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Barbara Lindsey

Integrating Technology for Active Life-long Learning (IT4ALL) - 0 views

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pd pln workshops certificate wiziq

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  • Barbara Lindsey on 07 Dec 09
     
    Free professional development (Certificates included) on how to integrate technology for active learning via blended (BL) and blended online learning (BOL) courses and workshops
Barbara Lindsey

Finals Club: The student voice in open education - 0 views

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student sharing knowledge

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  • The content of each course, however, is not infallible. Rather, it is a representation of the ideas and opinions expressed in a course by a professor ad his or her students at a given university during a given semester. If you happen to disagree with anything, please share your thoughts in a productive and engaging manner for the benefit of all readers.
  • we limit contributors to those enrolled at one of our participating universities to maintain a base level of authority to all course content.
  • Our desire is to demonstrate and inspire creativity in academics – a goal that goes far beyond merely storing, sorting, and displaying information. By inspiring brilliance in all subjects we hope to encourage academic discussion, progress, and openness.
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  • the role of our annotations is to guide a reader, as any great teacher would, through complex language or passages of particular genius.
Barbara Lindsey

Education Week: Over the Top - 0 views

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  • You also must not think about what children will really need to be successful in the 21st-century global economy, such as cross-cultural competencies, foreign languages, and digital capabilities.
  • you cannot think about students’ individual differences, the need for diverse talents, or the costs of standardized tests. You cannot think about who will eventually benefit from the assessments either. And in no way should you worry about the corruption that high-stakes standardized testing brings with it.
  • include a proposal to bar all children under the age of 18 from entering museums, public libraries, and music events; lock up all musical instruments in schools, and fire all music, art, and physical education teachers; close sports facilities; disconnect all Internet connections; and cut down on lunch time, because the Race to the Top initiative wants to lengthen the school year and school day, and all these are distracting kids from studying for the tests.
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  • Nor can you assume that a well-rounded human being is essential for a democracy
Barbara Lindsey

FuturistSpeaker.com - The personal blog of Futurist Thomas Frey » Blog Archi... - 0 views

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education future Learning2.0

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  • Architects refer to schools as a “place,” and over the years place-makers have attempted to create the ultimate classroom – a place where learning can be optimized and students can excel.
  • Using classrooms as the primary “touch point” for learning creates many problems. The person or education system that controls the classroom also controls the time when learning can take place, the students who will participate, the lighting, the sounds, the media used, the tools, the pace, the subject matter, and in many cases, the results.
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      Barbara Lindsey on 01 Jan 10
       
      Can you provide a counterargument?
  • This transition began with the introduction of comment sections at the end of online news posts. People began to voice their thoughts on whether or not a piece of news was accurate, timely, or in any way news-worthy. Many commenters added additional information.
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  • New forms of education are not achieved by putting an umbrella over our existing education systems and networking them with hopes that they will get better. And they’re not achieved by simply recording the lectures for later broadcast.
  • he notion that education can take place only in a classroom is similar to the notion that purchasing a product can only take place when you see it on a store shelf. Removing the classroom constraints to learning is similar to removing the shelf space constraints to the marketplace.
    • Barbara Lindsey
      Barbara Lindsey on 01 Jan 10
       
      Do you think this analogy works?
  • Barbara Lindsey on 01 Jan 10
     
    Architects refer to schools as a "place," and over the years place-makers have attempted to create the ultimate classroom - a place where learning can be optimized and students can excel.
Barbara Lindsey

The 21st Century Learning Initiative : The History of Education 2000 and the Explanatio... - 0 views

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education Britian reform

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  • The application of "market principles" quickly destroyed the concept of a community of learners that extended beyond the school and effectively turned each school against its "rival"; a preoccupation with the assessment of pupils as a way of monitoring teachers led to even more "teaching for the test," and the relegation of information technology to that of a vocational skill.
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      Barbara Lindsey on 07 Jan 10
       
      Are there similarities with the US system? Is this change of perspective necessarily bad?
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    "By 1988, with increasing pressure with every subsequent year, Education 2000 became evermore isolated by a whole series of legislative proposals made by a Government whose educational policy was increasingly to become prescriptive, centralized, and based on assumptions that originated in the 1950s. Teacher education courses were reorganized to focus far more heavily on subject content and classroom practice, at the cost of a hefty reduction in all aspects of the course dealing with educational theory, purpose and philosophy. Her Majesty's Inspectorate was abolished as being too much on "the side of the teachers," and replaced by a more rigorous assessment and evaluation system. "There is no such subject as education," said Margaret Thatcher, "only subjects to be taught.""
Barbara Lindsey

open thinking » How to Stream Skype to Ustream (Mac) - 0 views

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  • I would add that in soundflower you should set the buffer to 64. It was at 512 as a default.
Barbara Lindsey

