New system measures apps for data privacy. By Tanya Roscorla, Converge June 16th, 2015.
Could Storytelling Be the Secret Sauce to STEM Education? In the short story “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas,” author Ursula Le Guin describes a utopian city that has everything people want or need — beauty, religion, happiness — but it’s all possible because one child is kept in the dark, separated from all joy and light.
Citizens of the city have to go and see this boy, but some can’t take the guilt and walk away. After reading the story, Lev Fruchter and his class talk about what elements make up utopia and use the conversation as a jumping-off point to talk about equations. They talk about adding good things and multiplying them if they’re really great or, inversely, subtracting things that make people unhappy and dividing the really bad elements.
This is all a way of thinking about the math that will eventually run a computer program. Fruchter loves words, but is comfortable enough with math and science that he was called upon to teach them. Makerspaces.com sur Twitter : "10 Reasons to Teach Coding by Brian Aspinall @mraspinall @sylviaduckworth #makerED #STEM #makerspace #edtech #edchat. Udemy Raises $65 Million to Become Netflix for Education - Venture Capital Dispatch. Adult Swim will send you a free Google Cardboard viewer… if you fax them a form. All of the attendees of Google I/O this year (myself included) got the latest version of the Mountain View company’s Cardboard virtual reality headset for free—and now it looks like you can too.
To promote their “Adult Swim Virtual Brainload” app, Adult Swim is trying to put a free Cardboard viewer in the hands of as many people as they can. But there’s only one catch: You have to fax them a form. To learn more about the promo, you can head over to the company’s trippy VR promo page. The Virtual Brainload app “will test your mind as well as your body and the person who emerges may not be anyone you know,” Adult Swim says. And if you want to experience this, the company is giving you the chance of a lifetime to get what is assumably an Adult Swim-themed viewer. Privacy Pitfalls as Education Apps Spread Haphazardly.
Photo At school districts across the country, the chief technology officers responsible for safeguarding student data are tearing their hair out.
Scores of education technology start-ups, their pockets full from a rush of venture capital, are marketing new digital learning tools directly to teachers — many are even offering them free to get a foothold in schools. That has enabled educators nationwide to experiment with a host of novel “adaptive learning” products, like math and foreign language apps that record and analyze students’ online activities to personalize their lessons. But the new digital tools have also left school district technology directors scrambling to keep track of which companies are collecting students’ information — and how they are using it. Already, some districts have experienced data breaches with software they purchased from vendors; in a few cases, student records have been publicly posted on the Internet. “It’s a huge challenge for big districts,” Mr. Mr. Collaborative Inquiry, Innovation, Reimagining School.
Today, it is imperative that we make changes to our traditional school paradigms to meet the learning needs of our students for today and their futures.
In the spirit of. Make School Different. I have been tagged by Deborah McCallum @Bigideasinedu in my top 5 for Making School Different.
This is hard for me to write because I always want to see the amazing things schools do and they do a lot of awesome things (as kid president would say! Let’s be awesome!). How to See Everything You've Ever Googled. Via NZ Herald You probably don’t remember what you Googled 10 minutes ago, let alone the myriad inane and fleeting things you’ve searched since the engine’s beginnings.
But unless you’re browsing in incognito mode or have tweaked your account settings, Google remembers those things. Not only that: Google logs all of your searches, analyses them, and uses them to individually personalise the search results you see – which has pretty profound implications for both literacy and privacy. Now, the search giant has created a way for users to better understand that process. In a feature quietly rolled out last January, and surfaced by a Google blog over the weekend, users can download their search histories from Google, including things they’ve searched across computers and phones. These histories aren’t 100-per cent comprehensive: They only include searches you’ve made while signed in on your Google account. Google also delivers them as JSON files, which aren’t the most human-readable things. The Future of Education According to Generation Z. Alexandra Levit is a bestselling business and workplace author and journalist.
Hailing from Chicago, IL, she helps organizations to connect with top talent and individuals to connect with engaging work. This isn’t his mother’s first-grade class. My son is 7 years old and attends a public school in Oak Park, Ill., just outside Chicago. Teens, Social Media & Technology Overview 2015. 24% of teens go online “almost constantly,” facilitated by the widespread availability of smartphones.
Aided by the convenience and constant access provided by mobile devices, especially smartphones, 92% of teens report going online daily — including 24% who say they go online “almost constantly,” according to a new study from Pew Research Center. More than half (56%) of teens — defined in this report as those ages 13 to 17 — go online several times a day, and 12% report once-a-day use. Just 6% of teens report going online weekly, and 2% go online less often. Much of this frenzy of access is facilitated by mobile devices.
Promoting Inquiry with Primary Source Documents in the Elementary Classroom. How To Teach Visual Thinking – 5 Strategies From Around The Web. The misconceptions about visual thinking are alarming.
On one hand, this critical skill seems integral for contemporary learning, since almost every modern input is visual in nature. Yet this key proficiency seems almost entirely absent from state standards and daily classroom lessons. Pick a Project - Project based learning ideas, ... Register Now for the FREE online Library 2.0 se... Research: Video Gamers Learn Visual Activities Faster. Prodigy Math Game. Google's New Chromebit Computer Is Ridiculously Small - BuzzFeed News.
