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Tim Pettine

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

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visualliteracy technology infographic

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  • Tim Pettine on 25 Aug 14
     
    "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

C. M. Rubin: The Global Search for Education: What Will Finland Do Next? - 2 views

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shared by Ivan Beeckmans on 19 Jan 13 - No Cached
  • I think that the U.S. school system would benefit from a dual system in high school where young people who are interested in doing or making things with their hands, for instance, could have high quality vocational programs or schools that would equip them with the skills they need to find jobs or employ themselves.
  • First, curriculum in vocational schools was adjusted closer to the standards of academic high school.
  • Second, a significant proportion of vocational studies was shifted to real work places where students are able to learn in practice the knowledge and skills they need in their future jobs.
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  • Third, vocational and academic high schools were required to design and provide instruction that enabled students more flexibility and choice.
  • One scenario is that schools will race after technology and align core instructional operations to rely on digital and other technological solutions.
  • A second scenario views schools merely as places for facilitation of study and checking of achievement.
  • A third scenario would be to elevate schools as places for social learning and developmental skills. Cooperative learning, problem solving and cultivating the habits of mind would be at the heart of school life.
  • First, I am not saying that Finland has the best education system in the world and that others should imitate what we have done.
  • Second, I make it very clear that the Finnish school system cannot be transferred anywhere else in the world.
  • There are some concrete lessons that American educators and policymakers could learn from Finland.
  • First, a universal standard for financing schools, so that resources are channeled to schools according to real needs
  • Second, a universal standard for time allocation in schools, allowing pupils to have a proper recess between classes and a balanced curriculum among academic learning, the arts and physical education.
  • Third, a universal standard for teacher preparation that follows standards in other top professions.
  • Ivan Beeckmans on 19 Jan 13
     
    Some interesting comments of regarding the future of schools...if that is what we continue to call them.
Viviane Van Esch

The Digital Divide is Still A Problem by Bonnie Bracey Sutton - 0 views

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digital divide internet use

shared by Viviane Van Esch on 08 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • Viviane Van Esch on 08 Nov 12
     
    Scroll down for an interesting graph showing internet usage continent by continent. My favourite quote, "So every time someone says "Just go online and…" they are leaving out one in five U.S. residents, and two thirds of the people around the world."
Clint Hamada

Teachers Should Change How They Teach Students Today. That's Our Job: Response to NY Ti... - 0 views

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coetail4 hastac learning pedagogy shift paradigm

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  • Clint Hamada on 02 Nov 12
     
    " teaching to enormity is very, very different from teaching to scarcity."
Ivan Beeckmans

The Innovative Educator: You can never replace the teacher. Or can you? 10 ways to lear... - 0 views

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shared by Ivan Beeckmans on 25 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • I never learned anything I was tested on. After I was forced to memorize and regurgitate onto the paper, the uninteresting, disconnected facts, stayed on the test. 
  • I don’t blame myself though. I did as I was told and I excelled in the game of school.
  • The reality for me is that I would have been much better off without the teachers in my life weighing me down and wasting my time.
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  • Unlike Jon and my friend though, many of us learn more effectively without teachers and there are more and more ways to do just that.
  • Ivan Beeckmans on 25 Jan 12
     
    An interesting post about whether a teacher is really useful. There are issues with this argument (student motivation being one) but it likely sums up the experiences of many and prompts the need for more individualized learning.
Ivan Beeckmans

What You (Really) Need to Know - Harvard - Belfer Center for Science and International ... - 0 views

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coetail4 university learning curriculum education

shared by Ivan Beeckmans on 12 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • Yet undergraduate education changes remarkably little over time.
  • Education will be more about how to process and use information and less about imparting it.
  • An inevitable consequence of the knowledge explosion is that tasks will be carried out with far more collaboration.
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  • New technologies will profoundly alter the way knowledge is conveyed.
  • As articulated by the Nobel Prize-winner Daniel Kahneman in “Thinking, Fast and Slow,” we understand the processes of human thought much better than we once did.
  • And yet in the face of all evidence, we rely almost entirely on passive learning.
  • This makes it essential that the educational experience breed cosmopolitanism — that students have international experiences, and classes in the social sciences draw on examples from around the world.
  • Courses of study will place much more emphasis on the analysis of data
  • A good rule of thumb for many things in life holds that things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then happen faster than you thought they could.
  • Here is a bet and a hope that the next quarter century will see more change in higher education than the last three combined.
Ivan Beeckmans

The disappearing virtual library - Opinion - Al Jazeera English - 0 views

www.aljazeera.com/...2012227143813304790.html

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shared by Ivan Beeckmans on 05 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • But both are missing the point: the global demand for learning and scholarship is not being met by the contemporary publishing industry. It cannot be, not with the current business models and the prices. The users of library.nu - these barbarians at the gate of the publishing industry and the university - are legion.
  • They are a global market engaged in what we in the elite institutions of the world are otherwise telling them to do all the time: educate yourself; become scholars and thinkers; read and think for yourselves; bring civilisation, development and modernity to your people.
  • Library.nu was making that learning possible where publishers have not
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  • But the legality of library.nu is also not the issue: trading in scanned, leaked or even properly purchased versions of digital books is thoroughly illegal. This is so much the case that it can't be long before reading a book - making an unauthorised copy in your brain - is also made illegal. 
  • not stealing
  • The winter of 2012 has seen a series of assaults on file-sharing sites in the wake of the failed SOPA and PIPA legislation. Mega-upload.com (the brainchild of eccentric master pirate Kim Dotcom - he legally changed his name in 2005) was seized by the US Department of Justice; torrent site btjunkie.com voluntarily closed down for fear of litigation.
  • Jeff Utecht on 05 Mar 12
     
     Last week a website called "library.nu" disappeared. A coalition of international scholarly publishers accused the site of piracy and convinced a judge in Munich to shut it down. Library.nu (formerly Gigapedia) had offered, if the reports are to be believed, between 400,000 and a million digital books for free. 
Katy Vance

Presentation Zen: Nurturing curiosity & inspiring the pursuit of discovery - 0 views

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presentationzen curiosity engagement

shared by Katy Vance on 15 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • We are obsessed with giving prizes to students who memorize the most facts and bits of information (and in the shortest amount of time). Why don't we give prizes for the students who demonstrate their unabashed curiosity and demonstrable pursuit of discovery? A driving child-like curiosity and sense of wonder is an undeniable sign of intelligence. The curious can eventually overcome their ignorance, but the chronically incurious—and yet self-assured—are stuck with their ignorance for a lifetime
    • Katy Vance
      Katy Vance on 15 Sep 13
       
      This is at the core of the IB.
  • Katy Vance on 15 Sep 13
     
    "it is in fact nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry...."
Jeff Utecht

Israel says Hamas 'hit hard' in Gaza fighting - Middle East - Al Jazeera English - 2 views

www.aljazeera.com/...hting-2014827184944347845.html

shared by Jeff Utecht on 27 Aug 14 - No Cached
  • In comments delivered in a prime-time address on national television, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday said that "Hamas was hit hard," adding that Israel "didn't agree to accept any of Hamas' demands" under the Egyptian-brokered ceasefire deal.
    • Jeff Utecht
      Jeff Utecht on 27 Aug 14
       
      What do you think about this?
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