- Jun 2016
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hackeducation.com hackeducation.com
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It is almost as if we believe we can simply parachute technology in to a classroom and expect everyone to just pick it up, understand it, use it, hack it, and prosper.
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humanitiesinpractice.blogspot.com humanitiesinpractice.blogspot.com
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Most LMS environments are not designed as places where students do work; rather, they cater to the needs of instructors.
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in wide use outside the academic world
A lot of EdTech (even in Higher Ed) is focused on the isolated world of the Ivory Tower or school system.
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umwdtlt.com umwdtlt.com
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delegitimated as “scribbling.”
This is such a prevalent idea, which is limiting. My sentiment sides with @actualham and her idea that the internet is like a workshop space :) Drafts are okay. Scribbling encouraged.
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- May 2016
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www.wnyc.org www.wnyc.org
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according to Peggy Orenstein who noticed these, and a lot of other troubling trends when she interviewed 70 college-age girls about their personal lives. She wrote a book about it called "Girls & Sex," and talked to us this week about some of the things she learned.
This book is on my list. It seems to echo the thoughts in American Girls.
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www.washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com
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Among students with high ACT scores, those in the laptop-friendly sections performed significantly worse than their counterparts in the no-technology sections. In contrast, there wasn’t much of a difference between students with low ACT scores — those who were allowed to use laptops did just as well as those who couldn’t. (The same pattern held true when researchers looked at students with high and low GPAs.) These results are a bit strange. We might have expected the smartest students to have used their laptops prudently. Instead, they became technology’s biggest victims. Perhaps hubris played a role. The smarter students may have overestimated their ability to multitask. Or the top students might have had the most to gain by paying attention in class.
I think it's humorous that ACT scores are considered accurate indicators of intelligence. Perhaps it is precisely the students who excel in the controlled conditions of the testing environment (no tech, etc.) that suffer the most from laptops, rather than simply intelligent kids?
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The West Point study has lessons even for those whose baccalaureate days are far behind them. This is yet more evidence that multitasking doesn’t work. Beware of people who take laptops into meetings — even “just to take notes.” They’re probably not listening to you.
That's very true. As more and more evidence comes out to support this, it is imperative that schools with 1-to-1, or planning to go that way, are mindful of when and where technology is integrated.
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Why do we suddenly pretend that the twenty-first century never happened when a child enters an examination room?
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rather than having an education system which has been industrialised around content and testing, why not have one that’s based around solving problems, working together, collaborating?
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hapgood.us hapgood.us
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the nature of the stream is it pushes you away from comprehension and into rhetoric. Rather than seeking to understand, the denizen of the modern Twitter or Weibo feed seeks to sort incoming information as right or wrong, helpful or unhelpful, worth retweeting or not retweeting, worth getting into a righteous rage about or not
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- Apr 2016
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techcrunch.com techcrunch.com
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Impatience characterizes the technology sector’s approach to education.
And education is conceived as a “sector” through technology.
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elnamortensen1.wordpress.com elnamortensen1.wordpress.com
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Small Blog On Networked Learning
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rossieronline.usc.edu rossieronline.usc.edu
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Teacher DIY Professional Development
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- Mar 2016
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bavatuesdays.com bavatuesdays.com
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The Personal in Indie
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medium.com medium.com
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There is a human story behind every data point and as educators and innovators we have to shine a light on it.
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www.jisc.ac.uk www.jisc.ac.uk
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Networked, open, transparent
These three words could be a new way of describing pedagogy, no? #NOTPED?
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gamesandlearning.wordpress.com gamesandlearning.wordpress.com
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The challenges and opportunities confronting higher education pedagogy will not be adequately addressed by platforms designed to provide answers.
Strong counterclaim to much #EdTech hype. Eventually getting into #Technopedagogy.
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hybridpedagogy.org hybridpedagogy.org
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Great example of a forum which will cause burnout (for both student and professor). I like the idea for using Twitter as explained below. Students are probably already using the tool, it can be used as a back channel, and it has a more normal flow of conversation with potential guest speakers.
