The American Association of Deaf Students April 2014 Study of 4 groups of students:
1) those hard of hearing,
2) with learning disabilities,
3) English language learners and
4) with no identified learning disability.
ALL showed significant improvement in retention using computer tablet notes.
click here for What We Learned from 5 million Books by Harvard researchers Jean-Baptiste Michel and Erez Lieberman Aiden
Culturomics is a form of computational lexicology that studies human behavior and cultural trends through the quantitative analysis of digitized texts– presented here by
The guys are charming and funny and the results of their research, in charts, are revelatory– in the possibiliities they illumine. Play with the tool at ngrams.googlelabs.com. V awesome.
Teacher, Kevin of Meandering Minds blog uses Voicethread and Google Docs to guide students in viewing and analyzing their digital life.
Give it a look and listen– not a bad look-back for non-students, too, but critical for student growth.