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Which Came First - The Technology or the Pedagogy? -- THE Journal - 0 views

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shared by Jennifer Hern on 09 Sep 09 - Cached
    • Jennifer Hern
      Jennifer Hern on 09 Sep 09
       
      Yes! School systems should provide (and require) technology professional development for teachers.
  • teachers more knowledgeable about technology than any before it arriving in classrooms with little understanding of how to teach with it?
  • Jennifer Hern on 09 Sep 09
     
    trying this out first...
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Biology Lab Escape ("Escape the room" type flash game) - 0 views

www.escapetheroomgames.net/ay-11710-biologylabescape.html flash games ideas assessment performance_assessment education learning educational_technology
shared by Chris Johnson on 08 Sep 09 - Cached
    • Chris Johnson
      Chris Johnson on 08 Sep 09
       
      Try playing through this "escape the room" type flash game. You have to conduct an experiment as part of the solution. In this case the experiment is trivial and its validity is questionable, but couldn't we create a similar game as a performance assessment? If you get stuck, you can click "walkthrough" for help (including a video of the solution). Yes, I know there are many advertisements.
    • Xavier Rozas
      Xavier Rozas on 09 Sep 09
       
      Chris don't you find the spastic picking up and inspecting of random artifacts laying around the castle, maze, forest, etc..hoping for a dialogue box to blurt out '..Just a regular newspaper...But what's this, a secret code puzzle left unfinished?!' is a flat experience. Don't get me wrong, I love easter eggs, but the hunt is a pain in clunky 2D.
  • Chris Johnson on 08 Sep 09
     
    Consider the possibilities for a performance assessment while playing through this simple "escape the room" game. The validity of the experiment involved in the solution is questionable.
  • Lindsay Bellino on 08 Sep 09
     
    Escape games are very big in the publishing industry right now due mostly to their inquiry based assessment and the low development cost compared to highly immersive first-person games. The biology lab escape is one of the better ones that I've seen out there. Thanks Chris!
  • anonymous on 09 Sep 09
     
    I played for about 8 minutes and then grew tired of the game. I am curious how assessors would have graded my performance. I found the easier way to "escape the room" was to close the browser window.
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Confessions of an Aca/Fan: Archives: Youtube in the Amazon: Rural Peru's Transition to ... - 0 views

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shared by Uche Amaechi on 05 Sep 09 - Cached
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  • Uche Amaechi on 05 Sep 09
     
    Bringing Wireless Infrastructure to small villages in Peru. Why and how?
  • Jennifer Hern on 12 Sep 09
     
    Jenny, you should check this one out...
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Non-Formal Education in African Development. Report of a Survey. - 0 views

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shared by Uche Amaechi on 27 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Uche Amaechi on 27 Aug 09
     
    Sheffield 1972
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Classroom 2.0 - 0 views

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shared by Erin McCloskey on 02 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Erin McCloskey on 02 Sep 09
     
    A social network for educators interested in Web 2.0 technologies. Here you can connect with other educators who are interested in talking about the challenges and opportunities of using Web 2.0 technologies in all kinds of learning settings.
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Levers (Physics flash game) - 1 views

www.vectorpark.com/levers interactive education educational_technology flash games learning science physics
shared by Chris Johnson on 28 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Chris Johnson on 28 Sep 09
     
    A highly amusing flash game for learning physics concepts. How might a teacher use this in class?
  • Chris Johnson on 28 Sep 09
     
    What age group would benefit most from this? What could the teacher do to make sure students learn about physics and not just learn how to manipulate the simulation?
  • Shaheer Khan on 29 Sep 09
     
    I just played around with it a little bit, and I don't feel that I could use it effectively with grade 9th or grade 7th students that I was teaching last year. It is pretty much just a balancing game, but I don't think it can help learners understand any particular concepts like 'gravity' or the 'principle of moments'. For younger learners, like 6-year olds perhaps, it could help them develop an understanding of weights and balancing forces(?)... I don't know...
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Second Thoughts on Online Education - 3 views

