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Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • Mr. Reilly hopes that the two can meet — that computers can be combined with education to better engage students and can give them technical skills without compromising deep analytical thought.
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      The best of both worlds
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6 Top Tech Trends on the Horizon for Higher Education - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of... - 0 views

  • notes that mobile devices have been listed before, but it says that resistance by many schools continues to slow the full integration of mobile devices into higher education.
  • Learning analytics
  • Challenges to adoption include incorporating information coming from a variety of sources and in different formats and concerns about privacy and profiling.
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  • Augmented reality, the layering of virtual information over actual locations, such as an interactive, mobile-based museum map, is another up-and-coming trend. It is two to three years away from adoption in education.
Phil Taylor

Dialogue New Literacies 2011: How to Use New Media to Teach Writing, Research and Analy... - 1 views

  • key to teaching new literacy skills is to change the focus of student writing.
  • the value of a written essay lies not in its format but in the skills students develop:  identify a thesis, research and analyze evidence to test the thesis, and then present the analysis results.
  • Why must these skills be confined to a written format?
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Definition | Adaptive Learning | EdSurge - 0 views

  • Tools with adaptive content are all about two things: looking at a student's specific answer and then responding with unique hints, feedback and resources on a specific topic.
  • Adaptive assessments change and respond based on whether students answer questions correctly or incorrectly.
  • Tools with adaptive sequences are the most complex of the three. They often make use of “algorithms” and “predictive analytics” that can continuously collect data and use it to change what a student sees.
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