five aspects of schooling where teachers can make a positive difference to student engagement. They are Competence, Creativity, Community, Context, and Challenge.
A central premise of Tuned Out is that if something is important to student engagement, it is equally important to teacher engagement. Therefore, some of the suggested actions are for students, some are for teachers, and some are for use by facilitators of adult learning.
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.
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.
65,000 iPad-specific apps available in the App Store; there are fewer than 100 tablet apps available for Android. If you're shopping for a tablet this year, that's an important difference.
While App Tabs can be used with any open tab, this feature is meant for websites that you might keep open throughout the day, like Pandora, Twitter or Gmail.
The transformation is so complete that Mozilla appears to have beaten back the sudden onslaught of competition in the form of IE9. It may even triumph over Chrome 10 — but that fight’s one to watch closely.
“Panorama” feature gives users the ability to group tabs together into manageable groups, which can be named, organized and edited simply.
noticeable default change to the Windows version of Firefox 4 is the “Firefox button,” or the browser menu, which has been reduced to a small orange button that appears in the top left corner of the browser.
The most noticeable difference between Firefox 3.6 and 4 is the speed
The iPad is generating more discussion about the role of technology in learning than any tool or event to date. In trying to understand the reason for this, I’m of the belief that the design and tactile experience of the iPad are the primary differences in this device that is enabling these conversations.
many would argue against it as purely a consumption device, the addition of a camera, creation software such as iMovie and Garageband, as well as keyboard enhancements means it offers some of the best creative applications for educati
If you are checking your Blackberry while helping your kids do their homework, you are switching tasks that require different perspectives," Hamilton says. "That can be taxing on the executive function of your brain and reduce your ability to use self-control in other areas of your life."
Using the 11.6-inch MacBook Air and the
iPad 2 on a daily basis is an ongoing study in high-mobility computing and the pros and cons of both devices.
there are two gigantic (and, yes, obvious) differences that make me lean toward complementary. One has a keyboard, one doesn't. And one runs OS X, the other iOS.
soon as I wander outside the confines of the office, I naturally reach for the iPad.
The iPad trumps the Air in a surprising number of cases, which goes to show that a little extra convenience, i.e., a little less weight and a little more instant accessibility, can go a long way, because the Air is no slouch in either of those areas. But the iPad often slams into a productivity wall
Other districts take
a different policy stand. While they also use blocking and filtering
that federal law requires, their policy is based on the premise that
children need to learn how to be responsible users and that such cannot
occur if the young person has no real choice. School personnel who take
this stand contend that students need to acquire the skills and
dispositions of responsible Internet usage and to be held accountable
for their behavior. Moreover, those holding this position contend that
restrictive school networks may provide more of an appearance of
protection than reality since they can be bypassed by students. Schools
with less restrictive environments often distinguish between the
restrictiveness appropriate for older and younger students since young
children may stumble across sites they ought not visit.
Policies answer the “what” and “why” questions. Procedures answer the “how,” “who,” and “when” questions.
When students step out the door of the institution called school today, they step into a learning environment that is organized in ways radically different from how it once was
The third scenario might be called “open access to learning,” or “caterpillar learns to fly.”
Do American students have too much homework or too little? Neither, I’d say. We ought to be asking a different question altogether. What should matter to parents and educators is this: How effectively do children’s after-school assignments advance learning?
We all love infographics. Why? Well, they help us grasp information in a quick and fun way that appeals to our visual senses. In fact, there’s an infographic here explaining that. Below you’ll find 10 infographics that discuss learning in many different capacities – online, blended, mobile, etc. Tell us, what’s your favorite infographic on learning?
Aristotle concluded more than 2,300 years ago that "the young are heated by Nature as drunken men by wine."
"We're so used to seeing adolescence as a problem. But the more we learn about what really makes this period unique, the more adolescence starts to seem like a highly functional, even adaptive period. It's exactly what you'd need to do the things you have to do then."
Teens take more risks not because they don't understand the dangers but because they weigh risk versus reward differently: In situations where risk can get them something they want, they value the reward more heavily than adults do.
I got to see software being rethought for the first time in a long time. That little insight is what pushed me from forcing myself to be an iPad user to actually becoming an iPad user — things are different on it and it is pointless to build comparisons to a regular computer.
purely consumption device and that just isn’t the case
that sounds strange even for me as I read it back … the laptop is too limiting. I can’t for example easily move betwee