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NCATE - public - Home Page - 0 views

ncate.org/...2309_TeacherEdRequirements.asp accreditation NCATE authentic learning
shared by Gary Brown on 24 Jun 09 - Cached
  • “The new focus will help close the gap between theory and practice, and assure that teacher education program candidates are able to help diverse students be successful learners,” says NCATE president James G. Cibulka. “In the past, accreditation wrapped clinical experience around coursework. This approach reverses the priority, encouraging institutions to place teacher candidates in year-long training programs and wrap coursework around clinical practice.”
  • “However, regardless of pathway, all candidates should meet the same set of high standards.”
  • Gary Brown on 24 Jun 09
     
    Note shift in NCATE accreditation to make the authentic or clinical training central; the classroom should supplement the authentic. There is also an emphasis on bringing change or transformation to the world.
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Accreditor for Teaching Programs Puts New Emphasis on Research and Real Life - Chronicl... - 0 views

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shared by Nils Peterson on 24 Jun 09 - Cached
  • “Learning these aspects of teaching in a contrived setting just isn’t doing the job.” Future teachers should be receiving this instruction and guidance from mentors who are working
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 24 Jun 09
       
      A call for learning in community -- what is missing is any discussion of how to harvest feedback. Be a classic case for posting a lesson plan and its assessment, and its products and asking teachers, peers, parents to assess and comment
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Iran's Twitter Revolution - 0 views

www.thenation.com/...iran_s_twitter_revolution twitter news information literacy
shared by Gary Brown on 16 Jun 09 - Cached
  • Gary Brown on 16 Jun 09
     
    Iran's Twitter Revolution posted by Ari Berman on 06/15/2009 @ 12:15pm Forget CNN or any of the major American "news" networks. If you want to get the latest on the opposition protests in Iran, you should be reading blogs, watching YouTube or following Twitter updates from Tehran,
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FS IAV 2009: Assignment Ratings and Mapping (no lines) - 0 views

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shared by Jayme Jacobson on 15 Jun 09 - No Cached
    • Theron DesRosier
      Theron DesRosier on 15 Jun 09
       
      A test of commenting to a google spreadsheet saved in Sharepoint.
    • Jayme Jacobson
      Jayme Jacobson on 15 Jun 09
       
      OK. I agree
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FS IAV 2009: Assignment Ratings and Mapping (no lines) - 0 views

spreadsheets.google.com/pub
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    • Theron DesRosier
      Theron DesRosier on 15 Jun 09
       
      I'm not so sure yet...
    • Theron DesRosier
      Theron DesRosier on 15 Jun 09
       
      This looks like a problem
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A Practical Guide to Implementing Web 2.0 (AKA Social Networking Tools) in Your Organiz... - 0 views

blogs.salon.com/...29.html web2.0 implementation
shared by Joshua Yeidel on 02 Jun 09 - Cached
  • Joshua Yeidel on 02 Jun 09
     
    This article is deeper than it sounds.
  • Joshua Yeidel on 02 Jun 09
     
    3 Lemons: Corporate website, Intranet, Groupware, and how they can be fixed. Also, social networking R&D, and 8 Web 2.0 tools ("Dave's Faves") to consider for your organization.
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Twitter Postings: Iterative Design (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox) - 0 views

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shared by Joshua Yeidel on 24 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Joshua Yeidel on 24 Aug 09
     
    Twitter for Business, Text as UI: "A few days ago, I posted the announcement of our next usability conferences to Nielsen Norman Group's timeline on Twitter (@NNgroup). I don't have all the guidelines for stream-based postings yet, because we're still conducting usability studies (particularly of B2B users, like my audience). But, based on the user sessions I've observed already, I put this posting through 5 rounds of iterative design."
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Come for the Content, Stay for the Community | Academic Commons - 0 views

www.academiccommons.org/...come-content-stay-community inorganic_chemistry repository community 2.0 learning
shared by Theron DesRosier on 15 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Theron DesRosier on 15 Sep 09
     
