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Google Reader Extension » Labs.PostRank - 0 views

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  • Vicki Davis on 01 Mar 12
     
    Post Rank extensions for Google Chrome and Safari are cool. You have to be careful that you don't JUST read the highly ranked posts but if you have only time for a quick read, it is useful.
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The most powerful technology is often simple and hidden - 0 views

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  • Vicki Davis on 01 Mar 12
     
    Learning analytics and personalization only begins with technology for "drill and kill" but certainly that is one place we should always use it, like this student learning spelling words. Article from scholastic about Read 180. "But while this student practiced his words, the most powerful stuff was happening behind the scenes. Out of eyesight. With every keystroke, the technology gathered data on his spelling fluency. It calculated how fast he was at spelling each word. It remembered what he got right and got wrong, and knew exactly how many times it had to re-ask the same word before the student really knew it. Every bit of data it collected would update and add to the student's personal learning profile - a collection of data the teacher could look up at any time to track progress and glean insights on the student's accomplishments and struggles, and that the computer could interpret and display for the student in ways that empowered him and showed him how successful he had been.
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  • John Langley on 06 Mar 13
     
    This device is a portable cube that projects an image of a keyboard on a flat surface so you can type from a tablet or mobile device. The device reads your gestures to determine the keys you are typing.
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A Mobile Education: Student-created Apps -- Campus Technology - 0 views

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  • southernpride on 12 Mar 12
     
    This article is about mobile education through mobile apps.  I think this is a good read for any schools considering innovating some education techniques.
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An App for That ... and That ... and That -- THE Journal - 0 views

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  • southernpride on 12 Mar 12
     
    This article shows the ever changing world involving apps and such.  It says how there is an app for everything and most of them are useful.  Very good read.
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How to build a university mobile application: best practice and insight | Higher Educat... - 0 views

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  • southernpride on 12 Mar 12
     
    This teaches an individual how they can make an app for their universities and such.  Tech professionals share what they know and this is very interesting to see how they make apps! 
  • Kendall Butler on 13 Mar 12
     
    This article shows the various ways universities are creating mobile apps and examining each one's practicality.
  • darcy garrett on 14 Mar 12
     
    Read about making your own app. 
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ERIC - Education Resources Information Center - 0 views

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  • southernpride on 12 Mar 12
     
    This article called, "There's an App for that" is very interesting in telling us that there is an app for almost everything you can think of.  A good read for anyone who is trying to understand mobile apps further.
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Research and Data Services for Higher Education Information Technology: Past, Present, ... - 0 views

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  • Enter data. Enter research. Enter analytics. Analytics, and the data and research that fuel it, offers the potential to identify broken models and promising practices, to explain them, and to propagate those practices. Information technology now supports and enables all aspects of higher education
  • Research on effective models of cross-institutional collaboration
  • alliem_pphs on 14 Mar 12
     
    A lot like the last article I read...it has to do with bettering education and the world through analytic surveys and such.
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Zimbabwe wants to take solar-powered iPads to rural schools | TabTimes - 0 views

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    • Elena Ares
      Elena Ares on 16 Mar 12
       
      Such a thoughtful and intelligent idea: Bringing solar powered ipads to third world countries for learning
  • 'School Box' which will take iPads to the most remote rural schools - using solar power and micro projectors we will be able to bring computerised teaching aids to the poorest schools
  • "I hope we will get the first pilot programmes started early next year. If we can get it to work in Zimbabwe, I am sure it will spread to the poor schools throughout Africa - and beyond".
  • Elena Ares on 16 Mar 12
     
    Using iPads to help students in third world countries to learn. This is such a good idea so that way the children are able to learn with apps and also can learn to read with this. 
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The B-School Case Study Gets a Digital Makeover - Businessweek - 0 views

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      Elena Ares on 16 Mar 12
       
