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Devon Dickau

Google Instant search feeds our real-time addiction - CNN.com - 0 views

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technology education Google search instant knowledge predictive customized

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  • By providing results before a query is complete and removing the need to hit the "enter" key, Google claims users will save two to five seconds per search
    • Devon Dickau
      Devon Dickau on 12 Sep 10
       
      Two to five seconds to hit Enter?  In a society obsessed with saving time, even mere seconds are perceived as valuable.
  • Web connections have become significantly faster over time
  • Web connections have become significantly faster over time
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  • quick status updates
    • Devon Dickau
      Devon Dickau on 12 Sep 10
       
      Are the speed and brevity of these messages bypassing the potential exploration of a certain topic area in-depth, or is very topic only superficial?
  • many social sites now use our social connections to recommend content to us without the need to seek it out
    • Devon Dickau
      Devon Dickau on 12 Sep 10
       
      Search engines do the work for us.  We don't even need to know how to find the information ourselves these days.
  • What's more, this feature enables truly personalized discovery by taking into account your search history, location and other factors -- Google is essentially emulating social networks by trying to predict what we're looking for without the need to submit a fully-formed search
  • The next step of search is doing this automatically. When I walk down the street, I want my smartphone to be doing searches constantly: 'Did you know ... ?' 'Did you know ... ?' 'Did you know ... ?' 'Did you know ... ?
    • Devon Dickau
      Devon Dickau on 12 Sep 10
       
      Constant delivery of knowledge.
    • Devon Dickau
      Devon Dickau on 12 Sep 10
       
      In thinking about evolving technology in terms of both formal and informal education, I question whether or not constant and immediate access to information is improving or harming individual knowledge.  By this I mean that because we can so easily search for something online, what motivation is there to actually know anything.  If we have Wikipedia on our phones, and know HOW to find it, can't we just spend 30 seconds finding the page and "know" something for topic of conversation, or a test?  What is the point, then, or learning, of retaining knowledge?  I feel that this may be a problem in coming generations.  What knowledge will our students actually feel they need to retain? I took solace in the fact that at least we have to learn and teach HOW to find the information, but with new technologies like predictive and instant searching, it almost seems like that is a skill that will soon become unneeded as well.  We might as well just be physically plugged in to the Internet with access to all information simultaneously. Thoughts from the group?
Brandon Bentley

Minimally Invasive Education - 1 views

www.hole-in-the-wall.com/MIE.html

minimally invasive technology India

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  • Brandon Bentley on 11 Sep 10
     
    Minimally Invasive Education is defined as a pedagogic method that uses the learning environment to generate an adequate level of motivation to induce learning in groups of children, with minimal, or no, intervention by a teacher. (Disruptive Tech?)
amy hoffmaster

App Smart - Apps as Guides to New York Museums - NYTimes.com - 2 views

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museums informal learning geolocation educational_technology

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  • amy hoffmaster on 09 Sep 10
     
    Museums are incorporating apps for exhibit info and wayfinding-- BUT, aren't "museums made for getting lost?" Discussion of limitations.
  • kshapton on 11 Sep 10
     
    My friend swore by her iphone app to get around the Louvre in Paris! (I got lost)
kshapton

Spongelab goes for the love of the biology game - CBC News - Technology & Science - 1 views

www.cbc.ca/...-videogames-spongelab-gdl.html

game biology spongelab toronto 3d dynamic interactive digital natives engagement

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  • Genomics Digital Lab (GDL), an interactive online gaming program from Toronto-based Spongelab Interactive that was designed for high school and college-level biology and science students. What's unique about GDL is that it turns cell biology into a progressive learning world full of battle scenarios, puzzles, and races against time. In other words, it makes learning fun.
  • The germination of the whole idea came during his studies when he realized complex cells comprise a 3D dynamic system that simply can't be taught easily in a two-dimensional setting.
  • A key to GDL's success is the fact that it can be delivered via a web browser, so no matter how rich the content, it can be used in class, at home or anywhere else one might have access to the internet.
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  • With games, if you don't succeed at a level you try again. It's not about testing. It's about learning to try to learn different things to achieve a goal.
anonymous

Evaluating E-Educators' Evolving Skills - 3 views

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e-educators online course instruction virtual schools

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  • anonymous on 10 Sep 10
     
    Free webinar on Sept 23 to discuss skills for on-line faciltators
Amanda Comperchio

Until 9/10: FREE e-book on social media - 2 views

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social technology

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  • Amanda Comperchio on 10 Sep 10
     
    The follow up book to "Groundswell" is being offered as a free download through Amazon until tomorrow. I thought those of you in this class may have an interest.
Uche Amaechi

Students To Be Subject To Week-Long Social Media "Detox" Experiment - 1 views

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ed tech technology T561 education Emerging Technology

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  • Uche Amaechi on 10 Sep 10
     
