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mbarek Akaddar

More colleges, professors shutting down laptops and other digital distractions - 9 views

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shared by mbarek Akaddar on 26 Apr 10 - Cached
  • As a culture, we're at an odd crossroads regarding personal computers. For years, educators have been clamoring to put technology in the hands of young students through partnerships with big tech companies, best symbolized by the One Laptop Per Child initiative
  • mbarek Akaddar on 26 Apr 10
     
    More colleges, professors shutting down laptops and other digital distractions
Maggie Verster

Video Solutions Enhance Communication, Safety and Educa... - Eventbrite - 0 views

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shared by Maggie Verster on 12 May 09 - Cached
  • Maggie Verster on 12 May 09
     
    Video is no longer the future, it is now. By deploying video solutions such as Digital Signage, Desktop Video and Campus TV, schools, colleges and universities have the ability to: * Enhance communications with parents, students and the community * Quickly disseminate emergency alerts and instructions to the student body * Broadcast live event such as graduations and in-service trainings to people who cannot attend in person
Maggie Verster

TeacherTube: create your own branded video site - 0 views

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shared by Maggie Verster on 26 May 09 - Cached
  • Maggie Verster on 26 May 09
     
    Imagine, your very own CO-BRANDED version of TeacherTube filled with just your K-12 school, college/university or organization's media content. Post your class videos, your school district documents, or audio recording from one of your organizational meetings. You decide how your educational site works. Remove, approve, add, upload -- literally at the click of a button.
impalasue

College students' use of Kindle DX points to e-reader's role in academia - University of Washington - washington.edu - 3 views

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shared by impalasue on 21 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • “Most e-readers were designed for leisure reading – think romance novels on the beach,” said co-author Charlotte Lee, a UW assistant professor of Human Centered Design and Engineering. “We found that reading is just a small part of what students are doing. And when we realize how dynamic and complicated a process this is, it kind of redefines what it means to design an e-reader.”
  • The Kindle DX was more likely to replace students’ paper-based reading than their computer-based reading.
  • With paper, three quarters of students marked up texts as they read. This included highlighting key passages, underlining, drawing pictures and writing notes in margins.
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  • A drawback of the Kindle DX was the difficulty of switching between reading techniques, such as skimming an article’s illustrations or references just before reading the complete text. Students frequently made such switches as they read course material. The digital text also disrupted a technique called cognitive mapping, in which readers used physical cues such as the location on the page and the position in the book to go back and find a section of text or even to help retain and recall the information they had read.
  • “E-readers are not where they need to be in order to support academic reading,” Lee concludes. But asked when e-readers will reach that point, she predicts: “It’s going to be sooner than we think.”
  • impalasue on 21 Jul 11
     
    This discusses the effect of e-readers on cognitive mapping and other reading techniques.
Carla Arena

Facebook | "We make very poor Use of Our Talents" - 9 views

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shared by Carla Arena on 25 May 10 - Cached
  • Lúcia Carneiro on 25 May 10
     
    Wow, Carla! I loved it! We really should start paying attention to everything he said. I agree with him when he says that we need a revolution in education.Get rid of that linearity concept that have invaded (and pervaded) the minds of many educational institutions- go to college. I loved the "a 3 year old child is not a half six year old child." How true! Thanks for sharing. :)
  • Carla Arena on 25 May 10
     
    Dear Lúcia, I'm glad you enjoyed it. He has another video about how we and schools kill creativity. It is really inspiring. Also, in relation to the non-linearity of learning, what you're experiencing in this online session is exactly that, learing how to deal with a non-linear online world and the messiness it implies, learning how to make sense of all that.
Claudio Fleury

Global English and Language Change - Macmillan Dictionary Blog - 2 views

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shared by Claudio Fleury on 13 Apr 11 - Cached
  • We’re often told that teachers “deliver” courses or particular “units” of work. But I’m a teacher: if I’d wanted to deliver units I’d have got a job as an IKEA driver.
  • The metaphor of knowledge as a package encodes a particular view of education which suggests that ideas can be neatly boxed up, wrapped in parcel tape and despatched to a student who will then accept the delivery
  • to student that doesn’t allow for any unpicking or discussion of the actual ideas themselves or questioning of how they’re formulated but is all about sending a pre-packaged idea from A to B. Once the unit has been delivered, it can be ticked off on the list and the next unit keenly awaited.
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  • Young people are no longer students but clients or customers. Schools and colleges become client-facing organisations with customer charters.
  • these metaphors change the way we behave and can lead to creeping social change, away from the interests of people and towards the interests of capital
impalasue

Does digital text create a cognitive gap? - O'Reilly Radar - 6 views

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shared by impalasue on 21 Jul 11 - No Cached
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      impalasue on 21 Jul 11
       
      This is a summary on a study of the effects of e-textbooks on reading skills in college students. 
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