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Effective use of Technology in Education « Elevated Formation
There are 3 main ways in which technology can be used in education. One of them is horrible. One of them is neutral. One of them is great. One of them is used extensively. One of them is increasingly being used. One of them is not being used enough. One of them is technology being used to demonstrate an idea. One of them is using technology as a replacement for pen and paper. One of them is using technology to create.
» One-To-One Laptop Initiative Frequently Asked Questions Shanghai American School Educational Programs Office
These are to:
• Improve student academic achievement through the use of technology
• Assure equity in access to digital resources
• Prepare students for their future
• Enhance teaching and transform the quality of teaching
Tracing the Dynabook
This work is a historical study of the Dynabook project and vision, which began as a blue-sky project to define personal and educational computing at Xerox PARC in the 1970s. It traces the idea through the three intervening decades, noting the transformations which occur as the vision and its artifacts meet varying contexts. The dissertation was for a PhD in education; the focus of this work is mostly educational, though I've tried to do justice to the technology throughout. I defended it successfully before a committee of profs from education and compsci on Halloween 2006. Comments are extremely welcome: jmax (at) sfu.ca
McLuhan on "The Future of Education: The Class of 1989" | Norm Friesen
* that schools are as outmoded as the mass production model on which they are based; and that forms of “mass customization” promise a radically different educational approach
* that "the demands, the very nature of this age of new technology and pervasive electric circuitry... will [unavoidably] shape education's future"
* that “the walls between school and world will continue to blur”
* that "Future educators will value, not fear, fresh approaches, new solutions."
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- that schools are as outmoded as the mass production model on which they are based; and that forms of “mass customization” promise a radically different educational approach
- that "the demands, the very nature of this age of new technology and pervasive electric circuitry... will [unavoidably] shape education's future"
- that “the walls between school and world will continue to blur”
- that "Future educators will value, not fear, fresh approaches, new solutions."
Commonwealth of Learning - Education for a Digital World
Digital information technologies are transforming the way we work, learn, and communicate. Within this digital revolution are new learning approaches that transform hierarchical, industrial-based models of teaching and learning.
Beware the Prophets
While "guru" has an honorable tradition within Hindu spiritual circles, the term seems less positive when it comes to management gurus. As Eric Hoffer is quoted as saying, "Guru is a word for someone who cannot spell charlatan."
John Travers: The Goldilocks effect: getting information JUST RIGHT
There are a lot more tools and opportunities on Ning than I have tried out yet, so can't decide yet what is best. But I am not writing off email yet. It is simple, but it works. Do I want information or do I want a relationship?
Griffith University | Technology rules in new interactive teaching model
A new education model shows the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in classroom teaching helps students become knowledge creators and producers.
The Universe as VR hypothesis
Brian Whitworth at Massey University says that it is perfectly reasonable to conjecture that "the world is an information simulation running on a three-dimensional space-time screen".
Dunning-Kruger effect
The Dunning-Kruger effect is the phenomenon wherein people who have little knowledge think that they know more than others who have much more knowledge.
Alan Kay recommended reading
The following list was prepared by Alan Kay for his students and is presented here for those who want to learn more about the ideas and philosophies that influenced the creation of Squeak.
ICT in Education: "Go On, Bore 'Em"
"Go On, Bore 'Em: How to make ICT lessons excruciatingly dull", the ten most common sources of the problem. Basically, the lesson will be more interesting and effective if the students (and the teacher) have a clear idea of what it's all leading up to.
Anne-Marie Chase - Researcher - digital-kids » home
Students’ experiences with technology outside of school are likely to be at least as important for predicting student outcomes as their experiences in school.
Graham McMahon's Thesis: Developing higher order thinking skills within a technology-rich learning environment
Educators are divided with regards to the value of computer technology as a learning tool. Some maintain that computers have had little impact on students’ learning; others suggest that computers have the potential to enhance learning.
Toolishness is Foolishness
Toolishness is closely associated with other terms such as Foolishness, PowerPointlessness, MicroSoftness, Mentalsoftness™, Disneyfication, Edutainment and Infotainment.
WIRED 4 12: Mother Earth Mother Board
A magnificent article about submarine telegraph cables by science fiction writer Neal Stephenson--I liked it so much that I felt impelled to keep a local copy against the day Wired Ventures goes bankrupt and shuts its website.
Funderstanding - About Learning
This section examines 12 different theories on how people learn
What Makes for Effective Teacher Professional Development in ICT? - Ministry of Education
- Assessing the ingredients for successful cluster models of ICT teacher PD;
- the effects of the PD on classroom teaching and student learning;
- wider school effects of the PD such as planning and administration.
The Society of the Spectacle (2) (Debord)
The fetishism of the commodity — the domination of society by “intangible as well as tangible things” — attains its ultimate fulfillment in the spectacle, where the real world is replaced by a selection of images which are projected above it.
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