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Chris Dede

iNACOL Identifies Top Online Learning Trends - Digital Education - Education Week - 2 views

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    Report on top trends in online learning
Brandon Bentley

Game aims to draw in North Quincy - 0 views

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    Game's goal is to increase Asian community involvement
Anushka Paul

Preschool Comes Alive in Zanzibar | Education Development Center - 0 views

  • RISE has helped 280 communities to open preschool learning centers.
  • A recent study showed that grade 1 students who had attended a preschool learning center, such as Kisongoni, scored higher than their counterparts who did not attend preschool. Further, grade 1 students who listened to IRI programs scored 10 percent higher than students in classrooms that didn’t use IRI.
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    A look at Radio Instruction for pre-school children in Zanzibar.
Anushka Paul

ICT & Education: Eleven Countries to Watch -- and Learn From | A World Bank Blog on ICT... - 0 views

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    A look at ICT in Education in 11 countries highlighting national programs in the field.
Chris Dede

2020 Vision: Experts Forecast What the Digital Revolution Will Bring Next -- THE Journal - 1 views

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    experts forecast the future of ed tech
Doug Pietrzak

How Wii and Kinect Hack Into Your Emotions | Wired Science | Wired.com - 1 views

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    Wii and Kinect Hack into EMOTIONS?
Garron Hillaire

NYU Professor to Implant Camera in Head to Broadcast a Live Stream to Museum in Qatar -... - 1 views

  • Students long have complained about teachers with eyes on the backs of their heads. A New York University photography professor is going one further by implanting a camera in the back of his head.
  • The project is being commissioned by a new museum in Qatar. But the work, which would broadcast a live stream of images from the camera to museum visitors, is sparking a debate on campus over the competing values of creative expression and student privacy.
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    eyes in the back of your head? One teacher thinks this is good idea.
Allison Gevarter

Facebook takes on Google and Yahoo in Web messages | Reuters - 0 views

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    Interesting article on Facebook introducing @facebook.com email addresses. I doubt this will replace other e-mail providers for adults, but wonder what impact this will have on younger users of the site.
Brandon Bentley

The Great American Information Emperors - 1 views

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    This article contains excerpts from a new book called "The Master Switch", Wu presents the stories of five men who disproportionately influenced the shape of the American information industries in the 20th and 21st centuries. Interesting context given our recent discussion on information...
Amanda Comperchio

Track Your Happiness - 2 views

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    I just started participating in this research project. Even though its not a learning program, its could be a method to use mobile devices for learning.
Garron Hillaire

Is handwriting becoming a lost art? | wausaudailyherald.com | Wausau Daily Herald - 1 views

  • "Soon, cursive will only be used for your signature,"
  • The diminishing use of cursive handwriting often is used as a bellwether for the increased influence of technology in education and in society as a whole
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    Technology instead of hand writing? ok.
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    I think handwriting is already a lost art, but I'm sad to see it go. Perhaps teaching handwriting can go by way of the art teachers, and we'll be able to save it in schools as an art form.
Margaret O'Connell

YouTube - Arduino: turning non-nerds into robot-makers - 3 views

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    Arduino - the cheap way for students to learn programming
Lisa Estrin

Hand-held Devices Find a Place in College Classes - 1 views

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    About how more colleges are using clickers in classes and how they help with student engagement and class participation.
Natalie Hebshie

Detroit Takes Science Education Digital -- THE Journal - 1 views

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    Detroit public schools made its science curriculum digital this school year through a partnership with Discovery Education. They don't mention whether students have access to their own laptop or other mobile devices.
Amanda Valverde

Talking Numbers Counts For Kids' Math Skills : NPR - 1 views

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    Math, learning, number_sense
Garron Hillaire

Transformative Education Technologies in Asia 2010 | Articles | FutureGov - Transformin... - 0 views

  • A new study on the role of transformative technologies in Asian tertiary education reveals the critical technologies being prioritised by campus administrators – as well as why. Surprise findings demonstrate that conventional e-learning systems are being superseded by newer technologies aimed to deliver “pedagogical transformation”.
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    I did not buy the article to get the details, but this paper seems pertinent to this course.
Garron Hillaire

Education Technology News: Fedora Scholarship Program to Proliferate Open Source Techno... - 0 views

  • The Fedora Project announced the opening of the 2011 Fedora Scholarship program, an award that recognizes the contributions of college and University students toward the project
  • Recipients will receive $2,000 per year for each of the four years that they attend college or university.
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    Fedora to provide scholarship. Incentive to contribute to open source technologies for high school students. Perhaps getting high school students engaged in open source projects is a means of putting the medium of technology into the learners hands.
quintintanderson

Education will evolve with technology, experts advise - 2 views

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    Over 4.6 million students enrolled for online courses in 2008, a 17 percent increase on the numbers reported for the previous year. While students are enjoying the accessibility and convenience online learning provides, online educators firmly stand by their position that online learning should compliment not replace classroom learning
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