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Study Finds That Online Education Beats the Classroom - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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online_learning SRI_International

shared by Jennifer Hern on 19 Dec 09 - Cached
  • A recent 93-page report on online education, conducted by SRI International for the Department of Education, has a starchy academic title, but a most intriguing conclusion: “On average, students in online learning conditions performed better than those receiving face-to-face instruction.”
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Released Ahead of Schedule - DotSchools.com Beta "Where Technology, Career Education an... - 0 views

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DotSchools.com college higher_education

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  • Jennifer Hern on 16 Dec 09
     
    As a foundational pillar in Affnet's Education business, the DotSchools portal is a free online resource that can assist prospective students in search of top online colleges and campus schools find degree and certificate programs best suited to advancing their professional and personal goals.
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Augmented Reality: Not That Real Yet - BusinessWeek - 1 views

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augmented_reality AR apps

shared by Jennifer Hern on 07 Dec 09 - Cached
  • In theory, a service should be able to take your latitude, longitude, and orientation and tell you exactly what you are looking at. Alas, the data aren't nearly accurate enough for that.
  • There's an even bigger conceptual problem with augmented reality as it is used today by a variety of search apps such as the Layar Reality Browser, Wikitude World Browser, or Presselite's Bionic Eye.
  • Jennifer Hern on 07 Dec 09
     
    AR not ready for prime time because of inaccurate GPS data and apps that only provide information about locations within the user's line of sight.
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Education Week: Teachers Using Cellphones for Classroom Lessons - 0 views

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cell_phones classrooms

shared by Jennifer Hern on 07 Dec 09 - Cached
  • Much more attention has gone to the ways students might use phones to cheat or take inappropriate pictures. But as the technology becomes cheaper, more advanced, and more ingrained in students' lives that mentality is changing.
  • Teachers who have incorporated cell phones into their classes say that most students abide by the rules. They note that cheating and bullying exist with or without the phones, and that once they are allowed, the inclination to use them for bad behavior dissipates.
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Education Week: Final Chapter for Texas Textbooks? - 1 views

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textbooks Chief_tablets Texas state_legislation

shared by Jennifer Hern on 22 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Jennifer Hern on 22 Nov 09
     
    State legislation passed in the spring could put up-to-the-minute instructional content at students' fingertips-either online or in customized printed form-eliminating the mass-market hardback textbook.
  • Jennifer Hern on 22 Nov 09
     
    TX, CA, and FL markets drive the textbook industry. If TX leads the way, eliminating mass market textbooks, then they will undoubtedly revolutionize the publishing industry. Tablet textbooks may be the wave of the future, but let's just hope publishers don't think revolutionizing the textbook industry means reading textbooks on a screen.
Jennifer Hern

Education Week: Cellphones in Schools: Flip 'Em Open - 0 views

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cell_phones schools

shared by Jennifer Hern on 22 Nov 09 - Cached
  • When he suggested that schools should have open-phone tests, as a measure to combat cellphone cheating, one of the students responded, “Dude, we already have open-phone tests. The teachers just don’t know it.”
  • Jennifer Hern on 22 Nov 09
     
    Allowing open-phone tests may prevent cheating.
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The School of One - The 50 Best Inventions of 2009 - TIME - 1 views

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School_of_One differentiated_learning virtual_tutoring

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  • Each day, students in the School of One are given a unique lesson plan — a "daily playlist" — tailored to their learning style and rate of progress that includes a mix of virtual tutoring, in-class instruction and educational video games. It's learning for the Xbox generation.
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The past decade is the era in which the Internet ruined everything. - 1 views

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Can Apple Out-Innovate Microsoft and Google? | Newsweek Daniel Lyons | Techtonic Shifts... - 0 views

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apple disrupting_technology apps iPhone

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  • Jennifer Hern on 14 Nov 09
     
    "The question is, will Apple do with the iPhone what it did with the Mac? Will it leap out to a technological lead and then find a way to clutch defeat from the jaws of victory? Or has Apple learned from its previous experience and figured out a way to turn its superior design and wonderful technology into market domination?"
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Currents - Virtual Classrooms Could Create a Marketplace for Knowledge - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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virtual_classroom

shared by Jennifer Hern on 08 Nov 09 - Cached
  • The magazine told of a new building at the University of Miami, doughnut-shaped and carved up into 12 rooms. Professors stood in the hole and had their image projected into every room simultaneously. Faculty productivity was said to have soared. What was lost in intimacy would, readers were assured, be made up for by feedback buttons on students’ chairs, including one for “I don’t understand.”
  • Thanks to broadening Internet access, advances in multimedia and the market potential of millions of historically underserved learners among the developing world’s youth and the rich world’s adults, modern versions of the doughnut building are flowering globally: systems through which chunks of teaching can be “scaled up,” in business jargon, and beamed to hundreds of thousands worldwide.
  • Allow anyone anywhere to take whatever course they want, whenever, over any medium, they say. Make universities compete on quality, price and convenience.
  • Jennifer Hern on 08 Nov 09
     
