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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!"
2 to 1 YIS trial - PE class - YouTube - 1 views
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ExpEd in Practice - 0 views
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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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7 things you can always do in my class with your device - Home - Doug Johnson's Blue Skunk Blog - 0 views
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To think about while creating BYOD policies
Clipart - Flammarions Wanderer am Weltenrand - OpenClipArt - 0 views
The Digital Divide is Still A Problem by Bonnie Bracey Sutton - 0 views
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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."
ChronoZoom - 0 views
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Crowdsourcing a very slick timeline
Volatile and Decentralized: Making universities obsolete - 0 views
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But I think there are two important things that online universities bring to the table: (1) Broadening access to higher education, and (2) Leveraging technology to explore new approaches to learning.
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For this reason I think that replacing live courses with videotaped lectures is not going far enough (and may in fact be detrimental).
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Education should give everyone the opportunity to succeed, but the ultimate responsibility (and raw ability) comes down to the student.
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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An interesting way of harnessing the natural energy of teenagers. Definitely worthy of further exploration.
'Urban campuses' fire London's tech hotbed - FT.com - 0 views
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A new way of getting people together to innovate.
Blogs vs. Term Papers - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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blog writing has become a basic requirement in everything from M.B.A. to literature courses. On its face, who could disagree with the transformation? Why not replace a staid writing exercise with a medium that gives the writer the immediacy of an audience, a feeling of relevancy, instant feedback from classmates or readers, and a practical connection to contemporary communications? Pointedly, why punish with a paper when a blog is, relatively, fun?
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Because, say defenders of rigorous writing, the brief, sometimes personally expressive blog post fails sorely to teach key aspects of thinking and writing. They argue that the old format was less about how Sherman got to the sea and more about how the writer organized the points, fashioned an argument, showed grasp of substance and proof of its origin. Its rigidity wasn’t punishment but pedagogy.
BBC News - Ivy League education free on the web - 0 views
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Many school children shed sweat and tears to pursue the privilege of a top university education. But only a lucky few will make the grade and then they will have to fund it. The tech world however is full of visionaries intent on disrupting traditional establishments.
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.
