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Letter: What We've Learned - NYTimes.com - 2 views

  • We’re obviously no longer limited to the printed page, but we are still influenced by the many years in which we were. So long blocks of text are still often the default way to convey information.
sanamuah

A Dynamic New Tool to Preserve the Friendsters of the Future - NYTimes.com - 1 views

  • Rhizome has already developed a rough prototype of a tool that records all the content you experience on a website as you click around, then uses that information to create a simulation of the website that you or someone else can explore again however you want.
Jonathan Becker

A Brief History of Failure - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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    "What follows is - depending on how you want to think about it - either a gallery of technologies we lost or an invitation to consider alternate futures. Some of what might have been is fantastical: a subway powered by air, an engine run off the heat of your palm. Some of what we lost, on the other hand, is more subtle, like a better way to bowl or type. As new standards emerge, variety fades, and a single technology becomes entrenched. (That's why the inefficient Qwerty keyboard has proved so difficult to unseat.) We can take heart, however, in the fact that good ideas never disappear forever; the Stirling engine didn't pan out in the Industrial Revolution, for example, but it can keep the lights on for a small village. As you look through the images, then, please consider not only what might have been but what could still be again."
sanamuah

Online Test-Takers Feel Anti-Cheating Software's Uneasy Glare - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • Proctortrack, however, seems to impose more onerous strictures on students than a live proctor would. Among other things, it requires students to sit upright and remain directly in front of their webcams at all times, according to guidelines posted on the company’s site.“Changes in lighting can flag your test for a violation,” the guidelines say. And, “Even stretching, looking away, or leaning down to pick up your pencil could flag your test.”
Tom Woodward

Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek - Multimedia Feature - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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    If you haven't seen this, you should take a look. This is a bit old but worth seeing if you like webdesign/journalsim/media http://t.co/yJm4BdPzYH #ds106 - Tom Woodward (@twoodwar) December 4, 2013
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    If you haven't seen this, you should take a look. This is a bit old but worth seeing if you like webdesign/journalsim/media http://t.co/yJm4BdPzYH #ds106 - Tom Woodward (@twoodwar) December 4, 2013
Tom Woodward

Letter: What We've Learned - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    "It's no accident that many of the most-read New York Times articles of the last few years have been complex takes on serious subjects in a form other than a traditional article: an explainer of the Ebola crisis, a photo essay on aging, a video on ISIS and, from us, the rent-vs.-buy calculator, a graphic on nonemployed men, a map on poverty and an interactive on generational politics."
Enoch Hale

What's the Point of a Professor? - NYTimes.com - 2 views

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    " IN the coming weeks, two million Americans will earn a bachelor's degree and either join the work force or head to graduate school. They will be joyous that day, and they will remember fondly the schools they attended. But as this unique chapter of life closes and they reflect on campus events, one primary part of higher education will fall low on the ladder of meaningful contacts: the professors."
anonymous

#BlackTwitter After #Ferguson - Video - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    The potential power of Twitter / social media
Yin Wah Kreher

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

  • “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.
  • One Laptop Per Child
  • 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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  • 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.)
  • 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.
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    link to ECAR findings
Yin Wah Kreher

Skills in Flux - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    "The best performing teacher in the whole system was a woman named Zenaida Tan. Up until that report, she was completely unheralded. The skills she possessed were invisible. Meanwhile, less important traits were measured on her evaluations (three times she was late to pick up students from recess). In part, Lemov is talking about the skill of herding cats. The master of cat herding senses when attention is about to wander, knows how fast to move a diverse group, senses the rhythm between lecturing and class participation, varies the emotional tone. This is a performance skill that surely is relevant beyond education. This raises an important point. As the economy changes, the skills required to thrive in it change, too, and it takes a while before these new skills are defined and acknowledged. For example, in today's loosely networked world, people with social courage have amazing value. Everyone goes to conferences and meets people, but some people invite six people to lunch afterward and follow up with four carefully tended friendships forevermore. Then they spend their lives connecting people across networks. People with social courage are extroverted in issuing invitations but introverted in conversation - willing to listen 70 percent of the time"
Tom Woodward

Off the 3-D Printer, Practice Parts for the Surgeon - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    "Before he operated on Violet, Dr. Meara wanted a more precise understanding of her bone structure than he could get from an image on a screen. So he asked his colleague Dr. Peter Weinstock to print him a three-dimensional model of Violet's skull, based on magnetic resonance imaging pictures."
Yin Wah Kreher

Smartphones Don't Make Us Dumb - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Over the last decade, neuroscientists distinguished two systems of attention and associated thought. One is directed outward, as when you scroll through your email or play Candy Crush. The other is directed inward, as when you daydream, plan what you'll do tomorrow, or reflect on the past. Clearly, most digital activities call for outwardly directed attention. These two modes of attention work like a toggle switch; when one is on, the other is off. In fact, when attention is outwardly directed, the inwardly directed attention system is somewhat suppressed. Given the amount of time people spend with digital devices, that sounds ominous. Will we actually lose our ability to daydream? Let's hope not.
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