I’m not sure I really want to, to be frank, but it is a requirement for my ETAP640 course I am taking.
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Hofstein et al. (2005). Developing student's ability to ask more and better questions r... - 0 views
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George's Adventures in ETAP640 - 0 views
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have you seen this? : ) http://etap640.edublogs.org/2012/03/11/why-do-i-have-to-blog/
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No worries, right? You all and Alex will help me.
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absolutely!! i'm in!!! my (just a bit eccentric) husband, in an attempt to understand life, the universe, and everything, has been "studying science" for a couple of years now. By that i mean reading-voraciously-everything-he-can-get-his-hands-on. He has asked me more than once if i have any real or imaginary (meaning people i only know online) physics professor friends to whom he can address his many questions : ) (i think this interest -bordering on obsession, is a mid-life attempt to come to terms with his mortal human husk - and i blame his mother for raising a heathen.) Nevertheless, he started with electricity, moved on to biology, then chemistry, the periodic table, physics, quantum phisyics and is now he is trying to teach it to our dog. http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2929826.Chad_Orzel Every morning, book in hand, toothbrush in mouth, he gives us the highlights and pointers (me, my daughter and bella his havanese physics student) FYI - he thinks Einstein's little black book - which he read in its entirety- ( twice) on relativity, was over rated. : ) I am extraordinarily intrigued by your course concept and can't wait to see what you do! : )
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Burnett's Formula for Great Teaching: Entertain a Little, Educate a Lot and Be Accessible - 0 views
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Burnett's Formula for Great Teaching: Entertain a Little, Educate a Lot and Be Accessible September 28, 2010 - On a Tuesday morning at the University of Virginia, early into the fall semester, professor Robert Burnett announced a "roll-call pop quiz" to the 61 students in his 8 a.m. organic chemistry class.
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Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0 (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUC... - 0 views
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30 million people today qualified to enter a university who have no place to go. During the next decade, this 30 million will grow to 100 million. To meet this staggering demand, a major university needs to be created each week.
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Open Educational Resources (OER) movement, which has provided free access to a wide range of courses and other educational materials to anyone who wants to use them.
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Web 2.0,
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e that our understanding of content is socially constructed through conversations about that content and through grounded interactions, especially with others, around problems or actions. The focus is not so much on what we are learning but on how we are learning.5
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Students in these groups can ask questions to clarify areas of uncertainty or confusion, can improve their grasp of the material by hearing the answers to questions from fellow students, and perhaps most powerfully, can take on the role of teacher to help other group members benefit from their understanding (one of the best ways to learn something is, after all, to teach it to others).
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The dichotomy between Cartesian and Social Learning is problematic, and this is one of the reasons why. If Social Learning still comes down to group learning from each other, it remains unclear what would be the "alternative" model of learning/teaching between group users, if not substance/pedagogy.
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But viewing learning as the process of joining a community of practice reverses this pattern and allows new students to engage in “learning to be” even as they are mastering the content of a field.
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open source movement
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Digital StudyHall (DSH)
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We now need a new approach to learning—one characterized by a demand-pull rather than the traditional supply-push mode of building up an inventory of knowledge in students’ heads. Demand-pull learning shifts the focus to enabling participation in flows of action, where the focus is both on “learning to be” through enculturation into a practice as well as on collateral learning.
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Not only is it a matter of "if" such campuses are a possibility, but "should" such campuses be a priority. If online and distance education can yield at least comparable results to traditional academic settings, then their ease of accessibility and lower overhead costs warrant further exploration as a viable possibility.
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“I think, therefore I am,” and from the assumption that knowledge is something that is transferred to the student via various pedagogical strategies, the social view of learning says, “We participate, therefore we are
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How does the open source idea fit with fields like medicine or chemistry where knowledge is less "socially constricted"?
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Open Source/Access research. One of the problems right now is that the NIH or fed government will pay for research, but the public then had to pay for the results of that research. We are paying for the same research twice. Open Access Journals (see Harvard Memo) hopes to change this.
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seeking the knowledge when it is needed in order to carry out a particular situated task.
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Knowledge that is obtained when "needed" then answers the famous question many high school students ask their teachers, "When will I ever use this?"
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I grew to see high school as a time for exposure to all disciplines in order to find what best suited one in preparation for college or the workplace. Now I am wondering if the multiplicity of disciplines will be "tailored" to fit the personal interests of the learner. Will differentiating for all eradicate the question Ben mentions?
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This form of education was also based on what could be called an industrial style of education. They education system became an extension of industry--students were passed along on the assembly line from one course to the next, year after year and came out a finished produce with similar skills and altitudes as their peers. Now education has and can become more narrow and niche based and less industrial.
