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Ivan Beeckmans

Steven Johnson: Where good ideas come from | Video on TED.com - 0 views

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    This is a great video that speaks to the development of networks that enable the creation of 'new' ideas. Bottom line, any new idea is based on another. Why would you prevent the growth and nurturing of ideas by placing a copyright on your version of something new?
Tim Pettine

Evidence-based practices for teaching writing - 1 views

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      Huge skill in academic writing.
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    e within their cooperative groups or partnerships. For example, if the class is working on using descriptive adjectives in their compositions, one student could be assigned to review another's writing. He or she could provide positive feedback, noting several instances of using descriptive vocabulary, and provide constructive feedback, identifying several sentences that could be enhanced with additional adjectives. After this, the students could switch roles and repeat the process. Goals: Set specific goals for the writing assignments that students are to complete. The goals can be established by the teacher or created by the class themselves, with review from the teacher to ensure they are appropriate and attainable. Goals can include (but are not limited to) adding more ideas to a paper or including specific elements of a writing genre (e.g., in an opinion essay include at least three reasons supporting your belief). Setting specific product goals can foster motivation, and teachers can continue to motivate students by providing reinforcement when they reach their goals. Word processing: Allow students to use a computer for completing written tasks. With a computer, text can be added, deleted, and moved easily. Furthermore, students can access tools, such as spell check, to enhance their written compositions. As with any technology, teachers should provide guidance on proper use of the computer and any relevant software before students use the computer to compose independently. Sentence combining: Explicitly teach students to write more complex and sophisticated sentences. Sentence combining involves teacher modeling of how to combine two or more related sentences to create a more complex one. Students should be encouraged to apply the sentence construction skills as they write or revise. Process writing: Implement flexible, but practical classroom routines that provide students with extended opportunities for practicing the cycle of planning, writing, and revie
Tim Pettine

Why visuals are a must-try learning tool - Daily Genius - 2 views

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    "90% of information transmitted to the brain is visual The brain can process 36,000 visual cues in an hour The brain takes about 1/10th of a second to get the idea of a visual scene Almost 50% of your brain is involved in visual processing Black and white images garner your attention for about 2/3 of a second Color images garner your attention for 2+ seconds The average consumer's attention span is only about 8 seconds The brain processes visual cues 60,000 times faster than text 40% of nerve fibers are linked to the retina The use of visuals improves learning outcomes by about 400% DO-S AND DON'T-S FOR VISUAL USE DO Use visuals to help clarify complex ideas Use visuals that represent people, places, and things Use catchy visuals Use visuals that help viewers make connections and understand new information Use visuals that help viewers relate new information to what they already know DON'T Use poor quality visuals, like things that are pixelated, stretched weird, sized improperly, or don't fit in the space Use ugly visuals Use visuals that don't make a clear connection to the material presented Use irrelevant visuals, like a series of shapes that have no meaning Use copyrighted visuals without permission!"
Ivan Beeckmans

Obvious to you. Amazing to others. on Vimeo - 0 views

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    This is a good video to start the COETAIL course. Many feel their ideas are not worth sharing and are reluctant to start blogging. Hopefully by watching this video you should realize you shouldn't hold back. The community needs you so start contributing.
Ian Gabrielson

Mind Tools - Management Training, Leadership Training and Career Training - 0 views

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    "The full Mind Tools toolkit contains more than 700 management, career and thinking skills. Use the buttons below to start exploring them." Creative Ideas for lesson plans for "real world" skills
Jeff Utecht

The Many Masks We Wear | Learning on the Go! - 3 views

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    I found four major trends in my searching last night but the four ideas occupy two opposite but related realms.  As one realm grows, it's inevitable that the other will too.
Tim Pettine

Brain Pickings - 0 views

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    I highly recommend this site as a source for ideas and content. The curator websites that are popular right now are an important emerging market since many can be adapted to specific or general interests. Have fun looking at it and definitely follow Maria on Twitter
Admission Times

SNAP 2013 Result Announced on 9th January - 0 views

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    The cut-off marks for SNAP 2013 will be declared during the result of the exam. Each participating institute will declare their individual SNAP 2013 cut-offs. Since this year the SNAP 2013 Cut-off marks have not been declared yet, we will give you the last year's SNAP cut-offs so that you can get an idea about the SNAP 2013 Cut-off and what to expect this year.  
Melissa Enderle

