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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."
Kevin Crouch

Send To Dropbox - Email files to your Dropbox - 0 views

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    Ever wish you could email files to your Dropbox? Yeah, me too. So I wrote an application to do just that! It's free, fast, secure and super simple too. All you have to do is connect with Dropbox, get your unique email address, and start sending files! After a few minutes they will automatically appear in your "Attachments" folder.
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."
Geetha Venugopal

To-do lists & tasks you can share for free ✔ Flask.io - 0 views

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    Write tasks to do and share it with others... no need to sign in.
Sheri Brown

Food: A Great Way to Learn New Languages - 0 views

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    When we move out of our comfort zone and travel to another country, effective communication is one area where we don't want to go wrong. However, we do not want to spend months and years in mastering a foreign language! Do you think there is a quick way to learn a new language?
Kevin Crouch

ImageQuiz - 0 views

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    "a website that uses the power of images (1 image = 1000 words) to help you learn. The website contains a variety of quizzes, tagged according to topic: just select a topic that interests you from the sidebar, then select a quiz. Can't think of one? Do a random quiz."
Geetha Venugopal

Destructional Design - YouTube - 0 views

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    What not to do when designing the courses...
Geetha Venugopal

36 Things Every 21st Century Teacher Should Be Able To Do - 0 views

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    More detailed list on Technology PD
Geetha Venugopal

wireWAX - interactive video tool - 1 views

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    wireWax is a service that takes the concept of YouTube annotations and makes it much better. On wireWax you can build interactive tags into your videos. Each tag that you add to your video have another video from YouTube or Vimeo or an image from Facebook, Flickr, or Instagram. A tag can also include an audio track from SoundCloud or a reference article from Qwiki.
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    This sounds really interesting. So much more for kids to do!
Geetha Venugopal

PPT to Video - 0 views

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    No need to have additional plug ins. Office10 can do it...
Kevin Crouch

Todoist - 0 views

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321 Free Tools for Teachers - Free Educational Technology - eLearning Industry - 0 views

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    Free Educational Technology for Teachers Do you support Free Technology for Teachers ? If Yes, I highly encourage you to share this Free Educational Technology Resource with fellow teachers interested in implementing Free Technology in Classroom .
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