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Doug Pietrzak

ACT: Most high school juniors not college-ready in Illinois - chicagotribune.com - 0 views

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ACT scores show students not college ready

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  • Doug Pietrzak on 12 Nov 10
     
    Data on college preparedness.
Brandon Bentley

Microsoft targets 250 million teachers, students globally by 2013 in Partners in Learning - 1 views

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Microsoft ICT

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  • Brandon Bentley on 10 Nov 10
     
    Article mentions a 10-year $500 million commitment by Microsoft to transform education systems around the world through technology. "The programme will assist teachers, school leaders and students globally on effective ways to use ICT in the classroom environment." But doesn't really give any specifics. Is this money well spent?
  • Margaret O'Connell on 12 Nov 10
     
    This Microsoft Partners in Learning site (http://www.microsoft.com/education/pil/partnersInLearning.aspx) has good info on this great program. Here's a good video I saw there: http://www.microsoft.com/showcase/en/us/details/5672418a-839d-46e5-9b19-7a68d15d4b09 Btw, thanks for this! It is a perfect addition for my team's wiki project :-)
Garron Hillaire

Online Masters Program Focuses on Free Software - Yahoo! News - 0 views

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online masters program education technology learning

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  • the Free Technology Academy (FTA) and the Free Software Foundation (FSF) just announced this week that they've teamed up on an online Master's Program in Free Software and Free Standards
  • Garron Hillaire on 12 Nov 10
     
    Online masters program in free software. This seems like a good idea.
Garron Hillaire

Kno Tablet to Debut at $599 - NYTimes.com - 2 views

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kno tablet technology education college

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  • We already knew that the Kno, a tablet computer designed for college students, would be bigger and heavier than Apple’s iPad. It will also be pricier.
  • “When you do the math, it actually pays for itself and still saves $1,300 in digital textbook costs,” he said.
  • To be sure, the Kno is not just a fancy e-reader. It is also a platform that will allow students to take notes, manage projects and organize their college lives.
Devon Dickau

New report highlights barriers to online learning | 21st Century Education | eSchoolNew... - 1 views

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Internet technology education digital divide online learning

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  • The report, Enabled by Broadband, Education Enters a New Frontier, highlights success and growth in online education programs across the country. It also outlines the need for increased broadband access and suggests policy measures to ensure that barriers to continued growth in online learning are removed
  • keeping students engaged and in school
  • more than 1 million K-12 students were enrolled in online education programs in 2007
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  • The latest Pew Internet & American Life Project survey indicates that one-third of Americans do not have broadband access at home. And the U.S. Commerce Department just released Census data indicating that the nation still faces a significant gap in residential broadband use that breaks down along incomes, education levels, and other socio-economic factors
Garron Hillaire

Give your keyboard the boot? Microsoft patents foot interface - 1 views

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Human Computer Interface technology educational_technology

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  • Microsoft's research into a "foot-based user interface" seemed somewhat novel in 2006, when I first wrote about the project. Now that the company has released its Kinect full-body motion control system for the Xbox 360, the idea of controlling a machine with your feet seems like only part of the picture.
  • Despite the fact that it seems outdated, or at least partial, the patent actually could be a notable win as the Redmond company expands the concept of motion-based interfaces beyond its video-game console into more general-purpose computing.
  • Garron Hillaire on 11 Nov 10
     
    This could be used as an alternate means of interacting with computers. From an educational standpoint this does not appear to be dated, but rather creating opportunities for people with limited means of motion.
Brandon Bentley

Risk Reduction Strategies on Facebook - 1 views

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facebook privacy

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  • Brandon Bentley on 11 Nov 10
     
    How teens are leveraging facebook to meet their personal needs (super log-off, whitewashing).
Brandon Bentley

Episode 77: Wired Magazine Co-Founder's Tech Advice for Academics - 1 views

chronicle.com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/...125229

Wired_Magazine Kevin_Kelly Future Framework t561

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  • Brandon Bentley on 11 Nov 10
     
