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By Dr. Chris Dede
Monthly Archive for April, 2010
Location and Date:
The 2010 Ubiquitous Learning Conference will take place at the UBC’s Robson Square in downtown Vancouver, Canada from December 10-11, 2010. For more information please visit www.ULConference.com
Call for Papers
If you intend to present a paper at the conference, your participation begins with submission of a paper proposal. For information on proposals, presentation types, and other options please see http://ubi-learn.com/conference-2011/call-for-papers/#ppt . To submit a proposal, please see http://ubi-learn.com/conference-2011/call-for-papers/ . If your proposal is accepted, you will then need to register for the conference.
Registration
Those who submit paper proposals should register following the acceptance of the proposal. Conference delegates who do not intend to present may register at any time. For registration options, or to register for the 2010 Ubiquitous Learning Conference, see: our registration page.
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Scope and Concerns
Information about the Ubiquitous Learning community scope and concerns can be seen here.
Accommodations
Accommodation information can be found on our website here.
Please feel free to contact us at any time with questions or concerns at support@ubi-learn.com
The third issue of Volume 2 of Ubiquitous Learning: An International Journal has now been published.
Volume 2, Number 3 contains:
- Digitizing Traditional Notes into Searchable Documents: Implications for University Students who are Disabled by Becky Sue Parton, Robert Hancock and Kay Maurin.
- Screen Nightmares and Media Literacy: Video, Television and Violence by Karen Ritzenhoff.
- Innovating Literature Circles with Computer Assisted Language Learning Technology for Taiwanese EFL College Learners: An Initial Finding by Gloria Shu-Mei Chwo.
- Using Technology to Engage the Distance Learner by Tom LeNeau and Debra Bohlman.
- An Innovative Approach to a Persistent Problem: One Preservice Teacher’s Experience with a Digital Learning Object Designed to Enhance Classroom Questioning by Stephen R. Hart and Graham J. Passmore.
- ICT Tools Supporting Teacher Practice in Language Acquisition by Hiria McRae, Tabitha McKenzie and Rawiri Toia.
Continue reading ‘Ubiquitous Learning Journal, Volume 2, Number 3 now available’
By Greg Miller, in Science
Play a computer game, boost your IQ—that’s the claim made by some software companies peddling so-called brain-training programs. It’s probably an empty promise, according to the largest study to date of brain-training software, which finds no evidence of general cognitive benefits. Yet the study’s limitations give brain-training advocates plenty to gripe about.
The idea for the study originated with a BBC science television show, Bang Goes the Theory. Producers contacted Adrian Owen at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge, U.K., to help design an experiment to test the efficacy of computer brain training. Many of these programs are set up like a game, and playing along supposedly boosts memory, attention, and other cognitive functions. But few rigorous studies have been conducted on them, and many researchers question whether even the best programs do anything more than make people better at the game itself.
From Stephen Shankland in cnet news’ Deep Tech:
The face-off between Apple and Adobe Systems concerning Flash on the iPhone and iPad is a perfect fit for today’s world of fanboys and flame wars. But beneath the surface, it’s not all as simple as it seems.
There are plenty convenient rhetorical points for those who want to find a place in the debate: Apple exerts draconian control over its walled garden. Flash is a buggy, insecure, resource hog. Apple is taking a stand for the betterment of the Web. Apple is inflicting a crippled Web on its customers for its selfish ends.
The latest issue, Volume 2, Number 2, of Ubiquitous Learning: An International Journal includes:
- Toward a Generic Mobile Learning Framework by Xin Bai and Michael B. Smith
- D³: Empowering Technology Integration in Education by Larry Taylor and Mary Taylor.
- Ubiquitous Research: Integrating Library Resources into Online Courses by Kate Lyons and Elisabeth Tappeiner.
- Effects of the Length of Tenure of Child Care Center Teachers on their Instructional Practices by W. Robert Houston and Pamela F. Tobe.
Produced by Ben Wolff in Spotlight on Digital Media and Learning
StudentSpeak Webisode 5 from Spotlight on Vimeo.
From Ed.gov
“By 2020, America will once again have the highest proportion of college graduates in the world”
-President Barack Obama,
Address to Congress, February 24, 2009
From Jean Yung in the Global Post:
After watching a 13-year-old boy operate a desktop PC at the Shanghai Exhibition Hall in 1984, China’s senior leader Deng Xiaoping famously said, “To universalize computers, one must begin with the little ones.”
These words have pushed the development of China’s technology infrastructure forward over the last 25 years. Even today, computer teachers in Shanghai proudly echo Deng’s remark, even as they readily acknowledge the shortcomings of tech education in Shanghai classrooms.
Recently published in Volume 2, Number 2 of Ubiquitous Learning: An International Journal are:
- Ubiquitous Collaboration (uC) Learning: Connecting the Physical and Virtual Worlds by Walter Rodriguez, Stephen M. Fiore, Kristine De Welde, Deborah S. Carstens and Veton Z. Këpuska.
- Measuring the Environmental Impact of Online Learning: Where do we Start? by Ruth May, Vanessa Cox, Stanley Kroder and Geralyn Franklin.
- Mapping Conceptual Change: A Unique Approach for Measuring the Impact of Virtual Learning by Gregory MacKinnon and Jon Saklofske.
- Technology Support as a Vital Component to Promote Laptop-Assisted Learning by Paula Cook MacKinnon.