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Maung Nyeu

Study Finds Robots Inspire New Learning and Creativity Possibilities for Kids - 2 views

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  • Maung Nyeu on 19 Jan 12
     
    Study with 350 children, ages 8-12, from Australia, France, Germany, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States, suggests that Robots may inspire new learning and creativity possibilities.
Jennifer Hern

Dropout Rates in The United States: 2000, Index - 0 views

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  • Jennifer Hern on 22 Sep 09
     
    Since 1990, the gap has remained fairly constant. In addition, Hispanic young adults in the United States continued to have a relatively high status dropout rate when compared to Asian/Pacific Islanders, Whites, or Blacks (table A and table
Danna Ortiz

Caleb Clark: Why Our Schools Need EdTech Professionals - 1 views

www.huffingtonpost.com/...hools-need-edte_b_2258038.html

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  • Danna Ortiz on 10 Dec 12
     
    Schools need edtech staff to provide "intensive, on-the-ground support" to "unite tools and training in a way that renders the marriage of technology and education feasible"
Katherine Tarulli

University gives students space to work 'remotely' - 3 views

www.boston.com/...tudents_space_to_work_remotely

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  • Katherine Tarulli on 26 Nov 11
     
    Connecticut State University created a workspace for students to work remotely, giving companies such as Cigna the opportunity to outsource jobs within the United States. 
Maung Nyeu

Reflecting on OLPC in 2011 | One Laptop per Child - 0 views

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  • Maung Nyeu on 31 Dec 11
     
    OLPC report on 2011 - expanding in Peru, Rwanda, Palestine, and Afghanistan. Dedicated volunteers, with invitation from United Nations and African Union, continue to work with local governments and communities for such expansion.
Mirza Ramic

Online Courses Attract Degree Holders, Survey Finds - NYTimes.com - 2 views

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  • Mirza Ramic on 23 Nov 13
     
    "Although Coursera's founders have presented their MOOCs as a way to democratize higher education by making it available online, free, to anyone in the world, the Penn survey found that in the United States and developing countries alike, most Coursera students were well educated, employed, young and male."
  • Trung Tran on 24 Nov 13
     
    FYI, I went to Penn last year and was aware of this type of survey. Apparently, if you have a chance to look into their methodology, then they probably select a far larger number of Penn alumni than a representative portion. Considering that many Penn alumni love the idea of taking classes for free at their Alma Mater, I feel a bit skeptical about that reported unusually high percentage of bachelor's degree holders.
  • Molly Wasser on 29 Nov 13
     
    I think that this makes a lot of sense. You have to be very self-motivated with a desire to learn AND have the online resources and time to take a MOOC. That's a lot - and I would guess that people who are highly educated tend to be self-motivated. And then young men probably have more time than working parents. There's a lot of constraining factors despite the 'openness' of a MOOC.
Yang Jiang

Internet plays integral role in decision-making: Study - 0 views

www.chinadaily.com.cn/...content_11250274.htm

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  • One of the most interesting findings that we got in the survey, is that although the Internet is by far the most important medium in the lives of consumers, companies continue to under-invest in their online marketing efforts.
  • Beyond the sheer size of this online population, Chinese Internet users are much heavier users of most Internet behaviors, such as researching, communicating or self-expression through using social media tools, than their counterparts in other countries. They also are much more advanced in their use of the Internet across a wide range of activities and behaviors, from researching to using mobile capabilities.
  • Yang Jiang on 03 Sep 10
     
    Internet is certaily playing an incredibly important role in our daily life, no matter in the United States, or China.
Anushka Paul

New Initiative Will Advance the Best Uses of Technology to Improve College Readiness an... - 0 views

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  • Anushka Paul on 21 Oct 10
     
    The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Next Generation Learning Challenges, a collaborative, multi-year initiative, which aims to help dramatically improve college readiness and college completion in the United States through the use of technology.
Hannah Lesk

Educators & Developers Unite: Shared Learning Collaborative Camp Boston - 3 views

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  • Hannah Lesk on 24 Sep 12
     
    As Mary Jo said in class today, the lack of collaboration between teachers and developers is a hugely frustrating. The Shared Learning Collaborative is an organization that tries to bring the groups together for "camps" that tap the skills of both around big problems in education. This weekend, there's a Codeathon/Tagathon in Cambridge aimed at increasing the volume of properly meta-tagged content in the Learning Registry. Could be interesting to check out.
  • Janet Dykstra on 25 Sep 12
     
    This conference addresses a very real gap - I really hope that more opportunities like this one bring people together that share the common goal, but are coming at it from such different perspectives. Thanks, Hannah!
Tomoko Matsukawa

Controversial UN Internet Treaty Approved After United States Walks Out - 2 views

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  • Drew Nelson on 14 Dec 12
     
    I clicked through some related articles on this one a little bit, and it's worth following up on. I want to know how this treaty plans to address spam and cyberattacks. It is certainly high-time for this treaty to be updated, if it has truly not happened since 1988. The internet is certainly important enough to warrant further discussion, but I feel as if I'm speaking out of turn. I do not know what other treaty exist regarding internet based telecommunication in the UN.
Jeffrey Siegel

Harnessing Technology to Improve K-12 Education - 0 views

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  • Jeffrey Siegel on 03 Oct 12
     
    Paper from the Brookings Institute addressing the status-quo, challenges, opportunities and concerns of embracing tech in K-12 education in the United States
Billie Fitzpatrick