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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.
  • Maura Wolk on 09 Sep 10
     
    I get really nervous about these "shifts" when they become sensationalized. Despite our insistence that students are not created equal, we keep searching for the one-size-fits-all solution to education, and in this era that solution is bolstered by anything containing the word DIGITAL. How much socioemotional development will students lose if this trend increases over time? How do we provide for human relationships, mentors, even confrontation and conflict resolution when we are all hiding behind computer screens? It has to be about more than convenience.
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ASTD Learning Circuits - 1 views

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shared by Amanda Comperchio on 08 Sep 10 - Cached
  • Amanda Comperchio on 08 Sep 10
     
    A good resource for online learning from American Society of Training & Development.
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Writer Neal Stephenson Unveils His Digital Novel The Mongoliad - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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shared by Garron Hillaire on 01 Sep 10 - Cached
  • The company, based in Seattle and San Francisco, has developed what it calls the PULP platform for creating digital novels
  • aterial like background articles, images, music, and video. There are also social features that allow readers to create the
  • There are also social features that allow readers to create their own profiles, earn badges for activity on the site or in the application, and interact with other readers.
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  • Stephenson isn’t writing the book alone. There’s a team led by a writer Mark Teppo; it also includes Greg Bear, author of Blood Music and other science fiction novels. Stephenson compared the experience to writing a TV show, and not just because it’s a team of writers.
  • Garron Hillaire on 01 Sep 10
     
    The PULP platform is an example of a writer trying to respond to people wanting more than traditional publishing. If this platform, or something like it, was widely accepted by people it might build a better case for alternative forms of publishing in education
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BASE10, The DSi and Lefties Left Out - Chicago video game | Examiner.com - 2 views

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shared by Garron Hillaire on 16 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • There is a percentage of people in the world who hold that DS stylus a bit differently than the rest of you gamers out there and despite the attention of much of the gaming development industry, when we get ignored it isn’t difficult to avoid taking notice
  • Garron Hillaire on 16 Sep 10
     
    Designers of games need to consider the audience. Here is an example of a game that excludes left handed players. The DSi is a small hand held device with two screens. This game is played by holding the device open as you would a book. The problem is that numbers are moving from the left page to the right page and players are expected to use a stylus to interact with the right page. Left handed players block the view of the game and cannot play.
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Higher Education's Tech Dilemmas - Science and Tech - The Atlantic - 2 views

www.theatlantic.com/...61363 Higher education electronic readers
shared by Jessica O'Brien on 05 Sep 10 - Cached
  • Electronic readers and textbooks, while an interesting concept and potentially lucrative for publishers, so far aren't meeting student needs
  • A host of research over the past decade has shown that even the option to click hyperlinks to related material can create confusion and weaken understanding.
  • The iPad measured at 6.2% lower reading speed than the printed book, whereas the Kindle measured at 10.7% slower than print
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  • Education's real problem with readers is the dismaying fact that mass information technology out of the box was not developed for education.
  • Jessica O'Brien on 05 Sep 10
     
    This article summarizes some research findings that suggest that electronic readers, such as the Kindle and iPad, are still inferior to the printed page and may even worsen student comprehension of material. The most up-to-date information technology seems inadequate for educational and academic needs.
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Learning Games Network - 0 views

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shared by Sabita Verma on 01 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Sabita Verma on 01 Oct 10
     
    Learning around games
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Learning Games Network - 0 views

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  • Sabita Verma on 01 Oct 10
     
    Folding proteins for fun
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Classroom iPad Programs Get Mixed Response - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Edu... - 0 views

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shared by Devon Dickau on 21 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • At those early-adopter schools, iPads are competing with MacBooks as the students' go-to gadget for note taking and Web surfing.
  • the iPad's technological limitations—its inability to multitask and print, and its limited storage space—have kept students dependent on their notebooks. "That's the problem with the iPad: It's not an independent device,
  • really excited about the technology but have not been "pushing the capabilities" of the device.
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  • Seton Hill University, which gave iPads to all full-time students, are working with the developers of an e-book app called Inkling to come up with new ways to integrate the iPad into classroom instruction
  • he faculty at Indiana University has formed a 24-member focus group to evaluate iPad-driven teaching strategies.
  • Devon Dickau on 21 Sep 10
     
