According to new research released Monday, only 38 percent of students indicated that their instructors "understand technology and fully integrate it into their classes." Students also rated that lack of understanding as "the biggest obstacle to classroom technology integration."
Students and educators are in agreement that technology is an important adjunct to education - but students are not impressed with how well instructors understand and integrate technology into their classes.
Read, Reflect, Display, Do - a model for using technology in education.
Good for online and f2f classes.
Helps organize tasks for presentation to students - useful framework.
Slideshow showing use of Google Apps for Education and how to set up, administer and use an educational Google Apps account. Apps include word processor, spreadsheet, forms, web site creation, calendar, gmail, chat, contacts list, private video, and groups.
Classroom2.0 offers frequent (just look!) online webinars about a large variety of educational topics, mostly those involved with using technology. This calendar lists them. Click on the Agenda tab to see full listings of titles. Go to this website for more information about participation: http://live.classroom20.com/
In 2008, a pair of researchers at the University of Texas showed that the customer data released for that first contest, despite being stripped of names and other direct identifying information, could often be “de-anonymized” by statistically analyzing an individual’s distinctive pattern of movie ratings and recommendations.
By examining correlations between various online accounts, the scientists showed that they could identify more than 30 percent of the users of both Twitter, the microblogging service, and Flickr, an online photo-sharing service, even though the accounts had been stripped of identifying information like account names and e-mail addresses.
Alessandro Acquisti and Ralph Gross reported that they could accurately predict the full, nine-digit Social Security numbers for 8.5 percent of the people born in the United States between 1989 and 2003 — nearly five million individuals.
Scary how much information can be gleaned about you by mining the data in your profiles and what your "friends" and "networks" say about you.
This is a real consideration for using social networking tools in education.
This video clip is a panel discussion by three educators about how they use social media to form personal learning networks and to excite students in their schools. These guys are passionate about it!
Overview and demo (skip about 1st 10 minutes - it's setup for the webconference session that was recorded; just drag the slider at the bottom of the video). Ends after an hour, but then questions follow.
Also a lot of links related to diigo underneath the video on the page.