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Education: Beyond the Book
A group of publishers and tech companies gathered in Washington today to talk about getting digital textbooks into U.S. classrooms. The gathering, convened by the FCC and the Department of Education, included everyone from Apple to Intel to McGraw-Hill, and it was premised on the idea that digitizing classrooms is a good thing. And, for argument’s sake, let’s say it is. But not because doing so will save schools much money.
Tablets in the Classroom Could Save Schools $3 Billion a Year - Peter Kafka - Media - AllThingsD
A group of education leaders gathered last week to discuss the most important technology innovations of the last decade, and their findings suggest the classroom of the future will be open, mobile, and flexible enough to reach individual students—while free online tools will challenge the authority of traditional institutions. The retreat celebrated the 10 th anniversary of the New Media Consortium’s Horizon Project, whose annual report provides a road map of the education-technology landscape. One hundred experts from higher education, K-12, and museum education identified 28 “metatrends” that will influence education in the future. The 10 most important, according to a New Media Consortium announcement about the retreat, include global adoption of mobile devices, the rise of cloud computing, and transparency movements that call into question traditional notions of content ownership concerning digital materials.
New Media Consortium Names 10 Top 'Metatrends' Shaping Educational Technology - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Space, whether physical or virtual, can have a significant impact on learning. Learning Spaces focuses on how learner expectations influence such spaces, the principles and activities that facilitate learning, and the role of technology from the perspective of those who create learning environments: faculty, learning technologists, librarians, and administrators. Information technology has brought unique capabilities to learning spaces, whether stimulating greater interaction through the use of collaborative tools, videoconferencing with international experts, or opening virtual worlds for exploration.
Learning Spaces | EDUCAUSE
Harvard Educational Review - Journal Article
Richard J. Murnane and David K. Cohen use the framework of microeconomics to account for the short lives of most merit pay plans. They demonstrate that teaching is not an activity that satisfies the conditions under which performance-based pay is an efficient method of compensating workers. They then show that merit pay plans survive in a few school districts, in part because the districts are special and in part because the merit pay plans are quite different from conventional notions of performance-based pay.
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In this technology-centric classroom, students are bent over laptops, some blogging or building Facebook pages from the perspective of Shakespeare’s characters. One student compiles a song list from the Internet, picking a tune by the rapper Kanye West to express the emotions of Shakespeare’s lovelorn Silvius. The class, and the Kyrene School District as a whole, offer what some see as a utopian vision of education’s future. Classrooms are decked out with laptops, big interactive screens and software that drills students on every basic subject.
Technology in Schools Faces Questions on Value - NYTimes.com
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Is Real Educational Reform Possible? If So, How? | Psychology Today
From the dawn of institutionalized schooling until now there have always been reformers, who want to modify the way schooling is done. For the most part, such reformers can be scaled along what might be called a liberal-conservative, or progressive-traditionalist, continuum. At one end are those who think that children learn best when they are happy, have choices, study material that is directly meaningful to them, and, in general, are permitted some control over what and how they learn. At the other end are those who think that children learn best when they are firmly directed and guided, by authoritative teachers who know better than children what to learn and how to learn it. Over time there has been regular back-and-forth movement of the educational pendulum along this continuum. But the pendulum never moves very far.Students can make PSAs about any topic you choose, such as the environment. Have them take photos around town and then use Windows Live Movie Maker 2011 to create the announcements. 2 Study textures. For a fun art project, have students take close-up pictures of a variety of textures, including brick walls and dead grass. Along the way they can learn about warm colors, cool colors, and textures. If you like, they can turn the pictures into a collage.
Photo Ops: 10 Innovative Ways to Use Visual Media
Who knew water could be so hazardous. A good site to use with middle school students. Have them click through the forward links on the site.
III. Websites to Validate | November Learning
The Basic search help article covers all the most common issues, but sometimes you need a little bit more power. This document will highlight the more advanced features of Google Web Search. Have in mind though that even very advanced searchers, such as the members of the search group at Google, use these features less than 5% of the time.
More search help : Google search basics - Web Search Help
Top News - The top 10 ed-tech stories of 2009
If you have 30 minutes a month, you can learn everything you need to know about school technology by reading one great newspaper...eSchool News. Dear Educator, Using technology effectively in schools is essential to providing quality education and preparing students for the challenges of the 21st century. And one of the best ways you can stay on top of school technology is reading how successfully schools are doing it day in and day out. Find out for yourself why over 100,000 educators just like you are reading and learning how technology is changing and improving learning in our nation´s schools. "Your newspaper is the most informative, up-to-date and timely periodical that comes across my desk.While I was off struggling with Leopard and pants, Pew put out another great report: Teens and Social Media .
apophenia: Pew on teen social media practices (with interesting
Center for Social Media at American University
Over the past decade, a lively debate has emerged around questions of how best to assess the rising impact of social issue documentaries.This issue focuses on standards for virtual worlds, with special relation to MPEG-V, the ISO standard for connecting within virtual worlds as well as to real worlds.
Journal of Virtual Worlds Research
Constructivist learning environments ... - Google Books
For session 1A on why use collaborative tools by Mar 19
Full Screen Close Siemens, G. & Cormier, D. (2009). July 2009 - Social Media: Trends and Implications for Learning.