Let Kids Rule the School - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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Their guidance counselor was their adviser, consulting with them when the group flagged in energy or encountered an obstacle. Though they sought advice from English, math and science teachers, they were responsible for monitoring one another’s work and giving one another feedback. There were no grades, but at the end of the semester, the students wrote evaluations of their classmates.
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The students also designed their own curriculum, deciding to split their September-to-January term into two halves.
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each of them focused on specific mathematical topics, from quadratic equations to the numbers behind poker
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Brain Pickings - 0 views
Infographic Design, Custom Infographics - 1 views
University? There's an app for that - Technology - Macleans.ca - 0 views
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Even more surprising: while the course content could be viewed on a computer screen or tablet, it would be designed, first and foremost, for smartphones—making the “classroom” entirely mobile and available anytime, anywhere.
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And the target audience is just as compelling: developing countries, where there are millions of individuals who want an education but can’t afford it or access it locally—and where smartphones are common.
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The first users will be in China, where demand for North American education is high—850,000 students come here annually to learn.
What happens with digital rights management in the real world? | Technology | theguardi... - 0 views
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Ever since Reimerdes, it's been clear that DRM isn't the right to prevent piracy: it's the right to make up your own copyright laws. The right to invent things that people aren't allowed to do – even though the law permits it -- and to embed these prohibitions in code that is illegal to violate.
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hen your computer is designed to treat you as an untrusted party, you are at serious risk: anyone who can put malicious software on your computer has only to take advantage of your computer's intentional capacity to disguise its operation from you in order to make it much harder for you to know when and how you've been compromised.
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That means that any system with DRM will on average be more dangerous for its users than one without DRM.
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Chapter 1. Backward Design - 1 views
Google Fonts - 0 views
elearnspace. Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age - 16 views
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Learning, as a self-organizing process requires that the system (personal or organizational learning systems) “be informationally open, that is, for it to be able to classify its own interaction with an environment, it must be able to change its structure…”
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Vaill emphasizes that “learning must be a way of being – an ongoing set of attitudes and actions by individuals and groups that they employ to try to keep abreast o the surprising, novel, messy, obtrusive, recurring events…” (1996, p.42).
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ExpEd in Practice - 0 views
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Real world, native speaker experience. Peer to peer learning. Appropriate levels of difficulty/ challenge.
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eal world, native speaker experience. Peer to peer learning. Appropriate levels of difficulty/ challenge.
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Ideally any local guides should be experienced at using simple student-appropriate language and pre-teaching of activity-specific vocabulary is essential
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A Visit to the Lovett School Story Studio: Redesigning Learning Spaces, Rewriting Narra... - 3 views
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