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rtalbert.org rtalbert.org
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How not to promote technology in teaching: An open letter
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lorenabarba.com lorenabarba.com
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It reminds me of the New Math of the 1960s, which fashioned mathematics in a dramatically more abstract, more analytic way than before. And if Johnny Can’t Add with the new math, maybe Jenny Won’t Code with an overly abstract presentation of computing. Papert points us in the opposite direction
It’s a source of power to do something and figure things out, in a dance between the computer and our thoughts. The inversion, starting with computing as a formal thing to understand and then come to the application later, takes away its power.
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One striking comment follows a couple of pages later, where the phrase “computer-aided instruction” evokes in Papert the unappealing idea that “the computer is being used to program the child” — his vision, of course, is that the child must program the computer.
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In 1980, Seymour Papert published the book “Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas” [2]. Papert was co-director, under Marvin Minsky, of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory from 1967 to 1981. Previously, he had worked with Jean Piaget in Geneva. Piaget was a developmental psychologist best known for pioneering the learning theory known as constructivism: simply put, that learners construct new knowledge (in their minds) from the interaction of their experiences with previous knowledge. Papert, in turn, developed the theory of constructionism, adding the notion that learning is enhanced when the learner is engaged in “constructing a meaningful product.”
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- Feb 2016
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www.cultofpedagogy.com www.cultofpedagogy.com
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I’m going to give you a sheet of math problems. The first ten are required, the last two are for extra credit. I’m going to give you a sheet of math problems. The first ten should be fairly easy, but I want to see how many of you can do the last two–those are the challenge problems. You guys have learned enough that I think you can solve at least one of them, maybe both.
I love this framing because it shows how language matters and how a teacher might move from a strategy that extrinsic motivation to one that promotes student reflection.
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Consider letting them choose: seating: Could students do some assignments on the floor? In the hall? Or just in different seats? work groups: Some students thrive in groups, while others do better on their own. intake mode: If you want a student to read a particular book, and an audio version is available, you could occasionally make that an option. output mode: For some assignments, it may be possible to have students deliver their response in an audio or video recording, rather than in writing. timing: If students don’t absolutely have to do the same thing at the same time, why not let them choose the order of activities they do?
Possible choices to provide to students.
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Isn’t that kind of prep work more in line with worksheet-oriented teaching, where students are doing low-level work that was largely prepared by the teacher? If students are engaged in more long-term, authentic, creative projects, it’s much easier to provide them with choices, because we aren’t constantly trying to provide them with new busywork every day.
So many digital texts are free and easily curated for students. It should be easier now than ever to connect them with their interests and passions.
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hybridpedagogy.org hybridpedagogy.org
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We need more diverse books, voices, attitudes, journals, and styles.
As educators I would say this is our duty!
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It is long past time for us to put an end to the miniscule and irrelevant plagiarism wars and begin a more significant reconsideration of what we mean by research, citations, and the respectful integration and communication of information old and new, original and borrowed, tweeted, blogged and podcast, online and oral, read and viewed. It’s time to bury APA, MLA, op. cit., Ibid, et al. — along with the other dead horses they came in on.
I want this printed on a t-shirt to wear to faculty meetings :)
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Technology can help students fill in the vast blank spaces on their mental maps. But it cannot, on its own, create a safe space that encourages kids to ask tough questions.
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- Jan 2016
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www.huffingtonpost.com www.huffingtonpost.com
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Teachers work hard.
Important to reassert… as EdTech goes on to undermine our work and pedagogy in general.
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www.gardnercampbell.net www.gardnercampbell.net
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How should we measure student engagement? Certainly not by using computers to force feed students fixed lesson plans.
Gardner Campbell's presentation at UNF Academic Technology Innovation Summit, November 2015.
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- Dec 2015
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bits.blogs.nytimes.com bits.blogs.nytimes.com
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nearly $8 billion prekindergarten through 12th-grade education technology software market
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essentiallyshannon.blogspot.com essentiallyshannon.blogspot.com
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it is safe to say that technology has gradually wiggled its way into the sphere of education and changed it for the better
That’s a far-reaching claim, but ok…
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- Nov 2015
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bavatuesdays.com bavatuesdays.com
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Reclaim Hosting, Known, and Brigham Young University are working on an interface for student domains that will provide easy cross-posting to several social media sites, and easy viewing of those posts among peers in groups. The students will still be able to install whatever other server software they need.
