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But because multiple-choice tests have been graded by machines, making them easy and relatively inexpensive to administer, these sub-standard assessments are primarily what schools use for standardized test.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But is it possible to combine the more nuanced understanding that essays give us with the ease of automated grading? The Hewlett Foundation would like to find out. Last month, the organization \u003ca href=\"http://www.hewlett.org/newsroom/press-release/hewlett-foundation-sponsors-prize-improve-automated-scoring-student-essays\">announced\u003c/a> a $100,000 prize that will go to the software designer who can best create an automated essay grader. 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In fact, most college writing instructors use their first-year writing courses to “deprogram students from writing five-paragraph essays,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are teachers who use these kinds of tools and appreciate their ability to grade papers quickly and help students become more comfortable with revising their work before submitting for a final grade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joe Swope, an A.P. and community college psychology teacher, uses the program \u003ca href=\"https://www.sagrader.com/login\">SA Grader\u003c/a> to grade his students' written work. He says in addition to noticing that his students' A.P. psychology test scores have improved, the automated grader has made him a \"better teacher because it has freed me up to talk to students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It teaches kids that writing is a process,” Swope says, which creates a love-hate relationship with writing for many of the kids he teaches. At first, they don't like writing and revising – they'd rather just submit the paper and be done with it. But they've come to like the instant feedback as the course progresses. And, he says, it “helps prepare kids for the rigorous process of the A.P. test.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His students complete one essay per week, and they can submit and resubmit as many times as necessary to get the grade they're happy with. The program grades the essays immediately, which allows them to see their weaknesses while the subject matter is fresh in their minds. “By the time I read the papers and wrote comments and handed them back,” he says, it was often too late for students to benefit from the feedback.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #666699\">\u003cstrong>RELATED READING:\u003c/strong>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/07/beyond-the-bubble-test-how-will-we-measure-learning/\">BEYOND THE BUBBLE TEST: HOW WILL WE MEASURE LEARNING IN THE FUTURE?\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/04/testing-testing/\">TESTING, TESTING: THE CURRENT SCHOOL MODEL DOESN'T WORK\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>One of the criticisms Swope has encountered is that automated graders are for lazy teachers. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_18861\" class=\"wp-caption center\" style=\"max-width: 620px\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/inge_santoso/2911455163/sizes/z/in/photostream/\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-18861\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2012/02/2911455163_72d4915827_z-620x465.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students are encouraged to bring their own tech devices to school and use them in class.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch5>\u003cstrong>By Jennifer Roland\u003c/strong>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp class=\"dropcap-serif\">At Mankato Public School System in Minnesota, students bring their homework, their lunches, and books to school like most students across the country. But they also bring whatever tech devices they own -- and they don't have to hide it or turn it off when they walk into class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mankato has joined the growing Bring Your Own Technology movement that allows students to use their own Netbooks, laptops, and tablets -- anything that connects to the school's wireless network -- \u003cem>during\u003c/em> class time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By allowing kids to bring in their own devices, you free up school resources for the kids who don’t have access,” says Doug Johnson, director of media and technology for the Mankato Public School System. (Johnson wrote the book -- literally -- on the subject; \u003cem>The Classroom Teacher’s Technology Survival Guide\u003c/em> is published this month.) For example, in classrooms that have a group of four computers, finding time for all 30 students to use them can be challenging. In Mankato, 90% of the students have some sort of wireless-capable device, which leaves only eight students in a typical class who will need to use the class computers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This kind of unconventional approach to schooling, in a public school system that's tangled with strict rules and regulations, was one of the tactics being hailed this week when President Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan spoke about the importance of bringing schools to the 21st century by finding smart ways to integrate technology into the learning process at the inaugural \u003ca href=\"http://www.digitallearningday.org/DLD2012\">Digital Learning Day.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">The common theme from parents: “If I spend $500 on an iPad for my kid, I hope the teachers uses it!”