Lesson Planning and the Common Core: A Unit Based on TED.com - 2 views

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  • Billie Fitzpatrick on 04 Dec 11
     
    A great example of integrating tech into a lesson plan, breaking down steps to create your own TED talk with social bookmarks and dogpile!
Bridget Binstock

EdTech Digest Awards 2011 for Disruptive Technologies - 4 views

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  • Bridget Binstock on 17 Nov 11
     
    Here is a list of finalists and winners in a number of different categories from product or service to presentation solutions. This is only the list, but searching on their name will give more information. Pearson's Online Learning Exchange (born from my Science Business Unit) was a finalist for new product or service. Enjoy!
Sunanda V

Minecraft Developer and UN Collaborate to Get Youth Involved with Urban Planning - 0 views

www.learninggamesnetwork.org/mojang-un-block-by-block

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  • Sunanda V on 22 Sep 12
     
    This game encourages students to use Minecraft to build their own cities and engage in critical thinking about urban planning. The partnership with the UN will mean that students' engagement in the project will have real world application and consequences as urban planners consider their ideas and plans. Quote: "The first pilot project is already in the planning phase: Kibera, one of Nairobi's slums, is already being translated into Minecraft by builder group FyreUK"
Harley Chang

The King of MOOCs Abdicates the Throne - 3 views

www.slate.com/...cessful_for_most_students.html

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  • Harley Chang on 21 Nov 13
     
    Sebastian Thrun, CEO of Udacity, has openly admitted that his company's MOOC courses are a lousy replacement for actual university class and instead will be taking his company to focus more on corporate training. I personally will reserve further judgement until after I finish the readings for next week.
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  • Grif Peterson on 21 Nov 13
     
    I posted this article in G+ a day or two ago. Some of the better commentary surrounding this article below. Tressie McMillan Cottom: "Thrun says it wasn't a failure. It was a lesson. But for the students who invested time and tuition in an experiment foisted on them by the of stewards public highered trusts, failure is a lesson they didn't need." Rebecca Schuman: "Thrun blames neither the corporatization of the university nor the MOOC's use of unqualified "student mentors" in assessment. Instead, he blames the students themselves for being so poor." Stephen Downes: "I think that what amuses me most about the reaction to the Thrun story is the glowing descriptions of him have only intensified. "The King of MOOCs." "The Genius Godfather of MOOCs." Really now. As I and the many other people working toward the same end have pointed out repeatedly, the signal change in MOOCs is openess, not whatever it was (hubris? VC money?) that Thrun brought to the table. Rebecca Schuman claims this is a victory for "the tiny, for-credit, in-person seminar." It's not that, no more than the Titanic disaster was a victory for wind-powered passenger transportation."
  • Molly Wasser on 29 Nov 13
     
    Grif - where did the Stephen Downes quote come from ? I read the Rebecca Schuman article and don't really agree with her. To expand on the Schuman quote you posted - it's really interesting how she says the massive lecture format doesn't work but then provides two examples of massive technology that do work - texting and World of Warcraft. This relates directly to some of what we talked about earlier this semester. I don't think it's the 'massive,' as Schuman implies, that causes the failure of a MOOC. It's part of the design. Once the design is better and more engaging, then MOOCs may find that they have higher retention rates. Schuman: Successful education needs personal interaction and accountability, period. This is, in fact, the same reason students feel annoyed, alienated, and anonymous in large lecture halls and thus justified in sexting and playing World of Warcraft during class-and why the answer is not the MOOC, but the tiny, for-credit, in-person seminar that has neither a sexy acronym nor a potential for huge corporate partnerships.
  • Grif Peterson on 09 Dec 13
     
    The Downes quote was from OLDaily, which is a daily listserve of his that I subscribe too. I think the difference between texting/WoW and MOOCs is that, while both have many many users, the former two have means in which those groups are disaggregated into smaller units that are largely responsible for the UX/individual growth that goes on. I agree with you that massive is not necessarily the failure, in fact, I think it's the best thing they have going for them. However, until the design can leverage meaningful collaboration, like WoW and texting, the massive will remain a burden.
Jennifer Hern

Dropout Rates in The United States: 2000, Index - 0 views

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  • his report is the 13th in a series of National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) reports on high school dropout a
  • h school dropout and completion rates for the period 1972 through 2000. In addition to extending time series data reported in earlier years, this report examines the characteristics of high school dropouts
Brandon Bentley

"Singapore Math" - 1 views

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  • Brandon Bentley on 01 Oct 10
     
    Curious what math teachers in our class think about this. Anyone worked with these methods?
  • Garron Hillaire on 02 Oct 10
     
    I was talking with Arene about this. He has taught math in middle school and high school in Singapore. When I asked if teaching this in the US would be effective he had some interesting points. You should talk with him to get an accurate account, but one of the questions he raised in our conversation was the following: Does this pedagogy that works in the cultural context of Singapore transfer to the United States?
Mydhili Bayyapunedi

Ed 2.0 Social networking and education - 1 views

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  • Mydhili Bayyapunedi on 02 Nov 10
     
    Great article along with an infographic on the usage of social network in US education "Wikis are an excellent tool for open collaboration and knowledge sharing because they allow everyone to contribute. Roughly 22 percent of United States school districts are involved in creating or maintaining wikis. Educational wikis give teachers and students a place to contribute to the community on the ideas and projects they are working on in the classroom. Wikis teach students how teamwork and collaboration benefit society through knowledge sharing."
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