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Kay Oddone

The language of Webkinz: Early childhood literacy in an online virtual world Rebecca W.... - 1 views

www.digitalcultureandeducation.com/...dce1028_black_2010.pdf

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  • Kay Oddone on 10 Feb 11
     
    In recent years there has been an explosion of virtual worlds intended for early childhood populations; however, because the majority of research on games and such worlds has focused on adults and adolescents, we know very little about these spaces. This article attempts to address this gap by providing a qualitative content analysis of the affordances that Webkinz World an online environment that as of March 2010 had over 3 million unique site visitors per month, offers for children's literacy and language development. Analyses suggest that the site provides unique opportunities for immersion in literacy-rich contexts and academically-oriented practices that may enhance those that are readily available in many children's daily lives. However, looking beyond the discrete linguistic and technical aspects of learning in Webkinz World reveals a designed culture with limitations on learning and a constrained set of literacies and social messages that warrant further critical exploration.
  • Kay Oddone on 10 Feb 11
     
    In recent years there has been an explosion of virtual worlds intended for early childhood populations; however, because the majority of research on games and such worlds has focused on adults and adolescents, we know very little about these spaces. This article attempts to address this gap by providing a qualitative content analysis of the affordances that Webkinz World an online environment that as of March 2010 had over 3 million unique site visitors per month, offers for children's literacy and language development. Analyses suggest that the site provides unique opportunities for immersion in literacy-rich contexts and academically-oriented practices that may enhance those that are readily available in many children's daily lives. However, looking beyond the discrete linguistic and technical aspects of learning in Webkinz World reveals a designed culture with limitations on learning and a constrained set of literacies and social messages that warrant further critical exploration.
Kay Oddone

Open Culture - 0 views

www.openculture.com

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shared by Kay Oddone on 30 Aug 10 - Cached
  • Kay Oddone on 30 Aug 10
     
    Open Culture brings together high-quality cultural & educational media for the worldwide lifelong learning community. Web 2.0 has given us great amounts of intelligent audio and video. It's all free. It's all enriching. But it's also scattered across the web, and not easy to find. Our whole mission is to centralize this content, curate it, and give you access to this high quality content whenever and wherever you want it. Free audio books, free online courses, free movies, free language lessons, free ebooks and other enriching content - it's all here. Open Culture was founded in 2006.
Amanda Rablin

101 Open Educational Resources - 0 views

www.slideshare.net/...ational-resources-presentation

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  • Amanda Rablin on 20 Mar 09
     
    101 Open Educational Resources to spice up your learning and teaching
Cathy Oxley

Cybersmart - About Hector's World™ - 3 views

www.cybersmart.gov.au/...About%20Hectors%20World.aspx

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shared by Cathy Oxley on 05 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Cathy Oxley on 05 Feb 10
     
    The core content of Hector's World™ material features high quality 2-D animation with fun and engaging characters. Children can observe the characters as they learn how to stay safe online.
nathandh_2000

Will Smart Phones Eliminate the Digital Divide? -- THE Journal - 0 views

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      nathandh_2000 on 02 Feb 11
       
      No they cannot, screen size is a major issue. Which ever way you look at it an image the size of a postage stamp is the size of a postage stamp
  • Today, in the PC world, whether a computer is a Dell, a Gateway, a Sony, etc., one puts a layer of software on that device, and then from a user's perspective all those different devices are the same. That is what is going to happen shortly in the mobile device space. Different companies are going to build a layer of software that makes every smart phone--android, [Windows Phone 7], iOS, etc.--appear the same to the teacher and the student.
  • We need to accept the fact that mobile technologies are an integral part of the kids lives and an integral part of 21st century knowledge workers' lives. We need to stop looking at the past and look to the future. We need to step forward and say: We need to do 21st century education in the same ways we are doing 21st century commerce, 21st century health, etc. There are risks; absolutely. But staying where we are in schools--using 19th century technology and fooling ourselves that we are teaching 21st century skills and content--is truly doing our students a huge disservice. You can't teach 21st century skills and content with 18th century paper and pencil tools.
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  • Within five years, every K-12 student in America will be using a mobile handheld device as a part of learning, according to Elliot Soloway, a professor at the University of Michigan.
  • "Smart phones are the one technology that can eliminate the digital divide," he told THE Journal. "Given the cost of the device, it is very conceivable that every child, rich or poor, can have one 24/7."
Roland Gesthuizen

Robert J. Samuelson - School reform's meager results - 0 views

www.washingtonpost.com/...AR2010090502817.html

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shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 15 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • few subjects inspire more intellectual dishonesty and political puffery than "school reform." Since the 1960s, waves of "reform" haven't produced meaningful achievement gains.
  • no one has yet discovered transformative changes in curriculum or pedagogy, especially for inner-city schools, that are (in business lingo) "scalable" -- easily transferable to other schools, where they would predictably produce achievement gains.
  • The larger cause of failure is almost unmentionable: shrunken student motivation. Students, after all, have to do the work. If they aren't motivated, even capable teachers may fail.
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  • Motivation is weak because more students (of all races and economic classes, let it be added) don't like school, don't work hard and don't do well.
  • Against these realities, school "reform" rhetoric is blissfully evasive. It is often an exercise in extravagant expectations.
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 15 Sep 10
     
    "few subjects inspire more intellectual dishonesty and political puffery than "school reform. Since the 1960s, waves of "reform" haven't produced meaningful achievement gains."
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 15 Sep 10
     
    Intersting to read about what many school reviews try to skip around.
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