\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>For schools that are lucky enough to have the money to carry out this mission -- whether it's providing a computer lab, laptops and tablets for students -- the rewards of the technology are abundant. But the fiscal reality makes this difficult for most public schools that struggle with dwindling budgets and can't afford to hire enough teachers, let alone computers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's why school districts like Mankato are experimenting with what could be a very obvious solution: Let kids bring their own tech devices to school. Truth is, at last count (in 2010) more than 75 percent of American kids age 12 to 17 owned cell phones, according to \u003ca href=\"http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1572/teens-cell-phones-text-messages\">a Pew Research study\u003c/a>. And \u003ca href=\"http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2012/E-readers-and-tablets.aspx\">19 percent of Americans\u003c/a> now own a tablet. So it's no surprise that the Bring Your Own Technology (BYOT) movement is taking shape \u003ca href=\"http://www.edweek.org/dd/articles/2011/10/19/01byot.h05.html\">across the country\u003c/a> with school \u003ca href=\"http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/01/29/2967987/internet-access-in-cms-to-change.html\">districts that\u003c/a> allow students to use their tablets, smart phones, and other mobile computing devices in the classroom for learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conceptually, that makes a lot of sense. Why not let kids use the tech tools they're already familiar with to enhance their learning? But as schools try to figure out the best way of transitioning to this \u003c!--more-->new world, some thorny issues must first be sorted out. How do teachers and school systems prepare for all the different platforms, when some kids are bringing in tablets, others are bringing their parents' old laptops, and the remainder are on mobile phones? And what effect does this change have on the dynamics of a classroom?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For starters, schools and districts are beset by myriad rules and policies they must follow in order to qualify for state and federal funding. And if district policy \u003cem>does\u003c/em> allow kids to bring their own devices, schools must also make sure they have enough bandwidth to deal with all the new devices that need Internet connections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schools have long looked at providing Internet-capable devices as the only way to ensure equal access to education for all students, but these endeavors are extremely expensive and, many districts believe, unsustainable without long-term grant funding. That's where kids using their own devices could work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_18867\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/02/in-cash-strapped-schools-kids-bring-their-own-tech-devices/5333910266_f7979f21d3/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18867\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-18867\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2012/02/5333910266_f7979f21d3-300x183.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"183\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"> \u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What's so great about having a mobile device in class? Instant access to information is the main reason for allowing kids to use their devices: to search for information online. Some teachers \u003ca href=\"http://www.usnews.com/education/blogs/high-school-notes/2011/10/26/teachers-use-cell-phones-in-the-classroom\">also use mobile devices\u003c/a> to gives quizzes or take instant polls. How they use their devices depends on what teachers decide to do with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though there continues to be a large gap in those who own laptops and can afford broadband at home and those who can't, mobile devices can potentially serve to bridge gaps in access, allowing kids to use them in and outside of school for learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>HELP OR HINDRANCE?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But allowing kids to use their devices at school might not be as simple a solution as it sounds. Educator and technology consultant \u003ca href=\"http://stager.tv/blog/?p=2655\">Gary Stager believes\u003c/a> the BYOT movement \"diminishes the otherwise enormous potential of educational computing to the weakest device in the room.” He contends that \"cell phones are not computers! They may both contain microprocessors and batteries, but as of today, their functionality is quite different...The computer is an intellectual laboratory and vehicle for self-expression that makes it possible for children to learn and do things in ways unthinkable just a few years ago. We impair such empowerment when we limit educational practice to the functionality of the least powerful device.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mobile phones, and especially those that aren't smart phones, obviously don't have the same capabilities as computers. But when tablets and Netbooks enter the picture, it becomes less of an argument against insufficient technology and more an argument against managing multiple technologies. Stager adds that in a class full of students handling his or her own device, each one different from the other, will only \"amplify [teachers'] anxiety and reduce use.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as one who's taken to using all kinds of devices in school, Johnson believes in the power of the cloud to provide tools that any device can access. In Mankato, they rely heavily on Google Docs and other platform-agnostic tools that serve information to any Internet-accessible device.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And although Johnson admits that more traditional teachers resist or are overwhelmed by this type of learning, students will need little support because they're already familiar with their own devices. 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So it's no surprise that the Bring Your Own Technology (BYOT) movement is taking shape \u003ca href=\"http://www.edweek.org/dd/articles/2011/10/19/01byot.h05.html\">across the country\u003c/a> with school \u003ca href=\"http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/01/29/2967987/internet-access-in-cms-to-change.html\">districts that\u003c/a> allow students to use their tablets, smart phones, and other mobile computing devices in the classroom for learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conceptually, that makes a lot of sense. Why not let kids use the tech tools they're already familiar with to enhance their learning? But as schools try to figure out the best way of transitioning to this \u003c!