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Aug 14, 2012
Technology and Child Development: Evidence from the One Laptop per Child Program
Although many countries are aggressively implementing the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) program, there is a lack of empirical evidence on its effects. This paper presents the impact of the first large-scale randomized evaluation of the OLPC program, using data collected after 15 months of implementation in 319 primary schools in rural Peru. The results indicate that the program increased the ratio of computers per student from 0.12 to 1.18 in treatment schools. This expansion in access translated into substantial increases in use both at school and at home. No evidence is found of effects on enrollment and test scores in Math and Language. Some positive effects are found, however, in general cognitive skills as measured by Raven’s Progressive Matrices, a verbal fluency test and a Coding test.
Authors :
Cristia, Julian
Cueto, Santiago
Ibarraran, Pablo
Santiago, Ana
Severin, Eugenio
Published: February 2012
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MAPPING A PERSONALIZED LEARNING JOURNEY – K-12 STUDENTS AND PARENTS CONNECT THE DOTS WITH DIGITAL LEARNING
Mapping a Personalized Learning Journey – K-12 Students and Parents Connects the Dots with Digital Learning is the first in a two part series to document the key national findings from Speak Up 2011. This report focuses on how today’s students are personalizing their own learning, and how their parents are supporting this effort. The ways that students are personalizing their learning centers around three student desires including how students seek out resources that are digitally-rich, untethered and socially-based. The key questions being addressed in this report include:
How are students personalizing their learning?
How are parents helping students to personalize their learning journey?
What are the digitally-rich, untethered and socially based learning strategies that facilitate this process?
How can education stakeholders support students as they seek to personalize their learning?
What are the gaps between administrators’ views of personalized learning compared to parents’ and students’ views?
Key Findings from this year’s report include:
Students are adopting technologies and then adapting them to support their own self-directed learning. For example, 1 in 10 high school students have Tweeted about an academic topic. 46% of students have used Facebook as a collaboration tool for schoolwork.
Parents are supporting their children’s personalized learning journeys. 64% of parents report that they would purchase a mobile device for their child’s academic use at school.
There is a gap in offerings between what schools offer and what students want to learn. As a result, students are looking outside of the classroom to meet their personalized learning goals. For example, 12% of high school students have taken an online class on their own, outside of the classroom, to learn about a topic that interested them.
In math and science classrooms where students and teachers direct learning supported by technology, students’ interest in a STEM career is 27%, compared with 20% for students in traditional math and science classrooms.
Parents’ definition of academic success for their children places a strong emphasis on learning the right skills to be successful (73%)- more than any other metric for success, including monetary success or getting into a good college.
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Aug 13, 2012
Twitter for Trainers
Twitter is rapidly gaining a professional following, as it can be used to instantly share information about industry news, trends, and best practices with clients and colleagues. Twitter can also be used by workplace learning professionals in conducting training. This session will show you how to get started with Twitter and immediately begin using it to enhance training sessions, spread brand awareness, and stay on top of trending information.
Learning Objectives:
•Promote your brand (whether as a professional consultant or as an expert in WLP)
•Share knowledge with colleagues, clients, and learning participants
•Improve relationships with colleagues, clients, and learning participants through meaningful communication on Twitter
•Use Twitter as a research and news gathering tool to stay informed of industry trends.
By Kella Price
Dr. Kella B. Price has 13 years of experience in training and development, and talent management functions
Date: August 21, 2012
Time: 2:00 p.m. ET
http://webcasts.astd.org/webinar/463
The Bob Pike Group's 19th Annual Training and Learning Conference
As trainers, we don't follow maps to buried treasure and attaining what we seek is never so easy as finding an X that marks the spot, as Indiana Jones so memorably told his students in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. As a professor, Indy's long lectures were dusty, pedagogical, dry-showstoppers in the most negative sense. Only his rugged good looks kept female students awake.
Yet, the harrowing adventures through history with Indy have us willingly paying millions of dollars to watch him find that hidden treasure.
In the bold spirit of Harrison Ford, our 2012 annual Training and Learning Conference theme is Indiana Bob and the Kingdom of Crystal Clear Training. However, we have more in our educational arsenal than Indy ever had.
Participant-centered training-training where learners are interacting with the material often and not just listening-is one weapon against boredom which opens up a whole new educational adventure for trainer and learner which includes increased material retention and enthusiasm for the material while decreasing stress all around!
Attending this year's conference will reinforce material you may have gleaned in the past from our workshops while providing new information and techniques for creating interactive mlearning, converting classroom material to online formats effectively, integrating audience-response systems into the classroom and more from The Bob Pike Group trainers as well as guest faculty.
If you have never attended a workshop by The Bob Pike Group, come to our conference and experience the adrenaline rush of an amazing alternative to lecture-based training. At this year's conference, we are offering 38 different sessions and four certificate programs in Delivery, Design, Virtual Training and Facilitation. This conference also gives you an intimate opportunity to network with The Bob Pike Group training consultants outside of the classroom, a valuable opportunity no other conference offers.
Join us this fall and hear the Grail knight say, "You have chosen wisely."
http://www.bobpikegroup.com/pages.asp?pageid=35420
VIRTUAL TRAINING: BUILDING A GLOBAL TRAINING STRATEGY
Learn how to create customizable virtual learning environments that deliver interactive and engaging learning experiences. Enterprise organizations are expanding to support a global employee base. How can you develop effective learning environments delivered anywhere and anytime? Move training beyond learning management systems to reach learners at their point of need, by using blended methods to increase engagement and retention.
This webinar will also address how to move training beyond learning management systems to reach learners at their point of need, using blended methods that increase engagement and retention.
Learn how to
Enhance and extend your learning management systems.
Increase the reach and effectiveness of your training programs.
Create virtual training centers that best serve the needs of the organization and the learners.
Extend the life of training sessions and content
Speakers: Mark Bornstein and Tom Masotto of ON24
August 14, 2012 at 2 p.m. ET
http://webcasts.astd.org/webinar/449
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