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Augmented and Virtual Reality: Where Is the Educational Value?
Augmented and Virtual Reality: Where Is the Educational Value?
K-12 schools are beginning to see the educational value of virtual and augmented reality and are investing in these technologies even though price points are still aimed at higher-end markets.
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Added by Timothy Gangwer on June 28, 2016 at 8:28am — No Comments
Glued to the Screen: A Third-Grade Class Where Kids Spend 75% of the Day on i-Pads
June 18, 2015
Third-graders follow and annotate a text on climate as their teacher reads it aloud. Later the children will be asked to post photographs related to the topic.
MINEOLA, N.Y. — When the 24 third-graders…
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Madcap Logic's New 'Creativity Express' Suite of Apps Receives Top 5-Star Awards from the Educational App Store.
Madcap Logic's New 'Creativity Express' Suite of Apps Receives Top 5-Star Awards from the Educational App Store. They're Creative Mobile Fun Parents Can Feel Good About!
Art education is increasingly cut from school curriculum due to budget cuts, but online learning can reverse that trend. Madcap Logic's 'Creativity Express' suite of iPad apps wins top 5-start awards for introducing children to the elements and…
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Visual Teaching and Creativity
Visual Teaching and Creativity
January 9, 2015
During a rehearsal of Debussy’s La Mer, Maestro Arturo Toscanini found himself unable to describe to the orchestra the effect he hoped to achieve from a particular passage.…
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Everyone Needs More Apps and Links, Right?
Rubrics in the Gifted Project Based Classroom
Everyone Needs More Apps and Links, Right?
February 13, 2014
This afternoon, I was cleaning out my Google Drive of some old documents and things I no longer needed and came across a presentation that I had planned on…
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Top 5 Apps You Want On Your iPad (including ‘how to’ video links)
Added by Timothy Gangwer on February 2, 2013 at 12:20pm — No Comments
How you can Digest Information Better So You’re Able To Become Great at Understanding New Concepts
January 13th, 2012 pmamediagroup
Every person learns differently, some know about this however some individuals have no clue that there are different learning styles. Neil Fleming, an accomplished teacher has identified three different learning styles that is called the VAK model, an acronym for visual, auditory and kinesthetic. Almost everyone has a variety of these styles but visual is easily the most common and kinesthetic isn’t really…
Added by Timothy Gangwer on January 13, 2012 at 3:36pm — No Comments
VAK: V Is for Visual
The VAK approach to learning assumes children prefer using sight, sound or their hands to learn. This week, Nick Griffiths explores the visual part
Michelle Obama uses visual cues to help…
Added by Timothy Gangwer on August 24, 2011 at 10:47pm — No Comments
Visual vs. Visual Literacy? No Contest
Added by Timothy Gangwer on June 13, 2011 at 4:36pm — No Comments
"Fifty percent of the brain's pathways are devoted to vision," said Dr. Laura Balcer
(CNN) -- For an injury that is largely invisible, it is no small irony that a new test to detect concussion involves the eyes.
The two-minute test, which tracked subtle vision problems in athletes with suspected traumatic brain injury, was a near-perfect gauge of whether a concussion had occurred, according to a new study.
"Fifty percent of the brain's pathways are devoted to vision," said Dr. Laura Balcer, study co-author, who added that eye movement provides a window…
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Visual Distractibility and Auditory Processing Disorders
We often see parents shaking their heads - how is it that it's both auditory and visual processing? But it's not some odd luck, the visual and auditory systems are tightly coupled, and each makes up for the other when some problem arises.
We shouldn't think of the brain having "deficits" - because reorganization is the rule rather than the exception, and generally loss in one domain, leads to compensatory changes in the other. Auditory processing problems are accompanied by…
Added by Timothy Gangwer on December 12, 2010 at 11:29pm — No Comments
Visual Discrimination
Visual discrimination involves the ability to perceive words accurately by noting likenesses and differences in words. There are several ways in which readers, especially beginning readers,…
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Added by Timothy Gangwer on November 18, 2010 at 11:03am — No Comments
Thinking In Pictures
I THINK IN PICTURES. Words are like a second language to me. I translate both spoken and written words into full-color movies, complete with sound, which run like a VCR tape in my head. When somebody speaks to me, his words are instantly translated into pictures. Language-based thinkers often find this phenomenon difficult to understand, but in my job as an equipment designer for the livestock… Continue
Added by Timothy Gangwer on November 3, 2010 at 1:17pm — No Comments
Lift the Cell Phone Ban
Lift the Cell Phone Ban…
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Worth1000.com
Worth1000.com An ad-supported website running dozens of contests simultaneously to find the "best" in altered images, in many different themed categories (such as Visual Puns, and Stupid Protests) that change constantly. Viewers may post… Continue
Added by Timothy Gangwer on September 7, 2010 at 9:54am — No Comments
How To Stop Cyberbullying
The first things you need to know about cyberbullying are that it’s not an epidemic and it’s not killing our children. Yes, it’s probably one of the more widespread youth risks on the Internet and yes there are some well publicized cases of cyberbullying victims who have committed suicide, but let’s look at this in context.…
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Generation M2: Media in the Lives of 8- to 18-Year-Olds
A national survey by the Kaiser…
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Added by Timothy Gangwer on August 12, 2010 at 12:47am — No Comments
Smart Desks Make Sci-Fi A Reality In The Classroom
Schools are set for a Star Trek make-over thanks to the development of the world's first interactive classroom by experts at Durham University.
Researchers at the Technology-Enhanced Learning Research Group (TEL) are designing new learning environments using interactive multi-touch desks that look and act like a large version of an Apple iPhone.
The team observed how students and teachers interact in classes and how Information Communications technology (ICT) could improve… Continue
Researchers at the Technology-Enhanced Learning Research Group (TEL) are designing new learning environments using interactive multi-touch desks that look and act like a large version of an Apple iPhone.
The team observed how students and teachers interact in classes and how Information Communications technology (ICT) could improve… Continue
Added by Timothy Gangwer on January 6, 2010 at 10:20am — No Comments
Serious Games: Incorporating Video Games in the Classroom
Games designed using sound pedagogy actively engage the Net Generation in learning
Today’s schoolchildren bear the label Generation N or the Net Generation because they have grown up in a networked world where technology is not a novelty but normal in everyday life. Current research suggests Net Gen students are more likely to engage in online games than to interact with other students or the instructor when in face-to-face learning environments. The K–12 arena in… Continue
Today’s schoolchildren bear the label Generation N or the Net Generation because they have grown up in a networked world where technology is not a novelty but normal in everyday life. Current research suggests Net Gen students are more likely to engage in online games than to interact with other students or the instructor when in face-to-face learning environments. The K–12 arena in… Continue
Added by Timothy Gangwer on January 5, 2010 at 10:47am — No Comments
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- Augmented and Virtual Reality: Where Is the Educational Value?
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- Madcap Logic's New 'Creativity Express' Suite of Apps Receives Top 5-Star Awards from the Educational App Store.
- Visual Teaching and Creativity
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- Top 5 Apps You Want On Your iPad (including ‘how to’ video links)
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