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gary chinn

Is Your School Ready for Google's Chromebooks for Education? | MindShift - 2 views

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chromebooks schools Teaching google

shared by gary chinn on 13 May 11 - No Cached
  • Are Your Teachers Ready? Successful one-to-one computing initiatives aren’t as simple as just passing out devices to each student. One-to-one computing requires rethinking how instruction happens, how resources are accessed and allocated. Are your school’s teachers ready for not just one-to-one computing — a huge shift in itself — but for one-to-one computing that’s solely focused on Web resources? Are you using Web-based applications, for example? How much does your school rely on software installed on machines, and can you make the transition to other online tools instead?
  • gary chinn on 13 May 11
     
    aimed at k12 readership (as far as I can tell, anyway), but brings up some interesting points.
Cole Camplese

Education Needs a Digital-Age Upgrade - NYTimes.com - 4 views

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education psuhack digitalliteracy digitalhumanities

shared by Cole Camplese on 10 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • According to Cathy N. Davidson, co-director of the annual MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competitions, fully 65 percent of today’s grade-school kids may end up doing work that hasn’t been invented yet.
  • For those two-thirds of grade-school kids, if for no one else, it’s high time we redesigned American education.
  • What she recommends, in fact, looks much more like a classical education than it does the industrial-era holdover system that still informs our unrenovated classrooms.
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  • An institutional grudge match with the young can sabotage an entire culture.
  • When we criticize students for making digital videos instead of reading “Gravity’s Rainbow,” or squabbling on Politico.com instead of watching “The Candidate,” we are blinding ourselves to the world as it is.
  • But digital video and Web politics are intellectually robust and stimulating, profitable and even pleasurable.
  • It’s possible that any of these educational approaches would be more appropriate to the digital era than the one we have now.
  • “What if bad writing is a product of the form of writing required in school — the term paper — and not necessarily intrinsic to a student’s natural writing style or thought process?” She adds: “What if ‘research paper’ is a category that invites, even requires, linguistic and syntactic gobbledygook?”
  • Her recommendations center on one of the most astounding revelations of the digital age: Even academically reticent students publish work prolifically, subject it to critique and improve it on the Internet. This goes for everything from political commentary to still photography to satirical videos — all the stuff that parents and teachers habitually read as “distraction.”
  • The new classroom should teach the huge array of complex skills that come under the heading of digital literacy. And it should make students accountable on the Web, where they should regularly be aiming, from grade-school on, to contribute to a wide range of wiki projects.
  • Cole Camplese on 10 Aug 11
     
    Reminds me of the things Chris Long and I were trying to articulate in our Hacking Pedagogy talk from last year's LDSC.  Must read.
Chris Millet

At Calhoun School, Longer Classes in 5 Short Terms - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by Chris Millet on 01 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • Instead of the traditional schedule of eight 45-minute classes each day, with courses broken into two semesters, high school students at Calhoun intensively study three to five subjects in each of five terms, or modules, that are 32 to 36 days long. Classes are in blocks of 65 or 130 minutes each day. Every day, students have 45 minutes of “community time,” an intentionally unstructured period for the students to hang out.
  • What started five years ago as an effort to accommodate maddeningly complex schedules in a relatively small space quickly became a sort of evangelical mission to make progressive education more, well, progressive: embracing depth over breadth, allowing for more experiential learning in Central Park and at nearby museums, and, administrators said they hoped, reducing stress. Steven J. Nelson, Calhoun’s head of school, said the new schedule fostered teaching in the ways children learn best.
Cole Camplese

iPads in education - edna.edu.au - 0 views

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iPad education psutlt

shared by Cole Camplese on 08 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • The iPad is being trialled in a large number of schools and educational settings across Australia. This theme page provides links to school trials, app review sites, blogs by teachers using iPads and a range of other useful resources for iPads in and out of the classroom.
Allan Gyorke

Penn State Live - Garden of delights: The Arboretum at Penn State - 1 views

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mobility mobile learning ipad ipod college of education

shared by Allan Gyorke on 22 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • Chris Millet on 22 Jun 11
     
    A project out of College of Ed that ETS collaborated on.  This group created some augmented reality apps for the iPod and iPad to help young students (I believe 3rd or 4th grade) learn about their natural environment, in particular how to identify trees.  Pretty cool stuff.
  • Allan Gyorke on 28 Jun 11
     