Why Indie Directors Are Releasing Movies Online -- For Free - Yahoo! News - 0 views

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viral videos

shared by Barbara Lindsey on 27 Dec 09 - No Cached
  • "What I have learned is that the more freely you show the film, the more audiences will buy the DVD and surrounding merchandise," she says. "
  • And in May, documentary filmmaker Franny Armstrong launched a website called www.indiescreenings.net, where people can buy a license and then screen her climate-change documentary, The Age of Stupid. Armstrong incentivizes buyers by allowing them to keep any profits from ticket sales.
  • So Vuorensola took matters into his own hands: he used a Finnish social networking site to build up an online fan base who contributed to the storyline, made props and even offered their acting skills. In return for the help, Vuorensola released Star Wreck in 2005 online for free. Seven hundred thousand copies were downloaded in the first week alone; to date, the total has now reached 9 million.
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  • "Whether it's through piracy or distribution your film is out there on the Internet, so we decided to harness this." And he has managed to make quite a bit of money out of it.
  • The Internet has become a free distribution machine, so what can you sell that makes money? Things you can't copy. They need to be things that are based around your audience. Directors cuts, merchandise, 35mm prints of your film."
  • Barbara Lindsey on 27 Dec 09
     
    "What I have learned is that the more freely you show the film, the more audiences will buy the DVD and surrounding merchandise," she says.
Barbara Lindsey

Obama and Higher Education - Romance and Reality - HigherEd Careers - HigherEdJobs.com - 0 views

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higher ed funding education tenure

shared by Barbara Lindsey on 01 May 09 - Cached
  • I don't expect direct subsidies for education will matter generally - especially in the humanities. Investments in science, technology, and health care will boost large research universities that depend on grants. The next 8 years will be good to scientists at MIT, Cal Tech, and Johns Hopkins, among others. Better to be a "real" scientist than a "social" scientist.
  • Faculty should expect less and less security. Major universities have been shifting away from tenured faculty toward lecturers - and that may well be a good trend. Lecturers tend to be closer to the "real world," which comes along with more practical skills. Likewise, growth in higher education will be greater in community and technical colleges. Job security there is directly related to performance - not tenure. We may, thankfully, be moving toward more accountability for teachers and less security for the dead wood among our faculties.
  • If you're looking for innovation and change in higher education , take a train to your state capitol building. Avoid that flight to DC.
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  • At Harvard, we're seeing fewer hires because of the economy, but when we do make hires, we're looking for cross-disciplinary scholars.
  • for my students I ask them to write skill-based resumes. Their job histories should be downplayed and woven into the skills they can bring to employers.
  • For other professors, I've seen a lot of my colleagues come and go from here. Those who have been successful (either at Harvard or at their next jobs) understand that their learning only begins when they get a Ph.D. Some of my friends from graduate school thought they had reached some "finish line" when they got their doctorates. That's crazy. That's the starting line. Scholars who have successful careers diversify their skills and interests. They keep up with journals while also trying to become more "public intellectuals." I think of it this way: even though we're not in a Ph.D. program any longer, we should imagine ourselves getting a new Ph.D. every six years. We're not just in the "teaching business," we're in the "learning business." As the world changes, we need to, too.
Barbara Lindsey

University of Dayton students describe how and why they use social networking applicati... - 0 views

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  • Barbara Lindsey on 26 Mar 09
     
    To what extent do you think it important to discuss these issues with students on a university, college, departmental and class level?
Barbara Lindsey

Main Page - CaseWiki - 0 views

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wiki university

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  • What makes the Case Wiki different from other sites is that content can be created by any member of the university community, not just site maintainers.
  • All content on this site is viewable by everyone in the world-- it is not limited to the campus community.
Barbara Lindsey

Why Wordle-By Steven W. Anderson - 0 views

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wordle students examples

shared by Barbara Lindsey on 14 Oct 09 - No Cached
  • @mrsmac75-As a starter for students to try and guess where we're going with our lesson and create their own learning outcomes. @ktenkely-I use Wordle as warm up. I hate the question, "What are we doing today." I give word clues about what we are doing in class.
  • I use it as an assessment activity at the end of a topic,
  • Barbara Lindsey on 14 Oct 09
     
    Great examples for using Wordle with students
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