--more-->new world, some thorny issues must first be sorted out. How do teachers and school systems prepare for all the different platforms, when some kids are bringing in tablets, others are bringing their parents' old laptops, and the remainder are on mobile phones? 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"module image alignleft mceTemp\" style=\"width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/02/search-by-color-a-little-known-trick-to-find-the-right-image/4576980764_c0bfc076a3_z-1/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18813\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-18813\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2012/02/4576980764_c0bfc076a3_z-1-300x257.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"257\">\u003c/a>\n\u003cp class=\"wp-media-credit\">Flickr: Richard Morton\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003ch5>By Tasha Bergson-Michelson\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>At its heart, clever searching lies at the intersection of critical thinking, imagination, and the savvy use of technical tools. Google Search Educator Tasha Bergson-Michelson begins a series of guest posts about innovative ways to approach finding information and the problems we can solve when we bring together technology, creativity, and education.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s right before bedtime on Sunday night, and your child just announced that she has a report due in the morning about heroes. Excited by the Super Bowl, she wants to write about teamwork among her personal heroes, the New England Patriots. Off she goes to Google to find some inspirational pictures of the Patriots in action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When searching for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&hl=en&source=hp&biw=1165&bih=645&q=new+england+patriots&gbv=2&oq=new+england+patriots&aq=f&aqi=g10&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=2364l5733l0l5868l20l10l0l7l7l0l81l87l2l2l0\">New England Patriots\u003c/a>, you get a variety of images--but many of them logos, or fan created photo montages on a background of the team colors. If you actually want a screen full of pictures of people playing the game, what are your options?\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/02/search-by-color-a-little-known-trick-to-find-the-right-image/screen-shot-2012-02-01-at-8-15-10-pm/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18805\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-18805\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2012/02/Screen-shot-2012-02-01-at-8.15.10-PM-620x311.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"311\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking at this first screen of results, considering what to do next, a savvy searcher asks what pictures of people actually playing football would all have in common.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One picture above immediately catches the eye: the green photo in the third row. You can tell that it is a picture of a game because of the grass on the field. In fact, most action shots in a game should have a background of turf. So, what if there was a way to tell Google to deliver only images with grassy backgrounds?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take a look at the left-hand side of the screen. Near the bottom, there is a series of colored boxes. These are filters that allow you to find pictures of a particular color. By clicking on the green box, you can essentially tell Google to return pictures with a lot of grass:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/02/search-by-color-a-little-known-trick-to-find-the-right-image/screen-shot-2012-02-01-at-4-27-53-pm/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18793\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-18793\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2012/02/Screen-shot-2012-02-01-at-4.27.53-PM-620x331.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"331\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You might be surprised at the scholarly contexts in which color filtering becomes a powerful search tactic. By itself color filtering might seem like a niche feature, but looking at a few practical applications can get your creative juices flowing as you think about problems it might solve for you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let’s take another example. Consider an approach one librarian discovered when working with her school’s science teachers. Run an Image Search for \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&hl=en&source=hp&biw=1165&bih=645&q=tesla+coil&gbv=2&oq=tesla+coil&aq=f&aqi=g10&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=1356l3053l0l3340l10l10l0l2l2l0l177l923l4.4l8l0\">tesla coil\u003c/a> and you will find:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/02/search-by-color-a-little-known-trick-to-find-the-right-image/screen-shot-2012-02-01-at-4-28-51-pm/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18794\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-18794\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2012/02/Screen-shot-2012-02-01-at-4.28.51-PM-620x328.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"328\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But say that what you really want is a diagram of how a tesla coil works. What is a common factor of such diagrams? In looking carefully at the images above, you may notice that most are dark, with bright, purple arcs. 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Google search allows you to specify common factors by color or terms, but also by characteristics like language, medium, or geographical or chronological features, in order to narrow down to exactly what you need. Once you see how you can think creatively about the defining characteristics of the information you want, you can become truly powerful at finding what you need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Future posts will explore unexpected applications of everyday Google tools to solve problems even faster and more effectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One final example of how color filtering can improve both academic research and daily life: Have you ever read a book, and later remembered the subject and something about the cover, but not the title itself? For example, say you were wondering, “What was that book about Lewis and Clark I looked at the other day--that red one with the canoe on the cover?