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Amanda Granger

aol ¨the internet is a good thing´´ ad - YouTube - 0 views

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    AOL ad campaign from 2008.  
Amanda Granger

Dave Meslin: The antidote to apathy | Video on TED.com - 0 views

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    Dave Meslin shows ways to counter apathy towards civic engagement. 
Sunanda V

How YouTube is revolutionizing education - 0 views

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    On YouTube EDU and some of the successes beyond just the Khan Academy
Tomoko Matsukawa

Eli Pariser: Beware online "filter bubbles" | Video on TED.com - 0 views

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    Not sure I posted this already. This "filter bubble" as he calls it should be a concern re: Ubiquitous Learning
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    one of the famous TED talk. personalization of information and its potential pitfall. what is necessary for 'functioning democracy'. makes me wonder what are the risks associated with too much personalization in education too.
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    Thanks for sharing Drew, this is an excellent talk showing the tension between our need to balance what we want/need and reliance on a technology to help filter the results. While we need to get out of that 'filter bubble', we also need it to be close by so we don't get overwhelmed.
Malik Hussain

Hybrid Online-Classroom Education: How's It Working? - IEEE Spectrum - 2 views

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    Good read to get a pulse on an online course at Coursera. Students registered online 11,800; students registered in in-person class 20. Only three weeks into the course and student feedback has been very positive.
Irina Uk

BYOT Network - 5 views

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    Don't be a B.L.O.B.
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    Great blog posts on Acceptable Use, BYOT and pointers for educators on how to support responsible use. There are also sections on connected learning and digital citizenship.
Jeffrey Siegel

Online learning: pedagogy, technology and opening up higher education - 2 views

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    "There is a danger that MOOCs will reinforce rather than disrupt a two-tier education system in the US, and eventually in the UK, with campus-based learning as premium elite education and online learning as a basic offering."
Sunanda V

How 10 Colleges Are Using Game-Based Learning Right Now - 2 views

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    Game-Based Learning in higher education...
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    Thanks for sharing this Jennifer. I wonder how how transferable these skills are from games to reality. Apart from the motivation and engagement factor, I think research is still inconclusive about the actual benefits of gaming. Any thoughts on such transfer? Thanks for sharing again!
Tomoko Matsukawa

Use Game-Based Learning to Teach Civics | Edutopia - 1 views

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    Level one: Use iCivics to Teach the content
Sunanda V

adVancEducation: When is a MOOC not a MOOC? - 0 views

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    Provides an interesting classification system for MOOCs, of which edX, Coursera, and Udacity fall into one category--content-based. The other two MOOC categories are network-based and task-based. Interesting argument...
Janet Dykstra

10 Highly Selective Colleges Form Consortium to Offer Online Courses - Wired Campus - T... - 2 views

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    A group of 10 highly selective colleges has formed a consortium to offer online courses that students enrolled at any of the campuses can take for credit. The group, which includes Wake Forest and Brandeis Universities, will offer semester-long online courses using software from 2U, an education-technology company formerly called 2tor.
Janet Dykstra

Special Series: Unplug 2012 - 0 views

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    Our increasing connectedness -- the always-on smartphone, the ever-present social networks, the daily media deluge -- is affecting our lives in ways we can't even yet fathom. So this week, as summer kicks off across the U.S., MediaShift is looking at how and why people are choosing to "unplug" from technology.
Sunanda V

New College: Beyond Old Commodity Colleges | James Paul Gee - 1 views

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    Fantastic piece on transforming higher education--love his framework.
Mary Jo Madda

Change The Equation - Games that Garner STEM Career Interest - 0 views

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    This is a suite of free online learning games to introduce middle to early high school-age youth to a variety of STEM-based professions -- recently was released at a launch event from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
Tim Johnson

Project RED Announces 20 Signature Districts for Education Technology Guidance - Projec... - 1 views

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    Includes our own Natick, MA! Interesting that 3 of the 20 are in PA.
Jeffrey Siegel

Mobiles For Teaching And Learning: Translating Theory into Practice " Educational Techn... - 1 views

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    Supporting Teachers With Mobile Content And Methods For Reading Instruction
Tomoko Matsukawa

Sherry Turkle: Connected, but alone? | Video on TED.com - 0 views

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    Sherry Turkle's TED Talk from April 2012
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    TED talk by Dr. Sherry Turkle (Feb 2012) on "Alone Together" (similar to the one posted on t561 syllabus but 'TED style' for TED audience)
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