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Maria Guadron

Lipponen, Rahikrainen, Lallimo, and Hakkarainen - 0 views

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    Lipponen, Rahikrainen, Lallimo, and Hakkarainen (2001) studied patterns of participation and discourse in elementary students' online science discussion in Virtual Web School (VWS).
Amy M

Connecting with Experts in the Real World: Educators Learn to Teach Science From the Pr... - 1 views

  • ratorium's Teacher Institute, explains the conceptual design of their new-teacher-induction program. "Beginning teachers are immediately introduced into an established community of exemplary science teachers who themselves are part of a professional community of learners at the Exploratorium
  • mentees
  • nsylvania. The program provides technical and writing support as well as an opportunity for teachers to collaborate with their peers on the development of Web-based resources
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    ways to connect to experts in the field
Diana Cary

NYS Learning Standards:CI&IT:NYSED - 0 views

Hedy Lowenheim

Master's Degree Is New Frontier of Study Online - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • Although it is just one degree at one university, the prospect of a prestigious low-cost degree program has generated great interest. Some educators think the leap from individual noncredit courses to full degree programs could signal the next phase in the evolution of MOOCs — and bring real change to higher education.
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    The affordable price for this online master's degree in computer science from a very reputable institution is refreshing to see. If the program is successful hopefully it will lead to others like it. The program will be MOOC-based.
Teresa Dobler

Monarch Watch : Migration & Tagging : Tagging Monarchs - 0 views

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      a citizen science project students share data with scientists and other citizens online to help monitor butterflies.
Teresa Dobler

Citizen Science Alliance - 0 views

  • scientists, software developers and educators
lkryder

Ovid: Increased Interestingness of Extraneous Details in a Multimedia Science Presentat... - 0 views

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    Cognitive load needs to be considered in course design, disruption and seduction through interesting but unnecessary components need to be considered
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    cognitive load needs to be considered when deploying multimedia in online courses
abeukema

Horse Ears | Science | Classroom Resources | PBS Learning Media - 0 views

  • researched horse communication
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      Love the combination of learning about horse behavior and scientific thinking.
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    Resubmitting the same pbs video because link from my first submission didn't work when I tried to return, let's see if this link is better.
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    I will use this video in Module 2 to help explain horse body language.
Melissa Pietricola

ERIC - Education Resources Information Center - 0 views

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    DIfferent studies that examined modeling in instructional settings-elementary science, for students with special needs, videos in social studies classes, and in medical training. In summary, teacher modelling shown as positive practice.
Joan Erickson

Grade inflation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • took a rare stance against grade inflation in 2004, and publicly announced a policy designed to curb it. The policy states that A's should account for less than 35 percent of the grades for undergraduate courses and less than 55 percent of grades for junior and senior independent work
  • To date, the administration has not taken steps to strictly enforce these guidelines, instead opting to rely on departments to apply them
  • nearly constant in the Natural Science departments, which were typically at or near the 35% guideline
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  • 2.27.
  • 2.55
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  • 90% A's
  • reputation for rigorous grading policies in some science and engineering classes
  • no more than 17% of the students in any given class may be awarded A grades, and that the class GPA should be in the range of 2.7 to 2.9 out of a maximum of 4.0 grade poi
  • GPA at University of Chicago increased from 2.50 in 1965 to 3.26 in 1999
  • Ninety-five per cent scored at least grade C, having gained only 10 marks from 55. Pupils could score an A* with only 51 per cent of the marks
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    brief snapshots of collges and universitites's guidelines to combat grade inflation
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