A series of psychology experiments conducted by Betsy Sparrow of Columbia University and reported by the NYT suggest that we may be moving toward distributed memory. That is, knowing that information is accessible to us through the web at the press of a few imprints on our touch screen, we make pointers in our brains […]
Kids Will Rise to Match Their Own Facebook Profile #EdTech #Education #SocialMedia
Instant messaging on AOL was one thing, checking-in everywhere you go, tweeting about the experience you are having, and then instantly sharing the photos you take while you are there is the next level. Twitter was founded in 2006; Facebook only two years before that. This means that the tweens who were early adopters to […]
A critical examination of School of One pilot study
School of One is all over the blogosphere. I took a close look at their website tonight for the first time. The program is interesting. It appears that the company is using a comprehensive algorithm that is not only adaptive inside of the box, but outside as well. The algorithm considers how best to meet […]
Feedback Loops to Change Behavior
The cover article for this month’s (19.07) Wired magazine is about feedback loops. Goetz reviews studies in which people provided with immediate feedback about their actions in a non-threatening way respond better than an abstract threat or incentive. What might this mean for designing EdTech applications? If student input is immediate and teacher feedback is […]
