There are gender wars, and then there are casualties. It wasn’t until 2011 that the behemoth toymaker LEGO acknowledged girls’ desire to build with bricks, even though the company had long before made a seemingly effortless pivot to co-branding, video games, and major motion pictures. So it’s little wonder that girls face all-too-real obstacles when […]
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ISSN 1541-8820 June 2009 Volume XXIX Number Spicy Poetry A technology called SpicyNodes is being used by the Insti- tute for Dynamic Educational Advancement (IDEA) to make poetry, including its history and forms, more engaging and interactive. The “Poetry through the Ages” website is poetry in motion—literally. You can explore the website in a traditional
WikiNodes for iPad – Making Wikipedia Fun to Explore MAY 11, 2011 PATRICK JORDAN WikiNodes is a new iPad app that offers a lively new approach to working with Wikipedia. As the name might suggest, it uses nodes to represent articles and to show how articles and subjects are related. I’ve tried a handful of Wikipedia apps
Encyclopaedia Britannica Now Fits Into an App SEPTEMBER 28, 2011 AT 6:02 PM PT by Walt Mossberg The Encyclopaedia Britannica has been the most prestigious general encyclopedia in the English language for what seems like forever. But it has always been expensive, and a bit stodgy. Today, when people need to look up information, they’re
Posted on October 9, 2012 by ResourceLink Brisbane Catholic Education Wikipedia – one encyclopedia to rule them all…or just a great place to start? The debate about Wikipedia and its role in education continues to rage.Just last month, Brian Proffitt, a Lecturer at the University of Notre Dame wrote a well reasoned piece on why he believes Wikipedia has no
IDEA’s SpicyNodes project (2009-2016) sought to display online knowledge in a way that mirrored how people interact with information in the real world. The project expanded the theoretical underpinnings of concept mapping and took shape as an Adobe Flash-based radial mapping tree. Our visualization tool was viewed by more than 40 million web users, and
Best Websites for Teaching & Learning 2011 The “Top 25” Websites foster the qualities of innovation, creativity, active participation, and collaboration. They are free, Web-based sites that are user friendly and encourage a community of learners to explore and discover. Media Sharing Standards for the 21st-Century Learner 3.1.4 Use technology and other information tools to
The IDEA Linguabase is a large lexicon for use in consumer-facing and natural language processing applications. Built over a period of four years by our team of programmers and lexicographers, it contains definitions and weighted word relations for over 500,000 terms, along with a data graph of over 50 million word associations. The database suggests
Language apps
March 11th, 2016 by IDEA
Supporting literacy IDEA’s current focus is increasing linguistic mastery through vocabulary expansion and fluency. We want to empower people with the knowledge they need to have confidence in knowing that, when they reach for the right word, they’re able to find it. We stand out from the crowd by creating language apps that take a
Language-Related Apps IDEA has worked to develop language-related mobile apps that do double duty: in addition to providing a reference source or an entertaining game, the apps are designed to encourage exploration, expand vocabulary, and deepen understanding of word meanings. IDEA’s apps inspire users to scrutinize relationships between words, grasp previously unseen shades of meaning,
Mission & history Since 1999, IDEA has worked at the intersection of technology and education. Our nonprofit organization’s goal is to boost linguistic, scientific, and cultural literacy. Our programs often have a direct impact on learners, but we also aim to inspire and inform the work of other developers and educators with our innovative examples