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Digital Natives Looking to Unplug, Connect | Guest Blog, Scientific American Blog Network - 0 views

  • If you were creating a classroom, what would it look like? It would be interactive and have a lot of activities. It should be half and half activities and lecture. I do like when it’s more open, but it is important for us to know what lecture looks like because we might have to do that later. The tables should be set up in a circle so we are all facing each other and talking.
  • It turns out, however, that in this group of students, many talked as if they craved more human interaction, and wanted to unplug more during class
  • our students and these students we interviewed have been around technology so much, that when they were asked questions about technology, they had a hard time understanding the question (what do you mean, technology?). Technology isn’t technology for our students–it’s just part of their lives
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    • Jenny Sommers
       
      Interesting. I feel that some of our college courses tell us to use technology just so we can say we are using technology.
    • Jenny Sommers
       
      I never thought about it that these young people that have grown up with technology don't realize what technology really is.
  • Educators say not to incorporate technology for technology’s sake, but more often than not, it is assumed that a new tech tool will effectively engage students
  • As teachers, we shouldn’t be taking away real opportunities for students to engage with each other and simply replacing those opportunities of connection with technology
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    Interesting read about what some young people want from technology
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Technology makes art education a bigger draw | eSchool News - 0 views

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    Very good article with some useful ways technology is being used in teaching art classes.
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Nine Elements - 0 views

  • Digital Access:   full electronic participation in society.
  • All people should have fair access to technology no matter who they are. 
  • Digital Commerce:   electronic buying and selling of goods.
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  • Digital Communication:   electronic exchange of information.
  • Digital Literacy:   process of teaching and learning about technology and the use of technology.
  • 5. Digital Etiquette:   electronic standards of conduct or procedure.
  • 6.   Digital Law:   electronic responsibility for actions and deeds
  • 7.   Digital Rights & Responsibilities:   those freedoms extended to everyone in a digital world.
  • 8.   Digital Health & Wellness:   physical and psychological well-being in a digital technology world.
  • Digital Security (self-protection):   electronic precautions to guarantee safety.
  • We need to have virus protection, backups of data, and surge control of our equipment. As responsible citizens, we must protect our information from outside forces that might cause disruption or harm
  • psychological issues that are becoming more prevalent such as Internet addiction.
  • protect themselves through education and training.
  • basic set of rights extended to every digital citizen. Digital citizens have the right to privacy, free speech, etc.
  • Digital law deals with the ethics of technology within a society. Unethical use manifests itself in form of theft and/or crime.
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    Nine Themes of Digital Citizenship
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Schools no longer are no-cellphone zones | The Columbus Dispatch - 0 views

  • “The easiest technology to use is the one we have famili
  • Jon Stonebraker, the district’s technology coordinator. “When we’re familiar with it, then it allows us to be more-effective workers.”
  • The district kicked off its “Bring Your Learning Technology” campaign this year that urges kids to bring their devices as long as they are used responsibly. Grandview Heights, Hilliard, Pickerington, Reynoldsburg and Westerville schools have similar initiatives.
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  • The local efforts reflect a national movement that recognizes that students’ electronic devices can amplify instruction.
  • “Today’s constantly evolving mobile devices provide ever-changing options for schools and districts,”
  • By encouraging students to bring their own devices, schools can spend less money on technology and funnel funds to those who can’t afford their own devices.
    • Michael O'Connor
       
      Amen to this! BYOT has an upside!
  • After a nine-week trial period, staff members found that students respected the rules.
  • “Last year, kids were still using them, but behind everyone’s back,” she said. “Now this year, we have an open policy, and it lets us have a better experience at school.”
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Technology in Schools Faces Questions on Value - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • There are times in Kyrene when the technology seems to allow students to disengage from learning: They are left at computers to perform a task but wind up playing around, suggesting, as some researchers have found, that computers can distract and not instruct.
    • james grubbs
       
      Do you agree or disagree?
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Teacher Training Needed to Meet Technology Needs in Classrooms - US News and World Report - 1 views

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    This recent article talks about how China has surpassed the United States and Germany with technology integration in the classroom.
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F.A.T. - 0 views

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    The Free Art and Technology Lab is an organization dedicated to enriching the public domain through the research and development of creative technologies and media. The entire FAT network of artists, engineers, scientists, lawyers, musicians and Bornas are committed to supporting open values and the public domain through the use of emerging open licenses, support for open entrepreneurship and the admonishment of secrecy, copyright monopolies and patents. **** There is some adult language on here so you may want to preview some content before allowing students full access to the site.
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Ohio's 2003 Academic Content Standards in Technology | Ohio Department of Education - 0 views

  • PDF below file allows you to view the Technology Academic Content Standards
    • Katy Eyman
       
      Please view PDF to see standards more in depth per grade level.  Page 43 begins standards by grade, but page 58  breaks it down even more
    • Katy Eyman
       
      Please view PDF to see standards more in depth per grade level.  Page 43 begins standards by grade, but page 58  breaks it down even more
  • Ohio's 2003 Academic Content Standards in Technology
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Technology in Schools Faces Questions on Value - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • “Do we really need technology to learn?” she said. “It’s a very valid time to ask the question, right before this goes on the ballot.”
    • james grubbs
       
      What do you think?
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Innovation Excellence | 10 Emerging Educational Technologies & How They Are Being Used ... - 0 views

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    interesting... the photo looks familiar!
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6 Videos On Globalization And Technology That Will Blow Your Mind | Edudemic - 2 views

  • ← A Teacher Spends $480 A Year On School Supplies: True Or False? Sweden’s Newest School System Has No Classrooms → Sunday, September 16, 2012 1:45 pm, Posted by Jeff Dunn 1 | Videos 6 Videos On Globalization And Technology That Will Blow Your Mind
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Education World: Ohio Content Standards - 0 views

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    This site has a section on technology, devices, software and ways to implement it in the classroom...among other educational related links.
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In Maine, a laptop for every middle-schooler - Technology & science - Back to School | ... - 0 views

  • Statewide test scores haven’t changed much.
  • “Maybe the full potential of the laptop isn’t being realized,”" he said.
  • How to offer every child the same opportunity at a quality education
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  • The laptops might help breach the economic barrier to school success. Silvernail found that on statewide writing exams, economically disadvantaged students using laptops did outperform advantaged students who didn’t use their computers.
  • Still, the laptop program has faced setbacks. Maine wanted to expand its laptop program to all high schools four years ago, but state budget cuts have prevented that.
    • Michael O'Connor
       
      At the higher levels, do a BYOT program.
  • Still
  • “What we need to look at is the broader impact on student improvement,” said Timothy Magner, the director of the Office of Education Technology, a branch of the U.S. Department of Education. “One of the key metrics is test scores. We’re keenly interested in that.”
    • Michael O'Connor
       
      They are keenly intrested in ... test scores! What a suprise! You would think this initative would have the backing of the US government and all its Allies! But no, we are worried about test scores...
  • Some schools’ programs around the country have faced widespread computer glitches, teachers not knowing how to teach with laptops — and to a much lesser degree, yet way more publicized — the issue of students using the Web to cyberslack, cheat and view porn.
    • Michael O'Connor
       
      yep, this is the down side. Kids mishandle internet or tech devices. or a pencil, or a book...nothing very new here...constant monitoring/good filter systme should be used
  • spawning original ideas.
  • But whether its program can measure up to the federal government’s key yardstick — improvement in standardized test scores — is another question.
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Where Speech Recognition Is Going - 0 views

  • “I think speech recognition is really going to upend the current [computer] interface.
  • “We’re at a transition point where voice and natural-language understanding are suddenly at the forefront,
  • Jim Glass, a senior research scientist at MIT who has been working on speech interfaces since the 1980s, says today’s smart phones pack as much processing power as the laboratory machines he worked with in the ’90s. Smart phones also have high-bandwidth data connections to the cloud, where servers can do the heavy lifting involved with both voice recognition and understanding spoken queries. “The combination of more data and more computing power means you can do things today that you just couldn’t do before,” says Glass. “You can use more sophisticated statistical models.”
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  • Siri,
  • But voice functionality is built into Android, the Windows Phone platform, and most other mobile systems, as well as many apps
  • Nuance is at the heart of the boom in voice technology
  • , Nuance hopes to put its speech interfaces in many more places, most notably the television and the automobile
  • Meanwhile, the Sync entertainment system in Ford automobiles already uses Nuance’s technology to let drivers pull up directions, weather information, and songs. About four million Ford cars on the road have Sync with voice recognition. Last week, Nuance introduced software called Dragon Drive that will let other car manufacturers add voice-control features to vehicles
  • “It’s astonishingly accurate,” says Brian Phelps, CEO and cofounder of Montrue and himself an ER doctor. “Speech has turned a corner; it’s gotten to a point where we’re getting incredible accuracy right out of the box
  • Sejnoha believes that within a few years, mobile voice interfaces will be much more pervasive and powerful. “I should just be able to talk to it without touching it,” he says. “It will constantly be listening for trigger words, and will just do it—pop up a calendar, or ready a text message, or a browser that’s navigated to where you want to go
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EyeVerify's Mobile Authentication Technology Relies on Eye-Vein Scanning to Let You Vie... - 0 views

  • Typing a password into your smartphone might be a reasonable way to access the sensitive information it holds, but a startup called EyeVerify thinks it would be easier—and more secure—to just look into the phone’s camera lens and move your eyes to the side.
  • EyeVerify’s software identifies you by your “eyeprints,” the pattern of veins in the whites of your eyes. Everybody has four eyeprints, two in each eye on either side of the iris. The company claims that its method is as accurate as a fingerprint or iris scan, without requiring any special hardware
  • Rush says the software can tell the difference between a real person and an image of a person. It randomly challenges the smartphone’s camera to adjust settings such as focus, exposure, and white balance and checks whether it receives an appropriate response from the object it’s focused on.
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  • The look of the veins in your eyes changes over time, and you might burst a blood vessel one day. But Rush says long-term changes would be slow enough that EyeVerify could “age” its template to adjust. And the software only needs one proper eyeprint to authenticate you, so unless you bloody up both eyes, you should be able to use EyeVerify after a bar fight
  • Indeed, EyeVerify still needs to do more to prove that. Rush says that in tests of 96 people, the eyeprint system was 99.97 percent accurate. The company is working with Purdue University researchers to judge the accuracy of its software on 250 subjects—or another 500 eyes.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Six Multimedia Timeline Creation Tools for Students - 2 views

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    Building timelines online See individual links
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Free Technology for Teachers: Six Multimedia Timeline Creation Tools for Students - 0 views

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    some cool timeline builders
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