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Kevin Crouch

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

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teaching pedagogy transformation

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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.
  • 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.
  • Kevin Crouch on 22 Oct 13
     
    "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."
Geetha Venugopal

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

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Online Course Building

shared by Geetha Venugopal on 24 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Geetha Venugopal on 24 Oct 12
     
    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.
Geetha Venugopal

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Python Learning

shared by Geetha Venugopal on 24 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Geetha Venugopal on 24 Oct 12
     
    Google Takeout is a tool that lets you quickly and easily download data that you created in (or imported into) a number of Google products. It provides the data in a variety of open, portable formats so that you can easily import the data into other internet services.
mamatechnology

6 Incredible Tools to Create Podcasts Online | TechDune - 0 views

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podcasts audio tools podcasting

shared by mamatechnology on 16 Jan 14 - No Cached
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    Gcast Record by phone or click to mix a playlist. If you have audio production software, you can produce your podcasts on your own computer, and upload them to Gcast for free hosting and syndication. Hipcast Whether you've got a mobile phone or a web browser, Hipcast.com makes it easy to upload, record over the web, or phone-in audio and video. Odeo It allows you to , embed it anywhere and create your own audio channels . It is also the most popular podcasting platform .     WildVoice Online service that lets you record audio files through an impressive interface but does not allow you to edit or add any special effects .   ClickCaster Allows to create, broadcast and sell your very own radio shows and podcasts. You can record audio right from your browser or upload an existing MP3.   Podomatic PodOmatic specializes in the creation of sophisticated tools and services that enable anyone to easily find, create, distribute, promote and listen to both audio and video podcasts.
Geetha Venugopal

19 handy Google tricks that you weren't aware of - The Next Web - 0 views

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google tricks gmail productivity

shared by Geetha Venugopal on 23 Dec 12 - No Cached
  • Geetha Venugopal on 23 Dec 12
     
    Google Tricks
Gopalakrishna Kesavan

Multiple Cloud Services Management in One Place - 1 views

Otixo - http://otixo.com/product 1. It is Your Dashboard for the Cloud 2. Connect Your Favorite Clouds 3. One App for all Your Clouds 4. Access All Your Online Files with a Single Login 5. Ac...

Multiple Cloud Services from One Single App

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