Flashlight | A Flashlight in the Fog of Tech Integration - 0 views

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    Examples of taking a lesson idea in different levels of SAMR model, other tech integration resources
Jeff Utecht

Why Teachers Should Join Twitter…What I have Learned as a Twitter Newbie « ad... - 1 views

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    Okay, I admit that I rebelled against joining Twitter for the longest time.  I had friends and family members urging me to join.  I often said, "Why should I join another social networking site?  I have not used MySpace for a while  and am quite happy with Facebook."  Those who were part of the Twitter community kept insisting that I join because in their words it was better than Facebook.  I had no idea what I was missing on Twitter.  Months would pass and I was quite determined that I did not need Twitter.  I was fine without it.  I kept social networking for my personal life.  I did not see why I needed it otherwise.
Katy Vance

Educational Leadership:Technology-Rich Learning:Our Brains Extended - 0 views

  • When my 2nd grader needs to know the meaning of a word, I tell him to use my iPhone to ask Siri, an artificial intelligence program that's always happy to look it up for him. Siri, in turn, uses the free online program Wolfram Alpha, one of the most powerful data analysis tools in the world. If you enter into the Siri (or Wolfram Alpha) search box, by text or voice, "arable land in world divided by world population," in less than a second the phone or computer will find the relevant data; do the calculations; provide the answer—in square miles, acres, square feet, and hectares per person—and cite you its sources.
  • The only way to do almost all science today is with technology. No human can handle or analyze the volumes of data we now have and need. Ditto for the social sciences. The research study of the past focusing on 10 graduate students has been replaced by sample sizes of millions online around the world. Being perfect at language translation, spelling, and grammar is becoming less important for humans as machines begin to understand context and can access almost every translation ever done. Those who laugh at the mistakes that machines make today will no longer be laughing in a few short years.
  • call the process of envisioning such technically enhanced possibilities imag-u-cation. It's something every teacher and class should spend some time doing.
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  • With YouTube, for example, students can post their ideas to the world and get rapid global feedback. With tools like Twitter and its cousins, they can follow firsthand details of events unfolding anywhere in the world, from revolutions to natural disasters. With mashups and related techniques, they can combine sophisticated data sources in powerful new ways. One school group I know of created a Second Life model of Los Angeles, using the database of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to show each plane flying in its actual spot! With Skype-like tools, students can connect with experts and peers around the world in real time.
  • Effective Thinking, which would include creative and critical thinking as well as portions of math, science, logic, persuasion, and even storytelling; Effective Action, which would include entrepreneurship, goal setting, planning, persistence, project management, and feedback; and Effective Relationships, which would include emotional intelligence, teamwork, ethics, and more.
  • Instead of today's focus on pre-established subject matter, with thinking skills presented randomly, haphazardly, and inconsistently, the student and teacher focus would always be on thinking in its various forms and on being an effective thinker, using examples from math, science, social studies, and language arts.
  • These would range from small projects in earlier years ("I made this app or this website") to larger projects ("I collaborated with a class in another country to publish a bilingual novel"; "I started a successful company") to participation in later years in huge, distributed projects around the world ("Using Galaxy Zoo, I discovered a new, habitable planet").
  • Producing effective letters, reports, and essays was an intellectual need of our past. Working effectively in virtual communities, communicating effectively through video, and controlling complex technologies are what students need to be successful in the future. Thinking, acting, relating, and accomplishing—in the technological and fast-changing context of the future—are where we should focus our students' attention.
  • No longer is the unenhanced brain the wisest thing on the planet. Students who don't have technology's powerful new capabilities at their command at every turn are not better 21st century humans but lesser ones.
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    You think of technology as a tool," one high school student told me. "We think of it as a foundation; it underlies everything we do."
Ivan Beeckmans

Digital literacy can boost employability and improve student experience | Higher Educat... - 0 views

  • increasingly digital literacy is vital for learning itself.
  • It goes beyond IT skills, a complete culture change is required to live fully within the modern digital society, from understanding how to communicate ideas effectively in a range of media to managing digital reputation and history.
  • it's easy to overstate the digital competence of today's undergraduate students and even postgraduate researchers.
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  • Most learners use only basic functionality and are reluctant to explore the capabilities of technology, preferring to passively consume content rather than create or curate it.
kels_giroux

Life on the Screen: Visual Literacy in Education | Edutopia - 0 views

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      I'd love to see this idea blown up visually.
  • nstead we need to teach students how to tell a story.
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