    What if...there were not internet?
amy hoffmaster

Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: New frontiers in social networking - 2 views

www.roughtype.com/...new_frontiers_i_1.php

mobile phones

shared by amy hoffmaster on 09 Sep 10 - Cached
  • NeuroPhones promise, by obviating the need for conscious human agency in the processing and transmission of updates, to bring us much closer to fulfilling the true realtime ideal, opening up enormous new opportunities not only in "human behavior modeling" but also in marketing.
  • amy hoffmaster on 09 Sep 10
     
    NeuroPhones are really scary. True realtime? What will the not so distant future bring?
Chris Dede

Smart Phone Adoption Growing Faster Than Expected -- THE Journal - 3 views

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smartphones computers competition

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  • Chris Dede on 09 Sep 10
     
    Challenging the classic infrastructure of workstations, laptops, and wires with mobile wireless broadband devices
Maura Wolk

A Bookfuturist Manifesto - Science and Tech - The Atlantic - 1 views

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T561 reform books technology

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  • Maura Wolk on 09 Sep 10
     
    Do you consider yourself a bookfuturist, a bookservative, a technofuturist, all or none of the above? Interesting to decide where you fall, and to think about where educators past, present, and future fall.
Amanda Valverde

Education Nation 2010 - 1 views

www.nbclearn.com/...summit

education

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  • Amanda Valverde on 06 Sep 10
     
    Interesting to see what kind of role educational technology will play in this conversation.
  • Maura Wolk on 09 Sep 10
     
    "National statistics show that 68% of eighth graders cannot read at their grade level; American students rank 25th in math and 21st in science compared to 30 other industrialized countries; and most college students are "non-traditional" - spending more than four years in college or enrolling well after high school." ...and they say the industrial school model doesn't need a makeover. Sheesh!
Eric Kattwinkel

College Professors, Wikipedia Bury the Hatchet | The Atlantic Wire - 1 views

www.theatlanticwire.com/...ikipedia-Bury-the-Hatchet-1995

wikipedia

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  • Eric Kattwinkel on 08 Sep 10
     
    Summary: In a shift, professors from prominent colleges (including Harvard) are actually *encouraging* students to use Wikipedia.
  • Maura Wolk on 09 Sep 10
     
    Yes! This is a great way to harness a digital resource rather than dismissing it. More or less, everyone uses Wikipedia because if for nothing else, it's usually the first hit in a Google search. I agree with the article in that most students aren't allowed to cite Wikipedia but they do use it as a jumping-off point for their research. So in this sense, it IS valuable. One of the reasons I like it in a pinch is the colloquial tone in the delivery of the information. I usually feel like a buddy is explaining it to me rather than a Phd. If students could capture that tone but provide quality assurance on the facts, there's a real research gem to be had here.
Margaret O'Connell

Second Thoughts on Online Education - 3 views

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online

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.
Maura Wolk

School on the mend - The Boston Globe - 1 views

www.boston.com/...school_on_the_mend

School reform education

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  • Maura Wolk on 09 Sep 10
     
    While this article does not address technology directly, I think this is the type of school community that could so benefit from emerging educational technologies. The traditional school model has been failing them, and they are prime for redesign. I'd be interested to see even how something like ecoMUVE could begin to change the classroom atmosphere.
Maura Wolk

Houghton Mifflin takes the iPad to school - 0 views

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T561 iPad school

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?
Allison Gevarter

BBC News - Google Instant promises live search results - 1 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...technology-11239037

instant search google

shared by Allison Gevarter on 09 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • This is search at the speed of thought. It represents a quantum leap in search,"
  • Allison Gevarter on 09 Sep 10
     
    Wonder if this will impact how people search online/ gather info beyond just shaving off time from the act.
Garron Hillaire

California testing iPads as algebra textbooks - The Hill's Hillicon Valley - 4 views

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ipads california technology digital publishing

shared by Garron Hillaire on 08 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • A pilot project in four California school districts will replace 400 students' eighth-grade algebra textbooks with Apple iPads
  • "This is a seminal moment. It marks the fundamental shift from print delivery of curriculum to digital," said John Sipe, vice president of K-12 sales at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
  • Students with iPads will have instant access to more than 400 videos from teaching experts walking them through the concepts and assignments
  • Garron Hillaire on 08 Sep 10
     
    One example of using Ipads instead of math books. There is a brief mention of incorporating video, but the article does not go into detail about the format of the digital text books
Amanda Comperchio

ASTD Learning Circuits - 1 views

www.astd.org/lc

technology education learning ASTD

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  • Amanda Comperchio on 08 Sep 10
     
    A good resource for online learning from American Society of Training & Development.
Amanda Comperchio

Save the Words - 4 views

savethewords.org

Enlish language words

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  • Amanda Comperchio on 08 Sep 10
     
    This site might have some interesting application in a language arts or English class.
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