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Darcy Goshorn

YouTube Player Demo - YouTube - Google Developers - 2 views

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    for devs - test bed for customizing the youtube player with all available api-ish options.
Virginia Glatzer

5 Ways to Project Your iPad on a Projector Screen - 9 views

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    Tony Vincent
Vicki Treadway

iPad school: New media is altering teaching style, creates digital students - CSMonitor... - 2 views

  • “No matter if it’s the newest iPad, a new interactive whiteboard, or if every student has their own computer, we still need to invest in the people who are going to be using that technology,” Doering said. School districts are “not going to see great improvements until we invest in our people.”
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      Sounds familiar, right? This is what CFF was all about.
Darcy Goshorn

Digital Badges: A More Viable Currency for Returning Adult Students? - The EvoLLLution ... - 0 views

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    Can digital badges rescue MOOCs?
Virginia Glatzer

Everything you know about curriculum may be wrong. Really. - 7 views

  • We design backward from human knowledge, in other words, and we sequence knowledge in ways that suit the learner’s prior and current knowledge. What else could a curriculum be?
  • Well, this works fine if the present is just like the past; if ideas turn into competent action automatically; and if theory, not effects, matters most.
  • suppose today’s content knowledge is an offshoot of successful ongoing learning in a changing world – in which ‘learning’ means ‘learning to perform in the world.’
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  • learning in a changing world – in which ‘learning’ means ‘
  • knowledge is the growing (and ever-changing) residue of the main activity of trying to perform well for real.
  • The point is to do new things with content, not simply know what others know
  • the point of learning is not just to know things but to be a different person
  • but I learn based on the attempts to perform and feedback from trying
  • Conventional views of curriculum and instruction have no good explanation for it.
  • What is the aim of any curriculum?
  • In games (and in life), I begin with performance challenges, not technical knowledge. I receive no upfront teaching
  • Knowledge is an indicator of educational success, not the aim. Thus, the conventional view of curriculum and the process of conventional curriculum writing must be wrong:
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    Grant Wiggins
Darcy Goshorn

3 Reasons Students Should Not Raise Their Hands - Edudemic - 2 views

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    Sometimes the most effective techniques are about the basics.
Darcy Goshorn

Keyboarding or Computer Literacy: The New Dilemma - 1 views

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    Some interesting thoughts about "flipping" the keyboarding classroom.
Darcy Goshorn

gClassFolders - Automagically Create Shared Google Drive Folders for students - 4 views

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    "Automagically Create Shared folders for Students" in Google Drive / Google Docs
Michelle Krill

Popcorn Maker: A Dead-Simple Drag-and-Drop App For Remixing Web Videos | Co.Design: bus... - 2 views

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    "If you've ever wanted to paste "Pop Up Video"-style commentary bubbles over your favorite YouTube clip, Popcorn Maker's drag-and-drop UI couldn't be simpler. But you can also add more sophisticated interactivity like Google Maps, live Twitter feeds, and Wikipedia articles just as easily. "
Darcy Goshorn

Run any application on demand - Spoon.net App Virtualization - 5 views

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    Install a browser plugin and run applications virtually right in your browser!
Darcy Goshorn

Top 25 Mobile Apps in Academia - Online Universities - 1 views

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    Everyone seems to talk endlessly about the role smartphones and other mobile technologies play in today's classroom, especially when it comes to the best apps to get teachers organized and keep students learning. Higher ed has not inoculated itself against the spread, and ranks from the university president down to the lowliest of fresh meat tote around a smartphone or a tablet these days. Some, of course, benefit the faculty more than others, and the following prove pretty popular among professors these days.
Darcy Goshorn

Circumventing Turnitin.com (Ethically, that is) « Jessica Dickinson Goodman - 3 views

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    One student's battle to maintain control over her own intellectual property, and overcome the institutional laziness enabled by Turnitin.com
Darcy Goshorn

Four Reasons to be Happy about Internet Plagiarism - 1 views

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    How the alleged rise of internet plagiarism is actually positively affecting learning/teaching. 
Michelle Krill

Ready by 21 | The Forum for Youth Investment - 4 views

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    " Ready by 21 is the Forum's signature initiative based on decades of experience working with state and local leaders. It is a set of innovative strategies that helps communities and states improve the odds that all children and youth will be ready for college, work and life. Ready by 21 provides clear standards to achieve collective impact, tools and solutions to help leaders make progress, and ways to measure and track success along the way. Specifically, Ready by 21 helps leaders build broader partnerships, set bigger goals, collect and use better data, and take bolder actions. A growing number of communities and states are using these strategies to change the way they do business."
Darcy Goshorn

A Lesson in Academic Integrity | Faculty Focus - 5 views

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    In an effort to make my lessons about plagiarism and the appropriate citation of sources more personal for the students in my rhetoric and research classes, I now use an assignment that forces them into the role of victim rather than thief. The results of my most recent experience with this approach were encouraging
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