    What about providing students iPads so that they purchase textbooks on these devices to save resources for both the students and the school? Can we assume that all students will be comfortable using an iPad, or might there be implications for students with learning differences? What about the socioeconomic gap for students who cannot afford a computer to LOAD the books onto their iPads (even if the iPads themselves were provided)?
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Does Your Language Shape How You Think? - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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shared by Eric Kattwinkel on 02 Sep 10 - Cached
    • Eric Kattwinkel
      Eric Kattwinkel on 02 Sep 10
       
      Old ideas about language affecting thinking have been discredited, but more recent research has revived the idea, with important differences.
    • Eric Kattwinkel
      Eric Kattwinkel on 02 Sep 10
       
      It's not that features of our language prevent or allow certain kinds of thinking; it's that they "oblige" us to consider some things and not others, thereby causing us to develop certain "habits" in how we think.
    • Eric Kattwinkel
      Eric Kattwinkel on 02 Sep 10
       
      Compare different language requirements of making a simple statement ("I had dinner with a neighbor last night"): in French you have to reveal the gender of the neighbor, but in English  you don't; in English you have to reveal when the dinner happened; not so in Chinese.
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    • Eric Kattwinkel
      Eric Kattwinkel on 02 Sep 10
       
      Research shows that when languages have different genders for the same objects, speakers of those language think differently about those same objects -- and this can affect their ability to remember those objects. (no reference?)
    • Eric Kattwinkel
      Eric Kattwinkel on 02 Sep 10
       
      How would the habits of mind of a speaker of a geographic-based language be manifest in the way that person learns/remembers/teaches? How do speakers of egocentric languages learn/teach/remember differently?
    • Eric Kattwinkel
      Eric Kattwinkel on 02 Sep 10
       
      Language even affects our perception and experience of color: "Our experience of a Chagall painting actually depends to some extent on whether our language has a word for blue."
    • Eric Kattwinkel
      Eric Kattwinkel on 02 Sep 10
       
      Does an avid user of social media, who makes subtle distinctions among different ways to post something (comment, like, message, poke, etc.), have different habits of mind that affect how he/she relates to other people and/or incoming information?
    • Eric Kattwinkel
      Eric Kattwinkel on 02 Sep 10
       
      Area for potential study?: how to measure the ways habits of mind affect our intuitive/emotional/impulse behavior.
    • Eric Kattwinkel
      Eric Kattwinkel on 02 Sep 10
       
      Very intesting article about how our language affects the way we think. People who speak different languages adopt different "habits of mind" from an early age, and those habits can affect they way they experience the world. Especially fascinating is the discussion (2/3 of the way down) of languages that use a geographical, rather than egotistical, method for describing direction and relative position. (For example, the cup is resting on the north side of the west table in the southern room of the house.) How would a person with this type of view of the world experience a virtual environment? Also interesting implications for kids growing up with social media. Do new technologies impart habits of mind that affect the way kids learn?
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Houghton Mifflin takes the iPad to school - 0 views

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shared by Maura Wolk on 09 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • The launch of the algebra app "signals the beginning of a new era in curriculum development, where the goal is not just providing world-class content, but also delivering it in a variety of ways so that students and teachers can individualize the learning experience,”
  • Maura Wolk on 09 Sep 10
     
    A not surprising move on the part of educational publishers trying to keep from going extinct. But it does force us to ask, are they just in a rush to utilize the popular technology, or have they really explored its value for learning?
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BBC News - Japan develops robotic seals to comfort sick and elderly - 1 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...health-11459745
shared by Allison Gevarter on 03 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Allison Gevarter on 03 Oct 10
     
    Interesting video in light of our discussions on AI toys. This is going for a much older audience, but some of the "reactive" qualities would be extremely applicable to products for children.
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Body Sensing Comes to Smartphones - NYTimes.com - 2 views

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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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