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Tim Johnson

"TheTeach100:" Comprehensive Ranking of Education Blogs - 2 views

teach.com/teach100

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  • Tim Johnson on 18 Dec 12
     
    Really nice, comprehensive site that meta-rates hundreds of education blogs daily--good for folks like me who need some help sifting through the noise. Too bad I just found it today...
Irina Uk

Common Sense on E-rate and CIPA: Toolkit for Teachers | Common Sense Media - 0 views

www.commonsensemedia.org/...erate-teachers

digital citizenship

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  • Irina Uk on 17 Oct 12
     
    This website has digital citizenship lessons for teachers.
Irina Uk

With E-Rate Data Release, FCC Calling for Feedback - Digital Education - Education Week - 0 views

blogs.edweek.org/...e-rate_data_release_fcc_c.html

evaluation eRate data

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  • Irina Uk on 27 Oct 12
     
    FCC is asking for teachers and school officials to help them analyze and give feedback on eRate data which has been collected. It seems like a great opportunity for teachers to be involved in larger decision-making processes and to be a part of research.
Harvey Shaw

Before you jump on the bandwagon.... - 0 views

chronicle.com/...134090

technology t561 MOOCs strategy

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  • Harvey Shaw on 10 Sep 12
     
    From the Chronicle of Higher Education, 3 questions to guide the development of a MOOC program. How does EdX rate?
Maung Nyeu

Simple solution to our learning challenge | The Australian - 2 views

www.theaustralian.com.au/...story-e6frg6zo-1226192930096

Emerging Technology technology education learning t561 online

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  • Feedback so far from early OLPC schools is impressive. Most impressive of all in the first year is Doomadgee State School. In remote, largely indigenous northwest Queensland, Doomadgee has just produced stunning NAPLAN results, boosting their percentage of Year 3 pupils at or above national minimum standards in numeracy from 31 per cent last year to a staggering 95 per cent in 2011. Principal Richard Barrie and his teachers are using plenty of clever and different engagement strategies, but one important tool in the toolbox is the early and strong use of technology via the OLPC Australia
  • Particularly in regard to rural communities, there should be no excuse today for geography to be a barrier to learning. Through connected on-line learning, children anywhere can quickly move from being passive consumers of knowledge (if at all) to an active participant in learning. As well, there is a sense of ownership of the computer, and it is a very real and comparatively cheap method of encouraging school attendance, something I note is a particular and welcome focus in the Northern Territory education system under Chief Minister Paul Henderson
  • A request of $12m has been put to the federal government, with $3m already requested from the Aboriginal benefit accounts, demonstrating the desire within the indigenous community to support real and practical self-empowerment and education programs
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  • Most importantly of all, quite simply, OLPC Australia delivers
  • Most importantly of all, quite simply, OLPC Australia delivers . Results in learning from the 5000 students already engaged show impressive improvements in closing the gap generally, and lifting access and participation rates in particular.
  • Maung Nyeu on 04 Dec 11
     
    One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) implementation in Australia seems to bring positive results. In remote, largely indigenous northwest Queensland, Doomadgee, 3rd grade students' numeracy improved from 31 per cent last year to a staggering 95 per cent in 2011.
Tommie Anthony Henderson

The fundamentals of Instructor Recertification Classes - 2 views

www.articledirectoryhub.com/...ructor-recertification-classes

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  • Tommie Anthony Henderson on 12 Dec 11
     
    A quantity of possibilities exist for lecturers searching with regard to on-line graduate programs. On the net move on courses can be used for continuing schooling (CEUs), in-service credit rating, or perhaps move on credit.
Tommie Anthony Henderson

Tracking devices in school badges raise concerns - 1 views

www.chron.com/...ges-raise-concerns-1716571.php

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  • Tommie Anthony Henderson on 03 Dec 11
     
    Identification badges for some students in both school districts now include tracking devices that allow campus administrators to keep tabs on students' whereabouts on campus. School leaders say the devices improve security and increase attendance rates.
Kasthuri Gopalaratnam

Why College Students Leave the Engineering Track - NYTimes.com - 0 views

economix.blogs.nytimes.com/...ts-leave-the-engineering-track

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  • Kasthuri Gopalaratnam on 20 Jan 12
     
    "What accounts for the high attrition rates? Maybe some of it has to do with aptitude, or encouragement, or good role models and mentors. But Philip Babcock, an economist at the University of California, Davis, suggests that a lot of it has to do with homework. Professor Babcock has written extensively about college students' evolving study habits (or lack thereof) over the last 50 years. He found that in 1961, full-time students spent about 40 hours each week in class and studying. By 2003, they were investing about 27 hours a week". But then, we did not have Facebook, Twitter and Videogames in 1961 :-)
Kasthuri Gopalaratnam

