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Ivan Beeckmans

University? There's an app for that - Technology - Macleans.ca - 0 views

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • The first users will be in China, where demand for North American education is high—850,000 students come here annually to learn.
Ivan Beeckmans

It's Time for a New Kind of High School| The Committed Sardine - 0 views

  • In Indiana University's 2007 High School Survey of Student Engagement, 73 percent of the respondents said, "I didn't like the school"; 61 percent said, "I didn't like the teachers"; and 60 percent said, "I didn't see the value in the work I was being asked to do." About 30 percent of the students indicated they were bored because of a lack of interaction with teachers, and 75 percent reported that the "material being taught is not interesting."
  • Despite what we now know about the power of learning through talking and doing, we persist in expecting students to learn by listening. The present disparity between teacher and student talk time is a profound hindrance to learning.
  • a grade 7/8 half-day school/work internship;
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  • We need to tear apart the school day, the high school timetable, the school year, the four-year diploma. We need to rethink credit- and diploma-awarding authority, which need not be the sole purview of the high school. For instance, why can't we give this authority to nongovernment organizations and corporations willing to step up and offer academic credits in their workplaces relevant to the work of their institution?
  • not just for university-bound scholarship students
Ivan Beeckmans

The Dean's List: 50 Must-Read Higher Education Technology Blogs | EdTech Magazine - 0 views

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    A list of possible people to follow
Paige Prescott

Come the Revolution - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    thought provoking article about on-line university classes in the future.  The discussion thread at the bottom is also worthwhile reading.
Viviane Van Esch

How to Find Social Actions by Source in Google Analytics - 0 views

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    You can use Google Analytics if you want to see the number of actions such as Facebook likes, Google +1s and tweets that you're getting by source. For these steps to work, you must have current versions of the Facebook like button and Google + widgets running on your site.
Clint Hamada

Scamworld: 'Get rich quick' mutates into an unstoppable monster - YouTube - 0 views

  • Dive into Scamworld, home of the modern day 'get rich quick' scam that has overtaken the internet. Learn how a network of pitchmen harnessed the internet to build the ultimate pyramid scheme.
Ivan Beeckmans

TeachPaperless: The Problem with TED Ed - 1 views

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    An interesting post about the need for more doing in order to really learn.
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