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The app, which is being developed by researchers from Columbia University, the University of Maryland, and the Smithsonian Institution, currently includes trees from New York City and Washington DC, but the project plans to expand to include the entire United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>STUDYBLUE\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.studyblue.com\">StudyBlue\u003c/a> allows students to maintain their class notes and transform them into study guides, flashcards, and practices quizzes. The site also lets students schedule text-message reminders about when and what to study next, as well as post messages to Facebook warning others that they're studying and shouldn't be disturbed. This month, the note-taking app \u003ca href=\"http://blog.evernote.com/2011/05/10/trunk-spotlight-turn-your-evernote-notes-into-flashcards-with-studyblue/\">Evernote\u003c/a> announced an integration with StudyBlue, making it easy to import your Evernote notes into your StudyBlue account so you can more easily make and share flashcards from the materials you've stored in Evernote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MINDSNACKS ITALIAN\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/05/new-educational-apps-of-the-month-2/mindsnacks_3/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12140\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12140\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2011/05/mindsnacks_3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"168\" height=\"250\">\u003c/a>The language-learning startup \u003ca href=\"http://www.mindsnacks.com\">MindSnacks\u003c/a> released an Italian language version, available for free for \u003ca href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mindsnacks-italian-language/id433199718?mt=8\">iPhone and iPad\u003c/a>. The idea behind MindSnacks is to offer a mobile gaming and learning experience to help you learn and brush up on your vocabulary. The app offers 50 levels of language content, each level featuring 25 Italian words and phrases. The games are meant to help students learn and memorize words and phrases with fun and challenging mini-games. 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The apps help students understand basic concepts in these subject areas and solve homework problems. Rather than \"canned answers,\" the apps will help solve specific questions. May also marks the \u003ca href=\"http://blog.wolframalpha.com/2011/05/20/wolframalpha-the-second-anniversary/\">two-year anniversary\u003c/a> of WolframAlpha, which founder Stephen Wolfram describes as an \"absurdly complex object.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>BIBLION: THE BOUNDLESS LIBRARY\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.nypl.org/\">New York Public Library\u003c/a> released its first app, available via \u003ca href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nypl-biblion-worlds-fair/id433418206?hpfeature=1#\">iTunes\u003c/a>: Biblion: The Boundless Library. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11964\" class=\"wp-caption left\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca rel=\"attachment wp-att-11964\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/05/nextgen-journal-gives-college-students-spin-on-global-events/screen-shot-2011-05-24-at-12-43-04-pm/\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11964\" title=\"Screen-shot-2011-05-24-at-12.43.04-PM\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2011/05/Screen-shot-2011-05-24-at-12.43.04-PM-300x230.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">NextGen Journal reaches out to college students.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/dan-reimold-1/\">Dan Reimold\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Connor Toohill is attempting to break the college bubble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last fall, with the help of friends, Toohill launched \u003ca href=\"http://nextgenjournal.com/\">NextGen Journal\u003c/a>, a student-run news and commentary site, writ large. Its roughly 90 contributors are currently enrolled at colleges and universities across the U.S. and Canada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In terms of sheer geography, \u003ca href=\"http://nextgenjournal.com/author/connor-toohill/\">Toohill\u003c/a> has arguably filled college media's biggest niche. At the moment, NextGen may be the only true national college news outlet by students for students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It covers matters of interest and importance to students \u003ca href=\"http://nextgenjournal.com/about/\">outside the bubble\u003c/a> of their own campuses -- \"from dorm life to Darfur, and from climate change to Kid Cudi.\" Recent topics under investigation and discussion on the NextGen home page ranged from Libya, Net neutrality, and campus break-dancing clubs to college graduation rates, the deficit, and Rebecca Black.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\"College students deserve their own Huffington Post.\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"Up until now, campus media, especially in the opinion sense, has just been localized,\" said Toohill, 19, a rising sophomore at the University of Notre Dame. \"There's nothing from our generation that is influential in the national sphere. We wanted to do something that can have influence nationally, that can bring our generation into the conversation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>The \"Osama Circus\"\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Amid the conversations -- and celebrations -- that have erupted in the wake of Osama Bin Laden's killing, NextGen has published more stories on more angles than any other student media outlet.