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Tom Chatfield: 7 ways games reward the brain. Metacognition, Common Reading Difficulties & Edtech. Common Reading Difficulties among Students I have created a Thinglink that outlines some of the Common Reading Difficulties among students. I have also included iPad apps that can help specifically support several of the strategies. Edutopia. Although students are evermore connected to the social web, many of these networks remain out-of-class digital playgrounds where students congregate.
In a 2014 survey of 1,000 teachers, just one in five said they use social media regularly with students. Of course, it can be a challenge to incorporate social media into lessons. There are many gray areas for teachers to navigate, like setting guidelines, accessibility at school, and student safety. But to help teachers navigate this ever-changing landscape of social media tools, here are some of the best guides on the web for four popular networks, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Pinterest. Dina Moati sur Twitter : "The Evolution of Blended Learning #edtech... The Evolution of Blended Learning In 2004, Achieve, a nonprofit education reform organization, published a research report titled "Ready or Not: Creating a High School Diploma That Counts" that pointed to the fact that in the U.S., high school standards were not meeting the expectations of employers and colleges. This led to the development of a Common Core State Standards initiative in 2009 to improve the standards of high school education.
With 46 of 50 states adopting the common core, there has been a paradigm shift from rote-based learning of yore to interaction-, collaboration- and communication-based learning. Such a shift has necessitated the insurgence of technology into the classroom which was, prior to the initiative, an optional addendum. Blended learning, in its current avatar, is a complicated endeavor that requires meticulous planning before and during implementation. Dr. Justin Tarte on Twitter: "Our best thinking is not driven by answers but by questions... #edcampstl...
Best EdTech Websites of 2014. It's been a busy year here at the Common Sense Graphite Websites desk! Throughout 2014, we rated and reviewed hundreds of websites for their learning potential, using our research-backed rubric and rigorous process of evaluation. Because it was just too hard to pick only 10, here are 14 fantastic edtech websites we reviewed this year. How about that -- 14 for 2014! Big History Project This forward-thinking curriculum blends history, the humanities, critical thinking, and science for a fascinating look at life’s bigger questions. Digiassass_eada.pdf. Internet Memory : Collection page: Internet Memory. Sylvia Duckworth sur Twitter : "The 5 stages of innovation #sketchnotes @langwitches #aimlang #edtech #gafesummit @gcouros @wfryer @Larryferlazzo. The #eLearning & #EdTech Daily Dish. Blended Learning: Working With One iPad. CPCO sur Twitter : "7 Things to remember about feedback. #leadcpco #edchat #cpchat #edtech #onted #education...
The Future of Learning Four Powerful Formative Assessment Tools for the Chromebook Classroom. As more and more Chromebooks hit the classroom, redefining instruction and instructional practices is getting easier and easier – you just have to know where to start. One step in the process is to rethink the way you gather crucial information about each student and their journey towards mastery of a concept. There can be real power in the formative assessment process. To understand the richness of these new tools, you first need to understand formative assessment. This process is meant to measure where students are in the learning process by applying a diagnostic tool, usually in the form of questions. Find and Cite Creative Commons Images in Edmodo. Does Research Support Letting Students Use Cell Phones for Learning? - Education.Answers.com. How do principals use iPads in their school? WeAreTeachers on Twitter: "Fair vs. Equal poster #edchat #teachers (source: A Collaborative Guide to Best Digital Learning Practices for K-12.
Below you will find a collaboratively written document produced in Bangkok, Thailand, at the March 28-31 teacher’s meeting of EARCOS, the East Asia Regional Council of Schools. EARCOS is an organization of 130 primary and secondary schools that primarily use English as the language of instruction. These include AP and IB schools and a number of other private schools. 4 Tips for Having Students Take Notes in Google Docs. Infographic: Citizenship in the digital age. Potential Power of Blogging for Pedagogy. The 9 Features of A Good Digital Citizen Students Should Know About. Join our Forest of Technology: Promote and Enhance Literacy with Tech!
Potential Power of Blogging for Pedagogy. Gle URL Shortener. 12 Tech Savvy Educators’ Favorite Apps. 12 Tech-Savvy Educators’ Favorite Apps. Twitter. Twitter. The Impending Student Data Crisis - Looking UpLooking Up. Educational Conferences and the ethics of EdTech. Over the last two days I attended a digital teaching conference. Like all conferences where educators get together to talk about technology, there was plenty of sharing about useful apps and tools to use in the classroom.
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Google Glass receives regulatory approval in Canada. Google Glass is one step closer to a wider release in Canada, after receiving approval from Canadian regulators, the company confirmed to the Financial Post on Friday. The Google Inc. Google in Education. Comic Life. Saving Images with Google+ on Shared iPads. Education reform needs to adopt new technology, approaches - NB Votes 2014. EdCamp Barrie. How to Embed a Google Drive Folder into D2L's LMS. The plot to destroy education: Why technology could ruin American classrooms — by trying to fix them. Build an awesome class website with Google Apps. 6 Reasons to Promote 21st Century Skills vs 21st Century Tech.
Make Your Presentations Pop with These Free Tools. 5 Things You Need To Know About The Future Of Math - Forbes. Top 25 iPhone Apps for Reputation Management and Social Media Monitoring. 10 Free Online Educational Game Sites. Primary Edtech. Sheppard Software: Fun free online learning games and activities for kids. Technology Rich and Connected. Free Technology for Teachers. Home.