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Nils Peterson

Engineers without borders - WSU Students solving real problem - 0 views

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problem-posing wsu engineers without borders

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  • We are trying to make a very cheap, reliable source of energy that won’t need a lot of maintenance
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 27 Mar 09
       
      General problem statement, wider than wind turbine, which would then get contextualized by various factors to be the specific project
  • Nils Peterson on 27 Mar 09
     
    This is an example of the problem solving and WSU intellectual capital that we have been talking about
  • Nils Peterson on 27 Mar 09
     
    here is this year's version of the Kayafunga water project
Corinna Lo

YouTube - EDU - 0 views

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youtube education

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Gary Brown

Matthew Lombard - 0 views

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inter rater reliability

shared by Gary Brown on 15 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Which measure(s) of intercoder reliability should researchers use? [TOP] There are literally dozens of different measures, or indices, of intercoder reliability. Popping (1988) identified 39 different "agreement indices" for coding nominal categories, which excludes several techniques for interval and ratio level data. But only a handful of techniques are widely used. In communication the most widely used indices are: Percent agreement Holsti's method Scott's pi (p) Cohen's kappa (k) Krippendorff's alpha (a)
  • 5. Which measure(s) of intercoder reliability should researchers use? [TOP] There are literally dozens of different measures, or indices, of intercoder reliability. Popping (1988) identified 39 different "agreement indices" for coding nominal categories, which excludes several techniques for interval and ratio level data. But only a handful of techniques are widely used. In communication the most widely used indices are: Percent agreement Holsti's method Scott's pi (p) Cohen's kappa (k) Krippendorff's alpha (a) Just some of the indices proposed, and in some cases widely used, in other fields are Perreault and Leigh's (1989) Ir measure; Tinsley and Weiss's (1975) T index; Bennett, Alpert, and Goldstein's (1954) S index; Lin's (1989) concordance coefficient; Hughes and Garrett’s (1990) approach based on Generalizability Theory, and Rust and Cooil's (1994) approach based on "Proportional Reduction in Loss" (PRL). It would be nice if there were one universally accepted index of intercoder reliability. But despite all the effort that scholars, methodologists and statisticians have devoted to developing and testing indices, there is no consensus on a single, "best" one. While there are several recommendations for Cohen's kappa (e.g., Dewey (1983) argued that despite its drawbacks, kappa should still be "the measure of choice") and this index appears to be commonly used in research that involves the coding of behavior (Bakeman, 2000), others (notably Krippendorff, 1978, 1987) have argued that its characteristics make it inappropriate as a measure of intercoder agreement.
  • 5. Which measure(s) of intercoder reliability should researchers use? [TOP] There are literally dozens of different measures, or indices, of intercoder reliability. Popping (1988) identified 39 different "agreement indices" for coding nominal categories, which excludes several techniques for interval and ratio level data. But only a handful of techniques are widely used. In communication the most widely used indices are: Percent agreement Holsti's method Scott's pi (p) Cohen's kappa (k) Krippendorff's alpha (a) Just some of the indices proposed, and in some cases widely used, in other fields are Perreault and Leigh's (1989) Ir measure; Tinsley and Weiss's (1975) T index; Bennett, Alpert, and Goldstein's (1954) S index; Lin's (1989) concordance coefficient; Hughes and Garrett’s (1990) approach based on Generalizability Theory, and Rust and Cooil's (1994) approach based on "Proportional Reduction in Loss" (PRL). It would be nice if there were one universally accepted index of intercoder reliability. But despite all the effort that scholars, methodologists and statisticians have devoted to developing and testing indices, there is no consensus on a single, "best" one. While there are several recommendations for Cohen's kappa (e.g., Dewey (1983) argued that despite its drawbacks, kappa should still be "the measure of choice") and this index appears to be commonly used in research that involves the coding of behavior (Bakeman, 2000), others (notably Krippendorff, 1978, 1987) have argued that its characteristics make it inappropriate as a measure of intercoder agreement.
  • Gary Brown on 15 Apr 09
     
    for our formalizing of assessment work
  • Gary Brown on 15 Apr 09
     
    inter-rater reliability
Theron DesRosier

Pupils to study Twitter and blogs in primary shake-up | Education | The Guardian - 0 views

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curriculum twitter education pedagogy

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  • Theron DesRosier on 01 Apr 09
     
    "Pupils to study Twitter and blogs in primary schools shake-up * New curriculum will give teachers more freedom * Second world war and Victoria not compulsory" Interesting article about the new proposed curriculum for primary school students in the UK. Also has a lot of embedded discussion for the diigo crowd.
S Spaeth

MIT Press Journals - International Journal of Learning and Media - Full Text - 0 views