    "During the event, faculty and staff led children through a variety of hands-on learning stations. For example, Zimmerman, along with Associate Professor of Education Susan Land and a team of six education graduate students, led a station titled, "Tree Investigators," in which they used iPads and iPods (provided by Penn State's Educational Technology Services) to give the kids an in-depth lesson on how to identify trees. "We used iPads to figure out what type of tree we were planting," said Collin Wayne, a student from Park Forest Elementary School, who attended the event. "We were in groups and we used a tree-finder app. You take a picture of a symbol and it tells you about the tree.""
  • Allan Gyorke on 28 Jun 11
     
    Penn State Live article about a College of Education project. Elementary school students used iPads and iPod Touches to interact with data about trees in the arboretum. We talked with Susan Land and Heather Zimmerman about the project and helped out by loaning them some equipment. Future partnerships with them are in the works.
Cole Camplese

Social Media Toolkit - Social Media Toolkit - 0 views

www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/...vumc.php

social social media media toolkit

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  • Cole Camplese on 29 Mar 12
     
    Social media for Vanderbilt medical school
Emily Rimland

Alison J. Head on Modeling the Information-Seeking Process of College Students in the D... - 0 views

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information_literacy students

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  • Emily Rimland on 26 Jan 12
     
    "What is it like to be a college student in the digital age? Alison Head - lead researcher for the national study, Project Information Literacy, Berkman Fellow, and Research Scientist in University of Washington's Information School - presents a working typology of the undergraduate information-seeking process, including students' reliance on and use of Web sources."
Allan Gyorke

CDW-G Report: Campus Tech a Top Factor in College Selection and Perceived Career Succes... - 4 views

www.businesswire.com/...Campus-Tech-Top-Factor-College

learning spaces recruitment CLC ETS

shared by Allan Gyorke on 27 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • Allan Gyorke on 27 Jul 11
     
    "Eighty-seven percent of college students surveyed said they considered their institution's technology when selecting their college. This finding is also reflected in CDW-G's 21st-Century Classroom Report, which looked at educational technology in K-12 and found that 92 percent of current high school students say technology is an important consideration as they evaluate colleges. "
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  • Allan Gyorke on 27 Jul 11
     
    Jamie posted this to the Facebook wall and I thought it was worth looking at further. It's connected to what we are doing with our classrooms, Media Commons, EGC, learning space designs, Knowledge Commons, and mobile learning projects.
  • Allan Gyorke on 27 Jul 11
     
    Oh - and it reminds me of the University of Michigan learning spaces designs - Cole took pictures. I think it's their North Quad.
  • bartmon on 28 Jul 11
     
    I wasn't able to download the report w/o creating an account, but I'm curious *what* technologies are important to students as it pertains to selecting a university. Another highlight claimed that both faculty and students find 'virtual learning' and 'e-reader/mobile technologies' important. Not sure if those are the top 2 things kids look at when selecting a university...I would find that somewhat hard to believe. I know bandwidth cap still plays a role here in terms of on-campus housing post freshman year. Wonder if that also plays a role in university selection.
bartmon

Startup Weebly takes profitable leap forward - 1 views

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shared by bartmon on 17 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • At 7.5 million users, Weebly doesn't have the size or visibility of platforms like Tumblr (more than 25 million blogs) or WordPress (about 54 million). But Weebly, which tries to make it cheap and easy for businesses to create their own websites, now powers 2 percent of the Internet, according to research firm Netcraft.
  • They did it using a "freemium" model, giving away most services at no cost but charging for additional features.
  • Veltri, the chief operating officer, says that 51 percent of businesses still don't have a Web presence.
  • bartmon on 17 Aug 11
     
    Interesting for a few reasons. This was an IST class project in 2007 or 08, that led to 3 PSU students dropping out of school and driving across country to chase funding. They are also using the freemium model, a model that a lot of game companies adopted to turn net-loss IPs into profitable IPs the last few years. Finally, the stat "51% of business don't have a web presence" is surprising. I know a lot of small business don't have a presence (I'm looking at you, Watkins Glen hotels and wineries!), but 51% seems high.
  • bkozlek on 17 Aug 11
     
    only tangentially related: http://www.squarespace.com/ is another very impressive website hosted content management system.
Derek Gittler

The Default Major - Skating Through B-School - NYTimes.com - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...edl-17business-t.html

shared by Derek Gittler on 21 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • According to national surveys, they want to hire 22-year-olds who can write coherently, think creatively and analyze quantitative data, and they’re perfectly happy to hire English or biology majors
  • Virginia’s integrated course system is possible because the business school is swimming in money
    • Derek Gittler
      Derek Gittler on 21 Apr 11
       
