Thomas Kalil: What would education look like after a Maker make-over?
by Dale Dougherty
| @dalepd
| 4 October 2010
During a recent workshop, Thomas Kalil of the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy explored the impact of the DIY mindset on education and industry. The full text of Kalil's talk is included in this post.
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A data-driven architecture could disrupt the school system and improve it the more students use it.
by Marie Bjerede
| 28 September 2010
Parents want to understand their kids' achievements beyond letters on a report card. If a wealth of multi-dimensional assessments were only a click away, how many families would use them and in so doing help make them better?
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Digital textbooks have reached a moment of punctuated equilibrium.
by Osman Rashid
| 21 September 2010
We're poised to see all the years of digital textbook predictions and debate left behind. Change is here, and it's driven by technology, by the arrival of ebooks, and by a consensus among publishers and educators that the time is now.
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Oregon third graders' reading and math results benefit from iPod Touch access.
by Jason Grigsby
| @grigs
| 14 September 2010
An iPod pilot program in an Oregon classroom lifted math and reading scores. Results from that single pilot inspired the Canby School District to provide iPod Touch access to all its third graders.
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Economic Growth Without Copyright, Ebook Numbers, Hypothesis Analysis Tool, Who Pays for Open Data?
by Nat Torkington
| @gnat
| 26 August 2010
- Germany's Industrial Expansion Fueled by Absence of Copyright Law? (Der Spiegel) -- fascinating article about the extraordinary publishing output in 1800s Germany vs other nations, all with no effective and enforceable copyright laws. Sigismund Hermbstädt, for example, a chemistry and pharmacy professor in Berlin, who has long since disappeared into the oblivion of history, earned more royalties for his "Principles of Leather Tanning" published in 1806 than British author Mary Shelley did for her horror novel "Frankenstein," which is still famous today. Books were released in high-quality high-price format and low-quality low-price format, and Germans bought them in record numbers. When copyright law became established, publishers did away with the low-quality low-price version and authors complained about the drop in revenue.
- Cheap Ebooks Give Second Life to Backlist -- it can't be said enough that dead material in print can have a second life online. Here are numbers to make the story plain. (via Hacker News)
- Competing Hypotheses -- a free, open source tool for complex research problems. A software companion to a 30+ year-old CIA research methodology, Open Source Analysis of Competing Hypotheses (ACH) will help you think objectively and logically about overwhelming amounts of data and hypotheses. It can also guide research teams toward more productive discussions by identifying the exact points of contention. (via johnmscott on Twitter)
- Economics of Scholarly Production: Supplemental Materials -- scholarly publications include data and documentation that's not in the official peer-reviewed article. Storing and distributing this has been the publication's responsibility, but they're spitting the dummy. Now the researcher's organisation will have to house these supplemental materials. If data is as critical to science as the article it generates, yet small articles can come from terabytes of data, what's the Right Thing To Do that scales across all academia? (via Cameron Neylon)
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by Dale Dougherty
| @dalepd
| 25 August 2010
Elliot Washor of Big Picture Learning organized an educational symposium during Maker Faire Detroit. The symposium brought together educators and practitioners who explored engaging the hands and minds of students, sometimes called thinkering. As a group, they experienced Maker Faire and then met to discuss "how making can be an integral part of how young people figure out who they are in the world." This is a really key idea, I think: what we can learn by making is a process of discovering what we can do, and we begin to participate in making and changing the world around us.
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