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areed89

8 Ways Technology Is Improving Education - 1 views

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  • Don Knezek, the CEO of the International Society for Technology in Education, compares education without technology to the medical profession without technology.
  • “If in 1970 you had knee surgery, you got a huge scar,” he says. “Now, if you have knee surgery you have two little dots.”
  • Technology is helping teachers to expand beyond linear, text-based learning and to engage students who learn best in other ways. Its role in schools has evolved from a contained “computer class” into a versatile learning tool that could change how we demonstrate concepts, assign projects and assess progress.
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  • Now, setting up a language exchange is as easy as making a videoconferencing call.
  • "You used to count blocks or beads," says Lynne Schrum, who has written three books on the topic of schools and technology. "Manipulating those are a little bit more difficult. Now there are virtual manipulative sites where students can play with the idea of numbers and what numbers mean, and if I change values and I move things around, what happens."
  • Models and simulations, beyond being a powerful tool for teaching concepts, can also give teachers a much richer picture of how students understand them.
  • “With a simple assignment and access to technology, researching and also producing a product that would communicate, they were able to do deep learning on a concept that wasn’t even addressed in their textbook, and allow other people to view it and learn from it,” Knezek says
  • “It’s no longer the verbal logic or the spoken or written word that causes people to make decisions," Knezek says. "Where you go on vacations, who you vote for, what kind of car you buy, all of those things are done now with multimedia that engage all of the senses and cause responses."
  • E-books hold an unimaginable potential for innovating education, though as some schools have already discovered, not all of that potential has been realized yet.
  • "A digital textbook that is merely a PDF on a tablet that students can carry around might be missing out on huge possibilities like models and simulations or visualizations," Dorsey says. "It takes time and it really takes some real thought to develop those things, and so it would be easy for us as a society to miss out on those kinds of opportunities by saying, 'Hey look, we’re not carrying around five textbooks anymore. It’s all on your iPad, isn’t that great?'”
rychus323

Texting Improving Literacy? | The Principal of Change - 1 views

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  • It turns out that the best texters, are the best spellers.” “The more you text, the better your literacy scores.” “The earlier you get your mobile phone, the better your literacy scores.” “What is texting?  Texting is writing and reading.” “The more practice you get in writing and reading, the better writer and reader you will be.”
  • I have actually read more “books” in the last little while than I ever have, as I carry around a huge book collection all the time on my iPhone and/or iPad.  The ease of access makes it a lot easier for me to read whether it is blogs, books, or yes, text messages and tweets.
  • Crystal goes further to say that kids that text read more than what we did as children because they have more access to writing.
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  • they do not read and write the same things that we did
  • Most of us are still in a mindset where we see the book as central and the electronic technology is marginal.  For young people, it is the other way around…We are not going to change that, but we can manage it….put the book into the electronic technology.” “Every style of language has its purpose, but we have to see what the purpose is…Take an essay and turn it into a text message or vice versa, take a text message and turn it into the essay.”
  • “These kids do not read,” but he quickly dismisses this as a fallacy.
  •  More people are turning to the Twitter search function to find out about events in real time from people who are willing to share.
  • itter changed it’s prompt from “What are you doi
  • Crystal addressed the real concern that our attention span has lessened, and with the advent of short snippets of information, making it harder to pay attention to anything at length
  • Admittedly I have been frustrated by conversations with many regarding the idea that texting is eroding our literacy skills.  I have always been a firm believer that the more we can have our students read and write, no matter how that happens, their skills will improve, as long as we are willing to guide them.
  • having an expert confirm these thoughts is more than exciting
areed89

Using television for literacy skills | Open Society Institute (OSI) - Baltimore | Audac... - 2 views

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  • First, children watch a lot of TV – on average four hours a day, which turns out to be more time than they spend in school each year. Second, having print and reading materials at home helps kids learn to read. And, the more they read, the better they read. Unfortunately, more than 30% of city children live in poor households which tend to have few books or reading materials.  One study found that poor families had, on average, less than one book per household. The third reason is that TVs must all have the technology to show captions and most programs and movies must have written transcripts. So, if you turn on your TV’s captioning feature, the words that are spoken – and many of the sounds as well – will appear in writing at the bottom of your screen.
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