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The site featured \u003ca href=\"http://nextgenjournal.com/2011/05/college-students-celebrate-bin-ladens-death/\">dispatches on student reactions\u003c/a> at roughly two dozen schools -- from West Point cadets running around in \"crazy patriotic costumes and underwear\" to Stanford University students who \"roasted s'mores, drank beer (mostly the American variety), and chanted 'U-S-A U-S-A!'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11957\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 112px\">\u003ca rel=\"attachment wp-att-11957\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/05/nextgen-journal-gives-college-students-spin-on-global-events/connor-toohill/\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11957\" title=\"connor toohill\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2011/05/connor-toohill.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"112\" height=\"150\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"> \u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It debated the merits of the country's celebratory mood, including a Michigan State University student \u003ca href=\"http://nextgenjournal.com/2011/05/the-osama-circus/\">who decried\u003c/a> the \"Osama circus\" atmosphere and a Tulane University student who separately described \u003ca href=\"http://nextgenjournal.com/2011/05/celebrating-bin-ladens-death/\">the national party\u003c/a> as \"perhaps the only time that I've felt proud to call myself a young college student.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NextGen also reflected on the meaning of the terror kingpin's death for current students who were in grade school when 9/11 occurred. 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Many of them were repeatedly imploring lawmakers and the public to think of \"the next generation\" when deciding what economic recovery tactics to take.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toohill noticed one important set of voices missing from the debate. \"I was kind of frustrated about the fact that everyone was talking about the next generation and what we should do for the next generation,\" he said, \"but there were no voices of the next generation, my generation, in the conversation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Toohill spoke up. In an 800-word \u003ca href=\"http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2009/apr/05/lz1e5toohill22146-debt-and-my-next-generation/\">community essay\u003c/a> published in the San Diego Union-Tribune, he discussed the need for federal government \"fiscal responsibility\" to help stave off \"a crushing and unsustainable national debt.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11958\" class=\"wp-caption left\" style=\"max-width: 140px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-11958\" title=\"JackFitzpatrick\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2011/05/JackFitzpatrick-140x140.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jack Fitzpatrick\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"At this moment, our nation is in a deep financial hole,\" he wrote. \"We must stop digging, making the decision to leave some aspects of energy, education and health care reform to future administrations or to the private sector... As a member of the generation that will be tasked with solving these issues and paying for these proposals, I know one thing for certain: I would much rather inherit difficult policy problems than a $20 trillion national debt.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For weeks after the essay's premiere, Toohill dealt with a separate indebtedness. He felt he owed it to himself and his peers to do more. \"Basically, I wanted the conversation to continue,\" he said. \"My dream was to have many voices of our generation in the conversation -- different voices, with different perspectives, on all sorts of different topics.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The difference between Toohill and many others with similar dreams: He made his come true.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>Giving Writers Independence\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>NextGen's newsroom is located at the virtual nexus of \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/\">Google Docs\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://wordpress.org/\">WordPress\u003c/a>, and a mountain of email. Most staffers have never met in person. Toohill recruited a majority of the contributors himself, after stumbling across their personal blogs or other online writings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the site's strength is more views than news. Student opinions, in the Voices section, are published in droves, daily, an impressive feat for an enterprise that as of yet does not offer staffers money, course credit or enormous name recognition (the site's monthly readership is 12,000 and growing).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, its attraction to student writers is independence -- the independence to be what staff writer \u003ca href=\"http://nextgenjournal.com/author/jack-fitzpatrick/\">Jack Fitzpatrick\u003c/a> called \"edgy and entertaining, and also to talk about any issue, no matter how controversial it is.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\"NextGen address issues that are affecting any college student.\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>This independence especially interested \u003ca href=\"http://nextgenjournal.com/author/heather-regen/\">Heather Regen\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Growing up, Regen's family talked about all the red-button topics she said most want to avoid in polite conversation. \"To be able to hold your own at the dinner table, I really needed to know what was going on,\" said Regen, a rising sophomore at Georgetown University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One night, while eating dinner at a local pizza joint, she became embroiled in such an impassioned debate with her brother about Iraq and North Korea that two gentlemen at a nearby table were drawn in as de facto judges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their estimation, she won.