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App Practice : Teacher Admin Tasks
2017년 9월 30일 토요일
Apps for education
The List of Educational apps
For me,
Apps are like Pokemon-balls that I should be trained to find right one for my own purpose and have skills for using proficiently.
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Tips!
Before swimming in the ocean of apps!
The number of available apps in the Google Playstore is 3.3million apps in September 2017, and many of them claiming they are made for educational purpose. As a mom and also a student, It is hard to find time figuring out each app are just right for my own use.
One tip I found useful to check apps efficiently is using app-review sites like Graphite, which is like Yelp(customer report) for educational apps, games and websites. This site is financially supported by Bill Gates, and teachers can use this site with no-charge. Or, simply check Apple AppStore for reviewing apps.
2017년 9월 29일 금요일
The Growth Chart by Jihye Won
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2017년 9월 27일 수요일
Digital Promise
Digital textbooks open a new chapter
South Korea, one of the world's highest-rated education systems, aims to consolidate its position by digitising its entire curriculum.
By 2015, it wants to be able to deliver all its curriculum materials in a digital form through computers. The information that would once have been in paper textbooks will be delivered on screen.
South Korea's Minister of Education, Science and Technology, Ju-Ho Lee, said that his department was preparing a promotion strategy for "Smart Education", focusing on customised learning and teaching.
The project, launched during the summer, will involve wireless networks in all schools to allow students to learn "whenever and wherever", as well as an education information system that can run in a variety of devices including PCs, laptops, tablets and internet-connected TVs.
He said the government would support an open content market containing a variety of learning materials, aimed at keeping up quality while keeping down costs.
"Smart Education will change how we perceive textbooks," said Mr Lee.
"The transfer from the traditional paper textbooks to digital textbooks will allow students to leave behind their heavy backpacks and explore the world beyond the classroom."
Tech-friendly teenagers
The intended benefits include extending the choice of subjects for students in rural areas who previously have lacked specialist teachers and to make it easier for pupils to study from home.
South Korea's teenagers should be particularly receptive to such educational technology.
An Organisation for Economic Co-ordination and Development (OECD) international assessment found that 15-year-olds in South Korea were the most competent users of digital technologies in a survey of 16 developed countries.
They were best at evaluating information on the internet, assessing its credibility and navigating web pages.
South Korea's pre-eminence has not come about by chance.
Unesco has documented the way that South Korea has carefully controlled the use of information and communication technology (ICT) in education.
The government has understood the importance of having formal standards, so that systems can work with each other and quality can be assured.
The United States, alarmed by its relative international educational decline, is now also increasing the resources it devotes to digital learning.
But its move appears to be an acknowledgement of a lack of joined-up thinking in the past.
President Barack Obama's "Digital Promise", announced last month, involves a new national centre to advance technologies that can supposedly transform teaching and learning.
The remit is "to determine quickly what is working and what is not, and transform today's fragmented learning technology market, paving the way for the widespread use of learning technologies that deliver the best results for students, parents, and teachers".
Teaching gap
"With more than 14,000 school districts, and an outdated procurement system, it's difficult for entrepreneurs to break into the market, and it's also tough to prove that their products can deliver meaningful results," the White House said.
Given the way education in the US is so highly devolved there are bound to be continuing questions over how much the initiative can achieve.
Another question is whether technology in the classroom is what really makes a difference.
A study by the Department of Educational Research at Lancaster University found that digital technology in the classroom might help to engage pupils in their learning and could save schools money.
But the Achilles' heel - commonplace with educational technology - was the teachers. They felt they needed far greater training in how to integrate the resources into their lesson plans .
"The sad truth is that students can learn just as badly with a class full of computers, interactive whiteboards and mobile technology as they can with wooden desks and a chalkboard," said science and ICT teacher David Weston, founder of the consultancy Informed Education.
There might be enormous potential for software or gadgets to engage and challenge students in new and imaginative ways.
"But unless there is a focus on developing the teaching expertise to support this then you run the risk of wasting time, money and opportunity," he said. And it may be that technology is seen as a way to achieve cost savings by - to put it crudely - replacing teachers with robots.
Digital tutor
Setting out its Digital Promise ambitions, the White House said: "For years, researchers have been working on developing educational software that is as effective as a personal tutor."
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Preliminary results from a US military "digital tutor" project suggested the time needed to become an expert in information technology could be reduced from years to months, said the White House.
"Achieving similar results in subjects such as math would transform K-12 [primary] education." It certainly would.
And although children tend to be quicker on the uptake than their teachers where anything with a screen is involved, this cannot be taken for granted.
