Education Week offers the most popular of their
videos
from the year 2015. These deal with K-12 education, but the concepts demonstrated apply to all ages.
Taylor Armerding reviews some of the issues that arise with
monitoring student Internet use. Armerding cites a report by Jules Polonetsky and Joseph Jerome entitled Student Data: Trust, Transparency and the Right of Consent which addresses "Human Monitoring Services" such as Gaggle. Armerding provides information on proposed governmental regulation of educational institutions to restrict the collection and distribution of data about student technology use.
The University of California at Los Angeles has been gathering data on the
backgrounds and beliefs of college freshman
for about fifty years. The Chronicle of Higher Education has compiled this in an interactive format.
The comment stream also had active dialog from educators. One did defend Surgata Mitra by providing a link to an hour long program of Mitra's talk at MoodleMootUK 2010, where he provides background information on his Hole in the Wall teaching efforts (video clip may display below). Mitra's research provides several insights:
Mitra left unsupervised computers in remote or impoverished locations in housings sized for children 7-14. The open locations provided community pressure that kept kids from going to improper sites.
When these new resources were left in a village, at first the bullies fought over them, but soon tired of the equipment. Then the studious children started to use the equipment. To complete the sequence, older girls (ages 12-14) would start to administer computer access, establishing community rules for use of this educational resource.
Students assigned to learn a topic would learn about 30% of the knowledge needed to pass an exam. To learn enough to pass an exam requires interaction with an encouraging adult who gives regular feedback.
An implication of this third point is that people stop learning short of mastery unless they are encouraged or induced to go further. This causes me to think that Dale Stephens' educational success was an outlier, and not a model for common replication.
-DD
David Kapuler wrote about "Ten Educational Apps for Facebook" in Tech and Learning. These links include tools for tagging recently read books, a typing test, and even Zoho Office.
