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Geetha Venugopal

Degrees don't matter anymore, skills do - Quartz - 1 views

  • And although it is a bit much to expect someone to be both a great and inspirational coach and to be at the cutting edge of an academic field, the number of great athletic coaches and trainers at all levels indicates that, on its own, being an inspirational coach is not that rare. Being an inspirational coach in an academic setting is not quite the same thing, but I am willing to bet that it, too, is blessedly common. By having the cutting-edge knowledge from the best scientists and savants in the world built into software and delivered in online lectures, all a community college has to do to deliver a world-class education is to hire teachers who know how to motivate students.
  • from credentials to certification
  • teachers can connect each student with expertly designed software customized for each student’s learning style
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  • the kind of software motivational tricks that make it so hard for kids to pull away from video games
  • ordinary people with extraordinary motivation can achieve remarkable performance through a pattern of arduous work and study called deliberate practice.
  • a shift from credentials to certification.
  • teachers will be able to encourage each student to dig deeper into some particular interest that student has—well beyond the teacher’s own knowledge.
  • There is one other force that will propel the transformation of education: a shift from credentials to certification. In most of the current system, the emphasis is diplomas and degrees—credentials saying a student has been sitting in class so many hours, while paying enough attention and cramming enough not to do too much worse than the other students on the exams. More and more, employers are going to want to see some proof that a potential employee has actually gained particular skills. So certificates that can credibly attest to someone’s ability to write computer code, write a decent essay, use a spreadsheet, or give a persuasive speech are going to be worth more and more. And any training program that takes the need to maintain its own credibility seriously can help students gain those skills and certify them for employers in a way that bypasses the existing educational establishment. Just witness the current popularity of “coding bootcamps.” That model can work for many other skills as well. For many students, that kind of certification of specific skills is a very attractive alternative to a two-year degree. 
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    "And although it is a bit much to expect someone to be both a great and inspirational coach and to be at the cutting edge of an academic field, the number of great athletic coaches and trainers at all levels indicates that, on its own, being an inspirational coach is not that rare. Being an inspirational coach in an academic setting is not quite the same thing, but I am willing to bet that it, too, is blessedly common. By having the cutting-edge knowledge from the best scientists and savants in the world built into software and delivered in online lectures, all a community college has to do to deliver a world-class education is to hire teachers who know how to motivate students."
Geetha Venugopal

Free Technology for Teachers: Four Settings Every Blogger User Should Know - 0 views

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    How to schedule posts How to insert an RSS feed footer message How to moderate comments... Of course, the well known how to add authors to your blog
Geetha Venugopal

Google's Open Course Builder: A Giant Leap into 21st-Century Online Learning | Edutopia - 0 views

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    Welcome to Course Builder! Course Builder is our experimental first step in the world of online education. It packages the software and technology we used to build our Power Searching with Google online course. We hope you will use it to create your own online courses, whether they're for 10 students or 100,000 students. You might want to create anything from an entire high school or university offering to a short how-to course on your favorite topic. Course Builder contains software and instructions for presenting your course material, which can include lessons, student activities, and assessments. It also contains instructions for using other Google products to create a course community and to evaluate the effectiveness of your course. To use Course Builder, you should have some technical skills at the level of a web master. In particular, you should have some familiarity with HTML and JavaScript.
Kevin Crouch

How a Radical New Teaching Method Could Unleash a Generation of Geniuses | Wired Busine... - 0 views

  • Decentralized systems have proven to be more productive and agile than rigid, top-down ones. Innovation, creativity, and independent thinking are increasingly crucial to the global economy.
  • The study found that when the subjects controlled their own observations, they exhibited more coordination between the hippocampus and other parts of the brain involved in learning and posted a 23 percent improvement in their ability to remember objects.
  • Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi to Jean Piaget and Maria Montessori have argued that students should learn by playing and following their curiosity.
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  • This group played longer and discovered an average of six attributes of the toy; the group that was told what to do discovered only about four. A similar study at UC Berkeley demonstrated that kids given no instruction were much more likely to come up with novel solutions to a problem.
  • If you program a robot’s every movement, she says, it can’t adapt to anything unexpected. But when scientists build machines that are programmed to try a variety of motions and learn from mistakes, the robots become far more adaptable and skilled.
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    "Decentralized systems have proven to be more productive and agile than rigid, top-down ones. Innovation, creativity, and independent thinking are increasingly crucial to the global economy."
Kevin Crouch

The Coming Era of Personalized Learning Paths (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE.edu - 3 views

