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Vahid Masrour

Google Plus: Is This the Social Tool Schools Have Been Waiting For? - 0 views

  • it may well be the granular level of privacy afforded by Google+ that is the key to making this a successful tool for schools
  • many schools and teachers have still been reluctant to "friend" students
  • that "always public" element of Twitter that makes many nervous
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  • it's also about sharing with the right people. Circles will allow what educational consultant Tom Barnett calls "targeted sharing," something that will be great for specific classes and topics
  • Skype has become an incredibly popular tool to bring in guests to a classroom via video chat -
  • teachers are already talking about the possibility of not just face-to-face video conversation but the potential for integration of whiteboards, screen-sharing, Google Docs, and other collaborative tools
  • Google + seems like the solution for someone like me who wants to use the web to have conversations about school topics with students and parents and yet not have students and parents have access to my personal posts.
    • Vahid Masrour
       
      Parents and students on different Circles. You know you want it!
Paul Beaufait

MOOCs: What Part of Learning Goes on Where and How? - 3 views

  • I like the idea that really good teachers could be challenged to change the way they think about learning and put their talents to work finding new ways to structure learning environments that can handle the ever-expanding population of students with widely varying backgrounds.
  • information is not synonymous with understanding, and delivery is not synonymous with education
  • Learning means focusing attention on the key concepts in a topic.
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  • Learning means making connections with a learner’s prior knowledge.
  • Learning means actively processing the incoming information, digesting it, working with it, summarizing, paraphrasing, applying it.
  • Learning also requires that the learners’ attempts receive guiding feedback.
  • There are ways of providing electronic feedback to this kind of active learning. Our solution was to provide examples of answers that would fit the task and let the learners compare theirs. Not totally satisfying and sometimes not totally accurate.
  • One is the “community of learners”
  • possibilities
  • a more elaborate version of peer feedback, where the large group of learners respond to one another’s ideas in hopes of finding some kind of consensus.
  • I think this probably works in an informed community of participants where there is a distribution of prior knowledge that can be drawn on.
  • I think a community of novices still needs the guidance of a more informed individual or group of individuals.
  • the essence of deep learning is in the interaction with others as we grapple with what we think we know versus what we really know. That’s the kind of online learning I’d like to see us build.
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    Svinicki posits what learning means, and the kinds of guided feedback necessary, especially for "deep learning . . . [through] interaction with others as we grapple with what we think we know versus what we really know" (¶8).
anonymous

Games for Learning: Contact List of Gaming Educators [Google Doc] - 1 views

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    A list to identify and connect educators (k-12 and up) who are researching and/or using games for learning - in school, out of school and otherwise. Please add your name, contact info and project to this list!
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    A list to identify and connect educators (k-12 and up) who are researching and/or using games for learning - in school, out of school and otherwise. Please add your name, contact info and project to provide a resource for those who wish to learn more about integrating games into education.
LUCIAN DUMA

Google Plus, Chrome Apps and Tools gateway to knowledge in #education20: Complete #edte... - 0 views

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    Complete #edtech20 guide to #googleplus in #education20 . Please add comments , feed-back and your thoughts related to google plus 
Paul Beaufait

Centre for Distance Education - Collaborative Tools Evaluation Site - 0 views

  • he site is designed to help distance educators and their students to select appropriate methods of course development and delivery. Athabasca University (AU) in Alberta is Canada's Distance Education University, teaching over 20,000 students around the world, completely via distance education methods and media. The evaluation site is maintained by AU's Centre for Distance Education (CDE), as a collaborative activity by its faculty and graduate students.
  • The highest priority is given to software that can be downloaded from the internet and used at no cost. New product categories will be added, and the existing ratings updated.
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    "The site is designed to help distance educators and their students to select appropriate methods of course development and delivery. Athabasca University (AU) in Alberta is Canada's Distance Education University, teaching over 20,000 students around the world, completely via distance education methods and media. The evaluation site is maintained by AU's Centre for Distance Education (CDE), as a collaborative activity by its faculty and graduate students." (Intended Audience, ¶1) Retrieved 2009.09.14, "last updated February 21, 2008" (page footer)
Paul Beaufait

Why Should I Learn More about Social Media? - OLC - 1 views

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    This OLC Institute post suggested three purposes and provided numerous examples of social media implementation and integration that may serve to "support learning in online courses" (2016.05.17, ¶3, ff.), namely: 1. Amplifying the physical and psychological engagement of learners (Engagement using social media); 2. Providing instruction to "enhance learning outcomes" (Instruction involving social media); and 3. Facilitating access to, and increasing availability of academic, career, and other "support services" (Student support using social media). Reference Online Learning Consortium [OLC] Institute for Professional Development. (2016.05.17). Why Should I Learn More about Social Media? [weblog post]. http://onlinelearningconsortium.org/learn-social-media/
LUCIAN DUMA