      Starting out how tablets are so easy to use instead of sifting through 500 pages to find case studies and course materials
  • Next, Okun unsheathes the alternative: an iPad (AAPL) edition of the same course materials—a feature NYU introduced last year. In each digital case study, students can highlight material in fluorescent colors and take notes. A tap on the screen allows them to skip to an exhibit at the end of a document, and then follow the menu back to where they left off reading—with no virtual or actual page-leafing required. All the features work offline.
  • Over the ensuing 87 years, the case study has undergone some changes but remains much as it was at its inception—a straightforward narrative of business success or failure. Tablet technology may make the case study more of an interactive experience.
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  • arvard Business School, the largest publisher of case studies in North America, is in the process of converting 3,500 of its files to tablet-enhanced formats during this school year and expects to finish converting its library of 17,000 titles by 2013.
  • The tablet medium also seems ideal for simulated cases, says Glenn Rowe, a professor at the Ivey school and author of nearly 40 case studies. In role-playing exercises, prices and other variables can change on the fly. Students may also be smacked with unexpected events, such as their biggest competitor slashing prices, or by their receiving a higher-than-expected counterbid after a merger proposal. Students choose what they would do, and the simulation immediately tells them the consequence of that action.
    • Elena Ares
      Elena Ares on 16 Mar 12
       
      Real world scenarios for the students to learn on  
  • Students are also more inclined to use tablets for supplemental reading. (Assuming prices are the same, 86 percent of college students say they prefer a hard copy textbook to an e-textbook, according to the market research firm Student Monitor.)
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QR Codes In Education? « Mr Robbo - The P.E Geek - 0 views

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  • Vicki Davis on 01 Mar 12
     
    Still my favorite post on QR Codes in Eduction. PE and health teachers should read Mr. Robbo.
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Foldit, crowdsourcing, and labor. - Slate Magazine - 1 views

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  • Vicki Davis on 28 Feb 12
     
    I know that some are saying that we can't gamify education. But what happens when problems become a game and we compete to find answers? This article talks about foldit and how crowdsourcing has become a possibility for something that can work when it becomes a game. This is a great read for those exploring how we will use games in education. I would suggest that this is an approach that we could use. ". Foldit, a novel experiment created by a group of scientists and game designers at the University of Washington, had asked the gamers-some still in middle school and few boasting a background in the sciences, much less microbiology-to determine the how proteins would fold in the enzyme. Within hours, thousands of people were both competing against (and collaborating with) one another. After three weeks, they had succeeded where the microbiologists and the computers had failed. "This is the first example I know of game players solving a long-standing scientific problem," David Baker, a Foldit co-creator, wrote at the time."
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How to integrate a tablet computer into your life - The Next Web - 1 views

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  • The form factor that a tablet provides means that you can still watch a movie or video without it being too small, but a tablet is also much more mobile than carrying a laptop around with your everywhere. Tablets can access a wide variety of content as well. In Canada, th
  • e majority of major media companies have released iPad apps so you can watch their content right on your device.
  • it’s no longer necessary for you to print out the majority of documents.
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  • a tablet is an excellent way to find and read the news. Many major publications offer RSS feeds of their content that is exactly the same as it would appear in their print editions, or they at least link to their website so that you canAn RSS reader app can collect these feeds and present them to you on your iPad so that you don’t need to look at multiple different websites to find all the news you want to read.
  • having a tablet handy means you always have a great way to take down notes and you always have access to them, unlike that piece of scrap paper you probably just lost. Also when you write a note on a tablet, you can easily set them up to sync with your other devices so you can have them no matter what device is at your disposal.
  • it is much easier to pull out a tablet while using public transit if you want to lookup something quickly as opposed to whipping out your laptop.
  • Tablets get the best of both laptops and smartphones!
  • Apple seems to be on a mission to prove this with the release of iMovie and GarageBand for the iPad.
  • even easier to use than their “computer” counterparts
  • Tablets are still in their infancy as far as new technologies go.
  • I think tablets are here to stay, and whether you have an iPad or an Android tablet, there are plenty of benefits to owning one.
  • MORGAN C on 08 Mar 12
     
    Justification of the purchase of a tablet
  • Elena Ares on 16 Mar 12
     
    How to make yourself go tablet: how it can help and what it can do for you. 
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Media publishers finally fight Apple's evil subscription empire | VentureBeat - 0 views

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  • Vicki Davis on 07 Mar 12
     
    I find this is ironic that the publishers are calling Apple the "evil empire." And so it begins the echoes of a complete publishing industry turnover. Like the music industry ten years a go, great opportunity is born out of great turmoil. Futures of whole companies and industries will be decided in the next year. "I humbly implore all media companies who read this - downtrodden newspaper editors, heads of publishing houses, and CEOs of media businesses: don't listen to Apple, Google, or Yahoo. Join the Rebellion. Help us save journalism.
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LAK 2013 | Site for the Learning Analytics conference series - 0 views

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  • chriso-pphs on 06 Mar 13
     
    Talks about a conference where you can read professorial papers on the subject of learning analytics.
  • MaxD SVHS on 19 Mar 13
     