  • Reflection is, I believe, the process of extracting meaning from experience, of transforming tacit knowledge to identified knowledge and understanding.
  • My point? Reflection-based assessment is a form of pedagogy, through which active reflection and the development of evidence to support the claims of learning transform the learner's experience from passive to active engagement and understanding.
  • Academic bias. There was, and remains, an extremely strong bias that if something wasn't learned "here" or "in a classroom," it isn't legitimate learning.
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  • An information-poor environment. There was no technology to support and enrich personal learning. Personalized learning paths were the private experience of the individual adult learner.
  • But the processes that are available to support the learning, intrinsically and extrinsically, have been transformed by technology into a powerful, progressive, and disruptive force in higher education and workforce preparation.
  • Equally important, as part of this technological and web-driven disruption, learners' capacity to develop and store evidence of learning in electronic portfolios, carefully organized around career, academic, or personal interests, has also been transformed.
  • personalized lifelong learning plan that can be assessed for credit toward a degree or for advancement toward a new job or recareering.
  • First, the personal learning, though specific to each learner, may have many common elements across multiple learners' experiences.
  • But there can be a personalized learning plan for each person—a plan that connects the learner and his/her history to a chosen future.
  • The components of the plan are not unique to each learner; what is unique is how the plan fits to the learner's needs and aspirations.
  • if learning plans connect learners' past and present to a future they desire, and if learners help "architect" their plans, then the learning will be deeply personal.
  • Learning Recognition Course. The Learning Recognition Course is a free course that walks the learner through the steps to build a prior learning portfolio, including requests for credit based on prior experiential learning.
  • CareerJourney. CareerJourney is a free course that inspires and guides people in their career journey. It provides a personalized experience that integrates data based on the individual's LinkedIn profile and drawing from the LinkedIn database. LearningAdvisor. LearningAdvisor is a hub that includes free courses, paid courses, certificates, degree programs, insights, and inspiration to help adult learners explore their learning possibilities.
Geetha Venugopal

Free Technology for Teachers: How to Manage Classroom Digital Portfolios by Using Page-... - 0 views

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    How to Manage Classroom Digital Portfolios by Using Page-level Permissions in Google Sites
Kevin Crouch

How to Get Hesitant Teachers to Use Technology - 1 views

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    A very good summary of ways to make technology less intimidating to teachers who want to learn.
Kevin Crouch

Six Reasons Why Kids Should Know How to Blog | MindShift - 0 views

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    In the digital age, kids need to have an understanding of what it means to be a responsible digital citizen.
Kevin Crouch

4 Tips To Help Students Start Blogging - Edudemic - 0 views

  • She stressed the importance of having students write their first blog post on paper. Once they have completed their writing, they hang their posts around the perimeter of the room. The students then use post-it notes to comment on two different blogs. This is where she begins the process of helping students learn to comment effectively.
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      Interesting idea here about using paper to teach blogging concepts.
  • I decided that I had to teach my students how to create catchy titles for their blogs so they could entice other people to actually read their writing.
Geetha Venugopal

How to Identify and Engage Local Influencers - 0 views

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    Free Tools to Evaluate Your Social Network Fans and Followers
Kevin Crouch

How To Enable Google Now For iOS In Google Apps Accounts -- AppAdvice - 1 views

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    I just tried this out but I needed to sign in with my personal account. Chandra needs to click on allow in the Google Control Panel so we can use it with our aisch.org accounts. It seems pretty cool.
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    I have enabled the Google Now access.
Geetha Venugopal

Tech Is Not a Treat: Responding to Device Misuse - Teaching Toward Tomorrow - Education... - 0 views

  • Instead of the "misuse it you lose it" mindset, I implore teachers to treat their tech as they would any other essential learning tool. Yes, this is a much more powerful tool than a pencil or book, and so with great power comes great responsibility. But should a student falter, don't take it away. Allow them to continue using it, but apply the same standards and consequences you'd give should they misuse any other essential learning tool - their pencil, book, desk or chair. And proactively support students in understanding how to make good choices through scaffolding, goal setting and clear expectations.  We've taken on this new frame of mind in many of our classrooms and we're seeing great results. The students have greater respect for their digital learning tools and, most importantly, a greater access to opportunity.
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    Technology is a foundational tool not a reward.
Kevin Crouch

Edublogs Tutorials - 0 views

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    A comprehensive blog with video tutorials on how to set up and use an Edublogs blog.
Geetha Venugopal

Free Technology for Teachers: How to Develop Web Search Challenges for Students - 0 views

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    Create your own Web Search Challenges for Students
Geetha Venugopal

How to have more meaningful iPad professional development | eSchool News - 0 views

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    Some PD hints
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