BLOG USING GR8 WEB 2.0 TOOLS AND APPS IN XXI CENTURY EDUCATION by Lucian http://xeeme.c... - 1 views

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    #curation is #socialmedia king . Top 10 #edtech20 tools who will change research in #education20 this year . I invite you to subscribe free to our monthly newstelller http://bitly.com/edtech20newsteller . This post was made after 1 year research in #edtech20 #socialmedia #curation project . If you are agree that #curation is #socialmedia king leave a comment and share with #PLN . Also I invite to read every week on this blog about  gr8 tools . Also all my blog post are now on scoopit http://bitly.com/edtech20projectresearch
Cara Whitehead

February: Black History Month - 0 views

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    February is Black History Month. Here's a word list to add to your lesson plans! This list can be used to play all of the games and activities on our site. http://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=2851114
EdTechReview Community

Great ToolKit to Bring Self-Organized Learning Environments to Your Community - 3 views

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    This toolkit provides you with a step-by-step guide for teachers and parents to bring self-organized learning environments for your children at home, school or at after school programs.
anonymous

Challenge Based Learning - 0 views

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    "Challenge Based Learning applies what is known about the emerging learning styles of high school students and leverages the powerful new technologies that provide new opportunities to learn to provide an authentic learning process that challenges students to make a difference."
LUCIAN DUMA

BLOGGING 2.0 IN XXI CENTURY EDUCATION: I wish you a Christmas with peace my friends and... - 0 views

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    I wish you a Christmas with peace my friends and my #edtech20 PLN ; the Birth of Son of God , the reason for Christmas . I invite you to join #edtech20 facebook page has a new look . Do you like ? If you like please post useful information for teachers related to integrating eSafety of new technologies web 2.0 and social media in education 2.0 . Using #edtech20 hastag http://www.facebook.com/pages/Caransebes-Romania-Dear-members-please-free-to-share-/Web-20-and-new-tehnologies-in-education-still-2010/103495893021586?v=app_186663019975 All the posts will appear on the main page . Let's collaborate and share knowledge toghether also when you join eSafety in #edtech20 PLN http://web20ineducation2010.ning.com/
Alexandre Enkerli

Next: An Internet Revolution in Higher Education - BusinessWeek - 0 views

  • The Harvards of the world won't go away. They will continue to be the high-fidelity players
    • Alexandre Enkerli
       
      Is this meant to reassure those who are scared by the prospects?
  • Even though technologies emerged that might foster new models of higher education, the neat accreditation ecosystem locked out innovative competitors.
    • Alexandre Enkerli
       
      Isn't this a summary of what some of us have to go through? It's kind of a role-conflict at the organizational level. The (manifest) function of university education has shifted away from learning toward giving credit for a set of skills. More than universities being vocational schools, it's about universities focusing on evaluation. Are there still learning institutions, out there?
  • Just as the Internet has helped blow down the doors of the music industry, newspapers, and the travel-agent business, it will eventually do the same to higher education.
    • Alexandre Enkerli
       
      This may be too big a leap, for a number of people. But it has the advantage of making the problem visible. In fact, in contexts through which "information" and "education" are associated with democracy, what has been happening to newspapers is more likely to convince university people that there might be a problem than anything about the music industry. Especially if we think about the obsession with "intellectual property" which seeped into university contexts and is only being challenged now.
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  • cheap, easy, and good-enough degree
    • Alexandre Enkerli
       
      Sounds like a specialized version of the so-called "80-20 rule." And it's one which sounds very unconvincing for many people in the Ivory Tower. In a way, it's like talking about having "a little bit of grace."
doris molero

Web 2.0 Learning Environment:Concept, Implementation, Evaluation - 0 views

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    Summary This contribution presents and evaluates a new learning environment model based on Web 2.0 applications. We assume that the technological change introduced by Web 2.0 tools has also caused a cultural change in terms of dealing with types of communication, knowledge and learning. The answers given by eLearning scholars who intend to use the creative options offered by Web 2.0 in institutional learning are summarised in the first part of the paper. In this theoretical overview we introduce the concepts of eLearning 2.0 and Personal Learning Environments, along with their main aspects of autonomy, creativity and networking, and relate them to the didactics of constructivism and connectivism. The requirements and basic functional components for the development of our particular Web 2.0 learning environment are derived from these. The learning environment we present consists of several components (modules) that are well-known Web 2.0 applications such as wikis, weblogs, social bookmarking services and RSS feeds. The section describing the implementation of the environment in a use case at the Darmstadt University of Applied Science focuses on the specific didactic contribution the particular learning modules render towards the entire learning arrangement. The article explains the didactic potential of the wiki platform in more detail, since it serves as the integrating module (or learning centre) of the learning arrangement. Our learning environment was tested and evaluated during the "Social Software" seminar held in the information science study course at Darmstadt University of Applied Science in 2007/08. A questionnaire-based survey reveals interesting facts regarding the success of the practical implementation of the Web 2.0 arrangement with respect to the motivation and learning outcome of students. The survey was supplemented with some non-formalized feedback in a concluding discussion. With these results in mind this paper finally provides some remark
Alexandre Enkerli