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pbj ALT assessment co-development

shared by S Spaeth on 22 May 09 - Cached
  • Howard GardnerHobbs Professor of Cognition and Education, Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education
  • As shown in table 1, we will be cognizant throughout of who the learners are, where they learn, how they learn, what are the principal curricula, and how competences are purveyed via the media of the time. The grid itself contains generalizations about the past and present, and speculation about the future, thus providing a broad portrait of changes over time. While we do not discuss each entry in the grid, we hope that it aids in thinking about learning in formal and informal settings.
  • Uniform schooling reflects both fairness and efficiency. It appears fair to treat all children in the same way; and it is also efficient, given classes of 20, 30, or even 60 charges in one room, sometimes arrayed by age, sometimes decidedly heterogeneous in composition.
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  • It would be an exaggeration to claim that formal education takes place without attention to what has been learned about the processes of successful learning, such as insights into student motivation, study habits, strategies, metacognition, and other approaches obtained from experience, or, more recently and systematically, from the psychological and cognitive sciences. But it would probably be accurate to say that such accumulated knowledge is used only spottily and sporadically in most parts of the world. Education—teaching and learning—changes very slowly.
  • Yet, nowhere are these ideas dominant. Indeed, until today, one might say that the European classroom models of the 19th century continue to hold sway: Teachers give out information, students are expected to master it with little help, and the awards of the culture during the years of school go to those who can crack the various literate and disciplinary codes.
  • One strategy might involve formal education playing a role in informal learning spaces (perhaps on the analogy of teaching hospitals), and learners' out-of-school passions finding a validating place in formal educational arenas.
  • NDM's vast resources, including the provision of many activities in which the user assumes a formative role, can complement constructivist approaches to education. As noted above, a motivated learner can investigate a wide variety of personal interests on his or her own.
  • At this point in time, deeply constructivist classrooms remain few and far between despite evidence that hands-on, problem-solving approaches in the classroom result in higher levels of student engagement, conceptual thinking, knowledge transfer, and retention (Scardamalia, Bereiter, and Lamon 1994; Bransford et al. 1999; Hmelo-Silver 2004; Meier 1995; Project Zero and Reggio Children 2001; Sizer 1984). But in an environment of “No Child Left Behind” and standardized tests linked to federal funding, the implementation of constructivist principles in the classroom can be considered a risky enterprise for public schools.
  • A web-based project at MIT, for instance, paired French language students with peers in France learning to speak English, and provided students an authentic opportunity to practice their language skills, learn online communication skills, and negotiate the implicit guidelines of a different culture (Cultura 2007).
  • S Spaeth on 22 May 09
     
    In this article we argue that, after millennia of considering education (learning and teaching) chiefly in one way, we may well have reached a set of tipping points: Going forward, learning may be far more individualized, far more in the hands (and the minds) of the learner, and far more interactive than ever before. This constitutes a paradox: As the digital era progresses, learning may be at once more individual (contoured to a person's own style, proclivities, and interests) yet more social (involving networking, group work, the wisdom of crowds, etc.). How these seemingly contradictory directions are addressed impacts the future complexion of learning.
Joshua Yeidel

Who's Most Capable of Making Decisions? - 0 views

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web_2;0

shared by Joshua Yeidel on 01 Jun 09 - Cached
  • Joshua Yeidel on 01 Jun 09
     
    Offers a chart of the competencies of various kinds of people, and two processes for making decisions, one for "complicated (not complex)" problems, and one for complex problems, based in part on Surowiecki's "The Wisdom of Crowds". Also a list of types of questions that fall into the two categories.
S Spaeth

QuickTopic for Teachers - 0 views

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ALT assessment

shared by S Spaeth on 12 Apr 09 - Cached
  • "This free, web-based message board allows you to set up a web-based discussion board for your class where your students can post messages to one another, to students in another class, or to a parent "expert." These message areas are closed to outside users because they are set up by invitation."
  • S Spaeth on 12 Apr 09
     
    QuickTopic free message boards and the Quick Doc Review collaborative online document review service are excellent tools for all kinds of teachers. Below are a few examples of citations by teaching resource sites that we've found. * "...this amazingly easy site will also send you emails of newly posted messages. ... Also check out the Document Review tool for posting text and eliciting feedback generously provided by QuickTopic" NC State University - Teaching Literature for Young Adults - Resources for teachers.
Joshua Yeidel

Google Gadgets Tutorial - 0 views

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shared by Joshua Yeidel on 07 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Joshua Yeidel on 07 Aug 09
     
    The goal of this guide is to teach you how to make Google gadgets regardless of your skill level, even if you do not know any coding.
S Spaeth

Main Page - OpenWetWare - 0 views

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iTeams pbl

shared by S Spaeth on 02 Apr 09 - Cached
  • sharing of information, know-how, and wisdom among researchers and groups who are working in biology & biological engineering.
  • S Spaeth on 02 Apr 09
     
    OpenWetWare is an effort to promote the sharing of information, know-how, and wisdom among researchers and groups who are working in biology & biological engineering. Learn more about us. If you would like edit access, would be interested in helping out, or want your lab website hosted on OpenWetWare, please join us.
Joshua Yeidel