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simply search for [Lewis Clark book] in Google Images:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/02/search-by-color-a-little-known-trick-to-find-the-right-image/screen-shot-2012-02-01-at-4-31-07-pm/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18796\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-18796\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2012/02/Screen-shot-2012-02-01-at-4.31.07-PM-620x341.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"341\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And filter for red images:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/02/search-by-color-a-little-known-trick-to-find-the-right-image/screen-shot-2012-02-02-at-3-08-46-pm/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18831\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-18831\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2012/02/Screen-shot-2012-02-02-at-3.08.46-PM-620x310.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"310\">\u003c/a>This method works whether you are trying to identify that full title you forgot to write down for your works cited list, or locating a gift for that special someone, when you can’t remember the title, but have just a general idea of the topic and remember that great shade of red.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Often people think of searching in words, but don’t consider the other elements that they know identify their answers. 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By clicking on the green box, you can essentially tell Google to return pictures with a lot of grass:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/02/search-by-color-a-little-known-trick-to-find-the-right-image/screen-shot-2012-02-01-at-4-27-53-pm/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18793\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-18793\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2012/02/Screen-shot-2012-02-01-at-4.27.53-PM-620x331.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"331\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You might be surprised at the scholarly contexts in which color filtering becomes a powerful search tactic. By itself color filtering might seem like a niche feature, but looking at a few practical applications can get your creative juices flowing as you think about problems it might solve for you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let’s take another example. Consider an approach one librarian discovered when working with her school’s science teachers. 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Bellow's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/07/the-seven-golden-rules-of-using-technology-in-schools/\">Golden Rules of Technology in Schools\u003c/a>, as he stated them at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.isteconference.org/2012/\"> ISTE 2011 conference.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1) DON'T TRAP TECHNOLOGY IN A ROOM.\u003c/strong> \"When I went to school, computers were put in a room called The Lab,\" Bellow said. \"'What are they experimenting with in there, I thought.' Technology wasn't built into what we were doing. It was farmed off in a room, like it was special. Like we were learning how to code, and in case the Russians came, we'd know what to do.\" Technology should be like oxygen, Bellow said, quoting \u003ca href=\"http://www.scienceleadership.org/pages/Faculty_and_Staff\">Chris Lehmann\u003c/a>, the founding principal of Science Leadership Academy: Ubiquitous, necessary, and invisible.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\"\u003cspan style=\"color: #888888\">We're doing kids a major disservice if we don't teach them good digital citizenship\u003c/span>.\"\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>2) TECHNOLOGY IS WORTHLESS WITHOUT PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT. \u003c/strong>\u003c/span>\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>Bellow emphasized the importance of making professional development a priority, the importance of time and money being spent to educate teachers on not just an hour-long how-to session, but ways to integrate technology creatively into educators' daily teaching practice in meaningful ways. He told the story of an interactive-whiteboard training guide who made one quick appearance at a school, never to return, leaving teachers still unsure of how to use the technology. There's a world of professional development on YouTube and on Twitter, ironically sites that most schools block (see Number 4.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>3) MOBILE TECHNOLOGY STRETCHES A LONG WAY. \u003c/strong>\u003c/span>\"You can get much more out of mobile tech than out of most other technology,\" Bellow said. Kids bring it to class everyday, but we tell them to turn it off as soon as they walk in. In New York City, Bellow said he watched as an agonizingly long queue of students waited for 45 minutes to pass through a metal detector and hand over their cell phones, which were then placed in individually labeled manila envelopes. \"Can we do something better with those 45 minutes?\" he asked. Cell phones can\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/01/a-day-in-the-life-of-the-ipad-classroom/\"> replace expensive reference books\u003c/a>, Flip cameras, old calculators, and the list goes on. \"Instead of buying those tools, buy an iPod Touch and it’ll be all of those things,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>4) THE NEW 'F WORD' IS FEAR.\u003c/strong>\u003c/span> Not Facebook, and not the other expletive you might have expected. Schools fear everything from being replaced by gadgets (\"Any teacher who can be replaced by a robot should be,\" he said), to \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/02/revolution-2-0-the-control-shift/\">kids knowing more about subjects than they do\u003c/a>, to collaborative Web tools\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/04/straight-from-the-doe-facts-about-blocking-sites-in-schools/\"> that are blocked because of a slew of acronyms \u003c/a>that haunt administrators. On one hand, \"teachers are frustrated because they feel like they're being handcuffed,\" Bellow said, due to crude filters that block out \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/04/eight-surprising-webites-schools-cant-access/\">all kinds of useful websites\u003c/a>. On the other hand, kids already come to school with phones that have access to everything. \"We could block Facebook, but who are we kidding? They're already on it,\" he said. \"The world is not a sterile place. Kids need to learn how to deal with it.