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Terry Elliott

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  • 6 Things to Do in 2009




    1. Find a new way to improve someone’s day (and determine if there’s value in it).
    2. Synthesize new ideas from outside your audience’s circle (and help us make meaning from them).
    3. Promote the great people out there ( and and keep doing it).
    4. Learn from brilliant people (and share what you learn).
    5. Work on interesting projects that matter to you (and empower others to participate).
    6. Discover your passions (and share them openly).
  • The first group of students has decided in advance that something of value might be said, and so they’re on the lookout for those valuable points. The  second group has made the opposite decision; they don’t expect anything said or shown in class to be worth their while, and so they don’t find anything in class worthwhile
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  • Lovely quote from Nikos Kazantzakis "What a strange machine man is. You fill him with bread, wine, fish and radishes, and out come sighs, laughter and dreams."
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Thus Spake Zuska : Good Topics for Future Research - And How You Find Them - 0 views

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    Terry Elliott on 02 Jan 09
     
    After talking with a dozen or so colleagues, he concluded that "filling a gap in the literature" was not really how anyone went about choosing a research problem. There were four main "lessons" he gained from his collegial conversations:

    * Future research arises from current research. Things are never really finished, and many projects don't work out as we'd planned. All that cleanliness in the literature is misleading!
    * Future research can be autobiographical. On this one, I'd like to quote the author at length:

    Research is often "me-search," a friend of mine likes to say. Ideas for research topics can stem from brief personal experiences from childhood or threads that run throughout their professional lives. For example, gender equity in science education has riveted a colleague since she majored in chemistry in college. Another colleague's passion is the give-and-take of arguments, "so I think that's why I'm studying fifth graders' persuasive writing." What "voice" means for minority scholars fascinates an African-American academic who feels that the traditional norms of scholarly discourse stifle her own creativity. For those colleagues, their lives are inspiration, but not evidence -- in other words, they are not autoethnographers.

    Sometimes a good project arises from family life. A child psychologist extended her work on infant communication when her 14-month-old son was pointing incessantly to the refrigerator. "I'd take one thing out after another, and he finally seemed to find what he wanted," she said. "So I got excited and found three families, studying how kids make their ideas known and how they correct your misconceptions when you're wrong about what they want."


    * Future research often arises from conversations. You know this one. Have lunch with your colleagues, visit them in their offices, hobnob at conferences. I don't care if you're shy and you don't like talking to people. Get out there and circulate!
    * Fu
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Scholarly Journals - New Free Service Makes Keeping Up-to-Date Easy - PR.com - 0 views

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  • Keeping up-to-date with the scholarly literature just became much easier, thanks to a new service called ticTOCs - Journal Tables of Contents Service.
    http://www.tictocs.ac.uk

    ticTOCs is a new scholarly journal tables of contents (TOCs) service. It’s free, its easy to use, and it provides access to the most recent tables of contents of over 11,000 scholarly journals from more than 400 publishers. It helps scholars, researchers, academics and anyone else keep up-to-date with what’s being published in the most recent issues of journals on almost any subject.
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Annals of Education: Most Likely to Succeed: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker - 0 views

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  • According to Hanushek, the U.S. could close that gap simply by replacing the bottom six per cent to ten per cent of public-school teachers with teachers of average quality.
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      Terry Elliott on 20 Dec 08
       
      How do we parse our teachers and what criteria will enable us to decide who is bad, average, good, great?
  • The school system has a quarterback problem.
Terry Elliott

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  • Systems Thinking in Education
  • perspective that
    helps us see and understand
  • he Network for Creative Change
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Quality in Education: Systems Thinking In Education - 0 views

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  • In the classroom, systems thinking explores the interdependencies among the elements of a system, looking for patterns rather than memorizing isolated facts. Systems thinking encourages creativity, questioning and problem solving.  Systems thinking involves shifting attention 

    • from the parts to the whole, 
    • from objects to relationships, 
    • from structures to processes, 
    • from hierarchies to networks,
    • from the rational to the intuitive, 
    • from analysis to synthesis, 
    • from linear to non-linear thinking.
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      Terry Elliott on 04 Dec 08
       
      A 3X5 summary of Systems Thinking in Education. Tempted to print it on a bunch of 3X5's and share.
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    Terry Elliott on 04 Dec 08
     
    summary of ST
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Systems Thinking "in 25 Words or Less" Debra Lyneis Carlisle ... - 0 views

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    Terry Elliott on 04 Dec 08
     
    systems thinking might prove useful in analyzing networks for our dissertation.
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Online Teaching and Learning: Makin' Whuffie - 0 views

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    Terry Elliott on 04 Dec 08
     
    A collection of good sites and tools for exploring on a Sunday morning.
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