    The homepage of this blog gives a brief overview of Learning Analytics and its goal, and also adresses questions about the "grey areas" within Learning Analytics.
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Gamification and Game Theory - How It Applies to Your Digital Strategy | Reading Room A... - 0 views

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  • lgliebman on 08 Mar 13
     
    this is a website on how to ably games and gamification in the digital age we all live in
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Internetting every thing, everywhere, all the time - CNN.com - 0 views

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  • Nabaztag
  • It's called "The Internet of Things" -- at least for now.
  • The reason why RFID is often called next-generation bar code is that the technology is more accurate, scanners can read more objects with less directional contact, and smaller chips can contain a larger quantity of information.
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  • "Whatever a Web page can do, so can a pair of shoes," says rafi Haladjian, the visionary co-founder of Violet.
  • Sarah Bandy on 12 Mar 12
     
    It's called "The Internet of Things" -- at least for now. It refers to an imminent world where physical objects and beings, as well as virtual data and environments, all live and interact with each other in the same space and time. In short, everything is interconnected.
  • Mary Westbrook on 13 Mar 12
     
    Basically this is like Seri in the iPhone 4S in a small rabbit.
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Tablets vs. Laptops: The Pros and Cons - TopTenREVIEWS - 0 views

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  • Software Electronics Mobile Web Services Appliances Entertainment Small Business Auto Tech More » Science Tech Careers Video Electronics » Other Electronics » Tablets » Tablets vs. Laptops: The Pros and Cons Share this [X] del.icio.us Digg StumbleUpon Yahoo! My Web Facebook Google Bookmarks ma.gnolia Newsvine reddit Windows Live 2012 Best Tablets .tmnAdsenseContainer {float:left; padding:10px; .padding:5px; padding-top:15px; .padding-top:10px; padding-bottom:15px; .padding-bottom:10px;} .tmnAdsByGoogleCont {float:left;} .tmnAdsByGoogle {font-size:12px; float:left; text-align:right;} .tmnAdsByGoogle a {color:#777777; text-decoration:none; font-size:11px;} .tmnAdsenseAdCont {float:left; overflow:hidden;} .tmnAdsenseAdTitle {margin-bottom:5px;} .tmnAdsenseAdTitle a {text-decoration:none; font-size:15px; color:#4444DD; font-weight: bold;} .tmnAdsenseAdDescCont {} .tmnAdsenseAdDesc {color:#000000; font-size:11px;} .tmnAdsenseAdLink {} .tmnAdsenseAdLink a {color:#999999; text-decoration:none; font-size:11px;}
  • Laptops
  • Laptops come with full keyboards, large screens and much higher screen resolution than you would find on any tablet
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  • A full, physical keyboard is a desired feature for many individuals who do not like to type on a touchscreen. You can type much faster and more accurately using a full keyboard. The screen is also much larger for
  • viewing photos, browsing the web or even enjoying entertainment content.
  • Laptops are also more durable than tablets, and you won’t have to worry about scratching or damaging the touchscreen display.
  • These devices accomplish work on the go but they can be a burden to carry with you. Most laptop computers weigh anywhere from 3 to 9 pounds. Not only can this heavy weight be an annoyance to car
  • bigger may not always be better
  • ry in a backpack or briefcase, it can cause back pain if they are carried for extended periods of time.
  • Tablets
  • give you full control of the screen, features a
  • nd applications
  • you can directly touch the screen to make gaming more interactive, and the hands-on approach provides a more tactile experience than a mouse for drawing and illustrating.
  • these products are small. Most tablets offer anywhere from a 7-inch to a 10-inch display screen and weigh less than 1 pound
  • You can store all your music, capture photos or videos, video chat and even read books on their built-in eReaders.
  • hefty price tags, you must take special precautions in the care of these devices. They may have a durable body, but the touchscreen display is exposed. And if the touchscreen is damaged, your device could become useless.
  • haleighmarie on 12 Mar 12
     
    This site talks about the differences between laptops and tablets. They give pros and cons on both.
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Penetrating the Fog: Analytics in Learning and Education (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE - 1 views

