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Contents contributed and discussions participated by Jennifer Jocz

Jennifer Jocz

University World News - GLOBAL: Virtual simulation in classroom - 0 views

  • "It was funny because the [preference for Second Life] were in the female group, which means the females found the experience more useful than males; that is really interesting because we are working on a game-based approach and we tend to think that games are for boys and not for girls."
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      It would be interesting to investigate what aspects of the experience appealed to females.
Jennifer Jocz

Web technology is about to change how we learn | VentureBeat - 0 views

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    Highlights some advantages of web-based education
Jennifer Jocz

BBC NEWS | UK | Education | Facebook 'cuts student drop-outs' - 0 views

  • Facebook pages for individual courses help the students to bond with each other, work together as a team and maintain their connection with staff.
  • "Technology is no longer an optional extra - and modern trends such as social networking should not be ignored,"
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Online education expands for U.S. need, awaits innovation - USATODAY.com - 1 views

  • Proponents of online education cite a recent Department of Education study that concluded course work is better absorbed online than material presented in live classrooms.
  • interest in online education may have plateaued for now, awaiting innovations that will transform the experience beyond screen imitations of the brick-and-mortar curriculum
  • Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen predicted half of kindergarten through high school students will attend school online within the next decade.
Jennifer Jocz

The Education Solution - Forbes.com - 1 views

  • He has made a career out of buying and selling accredited schools and turning them around by positioning them to focus on specific niches.
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      He's focusing on specific groups...the "nonconsumers"
  • nothing other than online education can meet the needs of billions of people hungry for an opportunity to learn and secure a passport out of poverty.
Jennifer Jocz

Colleges learn to live with social media -- baltimoresun.com - 1 views

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    Interesting article about how some colleges are utilizing social media and the challenges it presents
Jennifer Jocz

Inside the Navy's Command Center of the Future | Geek Gestalt - CNET News - 0 views

  • the CCoF would have AI meant to discern what is being talked about during a teleconference and to know how to source up whatever documents are needed as they're needed.
Jennifer Jocz

Books Go 3-D Starting with Ology Series in U.K. - 9/24/2009 12:10:00 PM - Publishers We... - 1 views

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    merging augmented reality with reading
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Augmented Reality Headsets to Help ISS Astronauts | Popular Science - 0 views

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    AR helps astronauts in the International Space Station perform tasks.
Jennifer Jocz

Could Tag Technology Replace Google Search? | InventorSpot - 0 views

  • Many believe AR is the tipping point for mobile phones to supplant desktop searches in the next few years.


  • Tagword search on cellphones, like keyword search on desktops might become the dominant format to search for items in real-time.
  • Things in our real-world tagged with barcodes could provide much more information, which could Internet of Thingsthen be updated without having to change the original tag
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    An article describing how AR apps for cellphones could provide users with location-based data using barcode tagging.
Jennifer Jocz

Social Networking in Schools: Incentives for Participation -- THE Journal - 0 views

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    Provides a good overview of some social networks used in education
Jennifer Jocz

Moving Toward a New Vision of Education - US News and World Report - 0 views

  • the studies carried out at compulsory education level were not able to show the transformation and improvement of learning in schools that had been promised as a result of incorporating technology into the classroom
  • they are usually integrated in such a way as to continue with current methods, and not to overturn them in any significant way
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    Describes a group looking at the role of technology in both formal and informal educational settings.
Jennifer Jocz

A Virtual Revolution Is Brewing for Colleges - washingtonpost.com - 0 views

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    This article talks about online-learning and the ways it may change the college experience. While I agree that new technology is affecting the way our courses are run, I don't see it leading to the complete shut down of Universities. While it is wonderful that people have access to courses and resources that they may not otherwise have, I believe that there will always be a need for face-to-face interactions that one can only get from a University setting.
Jennifer Jocz

Education, psychology and technology: Games lessons | The Economist - 0 views

  • transferring much of the pedagogic effort from the teachers themselves (who will now act in an advisory role) to a set of video games
  • Periods of maths, science, history and so on are no more. Quest to Learn’s school day will, rather, be divided into four 90-minute blocks devoted to the study of “domains”.
  • in education, as in other fields of activity, it is not enough just to apply new technologies to existing processes—for maximum effect you have to apply them in new and imaginative ways.
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    An article discussing the use of video games being used to replace the traditional "chalk talk". The games also combines the traditional subject-based curriculum into "domains".
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    An article discussing the use of video games being used to replace the traditional "chalk talk". The games also combine the traditional subject-based curriculum into "domains".
Jennifer Jocz

Southeastern Researchers Explore Approach to Improve Deaf Education - 0 views

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    An article describing the use of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology to help deaf children learn American Sign Language (ASL).
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