    The Evolution of a Digital Repository and Social Networking Tool for Inorganic Chemistry From Post: "It is said that teaching is a lonely profession. In higher education, a sense of isolation can permeate both teaching and research, especially for academics at primarily undergraduate institutions (PUIs). In these times of doing more with less, new digital communication tools may greatly attenuate this problem--for free. Our group of inorganic chemists from PUIs, together with technologist partners, have built the Virtual Inorganic Pedagogical Electronic Resource Web site (VIPEr, http://www.ionicviper.org) to share teaching materials and ideas and build a sense of community among inorganic chemistry educators. As members of the leadership council of VIPEr, we develop and administer the Web site and reach out to potential users. "
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Remaking the Grade, From A to D - Commentary - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

chronicle.com/...48352 grades
shared by Gary Brown on 14 Sep 09 - Cached
  • I have found that faculty members sometimes conflate quiet compliance with proficiency. That sends the message to students—female students in particular—that the path to success is acquiescence rather than achievement.
  • I have found that faculty members sometimes conflate quiet compliance with proficiency. That sends the message to students—female students in particular—that the path to success is acquiescence rather than achievement.
  • Gary Brown on 14 Sep 09
     
    Reeves laments the problematic arithmetic of grades and underscores a phenomenon we have referenced as a focus on "Academic Manners." "I have found that faculty members sometimes conflate quiet compliance with proficiency. That sends the message to students-female students in particular-that the path to success is acquiescence rather than achievement."
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On Hiring - Redefining Faculty Roles - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

chronicle.com/...8016 faculty roles assessment change
shared by Gary Brown on 15 Sep 09 - Cached
  • aculty duties and expectations have diversified and become more complex, but there clearly has not been a concomitant change in the traditional expectations for faculty performance.To take one example: at many institutions, assessment programs have added substantial burdens to faculty members, who must both plan and execute them. I suspect, though I do not know, that such additional burdens are heavier at teaching-oriented colleges and universities that also have higher standard teaching loads than more research-oriented institutions. There's also increased pressure on faculty members to involve undergraduate students in research, an initiative that takes various forms at various institutions but that is prevalent across institutional types.
  • Gary Brown on 15 Sep 09
     
    lamenting the increased burden involved in changing faculty roles, but misses the implications of SoTL and synergies. It is not more work but different, but communicating that vantage is our challenge.
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Reasons Facebook Beat MySpace | HASTAC - 0 views

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shared by Nils Peterson on 15 Sep 09 - Cached
  • To prove her point, Oshiro offers a couple of nice graphs that show a strong correlation between the introduction of Facebook Connect and a rapid migration from MySpace to Facebook. A closer look at the charts, however, suggests that while the API likely did hasten the shift, it was one that was already taking place. One notable conclusion we can draw from this data, however, is that Facebook's decision to open up user data to third parties did, indeed, have a strong measurable effect on popularity. As more applications became available that could integrate with Facebook, the site became more useful to users. Oshiro writes, "Facebook moved from being a College forum site to a full scale lifestyle platform. Whereas MySpace is still a website, Facebook has become an entire eco-system."
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 15 Sep 09
       
      Pointing to the open API of Facebook as an aid to its popularity is interesting, but its a technical consideration to interoperate with other systems. My question is, does increased interoperation facilitate more collaboration and open the potential for collaboration by difference. What if Geo Hotz had used Twitter & FB rather than Blogger. Could he? Would it have made a difference? I am finding that having my blog linked to FB is getting me a little (very little) more attention and commenting than without it. But my friends only comment on things I say about Health Care; they don't seem interested in explorations of rubric-based assessment of learning.
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Designing Effective Assessments: Q&A with Trudy Banta - 0 views

www.facultyfocus.com/...ssessments-qa-with-trudy-banta institutional assessment program assessment assessment models
shared by Gary Brown on 16 Sep 09 - Cached
  • One-hundred forty-six assessment examples were sent to us, and we used all of those in one way or another in the book. I think it’s a pretty fair sample of what’s going on in higher education assessment. Yet most of the programs that we looked at had only been underway for two, three, or four years. When we asked what the long-term impact of doing assessment and using the findings to improve programs had been, in only six percent of the cases were the authors able to say that student learning had been improved.
  • Gary Brown on 16 Sep 09
     