    Virtual professors? I think a virtual Dede would be cool, but I like knowing his mustache is real, and not bought in a virtual hair salon.
Jennifer Hern

Essay - Is Technology Dumbing Down Japanese? - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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teaching_with_technology handhelds foreign_language_learning

shared by Jennifer Hern on 08 Nov 09 - Cached
  • A vertically written language seems to be becoming increasingly horizontal. Novels are being written and read on little screens. People have gotten so used to typing on computers that they can no longer write characters by hand. And English words continue to infiltrate the language.
  • Mizumura contends that the dominance of English, especially with the advent of the Internet, threatens to reduce all other national languages to mere “local” languages that are not taken seriously by scholars. The education system, she argues, doesn’t spend enough time teaching Japanese.
  • Jennifer Hern on 08 Nov 09
     
    Is foreign-language software and technology impacting how Japanese learn their own language and negatively impacting their national culture?
Jennifer Hern

The Goods May Be Virtual, but the Profit Is Real - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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virtual_reality virtual_shopping games video_games online_games

shared by Jennifer Hern on 08 Nov 09 - Cached
  • But it is quickly becoming commonplace for people to spend a few dollars on them to get ahead in an online game or to give a friend a gift on a social network.
  • Most of the momentum in the virtual goods market comes not from gifts but from social games, where people buy items to improve their performance in the game or just to build up a collection that will impress friends.
  • Jennifer Hern on 08 Nov 09
     
    If only educational games were engaging enough for students to want to pay to play...
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Education Week: Pre-K Lessons Linked to TV Produce Gains in Literacy, Study Says - 0 views

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Pre_K literacy low_income TV television video_games video

shared by Jennifer Hern on 01 Nov 09 - Cached
  • on average made significant gains in acquiring skills such as naming letters, knowing the sounds associated with those letters, and understanding concepts about stories and printed words
  • Jennifer Hern on 01 Nov 09
     
    Research study on how TV, and educational interactive video games improves the literacy of low-income, Pre-K children.
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Education Week: STEM Defection Seen to Occur After High School - 0 views

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STEM STEM_careers academic_achievement

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  • Jennifer Hern on 01 Nov 09
     
    "Despite popular opinion, the flow of qualified math and science students through the American education pipeline is strong-except among high-achievers, who appear to be defecting to other college majors and fields."
Jennifer Hern

Education Week: Computers Increase Students' Temptation To Cheat - 0 views

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  • Jennifer Hern on 01 Nov 09
     
    "The link between teenagers' computer abilities and an increase in academic cheating is evident across the nation."
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Twitter Twitterature tweets literature

shared by Jennifer Hern on 25 Oct 09 - Cached
  • The "tweets" of Emmett Rensin and Alexander Aciman combine the knowledge of an English major with the snarky shorthand of a teenager's text message.
  • "It's funny if you've read the books," said Rensin, who has read them at his tender age of 19.
  • "I'm not going to say it's high art," said Aciman, whose favorite author is Marcel Proust. "There is some value to it, I feel, aside from the fact we're making available the idea behind great works of art."
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      Jennifer Hern on 25 Oct 09
       
      Not really propelling education in my book. Ha ha. Book... twitterature...
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Top News - The rise of the globally connected student - 0 views

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culture globaliazation iEarn ePals

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  • Global networks such as iEARN and ePals insulate student communication from the rest of the internet and let teachers monitor eMail accounts, as well as provide for the creation of secure blogs that can only be seen by the recipients. Assisted by standards-based curriculum materials, these networks link participants from a diverse range of countries in a discussion of globally relevant issues.
  • Jennifer Hern on 25 Oct 09
     
    Networks such as IEarn and ePals are facilitating youth-to-youth exchanges and breaking down cultural barriers worldwide.
Jennifer Hern

Japan's Robots Face Hard Times - The New York Times > Business > Slide Show > Slide 1 o... - 0 views

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robots unemployment mechanized_workers

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  • Jennifer Hern on 21 Oct 09
     
    Apparently even robots are hard up for work.
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Ning Opens a Virtual Gift Shop With Custom-Made Gifts - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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social_media social_networks virtual_shopping

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  • Jennifer Hern on 21 Oct 09
     
    Ning, which lets Web users create their own social networks about any topic they want, plans to open a virtual gift shop on Wednesday. Users will be able to buy and sell virtual gifts, as they can on some other social networks, including Facebook. On Ning, they will also be able to create and sell their own, custom-designed virtual gifts.
Jennifer Hern

How to Provide Parental Guidance on Web Video for Children - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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  • Jennifer Hern on 14 Oct 09
     
    Parents discovering web videos as potential platforms to teach their children.
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