\" And because kids have access to every kind of information at any time, they need to learn about things like \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/05/how-the-internet-affects-plagiarism/\">Creative Commons and copyright rules\u003c/a>. \"We're doing them a major disservice if we don't teach them good digital citizenship,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>5) TECH TOOLS ARE NOT JUST A PASSING FAD. \u003c/strong>\u003c/span>Bellow said he's heard countless times from those who don’t want to take risks by finding and investing in new tools. And even when they do, they use only a fraction of the tools' potential purposes because they haven't invested enough time to figure it out (see Number 2). Bellow told the story of a school administrator who was able to buy iPads for his teachers, but is only using them to take attendance. He showed a video of a 100-year-old woman learning how to use the iPad to browse the Web, to read books, to watch videos, and how excited she was about it. \"We are natural lifelong learners,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>6) MONEY IS NOT THE PROBLEM. \u003c/strong>\u003c/span>Teachers have access to thousands of free Web tools. And even if the free ones do decide to start charging, others will crop up to replace it. The point is not to be afraid of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/04/jumping-into-the-21st-century-one-teachers-account/\">diving in \u003c/a>(see Number 4).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>7) INVITE EVERY STAKEHOLDER TO THE CONVERSATION. \u003c/strong>\u003c/span>\"Who's at the table?\" Bellow asked. \"Mostly administrators, some ask teachers. But here's a novel idea. Let's have students come to the table, and parents too!\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>3) MOBILE TECHNOLOGY STRETCHES A LONG WAY. \u003c/strong>\u003c/span>\"You can get much more out of mobile tech than out of most other technology,\" Bellow said. Kids bring it to class everyday, but we tell them to turn it off as soon as they walk in. In New York City, Bellow said he watched as an agonizingly long queue of students waited for 45 minutes to pass through a metal detector and hand over their cell phones, which were then placed in individually labeled manila envelopes. \"Can we do something better with those 45 minutes?\" he asked. Cell phones can\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/01/a-day-in-the-life-of-the-ipad-classroom/\"> replace expensive reference books\u003c/a>, Flip cameras, old calculators, and the list goes on. \"Instead of buying those tools, buy an iPod Touch and it’ll be all of those things,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>4) THE NEW 'F WORD' IS FEAR.\u003c/strong>\u003c/span> Not Facebook, and not the other expletive you might have expected. Schools fear everything from being replaced by gadgets (\"Any teacher who can be replaced by a robot should be,\" he said), to \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/02/revolution-2-0-the-control-shift/\">kids knowing more about subjects than they do\u003c/a>, to collaborative Web tools\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/04/straight-from-the-doe-facts-about-blocking-sites-in-schools/\"> that are blocked because of a slew of acronyms \u003c/a>that haunt administrators. On one hand, \"teachers are frustrated because they feel like they're being handcuffed,\" Bellow said, due to crude filters that block out \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/04/eight-surprising-webites-schools-cant-access/\">all kinds of useful websites\u003c/a>. On the other hand, kids already come to school with phones that have access to everything. \"We could block Facebook, but who are we kidding? They're already on it,\" he said. \"The world is not a sterile place. Kids need to learn how to deal with it.\" And because kids have access to every kind of information at any time, they need to learn about things like \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/05/how-the-internet-affects-plagiarism/\">Creative Commons and copyright rules\u003c/a>. \"We're doing them a major disservice if we don't teach them good digital citizenship,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>5) TECH TOOLS ARE NOT JUST A PASSING FAD. \u003c/strong>\u003c/span>Bellow said he's heard countless times from those who don’t want to take risks by finding and investing in new tools. And even when they do, they use only a fraction of the tools' potential purposes because they haven't invested enough time to figure it out (see Number 2). Bellow told the story of a school administrator who was able to buy iPads for his teachers, but is only using them to take attendance. He showed a video of a 100-year-old woman learning how to use the iPad to browse the Web, to read books, to watch videos, and how excited she was about it. \"We are natural lifelong learners,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>6) MONEY IS NOT THE PROBLEM. \u003c/strong>\u003c/span>Teachers have access to thousands of free Web tools. And even if the free ones do decide to start charging, others will crop up to replace it. The point is not to be afraid of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/04/jumping-into-the-21st-century-one-teachers-account/\">diving in \u003c/a>(see Number 4).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>7) INVITE EVERY STAKEHOLDER TO THE CONVERSATION. \u003c/strong>\u003c/span>\"Who's at the table?\" Bellow asked. \"Mostly administrators, some ask teachers. But here's a novel idea. Let's have students come to the table, and parents too!