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Videomania
It was almost lunch time and the majority of the students had finished their worksheet. The classroom teacher had decided it would be no imposition for him to leave early, so I was left in charge. A few girls in … Continue reading
Posted in Education trends, Technology in education
Tagged Education, Learning, Robert Bianco, Student, YouTube
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Generation A
Recently I was sitting in the dentist’s office waiting. Across from me was a father and his son that couldn’t have been more than three. The child intently maneuvered a tiny race car across the screen of an iPhone. He … Continue reading
The Price of Information
Humankind’s love affair with technology is not a new development. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the advances in industrial technology were touted as the solutions to problems of crime, poverty, ignorance and the boredom of ordinary daily life. The level of education … Continue reading
Posted in The information age
Tagged Alvin Toffler, Eiffel Tower, Future, Future Shock, Information overload, technology
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Disconnected
I used to view movies such as 2001: A Space Odyssey and Colossus: The Forbin Project, as completely improbable. As far as I was concerned computers were machines without autonomous thought; they had neither the capacity or desire to rule … Continue reading
Games make you smarter at what?
If you have been paying any attention to news about using games for education, you’ve heard of Dr. Daphne Bavelier. There have been numerous articles repeating what she summarized in her TED Talk – that research shows playing video games (the … Continue reading
Posted in Education trends, Gaming in education
Tagged Bavelier, Brain, Daphne Bavelier, Lev Vygotsky, TED, Video game
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Gaming the educational system
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been reviewing research on playing video games in education. Actually, research on this topic has been going on for a while; it just has not been very conclusive. For example, in 2002, researcher Ricardo … Continue reading
Posted in Education trends, Gaming in education
Tagged Education, Educational game, Game Studies, Games, Learning, Oregon Trail, Video game
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The limits of e-learning
With the glut of information offered on the Internet, including MOOCs (massive online open courses) offered free from prestigious universities like Harvard and MIT, many educators are beginning to fear for their lively hood. There are reasons that human educators … Continue reading
Adventures in the electronic classroom
Some of the middle school students tumble out of their seats and rush to the portable cart as soon as the teacher announces “Today we will be starting to use the iPads.” Others hang back warily. The inclusion of new electronics … Continue reading
Posted in Education trends, Millennials, Technology in education, Zoomers
Tagged Education, Facebook, iPad, QR code, Student, YouTube
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Is Internet access the new leveler of society?
Most schools would love to have the complications of e-learning in a classroom that happen when the dream of an iPad for every student actually occurs. But due to lack of funding they are scrambling to figure out how to … Continue reading
Does social media help or hurt students?
Does using a social media interface like Facebook, Twitter or Snapchat help students or hurt them? Does increasing use of social media cause a digital divide leaving the lower class even more disadvantaged or provide a new path for education? … Continue reading
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