    Though and advertisement for a workshop, Trudy Banta confirms our own suspicions. The blurb here further confirms that we need not look far for models--our energy will be better spent making our work at WSU a model.
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New York Launches Public School Curriculum Based on Playing Games | Popular Science - 0 views

www.popsci.com/...hool-based-games-set-nyc-debut education
shared by Matthew Tedder on 17 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Matthew Tedder on 17 Sep 09
     
    hmm...
  • Matthew Tedder on 17 Sep 09
     
    This just reminds me that finding a way to make addictive games also educational is a holy grail of software design.
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Mod7: One-to-one Technologies - ETEC522 - Ventures in Learning Technology - September 2009 - 0 views

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shared by Nils Peterson on 18 Sep 09 - Cached
  • The reason that 1-1 environments is such an important emerging market is that it’s almost certain that most learners of the world will have some kind of device put in their hands over the next decade.
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 18 Sep 09
       
      This is a class on ed tech. This post starts out on the topic of hardware. The significance of this sentence caught my attention becaue my 8-year old daughter has added to her go to school ritual the finding of her cell phone. The phone does not have service, but it will play a simple game and make sounds, It seems to be a talisman for her awareness of the connected world around her
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Don't Shrug Off Student Evaluations - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Ed... - 0 views

chronicle.com/...48338 student evaluations
shared by Gary Brown on 18 Sep 09 - Cached
  • On their most basic level, student evaluations are important because they open the doors of our classrooms. It is one of the remarkable ironies of academe that while we teachers seek to open the minds of our students—to shine a light on hypocrisy, illusion, corruption, and distortion; to tell the truth of our disciplines as we see it—some of us want that classroom door to be closed to the outside world. It is as if we were living in some sort of academic version of the Da Vinci code: Only insiders can know the secret handshake.
  • Gary Brown on 18 Sep 09
     
    A Chronicle version that effectively surveys the issues. Maybe nothing new, but a few nuggets.
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Blackboard vs. Moodle: North Carolina Community Colleges Assessment - 0 views

mfeldstein.com/-community-colleges-assessment elearning moodle blackboard assessment
shared by Peggy Collins on 18 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Peggy Collins on 18 Sep 09
     
    feldstein summarizes the findings from North Carolina.
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The End in Mind » Assessment as a Social Activity - 0 views

www.jonmott.com/...ssessment-as-a-social-activity gradebook harvesting
shared by Peggy Collins on 18 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Peggy Collins on 18 Sep 09
     
    jon mott blog post on harvesting gradebook with our video
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The Wired Campus - At Distance-Learning College, Flash Drive Replaces Course-Management... - 0 views

chronicle.com/...7764 online learning lms
shared by Gary Brown on 22 Aug 09 - Cached
  • At Distance-Learning College, Flash Drive Replaces Course-Management System By Erica Hendry Soon, online students at Thomas Edison State College won't even have to be online to complete their course work.Beginning this fall, students at the Trenton-based distance-education institution will have the option of using a 2GB flash drive instead of a course-management system to prepare for and complete their classes.
  • the college hopes to install technology that will allow the flash drive to automatically connect to a folder hosted by the college, so students can submit assignments whenever the flash drive detects an Internet connection.
  • Gary Brown on 22 Aug 09
     
    The inevitable extension of the LMS from the Morgan study to now: the college hopes to install technology that will allow the flash drive to automatically connect to a folder hosted by the college, so students can submit assignments whenever the flash drive detects an Internet connection.
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Linux, Learning, and Sugar Kids | HASTAC - 0 views

www.hastac.org/...linux-learning-and-sugar-kids
shared by Theron DesRosier on 10 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Like many of the conversations we have here at HASTAC, this project focuses on learning through collaboration, experimentation, and pleasure. For example, rather than applications or tools, each program is called an activity and runs at full-screen, two design choices that derive from this pedagogical orientation. Collaboration is also assumed by the OS; you can invite friends to just about any activity (like writing, painting, web browsing), and everyone who joins will see the same thing.
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 10 Sep 09
       
      collaboration, experimentation and pleasure -- sound more like group play which is a theme running through some of the other HASTAC stuff I have been reading.
    • Theron DesRosier
      Theron DesRosier on 11 Sep 09
       
      Thanks Nils, I like the way the interface zooms to different levels of community participation. It assumes and supports collaborative work. Toward the end of the "short video of it in action" (link above), it shows how the system collects everything you do in your "Journal". The Journal identifies the collaborators you worked with on the project along with other information.
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