wow! I had missed this article at the end of the summer; I'm definitely going to check out this New Technology framework, and possibly use some parts of it in our research projects. I especially liked teh line about students feeling more ownership over a project when they are engaged in it, rather than receiving it lecture-style. Encouraging ideas for sure!
Source: Chris Dede, Harvard Graduate School of Education; Cynthia Coburn, "Rethinking Scale: Moving Beyond Numbers to Deep and Last Change," Educational Researcher (2003); Microsoft US Partners in Learning
But even as students have been told to leave their iPods at home, the
school here in Hudson County has been handing out the portable digital
players to help bilingual students with limited English ability sharpen
their vocabulary and grammar by singing along to popular songs.
An interesting piece of software that combines skill-and-drill with research on "math fluency."
To educate myself—and to find out what the target audience for these sites really thinks of them—I organized a focus group of five sixth-graders, all 11 years old. I set up two laptops and let the kids show me their favorites. At times the project seemed like a demonstration for a gender studies class with the boys at one computer, the girls at another. Anna, a budding sociologist, explained, "Most sites for girls are an online world—it's socializing. For boys, it's gaming."
Holistic learning is basically the opposite of rote memorization. Instead of reciting lists of facts, rules or formulas, you seek to connect ideas together. Instead of having separate boxes in your head for geometry, algebra or ancient India, you deliberately link facts together, so they form a bigger picture.
The US National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) has called on state leaders to work with schools and colleges to ensure that cyber-security, online safety and ethics lessons are integrated into every classroom.
Coming of Age is a free booklet that describes the use of some of the newer emerging web technologies such as blogs, podcasts, wikis, RSS and social tagging in Education. It features case studies and how-to articles by leading practitioners in the world of education
A wiki is essentially a website constructed in such a way as to allow users to change content on the site. Wikis have been around for longer than we may imagine - WikiWikiWeb was the first wiki, created by Ward Cunningham in 1994 and placed online in 1995. Initially wikis were used mostly by technical people such as scientists and engineers to develop and maintain dynamic knowledge bases; ...
In both cases, these bills, which are based on a fundamentally wrong-headed understanding of the issues they are designed to address, attracted or are likely to attract significant levels of bipartisan support. Indeed, in a highly partisan political climate, these kind of bills may be the only pieces of legislation which pass with little or no debate and with overwhelming support.
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wow! I had missed this article at the end of the summer; I'm definitely going to check out this New Technology framework, and possibly use some parts of it in our research projects. I especially liked teh line about students feeling more ownership over a project when they are engaged in it, rather than receiving it lecture-style. Encouraging ideas for sure!
But even as students have been told to leave their iPods at home, the school here in Hudson County has been handing out the portable digital players to help bilingual students with limited English ability sharpen their vocabulary and grammar by singing along to popular songs.
An interesting piece of software that combines skill-and-drill with research on "math fluency."
To educate myself—and to find out what the target audience for these sites really thinks of them—I organized a focus group of five sixth-graders, all 11 years old. I set up two laptops and let the kids show me their favorites. At times the project seemed like a demonstration for a gender studies class with the boys at one computer, the girls at another. Anna, a budding sociologist, explained, "Most sites for girls are an online world—it's socializing. For boys, it's gaming."
Holistic learning is basically the opposite of rote memorization. Instead of reciting lists of facts, rules or formulas, you seek to connect ideas together. Instead of having separate boxes in your head for geometry, algebra or ancient India, you deliberately link facts together, so they form a bigger picture.
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