All Things Education: Research Papers vs Blogs: Defending "Antiquated" Teaching from 21... - 1 views
How to Save the Traditional University, From the Inside Out - Commentary - The Chronicl... - 1 views
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The scholarship of teaching, in particular, has been overlooked for too long.
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They serve as conservators and promulgators of our cultural memories
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The value of what happens on a campus is hard to quantify, but it can be life-changing. That's true for most of us who have chosen to work in higher education, as it is for many former students who pursued work in "the real world."
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Actually Going to Class? How 20th-Century. - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Educa... - 0 views
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Mr. Somade told me recently that "the general idea is that if I don't have to come to class, I don't want to come to class—and technology is giving students more and more reason not to come."
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In an era when students can easily grab material online, including lectures by gifted speakers in every field, a learning environment that avoids courses completely—or seriously reshapes them—might produce a very effective new form of college.
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much of what students rate as the most valuable part of their learning experience at college these days takes place outside the traditional classroom, citing data from the National Survey of Student Engagement, an annual study based at Indiana University at Bloomington. Four of the eight "high-impact" learning activities identified by survey participants required no classroom time at all: internships, study-abroad programs, senior thesis or other "capstone" projects, or the mundane-sounding "undergraduate research," meaning working with faculty members on original research, much as graduate students do.
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Confronting the Challenges of a Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Cen... - 0 views
SpeEdChange: A physical place for virtual education - 0 views
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And if you can't eat around it, or drink around it, just don't buy it. Education is messy - if your carpet or upholstery can't be easily cleaned, you've bought the wrong stuff.
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Design so that lighting varies, bright, dim, warm, cool. The idea of uniform room lighting, pulled from turn-of-the-20th-century German factory design, has never been appropriate for human use
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Design so that noise levels can vary as well. Not everyone needs auditory chaos, but many do. serve everyone. Don't pick "50 year" furniture.
21st Century World Languages Skills Map - 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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World Languages 21st Century Skills Map - 0 views
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