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last fall, she joined NextGen, writing at first about college admissions, airport scanners, Four Loko, the State of the Union, and the rise in college textbook renting and downloading.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>One Word: Egypt\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Yet, as she said, \"What made me most excited about the entire process of pitching articles and writing them and keeping up with the world and being a part of the news rather than just reading the news was one word: Egypt.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the very start of the Arab uprisings, Regen's international relations professor told her it was an incredibly exciting time to be alive \"because history is happening right in front of you.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She laughed off the comment at the time, considering it an idealistic professor's love of her subject matter. And then Tunisia's government fell; unrest escalated in Yemen; and citizens took to the streets of Cairo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Regen recalled, \"I went back to her during office hours and said, 'You know, when you first talked about Egypt, I thought you were just being nostalgic for your college years and how exciting they were. But I believe you now. I really do think we are living through a time when history is being made.' Being able to report the news while that's happening is something that's incredibly gratifying.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early February, she wrote \u003ca href=\"http://nextgenjournal.com/2011/02/in-egypt-forget-twitter-look-to-our-generation/\">a review of the Egyptian protests\u003c/a> for NextGen, arguing that the large, disaffected youth population caused the revolution to spread much more than new media. As she declared in the headline, \"In Egypt, Forget Twitter -- Look to Our Generation.\" Five days after the piece was posted, Andrew Revkin \u003ca href=\"http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/07/egypt-inkblots-agendas-and-feeding-9-billion/\">linked to it\u003c/a> in a blog he maintains for the New York Times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For college papers, most of what you write about focuses on the university itself,\" Regen said. \"Whereas NextGen Journal gives me a way to address more global issues, address issues that are affecting any college student, instead of college students specific to one university. I see it as an outlet to break the college bubble.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca rel=\"attachment wp-att-11961\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/05/nextgen-journal-gives-college-students-spin-on-global-events/pbs-mediashift-logo-final/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-11961\" title=\"pbs mediashift logo final\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2011/05/pbs-mediashift-logo-final-140x140.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"94\" height=\"94\">\u003c/a>This story was originally published by \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/mediashift\">PBS MediaShift\u003c/a>\u003cem>, covering the intersection of media and technology. 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He's the charismatic brainiac who's created more than 2,000 instructional videos about everything from \u003ca href=\"http://www.khanacademy.org/video/photosynthesis?playlist=Biology\">photosynthesis\u003c/a> to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.khanacademy.org/video/bay-of-pigs-invasion?playlist=History\">Bay of Pigs invasion\u003c/a>. As former New York City schools chancellor Joel Klein \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/05/thoughts-on-how-education-is-changing-or-not-before-our-eyes/\">recently noted\u003c/a>, \"Sal Khan has 50 million people on a site that doesn’t sell sex.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Self-effacing (\"Any joker in his closet can reach millions of people\"), fast-talking, and pragmatic, Khan spins his big-picture views about education in the same way he describes subjects like valence electrons or mortgage-backed securities: as a bemused observer pointing out the obvious. “If Isaac Newton had made YouTube videos about gravity, I wouldn’t have to!” Khan said at a recent \u003ca href=\"http://www.ted.com/talks/salman_khan_let_s_use_video_to_reinvent_education.html\">TED Talk\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But rather than quarterbacking from the sidelines, Khan is intentionally getting in the game. Some, including Bill Gates (who's donated millions of dollars into Khan's vision), believe his free YouTube videos, the full collection of which are called \u003ca href=\"http://www.khanacademy.org/\">The Khan Academy\u003c/a>, will profoundly change what we know as classroom instruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\"It’s going to be hard for teachers who have trouble letting go of the idea that they’re the sage on stage.\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In Silicon Valley, at least, it’s already in the works. What began as a series of helpful videos for his cousins is \u003ca href=\"http://lasdandkhanacademy.edublogs.org/about-our-pilot/\">being piloted\u003c/a> in the Los Altos School District in two fifth-grade and two seventh-grade math classes, and will likely expand to other grades and possibly even schools in the district next year.