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How Technology Has Impacted Education The Current State Of Technology In K-12 6.60K Views 0 Likes What is the next device most students will soon purchase? How many schools have a digital strategy? Find out in the current state of technology in K-12. How Online Education Has Changed In 10 Years 10.91K Views 0 Likes We all know that education, specifically online education, has come a long way in the last few years.
After Frustrations in Second Life, Colleges Look to New Virtual Worlds - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education | Feb 2010 By Jeffrey R. Young Some colleges that have built virtual classrooms in Second Life—the online environment where people walk around as avatars in a cartoonlike world—have started looking for an exit strategy. The virtual world has not lived up to the hype that peaked in 2007, when just about every day brought a new announcement from a college entering Second Life. Today, disenchanted with commercial virtual worlds but still convinced of their educational value, a few colleges have started to build their own, where they have more control. After sitting in on Second Life classes and touring several campuses in virtual worlds, I see why they appealed to college leaders. Well, not necessarily, it turns out. Plus, a lot of decidedly nonacademic activity goes on in Second Life, and it's difficult to limit access so that only students can enter a classroom there. Then there are worries about what would happen if the company behind Second Life, Linden Lab, went out of business. A Community Model
thinkfinity Browse Resources Verizon Foundation proudly partners with some of the country’s top educational organizations to provide you with the latest topics, tools and trends in education. Created by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, ARTSEDGE provides resources and examples for teachers to teach in, through and about the arts. The site includes lesson plans, advocacy and professional development resources, and up-to-date information on arts programs from around the world. Visit ARTSEDGE Developed by the Council for Economic Education, EconEdLink provides teachers and students with lessons and classroom learning activities based on economics topics in the news and real-time economics data. Visit EconEdLink Presented by the National Endowment for the Humanities, EDSITEment features lesson plans and additional classroom resources about art and culture, literature and language arts, foreign language, history and social studies. Visit EDSITEment Visit Illuminations Visit ReadWriteThink
Steve Hargadon Forget the Unchangeables I speak with a lot of faculty, staff, and administrators about teaching with technology. And nearly every single time, one of the first questions I am asked is, "What do we do about all the faculty who don't want to change? Who are resistant to trying new things? Who don't believe, for example, a cell phone could ever have a place in a classroom?" Yes, many faculty are resistant to change. Why would I suggest such a thing? Have you sat down and engaged in a Twitter chat using the hashtag #edchat? All of you have creative, risk-taking educators on your campus. I do not intend to put words in anyone's mouth here. Folks, this is our crisis. 7 Ways Twitter Promotes 21st Century Learning by Dr. Justin Marquis, Ph.D. Twitter is one of those pieces of technology that people either love or hate. For the haters, it seems like a superfluous, narcissistic, even petty platform through which people who think they are more important than they really are share their most intimate details with the world. A recent report from The Education Forum, Twitteracy: Tweeting as a New Literacy Practice, sheds some light on the debate over whether Twitter is a major time waster or a valuable educational tool for developing technological literacy. Twitteracy Findings, No Surprise Literacy as a general concept has changed dramatically in the Information Age. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. These are some of the many ways that Twitter is being considered as a new form of literacy and which may prove beneficial to learning at all levels, not just in higher education. The best way to understand how any hi-tech tool could benefit your students is to begin using it yourself.
Research: Education Could Use More 'Connected Learning' Research | News Research: Education Could Use More 'Connected Learning' By Dian Schaffhauser01/17/13 The possibilities inherent in digital learning won't in and of themselves flatten the global playing field for students, according to new research, unless we first give attention to the idea of creating "connected learning environments." These are learning environments in which everyone can participate, learning happens by doing, cultivation of interests is paramount, and everything is interconnected. A group of American and British researchers have put together a report that advocates for a design for learning that is "peer supported," "interest-powered," and "academically oriented." Among the recommendations offered by the report's authors: "Close the gap between the no-frills learning that too often happens in-school and the interactive, hands-on learning that usually takes place out of school.
Ulearn Education Conference | ULearn Details ULearn Permission to Play pre-conference 6 October 2015 Auckland's Crowne Plaza Hotel ULearn15 three-day conference 7–9 October 2015 SKYCITY Convention Centre Auckland Conference Strands We have four conference strands and a research strand. Re-imagining Learners and LearningRe-imagining Teaching PracticeRe-imagining Leaders and LeadershipMāori mediumResearch Strand Call for Abstracts Call for abstracts are closed Costs$250* ULearn Permission to Play$745* ULearn15 early bird (until 3 July, $795 thereafter) Save $50 when you register for both ULearn Permission to Play and ULearn15.ULearn Gala Dinner $92* (add this separately as you register)Research Strand $230* * GST inclusive Watch this short video about ULearn 15: Exhibitors: Register your interest for a trade stand at ULearn15
'Growth Mindset' Gaining Traction as School Improvement Strategy Published Online: September 10, 2013 Published in Print: September 11, 2013, as 'Growth Mindset' Gaining Traction As Ed. Strategy New Orleans It's one thing to say all students can learn, but making them believe it—and do it—can require a 180-degree shift in students' and teachers' sense of themselves and of one another. While expressions like the "soft bigotry of low expectations" underscore the effects of teachers' and students' mindsets on academic success, it has proved difficult to pin down whether and how it's possible to change those attitudes once established. Nonetheless, attempts to change that dynamic, from targeted interventions to restructured schools, are gaining traction as many states overhaul their curricula to match the Common Core State Standards and incorporate student-growth measures into accountability systems. Three decades have passed since the Stanford University psychologist Carol S. —Jennifer Zdon for Education Week Those mindsets are self-reinforcing, and Ms. Mr.
Education Technology as Content Delivery Khan Academy proudly states on its website “168,382,612 lessons delivered,” something that always reminds me of the slogan that used to accompany McDonalds’ golden arches: “over 200 billion served.” (I hope) We know better than to equate the billions of Big Macs sold with billions of healthy bodies or a well-fed world. Yet we still often equate “lessons delivered” with “learning,” as though their delivery necessarily offers a substantive intellectual nutrition. Of course, Khan Academy is hardly the only organization that refers to the intersection of education and technology in terms of the potential for enhanced “content delivery.” Technology, so the argument goes, will make education scalable, replicable, accessible, distributable and simultaneously both standardized and personalized. This notion of education as a “content delivery system” isn’t just the purview of science fiction. And now, technology will purportedly make all this occur more efficiently. Photo credits: Alpha, Star Trek