Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 2, 2013

In his seminal work, Natural Born Cyborgs (2003), Clark sees a future that combines the best features of human and machine, where we literally wear or physically internalise our technologies. There are examples of how such cyborg existence might come about. References Clark, A. New York: Oxford University Press. Jonassen, D.

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The Daring Librarian

JANUARY 27, 2013

Not any of our iBooks, MacBook Pros, eMacs (2003), or brand spanking new iMacs. For example, "Please click on the hare''s blue tree house door" I gave out "smarties" for the best sentences and if they found one I didn''t know about (there are like a gajillion!) What nostalgic software would you like to see come back?

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Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 8, 2014

and provide some examples of current pedagogical practice using the Social Web. Personally, I find myself in agreement with Brian Winston (2003), preferring to view social applications as a facet of gradual evolution rather than symptoms of sudden revolution. As my starting point I want to examine the phenomenon that is Web 2.0

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

As recently as 1997, only 27 percent of America’s K-12 school had internet access—a number that skyrocketed to 92 percent by 2003. For example, over the past few years, 23 states have made computer science courses a graduation requirement and authorized special funding to promote their growth.

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Connecting 2 the World

SEPTEMBER 18, 2011

For example, a graduate with an associate’s degree in accounting may be competent for recording inventory, but not creating a company’s tax return. It also becomes a tangible representation of tacit knowledge for both group members and those outside of the group (Conceicao, Heitor, & Veloso, 2003; Yaklief, 2002). References Akgun, A.,

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Connecting 2 the World

APRIL 11, 2012

Phillip, for example, spoke about the importance of his work with this project group for future positions in the organization, “This is where my education is, all my experience is here. The video group, for example, withheld their expertise from the project group. I feel really comfortable, confident, you know, in this field.

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Connecting 2 the World

AUGUST 8, 2011

For example, a teacher in a rural area without access to internet service may not have access or use of learning management system (LMS) software. He or she may learn about the software, how to use it by using reading a textbook, or even receive some hands on training away from his or her classroom. The Knowledge Evolution.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 23, 2016

But Woolf is not simply talking about having a piece of paper – a title, for example – that decrees she owns the room. You (likely) do not own the software you use (unless it’s open source); it’s been licensed to you. That 500 quid is the equivalent to about $37,000 when adjusted for inflation.)

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Connecting 2 the World

MAY 26, 2011

When there are different epistemologies, belief is in what knowledge is, within an organization, for example between departments, than there might be tension within distributed groups or between group members and those outside of the group. For example, “Design is the…planful…elegance and pattern…which gives…definition and meaning.”

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

For example, in 2015 I wrote that “My ultimate goal is this: I want to (1) radically improve the quality of education as judged by learners, and (2) radically improve access to education. For example, we desperately need to diversify our sources of revenue. We are focused on the advantages of OER-enabled pedagogy.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

After Neil built the platform in 2003, several early studies showed promising results , and then a large randomized control trial (RCT) in Maine, published in 2016, confirmed them. How is it that this rather simple piece of software is succeeding while more sophisticated ed tech has often shown mixed results and failed to gain traction?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

For an absurd example, if dropouts tended to take classes on Thursdays in their first semester at college, but students who completed their degrees didn’t, then you might worry about current students who are currently taking classes on Thursdays. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation gave grants to colleges to buy data tools and software.

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Connecting 2 the World

JULY 6, 2012

This section with will discuss the emerging theoretical basis of the framework, and then apply the framework to two examples of knowledge genres referenced by the study participants. For example, educational credentials (e.g., licensing, degrees) tangibly represent certain knowledge that may include implicit and explicit knowledge.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

Districts have spent thousands of dollars on consultants and software upgrades, and the racial and socioeconomic achievement gaps that the law was supposed to help eliminate remain largely unchanged. In 2003, the Gates Foundation gave RISC $5.8 Related: Documenting Maine’s failure to implement proficiency-based education.

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Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

We have seen many other popular culture examples of the cyborg, from the six-million dollar man to Robocop - and each is endowed with superhuman strength, or enhanced senses. Essentially, when wetware (biological entity) meets hardware, the software can be interoperable. He believes it's not a matter of if, but when. iThink not.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

They don’t charge tuition, but they’ve become exclusive enclaves through other means — for example, by not providing a free or subsidized lunch or bus transportation. ohnson, a Little Rock native, came to the Arkansas side of the Delta in 2003 with Teach For America. Southwest Georgia S.T.E.M.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

This means I had to look for and purchase attractive fonts, graphics, and clip art, and buy software, programs, and tools beyond Microsoft Word in order to make the covers (and of course, to make the resources themselves more modern-looking and engaging for students.) . Take this podcast, for example.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

In 2005, Joan Didion published The Year of Magical Thinking , which chronicles her husband’s death in December 2003, shortly after their daughter had fallen into septic shock and been placed an induced coma. Take iPads , for example. This is part one of my annual review of the year in ed-tech. Fads fade, of course. Hype wanes.

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Iterating Toward Openness

DECEMBER 3, 2015

I’m compiling a Storify of examples of this really engaging writing – you should definitely take the time to read through it. A few years later, Creative Commons entered the scene and on June 30, 2003 I officially shutdown the open licensing work I was doing. From 2003 – 2008 I focused on the evangelism problem.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 20, 2017

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics , the occupations that will add the most new jobs in the next decade are personal care aides (754,000 new jobs), food service workers (579,900 new jobs), registered nurses (437,000 new jobs), home health aides (425,600 new jobs), software developers (253,400 new jobs), and janitors and cleaners (233,000).

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Hack Education

MARCH 8, 2017

.” Cost has certainly remained a barrier for the poorest schools, as has the infrastructure itself in some areas – a lack of high speed broadband service altogether, for example. The Supreme Court ruled in 2003 that CIPA does not violate the Constitution. ” That is, CIPA requires Web filtering.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

It also treats “ed-tech” primarily as a product built by engineers, not for example, constructed through the practices of educators or students themselves – problems with education are, in this framework, engineering problems. Every industry uses computers, software, and internet services.

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