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's how it works: Students watch the videos in class (all of them produced by him), take “\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/04/can-gamification-boost-independent-learning/\">gamified” assessments\u003c/a> that determine whether they understand the concept, and move on to the next level when they’re ready. The teacher can monitor each student’s progress with a dashboard: the green bar shows they’re proficient, blue indicates they’re working on it, and red alerts teachers that students are stuck on a problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This approach seems to work for one simple reason: The fact that students can go back and replay the videos as many times as they need to understand a concept eliminates what Khan calls the “Swiss cheese” gaps in knowledge. Unlike with traditional classes, a student can’t move to the next level until he’s understood the one before it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though he’s the buzz of education circles – at two conferences in Silicon Valley where I saw him speak in the past six months, long lines of fans waited to thank him for his work-- Khan has his share of critics, too. Some educators think Khan is arrogant in believing that videos can replace the human touch in a classroom, and in the process squeeze teachers out of the equation. Others believe his focus on basic skill drills misses more important learning ideals, like critical thinking and collaboration. As an institution, education does not so easily adapt to newfangled ways. \"Entrenched systems don’t go away because Sal Khan is charming,” Klein said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I spoke to Khan about these questions, and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Q. How do you answer teachers who say your videos will replace them in the classroom?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">A. Depending on the teacher's mentality, I think this can actually make it a lot more fun. If I was a teacher, this is exactly the type of class I’d want to teach, because for the core skills, I don’t have to prepare in a traditional sense. But I do have to prepare for projects and all that, so I have to prepare for creative things. As a teacher, when I’m in a room, I’m relying on my innate skills and teaching abilities, I haven’t scripted it ahead of time. I’m doing like a doctor would. I wouldn’t have a script about what I’m going to say to the next patient. They look at the patient’s data, they ask questions, and they try to diagnose the patient and somehow cure the patient. It’s the same exact model here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">But it’s going to be hard for teachers who have trouble letting go of the idea that they’re the sage on stage, that they have all the information, \"Do not question me, be quiet,\" and it's all about classroom management. It throws all that stuff out the door. But the people who are attracted to this model is exactly the type of people we want and who this will work for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q. Are you adding any input from teachers?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">A. Yes, we’ve had input on both the videos and creating the software, from teachers and students. In Los Altos, it’s a very tight design. We have our engineers in the classrooms on a regular basis. They’re talking to students and teachers. In fact, they figured out that some kids were gaming the multiple choice, and we realized we had to fix that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Sometimes we see what teachers are doing in class, and we realize that it should be a feature in the videos or the software. For example, we've created a profile of the students for the teachers to look at. But teachers have started to use it in a different way. They're asking students to look at their profiles and come up with their own goals. And right now the kids are looking at it and writing their goals on notecards. So we thought we should automate that process and build it in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">And using that profile, Khan Academy can make suggestions too. So students can say: “These are my 20 goals for the month.” “These are my three definite goals and these are my three stretch goals” and you can look at it at the end of the week compared to where you were.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">So we’re learning a ton from the teachers themselves. And we're actually going to hire some of them. There are teachers who were laid off, some of the best teachers the district has. It was a travesty at first, then we thought, Gee, we could hire them. These teachers have been masterful with the technology and what to do with it. They weren’t afraid of the ambiguity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q. How is the teacher's dashboard and assessment piece working out?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">A. It’s been working well. A teachers has an iPad now, so she’s walking around with the students’ dashboard, which highlights who’s doing what, who needs help. Before she helps a student, she can flip to their profile, see what they’ve been working on, look at their goals, then she can talk to the student, and she intervenes. It feels like a doctor with a patient's medical history, but way more advanced because they know the history of the student going into the intervention. Also it's cool because it looks like the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q. Did you create an app for the teacher's dashboard?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">A. Right now, it’s a Web interface, so anyone can use it without an iPad, but we’re building a dedicated mobile version. And that’s where most of our resources are going, hiring engineers and designers. Any teacher in the world can do this right now, and they are. 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Giving students an introduction to programming helps peel back the layers of what happens inside computers and how computers communicate with one another online. Programming knowledge, even at a very basic level, makes technology seem less magical and more manageable. Programming also teaches other important skills, including math and logic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many students don't have access to computer science courses until college, and that's a missed opportunity to introduce younger students to programming. 