April 2010
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HS Students now changing their Facebook names to... →
For high school students concerned with college acceptance, Facebook presents a challenge. It encourages making public every thought and every photo, an opportunity for posturing and bravado nearly irresistible to teenagers. But this impulse for display clashes with the need to appear circumspect and presentable to college admissions agents, who some high school guidance counselors have warned...
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Bill Gates Says Open Courseware Is Good but Needs... →
The fragmented world of open courseware should be transformed into “a worldwide resource that’s very clear who should use what,” Bill Gates said in a speech on Wednesday at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Education Technology – Don’t Lean On It, Leverage... →
Are you using Internet tools to engage students in the classroom and improve learning outcomes, or are you just using technology to decrease the time you spend lecturing and interacting with your students?
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“And a bonus tip from Cory Doctorow, who gets more email than you and me...”
– Seth’s Blog: 8 things I wish everyone knew about email
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“Whoever best describes the problem, is the one most likely to solve it.”
– Dan Roam, via Young and Brilliant
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LinkedIn Gives Users the Ability to Follow... →
The new feature, which rolled out overnight, clearly takes cues from Facebook and Twitter — you can think of Follow Company as LinkedIn’s version of the Facebook fan page. However, instead of receiving status updates from the companies you follow, you will instead get information such as recent hires and promotions, new job opportunities, and company profile updates.
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Kindle Firmware Update Includes Facebook and... →
It’s no longer surprising to see social media invade every aspect of our lives. What does surprise me, however, is how unalarmed I am at being unalarmed by this.
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How Facebook is putting its users last | Molly... →
It’s almost become a joke: Facebook makes a change to its privacy settings that opts you in to a bunch of scary stuff, the entire Internet flips out about it, it rolls back the change, and then a few months or years later, it makes the same or a very similar update, opting you in to it again. It would be funny, if it weren’t getting so damned insulting.
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“Texting and IM-ing my friends gives me a constant feeling of comfort,”...”
– Students Addicted to Social Media - New UM Study :: University Communications Newsdesk, University of Maryland
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Ed-tech leaders reveal keen insights →
Some interesting data on what students want from ed-tech.
No. 1, “it’s all about mobile, mobile, mobile” with today’s students, she said: They’re interested in using “the computers they’re carrying around in their pockets—the smart phones” for learning.
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Learning in the Future » Innovative uses of Web... →
UNLV Law School Prelaw Advisor, Dr. Wood, is doing some really cool things to improve her teaching, including using iTunes U, Facebook, Blogger, and a wiki.
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5 Reasons Why Educators Need To Embrace Internet... →
Internet tools can be fun! Internet tools are interactive! What a great way to engage students in the classroom. Many of the tools are collaborative, and they are all hands-on. Applications that allow for the creation of cool looking timelines, videos, or other dynamic presentations can be a lot of fun, and when a student realizes that they can easily make the resulting creation available for...
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The Calculus Tweetwars (1661-1675) →
Here’s an archive of Twitter exchanges for “The Calculus Wars” mentioned in my last post. Just an excerpt from Sir Isaac Newton:
newton1665: Opticks is finally finished. http://bit.ly/cxWKeJ IMHO It is much better than anything @gwleibniz has written. ;) #calcwars
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Twitter Users by Background Color →
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Newton and Leibniz Duke It Out on Twitter - Wired... →
Fantastic, fantastic, fantastic use of new technology to do something fresh and innovative with, of all things, math.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Isaac Newton are an unlikely pair for a face-off on Twitter. But a class at Muskegon Community College has brought the pair’s struggle for credit as the inventor of calculus to the social-networking site.
The Twitter battle, under the hashtag...
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Tufts Daily - Universities claim they see... →
“It can open up a lot of new opportunities,” Chow said. “One thing I can certainly envision is, for example, the Perseus project. One thing that Professor [Gregory] Crane could do is he could render an interactive museum of vases from Greece and render them and have everyone on their iPads take a look at them”
“It can create a lot of very rich experiences,” Chow continued. The Perseus...
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Learning with 'e's: e-Learning 3.0 →
Firstly, in a Web 3.0 world we will not only tap into the semantic web with all it promises, but e-Learning 3.0 will transgress the boundaries of traditional institutions, and there will be an increase in self-organised learning. Why? Because we will gain easier access to the tools and services that enable us to personalise our learning, and these will be aggregated more easily too.
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What Is the Memory Capacity of the Human Brain?:... →
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Digital Literacy Across the Curriculum - A...
teachthinktech:
Quick Post: New report from FutureLab on integrating digital literacy into K-12 curriculum, promoting “digital inclusion.”
Read the full report (PDF) here.
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Twitter Is Forever - Science and Tech - The... →
The Library of Congress announced last week via its official Twitter feed that it would be adding tweets to its inventory of published works. The addition of the vast body of public tweets sent since Twitter’s founding in March 2006 is the latest step in the Library of Congress’ effort to incorporate digitally published works into its archives.
