Publications: TC Today
The Alumni Magazine of Teachers College, Columbia University
Volume 36, No. 2 ♦ 5/2012
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Robots That Get it Wrong
To err is human -- but machines can do it, too. Sandra Okita believes we can learn from their mistakes
Published: 5/22/2012 -
Learning By Doing 2.0
John Black and his students are leaders in exploring technology that makes use of grounded cognition
Published: 5/1/2012 -
Learning From Scratch
A user-friendly design and programming language has gone viral, with help from some advocates at TC
Published: 5/1/2012 -
President's Letter
President's Letter
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Sorting Out Who's Who
Matthew Pittinsky and Parchment inc. are revolutionizing the analysis of academic credentials
Published: 5/1/2012 First Editions: Members of the TC Community in Print
First Editions: Members of the TC Community in Print
Published: 5/1/2012-
News @ TC
News @ TC
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Howard Budin: High Tech, Low Expectations
The new tools are only as good as the educational models that employ them
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Hervé Varenne: Technology's Lessons for Learning
Did anybody dare predict that so many would learn so much with so little expert guidance?
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Lalitha Vasudevan: Toward a Multimodal Stance in Pedagogy
Educators can no longer engage students by print or linguistic means alone
Published: 5/1/2012 -
Anne Welsh McNulty: The School of the Future
A charter network models a marriage between technology and traditional teaching
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Gary Natriello: Uniting Our House behind Education Technology
Gary Natriello: Uniting Our House behind Education Technology
Published: 5/1/2012 Giving@TC: Supporting Students through the TC Fund
Supporting students through the TC Fund
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Gold Rush! New Technology Mines Students' Minds
TC President Susan Fuhrman has convened an effort to bolster a formalized field of educational data-mining
Published: 5/1/2012 Pushing the Right Buttons
Teachers have long struggled to understand the learning issues of each individual student. Now technology is helping them do the job. Who knew?
Published: 5/1/2012-
How Old Are You Now?
Asking the right questions to assess math knowledge in kids
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Cheap Data
A repository for information generated by the new education technologies stands as a model for the field
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Why We Still Need Humans Dept.
States were collecting a mountain of school data that no one looked at. Priscilla Wohlstetter is using it to learn what makes charter schools tick
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Betting They'd Rather Play Than Smoke
A digital game developed by TC students could help end that three-pack-a-day habit
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Learning Because We Want To
Chuck Kinzer uses technology to understand the role of motivation in education
Published: 5/1/2012 -
Helping Non-native Speakers Write Academic English
Software that taps emotions and explicates a mysterious process
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Game for Learning
By "gamifying" science and other subjects, Joey Lee is getting students to take an active approach to their learning
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Friend of the College: Thinking It Through
Jack Hyland is the adviser we'd all like to have
Published: 5/1/2012 -
Alumni News
Alumni News
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Class notes
Class notes
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Learning By Teaching
Daniel Schwartz (TC '88, '92) has created software that puts students in the driver's seat
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Empirically Speaking
As President and COO Of Wireless Generation, Josh Reibel has learned to follow the data
Published: 5/1/2012 -
Putting The World At Their Fingertips
Karen Gourgey (Ed.D., '83) champions the use of tactile maps and other tools that help people who are blind or visually impaired
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If At First You Don't Succeed...
... you may be the better for it, argues Manu Kapur
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Putting Kids On The Case
To engage young people in learning, Jack McGourty poses real-world problems ranging from designing a robot to running a business
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(De)Vice Squad Leader
Nabeel Ahmad (Ed.D., '09, Instructional Technology and Media) believes everyone has something to learn from mobile apps
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Alice Wilder: Learning Anytime, Anywhere
Alice Wilder is an award-winning developer of educational children's media who talks and listens to kids and represents their voices throughout production.
Published: 5/1/2012