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Since its release in 2007, over 800,000 users have joined the Scratch website and have shared over 1.7 million projects -- from games to animations. That sharing aspect is an important part of the Scratch community, so the projects that are uploaded to the site are licensed under the Creative Commons attribute and share alike license so that others can download and remix them. Scratch is available free of charge and runs on Mac, Windows, and Linux computers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>ALICE\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/05/5-tools-to-introduce-programming-to-kids/alice200/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11631\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-11631\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2011/05/alice200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"146\" height=\"146\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2011/05/alice200.jpg 200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2011/05/alice200-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2011/05/alice200-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2011/05/alice200-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2011/05/alice200-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2011/05/alice200-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 146px) 100vw, 146px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://www.alice.org\">Alice\u003c/a> is a free and open source 3D programming environment designed to teach students object-oriented and event-driven programming. 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But \u003ca href=\"http://mindstorms.lego.com/en-us/Default.aspx\">Lego Mindstorm\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/05/5-tools-to-introduce-programming-to-kids/mindstorms200/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11634\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11634 alignright\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2011/05/mindstorms200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"136\" height=\"136\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2011/05/mindstorms200.jpg 200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2011/05/mindstorms200-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2011/05/mindstorms200-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2011/05/mindstorms200-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2011/05/mindstorms200-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2011/05/mindstorms200-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 136px) 100vw, 136px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://mindstorms.lego.com/en-us/Default.aspx\">s\u003c/a> also enables robotics-building. 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Although the price tag for these devices may not seem like a huge cost-savings -- equipping every student with a laptop for the school year is always an expensive proposition -- the ability to bypass software licensing, the promise of a virus-free device, and the power to control all these devices and their various permissions remotely all make this a very attractive deal for schools that are interested in one-to-one computing. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The administrative panel for the Chromebooks will give schools the ability to lock down access to some applications -- so that kindergartners, for example, don't have e-mail access while middle and high schoolers do. And Web filtering at school does restrict access to certain sites. But 3G can bypass that, as can Internet at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">How do schools address acceptable use of Internet resources when a device that's assigned a student goes off-campus?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. What's Your Internet Infrastructure Look Like?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Is your school ready for every student to have her or his own device connected to the Internet? Can your bandwidth -- wired or wireless -- handle it? As nothing is stored locally on the Chromebooks, students will have to have reliable access to their files that are stored in the cloud. Google does say that it plans to add offline support for Gmail, Docs, and Calendar this year. But a Web-centered machine will require the Web for everything, and spotty and sporadic Internet access at school will be a problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. Who Will Pay?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">In the recent \u003ca href=\"http://www.tomorrow.org/speakup/speakup_congressEd.html\">SpeakUp 2010 survey\u003c/a>, 67% of parents said that they'd be willing to pay for mobile devices and for associated data plans for their children if they knew these devices could be utilized at school. While certainly the $20 per student per month fee will add up quickly and may well be beyond most schools' budgets, schools may want to consider alternatives to funding these projects. Will parents be willing to pay all or part of the fee?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Will schools be able to use the Chromebooks and online resources to replace textbooks, as well as other tools like calculators, paper, projectors, etc.? And will this in turn free up other funds that could pay for Chromebooks?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. Are Your Teachers Ready?