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Kindergarten Augmented Reality Tool Gets Performance Boost - 2 views

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shared by Katherine Tarulli on 05 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • Katherine Tarulli on 05 Nov 11
     
    This article features an augmented reality reading app for preschoolers and kindergarteners that includes teacher resources such as video tutorials and lesson plans.
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About NB - 2 views

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shared by James Glanville on 31 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • James Glanville on 31 Jan 12
     
    Check out nb a very cool, collaborative note taking tool developed by MIT's Haystack Group. Last night I got into a discussion with Sanjoy Mahajan, an Olin College professor who got his Phd at MIT.  We were talking about Eriz Mazur's Peer Instruction technique when he began describing how in his flipped-classroom courses he uses the MIT Haystack Group's "nb" software to enable his student's to collaboratively discuss the course readings (online in pdf form) through shared, online annotations & notes.   Sanjoy's students are required to participate in the online annotation discussion, making their own annotations and responding to others, the night before his class.  He then reviews the annotations to prepare the next day's discussion and peer-instruction lesson plan.
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Making Progress: Rethinking State and School District Policies Concerning Mobile Techno... - 0 views

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shared by Irina Uk on 20 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Irina Uk on 20 Sep 12
     
    Contains many arguments for rewriting AUPs, with insight on how to make the policies work. For example, there is a focus on implementing acceptable use lessons, focusing on web safety, in classes.
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The King of MOOCs Abdicates the Throne - 3 views

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shared by Harley Chang on 21 Nov 13 - No Cached
  • 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.
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10 Lessons from Florida Virtual - Getting Smart by Tom Vander Ark - FLVS, grit, Online ... - 2 views

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shared by Jenny Reuter on 15 Nov 13 - No Cached
  • Jenny Reuter on 15 Nov 13
     
    I think I remember us discussing FLVS at some point in class...
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Trickle Down Technology: Tech Lessons Learned From Higher Ed -- THE Journal - 1 views

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shared by Natalie Hebshie on 10 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Natalie Hebshie on 10 Nov 10
     
    An interesting read in light of what we read in Disrupting Class - looking to higher ed as guinea pig for technology implementation in K-12.
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Lessons from an iPad Rollout - 3 views

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shared by Bridget Binstock on 21 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Bridget Binstock on 21 Sep 11
     
    Nice to see the upfront PD that took place before this initiative as well as the thorough security in place for the devices themselves.
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How Khan Academy Is Changing the Rules of Education | Magazine - 3 views

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shared by Amanda Bowen on 08 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Amanda Bowen on 08 Sep 11
     
    One teacher claims that "The idea is to invert the normal rhythms of school, so that lectures are viewed on the kids' own time and homework is done at school." - Do you agree that this is a good solution? 
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  • Chris McEnroe on 09 Sep 11
     
    That is the way a couple of my colleagues (science and math) use Khan and they feel it creates more opportunity to use them as a resource for their specific needs. The spend some time at the beginning of class to answer questions as a group and then students begin working on problems and asking for individual help during class.
  • Chris Mosier on 09 Sep 11
     
    I think the idea of distributing video tutorials and courseware for free is a powerful lever for change and education (Khan Academy, MIT OpenCourseWare, etc). While I'm intrigued by Khan Academy and see the benefit to help student who want to pause and replay lessons, there is a limit to it's use as an educational tool. In the article linked below, the Los Altos district currently piloting the program noted that they have not seen any statistical difference between Khan students and the control group. http://losaltos.patch.com/articles/school-district-expands-khan-academy-to-all-schools
  • James Glanville on 09 Sep 11
     
    I too am intrigued by this "inverting" of time spent in the classroom and at home. My idealized model would be to introduce learners to new material at their own pace out of the classroom (allowing for pausing, note taking, reflecting and/or rewinding) and focus classroom time on face to face guiding and coaching of clusters of students or individual students engaged in applying or exploring the current material. To help facilitate this (and assist with accountability) some brief form of pre-assessment before class or at the start of class could illuminate for student and teacher alike what material has been mastered and what needs more attention. The research report from the TIE Foundations summer reading appears to support this type of hybrid approach. => Marsha Lovett, Oded Meyer, and Candace Thille (2008). The Open Learning Initiative: Measuring the effectiveness of the OLI statistics course in accelerating student learning.
  • Katherine Tarulli on 10 Sep 11
     
    An added benefit of tools such as Khan Academy is the option for reinforcement. In a traditional K-12 school environment students do not have the option to watch a video of their class or spend personalized time reviewing a concept they need more time with during class time due to the required pace of school curriculum. An online learning tool allows a student to watch a lesson as many times as needed and to learn from an expert. Often if a student needs help outside the classroom the only people they turn to is parents, who may or may not know about the content themselves.
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Google Wave First Look - Google Wave - Lifehacker - 0 views

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shared by Kellie Demmler on 07 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Kellie Demmler on 07 Oct 09
     
    Google wave looks like it is very flexible.  I can envision teachers using the wave to plan with other teachers without having to be in the same room - now able to study hall periods and other times to drop files and share lesson plans and ideas.
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Education Week: Districts Tackle Questions Surrounding BYOT Policy - 1 views