      How could Social Media integrate these various fields, without hierarchical structures imposing a cost?  Let the network find a way?
Chris Lucas

Seth's Blog: What's high school for? - 4 views

sethgodin.typepad.com/...whats-high-school-for.html

Teaching

shared by Chris Lucas on 06 May 11 - No Cached
  • Cole Camplese on 06 May 11
     
    I read this and highlighted a few myself ... I really like the idea of teaching stronger and more persuasive communication skills. And that whole notion of being a stronger leader is a critical skill as well.
bartmon

Portal 2 Authoring Tools for schools: Newell explains | Joystiq - 0 views

www.joystiq.com/...ls-for-schools-newell-explains

shared by bartmon on 23 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • turning the game into a more direct learning experience, with custom tools to match educational programs. "We just add another layer on top of the authoring tools to simplify the production of those spaces," Valve head Gabe Newell explained to us this afternoon.
  • the level creation tool for the PC version of Portal 2 gets another layer of interaction on top of the placement of, say, platforms or boxes. "If you give us a lesson plan, we can give you a tool that allows kids to build content to lock down those lessons,"
  • "The layering on top of it of the framework for giving people a direct physical experience of physics is there, but you have to tell me exactly how you want to measure whether or not your students are successful or not."
  • bartmon on 23 Jun 11
     
    This is crazy...one of the top developers (Valve) building an 'educational layer' on top of Portal 2's authoring environment specifically for education, likely physics education. Even crazier...Gabe wants the implementation ASSESSED! We already have a great relationship with Valve, being an early adopter of SourceU that runs our Steam installs. Anyone know science/physics profs we can approach for this? I plan on sifting through the Institute's database to see if we have any contacts that might want to play in this space.
bartmon

Newell sees no distinction 'between games and educational games' | Joystiq - 0 views

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shared by bartmon on 24 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • "The interesting thing about Portal 2 is it doesn't sort of fit the traditional simplistic model of what a game is. It's not a collection of weapons. It's not a collection of monsters. It's really about science. It's about spatial reasoning, it's about learning physics, it's about problem solving.
  • "There seems to be this distinction between games that are educational, and games that are going to be commercially successful. I'm not really sure I buy into that."
  • A lot of times [the label] 'educational games' is a way of being an excuse for bad game design or poor production values."
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  • "Games are becoming increasingly useful as educational tools. From our perspective, it's one of the things we always think about -- we always think about games as a learning experience. You can't design a game without thinking about the progression of experiences and skills that a person is gonna have. The value that we have is that they're self-directed. Rather than that being a problem -- rather than resisting the chaotic nature of an individual one-on-one play experience that people have, we embrace it."
  • "Someone should write a book, "Everything I Needed to Know to be Successful I Learned From World of Warcraft."
  • "In terms of what educational psychologists are sort of starting to discover about what are the highest value educational experiences, games are a lot closer to being those things than traditional middle school/high school kinds of curriculum,"
  • bartmon on 24 Jun 11
     
    Some interesting notes from Gabe Newell's keynote at Games for Change. This is interesting because it's the first time a president and figurehead for one of the biggest game developers out there has really put a stake in the ground for using games as educational tools.
Erin Long

Next-Gen Classrooms: Aces of Space -- Campus Technology - 3 views

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  • Erin Long on 07 Jul 11
     
    Interesting examples of how schools are getting more engagement out of students (even when lecture size has doubled) based simply on the design of the classroom and experience.
bartmon

A 'Moneyball' Approach to College - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 2 views

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shared by bartmon on 13 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • Think of it as higher education meets Moneyball.
  • Today, half of students quit college before earning a credential. Proponents feel that making better use of data to inform decisions, known as "analytics," can help solve that problem while also improving teaching.
  • In April, Austin Peay debuted software that recommends courses based on a student's major, academic record, and how similar students fared in that class.
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  • One analytics tactic—monitoring student clicks in course-management systems—especially worries critics like Gardner Campbell, director of professional development and innovative initiatives at Virginia Tech. He sees these systems as sterile environments where students respond to instructor prompts rather than express creativity. Analytics projects that focus on such systems threaten to damage colleges much like high-stakes standardized testing harmed elementary and secondary schools, he argues.
  • Mr. Mazur argues that his new software solves at least three problems. One, it selects student discussion groups. Two, it helps instructors manage the pace of classes by automatically figuring out how long to leave questions open so the vast majority of students will have enough time. And three, it pushes beyond the multiple-choice problems typically used with clickers, inviting students to submit open-ended responses, like sketching a function with a mouse or with their finger on the screen of an iPad. "This is grounded on pedagogy; it's not just the technology," says Mr. Mazur, a gadget skeptic who feels technology has done "incredibly little to improve education."
  • By the eighth day of class, Rio Salado College predicts with 70-percent accuracy whether a student will score a C or better in a course.
  • bartmon on 13 Dec 11
     
