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New Guides Aim to Become the Yelp for MOOC's - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher E... - 2 views

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shared by Douglas Harsch on 05 Dec 12 - No Cached
  • Douglas Harsch on 05 Dec 12
     
    Websites are springing up that sort and collect reviews of MOOC courses. Meta-MOOC's essentially. Interesting how quickly an ecosystem can begin to develop around a new technology.
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DIIGO For Profesional Development - 0 views

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shared by Jeffrey Siegel on 07 Dec 12 - No Cached
  • Jeffrey Siegel on 07 Dec 12
     
    A little bit meta
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Why Students Should Run Professional Development For Teachers - 3 views

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shared by Tomoko Matsukawa on 03 Dec 12 - No Cached
  • Tomoko Matsukawa on 03 Dec 12
     
    not sure students 'should' run PD but teachers need to be more comfortable with the idea of giving up power to some extend and be more willing to learn from students at times
  • Cole Shaw on 04 Dec 12
     
    I think it does make sense to include students, too. Also re-enforces the idea that you don't truly understand a topic until you teach it, so I think empowering students somewhat works towards that goal.
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NYC Schools Gap App Challenge - 0 views

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  • Douglas Harsch on 08 Jan 13
     
    The NYC Department of Education is challenging software developers to submit apps and games that enhance teaching, learning, and engagement for NYC middle schools. I thought this might interest folks working on app or startup ideas.
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What Killed Him? A 'Verbal Autopsy' Can Answer : Shots - Health News : NPR - 0 views

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  • Amanda Granger on 12 Dec 12
     
    Doctors developing smartphone apps that will help determine cause of death in under-resourced communities.  
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Where Education Has Gone Wrong With Technology - 2 views

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shared by Andrea Bush on 03 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • Laura Johnson on 03 Nov 12
     
    blog post reiterating the importance of professional development support necessary for tech integration
  • Andrea Bush on 19 Dec 12
     
    "While the amount of technology school boards and administrators purchase increase with each passing year, the amount allotted for professional development for the teachers intended to use the technology has decreased or is non-existent."
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Verizon Foundation launches mobile ed tech initiative - 0 views

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shared by Cole Shaw on 19 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Cole Shaw on 19 Oct 12
     
    Pretty relevant to what we've discussed in class so far--Verizon is launching a couple of initiatives to encourage mobile ed tech development. One is to encourage students to create educational apps relevant to their communities, while the other is to train teachers on how to use technology and mobile tech in their classrooms. Third part is an online portal for sharing knowledge and materials between teachers.
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Guess who's winning the brains race, with 100% of first graders learning to code? | Ven... - 1 views

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  • Angela Nelson on 05 Sep 12
     
    Program in Estonia designed to have all students age 7 to 16 learn to write code in a drive to turn children from consumers to developers of technology.
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  • Heather French on 05 Sep 12
     
    I just posted an article from Wired onto twitter about this! http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/09/estonia-reprograms-first-graders-as-web-coders/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=socialmedia&utm_campaign=twitterclickthru I wonder how deeply the program goes in coding or if it is more in line with applications like "Move the Turtle".
  • Angela Nelson on 05 Sep 12
     
    I am very curious, as well, and trying to find more information. I think it would necessarily be a program that expands with their comprehension and maturity... starting with very basic "Move the Turtle" applications and then grown with the student, hopefully to real world application, as they go until age 16!
  • Jeffrey Siegel on 06 Sep 12
     
    Who initiated this ProgreTiiger program? The Estonian government? Local IT companies? Concerned parents who disparately wanted their children to learn to code? Estonia is very wired country and it's economy has found a niche in IT services, so much so that it's even been dubbed "eStonia" (http://e-estonia.com/). This program seems to be an example of market forces guiding educational policy since there are clear incentives for it's population to be technologically literate to ensure it's competitiveness and dominance in the tech sector (see: The Many Reasons Estonia Is a Tech Start-Up Nation (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303734204577464343888754210.html) A little blurb on how "plug-in" Estonia actually is: "The geeks have triumphed in this country of 1.3 million. Some 40 percent read a newspaper online daily, more than 90 percent of bank transactions are done over the Internet, and the government has embraced online voting. The country is saturated in free Wi-Fi, cell phones can be used to pay for parking or buy lunch, and Skype is taking over the international phone business from its headquarters on the outskirts of Tallinn. In other words, Estonia - or eStonia, as some citizens prefer - is like a window into the future. Someday, the rest of the world will be as wired as this tiny Baltic nation." (http://www.wired.com/politics/security/magazine/15-09/ff_estonia) p.s. I hate sensational titles like "Guess Who's Winning the Brain's Race" Learning coding doesn't automatically make your brain bigger or necessarily increase your intelligence. Sure, it's a very useful skill, but I wonder what classes will be cut out to make time in the school day for coding. Coding vs recess: Tough call.
  • Irina Uk on 06 Sep 12
     
    Hmmm.... I read about Estonia being very plugged in as well. I wonder if there is research on whether the kids are actually learning better as a result. I think that you have a point Jeffrey. It depends what the cost is. If kids are missing some critical lesson because they are coding at such a young age, there may be a trade-off. On the other hand, maybe the skills they are obtaining from coding are more critical. I wonder...
  • Angela Nelson on 06 Sep 12
     
