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Sunanda V

Idaho Voters Repeal Online Learning, Performance-Pay Measures - 1 views

blogs.edweek.org/..._performance_pay_measures.html

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  • Hannah Lesk on 08 Nov 12
     
    Voters in Idaho voted 2:1 to repeal a RTTT-inspired state law that would have brought 1:1 laptop programs to all high schools and required all students to take 2 online or blended courses in order to graduate from high school. The public felt that the law would have "diverted taxpayer dollars to technology corporations and marginalized teachers."
  • Sunanda V on 15 Nov 12
     
    Idaho voted down several education measures including one to require participation in an online course before high school graduation and a shift to 1-to-1 computing in schools.
Sunanda V

The Slow Demise of OLPC - 0 views

readwrite.com/...atch-one-laptop-per-child-olpc

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  • Sunanda V on 30 Oct 12
     
    Another article looks at the fundamental flaws behind the OLPC vision, planning, and implementation.
Uche Amaechi

Educating Players: Are Games the Future of Education? | Observations, Scientific American Blog Network - 3 views

blogs.scientificamerican.com/...-games-the-future-of-education

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  • Daniel Melia on 27 Oct 12
     
    Notes from a conference on emerging technologies (not sure if Professor Dede was there or not). Count me as a skeptic re: OLPC's Ethiopia experiment, but the Institute of Play/EA partnership is an interesting one. 
  • Mohit Patel on 28 Oct 12
     
    I was at EmTech  at MIT during this panel discussion.
  • Matthew Ong on 28 Oct 12
     
    Thanks for sharing Mohit. I think the implementation of OLPC in numerous countries have been beneficial and a step in the right direction. Maybe if you do place a laptop in a child's hands, he/she could learn certain basic skills (like what the article suggested). But to go beyond that to higher-order thinking skills, a robust curriculum would be needed to complement the technology. Still, credit to these folks for reaching out to the children in need.
Sunanda V

One Laptop Per Child-7 Years Later| The Committed Sardine - 1 views

www.fluency21.com/...blogpost.cfm

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  • Amanda Granger on 04 Sep 12
Jeffrey Siegel

Savor The Value Of Tech-Free Learning - 0 views

www.courant.com/...-0909-20120907,0,7122349.story

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  • Jeffrey Siegel on 08 Sep 12
     
    This article attempts to balance the 'rah-rah tech is a panacea' view with a reminder that it might not be essential or desirable in all classrooms. Other than citing some studies that show how tech can distract students during class, I don't think her argument is that convincing. I'm curious what people think about this view.
Hongge Ren

Pranav Mistry: The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology - 3 views

www.youtube.com/watch

sixthsense technology MIT Media Lab TED Pranav Mistry

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  • Hongge Ren on 14 Sep 12
     
    http://www.ted.com At TEDIndia, Pranav Mistry demos several tools that help the physical world interact with the world of data -- including a deep look at his SixthSense device and a new, paradigm-shifting paper "laptop." In an onstage Q&A, Mistry says he'll open-source the software behind SixthSense, to open its possibilities to all.
  • Matthew Ong on 16 Sep 12
     
    Hi there Hongge, thanks for sharing this amazing video. He's managed to bridge certain key technologies and made them more intuitive for the daily user. It's great that he's made it open-source too! Maybe we could pay a visit to MIT to check it out? I wonder though, whether such a device would in the future not only project thoughts and programs but also capture user data and begin to 'suggest' or advertise certain things to you. Scary but the potential is enormous. Again, thanks!
  • Hongge Ren on 16 Sep 12
     
    Thanks, Matthew. That video was actually filmed three years ago (yes, even before iPhone 4) and I wonder if Pranav is still at MIT Media Lab. Maybe Karen knows more about him and could make an introduction for us? Machine learning and personalizing content for us is already happening. Personally, I like the idea of personalized content simply because nowadays we can be so easily info-overloaded. It is quite normal for CEOs and political leaders to digest pre-screened/selected info by their secretaries and/or advisers, right? And Google has been doing this for advertising to consumers. I don't mind the right ads appear at the right time when I need the product or service. What really strikes me about Pranav's idea is that it reminds me about the movie Inception, where you can transplant an idea into someone's mind and the distinction between reality and the virtual world is so blurry.
Tommie Anthony Henderson

Grading the Digital School - 3 views

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  • Tommie Anthony Henderson on 10 Dec 11
     
    In recent years there has been a major push to equip classrooms with technology, including laptops, overhead projectors, interactive white boards and tablets. It has become big business. But there are questions about whether the investment is paying off. This series explores the push to digitize the American classroom and whether the promises are being fulfilled.
  • Kasthuri Gopalaratnam on 10 Dec 11
     
    This comment from a reader on one of the articles (Inflating the Software Report Card) sums it up rather nicely: "Data-driven, individualized instruction aimed at identifying a student's strengths and weaknesses, is not perfect, nor can it replace great teachers. But it can and does allow gifted students to zoom ahead, average students to keep up, and struggling students to catch up. If we really want math education to become part of the fabric of our kids' lives, not just raising their scores on a standardized test, but helping them become more competent and effective adults, we need to take advantage of all of the technology available".
Amanda Bowen

Education Week: Building the Digital District - 2 views

www.edweek.org/...01conversion.h05.html

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  • James Glanville on 29 Nov 11
     
    In contrast with the deployment issues of OLPC, here's an article on 1-1 initiative that focused on professional development, teacher collaboration, switching to a teacher selected, digital based curriculum with formative assessments, and a leased laptop support & deployment model.  (Full disclosure - the vendor is Apple).
Bharat Battu