TeachThinkTech: Who Drives Innovation? "Early... →
I’ve been reading a lot lately about “early adopters” of new technologies and practices, particularly related to much-hyped new gadgets like the iPad. These are people who like being on the leading (or even bleeding) edge of innovation, often lining up to be the first to get their hands on new…
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Modernizing the ‘Kodak Moment’ as Social Sharing →
“It’s not a Kodak moment unless you share,” said Jeffrey W. Hayzlett, chief marketing officer at the Eastman Kodak Company in Rochester.
Kodak was making film just a few years ago. Now they’re a leader in digital cameras and printers, and are reinventing themselves through social media.
Amazing how we went from the Polaroid to Facebook in less than a decade.
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HOW TO: Disable Facebook’s “Instant... →
Or, “How to Kill Another Evil Facebook Feature.”
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ePortfolios, Finally! -- Campus Technology →
We’ve known for decades, long before portfolios became electronic portfolios, that portfolio practices in the right teacherly hands and in the right syllabus structure seem to improve student engagement and learning.
“And at least until someone comes up with a universal “like” button that feeds...”
– Today Facebook, Tomorrow the World | Epicenter | Wired.com (via infoneer-pulse)
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Getting Started with Google Docs in the Classroom →
A great little introduction over at The Chronicle of Higher Education.
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What Will It Mean When the eBook Comes First? →
Good question. Thoughts?
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Some Thoughts on Twitter vs. Facebook Status... →
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Lehigh Professor Advertises Course on YouTube →
What if faculty did this for every course? What is this was the new Undergraduate Catalog?
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Lehigh Professor Advertises Course on YouTube →
What if faculty did this for every course? What is this was the new Undergraduate Catalog?
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Students Addicted to Social Media - New UM Study →
American college students — cut off from social media for 24 hours — use the same words to describe their feelings as as associated with those addicted to drugs or alcohol, according to a new study by the International Center for Media and the Public Agenda, at the University of Maryland at College Park. In the study, 200 Maryland students were asked to abstain from using social...
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Forget the Business Card. Just Google Me →
It’s pretty simple: Google is the new business card. Professionals who want to remain contactable, even as they hop jobs, want to stay high up in web search results. Updating a personal blog is the labor-intensive way to do this; setting up a LinkedIn or even a Facebook page can also get someone with a unique name high up in search results.
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“…for this sort of transformation to occur, the entire educational paradigm...”
– Why a new Ed Tech paradigm absolutely matters | Education IT | ZDNet.com
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Special Report - International Education -... →
Time was, teachers would tell students to turn off their cellphones in the classroom. Less so, now. Facebook, Twitter, and iTunes have not only invaded the classroom but have also become part of the class.
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““There is no back row.”
-Merodie Hancock, Central Michigan University’s...”
– Some professors worry that online courses could lead to decentralization of students and faculty | Central Michigan Life
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Seth's Blog: When a stranger reads your blog →
Probably the best quote of the article.
Every interaction might be the whole thing.
Malcolm Gladwell on Bad Teachers →
stevekinney:
Teacher effects dwarf school effects: your child is actually better off in a “bad” school with an excellent teacher than in an excellent school with a bad teacher. Teacher effects are also much stronger than class-size effects. You’d have to cut the average class almost in half to get the same boost that you’d get if you switched from an average teacher to a teacher in the...
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Twitter in the Classroom #1 →
The first article in an ongoing series on ways to use Twitter in the classroom. Turns out there are a lot of educators doing it in a lot of different ways.
In this first article, Online Colleges brings us 50 Ways to Use Twitter in the College Classroom. Enjoy!
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Agenda for Open Online Courses Can Go Forward,... →
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LinkedIn Launches Tons of New Link-Sharing... →
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Agenda for Open Online Courses Can Go Forward,... →
Education Secretary Arne Duncan laid out the Obama Administration’s open-education agenda in Politico last year: an ambitious plan to spend $500-million on developing freely available, high-quality online courses. This great course giveaway attracted both buzz and skepticism in education-technology circles.
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Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" in Twitter twist... →
One of Shakespeare’s most famous plays gets a 21st century makeover in a new version of “Romeo and Juliet” which will unfold through Twitter messages and on the Youtube video website. Entitled “Such Tweet Sorrow,” the experiment is a collaboration between the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) and Mudlark, which produces entertainment on mobile telephones.
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Lehigh Professor Advertises Course on YouTube -... →
Jeremy Littau wanted to generate some buzz about the multimedia reporting course he’ll teach next fall at Lehigh University, so he made a YouTube video about it. Mr. Littau, an assistant professor of journalism and communication, put the video up last week, before registration started. So far the advertisement seems to be working.
