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A new “quick study” by the Joan Ganz Cooney Center compares print,
basic e-books, and enhanced e-books when kids read with their parents.
They find that some highly interactive features of e-books can be
distracting for young children, but e-books are helping to build
enthusiasm for reading, an essential building block for literacy.
This week’s Playback looks at issues of digital access and how
education is being re-thought and re-taught in the United States and
around the world.
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TED-Ed | Lessons Worth Sharing.
TED-Ed’s commitment to creating lessons worth sharing is an extension of TED’s mission of spreading great ideas. Within the growing TED-Ed video library, you will find carefully curated educational videos, many of which represent collaborations between talented educators and animators nominated through the TED-Ed platform. This platform also allows users to take any useful educational video, not just TED’s, and easily create a customized lesson around the video. Users can distribute the lessons, publicly or privately, and track their impact on the world, a class, or an individual student.
Psychologist Sherry Turkle argues that the frequency with which we dive into our own devices while in the presence of others has led to “a new way of being ‘alone together.’” We sacrifice conversation for mere connection. But critics say there’s more to the story.
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The viral success of “Caine’s Arcade” has not only changed the life of a 9-year-old boy with a warehouse-sized imagination—it’s changing the conversation about learning and play.
Artquest encourages critical engagement and provides practical support to visual artists at any stage in their careers.
http://theelearningcoach.com/elearning2-0/using-wikis-for-elearning/
Similar to Web 2.0, which makes use of newer web technologies for sharing information, eLearning 2.0 uses new technologies to distribute information, share knowledge and collaborate. Everyone knows about Wikipedia, a grand example of a wiki, but what about using smaller wikis in your workplace?
Solve For X: Google Presents Moonshot Thinking in Short, TED-Style Talks | Open Culture.
Last week, Google hosted a gathering called “Solve for X,” which brought together entrepreneurs, innovators and scientists interested in finding technological solutions to the world’s greatest problems. These solutions weren’t small in scope. No, they were all “moonshots,” ideas that live in the “gray area between audacious projects and pure science fiction; they are 10x improvement, not 10%.” And these moonshot ideas were all presented in TED-style talks that now live on the WeSolveForX website and the WeSolveforX YouTube Channel.
