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Transforming Data to Information in Service of Learning

Michele Cummins — Fri, 24 May 2013 17:22:03 +0000

To raise awareness about many of the major K-12 data standards and interoperability initiatives underway to address these and related issues, the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) released a new report entitled, Transforming Data to Information in Service of Learning. SETDA developed this new report to help education leaders understand how technical interoperability initiatives relate to teaching and learning and to offer recommendations for how states, districts, and schools can become more responsive to educator needs and personalize learning for students.

Google Chrome Can Now Talk Back to You

Michele Cummins — Fri, 24 May 2013 17:02:10 +0000

You can now talk to your computer, kind of like you would a person — that is, if you're running Google's Chrome browser. The conversational search abilities that Google showed off last week at its I/O developer conference are now live.

Flipped Classroom 2.0: Competency Learning With Videos

Michele Cummins — Fri, 24 May 2013 16:28:26 +0000

This article discusses a mastery-based model of learning that has emerged from flipped classroom trials. The first five minutes of class are essential to setting the class into productive motion by quickly assessing where students are and directing them to various stations around the room. ”Your class looks like organized chaos,” Bergmann said. “It’s very powerful.”

A Manifesto for Community Colleges, Lifelong Learning, and Autodidacts

Michele Cummins — Fri, 24 May 2013 16:13:59 +0000

The author of this article believes that community colleges are situated best among all institutions of higher education to open education to the lifelong, autonomous learner and describes how this relates to digital tools in that pedagogies must be responsive and flexible in the same way technology is.

Auburn schools reject state’s laptop choice, go with iPads for students

Michele Cummins — Fri, 24 May 2013 16:07:20 +0000

The Auburn, Maine School Department has opted to purchase tablet computers over laptops for kindergarteners to high school seniors. Reasons they chose the iPad over the HP laptop according to them include that Apple computers have better focus on student learning, while HP is more focused for businesses, and also that Apple has better technical support and more and better professional development.

Location

Auburn, Maine

United States

See map: Google Maps

5 Educational Videos Recorded with Google Glass

Michele Cummins — Fri, 24 May 2013 15:55:24 +0000

Andrew Vanden Heuvel is an instructor using Google Glass to create videos about things like the physics of singing in the shower and how trees grow.

Please Touch the Exhibits: Museum Lets You 'Feel' Displays

Michele Cummins — Fri, 24 May 2013 15:41:32 +0000

Recognizing that touch is an important facet of how humans experience their surroundings, The Manchester Museum in Manchester, England, has developed a way to let visitors "touch" digital models of their exhibits, using a haptic device called a Probos. Museumgoers sit in front of a device with a screen and a stylus connected via a mechanical arm and the screen displays a 3D model of an object such as a pot, bone or statue. Users manipulate the stylus to interact with that model.

Quantum Or Not, New Supercomputer Is Certainly Something Else

Michele Cummins — Thu, 23 May 2013 22:22:22 +0000

Google and NASA announced a partnership to build a Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab at NASA's Ames Research Center. For machine learning and searching the quantum computer can work much faster due to its refrigeration system that creates an environment where laws of quantum mechanics can come into effect.

Multi-Year iPad Deployment At UC Irvine Med School: The Results Are In

Michele Cummins — Wed, 22 May 2013 19:54:00 +0000

The University of California, Irvine has been using tablet PCs in a pilot begun in 2010 and has proven to be successful. Students enrolled in the college’s med school that are part of the program that is using the mobile devices are getting better results than their university peers, they are developing apps for the technology and they are even working to improve healthcare overall.

Technology for Learning vs.Technology for Education

Michele Cummins — Wed, 22 May 2013 17:26:03 +0000

11-year-old Sylvia has a series of tutorial videos that guide viewers through projects like creating robots and other crafts. This episode shows how to make squishy circuits out of dough and electronics.

What Teens Feel About Privacy and Social Media

Michele Cummins — Wed, 22 May 2013 17:17:27 +0000

A new Pew Research study of 802 teenagers ages 12-17 and their parents reveals that teenagers are sharing more information on social networking sites than in the past, even as they carefully monitor and manage their profiles. This article details the study's findings and what these statistics say about youth and their digital identities.

My Flipping Failure

Michele Cummins — Wed, 22 May 2013 16:35:51 +0000

Flipping the classroom isn't working for everyone. This chemistry teacher from the United Nations International School in New York City explains what went wrong in his experience and reminds us how it is just as important that teachers share their failures with new teaching methods as it is that they share their successes.

Location

United Nations International School

New York City

United States

See map: Google Maps

Eesha Khare, 18-Year-Old, Invents Device That Charges Cell Phone Battery In Under 30 Seconds (Video)

Michele Cummins — Tue, 21 May 2013 19:09:25 +0000

18-year-old Eesha Khare, a student at Lynbrook High School in California, has developed a device that can charge a cell phone in 20-30 seconds.

Micro-display LED tech could light up the next generation of face-wearable gadgets.

Michele Cummins — Fri, 17 May 2013 22:55:41 +0000

A tiny head-mounted display, like the one in Google Glass, will only be useful if you can see on-screen alerts and information clearly. And that’s tricky to achieve, especially without draining battery life—as Google notes, it can be hard to use Glass’s projected display in bright sunlight.

Google Play for Education could kill the iPad in schools

Michele Cummins — Fri, 17 May 2013 22:42:07 +0000

Google released a major new education program today that organizes and manages the way teachers push apps, books, and other learning content to student tablets. Google Play for Education is like an app store designed especially for teachers with some powerful management tools built-in.

What Coding and Great Wine Have in Common

Michele Cummins — Fri, 17 May 2013 22:26:10 +0000

Computer science and coding literacy have become such a huge part of our daily lives and will be integrated into every industry in the future. This article describes why its important to introduce coding to students starting when they are young and how the maker movement is helping to do this.

What It Takes to Become an All Project-Based School

Michele Cummins — Fri, 17 May 2013 21:49:57 +0000

For one quickly growing network of schools, project-based learning is the crux of the entire ecosystem. New Tech Network, which was founded 15 years ago, offers a paid program for schools to use its model is looking to take its school-wide project-based model to national scale.

New Closed-Captioning Glasses Help Deaf Go Out To The Movies

Michele Cummins — Fri, 17 May 2013 21:41:52 +0000

By the end of this month, Regal Cinemas plans to have distributed closed-captioning glasses to more than 6,000 theaters across the country. Sony Entertainment Access Glasses project captions onto the glasses that appear to float about 10 feet in front of the user.

Helping Youth Geek Out: Transforming Youth from Digital Consumers to Digital Makers

Michele Cummins — Fri, 17 May 2013 21:31:10 +0000

This article describes the role museums have in helping youth become digital makers rather than just digital consumers and describes some of the programs various museums currently have in place to further this initiative.

MakerBot and Robohand -- 3D Printing Mechanical Hands

Michele Cummins — Fri, 17 May 2013 20:21:26 +0000

When a woodworker in South Africa’s fingers were cut off in an accident he set out to make a set of mechanical fingers. This video describes his collaborative project to create a 3D Printed hand called Robohand.