Sugar is an activity-focused, free/libre open-source software learning platform for children. Collaboration, reflection, and discovery are integrated directly into the user interface. Through Sugar's clarity of design, children and teachers have the opportunity to use computers on their own terms. Students can reshape, reinvent, and reapply both software and content into powerful learning activities and experiences.
#OpenSource with #SLU gives students practical software development experience and helps researchers with their custom software needs.
“We are trying to, first, give students real-world software development experience. Second, build software that supports research. Third, promote a center of gravity for open source software development and broader conversations about open scholarship on campus.”
Daniel Shown,
Open Source with SLU
A grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation will further the work of the Open Source Program Office (#OSPO) at UC Santa Cruz (@ucsc) work with UC partners at Berkeley, Davis, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and San Diego to promote #OpenSource research, teaching, and public service.
#EdTech#Schools#Education: "Schools spend a lot of money on edtech, and most of the time it’s a waste of their limited funds. According to the Edtech Evidence Exchange, educators estimate that “85% of edtech tools are poor fits or poorly implemented”, indicating very weak returns for the $25 billion or more annually spent on edtech in the US alone. The problem is that school procurement of edtech is rarely based on rigorous or independent evidence. The Edtech Evidence Exchange is one example of a new type of organization in education that is aiming to address this problem, by constructing an evidence base to support edtech spending decisions.
In a new paper just published in Research in Education, Carlos Ortegon, Matthias Decuypere and I conceptualize these new edtech evidence intermefiary organizations as edtech brokers. Edtech brokers perform roles such as guiding local schools in “evidence-based” procurement, adoption, and pedagogical use of edtech, and have the mission to support teachers and school authorities to modernize in safe, reliable, and cost-effective ways. Edtech brokers are appearing around the world yet they have not, as yet, captured much critical attention. We kicked off our project on edtech brokers a couple of years ago, with Carlos Ortegon taking the lead for his doctoral research and lead-authoring the paper entitled “Mediating educational technologies: Edtech brokering between schools, academia, governance and industry” as the first major output."
One of my students’ #edtech projects was to research #accessibility tools that we could 3D print for others in our school. One of the tools that we ended up #3dprinting was a microscope phone mount for our science classes.
This also was great mounted on my #telescope today at home as we got ready to look at the #eclipse with a solar filter. Much easier to share and talk about what we see as well as take photos and videos. Accessibility options benefit everyone.
“We aim to create a free, #OpenSource tool that will empower everyday users of social media to increase the diversity of information and posts in their social media feed,”
Bryan Boots, Ph.D.
Henry W. Bloch
School of Management
University of Missouri-Kansas City
#JDLE2024
2e atelier de l'après-midi (auquel j'assiste, parce qu'il y en a plein d'autres, en parallèle) : Lancer un « Appel à Communs » dans l’éducation, animé par @framaka
Un 1er « appel à communs » sera lancé dans l’éducation en 2025.
Son objectif sera d’accompagner, soutenir et aider à passer à l’échelle les projets de la Forge (du numérique éducatif) sélectionnés pour leur haut potentiel et leur fort impact afin de proposer des services numériques de qualité. https://journee-du-libre-educatif.forge.aeif.fr/intervention/115-2/
#UConn awarded $4.5M US Department of Energy grant to develop an #OpenSource software to help power grid operators nationwide revolutionize how renewable energy sources are integrated into the electrical grid.
Fort Lewis College wins EPA award (and $75K in funding) for #OpenSource Droplet Digital PCR System for the Rapid and Accurate Detection of Bacteria from Environmental Water Samples.
💡 Si, comme moi, vous avez une activité dans les #Edtech, les #EIAH, le #NumériqueÉducatif, etc., pensez à compléter le questionnaire (moins de 5 min) de @rjc_eiah2024 sur vos habitudes d'accès à l'information :
To reach a greater diversity of students, University of Washington researchers taught high schoolers to code by combining cultural research into various embroidery traditions—such as Mexican, Arab and Japanese—with “computational embroidery.” The method lets users encode embroidery patterns on a computer through an #OpenSource#coding language called #TurtleStitch in which they fit visual blocks together.