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For minorities, new 'digital divide' seen - 6 views

www.washingtonpost.com/...AR2011010900043.html

minorities digital divide

shared by Margaret O'Connell on 10 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • Margaret O'Connell on 10 Jan 11
     
    This article was so interesting I had to share it (even though sharing here seems to have tapered off for our class).
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Augmented Reality on Your Phone - 2 views

bits.blogs.nytimes.com/...ugmented-reality-on-your-phone

augmented reality

shared by Margaret O'Connell on 20 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • Margaret O'Connell on 20 Dec 10
     
    Bring it on!
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Women in Engineering - The Numbers - 2 views

www.adafruit.com/...men-in-engineering-the-numbers

women

shared by Margaret O'Connell on 07 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • I am very curious as to why the number of women pursuing engineering degrees has effectively stayed the same, while the number of women attending college grows by about 20,000 each year. At the same time, I think it’s fair to say that engineering as a profession, and technical professions in general, have become less stigmatized as exclusively male. So it’s a bit discouraging to see that the number of women pursuing a career in this field has basically stagnated. And I am at a loss to explain why. What do you think?
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Women Key to Global Economic Growth - 1 views

www.thecoca-colacompany.com/...women_key_economic_growth.html

women

shared by Margaret O'Connell on 07 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • I would like to begin a discussion today about the future of our global economy and society. Specifically, I'd like to talk about women, and the role women will play in transforming our global economy and society over the next decade. I also want to share some thoughts on the role women will play in helping transform The Coca-Cola Company over the next decade and beyond.
  • I think there's another way of looking at this as well -- one that goes beyond national comparisons. In fact, I would say that the real drivers of the "Post-American World" won't be China... or India... or Brazil -- or any nation for that matter. The real drivers will be women. Women entrepreneurs. Women business, political, academic and cultural leaders. Women innovators.
  • The truth is women already are the most dynamic and fastest-growing economic force in the world today. Women now control over $20 trillion dollars in spending worldwide. To put that into context -- that's an economic impact larger than the U.S., China and India economies combined. But there's so much more to the story.
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YouTube - Arduino: turning non-nerds into robot-makers - 3 views

www.youtube.com/watch

Arduino

shared by Margaret O'Connell on 16 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Margaret O'Connell on 16 Nov 10
     
    Arduino - the cheap way for students to learn programming
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projector for iPhone? (that projects the entire screen as you use it) - 2 views

projector
started by Margaret O'Connell on 15 Nov 10 no follow-up yet
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    #1 Margaret O'Connell on 15 Nov 10
     
    Does anyone know of a projector for the iPhone (or other smartphone) which can project the entire screen (and not just handle videos and photos)?

    I do not and I can not find one (but, admittedly, I haven't gone to talk to the Apple store people yet).

    I would like this ability in my classroom next year once I begin to run the most technology-aware middle school math class on a low budget you've ever seen ;-)

    In the mean time, using a document camera seems like an OK solution. A document camera is a wonderful tool for a teacher to have anyhow since it is an easy way to share student work.

    Check this cool vid:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu5JKtZCP04
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The $2 Interactive Whiteboard - 6 views

fnoschese.wordpress.com/...the-2-interactive-whiteboard

interactive whiteboard

shared by Margaret O'Connell on 08 Nov 10 - Cached
  • Margaret O'Connell on 08 Nov 10
     
    A reminder that more technology in the classroom is not always the answer.
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Another platform for teaching programming to our students - 0 views

www.adafruit.com/index.php

Processing programming Scratch

shared by Margaret O'Connell on 07 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Learn computer programming the easy way with Processing, a simple language that lets you use code to create drawings, animation, and interactive graphics. Programming courses usually start with theory, but this book lets you jump right into creative and fun projects. It's ideal for anyone who wants to learn basic programming, and serves as a simple introduction to graphics for people with some programming skills.
  • Margaret O'Connell on 07 Nov 10
     
    Scratch isn't the only game in town :-) Note that I've already posted about App Inventor here (which is another "dive right in" programming environ)
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New Dan Meyer video prez, "Math Class Makeover" - 2 views

www.blip.tv/4347311

math teaching

shared by Margaret O'Connell on 07 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Margaret O'Connell on 07 Nov 10
     
    Another great Dan Meyer video. (His Ted talk has gotten a lot of attention but this one is even better!) Dan describes the creative way he teaches math, including the active use of technology (rather than the "tired, dead tree format").
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The Khan Academy Brings Disrupting Class to Life - 0 views

www.huffingtonpost.com/...academy-brings-d_b_764562.html

Khan Disrupting

shared by Margaret O'Connell on 23 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Lastly, toward the end of the video Khan talks about his surprise that it's not just him and other math geeks who want to learn and understand these concepts -- and get pleasure from it. He reads a letter about someone who solves a derivative and smiles. This resonates and matches our new chapter in the new edition of Disrupting Class -- that a fundamental job people have to do is to feel successful and achieve.
  • Margaret O'Connell on 23 Oct 10
     
    Check out the video at http://vimeo.com/11731351 (It's the same info Cameron posted a while ago but this time it's made the widely read Huffington Post ... and I think it's a good repeat post since I, for one, didn't pay enough attention to this the first time I heard about it.)
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Hackerspaces - breeding grounds for disruption? - 1 views

freaklabs.org/...ckerspaces-and-Technology.html

Hackerspaces

shared by Margaret O'Connell on 22 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • One of the most important things about hackerspaces, and an area that differentiates it from other areas in the tech industry, is that most of the ideas and projects aren’t designed for any type of financial return. And unlike academic research labs, hackerspaces are usually very hands-on and focused on practical implementation. In Tokyo Hackerspace, we have a lot of projects or project ideas that revolve around environmental or humanitarian applications of technology as well as art. These types of projects would rarely see the light of day in corporate scenarios (without government subisidies) but are often
  • types of projects that, when further refined, may turn into something that is financially viable or lay the groundwork for something much bigger. 
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Great use of Twitter by a teacher - 3 views

function-of-time.blogspot.com/...unterexamples-in-geometry.html

twitter geometry

shared by Margaret O'Connell on 19 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Yesterday on Twitter I asked for false Geometry statements for which it's easy to draw a counterexample. Twitter is brilliant for this - everybody can come up with a-couple-a-three no problem, but it would be a pain to sit and think of a dozen. And even when you did, they might not be the best dozen for your purposes. After waiting a day, I got to pick from lots.
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Internet in 2020 (Graphical representation) - 2 views

www.makeuseof.com/...internet-in-2020

Internet_of_Things future

shared by Margaret O'Connell on 18 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Margaret O'Connell on 18 Oct 10
     
    It's interesting ... I don't like its view of hackers as all bad, however ... I like to think that more and more people will be hacking/programming and it won't be for bad intentions but, rather, for customizations -- software, hardware, and not necessarily full computers ...
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Body Sensing Comes to Smartphones - NYTimes.com - 2 views

bits.blogs.nytimes.com/...y-sensing-comes-to-smartphones

sensing health

shared by Margaret O'Connell on 18 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • John Stivoric, chief technology officer, says the company has been working closely with Apple and Google, to develop its smartphone application. It opens the door to allowing a person to monitor a collection of the 9,000 variables — physical activity, calories burned, body heat, sleep efficiency and others — collected by the sensors in a BodyMedia armband in real-time, as the day goes on.
  • The smartphone, though, is full-fledged computer in hand. “It’s a dashboard for the human body, a great viewer into what your body is doing on the fly,”
  • Margaret O'Connell on 18 Oct 10
     
    Compelling for educational uses, particularly science and health (but the price has to come down some first).
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LilyPad microcontroller's success in welcoming women to electronics - Boing Boing - 0 views

www.boingboing.net/...lilypad-microcontrol.html

MIT STEM female

shared by Margaret O'Connell on 06 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Our experience suggests a different approach, one we call Building New Clubhouses. Instead of trying to fit people into existing engineering cultures, it may be more constructive to try to spark and support new cultures, to build new clubhouses. Our experiences have led us to believe that the problem is not so much that communities are prejudiced or exclusive but that they're limited in breadth--both intellectually and culturally. Some of the most revealing research in diversity in STEM found that women and other minorities don't join STEM communities not because they are intimidated or unqualified but rather because they're simply uninterested in these disciplines. One of our current research goals is thus to question traditional disciplinary boundaries and to expand disciplines to make room for more diverse interests and passions. To show, for example, that it is possible to build complex, innovative, technological artifacts that are colorful, soft, and beautiful. We want to provide alternative pathways to the rich intellectual possibilities of computation and engineering. We hope that our research shows that disciplines can grow both technically and culturally when we re-envision and re-contextualize them. When we build new clubhouses, new, surprising, and valuable things happen. As our findings on shared LilyPad projects seem to support, a new female-dominated electrical engineering/computer science community may emerge.
  • Margaret O'Connell on 06 Oct 10
     
    The fascinating pdf from the researchers at MIT is linked to on Boing Boing. The comments on Boing Boing are also worth glancing at.
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ARM Chips May Spread Into Everyday Items - NYTimes.com - 3 views

www.nytimes.com/...20arm.html

ARM Internet_of_Things hardware

shared by Margaret O'Connell on 21 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • This is the so-called Internet of Things, when all sorts of everyday objects will have tiny chips placed inside them and gain the ability to process information and talk to the Web.
  • ARM chips, by contrast, are made by a handful of contract chip manufacturers and cost 65 cents to $20 each.
  • ARM executives agree that the future is with the billions of coming things — cars, refrigerators, TVs, clothes, buildings — that will have full-blown chips or at least Web-ready sensors inside them. In many cases, they say, these things will need the lowest-power chips possible because they will be out in the world and away from a plug. Energy has replaced horsepower as the prime concern, and it is here, ARM executives said, that the company’s skills will really shine.
  • Margaret O'Connell on 21 Sep 10
     
    I especially love the last quote of this interesting article: "... Now, it's all about penetrating these weird markets that we can't even fully fathom yet." Maybe the ARM chip will be behind a disruptive innovation - it's fun to think about the possibilities
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I don't tag and I don't often need the tagging of others to "advance and personalize" m... - 21 views

started by Margaret O'Connell on 12 Sep 10 no follow-up yet
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    #1 Margaret O'Connell on 12 Sep 10
     
    I'm reading this assignment article about tagging and just feel compelled to write out a few reactions.

    Reasons why I don't often tag:

    a) It's inconvenient, takes time to do, and I'm always wondering whether I've chosen the "right" ones. (Btw, I hate sites which enforce at least one tag.
    b) I am super private with my web content so I don't feel the need to share with the world via tagging
    c) I don't wish to contribute to the "tyranny of the majority" and put my own slants on articles for the world's languages and cultures (see the article, page 6)

    Why I don't need tagging to advance and personalize my online searching (that phrasing is from page 1 of the article where they state their views on tagging as goodness):

    I live in Google Reader. I subscribe to feeds I know are useful but I also do another thing, which is how I enhance my online searching : I have Google Alerts set up to deliver content directly to my Google Reader. This is how I find and add good sites to my Google Reader. I have alerts on words, person names, and one currently on a sentence I found in an article which I admired so much I wanted to see who on the 'net was quoting it. When Google's engines detect new content containing one of my alerts, they shoot it to a feed on that alert and it shows up soon after in my Google Reader - hooray for Google advancing and personalizing my online searching!

    Now, don't get me wrong, I like what tagging does for certain web sites (like youtube) which I frequent. I like how it leads me to new videos I would not have found on my own, for example. But I definitely am not going to take extra time to travel to a site like delicious to see what's cooking in their tagland. I don't need it!

    Just thought I'd throw this out there to see if others think similarly or want to tell me what they think is wrong about my thinking or, best of all, want to tell me about some web site using tagging you think I should check out, even given my objections.

    p.s. I am tagging in Diigo because I gather it's part of our class duties ;-)
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Second Thoughts on Online Education - 3 views

bits.blogs.nytimes.com/...d-thoughts-on-online-education

online

shared by Margaret O'Connell on 09 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Certain groups did notably worse online. Hispanic students online fell nearly a full grade lower than Hispanic students that took the course in class. Male students did about a half-grade worse online, as did low-achievers, which had college grade-point averages below the mean for the university.
  • A policy issue raised by the study, Mr. Figlio said, was whether a shift to online education will serve to widen the achievement gap between the best students and others.
  • “But what we are saying is that there’s no free lunch” in the drive to online education, he said.
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IEEE Spectrum: Outsourcing's Education Gap - 0 views

spectrum.ieee.org/...outsourcings-education-gap

outsourcing education

shared by Margaret O'Connell on 06 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Lower-tier colleges and universities in both India and China suffer from passive learning styles. Design and project work is typically absent, the curricula do not focus on problem solving or building project management and communication skills, and there are no internships or other work experience. ”Engineering education is much more theoretically oriented, and students don’t really get this fully blended education that allows them to think outside the box,” says Denis Simon, a professor at the Pennsylvania State University School of International Affairs, who focuses on technology and education in China. ”They haven’t had the interaction with real live engineering that grads here have, so they’re very green when they come into the workplace.”
  • The main problem, though, is the sheer mass of students enrolled in engineering classes. ”When you have 100 students per teacher, you really can’t get hands-on and be interactive,” he says.
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