Why Science Majors Change Their Minds (It's Just So Darn Hard) - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...ind-its-just-so-darn-hard.html

STEM attrition education college

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  • Professor Chang says that rather than losing mainly students from disadvantaged backgrounds or with lackluster records, the attrition rate can be higher at the most selective schools, where he believes the competition overwhelms even well-qualified students.
Jason Dillon

I Education Apps Review - I Education Apps Review - 0 views

www.iear.org

t561 social crowdsourcing apps

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  • Jason Dillon on 23 Sep 12
     
    Teachers rate educational apps. I'm interested in the intersection of crowdsourcing and teacher professional development.
  • Maria Anaya on 23 Sep 12
     
    That would be interesting to see what teachers develop....this brings me to the thought that was brought up by that guy (don't recall his name) at the i-lab about having teachers develop apps but having them be able to make money off of it....
Chris Dede

Education Week: New Sites Aim to Help Pick Best Ed-Tech Tools - 2 views

www.edweek.org/...02reviews.h33.html

ratings edtech tools

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  • Chris Dede on 11 Sep 13
     
    These services could be a help or a hindrance depending on the quality of their advice
Harley Chang

The King of MOOCs Abdicates the Throne - 3 views

www.slate.com/...cessful_for_most_students.html

MOOC education technology learning educational_technology online

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  • Harley Chang on 21 Nov 13
     
    Sebastian Thrun, CEO of Udacity, has openly admitted that his company's MOOC courses are a lousy replacement for actual university class and instead will be taking his company to focus more on corporate training. I personally will reserve further judgement until after I finish the readings for next week.
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  • Grif Peterson on 21 Nov 13
     
    I posted this article in G+ a day or two ago. Some of the better commentary surrounding this article below. Tressie McMillan Cottom: "Thrun says it wasn't a failure. It was a lesson. But for the students who invested time and tuition in an experiment foisted on them by the of stewards public highered trusts, failure is a lesson they didn't need." Rebecca Schuman: "Thrun blames neither the corporatization of the university nor the MOOC's use of unqualified "student mentors" in assessment. Instead, he blames the students themselves for being so poor." Stephen Downes: "I think that what amuses me most about the reaction to the Thrun story is the glowing descriptions of him have only intensified. "The King of MOOCs." "The Genius Godfather of MOOCs." Really now. As I and the many other people working toward the same end have pointed out repeatedly, the signal change in MOOCs is openess, not whatever it was (hubris? VC money?) that Thrun brought to the table. Rebecca Schuman claims this is a victory for "the tiny, for-credit, in-person seminar." It's not that, no more than the Titanic disaster was a victory for wind-powered passenger transportation."
  • Molly Wasser on 29 Nov 13
     
    Grif - where did the Stephen Downes quote come from ? I read the Rebecca Schuman article and don't really agree with her. To expand on the Schuman quote you posted - it's really interesting how she says the massive lecture format doesn't work but then provides two examples of massive technology that do work - texting and World of Warcraft. This relates directly to some of what we talked about earlier this semester. I don't think it's the 'massive,' as Schuman implies, that causes the failure of a MOOC. It's part of the design. Once the design is better and more engaging, then MOOCs may find that they have higher retention rates. Schuman: Successful education needs personal interaction and accountability, period. This is, in fact, the same reason students feel annoyed, alienated, and anonymous in large lecture halls and thus justified in sexting and playing World of Warcraft during class-and why the answer is not the MOOC, but the tiny, for-credit, in-person seminar that has neither a sexy acronym nor a potential for huge corporate partnerships.
  • Grif Peterson on 09 Dec 13
     
    The Downes quote was from OLDaily, which is a daily listserve of his that I subscribe too. I think the difference between texting/WoW and MOOCs is that, while both have many many users, the former two have means in which those groups are disaggregated into smaller units that are largely responsible for the UX/individual growth that goes on. I agree with you that massive is not necessarily the failure, in fact, I think it's the best thing they have going for them. However, until the design can leverage meaningful collaboration, like WoW and texting, the massive will remain a burden.
Chris Dede

E-Rate Reform Is 'Going to Happen.' But How? -- THE Journal - 0 views

thejournal.com/...s-going-to-happen-but-how.aspx

erate reform

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  • Chris Dede on 24 Sep 13
     
    erate is key for infrastructure that helps low-income families
Graham Veth

Method to Grade Teachers Provokes Battles - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...01teacher.html

washington dc progress grading teachers

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  • The system calculates the value teachers add to their students’ achievement, based on changes in test scores from year to year and how the students perform compared with others in their grade.
  • Michelle A. Rhee, the schools chancellor in Washington, fired about 25 teachers this summer after they rated poorly in evaluations based in part on a value-added analysis of scores
  • heir use spread after the 2002 No Child Left Behind law required states to test in third to eighth grades every year, giving school districts mountains of test data that are the raw material for value-added analysis
  • Graham Veth on 01 Sep 10
     