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shared by Irina Uk on 23 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Tommie Anthony Henderson on 23 Oct 11
     
    Published Online: October 17, 2011 Published in Print: October 19, 2011, as Crafting Your BYOT Policy For the small but passionate minority of school districts that are opening doors to student-owned mobile devices, there's a lot riding on how effective the policy shift turns out to be in improving teaching and learning. I will be looking strongly at this experiment to assist with the charter school district I am putting together.
  • Bridget Binstock on 24 Oct 11
     
    I can understand a districts hesitance towards the BYOT because of its responsibility for and inability to control the accessing of inappropriate content on such devices. What I would like to see - even if in baby steps (which I know is occurring in small scale all over the country), is the creation and sharing of engaging lessons that encourage this BYOT movement and combat the urge for students to be inappropriate because of the level of motivation the lesson itself provides. And I would also like to see some of the responsibility shift from policy makers to the students for self moderation - they know what is right and wrong in an educational setting - why can't we hold THEM accountable more?
  • Irina Uk on 18 Sep 12
     
    Article addresses policy challenges in implementing BYOT
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Colleges Awakening to the Opportunities of Data Mining - 0 views

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shared by Erin Connors on 25 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Erin Connors on 25 Sep 12
     
    Arizona State University is using data mining to collect information on their students and help guide them to the "most appropriate major". also, in class, using data collection methods, teachers collect information to be used in assessment Ex: "Ms. Galayda can monitor their progress. In her cubicle on a recent Monday, she sees the intimacies of students' study routines - or lack of them - from the last activity they worked on to how many tries they made at each end-of-lesson quiz. For one crammer, the system registers 57 attempts on multiple quizzes in seven days. Pulling back to the big picture, a chart shows 15 students falling behind (in red) and 17 on schedule (in green)."
  • Maria Anaya on 26 Sep 12
     
    wow this is kind of bothersome on some levels and kinda amazing on other levels. While I can see the benefit of understanding where and how a student is more likely to succeed, I think there are some potential dangers with such a system. There is the what I would imagine the psychological effect of such a program and I am thinking particularly about STEM fields where women are already way under-represented and often self conscious about their performance, do you really also need a system telling you you shouldn't be majoring in that as well cause you're not performing at that point....or what about a student who really wants to be an engineer but maybe hasn't been fully prepared with the appropriate math courses in high school, would he or she be filtered into another major? I understand using such a system as a means to target help for example if a student could get an assessment of where they currently are, where they want to go and how to get there....
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Optimizing Young Readers' Brains: Lessons from Neuroscience - 2 views

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shared by Andrea Bush on 27 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • Andrea Bush on 27 Nov 12
     
    Education Week does a little neuroscience research and gives some take-away advice for classroom practice.
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TeachStreet leaves some lessons as it shuts down - 0 views

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shared by Rupangi Sharma on 30 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • Rupangi Sharma on 30 Nov 12
     
    An online education directory that's shutting down after five years, never had its breakout moment, but it still had an outsized effect on the region's startup community.
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Social Sector Innovation Funds - Lessons Learned and Recommendations - 2 views

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shared by Chip Linehan on 08 Dec 12 - No Cached
  • Chip Linehan on 08 Dec 12
     
    Article on how the government and philanthropies can support innovation in education.
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  • Susan Smiley on 09 Dec 12
     
    Chris mentioned this in class, that DOE has put $150M - a mere $150M - toward innovation in education. A drop in the bucket toward what needs to be resourced to education innovations. Philanthropies are certainly helping a great deal, but we need a lot more from our government (and our tax dollars).
  • Cole Shaw on 09 Dec 12
     
    What's the big barrier (besides government reluctance to spend money on education) to this? Historically, I thought that education funding was left to states as "states rights", hence the fact that the Federal government has even put up any money should be a step forward. I would be interested in hearing what people think are the levers for getting the Federal government to invest more...should education research be treated like NSF or NIH "basic research" and get core government support?
  • Chip Linehan on 10 Dec 12
     
    I believe that the federal government used to spend more dollars for basic research in education, but that number has been reduced dramatically over the years. I agree 100% that we need to increase this type of investment, and the federal government is the natural source. These social innovation funds are a separate type of investment, distinct from basic research. These grants are "translational" in that they seek to help commercialize promising research, but are not intended to fund the basic research. For a healthy and dynamic ecosystem of innovation in education, we need both.
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How to separate fact and fiction-lessons from journalism for educators? - 0 views

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shared by Matthew Ong on 12 Dec 12 - No Cached
  • Matthew Ong on 12 Dec 12
     
    This is an interesting talk which shares techniques that journalists use to determine fact from fiction. Could be very useful for teaching critical thinking skills.
  • Irina Uk on 14 Dec 12
     
    Really interesting and definitely related to developing critical thinking skills. However, the idea that someone can crosscheck sources using Google maps to identify locations makes me wonder about how journalism in a web 2.0 ecology impacts privacy.
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"History Lesson" - 0 views

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shared by Chip Linehan on 07 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • Chip Linehan on 07 Nov 12
     
    Thoughtful piece about keeping a grounded historical perspective when analyzing edtech innovations.
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