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This involves acquiring the practices and the norms of established practitioners in that field or acculturating into a community of practice.
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In this open environment, both the content and the process by which it is created are equally visible, thereby enabling a new kind of critical reading—almost a new form of literacy—that invites the reader to join in the consideration of what information is reliable and/or important.
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And at the third level, any participant in Second Life could review the lectures and other course materials online at no cost. This experiment suggests one way that the social life of Internet-based virtual education can coexist with and extend traditional education.
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Through these continuing connections, the University of Michigan students can extend the discussions, debates, bull sessions, and study groups that naturally arise on campus to include their broader networks. Even though these extended connections were not developed to serve educational purposes, they amplify the impact that the university is having while also benefiting students on campus.14 If King is right, it makes sense for colleges and universities to consider how they can leverage these new connections through the variety of social software platforms that are being established for other reasons.
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he site’s developers note: “We fundamentally believe that the new electronic environment and its tools enable us to revive the humanistic spirit of communal and collaboratively ‘playful’ learning of which the Decameron itself is the utmost expression.”
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As more of learning becomes Internet-based, a similar pattern seems to be occurring. Whereas traditional schools offer a finite number of courses of study, the “catalog” of subjects that can be learned online is almost unlimited. There are already several thousand sets of course materials and modules online, and more are being added regularly. Furthermore, for any topic that a student is passionate about, there is likely to be an online niche community of practice of others who share that passion.
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that will support active, passion-based learning: Learning 2.0. This new form of learning begins with the knowledge and practices acquired in school but is equally suited for continuous, lifelong learning that extends beyond formal schooling.
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In addition to supporting lecture-style teaching, Terra Incognita includes the capability for small groups of students who want to work together to easily “break off” from the central classroom before rejoining the entire class. Instructors can “visit” or send messages to any of the breakout groups and can summon them to rejoin the larger group.
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WebElements Periodic Table of the Elements | Sodium | Essential information - 0 views
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Soap is generally a sodium salt of fatty acids.
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The result of adding different metal salts to a burning reaction mixture of potassium chlorate and sucrose.
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click the video above to play. The video shows a (brief) demonstration of that colors that different metals burn...beautiful...Relating this to teaching and learning: students (and teachers!) are much more engaged with proper and frequent use of attention-grabbing media. I am a visual person and I know that my classroom also has visual learners. I can describe things in text or verbally until I am blue in the face, but SEEING these things in photos or on videos is what sets it apart and commits them to memory. Above is a picture of sodium in its natural state as a metal...I try to emphasize this to my students since often the examples we use in class is sodium chloride, or table salt. A silver metal bonded to a noxious green gas combines to make table salt. That's a hard thing to imagine for anyone, so I show them using this resource. I LOVE webelements.
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Video - Behind the Scenes: The Science Team | K12 - 0 views
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The team looked for the best experiments that kids could do safely in person, and created online labs for those that are more complex.
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Program includes materials to engage students such as virtual labs and interactive periodic tables. Virtual labs take students through as much detail as which gloves to pick and what to do when something goes wrong, just like in a real experiment. In addition, they send a chemistry kit for experiments that are not dangerous. The courses also include interactive concept maps that tie the concepts together to help students understand.
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This website documents, in great depth, a large collection of chemical elements and examples of their applications, common and uncommon. Click any element tile above and you will find probably more than you ever wanted to know about that element. All these samples (well, at least the ones that fit) are stored in a wooden periodic table, by which I mean a physical table you can actually sit at, in my office at Wolfram Research. I decided to build this table by accident in early 2002, as a result of a misunderstanding while reading Uncle Tungsten by Oliver Sacks. I won't bore you with the details here (see the Complete Pictorial History of the Wooden Periodic Table Table), but once it was finished I felt obligated to start finding elements to go in it (because under the name of each element in my table there is a sample area). Then I started building a website to document all my samples, and that's when things really got out of hand. A few months later my little table won the 2002 Ig Nobel Prize in Chemistry, clearly the highest honor for which it is eligible. Sensing an audience, I began to take the website more seriously, which led to my being asked to write a monthly column for Popular Science magazine, which I've now been doing continuously since the July 2003 issue. Later I formed a most satisfying partnership with Max Whitby building high-end museum displays, selling element samples and sets, and filming video demonstrations of the chemical properties of the elements. This website now contains the largest, most complete library of stock photographs of the elements and their applications available anywhere, as well as a large and growing collection of 3D images documenting hundreds of samples rotated through 360 degrees. Try clicking on some elements in the table above: I think you'll be surprised what's lurking behind those little tiles. And if you like the pictures, you'll love the poster! After years of photography and months of assembling images, I published a photographic periodic table poster based on my collection: