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NINA L

Game-Based Learning: What it is, Why it Works, and Where it's Going - 0 views

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  • responders to frequently rehearse and sharpen their training in a simulated hazardous materials emergency . The emerging truth: the same factors that make well-designed games highly motivating also make them ideal learning environments
  • The emerging truth: the same factors that make well-designed games highly motivating also make them ideal learning environments
  • We make mistakes in a risk-free setting, and through experimentation, we actively learn and practice the right way to do things
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  • Learning” doesn’t mean rote memorization—it means acquiring the skills and thought processes needed to respond appropriately under pressure, in a variety of situations
  • In addition, even the most comprehensive training program cannot cover procedures for every complex eventuality that we will encounter—no matter how thick the binder is. In game-based environments, we learn not only the facts, but also the important, underlying hows and whys. This understanding of deeper, more abstract principles prepares us to perform consistently and effectively, even in new and unexpected situations.
  • This understanding of deeper, more abstract principles prepares us to perform consistently and effectively, even in new and unexpected situations
  • In game-based environments, we learn
  • not only the facts, but also the important, underlying hows and whys
  • In contrast, traditional, passive training approaches drill us on certain narrow procedures, and then evaluate us on our memory of what we were told. Even when we successfully retain the lesson’s facts and procedures, our behavior in true-to-life situations remains untested.  In addition, even the most comprehensive training program cannot cover procedures for every complex eventuality that we
  • well-designed games permit learning experiences that aren’t possible in real life
  • All games are not created equal
  • Carnegie Mellon’s Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence
  • To be effective, game environments must be structured around how we learn.
  • Carnegie Mellon’s Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence
  • Carnegie Mellon’s Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence
  • Carnegie Mellon’s Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence
  • Carnegie Mellon’s Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence
  • Carnegie Mellon’s Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence
  • Carnegie Mellon’s Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence has amassed a set of basic principles that describe the learning process . Following are four of these key principles, with examples of how each plays
  • Carnegie Mellon’s Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence has amassed a set of basic principles that describe the learning process
  • TAYLOR C on 06 Mar 12
     
    This talks about where game based learning is headed.
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  • Kreslyn C on 13 Mar 12
     
    This tells how and why game base learning works.
  • scott summerlin on 13 Mar 12
     
    this explains what game base learning is and how it works
  • Smith 14 on 13 Mar 12
     
    Why game based learning works, and helps everyday.
  • Andrew Vargas on 26 Mar 12
     
    This article explains how game based learning works, why its effective and how it differs from traditional learning
  • NINA L on 21 Mar 13
     
    Explains the differences in results between GBL and regular learning techniques.
andrei gausling

Penetrating the Fog: Analytics in Learning and Education (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE - 1 views

www.educause.edu/...235017

shared by andrei gausling on 12 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • 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.
Susan D

simSchool - About - 1 views

www.simschool.org/about

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  • simSchool is a classroom simulation that supports the rapid accumulation of a teacher's experience in analyzing student differences, adapting instruction to individual learner needs, gathering data about the impacts of instruction, and seeing the results of their teaching.
  • improvement in general teaching skill improved confidence in using technology increased belief that the teacher has the skills and ability to make a difference in a child's life improvement in pre-service teachers' performance in teacher preparation courses and attitudes toward inclusion of special needs students significant positive impact on the mastery of deeper learning capacities that comprise the readiness to teach increased "staying power" on the path to the field of teaching acquired through rapid development of strong self-efficacy and resilience
  • Susan D on 13 Mar 12
     
    simSchool is a simulated classroom that supports rapid accumulation of a teacher's experience in analyzing student differences, adapting instruction to individual learning needs, gathering data about the impacts of instruction, and seeing the results of their teaching. This is a place where instructors can explore instructional strategies, examine classroom management techniques, and practice building relationships with students that will translate into increased learning. The results are highlighted below and are proved to be real and measurable.
taylork-pphs

Can MOOCs Save Academic Freedom? | Edudemic - 0 views

edudemic.com/...moocs-academic-freedom

MOOC

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  • taylork-pphs on 14 Mar 13
     
    However, the value of MOOCs as a powerful force to protect the fundamental purpose of academic freedom has been lost in the current distraction of debating the relative value of online as opposed to traditional classroom teaching.
jtp-pphs

MOOCs prompt some faculty members to refresh teaching styles | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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  • jtp-pphs on 12 Mar 13
     
    Discusses what role teachers should play in MOOCs.
jtp-pphs

Expert Panel brings Clarity to MOOCs in Business+MOOCs Hangout | online learning insights - 0 views

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  • jtp-pphs on 12 Mar 13
     
    Discusses how MOOCs can be used to teach students.
Candice Z_SVHS

Bionics: Wearable Tech Encounters of the Third Kind - 0 views

www.wearabletechworld.com/...-encounters-the-third-kind.htm

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  • Candice Z_SVHS on 22 Mar 13
     
