What's in your K-12 memory?

Attend a lecture by Robin, who is an educator, licensed psychoanalyst and author. To let audience be aware of the role of emotion play in our life, Robin began with an interactive activity that engage audience write down the memorable  during elementary school , junior school and high school. 

elementary school: uniform, right/left hand, playground,  ...

junior school: bicycle, homework, teacher, friends, gender issue...

hight school: first car, date, future career, ...

To my surprise, there is no EXAM! What happened if we let our students write about their K-12?

What makes the difference between TC and B school

After John Merrow's speech last Saturday, one alumni who got a MBA degree after graduate from TC raised a question and mentioned the difference between TC and Business school. This question comes to my mind each time I went to Business school in Columiba. Different learning style, different 'students', and different interaction pattern. 

If we can compare the learning process between TC and B school, we will see the significant difference. What I am interested is what make these differences? The pedagogy? assignment? 'hard' and 'soft' environment? culture?

How you evaluate a school?

What to Believe? Interpreting Data from Big City Schools. by Dr. Aaron M. Pallas

In this speech, Aaron mainly talking about the evaluation about a school.

Let's do a test ...  In the following items, how you rate the importace of each one.

Rank                       Items                                                                                       

____      Basic academic skills in core subjects

____      Preparation for skilled work

____      Supporting the education of students with special learning needs

____      Preparation for post-secondary schooling

____      Critical thinking and problem-solving

____      Reducing achievement gaps among different social groups

____      Participation in/appreciation for arts and literature

____      Physical health

____      Citizenship and community responsibility                                        

____      Social skills and work ethic

____      Emotional health

The research report The Goal of Education by Richard Rothstein and Rebecca Jacobsen, they shows a survey results.

What's the difference between your choice and the survey result? Any comments?

Something about ThinkBank 2.0

Teachers College Academic Festival 2009 hold in TC on April 25.

The keynote speaker, John Merrow,  give us a video storytelling speach about his perspective about education shaped by 35 years of reporting for NPR and PBS. 

John Merrow began his career as an education reporter with National Public Radio in 1974 with the weekly series/Options in Education," for which he received the George Polk Award in 1982. He is currently President of Learning Matters and scholar in residence at the Carnegie. Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching at Stanford.

Since 1984 he has worked in public television as Education Correspondent for the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and as host of his own series of documentaries, The Merrow Report. His work has been recognized with Peabody Awards in 2000 and 2006, Emmy nominations in 1984,2005, and 2007, four CINE Golden Eagles and other reporting awards. A frequent contributor to USA Today, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times and Education Week, he is the author of Choosing Excellence (2001) and co-editor of Declining by Degrees (2005).

Merrow earned an A.B. from Dartmouth College, an M.A. in American Studies from Indiana University, and a doctorate in Education and Social Policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He received the James L. Fisher Award for Distinguished Service to Education from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education in 2000 and the HGSE Alumni Council Award for Outstanding Contributions to Education in 2006. He is a Trustee of Teachers College, Columbia University.

You can find the video here.

What statistical analysis should I use?

Find a great site to introduce the statistics.

http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/mult_pkg/whatstat/default.htm

Thanks for James D. Leeper and UCLA: Academic Technology Services, Statistical Consulting Group.

Microsoft's Vision

Microsoft's vision of 2010

Microsoft's Vision For 2019

These are two video I mentioned before for both thinking about HCI and future learning. Any comments?

Edu site collection

Recently find...

Youtube Edu

http://www.youtube.com/edu

EdLab in Teachers College

http://edlab.tc.columbia.edu/

Education Futures

http://www.educationfutures.com/

ED-MEDIA 2009-World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications

ED-MEDIA - World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications is an international conference, organized by the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE).

Time and Place: Honolulu, Hawaii: June 22-26, 2009. 

Keynote & Invited Speakers

There are Abstract and Biographical Information about each speakers.  Hope AERA could offer more detailed info for highlight events next year.

Aloha!

AERA highlights-Education Games/Environment

Education game/environment is an increasing research field. As I know, GCCCE2009 will form a special division for educational games. Also, there are many researches and developers focus on this area in AERA. Even ETS develops games! The research topics including video games, simulations, serious games, virtual world, online games and etc. Personally, I perfer using learning environment to indicate the game because we can not easily differentiate between game for learning and learning with game. 

Education game/environment is a suitable topic for educational technology researches. Each game/environment requires theory and technology support in which our expertise can devote.

Here will be a list to highlight the institution and papers on this topic.

to be continue... ...

AERA highlights-Cognitive Neuroscience

Generally, when attend the domestic conference about education, we could hear from the viewpoint from education, psychology and sociology.  The AERA is the hugest conference I have attended ever not only because the number of participators but also the fields it covered in education. Neuroscience is one of the frontier field attract researches' interests. 

Here is the Presidential Session in the subject of Cognitive Neuroscience and Education. Michael Posner from University of Oregon deliver a speech titled Bridging Brain, Cognition, and Education From an Early Developmental Perspective. 

From my perspective, the role of neuroscience in education is twofold. Neuroscience is providing evidence for our previous finding in education on psychology and sociology level. Besides explanation role, on the other hand, this rapid developing field is discovering our learning mechanism directly. Brain is not a 'black box' now. Absorb the findings from neuroscience will benefit us a lot and bring a different perspective.

AERA2009

The AERA 2009 annual meeting is just held in San Diego, California.

Each participator has the 2009 Annual Meeting Program  as a guideline to choose the workshops and sessions.  Since one cannot go through all the reports, this program will be an useful handbook for review after the conference. The participator and subject index is most helpful for those who miss the AERA annual meeting.