Wired Campus: A Plan to Develop and Spread Better College Teaching Practices ... - 0 views

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sotl

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  • Joshua Yeidel on 23 Mar 09
     
    How do we move from innovative but often isolated classroom practice to more far-reaching changes in institutions and the field as a whole?
Joshua Yeidel

inventio: Randy Bass Text - 0 views

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sotl

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  • Joshua Yeidel on 23 Mar 09
     
    Changing the status of the problem in teaching from terminal remediation to ongoing investigation is precisely what the movement for a scholarship of teaching is all about.
Joshua Yeidel

Sharepoint and Enterprise 2.0: The good, the bad, and the ugly | Enterprise Web 2.0 | Z... - 0 views

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sharepoint web2.0 enterprise2.0

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  • Joshua Yeidel on 23 Mar 09
     
    ...due the fact that the single most frequently asked question I get about Enterprise 2.0 is if SharePoint is a suitable platform for it (short answer: it definitely depends), I've spent the last few weeks taking a hard look at SharePoint the product itself, talked extensively with SharePoint and Enterprise 2.0 practitioners both, and created the resulting analysis.
Theron DesRosier

Half an Hour: The New Nature of Knowledge - 0 views

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downes knowledge learning network

shared by Theron DesRosier on 24 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Theron DesRosier on 24 Mar 09
     
    The very forms of reason and enquiry employed in the classroom must change. Instead of seeking facts and underlying principles, students need to be able to recognize patterns and use things in novel ways. Instead of systematic methodical enquiry, such as might be characterized by Hempel's Deductive-Nomological method, students need to learn active and participative forms of enquiry. instead of deference to authority, students need to embrace diversity and recognize (and live with) multiple perspectives and points of view. I think that there is a new type of knowledge, that we recognize it - and are forced to recognize it - only because new technologies have enabled many perspectives, many points of view, to be expressed, to interact, to forge new realities, and that this form of knowledge is emerged from our cooperative interactions with each other, and not found in the doctrines or dictates of any one of us.
Theron DesRosier

Wired Campus: Electronic Portfolios: a Path to the Future of Learning - Chron... - 0 views

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wsuctlt in the news eportfolio

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  • Theron DesRosier on 18 Mar 09
     
    irst, ePortfolios can integrate student learning in an expanded range of media, literacies, and viable intellectual work. As the robust ePortfolio projects at Washington State, Clemson, and Pennsylvania State Universities illustrate, ePortfolios enable students to collect work and reflections on their learning through text, imagery, and multimedia artifacts. Given that we are already living in a culture where visual communication is as influential as written text, the ability to represent learning through integrated media will be essential.
Theron DesRosier

Stephen Downes On Personal Learning Networks ~ Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes - 0 views

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  • Theron DesRosier on 18 Mar 09
     
    "I recently created a stand-alone page for my video Web 2.0 and your own Learning and Development... ... it has been found by a few people, including Marian Thacher, who discusses it here. One note: she says, "all of this only works for the very motivated learner... what about that learner who isn't so motivated, who has some learning challenges, for whom school was more of a misery than a joy?" Quite so - which is why I stress enabling students to manage their own learning and to follow their own interests. Otherwise, they won't be motivated, and the rest of this stuff is not nearly as effective as it could be. Marian Thacher, Adult Education and Technology, March 17, 2009. [Link] [Tags: Schools, Twitter, Online Learning, Web 2.0, Video, Google, YouTube] "
Corinna Lo

YouTube - Tim Berners-Lee: The next Web of open, linked data - 0 views

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  • Corinna Lo on 14 Mar 09
     
    Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. For his next project, he's building a web for open, linked data that could do for numbers what the Web did for words, pictures, video: unlock our data and reframe the way we use it together.
Joshua Yeidel

Wired Campus: Randy Bass and Bret Eynon: Still Moving From Teaching to Learni... - 0 views

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sotl

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  • Joshua Yeidel on 23 Mar 09
     
    What emerged from this work was a picture of learning that drew our attention to a series of intermediate thinking processes that characterize flexible thinking, processes that digital media are especially good at making visible. This includes such things as how students work through difficulty, consider alternative pathways to solve problems, speculate about ideas, and argue with one another about meaning. These kinds of thinking processes turn out to be much more than just cognitive. Motivation, confidence, fear, one's sense of identity, experience, as well as formal knowledge all come to bear on them.
Corinna Lo

Twenty years of the world wide web | What's the score? | The Economist - 0 views

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  • Corinna Lo on 14 Mar 09
     
    Scientists have therefore proved resourceful in using the web to further their research. They have, however, tended to lag when it comes to employing the latest web-based social-networking tools to open up scientific discourse and encourage more effective collaboration...... No one yet knows how to measure the impact of a blog post or the sharing of a good idea with another researcher in some collaborative web-based workspace. Dr Nielsen reckons that if similar measurements could be established for the impact of open commentary and open collaboration on the web, such commentary and collaboration would flourish, and science as a whole would benefit.
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