    Ideally, the tech skills would be used to enhance and deepen some of the other curriculum areas. But, yes, 7 years old may be young.
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Rosalind Picard: Assisting Autism with Emotion Technology | TREND GUARDIAN: The Most In... - 1 views

www.trendguardian.com/...ard-assisting-autism-with.html Autism Emotion Stress MIT
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  • Angela Nelson on 05 Sep 12
     
    Using technology developed at MIT to measure emotion and stress in children with Autism and in the general population.
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KSU Professor develops Flexbooks - 2 views

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shared by Heather French on 08 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Heather French on 08 Sep 12
     
    Online textbooks containing multimedia that are easy to update. Appears to be a combination of an E-textbook and wikipedia. (Link contains example Flexbook.)
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13 Tips for Social Media Training | EdTech Magazine - 0 views

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shared by Cole Shaw on 11 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Cole Shaw on 11 Sep 12
     
    Relevant to the discussion we had yesterday in recitation about professional development and the comments from Emily about similarities in technology adoption. Teachers can learn about how to use social media from business trainers, too.
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White Paper on Moving Learning Games Forward from MIT's Education Arcade - 1 views

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  • Hannah Lesk on 12 Sep 12
     
    Following up on yesterday's section discussion on connections and barriers between educational game development and "mainstream" gaming, here is an interesting white paper released by MIT's Education Arcade last year that explores obstacles and opportunities in great depth.
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UW-Stout Mobile Learning - Acceptable Use Policies for Mobile Devices - 0 views

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shared by Irina Uk on 15 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Irina Uk on 15 Sep 12
     
    This page has countless links on developing acceptable use policies for mobile technology, as well as examples of policies in existence, varying from traditional "no mobile devices" in school to BYOD related policies. It offers a broad view of what schools are doing with regards to mobile technology policy.
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MIND Research Institute - Program Overview - 0 views

www.mindresearch.net/...landing_programs.php math literacy reading symbols gaming education arithmetic software
shared by Jennifer Bartecchi on 16 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Jennifer Bartecchi on 16 Sep 12
     
    The MIND Research Institute has developed software & games to teach math without use of language. Language is thought to be a barrier to math for many students.
  • Jennifer Bartecchi on 16 Sep 12
     
    Taking the math out of language provides access for students who have linguistic barriers to learning.
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Game Design Engine, Make Games for iPhone & Android - GameSalad - 1 views

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  • Deidre Witan on 16 Sep 12
     
    platform for game creation
  • Angela Nelson on 16 Sep 12
     
    Platforms like this open up so many possibilities to put development into the hands of the masses. It boggles the mind to consider what will be the effect of removing the barriers to entry from development.
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Want More Women to Code? This Meetup Brings Women in To Teach Them - 2 views

bostinno.com/...-brings-women-in-to-teach-them education learning educational_technology social Women & Technology
shared by Rupangi Sharma on 17 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Rupangi Sharma on 17 Sep 12
     
    The gender imbalance in the startup world, and more specifically the development world, is a frequent topic here and elsewhere. Last week I learned of a new meetup in Cambridge aimed at getting more women to become Ruby developers by simply bringing in women to teach them. Also, read the group's blog here- http://www.railsbridgeboston.org/blog/2012_aug_recap
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A 'Moneyball' Approach to College - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 2 views

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  • James Glanville on 17 Dec 11
     
    Brian Lukoff, a Technology & Education Postdoc Fellow working with Eric Mazur, just sent me this article which discusses their new ed tech startup Learning Catalytics.  It's the evolution of the Eric's clicker supported Peer Instruction.  I'm meeting with Brian and Eric on Tuesday to setup a TIE spring internship doing business development for Learning Catalytics.
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How Do We Train Teachers in Formative Assessment? - Teacher Beat - Education Week - 2 views

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shared by Kasthuri Gopalaratnam on 19 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • Kasthuri Gopalaratnam on 19 Dec 11
     
    "The best professional-development research shows that teachers need sustained contact hours (between 30 and 100) of training before altering their practices. So, she did a back-of-the envelope calculation about how much time it would take to implement 50 hours of formative-assessment training over the course of a school year...... Teachers would need about six hours a month, for eight months, which amounts to one early-close afternoon a month plus two additional hours. (Good luck with that in this economy.)"
  • James Glanville on 19 Dec 11
     
    Perhaps this is where technology can play an enabling role. Easy to use and real-time tools like Socrative or technology based learning environments with embedded formative assessments (like my formative assessment design proposal for VPA) could help reduce the time / training barriers for teachers to incorporate formative assessment into the teaching practice. At the very least, new curriculum initiatives aligned with common core standards SHOULD BE REQUIRED to incorporate formative-assessments. Unfortunately on PARCC is. "Of the two assessment consortia, the Partnership for the Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, or PARCC, is not developing formative-assessment resources as part of its federal grant. The other consortium, known as SMARTER Balanced, is."
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