http://www.miller-mccune.com/business_economics/computer-error-1390.print - 2 views

  • glitterati
  • Silicon Valley
  • World Economic Forum
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  • emotional resonance
  • we all know and value
  • looked good
  • aspired to
  • countries without comprehensive electrical grids
  • soured
  • underperformed
  • 50 percent of staff were being laid off and a major restructuring was under way
  • the project seems nearly dead in the water
  • And that may be great news for children in the developing world.
  • Innovate
  • Negroponte and other techno-luminati
  • lobbied national governments and international agencies
  • technology optimists
  • take control of their education
  • There's no question that improving education in the developing world is necessary.
  • trending dramatically upward
  • school attendance
  • highly respected center
  • they don't seem to be learning much
  • international science exam
  • powerful argument
  • the goal is improving education for children in the developing world, there are plenty of better, and cheaper, alternatives.
  • instinctive appeal
  • precious little evidence
  • circumstantial evidence
  • The OLPC concept has been pioneered in a number of school districts in the United States over the last decade
  • the technology didn't work any better than a normal classroom teacher
  • the teachers simply weren't using the computers
  • few experimental studies to show a positive impact from the use of computers
  • substituting computers for teachers
  • supplement
  • Negroponte has explicitly derided
  • It must be said
  • academic
  • teachers limited access to the computers
  • had not been adequately trained
  • not silver bullets
  • surveys of students
  • parents rolling their eyes
  • evaluation of an OLPC project in Haiti
  • Repeated calls and e-mails to OLPC and Negroponte seeking comment on OLPC did not receive a response
  • ironic
  • a leader in
  • the Third World
  • cheap
  • proven successful
  • etting children in developing countries into school and helping them learn more while they are there
  • There are
  • deworming
  • technology-based approaches to improving student learning in the developing world
  • show more promise than one laptop per child
  • the J-PAL co-founder
  • Remedial education
  • A study in Kenya
  • expensive
  • quarter of the cost
  • cheaper
  • it didn't matter
  • co-founder of J-PA
  • $2 per month
  • $3 per month
  • $2.20
  • 30 percent increase in lifetime earnings
  • $4 per student per year
  • 50 cents per child per year
  • tens of millions of dollars
  • children
  • children
Paul Beaufait

The Best Prezis of 2014 - Prezi Blog - 1 views

Paul Beaufait

Online Course Accessibility to Benefit Everyone | EDUCAUSE - 1 views

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    "With a process in place to ensure you meet specific student needs, you can begin to proactively identify accessibility pain points and come up with a plan for addressing them"
melvinahebert

Settings App Not Working in Windows 10? Here Are the Fixes - Techgill - 0 views

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    When you see a message, asking if you want to merge the folders from your old account to your new one. You have to click Yes. That is all about, the fixes for Settings App Not Working in Windows 10. You must have known that the Settings app is very important in Windows.
Jim Aird

Cageless Thinking: Innovation and Creativity in Education - 0 views

  • For a school to thrive it needs good exam results. For its students to survive, a school needs to teach them skills and prepare them for reality.
  • Technology used well in schools can offer a tangible link to the outside world – it can be a bridge in many different ways to what is happening outside of the classroom
Dr. Nellie Deutsch

Moodle 2.5 Free Teacher Training - 3 views

Dear Friends & Colleagues, This is the last week of Moodle MOOC 2. You're invited to watch and reflect on 10 of the 22 live events (webinars). You will get a certificate of completion on http:...

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Michael Sturgeon

Bloomin' Apps - Kathy Schrock's Guide to Everything - 0 views

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    "This page gathers all of the Bloomin' Apps projects in one place. Each of the images has clickable hotspots and includes suggestions for iPad, Google, Android, and Web 2.0 applications to support each of the levels of Bloom's Revised Taxonomy. The use of the triangle shape for Bloomin' apps projects was not used  to help clear up the misunderstanding that the levels are hierarchical and the top levels only make up a tiny portion of the cognitive processes."
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