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sheryl barnes

What Forty Years of Research Says About the Impact of Technology on Learning - 0 views

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  • The synthesis of the extracted effect sizes, with the support of the validation process, revealed a significant positive small to moderate effect size favoring the utilization of technology in the experimental condition over more traditional instruction (i.e., technology free) in the control group.
  • we feel that we are at a place where a shift from technology versus no technology studies to more nuanced studies comparing different conditions, both involving CBI treatments, would help the field progress
  • it appears that the second-order meta-analysis approach represents an economical means of providing an answer to big questions
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  • the average student in a classroom where technology is used will perform 12 percentile points higher than the average student in the traditional setting that does not use technology to enhance the learning process
  • Thus, it is arguable that it is aspects of the goals of instruction, pedagogy, teacher effectiveness, subject matter, age level, fidelity of technology implementation, and possibly other factors that may represent more powerful influences on effect sizes than the nature of the technology intervention. It is incumbent on future researchers and primary meta-analyses to help sort out these nuances, so that computers will be used as effectively as possible to support the aims of instruction.
  • there is a growing need for a systematic and reliable methodology for synthesizing related findings
  • one of technology’s main strengths may lie in supporting students’ efforts to achieve rather than acting as a tool for delivering content.
  • each focuses on a specific question addressing particular issues and aspects of technology integration
  • intended to capture the essence
  • 25 effect sizes were extracted from 25 different meta-analyses involving 1,055 primary studies (approximately 109,700 participants)
Hannah Reeves

Here, There, & Everywhere -- Campus Technology - 0 views

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eportfolios PLEs Web 2.0 student engagement technology web2.0 NERCOMP lms educational_technology

shared by Hannah Reeves on 04 Nov 09 - Cached
  • But like much on campus these days, ePortfolios are morphing to reflect the far-reaching trend in higher ed of relying less on technology delivered by the institution itself and more on the use of user-centric technology, including Web 2.0
  • At some point in the evolution of ePortfolios, however, those initial goals of reflection and assessment begin to feel "inauthentic, another hoop for the students to jump through,"
  • students are becoming very disengaged from [the process] of maintaining their own identities as learners."
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  • "The ePortfolio becomes a compliance activity
  • Hannah Reeves on 04 Nov 09
     
    This is one of the best articles I"ve read on the ePortfolio landscape and how technology and student initiative is helping adoption of reflective, archival practices.
sheryl barnes

Engaging Faculty as Catalysts For Change: A Roadmap for Transforming Higher Education (... - 0 views

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  • sheryl barnes on 28 Feb 13
     
    The Faculty Fellowship Program at the University of Minnesota aims to change faculty culture to implement effectively the thoughtful and innovative application of educational technologies...Our collaborative report is both a manifesto and a roadmap for creating a broad, holistic vision of a university culture that supports excellence in teaching and learning with technology...The presence of a university-wide approach to faculty development results in the institution's ability to learn from its own practices.
  • sheryl barnes on 28 Feb 13
     
    If anyone wants to discuss this, I'd welcome the motivation to read it more closely, look pretty exciting.
sheryl barnes

Professional Development for Technology-Enhanced Inquiry Science - 0 views

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  • A recent synthesis of more than 25 meta-analytic studies investigating the role of computer-based technologies in student learning found that the teacher may play an even greater role in students’ technology-enhanced learning than the nature of the technology intervention itself.
  • professional development programs can improve instruction when they immerse teachers in inquiry investigations
  • Inquiry investigations engage teachers in activities such as comparing alternative forms of curricula and pedagogical techniques, analyzing the range of students’ ideas in a targeted subject matter, connecting students’ ideas to specific elements of instruction, and critiquing lesson plans in a mutually supportive teacher community
  • sheryl barnes on 05 Sep 12
     
    in k-12 setting, but still interesting
sheryl barnes

Don't Confuse Technology With Teaching - Commentary - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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shared by sheryl barnes on 16 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • Education is not the transmission of information or ideas. Education is the training needed to make use of information and ideas
  • Educators are coaches, personal trainers in intellectual fitness
  • It is as though elite educators, upon noticing that we can't program a computer to discern what is on the mind of an undergraduate, decided to pretend that if we just let those seeking an education talk among themselves (in grammatically felicitous sentences), they will somehow come to express difficult ideas in persuasive arguments and arrive at coherent, important insights about society, politics, and culture. As someone who spends time with students in directed conversations on difficult subjects, I'm sure this method won't work. We will, instead, produce graduates who cast assumptions they've never really questioned into grammatically correct slogans, and the sloganeers with the catchiest phrases, the most confidence, and the most money will shape the future
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  • higher education is an extremely conservative institution that ranks dead last in the rate at which is adopts and diffuses innovation
  • the article entirely lacks in actual content
  • We all want our students to do well and increase their skills under our care, and many of us believe that some elements of interactive technology can help us achieve those goals. So I'd like to challenge all of you: what kinds of technology have you tried to incorporate into your pedagogy? Which strategies worked? Which didn't? And what did you learn in the process?
  • Intellectual fitness
  • sheryl barnes on 16 Aug 12
     
