"It doesn't take long to get out of the loop with teenagers," said Mountain View High School Principal Aaron Maybon. "They come up with new and creative ways to cheat pretty fast."
Mountain View recently enacted a ban on digital media players after school officials realized some students were downloading formulas and other material onto the players.
New technologies often have unintended uses. Take the Ipod as a case in point. It was developed with the intention of playing music (and later videos), but its applications now go well beyond that. Here are 10 rather unforeseen, even surprising, uses:
This is a web site devoted to world's best practice in student assessment in higher education, and related topics: here you'll find links to online articles, books, journals, and other relevant information. We hope that the information provided here will be of use to researchers and practitioners working in this area.
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Research Journals with RSS feeds
Here is an OPML file with a list of RSS feeds for various research journals related to education, psychology, and technology.
Why Educational Podcasting ?… Read on
Doug Dickinson
March 2006
When you are thinking that you should find out what podcasting has to offer you and your children/students give a thought to the following:
• It provides another way of sharing and transmitting audio for teaching and learning in schools and at home
• Children and young people are able to record, produce and publish on the Internet podcasts of ......
iPods at Duke
iPod at Duke In collaboration with Apple Computer, Inc., Duke distributed 20GB Apple's iPod devices to each first-year student in August 2004 to stimulate creative uses of digital technology in academic and campus life. Since then, Duke has continued to incorporate portable digital listening and recording devices to faculty and students that has allowed for innovative instruction and learning beyond the boundaries of the classroom.
Podtrac provides advertisers with all the key metrics and tools to reach their target audience - and all the essentials that podcasters need to deliver relevant advertising to a new and growing audience.
Podtrac's podcast advertising essentials include demographic analysis and targeting, third-party measurement, content ratings, planning and purchasing, creative rotation, advertising delivery options, and more.
Podtrac, a podcasting service provider, today announced it has developed the largest podcasting demographics database worldwide, with over 55,000 detailed demographic profiles, representing more than 22 million U.S. podcast listeners and viewers.
Podtrac also announced the findings from its most recent quarterly survey. According to their survey, over half (56%) of the podcast audience is listening and viewing podcasts on their computers, 46% on a portable device, and the vast majority (88%) listen or view the entire podcast episode.
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Tuesday, May 02, 2006
Podcast survey: FIR listeners are influential, educated, mobile and global
[FIR Listener Survey] The results are in from the first FIR Listener Survey that ran during April, providing us with invaluable feedback on a wide range of topics including what listeners think of the show, how and where they listen, and with some great suggestions on how to make it even better.
The survey results also provide a credible picture of who the listeners are to a podcast such as this, with a clear demographic view on listeners’ occupations, geographic locations, budget responsibility and education levels.
In all, the survey attracted 126 responses, a meaningful representative number from which to draw valid conclusions and make decisions on developing the show for the future. We estimate that each bi-weekly episode of FIR attracts between 800 and 1,000 listeners. This estimate is primarily based on download statistics from Libsyn where the MP3 files are hosted.
We will be publishing the entire survey results soon with the detailed responses to each of the 22 questions and some pretty graphs, including responses to the open-ended questions. All we will omit will be personally-identifiable information: the names of those of you who chose to provide such information when taking the survey will not be published.
In the meantime, here are some headline figures from the survey results.