    Kevin Kelly, one of the founders of Wired Magazine, sat down with the Tech Therapy team to talk about his new book What Technology Wants, and what his framework for understanding change means for colleges.
anonymous

Texting and Risky Behavior - KIMT.com - Iowa & Minnesota Together - 2 views

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texting risky education

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  • anonymous on 11 Nov 10
     
    A new survey is showing one in five students are "hyper texters" - texting 120 times a day. This group is three and half times more likely to have had sex with their peers. The study goes on to show those who just text a lot, are more likely to fight, drink and take illegal drugs.
Chris Dede

Education Week: Framework Crafted for Student Use of Mobile Devices - 3 views

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Policy mobile usage students

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  • Chris Dede on 10 Nov 10
     
    Proposed policy framework for student use of mobile devices
Natalie Hebshie

Trickle Down Technology: Tech Lessons Learned From Higher Ed -- THE Journal - 1 views

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  • 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.
Chris Dede

A 'Stealth Assessment' Turns to Video Games to Measure Thinking Skills - Technology - T... - 3 views

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videogames thinking assessment stealth T561

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  • Chris Dede on 09 Nov 10
     
    using videogames to measure thinking skills
Natalie Hebshie

2010 Horizon Report - 1 views

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  • Natalie Hebshie on 10 Nov 10
     
    The Horizon Report is referenced in a lot of our readings but I don't think we've actually read it. Here is the latest reports. It breaks down technologies to look out for in 1 year or less, 2-3 years, 4-5 years.
Garron Hillaire

App Organizes the World Inside Your Smart Phone  - Technology Review - 0 views

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app technology social mobile

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  • Facebook encourages us to create a social network including everyone we know
  • Much of these communications is increasingly channeled through one device: the smart phone
  • "We're building your true social network from all of your services on the phone, and your [social] graph grows with every new message,"
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  • Aro is currently in a closed beta and is available only for Android phones (you can apply to join here), but an iPhone app is in the works
  • Garron Hillaire on 10 Nov 10
     
    Pulling together a social media experience on your mobile phone. This might be work that could lead to educational platforms on the mobile device in the US.
Eric Kattwinkel

What Wikipedia Is Best at Explaining - NYTimes.com - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...07FOB-medium-t.html

wikis collaboration

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  • Because entries are anonymous and collaborative, no author is tempted to showboat and, in the pursuit of literary glory, swerve from the aim of clarity and utility.
  • At the strenuously collectivist Wikipedia, it seems, “ownership” of an article — what in legacy media is called “authorship” — is strictly forbidden. But it’s more than that: even doing jerky things that Wikipedia calls “ownership behavior” — subtle ways of acting proprietary about entries — is prohibited.
  • Eric Kattwinkel on 09 Nov 10
     
    Timely article about ideas of ownership and authorship and collaboration on wikipedia. Mentions that you can type "WP: OWN" into Wikipedia to read its policy about "ownership" of articles. "The page is fascinating for anyone who has ever been part of a collaborative effort to create anything."
Doug Pietrzak

What a Hundred Million Calls to 311 Reveal About New York | Magazine | Wired.com - 3 views

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data visualization of complaints

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  • Doug Pietrzak on 09 Nov 10
     
    a beautiful data visualization of new yorker's complaints over time
Devon Dickau

New Jersey District Boosts Bandwidth for Classroom Instruction -- THE Journal - 0 views

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Internet classroom

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  • Technology is extremely important to our school district because we realize the tremendous impact that it can have on improving education opportunities,
  • we can focus on making education the best it can be for students and teachers
Doug Pietrzak

Colleges blasted over teacher preparation; deans blast back. - chicagotribune.com - 0 views

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evaluating teachers

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  • Doug Pietrzak on 09 Nov 10
     
    a push to increase teacher quality by ranking quality of teacher prep programs
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