Almost 150 business, education and community leaders from across Washington state and the nation have announced a set of commitments to ensure all students have a high-quality education in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) to increase and diversify the STEM pipeline necessary for a healthy economy.
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Project-Based Learning | Edutopia - 0 views
Online-Education Trend Will Leave Many Students Behind | TIME Ideas | TIME.com - 0 views
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could actually widen the learning ga
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“give everyone access to the world-class education that has so far been available only to a select few
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Jing, screenshot and screencast software from TechSmith - 1 views
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For the Moduel 4 assignment I explored and practiced using Jing. I know Alex has used it many times in our course. I will use it in the beginning of my course to help student get familiar with blackboard. Many of my students in previous semesters are unfamilar with blackboard. Having a screencast video can help them to feel comfortable with blackboard and help to resolve many questions that students will have right from the beginning.
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Take Screenshots: Capture an image of what you see on your computer screen Record Screencasts: Record up to 5 minutes of onscreen video
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Jing eliminates a lot of phone and email time
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In previous semester I received several emails at the beginning of the course about how to use the online discussion boards, how to upload files, how to download article etc. Having a video screencast can allow students to watch step by step how to do all of these thing.
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In previous semester I received several emails at the beginning of the course about how to use the online discussion boards, how to upload files, how to download article etc. Having a video screencast can allow students to watch step by step how to do all of these thing.
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Consortium of Colleges Takes Online Education to New Level - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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registered 680,000 students in 43 courses
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massive open online courses, or MOOCs, that are expected to draw millions of students and adult learners globally.
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free online artificial intelligence course attracted 160,000 students from 190 countries.
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Social ecological model - Micro, Mezzo, Macro - 0 views
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Microsystems consist of individual or interpersonal features
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Mesosystems are the organizational or institutional factors that shape or structure the environment within which the individual and interpersonal relations occur
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Macrosystems are the cultural contexts (Bronfenbrenner, 1979), not solely geographically or physically, but emotionally and ideologically
From Sage On The Stage To Guide On The Side - 0 views
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The professor is the central figure, the "sage on the stage
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transmittal model, assumes that the student's brain is like an empty container into which the professor pours knowledge
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Rather, knowledge is a state of under- standing and can only exist in the mind of the individual knower; as such, knowledge must be constructed--or re- constructed--by each individual knower through the process of trying to make sense of new information in terms of what that individual already knows
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