    Interesting article (though nothing new here) & comments
sheryl barnes

New Music Technology Program at Carnegie Mellon U. - Chronicle.com - 0 views

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shared by sheryl barnes on 29 Apr 08 - Cached
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  • sheryl barnes on 29 Apr 08
     
    Exciting and innovative new program that includes courses from the College of Fine Arts, the Carnegie Institute of Technology, and the School of Computer Science. From Wired Campus.
Haejung Chung

The Human Anatomy, Animated With 3-D Technology - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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data_visualization 3d

shared by Haejung Chung on 09 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • So, in an adjacent classroom, a group of students wearing 3-D glasses made by Nvidia, a graphics processing firm, dissected a virtual cadaver projected on a screen. Using a computer to control the stereoscopic view, they swooped through the virtual body, its sections as brightly colored as living tissue. First, the students scrutinized layers of sinewy pink muscles layered over ivory bones. Then, with the click of a mouse, they examined a close-up of the heart, watching as deep blue veins and bright red arteries made the heart pump.
sheryl barnes

WCET Conference Session on Changing to a New LMS - CMS Options | Google Groups - 0 views

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  • sheryl barnes on 29 Sep 09
     
    New! State of LMS in Higher Education - Understanding the Big Picture In coordination with the California State University System, Delta Initiative collected information from various statewide systems on their approach for an LMS strategy. The study involved the collection of information through interviews and web-based research from a dozen systems of higher education. Our conclusion: The future of learning management has reached another crossroads in its path as a key enterprise system for higher education. This session will provide insight on the current state of the LMS vendor market, present timely research findings concerning the LMS profiles of several statewide systems, and engage the audience in a discussion of key issues encountered in the evaluation and deployment of an LMS approach on a statewide basis. Moderator: Rhonda Epper, Co-Executive Director, Learning Technology, Colorado Community College System, and Vice Chair, WCET Steering Committee Presenter: Phil Hill, Executive Vice President, Delta Initiative (IL)
  • sheryl barnes on 29 Sep 09
     
    I'm not sure if they'll make a recording available after the fact, but this looks like research that's relevant (if commercially motivated) to our project.
sheryl barnes

iLearn Technology » Blog Archive » Bloom's Taxonomy: Bloomin' Peacock - 0 views

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  • sheryl barnes on 13 Sep 10
     
    two visuals for Bloom's taxonomy, with associated w2.0 technologies for each category.
sheryl barnes

MIT Center for Collective Intelligence - 0 views

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  • sheryl barnes on 15 Oct 08
     
    The MIT Center for Collective Intelligence brings together faculty from across MIT to conduct research on how new communications technologies are changing they way people work together. Our basic research question is: How can people and computers be connected so that-collectively-they act more intelligently than any individuals, groups, or computers have ever done before?'
sheryl barnes

Wired Campus: Randy Bass and Bret Eynon: Still Moving From Teaching to Learni... - 0 views

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  • A key to this change is shifting the unit of analysis from blocks of information delivered through courses to something quite different, namely the development of the learner over time, inside and outside the classroom
  • I like to think that we are not teaching subjects but subjectivities: ways of approaching, understanding, and interacting with the world
  • series of intermediate thinking processes that characterize flexible thinking
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  • our earnest but often fragmented efforts at thinking about our curricula are not sufficiently broad to live up to our aspirations about the way the pieces should all fit together
  • technologies built around isolated “courses” may ultimately be of limited value in a learning paradigm
  • we need to do much more experimentation with learner-focused technologies and pedagogies
  • they are used to being pushed in a structured way and it takes half the semester to get them to truly work independently
sheryl barnes

Portals - George Mason University -- Campus Technology - 0 views

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  • discipline-based research portals for all academic graduate programs
  • The portal becomes the new primary point of contact for library users in that particular discipline
sheryl barnes

Beyond Disruption: Higher Ed Innovation from Within | The Blue Review - 0 views

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shared by sheryl barnes on 13 May 13 - No Cached
  • projects that take the opposite track: they’re innovative, but they tend to rely on open source technologies, and their focus is on individual and collective empowerment of students and communities, rather than commercialization.
  • There’s little need to hire Udacity or Coursera or any other ed tech company to disrupt higher education because faculty and staff representing key nodes in the network are already evolving the theory and practice of teaching, learning, research and outreach in ways that are incredibly productive
  • The best pedagogical change in higher ed is coming from within
  • sheryl barnes on 13 May 13
     
    Very interesting article re: disruption in HE & openness
sheryl barnes

OnLive Desktop: An iPad Based Technology for the Classroom | Higher Education Teaching ... - 0 views

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  • sheryl barnes on 03 May 12
     
    Looks like an interesting & potentially very useful app (or at least the concept seems very useful - still includes a lot of limitations), I wonder what others are saying/think.
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