Listening to FIR:
* Half of the listeners (49.2%) listen to every episode
* 45% get hold of the MP3 files via iTunes; 18% subscribe to the RSS feed; only 2.4% listen to the audiostream from the website
* Nearly two-thirds of you (61%) listen to FIR on a digital media player like an iPod
* Where you listen varies widely - 22% in the office; 16% on the commute to work, 15% at home, and 10% when jogging or doing other exercise
* Podcast-listening tends to be a solo activity - 95% of you listen to FIR by yourselves
* Over 48% of you have been listening to FIR for more than six months, and 13.5% of you have been listening since the very first episode in January 2005
Who the Listeners Are:
* 14% have senior management positions in agencies
* 13% are independent communication consultants
* Nearly 13% are managers or directors in corporate communication positions
* Over one third of you (38%) work outside the communication profession in areas as diverse as aviation, IT, environmental engineering, local government, telecommunications, publishing, utilities, energy, academia, retail, and banking
* 81% of listeners are men (so, logically, 19% are women)
* Nearly two-thirds of you (64%) have budget responsibility in your organization
* The majority of listeners (60%) falls into the 25-44 age range followed by 27% in the 45-54 range
* Over 44% have a BA, BS or other four-year degree, and 30% have a Masters, PhD or other post-graduate degree
* Just over 15% are IABC members although the majority (53%) has no professional affiliation
* 41% of you listen to no other communication-related podcasts except FIR. However, many of you also enjoy listening to podcasts by other communicators, especially Eric Schwartzman’s On The Record Online (31%), Edelman’s Earshot (27.8%), Lee Hopkins’ Better Communications (19.8%) and Joseph Jaffe’s Across the Sound (19%)
Where the Listeners Are:
* Top five countries - United States (48%), Canada (15.6%), UK (14.8%), Australia (6.6%), Netherlands (3.3%)
* Geographic breakdown - North America (64%); Europe including UK (26%); Australia (6.6%), rest of the world (3%)
Likes and Dislikes:
* Nearly all of you (97%) like Shel’s and Neville’s news and commentary discussions (and we’re very pleased about that!)
* 64% of listeners like the brief interviews we include in some episodes
* 10% of you enjoy the different outro music we play in each show while nearly a quarter (23.8%) of you don’t
* Show notes are liked by 39% of listeners (less than 1% dislike them)
* Listeners’ comments and our discussions of them were rated highly by 74% of listeners (less than 2% of you said you didn’t like this show segment)
* Many of you like the contributions from our correspondents, especially from Lee Hopkins (49%) and Eric Schwartzman (40%)
* The big dislike - over half of you (52.4%) don’t like the typically long length of the show
Recommendations:
The suggestions for what we could do with the show in its ongoing development and to improve it as a listening experience came in the open-ended comments from survey participants - collectively over 200 individual comments, and we will be posting all of them, verbatim. A clear majority of recommendations and suggestions were related to show length with requests to make it shorter.
We are listening to what you’ve told us! What we plan to do about it all will be a discussion point in a forthcoming show during May.
Again, we would like to sincerely thank every one of the 126 people who took the survey. You are truly a community.
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The new generation of learners
"Different kinds of experiences lead to different brain structures" - Dr. B. Berry, Baylor College of Medicine.
According to Marc Prensky, http://www.marcprensky.com/writing/default.asp in his article Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants, children born in North America after 1985 are radically different from the previous generations because they have always had digital resources in their homes and schools, they are native speakers of technology. To these digital natives instantaneous global access to people and resources has always been available at the click of a mouse; music has always been personally portable/shareable; photographs and video are for sharing with friends and relatives. In other words, vast amounts of information are instantly available in multimodal and frequently interactive formats.
To quote Marc "Educators have slid into the 21st century—and into the digital age—still doing a great many things the old way. It's time for education leaders to raise their heads above the daily grind and observe the new landscape that's emerging. Recognizing and analyzing its characteristics will help define the education leadership with which we should be providing our students, both now and in the coming decades."
According to Susan El-Shamy in her book Training for the new and emerging generations, digital natives learn differently. They need:
1. fast paced, highly stimulating presentations
2. increased interactivity with the content and each other
3. information that relates to the learner’s world
4. multiple options for obtaining knowledge.
Medical education can respond to the needs of these students by increasing the amount of :
• multimodal content (graphic, auditory, hands on)
• active learning (read, write, discuss)
• experiential/contextual learning (job shadowing, simulation labs)
• problem based learning, team projects.
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