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  • But the most dramatic factor shaping the future of higher education is something that we can’t actually touch or see: big data and analytics. Basing decisions on data and evidence seems stunningly obvious, and indeed, research indicates that data-driven decision-making improves organizational output and productivity.
  • According to the 1st International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge, “learning analytics is the measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of data about learners and their contexts, for purposes of understanding and optimising learning and the environments in which it occurs.”
  • Analytics spans the full scope and range of activity in higher education, affecting administration, research, teaching and learning, and support resources.
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  • How do big data and analytics generate value for higher education? They can improve administrative decision-making and organizational resource allocation. They can identify at-risk learners and provide intervention to assist learners in achieving success. By analyzing discussion messages posted, assignments completed, and messages read in LMSs such as Moodle and Desire2Learn, educators can identify students who are at risk of dropping out.13 They can create, through transparent data and analysis, a shared understanding of the institution’s successes and challenges. They can innovate and transform the college/university system, as well as academic models and pedagogical approaches. They can assist in making sense of complex topics through the combination of social networks and technical and information networks: that is, algorithms can recognize and provide insight into data and at-risk challenges. They can help leaders transition to holistic decision-making through analyses of what-if scenarios and experimentation to explore how various elements within a complex discipline (e.g., retaining students, reducing costs) connect and to explore the impact of changing core elements. They can increase organizational productivity and effectiveness by providing up-to-date information and allowing rapid response to challenges. They can help institutional leaders determine the hard (e.g., patents, research) and soft (e.g., reputation, profile, quality of teaching) value generated by faculty activity.14 They can provide learners with insight into their own learning habits and can give recommendations for improvement. Learning-facing analytics, such as the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) Check My Activity tool, allows learners to “compare their own activity . . . against an anonymous summary of their course peers.”15
    • Tess T
      Tess T on 12 Mar 12
       
      Number two talks about customizing learning through analytics by  recognizing at-risk learners and helping them learn better.
    • Tess T
      Tess T on 12 Mar 12
       
      Number nine also talks about customizing how students are taught. It says that Learning Analytics "can provide learners with insight into their own learning habits and can give recommendations for improvement."
  • Analytics in education must be transformative, altering existing teaching, learning, and assessment processes, academic work, and administration.
    • Tess T
      Tess T on 12 Mar 12
       
      This right here is directly talking about using learning analytics to customize   how students are taught
  • Undoubtedly, analytics and big data have a significant role to play in the future of higher education. The growing role of analysis techniques and technologies in government and business sectors affirms this trend. In education the value of analytics and big data can be found in (1) their role in guiding reform activities in higher education, and (2) how they can assist educators in improving teaching and learning.
    • Tess T
      Tess T on 12 Mar 12
       
      So pretty much this is saying that Learning Analytics can improve education because it can assist educators and help them improve their teaching and education based off of the data that they find about their students
    • Tess T
      Tess T on 12 Mar 12
       
      Learning Analytics helps educators find out whats wrong and change it around the student so the student can get the best education possible
  • Learning analytics is essential for penetrating the fog that has settled over much of higher education. Educators, students, and administrators need a foundation on which to enact change. For educators, the availability of real-time insight into the performance of learners—including students who are at-risk—can be a significant help in the planning of teaching activities. For students, receiving information about their performance in relation to their peers or about their progress in relation to their personal goals can be motivating and encouraging. Finally, administrators and decision-makers are today confronted with tremendous uncertainty in the face of budget cuts and global competition in higher education. Learning analytics can penetrate the fog of uncertainty around how to allocate resources, develop competitive advantages, and most important, improve the quality and value of the learning experience.
    • Tess T
      Tess T on 12 Mar 12
       
      This is a super helpful and straight forward answer to the question "how can learning analytics improve education." You can't get any clearer that that!
  • Tess T on 12 Mar 12
     
    This source was written by George Siemens,who works in the Technology Enhanced Knowledge Research Institute at Athabasca University, and Phil Long, a Director of the Centre for Education Innovaton and Technology at the University of Queensland.  This site talks about how Analytics are used and what they are used for in Education
  • alliem_pphs on 14 Mar 12
     
    I really think this website can help anyone with a "foggy" idea of learning analytics.  Explains what to do with them above and beyond.  Woo hoo.
  • andrei gausling on 25 Mar 12
     
    This article is about how data mining and research can help make decisions. This process is using statistical information instead of using informal guessing. It is beginning to be used on a wide level including medicine , business , and social programs and schools. It also says that education most have a reform and learning anaylitcs will have the biggest impact in deciding what will change or what will be added. So many of the students now a days spends time on the internet with social media and this leaves a foot print which leaves data of how their learning process works. Learning anaylitics is important because it benefits administrative and student purposes.
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