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"Despite popular opinion, the flow of qualified math and science students through the American education pipeline is strong-except among high-achievers, who appear to be defecting to other college majors and fields."

"The link between teenagers' computer abilities and an increase in academic cheating is evident across the nation."

Amazing idea, school online. Is it even possible? For credit too? From 1994

School online, what a concept. Kinda crazy, right? Great look back at 1994.

"An attempt to enable computers to assess the emotional meaning of text. The software can construct sentiment scores for the concepts mentioned in the text, as a combination of positive, negative and neutral results."

An article on how current developments in giant search engines are revolutionizing the way we search the web?

Tecahers must now learn how to craft assignments which do not lend themselves easily to cheating. Dealing with network security issues is probably the easier task of the two.

An article about the shift towards computer-based teaching systems.

Thanks for sharing Jennifer. I currently work for Pearson and worked on many of the "digital paths" that the article refers tot. I am seeing first hand the shift in priority towards customized personal learning through digital technologies. Pearson's first attempt at integrating technology into their curriculum was a good start but I think the future of Pearson products will employ a lot of the strategies we've been learning in class from intelligent tutoring systems to fully integrated learning platforms. Very exciting shift for the educational publishing industry!

Light-hearted tech article on some 2.0 tools for the elderly. Reminds us "While imagining your elderly uncle using high-tech devices to keep in touch might at first seem far-fetched, it's only a matter of time before it is second nature."

A very interesting way to engage individuals on a personal level via video. It startled me the first time around (see :56). I wonder how quickly the novelty of providing subtle dynamic elements to video would wear off, but if done properly, might have a place in a nonformal educational setting for children ... a new type of personalized learning experience. Ah, and I may have altered the web link a bit to make it a bit more appropriate for our class :)

Teacher tips for blogging in classrooms

I have read a few short books on my iphone and enjoyed it, but it was an exersis in patience. I don't think phones will ever be viable text readers for students.

Google has US Education in its crosshairs.... Google is name-dropping all sorts of work in the education space in its forum to help redefine American education : Harlem Children's Zone, NCLB, A Nation at Risk, Sesame Street................. Here's a snippet: "And according to McKinsey's Economic Impact of the Achievement Gap in America's Schools report, if the U.S. had in recent years closed the gap between its educational achievement levels and those of higher-performing nations, our GDP in 2008 could have been $1.3 trillion to $2.3 trillion higher. That's 9 to 16 percent of GDP!"

New forecast about how many preK-12 students will do online learning

"Pipes is a powerful composition tool to aggregate, manipulate, and mashup content from around the web."  I thought this might be appropriate since we just finished talking about Mashups on our wiki a week ago.  

20 Web 2.0 apps for learning

Relating to in-class discussion last week about colleges outsourcing e-mail to Google....

A 3D multi-user environment that immerses children in real-world, socially and academically meaningful activities. Ran across this doing some research for the VPA. It's the richest example on an online learning environment that I've seen, and similar to something I'd envisioned but dismissed as not currently realistic--apparently I was wrong! I would love to give this a test drive.

With thousands of customers in more than 75 countries, Articulate is the recognized leader in rapid e-learning software and e-learning authoring tools.

Ethno is an on-line Java program that helps you analyze sequential events. Prerequisite analysis produces a diagram showing how some events are necessary for other events, and how abstract events are represented in concrete happenings.