If you follow edtech blog or twitter feeds, you likely encountered the description of a recently released study concluding that providing computers to low income middle school students (mostly) did nothing to improve their academic performance. I first encountered the description of this study on TechCrunch. This study has not been published, but has been [...]
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Posted 24 May 2013
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I often have a particular frustration when listening to politicians and pundits. The frustration is basically that pronouncements offer no opportunity for give and take. I cannot tell what the person really meant and I am more concerned with how the remark may be interpreted by others. There is a certain ambiguity in simplicity that [...]
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Posted 08 October 2012
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I don’t focus on the research literature on this site, but I want to make an exception. I encourage those of you interested in educational research make the effort to read the article by Rohrer & Pahler in the June/July issue of Educational Researcher (2010, 39(5), 406-412). The article argues that researchers have made a [...]
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Posted 11 October 2010
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I read a recent post from The Blue Skunk Blog that is evidently a repost. I actually think I remember the original post and belief I responded to that post as well. Johnson states – I would find standards in the following areas extremely helpful as I try to evaluate our district’s technology infrastructure and [...]
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Posted 27 September 2010
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I read once that great researchers pay special attention not so much when the obvious happens or when they find nothing, but when they encounter an outcome that runs contrary to what they expected. It is in these situations that there is the chance to really learn something. A couple of reports this week revealed [...]
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Posted 14 July 2010
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A recent comment by researcher Jakob Nielson is likely to generate a good deal of discussion among bloggers (the MacWorld version, Nielson post) and will likely generate some studies from graduate students. The topic of whether a reader benefits equally from processing content presented as a book, on a Kindle, or on an iPad certainly [...]
My academic upbringing left a residual of guilt. I think that was the idea. I don’t feel quite right when I advocate for something without being able to offer references and the references are much more heavily weighted if they contain a methods and results section. Else, how does one avoid the tendency of falling [...]
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