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www.insidehighered.com www.insidehighered.com
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Sixty percent of faculty members agree they are concerned about recent attacks on scholars for comments they made on social media. Most say this has not influenced how they communicate on social media.•Tech administrators do not view the Yik Yak app, which allows geo-targeted comments about people, as having caused controversy on their campus, and do not think colleges should regulate access to this app. Faculty members are a bit more likely to say the app has caused controversy and to say it should be regulated, but those are still the minority views among professors.
These two points give me hope :)
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The 10 Ed-Tech Companies That Are Raising the Most Money
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www.slate.com www.slate.com
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While the thinkers are arguing, textbook publishers are acting. With their traditional business models under pressure, they’ve begun to reinvent themselves as educational technology companies. They’re selling schools and colleges on a new generation of digital courseware—ALEKS is just one example—that takes on much of the work that teachers used to do. The software isn’t meant to replace teachers, they insist. Rather, it’s meant to free them to focus on the sort of high-level, conceptual instruction that only a human can provide.
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Justin Reich argues in a blog post for Education Week, computers “are good at assessing the kinds of things—quantitative things, computational things—that computers are good at doing. Which is to say that they are good at assessing things that we no longer need humans to do anymore.” The implication is that adaptive software might prove effective at training children to pass standardized tests. But it won’t teach them the underlying skills that they’ll need to tackle complex, real-world problems. And it won’t prepare them for a future in which rote jobs are increasingly automated.
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But the collaboration between university and for-profit startup raised some troubling questions about just who owned all the data that flowed from students’ use of the software—and what they might ultimately do with it. Knewton’s Ferreira says he envisions a future in which students’ educational records added up to much more than a series of letter grades that make up traditional transcripts. By tracking everything they read, every problem they solve, every concept they master, Knewton could compile a “psychometric profile” on each student that includes not only what she learned but how readily she learned it, and at what sorts of problem-solving she struggled and exceled. That sort of data could be of great interest to admission committees and employers. It could also, in theory, erode the privacy that has traditionally surrounded young people’s schoolwork.
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“Adaptive technologies presume that knowledge can be modularized and sequenced,” says Watters, the education writer. “This isn’t about the construction of knowledge. It’s still hierarchical, top-down, goal-driven.”
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- Oct 2015
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moreorlessbunk.net moreorlessbunk.net
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The compromise here is easy. Faculty accept the expertise of the educational experts and instructional designers, and welcome them into their course design process as a resource rather than competitors. At the same time, educational experts and instructional designers should accept the expertise of the faculty. Stop trying to tell them what education is.
THIS because = awesome & true
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lj.libraryjournal.com lj.libraryjournal.com
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Educational Technology on Trial | From the Bell Tower
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The impact of technology on education delivery remains sub-optimal, because
Several likely causes, not jumping to conclusions.
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Students who use computers moderately at school, such as once or twice a week, have "somewhat better learning outcomes" than students who use computers rarely
Sounds like those studies of moderate alcohol consumption and heart diseases. There might be an appropriate degree of technology use or it may be much more complex and contextual.
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- Aug 2015
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www.edudemic.com www.edudemic.com
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Not usually fond of these listicles, but the classification makes sense.
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- Jul 2015
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educationinnovations.org educationinnovations.org
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Innovative EdTech case studies
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www.youtube.com www.youtube.com
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Proudly share Taiwan's #EdTech vendors that had implemented #xAPI in their products!
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www.freetech4teachers.com www.freetech4teachers.com
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Your response has signaled that you think anyone can step into education and immediately make an impact.
Questo atteggiamento, nel mondo edtech può essere ancora più deleterio che in altri contesti e business.
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- May 2015
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www.alicekeeler.com www.alicekeeler.com
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This site has helpful information on educational technology.
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- Apr 2015
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books.google.com books.google.com
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Liza Loop convinces Atari the education market is open.
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