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Barbara Lindsey

Open Resources - Transforming the Way Knowledge Is Spread - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • the five functions now performed by universities — teaching; providing a space for social interaction; testing students’ knowledge and offering feedback in the form of grades; cultivating a reputation as a good place to learn; and certifying what graduates know through accreditation — will inevitably change.
  • In October 2003, there were 511 courses available, all from M.I.T. According to Ms. Mulder, the current total is over 21,000 — with 9,903 in languages other than English, including Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Catalan, Hebrew, Farsi, Turkish, Korean and Japanese.
  • The school’s Masters Series Madrid is a game — with soundtrack, 3-D graphics and interviews with executives — that allows students to manage an international tennis tournament. “It’s a great way for people to see our school,” said Matthew Constantine, a member of the IE staff.
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  • Although all of the material on IE’s Web site is free for individual use, he said, the school “avoided developing material for self-learning” because “we think class discussion is essential.”
  • “If you don’t ‘close’ education in certain ways then you are out of business.”
  • “The completion rates for students in purely online programs are very low,” he said. “If a program is too open, too flexible, too ‘on demand,’ students won’t ever finish.”
  • Mr. Mulder also warned against viewing O.E.R. as a panacea. “O.E.R. is not education,” he said. “It’s only content. It becomes learning when you have good teaching.”
Barbara Lindsey

Impossible Software Is About To Do Impossible Things With Your Video | TechCrunch - 0 views

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    Opens up a slew of questions-and possibilities-for teaching and learning
Barbara Lindsey

Going Low-Tech to Teach New Literacies | DMLcentral - 0 views

  • such students learn “how to perform theory without polysyllabic words” and how to feel as well as to articulate.
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    fall 2012 syllabus
Barbara Lindsey

Education Week Teacher: My Students Help Assess My Teaching - 0 views

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    Fall 2012 syllabus
Barbara Lindsey

7 steps for advancing your higher ed career | Education Dive - 0 views

  • "The best advice I can offer is this: Know and understand the difference between 'teaching' and 'learning.' If your focus and passion is on 'learning' you have a future in the classroom. If your focus is on 'teaching' then stay out of the classroom and look to management or administration." - Tim Klassen, Director of Ontario College Quality Assurance Service
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      My favorite piece of advice
Barbara Lindsey

SpeEdChange: Considering Universal Design - 0 views

  • UDL means many things, depending on which group of researchers and advocates you are speaking to, but the general idea is to create learning environment which can be individually adapted to learner needs. In other words, the environment adapts rather than forcing the learner to.
  • educational institutions, content delivery systems, assessment systems, and ICT should be flexible enough to meet the diverse needs of the learner population.
  • And school ends in graduate school with them telling you that you are making your citations wrong - not that they can't tell where you got your information from, you're just not conforming absolutely to whichever nonsensical citation system your particular department has chosen to embrace."
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      Do you see any problems with either conforming to or not conforming to an agreed upon citation system? What is Socol's argument here? Is this a good example for his argument? 
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  • A decade ago the Centre for Applied Special Technology (CAST) proposed 3 principles that could be applied to the curriculum and set an agenda for inclusion, as follows:1. Provide multiple representations of content.2. Provide multiple options for expression and control.3. Provide multiple options for engagement and motivation.and these remain essential, but I want to add a fourth which must apply to them all:4. That these representations and options be available to all students on the basis of understood needs and/or informed preference, without the need for diagnosis.
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      To what extent have you experienced this in the courses you've taken? Would offering this to your students be helpful to them? Would it change the way you assess? Would this change the way a course is taught? How a program is structured? Do you see any problems with this?
  • This is not just privileging one media form over another, this is elevating the "how" over the "what" to an extreme extent. It not only humiliates those labelled with "disabilities," it refuses to accommodate the very legitimate choices of all students. Choices which might significantly improve the comfort, attention capabilities, and learning opportunities for that 60%-65% who currently fall far behind, and might even help those already doing well to achieve their full potential.
  • Under UDL content would be fully flexible in delivery.
  • UDL should really go further - especially in recognizing that not all students benefit from following the same path to skills and knowledge. Any system which applies the same pedagogy to all students is clearly not a universal design (in my mind it is not even moral). Insisting on everyone using the same textbook, or doing the exact same assignments, or following the same schedule - those are all industrial practices which are based in the belief that students are a raw material which can be shaped by repeated stampings. Any claims to some kind of rational meritocracy within that "same requirements" argument are simply a mask for the essential anti-humaness of the system.
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      Would love to hear your thought on this assertion by Socol. If you agree with what he says, how would/could you structure the courses you teach? How could the courses you are taking as a student change? Would that help you? Could these courses then attract more diverse students? What would the learning look like? The assessments?
  • "Create something," he told us, "which demonstrates your in-depth knowledge of at least one critical moment in that century."
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      How would you design an assessment around this?
  • I am not imparting malice to their position, simply suggesting that there is little incentive - emotionally, psychologically, or economically - for them to change.
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      Do you think this is true?
  • I think that teacher training institutions should be required to have at least a third of their teaching and research faculty consist of individuals who have special needs, or who needed alternative educations, or who simply did badly in school.
Barbara Lindsey

Cheater Cheater by Michael Erard - The Morning News - 0 views

  • To me it meant that there were contradictions about what we did and what we said in our culture about who we looked up to and who we made pay for our sins. It also meant that authorship and authoring were far more complicated than could be taught—I myself was about to see this, live it.
  • Because she had a disciplinary file in the dean’s office, she decided against graduate school and didn’t take the GRE, though she was thinking about graduate school in business. More importantly, though, her self-image as a good girl had been crushed.
  • I told Haley a bit about how her plagiarism had affected me. How I took it personally, and trusted students a little less; I made sure that assignments were plagiarism-proof. But what she couldn’t know was how I became more confident in spotting an opportunity to instruct, and less interested in policing boundaries—which were, after all, mine to teach. She also couldn’t know that at one point, I’d considered designing a course that would focus on rewriting, rephrasing, riffing, and appropriation as real tools of the writer’s trade. It wouldn’t teach anything that would get anyone in trouble, but unlike other writing courses, it would be honest about where ideas and language come from: well, who knows where they come from, but not from angelic transmissions into our minds.
Barbara Lindsey

Study: Seasoned profs prepare students for advanced learning | e! Science News - 0 views

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    Taken together, the findings imply that student evaluations give instructors-especially those who do not have tenure-incentive to teach in ways that "have great value for raising current scores, but may have little value for lasting knowledge," the authors conclude.
Barbara Lindsey

An Interview with Michael Wesch - Part 1 of 3 | November Learning - 0 views

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    This episode is the first of a three part conversation between Alan November and Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Digital Ethnography at Kansas State University. In this segment, the two discuss the need for teaching social responsibility to students and what important basic skills students and teachers need to know. Additionally, the two discuss whether students are having a loss or gain of identity by working online.
Barbara Lindsey

The Archaeology of the Mediterranean World: Teaching Thursday: Communicating with Stude... - 0 views

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    Assist Prof of Archeology details how he uses Twitter and discussion boards to more effectively communicate with students and help guide them in writing more appropriate and higher level response posts. 
Barbara Lindsey

A Framework for Teaching with Twitter - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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