The Dark Side of Twitter and the College-Recruitment Process
Within minutes of star basketball player Andrew Wiggins announcing where he'd be attending college, his Twitter mentions were flooded with an endless wave of hate speech. Read Full Post >
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May 14, 2013
May 11, 2013
Technology and Behavior: It's a 21st-Century Thing
As educators, we pit ourselves every day against the most savage of enemies: ignorance, anti-intellectualism, apathy, prejudice, meanness. We can no more unplug in our struggle against these foes than our forebears should have thrown away their slates and books because a few students scribbled profanities or a few authors wrote hate and lies. Read Full Post >
May 07, 2013
Media Multitasking: The New Marshmallow Test
In a Slate article, Annie Murphy Paul describes the growing concern, backed by new research, that students retain less when they engage in media multitasking during learning. Read Full Post >
May 07, 2013
Microsoft's Akhtar Badshah Reflects on STEM Ed. in the U.S.
Akhtar Badshah talked about Microsoft's YouthSpark program and how technology is changing education in the U.S. Read Full Post >
May 03, 2013
'Hackathon' Yields Review Site For Autism-Friendly Businesses
Two developers won $10,000 for creating a website that allows users to post comments about businesses that accommodate people with developmental disabilities. Read Full Post >
May 01, 2013
Parents Willing to Buy Mobile Devices for Use in School, Survey Finds
Nearly 45 percent of parents say they plan to buy or have already bought a mobile device to support their child's learning, a nationwide survey has found. Read Full Post >
April 30, 2013
Are Education Innovators Channeling B.F. Skinner?
So what is wrong with these machines and this mechanical "personalization"? The modern versions of the teaching machines are certainly more sophisticated than these dinosaurs of the 1950s. But they have more in common than just the promises made on their behalf. If we look over the shoulders of children in computer labs today, most of the programs are variations of those described by Dr. Skinner. Students are given a short text or math problem and must provide the correct answer. Often there is a game or snazzy cartoon characters who dress up the process and make it more fun, but the essence has not changed much. Students follow a course of study with bits of learning sprinkled along a pathway, and then take periodic tests to show they have mastered that mouthful. Read Full Post >
April 28, 2013
Gender Gaps in STEM-Related CTE Programs
When I was a little girl my mom and dad always told me I could be anything I wanted to be if I worked hard to get there; a scientist, writer, doctor, mathematician, professor, etc. I luckily grew-up in a home where my gender never predicted my future. And as an engineer, my mom made sure I knew that... Read Full Post >
April 27, 2013
Should Teenagers Expect Privacy on the Internet?
When it comes to social media, teenagers look at privacy in very different ways than the adults around them. Read Full Post >
April 24, 2013
'Innovation Zones' in Minnesota Focus on Technology, Workforce
A coalition of Minnesota districts are using a state-designated "innovation zone" to experiment with online learning. Read Full Post >