\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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The \u003ca href=\"http://www.google.com/edu/teachers/students.html\">Student Showcases link \u003c/a>lists student-created material, such as \u003ca href=\"http://sitescontent.google.com/google-earth-for-educators/student-work-showcase\">worldwide panoramas\u003c/a> using Google Earth and \u003ca href=\"https://picasaweb.google.com/gallery.sketchup/EducationK12#slideshow/5340615158901021362\">Sketchup models\u003c/a> of homes, towns, and robots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.google.com/edu/organizations/tools-for-districts.html\">Schools and districts \u003c/a>can find links to \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/t/schools\">YouTube for Schools\u003c/a>, which allows students to access YouTube EDU while blocking non-educational videos; \u003ca href=\"http://code.google.com/appengine/\">App Engine\u003c/a>, which hosts school web apps on Google's system; and \u003ca href=\"http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/edu/university.html\">Google Apps for Higher Education\u003c/a>, a free suite of hosted email and collaboration application.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For \u003ca href=\"http://www.google.com/edu/students/index.html\">students, \u003c/a>the site offers a list of awards and competitions -- think \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/10/15925/\">YouTube Space Lab\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/01/ready-set-invent-the-google-science-fair-is-launched/\">Google Science Fair\u003c/a>; programs like \u003ca href=\"http://code.google.com/soc/\">Summer of Code\u003c/a>, which offer stipends for student code \u003c!--more-->developers and \u003ca href=\"http://www.google.com/intl/en/jobs/cssi/index.html\">Computer Science Summer Institute\u003c/a> for high schools seniors about to start college; tools like \u003ca href=\"http://www.google.com/apps/edu/students/index.html\">Google Apps for Students\u003c/a>, like Google Docs and Gmail; and \u003ca href=\"http://www.google.com/edu/teachers/educator-resources.html\">Google tools\u003c/a>, which include every app and tool the mega-search site has created.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apps and software is one thing, but the company's hardware is also making its way into more schools. 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And, oh by the way, tens of thousands have already signed up to participate.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\"I think the impact will be large and it will be widespread.\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>For decades, technology has promised to remake education — and it may finally be about to deliver. \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2012/01/19/145457942/apple-pushes-to-put-textbooks-on-ipads\" target=\"_blank\">Apple's moving\u003c/a> into the textbook market, startups and nonprofits are re-imaging what K-12 education could look like, and now some in Silicon Valley are eager for technology and the Internet to transform education's more elite institutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thrun's colleague Andrew Ng taught a free, \u003ca href=\"http://www.ml-class.org/course/auth/welcome\" target=\"_blank\">online machine learning class\u003c/a> that ultimately attracted more than 100,000 students. When I ask Ng how Stanford's administration reacted to their \u003c!--more-->proposition, he's silent for a second. \"Oh boy,\" he says, \"I think there was a strong sense that we were all suddenly in a brave new world.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ng says there were long conversations about whether or not to give online students a certificate bearing the university's name. But Stanford balked and ultimately the school settled on giving students a letter of accomplishment from the professors that did not mention the university's name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are still having conversations about that,\" says James Plummer, dean of Stanford's School of Engineering. \"I think it will actually be a long time — maybe never — when actual Stanford degrees would be given for fully online work by anyone who wishes to register for the courses.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff9900\">UNCHARTED TERRITORY\u003c/span>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thrun's online \u003ca href=\"https://www.ai-class.com/\" target=\"_blank\">class on artificial intelligence\u003c/a> or A.I., which he co-taught with Google's Peter Norvig, eventually drew more than 160,000 students who received detailed grades and a class ranking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We reached many more students, Peter and I, with this one class than all other A.I. professors combined reached in the last year,\" Thrun says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thrun believes a class that size creates a valuable credential — even if Stanford doesn't recognize it. Students hailed from 190 different countries, including Australia, China, Ukraine and the U.S. They included high school students, women with disabilities, teachers and retirees — and they were all taking the same class Stanford students took, grades and all. But the online participants didn't get credit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think we all realized we were in uncharted territory,\" Thrun says. \"As we move forward, it is my real goal to invent an education platform that has high quality to it, [that] prevents cheating, that really enables students to go through it to be empowered to find better jobs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff9900\">WIDESPREAD IMPACT\u003c/span>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford does award degrees for online work, but only to students who get through the admissions process and pay sometimes $40,000 or $50,000 for a master's degree. Technology could push prices down.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\"We are committed to free online education for everybody.\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Dean Plummer believes low-cost, high-quality online education will have a profound impact in high education, even at institutions as august as Stanford. He doesn't think it will diminish demand for undergraduate degrees or Ph.D.s, but he says the impact on master's programs could be profound.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What it will look like in 10 years or 20 years or 30 years — your guess is as good as mine,\" he says. \"But I think the impact will be large and it will be widespread.