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Vallivue School District opens its first virtual school | Education | Idaho Statesman - 0 views

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  • Chris Dede on 01 Nov 10
     
    online school for grades K-8
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Parent Media Tips Parental Advice - 1 views

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  • Amanda Valverde on 31 Oct 10
     
    Saw a commercial warning parents not to let their teens spend too much time on the internet. Interesting site for parents all about the dangers of media.
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The End of the Textbook as We Know It - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 3 views

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  • 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.
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A Case for Disruptive Education - 3 views

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  • Cameron Paterson on 30 Oct 10
     
    A system for personalized learning will not grow from inside formal education. Education is like a field that's been overplanted, with only patches of fertile soil. Too many stakeholders (parents, Unions, adhow to change, acting like weeds or plagues that choke off plant growth. The fresh and fertile soil of the open web can foster the quick growth of a personalized learning system. ministration, faculty) compete with each other with various ideas about
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IPad a Therapeutic Marvel for Disabled People - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • Since its debut in April, the iPad has become a popular therapeutic tool for people with disabilities of all kinds, though no one keeps track of how many are used this way, and studies are just getting under way to test its effectiveness, which varies widely depending on diagnosis.
  • “Making things less complicated can actually make a lot of money
  • amy hoffmaster on 30 Oct 10
     
    thoughts on using iPad for people with physical disabilities
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Carnegie Mellon Researchers Test Mobile Phone Games To Teach Children -- THE Journal - 4 views

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  • Chris Dede on 30 Oct 10
     
    mobile phones for language learning
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Microsoft's Ray Ozzie Envisions a 'Post-PC World' -- THE Journal - 2 views

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  • Chris Dede on 28 Oct 10
     
    information appliances and ubiquitous computing
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Networked student model - 4 views

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  • Cameron Paterson on 28 Oct 10
     
    Principles of networked learning, constructivism, and connectivism inform the design of a test case through which secondary students construct personal learning environments for the purpose of independent inquiry. Emerging web applications and open educational resources are integrated to support a Networked Student Model that promotes inquiry-based learning and digital literacy, empowers the learner, and offers flexibility as new technologies emerge. The Networked Student Model and a test case are described in detail along with implications and considerations for additional research. The article is meant to facilitate further discussion about K-12 student construction of personal learning environments and offer the practitioner a foundation on which to facilitate a networked learning experience. It seeks to determine how a teacher can scaffold a networked learning approach while providing a foundation on which students take more control of the learning process.
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California Higher-Education System Needs Drastic Reforms, Report Says - The Ticker - Th... - 1 views

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  • John A. Douglass, the paper’s author, says the state should create a centralized online university
  • California Higher-Education System Needs Drastic Reforms, Report Says
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Even top schools struggle under 'No Child' law - chicagotribune.com - 0 views

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  • Doug Pietrzak on 28 Oct 10
     
    NCLB pressures on high schools to perform
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Tech has become indispensable - 1 views

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  • Cameron Paterson on 27 Oct 10
     
    Technology has changed the way we live and - with increasing frequency - the way our youngest generations are learning.
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KOR-fx, In-Flight Entertainment Device, Seeks to Engage the Brain - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • Amanda Comperchio on 27 Oct 10
     
    Perhaps a tool like this will provide students with even more realistic virtual experiences in the future.
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British Kids Log On and Learn Math - in Punjab - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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  • LONDON — Once a week, year six pupils at Ashmount Primary School in North London settle in front of their computers, put on their headsets and get ready for their math class. A few minutes later, their teachers come online thousands of kilometers away in the Indian state of Punjab.
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What Is This Buzz Word "Transliteracy"? A Q&A with Ryan Nadel | Spotlight on Digital Me... - 1 views

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  • Being really smart used to mean “how much do you know,” and “how much can you memorize.” Now it’s, “how good are you at finding information and contextualizing it.”
  • So when we’re teaching digital literacy, it needs to be a transliterate approach. It’s not about one experience, but how all of these things interrelate.
  • Mydhili Bayyapunedi on 26 Oct 10
     
    Are we transliterate enough when we are learning and experimenting things.  Another example I can think of for transliteracy is the awareness of updating one's status messages in various places. For example, a status message on one's FB page is quite different from one's LinkedIn Profile to one's style of tweeting to one's IM status message.  Being aware of what kind of thoughts go where is an important transliterate skill to have. Thoughts?
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Presenter: Len Scrogan (Video) : TEDxDenverEducation - June 28, 2010 - 0 views

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  • anonymous on 26 Oct 10
     
    A TED talk on 3D Goes to School
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FETC 2011 Featured Speakers -- FETC Events - 2 views

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  • anonymous on 26 Oct 10
     
    Check out where our professor will be speaking in Feb. If anyone has the chance and wants to get out of the cold and get in touch with teachers, publishers and hardware vendors, the FETC is a great conference.
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The Khan Academy Brings Disrupting Class to Life - 0 views

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  • Lastly, toward the end of the video Khan talks about his surprise that it's not just him and other math geeks who want to learn and understand these concepts -- and get pleasure from it. He reads a letter about someone who solves a derivative and smiles. This resonates and matches our new chapter in the new edition of Disrupting Class -- that a fundamental job people have to do is to feel successful and achieve.
  • Margaret O'Connell on 23 Oct 10
     
    Check out the video at http://vimeo.com/11731351 (It's the same info Cameron posted a while ago but this time it's made the widely read Huffington Post ... and I think it's a good repeat post since I, for one, didn't pay enough attention to this the first time I heard about it.)
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