    DC is keeping/firing teachers based on "grading" teachers in their successes with their students on standardized tests.
Devon Dickau

The End of the Textbook as We Know It - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 3 views

chronicle.com/...125044

higher education college students textbooks

shared by Devon Dickau on 26 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • For years observers have predicted a coming wave of e-textbooks. But so far it just hasn't happened. One explanation for the delay is that while music fans were eager to try a new, more portable form of entertainment, students tend to be more conservative when choosing required materials for their studies. For a real disruption in the textbook market, students may have to be forced to change.
  • saying that e-textbooks should be required reading and that colleges should be the ones charging for them
  • radical shift
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  • Here's the new plan: Colleges require students to pay a course-materials fee, which would be used to buy e-books for all of them (whatever text the professor recommends, just as in the old model).
  • they're far cheaper to produce than printed texts
  • publishers could eliminate the used-book market and reduce incentives for students to illegally download copies as well
  • When students pay more for new textbooks than tuition in a year, then something's wrong
  • Tricky issues remain, though. What if a professor wrote the textbook assigned for his or her class? Is it ethical to force students to buy it, even at a reduced rate? And what if students feel they are better off on their own, where they have the option of sharing or borrowing a book at no cost?
  • In music, the Internet reduced album sales as more people bought only the individual songs they wanted. For textbooks, that may mean letting students (or brokers at colleges) buy only the chapters they want. Or only supplementary materials like instructional videos and interactive homework problems, all delivered online. And that really would be the end of the textbook as we know it.
  • P Parson on 31 Oct 10
     
    I would be for this. I could not believe a place so big on recycling (Harvard) murdered so many trees with the printing of course packs. I like this idea if you could get the material from other sources than just the school (say the author or publisher directly or something like Amazon). Otherwise, there is no opportunity for competition or bargaining.
Devon Dickau

Cal State Bans Students From Using Online Note-Selling Service - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...from-using-online-n-53893.html

higher education college students technology education

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  • selling their class notes online
  • NoteUtopia is meant to function as an online community where students can share information, discuss courses and rate professors - a supplement to, not a replacement for, offline education
  • levels the playing field
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  • Indeed, the provision of the state education code does some raise questions about intellectual property and the ownership of ideas and course content. If the students don't own their class-notes - or at least, cannot sell them commercially - who does? The professor? The university? The state?
  • Devon Dickau on 21 Oct 10
     
    Interesting article about how technology is changing the way we define and share intellectual property. Is a professor's lecture the property of the professor, the University or neither? Does a student "own" the notes he takes in class?
quintintanderson

Education & Technology: Off the Shelves - 2 views

www.scmagazineus.com/...181515

technology education t561 learning social

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  • quintintanderson on 01 Nov 10
     
    As internet data rates cheapen, throughput for public Wi-fis, such as the California Public Library system, is optimized, bringing the internet to learners hungry for knowledge.
Devon Dickau

Education Week's Digital Directions: Calif. Department of Ed. Now on iTunes U - 0 views

www.edweek.org/...mct_caitunes.html

iTunes U professional development California

shared by Devon Dickau on 23 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • providing educators with free resources for professional development
  • With districts and schools under tremendous pressure to make every dollar count, teachers can now download top-rated educational content at no charge
  • Available content meets the CDE's criteria, which includes high-quality video, audio recordings, presentations, PDF documents, and other education-related information
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  • free professional development resources that are produced primarily by districts and private education institutions throughout the state
Stephen Bresnick

momswithapps.com - - 1 views

momswithapps.com

#HGSET561

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  • Stephen Bresnick on 26 Sep 11
     
    With all of the unfounded claims being made by developers of early childhood learning toys regarding the educational efficacy of their products (read BABY EINSTEIN), I think that groups such as this one that review apps for safety and quality issues will become increasingly important. It's crazy that Android requires nothing of their Android Market developers than to pay a fee and submit a description and a few screenshots. App quality control will become a big deal, I'm predicting...
  • Kasthuri Gopalaratnam on 27 Sep 11
     
    Stephen, Looks like a great business opportunity - an Apps Rating Agency like Moodys or S&P?
Katherine Tarulli

Ken Robinson: Changing education paradigms | Video on TED.com - 1 views

www.ted.com/...nging_education_paradigms.html

education ADHD drop out rates school reform Ken Robinson learning

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  • Katherine Tarulli on 05 Sep 11
     
    This is an engaging animation/talk from Sir Ken Robinson about the links between some difficult problems facing schools and how a paradigm shift is necessary to fix them.
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