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Anushka Paul

Edufire: an open platform for teaching and learning - 1 views

edufire.com

teaching learning education network global

shared by Anushka Paul on 21 Dec 09 - Cached
  • Anushka Paul on 14 Sep 10
     
    Edufire is an open platform that connects students and teachers from around the world and enables teachers to tutor over the internet. Initiatives like this one, support Bill Gates' view that in 5 years the best education will come from the Web. (Reference this article: http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/06/bill-gates-education/)
Cameron Paterson

Sydney Centre for Innovation in Learning - 0 views

www.scil.nsw.edu.au

t561

shared by Cameron Paterson on 14 Sep 10 - Cached
  • Cameron Paterson on 14 Sep 10
     
    Research projects provide an insight into the changing landscape of learning in the 21st Century, which then shapes the learning environment and methods at NBCS. We incorporate the ideas and thinking that comes from research and development into programs and initiatives, including online distance education for HSC students across NSW (www.hsconline.nsw.edu.au), Professional Development courses and training for teachers, and international learning collaboration network established to bring learning communities together (www.beyondborders.edu.au).
Cameron Paterson

Skoolaborate - 1 views

www.skoolaborate.com/

t561 virtual worlds

shared by Cameron Paterson on 14 Sep 10 - Cached
  • Cameron Paterson on 14 Sep 10
     
    Skoolaborate is a global initiative uses a blend of technologies including, blogs, online learning, wiki's and 'virtual worlds' to transform learning. We aim to use these tools to provide engaging collaborative learning experiences for students aged between 13 and 18 years of age.
Cameron Paterson

Flatclassroom Project - 0 views

flatclassroomproject.wikispaces.com

t561

shared by Cameron Paterson on 14 Sep 10 - Cached
  • Cameron Paterson on 14 Sep 10
     
    The Flat Classroom Project is a global Hands-on working together project for middle and senior high school students. The Project uses Web 2.0 tools to make communication and interaction between students and teachers from all participating classrooms easier. The topics studied and discussed are real-world scenarios based on 'The World is Flat' by Thomas Friedman.
Uche Amaechi

Pew Research: More People Got Their News Online Yesterday Than From A Print Newspaper - 0 views

techcrunch.com/...w-news-online-print-newspapers

shared by Uche Amaechi on 14 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Uche Amaechi on 14 Sep 10
     
    The shift to digital is nigh. First newspapers, and then.. Books?
anonymous

The Internet, your Brain, and Schools - 0 views

larrycuban.wordpress.com/...nternet-your-brain-and-schools

technology education larry cuban shallows

shared by anonymous on 13 Sep 10 - Cached
  • anonymous on 13 Sep 10
     
    Not a new article but one to provide a bit of balance to techie fervor. Larry Cuban's articles and books keep popping up in syllabi so consequently I discovered his blog.
Mydhili Bayyapunedi

Reimagining Education and Learning in America » Spotlight - 0 views

spotlight.macfound.org/...cation_and_learning_in_america

shared by Mydhili Bayyapunedi on 13 Sep 10 - Cached
  • Educators, Yowell argues, must look to the Internet and digital media, which “offer the promise of an extraordinary new model for America’s education system.”
Garron Hillaire

BBC News - How good software makes us stupid - 1 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...technology-11263559

brain learning software education google neuroscience

shared by Garron Hillaire on 13 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • "No problem - let me just enter that into my sat-nav…"
  • unless drivers pass a formidable test - called "The Knowledge" - they are not allowed to head out onto the roads in one of the iconic vehicles
  • "The particular part of our brain that stores mental images of space is actually quite enlarged in London cab drivers," explained Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
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  • The key to making us concentrate, Mr Carr suggests, is perhaps to make tasks difficult - a theory which flies in the face of software designers the world over who constantly strive to make their programs easier to use than the competition.
  • Mr Carr says that this simple experiment could suggest that as computer software becomes easier to use, making complicated tasks easier, we risk losing the ability to properly learn something - in effect "short-circuiting" the brain
  • Garron Hillaire on 13 Sep 10
     
    An argument that Good Software design is bad for learning
Cameron Paterson

Kesmit-ing: The Twitter Experiment - Bringing Twitter to the Classroom at UT Dallas Video - 3 views

vodpod.com/...-to-the-classroom-at-ut-dallas

twitter t561

shared by Cameron Paterson on 01 Sep 10 - Cached
  • Cameron Paterson on 01 Sep 10
     
    How one teacher is using twitter to teach more effectively
  • Margaret O'Connell on 13 Sep 10
     
    Uche, in class today I was thinking about this posting from Cameron. Was wondering your thoughts on it and if/how using Twitter like this relates to OneVille.
Mitch(ell) Miller

More time spent on Facebook than Google - 1 views

ca.news.yahoo.com/...us_it_internet_facebook_google

facebook google time online

shared by Mitch(ell) Miller on 13 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Mitch(ell) Miller on 13 Sep 10
     
    Social networking becomes more popular than information searching
Liz Huttner

Novelties - Reading E-Books in All the Colors of the Rainbow - NYTimes.com - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...12novel.html

e-book E ink technology LCD

shared by Liz Huttner on 13 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Liz Huttner on 13 Sep 10
     
    Color e-readers could be very useful for textbook viewing.
Yang Jiang

Everybody's Business - Cellphone Carriers Are Turning to Wi-Fi, Too - NYTimes.com - 2 views

www.nytimes.com/...12every.html

Cellphone Text Wifi

shared by Yang Jiang on 13 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Yang Jiang on 13 Sep 10
     
    THE definition of a nerd, it has been said, is someone who has more e-mail addresses than pants. Are you a nerd?
Cameron Paterson

Schooling: The Hidden Agenda - The Natural Child Project - 1 views

www.naturalchild.org/...daniel_quinn.html

schooling t561

shared by Cameron Paterson on 12 Sep 10 - Cached
  • Wow, just imagine missing school on the day when they were learning blue. You'd spend the rest of your life wondering what color the sky is.
  • Our schools are not failing, they're just succeeding in ways we prefer not to see.
  • the human biological clock is set for two alarms. When the first alarm goes off, at birth, the clock chimes learn, learn, learn, learn, learn. When the second alarm goes off, at the onset of puberty, the clock chimes mate, mate, mate, mate, mate.
Devon Dickau

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

www.cnn.com/...index.html

technology education Google search instant knowledge predictive customized

shared by Devon Dickau on 12 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • 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?
Chris Dede

I don't tag and I don't often need the tagging of others to "advance and personalize" m... - 21 views

I believe that many types of resources should be available for learning in a course, because people learn in very different ways. If tagging is not useful for you, fine. I know that a substantial p...

started by Margaret O'Connell on 12 Sep 10 1 follow-up, last by Chris Dede on 12 Sep 10
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Brandon Bentley

Minimally Invasive Education - 1 views

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

minimally invasive technology India

shared by Brandon Bentley on 11 Sep 10 - Cached
  • 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

www.nytimes.com/...09smart.html

museums informal learning geolocation educational_technology

shared by amy hoffmaster on 09 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • 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)
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