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Joyce Kincannon

Digital tools for researchers | Connected Researchers - 4 views

connectedresearchers.com/online-tools-for-researchers

tools research Curation search Digital Research Tools

shared by Joyce Kincannon on 18 Mar 15 - No Cached
  • Joyce Kincannon on 25 Mar 15
     
    "Here is a collection of digital tools that are designed to help researchers explore the millions of research articles available to this date. Search engines and curators help you to quickly find the articles you are interested in and stay up to date with the literature. Article visualization tools enhance your reading experience, for instance, by helping you navigate from a paper to another. "
  • Joyce Kincannon on 25 Mar 15
     
    "Here is a collection of digital tools that are designed to help researchers explore the millions of research articles available to this date. Search engines and curators help you to quickly find the articles you are interested in and stay up to date with the literature. Article visualization tools enhance your reading experience, for instance, by helping you navigate from a paper to another. "
sanamuah

Using Voyant for Text Analysis | Digital History Methods - 1 views

ricedh.github.io/02-voyant.html

3rdspace digital+humanities

shared by sanamuah on 27 Feb 15 - No Cached
  • This page walks through the process of using Voyant for digital text mining. Find here a link to our entire corpus of runaway ads uploaded into a Voyant skin.
  • sanamuah on 27 Feb 15
     
    Digital text-mining tools can help researchers understand document collections that are prohibitively large for a close-reading. Our collection of runaway slave advertisements from Texas, Arkansas, and Mississippi totals over 2,500 individual ads! Not only would it be extremely time consuming to read this entire collection, the consistently short, boilerplate format of runaway ads can make it difficult to really distinguish between them. The ads from Texas, Arkansas, and Mississippi start to all look practically indistinguishable, making it difficult for close-reading alone to recognize pattern breaks between the states, without the assistance of computational data. This is where Voyant comes in. We hoped that the "distant-reading" capabilities of Voyant would be able to pick up on larger word usage trends that are not immediately apparent when reading with the human eye.
anonymous

All Our Ideas - Bringing survey research into the digital age - 1 views

allourideas.org

tools survey

shared by anonymous on 16 Dec 14 - No Cached
  • anonymous on 16 Dec 14
     
    Simple to use "wiki survey"
Yin Wah Kreher

Can Students Have Too Much Tech? - NYTimes.com - 3 views

www.nytimes.com/...udents-have-too-much-tech.html

technology_integration VCU Readings

shared by Yin Wah Kreher on 02 Feb 15 - No Cached
  • “Students who gain access to a home computer between the 5th and 8th grades tend to witness a persistent decline in reading and math scores,” the economists wrote, adding that license to surf the Internet was also linked to lower grades in younger children.In fact, the students’ academic scores dropped and remained depressed for as long as the researchers kept tabs on them. What’s worse, the weaker students (boys, African-Americans) were more adversely affected than the rest. When their computers arrived, their reading scores fell off a cliff.
  • We don’t know why this is, but we can speculate. With no adults to supervise them, many kids used their networked devices not for schoolwork, but to play games, troll social media and download entertainment. (And why not? Given their druthers, most adults would do the same.)
  • Babies born to low-income parents spend at least 40 percent of their waking hours in front of a screen — more than twice the time spent by middle-class babies. They also get far less cuddling and bantering over family meals than do more privileged children. The give-and-take of these interactions is what predicts robust vocabularies and school success. Apps and videos don’t.
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  • One Laptop Per Child
  • But the program didn’t live up to the ballyhoo.
  • it is worth the investment only when it’s perfectly suited to the task, in science simulations, for example, or to teach students with learning disabilities.
  • technology can work only when it is deployed as a tool by a terrific, highly trained teacher.
  • Yin Wah Kreher on 02 Feb 15
     
    link to ECAR findings
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