    This article explains how prevalent Wearable technology has become along with the major efforts it has made to improve medicine and help teach medical students and professional about things such as blindness and the central nervous system. Wearable technology offers an alternative teaching technique to students and experts.
Elena Ares

iPad replaces uni textbooks at University of Adelaide science faculty | Adelaide Now - 0 views

www.adelaidenow.com.au/...story-fn5jhv6y-1225918213032

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      Elena Ares on 16 Mar 12
       
      Textbooks going to the wayside at Uneversity of Adelaide science facility
  • The pilot initiative involves all first-year undergraduate science students next year receiving a free Apple iPad to use with online curriculum, eliminating up to $1000 in annual textbook costs within three years.
  • Our teaching material will be more accessible, more relevant and more frequently updated, providing the flexible learning environment that students are looking for.
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    • Elena Ares
      Elena Ares on 16 Mar 12
       
      Transitioning to things like this is tricky: trying to form lectures around actual textbook while still having students using technology. 
  • Eliminating textbooks will be cost-saving for science students and will make science more available to a wider range of the
  • Becca B. on 13 Mar 12
     
    this website is talking about a school based around science who is no longer using textbooks but is being to base all their teaching on the ipad so their information can be more updated and the students can save up to 1000 dollars in annual textbook costs
Kreslyn C

Game-based learning - Telearn Thesaurus - 0 views

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  • Kreslyn C on 13 Mar 12
     
    Game-based learning" refers to teaching-learning actions carried out in formal and/or informal educational settings by adopting games. It encompasses the use of both games designed expressly for fulfilling learning objectives (educational games) and "mainstream games" those games that are developed for fun when used to pursue learning objectives.
Kendall Butler

Smartphones on Campus: the Search for 'Killer Apps' - The Digital Campus - The Chronicl... - 0 views

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  • southernpride on 12 Mar 12
     
    This is a story about how mobile apps contribute to how professors can use apps to teach in classrooms. It says that not one app can fit to a teachers certain teaching style.
  • Kendall Butler on 13 Mar 12
     
    This article examines different examples of apps that professors and students are using and how they are affecting the community.
alliem_pphs

Learn the Web's core | CoreDogs - 0 views

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  • stephanie jones on 13 Mar 12
     
    This is a platform for creating digital textbooks for blended learning courses.
  • Hayes G. on 13 Mar 12
     
    Coredogs is a platform for creating digital textbooks for blended learning courses. As the students finish their assignments in the books, they will receive information on how they comprehended the knowledge. It also gives the teachers information on how the student behaves.
  • alliem_pphs on 14 Mar 12
     
    Talks about looking at the students past, present and future to do less teaching, and more learning.
darcy garrett

Top 20 Must-Have Educational iPhone & iPad Apps Used By Real Teachers in the ... - 0 views

www.appolicious.com/...real-teachers-in-the-classroom

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  • darcy garrett on 14 Mar 12
     
    Apps for teaching
Andrew Vargas

Colleges' latest thrust: Video games - USATODAY.com - 1 views

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  • Andrew Vargas on 27 Mar 12
     
    This article talks about how some schools have been using game-based learning to help teach and how effective it is.
Alicia Binn

http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/publications/internetofthings/InternetofThings_summary.pdf - 2 views

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  • Alicia Binn on 03 Apr 12
     
    This is a segment of a book that teaches what Internet of Things is and how it is used. 
Alexis Szmodis

CfP: 1st International Conference Learning Analytics & Knowledge | ROLE - 0 views

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  • Alexis Szmodis on 04 Apr 12
     
    Learning Analytics and the knowledge, teaching and learning of concepts.
Vicki Davis

Learning the Skeleton with QR codes « Mr Robbo - The P.E Geek - 0 views

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  • Vicki Davis on 01 Mar 12
     
    OH, Mr. Robbo - I am already just crazy about him! Here he talks about how he teaches the skelton with QR Codes.!
Vicki Davis

Embrace Adaptive Testing - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • Vicki Davis on 01 Mar 12
     
    I have to admit that it was very hard to put into a few short words my thoughts on adaptive learning. I didn't really intend for it to center on the testing piece but I guess that is what the editors thought hadn't already been covered, although I do agree with everything I said on it. Of course, many will say we need much more than testing but I think the big point is that pencil and paper don't cut it. We are wasting time with how we test now and can be much more targeted in terms of what students know and how we can teach. Your thoughts? The biggest thing that bothers me about all these apps is that we have no learning analytics - no feedback loop at all to parents or teachers. I literally have to watch my son play his ipad learning games to really understand where he is and what I need to do to fill things in. 
ISABELLA O

Enhancing Teaching and Learning Through Educational Data Mining and Learning Analytics - 0 views

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LA learning_analytics

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  • BrendanW SVHS on 19 Mar 13
     
    Use pages 13-15 in  the article for Learning Analytics.  The Learning Analytics section describes what learning analytics is and how it affects education
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