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American classrooms are outdated. Slate seeks your great ideas for how to modernize the... - 3 views

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classrooms Education classroom educational_technology

shared by Garron Hillaire on 10 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • American classrooms are outdated. Slate seeks your great ideas for how to modernize them.
  • Slate is seeking your best ideas for transforming the American school
  • You can submit your design between now and Friday, Oct. 29
  • Garron Hillaire on 10 Oct 10
     
    Slate has asked for people to submit ideas on what the 21st century 5th grade classroom should look like. It will be interesting to see what suggestions show up on this website.
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Smarter Than You Think - Aiming to Learn as We Do, A Machine Teaches Itself - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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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.
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The Case For Social Media in Schools - 3 views

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shared by Garron Hillaire on 30 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Elizabeth Delmatoff started a pilot social media program in her Portland, Oregon classroom, 20% of students school-wide were completing extra assignments for no credit, grades had gone up more than 50%
  • Although Delmatoff is adamant that there’s no way to pin her class’s increased academic success specifically to the pilot program, it’s hard to say that it didn’t play a part in the more than 50% grade increase.
  • Kidblog.org is one of many free tools that allow teachers to control an online environment while still benefiting from social media. Delmatoff managed her social media class without a budget by using free tools like Edmodo and Edublogs.
  • Garron Hillaire on 30 Sep 10
     
    An article that advocates the use of social media in the classroom. It highlights one pilot program in Oregon.
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SAS® Curriculum Pathways® uses Connexor Technology to Help Teach Children Wri... - 2 views

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Writting Skills Immediate Feedback technology

shared by Garron Hillaire on 26 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • The product includes Writing Reviser, which provides immediate feedback and enables students to correct and improve their work on the spot. Writing Reviser encourages students to ask questions experienced writers ask automatically - at every stage of the composition process.
  • tailoring advice to the student’s own work
  • Garron Hillaire on 26 Sep 10
     
    Software that tailors writing advise to the student
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BASE10, The DSi and Lefties Left Out - Chicago video game | Examiner.com - 2 views

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Video Game Design Flaw Left-Handed

shared by Garron Hillaire on 16 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • There is a percentage of people in the world who hold that DS stylus a bit differently than the rest of you gamers out there and despite the attention of much of the gaming development industry, when we get ignored it isn’t difficult to avoid taking notice
  • Garron Hillaire on 16 Sep 10
     
    Designers of games need to consider the audience. Here is an example of a game that excludes left handed players. The DSi is a small hand held device with two screens. This game is played by holding the device open as you would a book. The problem is that numbers are moving from the left page to the right page and players are expected to use a stylus to interact with the right page. Left handed players block the view of the game and cannot play.
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BBC News - How good software makes us stupid - 1 views

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brain learning software education google neuroscience

shared by Garron Hillaire on 13 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • "No problem - let me just enter that into my sat-nav…"
  • unless drivers pass a formidable test - called "The Knowledge" - they are not allowed to head out onto the roads in one of the iconic vehicles
  • "The particular part of our brain that stores mental images of space is actually quite enlarged in London cab drivers," explained Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
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  • The key to making us concentrate, Mr Carr suggests, is perhaps to make tasks difficult - a theory which flies in the face of software designers the world over who constantly strive to make their programs easier to use than the competition.
  • Mr Carr says that this simple experiment could suggest that as computer software becomes easier to use, making complicated tasks easier, we risk losing the ability to properly learn something - in effect "short-circuiting" the brain
  • Garron Hillaire on 13 Sep 10
     
    An argument that Good Software design is bad for learning
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California testing iPads as algebra textbooks - The Hill's Hillicon Valley - 4 views

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shared by Garron Hillaire on 08 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • A pilot project in four California school districts will replace 400 students' eighth-grade algebra textbooks with Apple iPads
  • "This is a seminal moment. It marks the fundamental shift from print delivery of curriculum to digital," said John Sipe, vice president of K-12 sales at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
  • Students with iPads will have instant access to more than 400 videos from teaching experts walking them through the concepts and assignments
  • Garron Hillaire on 08 Sep 10
     
    One example of using Ipads instead of math books. There is a brief mention of incorporating video, but the article does not go into detail about the format of the digital text books
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Writer Neal Stephenson Unveils His Digital Novel The Mongoliad - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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writer stephenson social digital publishing

shared by Garron Hillaire on 01 Sep 10 - Cached
  • The company, based in Seattle and San Francisco, has developed what it calls the PULP platform for creating digital novels
  • aterial like background articles, images, music, and video. There are also social features that allow readers to create the
  • There are also social features that allow readers to create their own profiles, earn badges for activity on the site or in the application, and interact with other readers.
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  • Stephenson isn’t writing the book alone. There’s a team led by a writer Mark Teppo; it also includes Greg Bear, author of Blood Music and other science fiction novels. Stephenson compared the experience to writing a TV show, and not just because it’s a team of writers.
  • Garron Hillaire on 01 Sep 10
     
    The PULP platform is an example of a writer trying to respond to people wanting more than traditional publishing. If this platform, or something like it, was widely accepted by people it might build a better case for alternative forms of publishing in education
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