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Online education and distance learning have been going on at Stanford and other schools for years, but Plummer believes the technology has reached an inflection point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Videos stored online let students build course work into their schedules anywhere in the world. Embedded quizzes let students monitor their own progress and give professors much richer data to improve their teaching.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ng noticed that 5,000 students made the identical mistake in an online quiz. Within minutes, teachers were able to respond and clarify the issue that had led a large fraction of the class down a dead-end path.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff9900\">GLOBAL BENEFITS\u003c/span>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daphne Koller is a computer science professor at Stanford, and a MacArthur \"Genius\" Fellow. She has been working for years to make online education more engaging and interactive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"On the long term, I think the potential for this to revolutionize education is just tremendous,\" Koller says. \"There are millions of people around the world that have access only to the poorest quality of education or sometimes nothing at all.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Technology could change that by making it possible to teach classes with 100,000 students as easily and as cheaply as a class with just 100. And if you look around the world, demand for education in places like South Africa is enormous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost two weeks ago, at the University of Johannesburg, more than 20 people were injured and one woman was killed \u003ca href=\"http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-01-11/deadly-enrolment-stampede-at-s-african-uni/3767250\" target=\"_blank\">trying register for a limited number of openings\u003c/a>. Thousands had camped out overnight hoping to snag one of the few available places and when the gates opened, there was a stampede.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Koller hopes that in the future, technology will help prevent these kinds of tragedies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff9900\">TRYING 'BOLD NEW THINGS'\u003c/span>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past six months, Thrun has spent roughly $200,000 of his own money and lined up venture capital to create \u003ca href=\"http://www.udacity.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Udacity\u003c/a>, a new online institution of higher learning independent of Stanford. \"We are committed to free online education for everybody.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgNCrWB3JNE&feature=player_embedded\">Udacity announced\u003c/a> two classes last week. One will teach students to build their own search engine and the other how to program a self-driving car. 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But Stanford balked and ultimately the school settled on giving students a letter of accomplishment from the professors that did not mention the university's name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are still having conversations about that,\" says James Plummer, dean of Stanford's School of Engineering. \"I think it will actually be a long time — maybe never — when actual Stanford degrees would be given for fully online work by anyone who wishes to register for the courses.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff9900\">UNCHARTED TERRITORY\u003c/span>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thrun's online \u003ca href=\"https://www.ai-class.com/\" target=\"_blank\">class on artificial intelligence\u003c/a> or A.I., which he co-taught with Google's Peter Norvig, eventually drew more than 160,000 students who received detailed grades and a class ranking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We reached many more students, Peter and I, with this one class than all other A.I. professors combined reached in the last year,\" Thrun says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thrun believes a class that size creates a valuable credential — even if Stanford doesn't recognize it. Students hailed from 190 different countries, including Australia, China, Ukraine and the U.S. They included high school students, women with disabilities, teachers and retirees — and they were all taking the same class Stanford students took, grades and all. But the online participants didn't get credit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think we all realized we were in uncharted territory,\" Thrun says. \"As we move forward, it is my real goal to invent an education platform that has high quality to it, [that] prevents cheating, that really enables students to go through it to be empowered to find better jobs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff9900\">WIDESPREAD IMPACT\u003c/span>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford does award degrees for online work, but only to students who get through the admissions process and pay sometimes $40,000 or $50,000 for a master's degree. Technology could push prices down.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\"We are committed to free online education for everybody.\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Dean Plummer believes low-cost, high-quality online education will have a profound impact in high education, even at institutions as august as Stanford. He doesn't think it will diminish demand for undergraduate degrees or Ph.D.s, but he says the impact on master's programs could be profound.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What it will look like in 10 years or 20 years or 30 years — your guess is as good as mine,\" he says. \"But I think the impact will be large and it will be widespread.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Online education and distance learning have been going on at Stanford and other schools for years, but Plummer believes the technology has reached an inflection point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Videos stored online let students build course work into their schedules anywhere in the world. Embedded quizzes let students monitor their own progress and give professors much richer data to improve their teaching.