The OECD's study of the technology-friendliness of 15-year-olds highlighted crucial differences between printed and digital texts, with their non-linear navigation.
"Individuals who develop the skills needed to use these texts efficiently and effectively will be at an increasing advantage in accessing higher education, finding and succeeding in a well-paid job, and participating fully in society."
So policy makers must guard against creating a new "digital divide" between those who could and who could not use these new technologies, it warned.
Big Brother?
But is there a bigger, darker concern about such a centralised digital curriculum? If you put all your educational eggs in one digital basket you might hatch a monster.
An unscrupulous government could relish the fact that everything a child learns is controllable through one, easily manipulated, digital portal.
BBC
Such fears have been examined in the novel, The Book, by M Clifford. The US author presents a dystopian civilization in which all information is accessed through an e-reader. The people discover that the digital content has been subtly altered by a corrupt government.
"There is something about paper that commands trust," Mr Clifford said. "And reading is very personal. A bonfire of books used to make us cringe because it represented the destruction of that trustworthy bond."
In an increasingly paperless society, we can trust the technology, but questions need to be raised when governments are involved, he says.
"The scare for me was always the subtlety. The delicate manipulation, one word at a time, to alter someone's perception of the truth.
"Not only is there a fear of changing historical record, but of tailoring someone's perspective on the world. If you think that what you are reading is authentic, then your guard is lowered and you accept it as reality."
He debunks his own dark scenario - but has doubts. "As we've seen, the world is becoming more interconnected on an individual level and so it is unlikely that factual information could be so widely altered. We are probably safe.
"But the fact that it could happen without anyone knowing is the real nail-biter."
Gary Eason
Career:
:: Since 2010:
- Higher education consultant (with MediaFHE)
- Picture commissions, licensing and print sales via garyeason.photography
- Photorealistic classic aviation pictures at flightartworks.com
:: Founding editor BBC News website's education section, 1998
:: BBC network news and current affairs reporter, 1991
:: BBC radio news and current affairs producer, 1983
:: Shropshire Star reporter, columnist and sub-editor, 1980
Specialties: Education (all phases). Sailing. New media.
The Hole in the wall
Watch this video- be prepared to discuss!! Sugata Mitra
Sugata Mitra (Bengali: সুগত মিত্র; born 12 February 1952) is Professor of Educational Technology at the School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences at Newcastle University, England. He is best known for his "Hole in the Wall" experiment, and widely cited in works on literacy and education. He is Chief Scientist, Emeritus, at the for-profit training company NIIT. He won the TED Prize 2013.
Click Here to watch the video by Sugata Mitra
I never taught my sons how to tie their shoe races. I always bought them shoes with Velcro. But the problem was that since my son is a 4th grader, there were not that many shoes with Velcro for his age. So what I did was, just playing a Youtube video about how to tie shoe races. He spent just 20 min to master the skill.
My family is a big fan of the Lego Movie. One day, I wanted my children to make their own Lego Video using a app. I just googled apps to find the right tools, " Stop Motion studio". They watched several short Lego movies on Youtube, and then started to make themselves. It took just 30 min for them to figure out and made a 2 min movie, which they were so proud of themselves.
Sugata Mitra (Bengali: সুগত মিত্র; born 12 February 1952) is Professor of Educational Technology at the School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences at Newcastle University, England. He is best known for his "Hole in the Wall" experiment, and widely cited in works on literacy and education. He is Chief Scientist, Emeritus, at the for-profit training company NIIT. He won the TED Prize 2013.Click Here to watch the video by Sugata Mitra
The hole in the wall
Children use these computers to learn what they want to learn. And they try to teach their friends or siblings how to use browser. Children also record their own music and play them back to listen. They have enjoyed through the process. His experiment was what children would do with computer if they don't have any experiences.
Children described the computer in their own terms. The children learned to use the computer without any assistance, which means self-directed learning.
Personal experiences using technology for my own children
- 4th grader's shoe race crisis
I never taught my sons how to tie their shoe races. I always bought them shoes with Velcro. But the problem was that since my son is a 4th grader, there were not that many shoes with Velcro for his age. So what I did was, just playing a Youtube video about how to tie shoe races. He spent just 20 min to master the skill.
-Stop motion video
My family is a big fan of the Lego Movie. One day, I wanted my children to make their own Lego Video using a app. I just googled apps to find the right tools, " Stop Motion studio". They watched several short Lego movies on Youtube, and then started to make themselves. It took just 30 min for them to figure out and made a 2 min movie, which they were so proud of themselves. 
2017년 9월 26일 화요일
Mrs Won's Classroom