Lenovo Unveils ThinkPad X130e, Ruggedized For K-12 Students | News & Opinion | PCMag.com - 3 views

www.pcmag.com/...0,2817,2397257,00.asp

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  • Bharat Battu on 06 Dec 11
     
    ruggedized and fairly cheap make it cater to students, but still seems bulky for frequent carrying in a backpack
Xavier Rozas

Outdoor AR Software Download | Scheller Teacher Education Program - 0 views

education.mit.edu/...OutdoorARSoftware

Augmented reality education Emerging technologies

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  • Xavier Rozas on 13 Sep 09
     
    Start building your own AR experience with this download. I have not tried as I am a Mac
  • Jennifer Hern on 13 Sep 09
     
    Dang! I have a Mac, too. Anyone in class with a PC desktop/laptop and handheld? I'd love to try it out. Let me know.
Uche Amaechi

Seeing No Progress, Some Schools Drop Laptops - New York Times - 3 views

www.nytimes.com/...04laptop.html

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  • Uche Amaechi on 20 Sep 10
     
    Article cited in "Disruopting Class". Has anything changed?
Devon Dickau

BBC News - The rights and wrongs of digital books - 2 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...technology-11693222

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  • The latter part of 2010 may mark the point from which future historians date the transition to screen-based reading for literary fiction as well as reference works
  • However, even they are not yet willing to accept that the price of electronic texts is too high, and that readers will not pay the same for a bunch of bits as they will for a bound book, since the market knows that it costs less to send electrons over a network than it does to buy paper, make books out of it and ship the physical objects around the world
  • When you buy an digital copy to read on your e-book reader, phone or laptop all you get is the copyrighted bit, and what you pay for is a licence to have a copy or copies of the text.
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  • Amazon recently announced that it will let Kindle owners "lend" books, but only for two weeks and only once per title.
  • The idea of "intellectual property" deliberately conflates the two and allows politicians to pretend that laws about physical property should extend to digital downloads. We need to challenge this unjustifiable elision if we are to think seriously about copyright and business models in the age of electronics.
Chris McEnroe

Technology in Schools Faces Questions on Value - NYTimes.com - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...-faces-questions-on-value.html

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      Chris McEnroe on 05 Sep 11
       
      As journalism, this article observes well the cross conversation in the public debate. Before this conversation even begins it would be useful for the parties to agree on the goal of the interaction between teacher and student. This quote from the article, "digital devices let students learn at their own pace, teach skills needed in a modern economy and hold the attention of a generation weaned on gadgets . . ." Makes broad assumptions that the invitation to learn (things that are pre-conceived by adults) is all the students need. We have a system of education and no matter what we do, the system assumes s significant and active role for adults (rightly so). There is a persistant sense that the system is not working to our expectations, but that hardly argues for the abandonment of personal and substantive interactions among teachers and students. I agree more with this quote, ""Rather than being a cure-all or silver bullet, one-to-one laptop programs may simply amplify what's already occurring - for better or worse (Bryan Goodwin)," because it asserts the point that Technology promises to enhance the value of our effort in education with better tools to do what teachers do. Technology is not (as some seem to think) a replacement of what teachers do and that unspoken assumption seems to be underlying much of what I see as vague public discussion.
Megan Johnston

Off the Shelf, Onto the Laptop - Libraries Try Digital Books - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...15libraries.html

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  • Megan Johnston on 15 Oct 09
     
    Interesting article about libraries going digital, talking about how this actually functions in libraries (Boston Public Library being one) and addressing concerns about publishers' rights. I'm sad that at this point nobody really seems to care about the experience of reading a real book with actual pages. What a loss if we ditch physical books altogether.
Robert Schuman

Microsoft Courier Booklet - 1 views

gizmodo.com/...shows-how-well-actually-use-it

t561 courier technology education UI gestures stylus Microsoft tablet interface HCI Human Computer Interaction User Interface

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  • Robert Schuman on 04 Nov 09
     
    Microsoft Courier Booklet
  • Robert Schuman on 04 Nov 09
     
    The Microsoft Courier is a two screen folding tablet device that allows for user interaction via gestures and/or stylus. The user interface looks to be the Courier's strongest point, but I'm curious to see if the stylus-heavy interaction will provide for any major advantage over a typical laptop and the already existent tablet pc market for anything other than art programs. In an educational setting, this could potentially be used as a library reference device and/or collaborative art device, but just as has been the case with many educational products in the past, may not be novel enough to sway education (or any other market) into preventing the Courier into becoming vaporware. However, this still poses as an excellent example of new devices coming onto the market that focus on new or perfected methods of Human Computer Interaction (HCI).
Maung Nyeu

The Newest Companies Coming Out Of Incubators: EdTech | Fast Company - 3 views

www.fastcompany.com/...oming-out-of-incubators-edtech

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  • Maung Nyeu on 28 Oct 11
     
    Three long-time Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, veterans from Yahoo, Sun Microsystems, and Google, started funding education start-ups last Spring. Their incubator, Imagine K12, has now "graduated" its first group of startups. If accepted, Imagine K12 give $15k to $20k to startups and empower them with "dazzling network of connections."
Yan Feng

Education Week: Kindergartners Blend E-Learning, Face-to-Face Instruction - 0 views

www.edweek.org/...09blended_ep.h31.html

technology education learning t561

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  • Yan Feng on 27 Oct 11
     
    Published Online: October 25, 2011 Published in Print: October 26, 2011, as 'Blended Learning' for the Little Ones By Jill Barshay, The Hechinger Report Los Angeles 1st grader Lena Barrett clicks through a series of icons and logs on to a laptop under the fluorescent lights of her classroom.
Diego Vallejos

Solar-powered internet school set to benefit children in rural Africa - 0 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...nternet-school-children-africa

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  • Diego Vallejos on 28 Oct 11
     
    "Resilient mobile classroom incorporating laptops, video camera and electronic blackboard will work in areas without electricity"
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