems inadequate for educational and academic needs.
Ellen Loudermilk

The 5 Keys to Educational Technology -- THE Journal - 3 views

thejournal.com/...to-educational-technology.aspx

educational_technology

shared by Ellen Loudermilk on 20 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Implementation is essential, especially when one understands that educational technology is about affecting particular outcomes.
  • Certainly, these objects have demonstrable value; however, techniques and processes in teaching and learning are at least equally important
  • use of appropriate tools
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  • human capabilities are not wholly adequate to the demands of the modern teaching and learning enterprise, and this is where technology as facilitator has a role
  • Demonstrations, illustrations, instruction across learning styles
  • If no improvements are made with the adoption of new technology, then there is no point to utilizing any technology except for the most basic required to obtain that unchanging level of learning
  • need to assess our outcomes, make incremental changes in our methodologies to address shortcomings, then assess again
  • Ellen Loudermilk on 20 Sep 10
     
    The author's top 5 keys to successful education technology... do you agree? Is it missing anything?
  • quintintanderson on 21 Sep 10
     
    One of the more powerful messages I have learned in Stone's class is when you are designing an educational intervention you have to know WHEN to ask the question: what technology, if any, will improve our educational problem? Before you ask this question, the problem should be clearly identified, and the steps to assess if the problem is improving should be laid out. When you have this information, you can then tailor the technology to specifically meet the needs of your current problem. In this way, technology is sort of the means (not the ends!) towards improving education. So, in addition to the author's 5 key factors for educational technology, I would like to add: Is the technology a good fit for addressing our clearly defined educational problem?
Lisa Estrin

STEM Education Has Little to Do With Flowers - 2 views

www.nytimes.com/...05angier.html

STEM technology education

shared by Lisa Estrin on 05 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Lisa Estrin on 05 Oct 10
     
    Article about how "STEM" is a popular acronym/buzzword that many people don't understand.
Ellen Loudermilk

People Spend 927 Million Hours Per Month Playing Facebook Games - 1 views

gizmodo.com/...r-month-playing-facebook-games

Facebook technology games apps

shared by Ellen Loudermilk on 20 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Brandon Bentley on 21 Oct 10
     
    Hi Ellen, I think this is an interesting topic. You may be interested in Piskorski's work at HBS. Professor Piskorski's current research examines why and how people use on-line social networks, both in the US and abroad. Using extensive fieldwork and large scale empirical analyses, he constructed theories of social failures and networks as covers which allow us to understand numerous facets of people's on-line behaviors. http://drfd.hbs.edu/fit/public/facultyInfo.do?facInfo=ovr&facId=10663
amy hoffmaster

NSTA :: Journal Article - 1 views

www.nsta.org/...article.aspx

cyberlearning

shared by amy hoffmaster on 06 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • amy hoffmaster on 06 Oct 10
     
    NSTA's Science Teacher must have known we just spent the class with Paul Horowitz. Jan Mokros (TERC) is an author here
  • amy hoffmaster on 06 Oct 10
     
    "One teacher commented, "It's hard to manage the class when students become 'click happy' without really understanding what they're doing." However, requiring students to verbally explain and justify their reasoning before proceeding to the next screen was an effective solution."
Chris Dede

Blending Computers Into Classrooms - WSJ.com - 1 views

online.wsj.com/...4772804575558383085638118.html

computers integration classrooms new-york

shared by Chris Dede on 18 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Chris Dede on 18 Oct 10
     
    old tech in new bottles
  • Margaret O'Connell on 20 Oct 10
     
    What is old tech here? Just trying to understand your comment since this "blended learning" looks like exactly something I'd like to do in my classroom. Cool article!
Garron Hillaire

Smarter Than You Think - Aiming to Learn as We Do, A Machine Teaches Itself - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...05compute.html

AI Language Learning technology

shared by Garron Hillaire on 06 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • “For all the advances in computer science, we still don’t have a computer that can learn as humans do, cumulatively, over the long term,”
  • The Never-Ending Language Learning system, or NELL, has made an impressive showing so far. NELL scans hundreds of millions of Web pages for text patterns
  • NELL is one project in a widening field of research and investment aimed at enabling computers to better understand the meaning of language.
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  • “What’s exciting and significant about it is the continuous learning, as if NELL is exercising curiosity on its own, with little human help,”
  • Garron Hillaire on 06 Oct 10
     
    CMU working on an AI that is curious about language.
Cameron Paterson

Will technology kill the academic semester? - 1 views

chronicle.com/...124857

t561 disruption

shared by Cameron Paterson on 12 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • online program that lets students start class any day they want and finish at their own speed
  • The open format of Jefferson's program, called Learn Anytime, means students don't move through classes in groups. None of Mr. Smith's 400 online students will have a discussion or do a group project with classmates
  • "It doesn't allow students to get a deep understanding of the content."
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  • Regardless of criticism like that, the model is spreading.
  • ther than programs like Learn Anytime, online education generally mimics the familiar face-to-face template. A group of students moves through course work at a set pace and discusses the lessons, typically in a course forum. Jefferson's effort to break that mold grew out of a dual-credit project with a local public-school system. Since 2007, Learn Anytime has exploded from a couple of hundred students to nearly 1,300
  • Mr. Johnson's classroom isn't just virtual. It's also largely automated.
  • "The next frontier in online learning," says Mr. Anderson, "is to merge the social stuff with the self-paced stuff."
  • Cameron Paterson on 12 Oct 10
     
    Ford T. Smith is helping to bulldoze one of the most durable pillars of academic life: the semester.
Margaret O'Connell

The Khan Academy Brings Disrupting Class to Life - 0 views

www.huffingtonpost.com/...academy-brings-d_b_764562.html

Khan Disrupting

shared by Margaret O'Connell on 23 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Lastly, toward the end of the video Khan talks about his surprise that it's not just him and other math geeks who want to learn and understand these concepts -- and get pleasure from it. He reads a letter about someone who solves a derivative and smiles. This resonates and matches our new chapter in the new edition of Disrupting Class -- that a fundamental job people have to do is to feel successful and achieve.
  • Margaret O'Connell on 23 Oct 10
     
    Check out the video at http://vimeo.com/11731351 (It's the same info Cameron posted a while ago but this time it's made the widely read Huffington Post ... and I think it's a good repeat post since I, for one, didn't pay enough attention to this the first time I heard about it.)
Eric Kattwinkel

Out of Our Brains - NYTimes.com - 2 views

opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/...out-of-our-brains

neuroscience learning

shared by Eric Kattwinkel on 13 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • There is no more reason, from the perspective of evolution or learning, to favor the use of a brain-only cognitive strategy than there is to favor the use of canny (but messy, complex, hard-to-understand) combinations of brain, body and world.
  • When information flows, some of the most important unities may emerge in integrated processing regimes that weave together activity in brain, body, and world.
  • Eric Kattwinkel on 13 Dec 10
     
    A professor of logic and metaphysics suggests that IPods, BlackBerrys, and laptops can be seen as extensions of our minds -- "bio-external elements in an extended cognitive process."
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