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Noelle Kreider

ARKive - a unique collection of thousands of videos, images and fact-files illustrating... - 2 views

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  • Wildlife films and photos are vital weapons in the battle to save the world's endangered species from the brink of extinction
  • Noelle Kreider on 18 May 11
     
    amazing images, videos, sounds of life on earth with helpful factual information
Jo Richards

Trouble with Rubrics - 0 views

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shared by Jo Richards on 18 Apr 09 - Cached
  • “we need to look to the piece of writing itself to suggest its own evaluative criteria” – a truly radical and provocative suggestion.
    • Jo Richards
      Jo Richards on 18 Apr 09
       
      Wow, nice concept. Getting further into subjectivity though. Where do we get an understanding of how to determine a pieces distinct 'evaluative criteria'
  • Thus, the dilemma:  Either our instruction and our assessment remain “out of synch” or the instruction gets worse in order that students’ writing can be easily judged with the help of rubrics.
  • In fact, when the how’s of assessment preoccupy us, they tend to chase the why’s back into the shadows.
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  • We have to reassess the whole enterprise of assessment, the goal being to make sure it’s consistent with the reason we decided to go into teaching in the first place.
John Evans

A Critical Examination of BlackBoard's e-learning Environment - Coopman - 0 views

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shared by John Evans on 16 Jun 09 - Cached
  • motivation, satisfaction
    • Robert Vouter
      Robert Vouter on 16 Jun 09
       
      This is due to the fact that motivation comes from within not without
John Evans

How cell phones will replace learning ( - Telecommunication - Internet - Netw... - 0 views

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shared by John Evans on 07 Jun 09 - No Cached
  • The idea of using a cell phone for prosthetic knowledge is precisely where we're headed. In fact, we're getting there fast
John Evans

Digital Education: Malcolm Gladwell: Lessons from Fleetwood Mac - 0 views

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shared by John Evans on 29 Jun 09 - Cached
  • The first is that effort is more important than talent
  • In fact, almost every successful individual or organization puts in at least 10,000 hours of practice first, which averages out to about four hours a day for ten years, he estimates.
  • The second lesson educators could learn from Fleetwood Mac's success is the importance of a compensation strategy, rather than a capitalization strategy. In other words, instead of building on successes, the band became better and more successful because they put their energy into compensating for their weaknesses, he said.
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  • And the last lesson educators can learn from Fleetwood Mac? The path to genius is often riddled with experiments involving many different methods and strategies over a long period of time, said Gladwell. Learning does not happen in one big burst of genius, he said. "Sometimes the struggle to learn something is where the actual learning lies."
John Evans

FactCheckED.org - Lesson Plans - 5 views

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shared by John Evans on 07 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Our aim is to help students learn to be smart consumers of these messages, not to accept them at face value; to dig for facts using the Internet, not to stop looking once they get to Wikipedia; and to weigh evidence logically, not to draw conclusions based on their own biases. The materials on this site, then, are meant to help students acquire the skills to see through the spin. Under the heading Tools of the Trade we’ve outlined a five-step framework for analyzing information and avoiding deception. That process is the essence of what we do at FactCheck.org, where we have been debunking false and misleading claims in politics since 2003.
John Evans

How to Go on the Offensive with Facebook : The World :: American Express OPEN Forum - 4 views

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shared by John Evans on 30 Oct 09 - Cached
  • It’s time to “face” two facts: First, most organizations are either already looking at candidates’ Facebook profiles, or they are going to start soon. (How many business owners are doing this now?) Second, people who are worth hiring either have a social-networking profile on some service or will soon—indeed, recruiters may already think that a candidate who doesn’t have a profile is hiding something, disconnected, or clueless.
    • John Evans
      John Evans on 30 Oct 09
       
      Do our students and teachers realize this? It's our rsponsibility to inform them.
Phil Taylor

Twitter CHATTER - Winnipeg Free Press - 2 views

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  • Best of all, many of these links connect to legitimate media websites, where reporters still adhere to the quaint, time-tested practices of checking facts, attributing quotes to sources and engaging in first-hand reporting, all of which generally involves talking to human beings.
  • more to prove the value of conventional journalism than any innovation by the mainstream media itself.
  • Facebook is like living in a mall. Twitter is like living in the street.
John Evans

Everything You Need To Know About Wikipedia And More - 2 views

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  • John Evans on 17 Dec 14
     
    "Wikipedia is one of the most famous sites on the Internet. The world's favorite encyclopedia made a humble beginning in 2001. Today, it's informative, as well as controversial, and having a page there is highly sought after. It's quite simply the Encyclopedia Britannica on steroids, covering every conceivable subject. Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia in which anybody can start a page, or edit one, on any subject. The page is then examined by an editor who decides whether or not the page stays. The site is currently available in many languages, so you don't have to speak English to use the site. It is one of the most frequently accessed sites - normally when you search for something on Google, the Wikipedia page is quite often the first page in the search results. With that, let's dive into the crowdsourced wonder of Wikipedia and start exploring many of its wondrous facets…"
John Evans