    Great article on Learning Analytics. I respectfully disagree with Gardner Campbell's quote, but I do see where he's coming from and that is something that universities need to be careful of.
Cole Camplese

An affordable digital biology textbook that never goes out-of-date | Science | guardian... - 5 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...3

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shared by Cole Camplese on 25 May 11 - No Cached
  • What would you say if I told you that there's a new introductory biology textbook being published that is affordable, lightweight and never goes out of date?
  • Allan Gyorke on 25 May 11
     
    I hope that lifelong access becomes the new norm. I keep hearing publishing companies talking about online textbooks with access that would be limited to a set period (a semester or six months). That's fine if you're taking a single course that you don't really care about - but I don't want students to feel that way about their learning. Courses build upon each other. Good reference materials should serve a purpose for years, not months.
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  • bartmon on 25 May 11
     
    Absolutely, publishers are missing the boat here. I'm involved in a handful of focus groups on reading compliance, and whenever this comes up the majority of the students cite the limited access model as the main reason they won't go with online textbooks. Even if they don't end up keeping the book, they want that option...not a 4-6 month access window.
  • Cole Camplese on 25 May 11
     
    Strange ... I didn't keep any textbooks until grad school. I used them and returned them for gas money and simply moved on to the next semester.
  • Allan Gyorke on 25 May 11
     
    I returned many of mine, but kept the foundation books that I'd need for other courses - calculus, mechanics, chemistry, etc... Many of them were used for more than one course (e.g. Math 140 and 141). I'd hate to have to buy the same book twice and then not have it afterward for other courses.
  • bartmon on 25 May 11
     
    I think that's typically what these students do in the focus group, but it was all about 'having the option' to keep the book at the end of the course. Might be some sort of perception of options thing going on here. The other popular comment was "I look at computer screens all day, I definitely don't want to look at a computer screen to read fine print another 1-2 hours a day". A couple students really bashed their profs about the quality of PDFs they are putting online, meaning that profs are STILL photocopying PDFs from journals, that cut words from a column and are angled funny in the PDF. Claimed these were unreadable online and they had to print them out to 'guess' at some of the words and fill them in by hand.
gary chinn

Students Say Tablets Will Transform College, Though Most Don't Own Tablets - Wired Camp... - 1 views

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tablets Teaching iPad

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  • More than two-thirds of a large group of college students say that tablet computers will change the way students learn, according to survey results released today
  • Most of the students were not speaking from experience: Only 7 percent of the college students and 4 percent of the high school seniors owned one. Still, 69 percent of the college students said that tablets will transform higher education, and 48 percent said tablets will replace textbooks—at least as we currently understand textbooks—within the next five years.
  • That attitude may change once they try to study with tablets for an exam. Several pilot projects with tablets have found that students are frustrated with the difficulties in adding notes to digital books
bkozlek

ChromeBooks For Education Priced At $20 Per Month - 0 views

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chromebooks education

shared by bkozlek on 11 May 11 - No Cached
  • ChromeBooks, centralized, almost entirely cloud-based machines by Google, will be available for students and schools at $20/per month/per user, enabling full updates, central login controls, and a central administrator panel to handle users and control access. The price includes a web console, full support, warranty and replacements, and how-tos along with free updates. They will be available on June 15 and offer many of the same features available in Chromebooks for Business.
  • bkozlek on 11 May 11
     
    There is something appealing about a purely cloud based machine. Potential for huge savings in IT costs.
Allan Gyorke

60+ Interesting Ways* to use an iPad in the Classroom - 2 views

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ipad mobility apps

shared by Allan Gyorke on 31 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • Allan Gyorke on 31 Aug 11
     
    62 Interesting Ways to use an iPad in the Classroom
  • Allan Gyorke on 31 Aug 11
     
    Some ideas for using iPads in a classroom. Many of them are focused on elementary school, but there are a few golden nuggets in the mix.
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