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Matthew Ragan

A 'Stealth Assessment' Turns to Video Games to Measure Thinking Skills - 0 views

  • "We have this whole group of kids who are not engaged with school, and appropriately so, because schools are so antiquated," she says
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    Colleges no longer simply want to know what their students know, but how they think.
Jenny Darrow

HistoryWorld Timelines - 1 views

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    Time Search is a good general resource for history teachers and students. Simply enter a year, press "go" and you're shown a list of significant events that happened in that year. Scroll up or down the list to see events that happened early or late in the year. Time Search lists events that happened worldwide. You can select historical themes to narrow your list of events. You can also narrow results by selecting a region of the world. Next to each item in your events list you will see icons indicating availability of related images, quick text references, and map references. Not all icons appear for all events
Jenny Darrow

League iStream - 1 views

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    Explore iStream…the League's web-based, multimedia portal where faculty, staff, administration, and students find quick solutions for research and reference needs using the latest web 2.0 technology. An iStream subscription provides everyone at your campus access to videos, articles, publications, and learning programs, along with the best of the League's conferences, services, partnerships, and collaborative communities.
Judy Brophy

HYFLEX COURSE MODEL - 1 views

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    HyFlex is a course design model that presents the componentsof hybrid learning (which combines face-to-face with onlinelearning) in a fl exible course structure that gives students the option of attending sessions in the classroom, participating online,or doing both.
Matthew Ragan

Tomorrow's College - Online Learning - 1 views

  • The University System of Maryland now requires undergraduates to take 12 credits in alternative learning modes, including online. Texas has proposed a similar rule. The Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system is pushing to have 25 percent of credits earned online by 2015. And the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, pointing to UCF as a model, has made blended learning a cornerstone of its new $20-million education-technology grant program.
  • "No one enforces you to do the right thing" in an online course, Ms. Hatten says. "It's at your discretion. I care about my grade, so if I don't know the answer, I'm not gonna let myself fail when I have an opportunity to look in the book."
  • Blended classes generate the highest student evaluations of any learning mode at Central Florida, and, like her classmates, Ms. Black is a fan. She gets as much from the online work as she would from more time in class, she says. Plus, the free time helps make it easier for her to do dance.
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  • If you want to encounter distance education, a student once said, sit in the back of a 500-seat lecture.
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    The classroom of the future features face-to-face, online, and hybrid learning. And the future is here.
Judy Brophy

Next Generation Learning Challenges - 0 views

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    Next Generation Learning Challenges means to Dramatically increase college readiness and completion by fostering the development and adoption of technologies that enable more flexible, high-quality learning experiences for all students.
Jenny Darrow

Class Differences Online Education in the United States, 2010 - 0 views

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    Class Differences: Online Education in the United States, 2010 is the eighth annual report on thestate of online learning among higher education institutions in the United States. The study isaimed at answering some of the fundamental questions about the nature and extent of onlineeducation. Based on responses from over 2,500 colleges and universities, the report addresses thefollowing key issues:* Is Online Learning Strategic?* How Many Students are Learning Online?* Are Learning Outcomes in Online Comparable to Face-to-Face?* What is the Impact of the Economy on Online Education?* Proposed Federal Regulations on Financial Aid.* What is the Future for Online Enrollment Growth?
Matthew Ragan

Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • On YouTube, “you can get a whole story in six minutes,” he explains. “A book takes so long. I prefer the immediate gratification.”
  • The principal, David Reilly, 37, a former musician who says he sympathizes when young people feel disenfranchised, is determined to engage these 21st-century students. He has asked teachers to build Web sites to communicate with students, introduced popular classes on using digital tools to record music, secured funding for iPads to teach Mandarin and obtained $3 million in grants for a multimedia center.
  • It was not always this way. As a child, Vishal had a tendency to procrastinate, but nothing like this. Something changed him.
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  • But Vishal and his family say two things changed around the seventh grade: his mother went back to work, and he got a computer. He became increasingly engrossed in games and surfing the Internet, finding an easy outlet for what he describes as an inclination to procrastinate.
  • Escaping into games can also salve teenagers’ age-old desire for some control in their chaotic lives. “It’s a way for me to separate myself,” Ramon says. “If there’s an argument between my mom and one of my brothers, I’ll just go to my room and start playing video games and escape
  • “Video games don’t make the hole; they fill it,” says Sean, sitting at a picnic table in the quad, where he is surrounded by a multimillion-dollar view: on the nearby hills are the evergreens that tower above the affluent neighborhoods populated by Internet tycoons. Sean, a senior, concedes that video games take a physical toll: “I haven’t done exercise since my sophomore year. But that doesn’t seem like a big deal. I still look the same.”
  • “Downtime is to the brain what sleep is to the body,” said Dr. Rich of Harvard Medical School. “But kids are in a constant mode of stimulation.”
  • He occasionally sends a text message or checks Facebook, but he is focused in a way he rarely is when doing homework. He says the chief difference is that filmmaking feels applicable to his chosen future, and he hopes colleges, like the University of Southern California or the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles, will be so impressed by his portfolio that they will overlook his school performance
  • But in Vishal’s case, computers and schoolwork seem more and more to be mutually exclusive. Ms. Blondel says that Vishal, after a decent start to the school year, has fallen into bad habits. In October, he turned in weeks late, for example, a short essay based on the first few chapters of “The Things They Carried.” His grade at that point, she says, tracks around a D.
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    REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - On the eve of a pivotal academic year in Vishal Singh's life, he faces a stark choice on his bedroom desk: book or computer?
Judy Brophy

Wikis in Plain English - Common Craft - Our Product is Explanation - 0 views

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    A short introduction to wikis that illustrates how they can be used to organize a group's information, in this case, for a camping trip. Generic, not a specific software. Might be useful for some students
Jenny Darrow

6 Emerging Technologies and Practices Set to Rock the Education World « Curri... - 1 views

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    The Horizon Report points out that behind these emerging technologies/practices are four trends: The abundance of information available online today is challenging traditional notions of what it means to be educators from keepers of information to coaches and sense-makers.People expect to work and study anywhere and anytime.Technologies are increasingly cloud-based. (For more on cloud-computing, click here.)The work of students is increasingly collaborative and multidisciplinar
Judy Brophy

TED talks - college ourse - 0 views

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    Univ of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, Va class based on TedTalks. Students had to create their own
Jenny Darrow

3 Ways, Other Than Skype, to Bring Experts Into Class - 0 views

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    Bringing experts into your classroom via video conferencing can be an excellent enhancement to your students' learning experiences. Video conferencing can also be used to connect classrooms in a 21st century version of penpal exchanges.
Jenny Darrow

Google Earth - 0 views

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    Lesson Plan. Great resource for teachers who want to help students make connections between concepts and applications. A very powerful tool!
Matthew Ragan

JSTOR: Home - 0 views

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    a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive of over one thousand academic journals and other scholarly content. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship
Judy Brophy

At universities, is better learning a click away? - Boston.com - 0 views

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    students gather in small groups to decide answer to click
Judy Brophy

QuIRK - 0 views

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    Carlton's Quantitative Inquiry, Reasoning & Knowlege (QuIRK) initiative. Curricular Materials: Infusing Quantitative Reasoning Throughout the Curriculum Assessing Quantitative Reasoning in Student Writing
Judy Brophy

IF-AT - Order IF-AT Forms - 0 views

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    recommended at NECQL 4/17/10
Jenny Darrow

Free Technology for Teachers: Google Earth and Maps Lesson Plans - 0 views

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    The many uses of Google Earth and Google Maps never ceases to impress me. But a lot of people hear the words Google Earth or Google Maps and only think about locating places and not all of the other things that can be done with these great tools. Google's site for UK schools has some great lesson plans for using Google Earth and Google Maps with primary school and secondary school students. (The equivalent in the US is elementary school and middle school).
Jenny Darrow

100 Inspiring Ways to Use Social Media In the Classroom | Online Universities - 1 views

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    Social media may have started out as a fun way to connect with friends, but it has evolved to become a powerful tool for education and business. Sites such as Facebook and Twitter and tools such as Skype are connecting students to learning opportunities in new and exciting ways. Whether you teach an elementary class, a traditional college class, or at an online university, you will find inspirational ways to incorporate social media in your classroom with this list.
Judy Brophy

University to Provide Online Reputation Management to Graduates - 0 views

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    Syracuse University has purchased six-month subscriptions to Brand-Yourself.com's online reputation management platform for all 4,100 of its graduating seniors. The platform will help students monitor and shape their online presence during the job search process.
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