Why students using laptops learn less in class even when they really are taking notes -... - 3 views

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  • Even when students paid attention and took copious notes on their laptops, they still didn’t learn as well. In fact, the copiousness of their notes may be part of the problem, the study found. Laptop users are inclined to use long verbatim quotes, which they type somewhat mindlessly. The handwriters are more selective. They “wrote significantly fewer words than those who typed.” It may be, the researchers reported, “that longhand note takers engage in more processing than laptop note takers, thus selecting more important information to include in their notes, which enables them to study” more efficiently.
Phil Taylor

How to Grow a Classroom Culture That Supports Blended Learning | MindShift - 0 views

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  • Part of such a culture is understanding that the teacher is not the only expert in the room; in fact, students can know more than the teacher about some aspects of what they will be doing together.
Keri-Lee Beasley

Why Parents Shouldn't Feel Guilt About Their Kids' Screen Time - The Atlantic - 3 views

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shared by Keri-Lee Beasley on 09 Nov 15 - No Cached
  • There’s a tendency to portray time spent away from screens as idyllic, and time spent in front of them as something to panic about.
  • the most successful strategy, far from exiling technology, actually embraces it.
  • if the “off” switch is the only tool parents use to shape their kids’ experience of the Internet, they won’t do a very good job of preparing them for a world in which more and more technologies are switched on every year.
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  • mentors are more likely than limiters to talk with their kids about how to use technology or the Internet responsibly—something that half of mentors do at least once a week, compared to just 20 percent of limiters.
  • They’re also the most likely to connect with their kids through technology, rather than in spite of it
  • children of limiters who are most likely to engage in problematic behavior: They’re twice as likely as the children of mentors to access porn, or to post rude or hostile comments online; they’re also three times as likely to go online and impersonate a classmate, peer, or adult.
  • once they do get online, limiters’ kids often lack the skills and habits that make for consistent, safe, and successful online interactions. Just as abstinence-only sex education doesn’t prevent teen pregnancy, it seems that keeping kids away from the digital world just makes them more likely to make bad choices once they do get online.
  • While limiters may succeed in fostering their kids’ capacity for face-to-face connection, they neglect the fact that a huge chunk of modern life is not actually lived face-to-face. They also miss an opportunity to teach their children the specific skills they need in order to live meaningful lives online as well as off—skills like compensating for the absence of visual cues in online communications; recognizing and adapting to the specific norms of different social platforms and sub-communities; adopting hashtags, emojis, and other cues to supplement text-based communications; and learning to balance accountability with security in constructing an online identity.
  • We can’t prepare our kids for the world they will inhabit as adults by dragging them back to the world we lived in as kids. It’s not our job as parents to put away the phones. It’s our job to take out the phones, and teach our kids how to use them.
  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 09 Nov 15
     
    A fascinating approach to the role of the parent in raising good digital citizens. "..children of limiters who are most likely to engage in problematic behavior: They're twice as likely as the children of mentors to access porn, or to post rude or hostile comments online; they're also three times as likely to go online and impersonate a classmate, peer, or adult."
John Evans

How To Write a Jeopardy Clue - 2 views

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  • John Evans on 30 Mar 18
     
    "Jeopardy! has been on the air, in one form or another, since the 1960s. The modern Alex Trebek-hosted incarnation of the show-whose famous theme song is now in your head (sorry!)-began in 1984 and still airs about 230 episodes every year. There is an art to a Jeopardy! clue. Its answers-in-search-of-questions exude a certain tone and tenor that's different from trivia offerings from Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, HQ, The Weakest Link, or even a throwback like You Bet Your Life. But the writer's room is also a factory, one that must churn out 61 clues per episode, which adds up to hundreds of thousands of clues aired during the show's long run."
John Evans

BBC - Future - How much is 'too much time' on social media? - 1 views

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shared by John Evans on 21 Jan 18 - No Cached
  • John Evans on 21 Jan 18
     
    "Describing yourself as 'a social media addict' doesn't usually inspire concern from other people. In fact, it's frequently included in bio descriptions on Twitter and Instagram. Decorate your LinkedIn profile with such a claim and you may even find yourself receiving interest from media and publishing companies searching for a savvy digital native. But imagine if, one day, it's not an accolade or joke at all - but a psychiatrist's diagnosis? Social media addiction has been a much-flouted term lately; maybe it's because it's January and users are looking to be more active and spend less time online, or maybe that's because social media can have a negative impact on our mental well-being. But a growing body of research is seriously considering whether problematic and excessive social media usage could be pathological and, in turn, designated as a mental health disorder. "
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