Collaborize Classroom - Online Education Technology for Teachers and Students - 0 views
'A Week in the Life...' Project - Flat Classroom® Projects - 0 views
TipLine - Gates' Computer Tips: Why the iPads are NOT Ready for Schools - 0 views
Virtual and Artificial, but 58,000 Want Course - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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The rapid increase in the availability of high-bandwidth Internet service, coupled with a wide array of interactive software, has touched off a new wave of experimentation in education.
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Dr. Widom said she had recorded her video lectures during the summer and would use classroom sessions to work with smaller groups of students on projects that might be competitive and to bring in people from the industry to give special lectures. Unlike the A.I. course, this one will compare online students with one another and not with the Stanford students.
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In place of office hours, they will use the Google moderator service, software that will allow students to vote on the best questions for the professors to respond to in an online chat and possibly video format. They are considering ways to personalize the exams to minimize cheating.
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Digitally Speaking / Social Bookmarking and Annotating - 0 views
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Imagine the cultural understandings that could develop between readers from opposite sides of the earth sharing thought together.
11 predictions concerning technology in education - Articles - Educational Te... - 0 views
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Much of the technology for the classroom of the "future" actually exists now. The difference in the future will be that it will be much more common and used as a matter of course.
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Connectivity and "embeddedness" will be the guiding principles: connectivity, in the sense that whatever device pupils do their work on will not lead to a cul-de-sac: it will be straightforward to start work on a handheld computer in one place and continue on a laptop somewhere else; embeddedness, in the sense that you won't have to think about what you're using, because it will all be part of the fabric of living. These two ideas are, of course, closely related.
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Teachers will continue to be the single most important element in the learning process.
Thoughtful Threads: Sparking Rich Online Discussions - ReadWriteThink - 0 views
Educational Leadership:Promoting Respectful Schools:Respecting Students - 0 views
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Teachers who respect students Understand the power of beliefs in shaping their practice. They rid themselves of any covert persuasion they may have that kids who are like them in race, economic status, language, beliefs, or motivation are somehow better or smarter than those who are unlike them. Believe their work can make previously unimpressive students shine—and can raise the ceilings of possibility for impressive students. Teach students how to grow academically and personally. Enlist students' partnership in creating a classroom that dignifies each person within it.
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Teachers who respect students choose their words and tone carefully. They consciously Listen to students—and hear them. Use positive humor, not sarcasm. Provide corrective feedback in ways that foster student effort. Acknowledge student growth. Use their words to defuse difficult situations.
Getting It Wrong: Surprising Tips on How to Learn: Scientific American - 0 views
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The team found that students remembered the pairs much better when they first tried to retrieve the answer before it was shown to them. In a way this pretesting effect is counterintuitive:
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Participants were tested on pairs of "weak associates," words that are loosely related such as star-night or factory-plant. (If students are given the first word and asked to generate an associate, the probability of generating the target word is only 5 percent.) In the pretest condition, students were given the first word of the pair (star- ???) and told to try to generate the second member that they would have to later remember.
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Students were asked to read the essay and prepare for a test on it. However, in the pretest condition they were asked questions about the passage before reading it such as “What is total color blindness caused by brain damage called?” Asking these kinds of question before reading the passage obviously focuses students’ attention on the critical concepts. To control this “direction of attention” issue, in the control condition students were either given additional time to study, or the researchers focused their attention on the critical passages in one of several ways: by italicizing the critical section, by bolding the key term that would be tested, or by a combination of strategies. However, in all the experiments they found an advantage in having students first guess the answers. The effect was about the same magnitude, around 10 percent, as in the previous set of experiments.
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This work has implications beyond the classroom. By challenging ourselves to retrieve or generate answers we can improve our recall. Keep that in mind next time you turn to Google for an answer, and give yourself a little more time to come up with the answer on your own.
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Pedagogical Consciousness: A Lecture By Any Other Name... - 0 views
Online Learning is so last year… | 21st Century Collaborative - 0 views
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are people confusing talking to people online with deep, connected learning? Does being part of a social networking site or a NING community mean you are going deep- growing in your ability to co-construct or deconstruct knowledge? Does it mean you are collaborating if you post, reply to a post, Tweet, or engage in a #edchat conversation? Are we moving toward an acceptance of superficiality as a replacement for deep learning? Has our multiple choice culture trained our brains to believe that innovation is the holy grail?
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If all I do is network I do not shift or grow because I am missing the opportunity to go deep and actually learn by doing. It takes both: Networks and Community. Online, global communities of practice and f2f learning communities in my local context.
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Imagine the deep learning that can be produced when we come together in learning communities and do some of the following (below).
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