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ng noticed that 5,000 students made the identical mistake in an online quiz. Within minutes, teachers were able to respond and clarify the issue that had led a large fraction of the class down a dead-end path.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff9900\">GLOBAL BENEFITS\u003c/span>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daphne Koller is a computer science professor at Stanford, and a MacArthur \"Genius\" Fellow. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_18670\" class=\"wp-caption center\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/sadiediane/4249187463/sizes/m/in/photostream/\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-18670\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2012/01/4249187463_1420dfc2f4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2012/01/4249187463_1420dfc2f4.jpg 500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2012/01/4249187463_1420dfc2f4-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2012/01/4249187463_1420dfc2f4-320x214.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"> \u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp class=\"dropcap\">In the information age, data will follow us from the time we first walk into kindergarten to well past retirement. As data is used to guide us in making all kinds of decisions, from what we consume to what health plan we follow, it's also becoming a powerful tool in education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As more schools and colleges use algorithms to determine a student's path, the Amazon- and Netflix-style practice of data mining will soon be the norm in how schools and students operate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that might not be such a bad thing. Just as the two online behemoths -- Amazon and Netflix -- are able to use software to predict books, music, and movies you might like based on your past preferences, schools are using data to place students not only in their appropriate learning level, but even to recommend what subject to major in.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #333399\">\"What we’ve seen in the consumer and healthcare world that's made such a huge impact is what happens when you get data to the front lines.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In K-12 education, it's happening in classrooms and computer labs in both rich and blue-collar schools. In Covington Elementary, for example, the affluent Silicon Valley community where each fifth-grade student has a laptop and is \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2010/12/salman-khan-teaches-the-world-one-youtube-video-at-a-time/\">learning math using Khan Academy videos and quizzes\u003c/a>, teachers can track each student's progress in real time on their iPads. When a student is stuck in one subject area, teachers can help the student one-on-one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Likewise, at Rocketship's Los Suenos Elementary school in a working class neighborhood in San Jose, teacher Alana Mednick can \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/01/combining-computer-games-with-classroom-teaching/\">track her students' progress\u003c/a> based on how they score on their online computer games in their Learning Lab. And these examples are hardly rare these days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the college level, student data is being used for everything from \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/05/netflix-style-recommendations-for-college-classes/\">recommending courses\u003c/a> to picking majors. Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tenn., rolled out a program last year \u003c!--more-->that uses data based on students' majors, class history, grades, and similar student performance to help students decide on courses. (Students also still get advice from guidance counselors.) And \u003ca href=\"http://chronicle.com/article/The-Netflix-Effect-When/127059/\">according to the university's provost\u003c/a>, students who took the software-recommended classes received a half-point higher GPA than those who didn't.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This spring, Austin Peay will\u003ca href=\"http://chronicle.com/article/A-Moneyball-Approach-to/130062/\"> take the experiment on a larger scale\u003c/a> and use the computer algorithm to recommend a major for students who are undecided and for those who might choose one that's not \"right\" for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even before students apply to college, a company called \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://parchment.com/\">Parchment \u003c/a>\u003c/strong>will help them figure out which schools they'll have the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/09/gaming-the-college-admissions-process/\">best chance to get accepted to\u003c/a>. Parchment uses vast amounts of users’ data — GPA, SAT scores, extracurricular activities and so on — to assess whether former applicants with similar profiles gained admission into certain schools. 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And \u003ca href=\"http://chronicle.com/article/The-Netflix-Effect-When/127059/\">according to the university's provost\u003c/a>, students who took the software-recommended classes received a half-point higher GPA than those who didn't.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This spring, Austin Peay will\u003ca href=\"http://chronicle.com/article/A-Moneyball-Approach-to/130062/\"> take the experiment on a larger scale\u003c/a> and use the computer algorithm to recommend a major for students who are undecided and for those who might choose one that's not \"right\" for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even before students apply to college, a company called \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://parchment.com/\">Parchment \u003c/a>\u003c/strong>will help them figure out which schools they'll have the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/09/gaming-the-college-admissions-process/\">best chance to get accepted to\u003c/a>. 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