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The Edtech Year in Review: Top 10 Trends of 2012 | - 3 views

www.technapex.com/...n-review-top-10-trends-of-2012

edtech trends

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  • Danna Ortiz on 18 Dec 12
     
    A look at how ed tech has evolved from 2011 - 2012.
Danna Ortiz

Pitt assists startups with education tech focus - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - 0 views

www.post-gazette.com/...th-education-tech-focus-664955

edtech startups

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  • Danna Ortiz on 18 Dec 12
     
    The Univ of Pittsburg is becoming an ed tech incubator.  They're starting with two products:  SWord a cloud-based peer review program and CE Agent a smart phone app that manages nurses' continuing ed credits.
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Caleb Clark: Why Our Schools Need EdTech Professionals - 1 views

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

edtech professionals schools

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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"
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Trends: How Video Games are Changing Education - 1 views

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edtech video games

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  • Danna Ortiz on 10 Dec 12
     
    Interesting graphic on video games and ed; purports kids who learned by playing an ed game improved their standardized test scores by 50% (no reference however)
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Schools Test Personalized Math Program - WSJ.com - 1 views

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School of One personalized ed

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    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.
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Designs for the Future: Kids and Robots, Superior Medical Devices, Politics for Everyma... - 0 views

www.aspenideas.org/...ical-devices-politics-everyman

start ups ed_entrepreneurs

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  • Danna Ortiz on 23 Nov 12
     
    Stanford's acclaimed d. school inspired 50 teams of graduate students to pitch projects at Aspen Ideas Festival. Spark Truck, one of the winners is a "mobile maker lab" that brings simple tech to help inspire kids to become creators.
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Will Technology Disrupt the Way We Learn? | Aspen Ideas Festival - 1 views

www.aspenideas.org/...echnology-disrupt-way-we-learn

edtech aspen_ideas_festival

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  • Danna Ortiz on 23 Nov 12
     
    The Aspen Ideas Festival has a host of videos, audio clips and transcripts from the 2012 and 2011 sessions on education and edtech. Topics range from "Will Technology Disrupt the Way We Learn" and Knowledge Exchange: Information's Beautiful Future" to "The MiT Media Lab...Seeding Innovation," "The Next Internet" and "Will Technology Truly Transform Education" a panel with Fiona O'Carroll is executive vice president of the New Ventures/Innovation Group at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Ted Mitchell,President/CEO of the NewSchools Venture Fund." There's much more...
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As Boom Lures App Creators, Tough Part Is Making a Living - NYTimes.com - 2 views

www.nytimes.com/...h-part-is-making-a-living.html

app entrepreneur boom

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  • Danna Ortiz on 20 Nov 12
     
    It's tough to make a living creating apps
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What to test instead - Ideas - The Boston Globe - 2 views

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Dede

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  • A new wave of test designers believe they can measure creativity, problem solving, and collaboration – and that a smarter exam could change education.
  • Reengineering tests has become a kind of calling for a group of educators and researchers around the country. With millions of dollars of funding from the federal government, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, as well as from firms like Cisco Systems, Intel, and Microsoft, they have set about rethinking what a test can do, what it can look like, and what qualities it can assess.
  • computer simulations, games, and stealth monitoring
  • ...15 more annotations...
  • Chris Dede at Harvard
  • Such predictions require a clear sense of the qualities a person needs in order to thrive.
  • There are just a lot fewer jobs where you’re not doing information-seeking, interpreting, problem-solving, and communication than in the past.”
  • engineer tests
  • equire people to exercise a bundle of complex skills at the same time,
  • rafting computer programs that take advantage of so-called stealth assessment, a method of judging test-takers without telling them exactly what’s being judged.
  • When we test, we’re really probing for certain qualities—the particular mix of knowledge and ability—that tell us a student is ready to move ahead, or an employee will be an asset to the firm.
  • developed a 3D video game to test scientific skills
  • students
  • evaluated
  • rocess they go through to attack a problem.
  • Harvard developmental psychologist Howard Gardner participated in an effort to design new kinds of tests in the humanities that could be graded objectively.
  • Ultimately, he found that the nuance required to measure softer skills collided with the demands of standardization.
  • A test becomes a sign post,
  • t becomes an example of what to strive for.”
  • Danna Ortiz on 16 Sep 12
     
    How test designers are trying to move away from standardized tests to computer programs that can measure a myriad of skills simultaneously through simulations and "stealth monitoring."  Both Chris Dede and Howard Gardner are mentioned.
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