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Successful one-to-one computing initiatives aren't as simple as just passing out devices to each student. One-to-one computing requires rethinking how instruction happens, how resources are accessed and allocated. Are your school's teachers ready for not just one-to-one computing -- a huge shift in itself -- but for one-to-one computing that's solely focused on Web resources? Are you using Web-based applications, for example? How much does your school rely on software installed on machines, and can you make the transition to other online tools instead?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5. Do You Trust Google?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Schools that join the Chromebooks for Education program will likely be (or become) Apps for Education customers. This means that schools are handing over much of their IT -- hardware and software and email and storage -- to one company. Of course, many schools already have this sort of relationship with another technology brand, Apple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Educators and parents, what are your thoughts on Chromebooks for Education?\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca rel=\"attachment wp-att-11449\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/05/seven-questions-to-ask-about-texting-in-class/attachment/87549956/\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11449\" title=\"87549956\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2011/05/87549956-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite their \u003ca href=\"http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1572/teens-cell-phones-text-messages\">ubiquity\u003c/a> among students, mobile phones are still viewed as contraband in most classrooms. Students are told to turn their phones off, leave them in their lockers, or leave them at home. This response to what is arguably the most ubiquitous 1-to-1 computing device available in our schools today undoubtedly led many students to list bans on mobile phones as one of the biggest \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/04/students-complain-about-archaic-internet-blocking-rules/\">obstacles to technology use \u003c/a>in the recent \u003ca href=\"http://www.tomorrow.org/speakup/speakup_congress.html\">Speak Up 2010 report\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That same report \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/04/parents-weigh-in-on-paying-for-mobile-access-in-schools/\">also indicated\u003c/a> that parents and students were paying for these devices themselves -- and were more than willing to purchase data plans if mobile phones would be accepted in the classroom. 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If for no other reason, this may be cause to think twice about blanket bans on mobile phones in the classroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, a number of projects underway are moving forward in exploring how these devices can be used for educational purposes in countries outside the U.S. where there are far fewer computers per household.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.worldbank.org/edutech/sms-education-pakistan\">World Bank\u003c/a>'s ICT and education specialist Michael Trucano recently highlighted a number of interesting pilot projects in Pakistan that are demonstrating how those with even very low-end mobile phones can leverage these devices to open up new learning opportunities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trucano describes a project at Asghar Mall College in Rawalapindi where students receive a daily vocabulary quiz via SMS (mobile phone text). The multiple choice quiz is addressed to each student individually. The students reply to the quiz via SMS, then receive an automated response based on their answer. This response notes whether or not the student was correct, and uses the correct answer in a sample sentence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"This sort of thing is no substitute for school, of course,\" writes Trucano. \"But, given current test messaging rates in Pakistan -- a country with some of the fastest growth in recent years in text messaging in the Asia-Pacific region, as well as some of the lowest tarif rates -- it is quite cheap. It is 'on-the-go.' It is supplemental to what is being taught in the classroom, and increasingly easy to do, given the technology tools and code base out there. While Pakistan may not see high household penetration rates of desktop computers connected to the Internet for many, many years to come, most every household already has access to a small connected 'computer' of a different sort -- the mobile phone -- and this project is seeking to capitalize on this reality.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Trucano also notes that some of these students may have been educated in very large, lecture-based classrooms up until now, and the feedback via SMS may be their first experience with this sort of \"personalized\" response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that vein, some questions to consider:\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>What's the impact of messages related to classwork when they're part of a large stream of messages students receive from friends, family, horoscope advice, sports scores and so on?\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>What sort of learning happens best (or is reinforced best, perhaps) via SMS?\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>How can these sorts of messages be adapted to students' progress and how can they be sequenced and scaffolded over time?\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>How many students are able and willing to participate in these sorts of educational activities via their mobile phone? 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How can schools and parents take better advantage of students' phone usage and ownership -- even if it isn't something that necessarily happens \u003cem>in\u003c/em> the classroom?\u003c/p>\n\n",
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