Data to show how this technology will make a difference

[natasha telger]

Does anyone have general stats on the following items (or similar items) to help "paint" the current status and how this technology will make a difference?

I have seen/heard blanket statements, but I don't have real data to back it up.

Why not just use Google?

How do teachers find resources and how long so they spend finding them?

- searching on Internet

- collaboration meetings for teachers

- following social media

- "water cooler" discussions

- conferences

If they do not search for new materials, why and what impact does that have on the student outcomes?

What are some of the challenges with identifying curriculum? Time it takes to make sure resources match standards, determine if they are quality resources, figure out how to integrate them into the class, match it up to an assessment, etc.

 

[Steve Midgley]

Hi,

Great questions. Learning Registry is not designed to replace Google of course. Anyone who can find what they are looking for on Google should continue to use Google.

The primary issue Learning Registry is addressing is that there are many teaching/learning communities on the internet beyond Google and those systems do themselves a disservice by not sharing data between these systems. For example, Florida's CPALMS teacher portal and California's Brokers of Expertise sites both have useful content on them, and provide ways to access content, communities and other information in ways that Google does not. However, users of CPALMS do not have access to information that is on Brokers of Expertise and vice versa. Learning Registry is designed to let these systems connect with each other in ways that make sense for the users of each site.

Concretely, if Brokers of Expertise has Common Core standards alignment information about a number of resources, these alignments can shared into LR and other sites like CPALMS can show that information on their sites. This means each site has to do less work than before in terms of curating and managing the data on the site.

Does this help point the way in terms of why we are working on the Learning Registry project? It is not designed to replace a search engine, nor to replace existing teacher portals and learning object repositories. It is designed to make each of these more effective by sharing information that is traditionally locked up inside the "dark web" of each site.

Steve

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[Peter Pinch]

You may want to take a look at Project Tomorrow's annual Speak Up surveys. They survey teachers and students and I believe they have had questions about resource discovery for the past few years. 

http://www.tomorrow.org/speakup/index.html

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Subject: [learningregistry] Data to show how this technology will make a difference

Does anyone have general stats on the following items (or similar items) to help"paint" the current status and how this technology will make a difference?

I have seen/heard blanket statements, but I don't have real data to back it up.

Why not just use Google?

How do teachers find resources and how long so they spend finding them?

- searching on Internet

- collaboration meetings for teachers

- following social media

- "water cooler" discussions

- conferences

If they do not search for new materials, why and what impact does that have on the student outcomes?

What are some of the challenges with identifying curriculum? Time it takes to make sure resources match standards, determine if they are qualityresources, figure out how to integrate them into the class, match it up to an assessment, etc.

[natasha telger]

Thank you and I understand.  I am putting together an inforgraphic and wanted to show how the LR is a benefit to teachers.  I included some example such as leveraging resources by sharing/searching open education resources for a specific topic (from different schools, districts, and states), save time by finding open education resources that are already aligned with specific standards, get the perspective of other professionals by looking at reviews and rating, etc.

 

Thank you and I always appreciate your responses.

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[natasha telger]

Thank you Peter!

[Erick Emde]

Hi Natasha,

Will you post the infographic? I've found it challenging to get people to understand the benefits of the Learning Registry. A good graphic would help.

Thanks,

Erick

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[Jason Hoekstra]

+1 to Erick's comment, this would be a great communication piece and very helpful - I would also use this to help others get up to speed with the LR concepts.

[Glenn Moses]

I'd love to see this as well.  I wish there was more I could do to help.  Thanks for putting it together.  

[Marie Bienkowski]

Hello everyone,

  I'd like to direct your attention to a piece that Ashley Lee of SRI and Joe Hobson of Navigation North put together on the value proposition of the Learning Registry for states.

  You can find the paper linked to from here:

http://www.learningregistry.org/news/newwhitepaperonthelearningregistryforstatedecisionmakersandstrategists

I think that this will be of some help; please let us know.

Marie

Erick

[Kim A. Smith]

Hi – I just tried to access the paper, but it says the “content can not be displayed in a frame”. Is there an alternate way to access? Thx,

 

Kim

 

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[Marie Bienkowski]

Hi Kim,

  Might be a browser issue--it's a Google Doc and I was just able to access.

  I've attached a copy of the paper for your review.

Marie

[Erick Emde]

Thanks Marie, that is very useful.

Erick

[natasha telger]

Right now several people are reviewing and may have comments.  We would be love share the final version with everyone very soon!

 

On Tuesday, May 22, 2012 3:16:01 PM UTC-5, natasha telger wrote: