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Sven A. Miller

Like Iran & Tunisia, Egypt protests fueled by social sites Twitter, Facebook, YouTube a... - 0 views

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  • Sven A. Miller on 28 Jan 11
     
    With the rise of easy-to-use Web publishing tools like blogs and social platforms, citizens no longer depend on mainstream media to spread word of activist campaigns and dissent. Thanks to social media, every protester, every citizen, has the power to be a journalist, to broadcast breaking news to all the computer-using, phone-wielding people on Earth.
Sven A. Miller

What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's School Success - Anu Partanen - National -... - 4 views

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  • Since the 1980s, the main driver of Finnish education policy has been the idea that every child should have exactly the same opportunity to learn, regardless of family background, income, or geographic location. Education has been seen first and foremost not as a way to produce star performers, but as an instrument to even out social inequality.
  • Yet Sahlberg doesn't think that questions of size or homogeneity should give Americans reason to dismiss the Finnish example. Finland is a relatively homogeneous country -- as of 2010, just 4.6 percent of Finnish residents had been born in another country, compared with 12.7 percent in the United States. But the number of foreign-born residents in Finland doubled during the decade leading up to 2010, and the country didn't lose its edge in education. Immigrants tended to concentrate in certain areas, causing some schools to become much more mixed than others, yet there has not been much change in the remarkable lack of variation between Finnish schools in the PISA surveys across the same period.
  • Sven A. Miller on 03 Jan 12
     
    Decades ago, when the Finnish school system was badly in need of reform, the goal of the program that Finland instituted, resulting in so much success today, was never excellence. It was equity.
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  • Luciele Milani on 09 Jan 12
     
    Sven, Equity is a nobel goal, in any sense. In my country politicians also say that but never provide the resources to accomplish such a goal in education. They compete on who is increasing the own bank account faster but money for education is never availeble. The salaries of the teachers and professors are very low and despite the good will of certain people involved in education we are far from obtaining equality. And I particularly think countries like the USA like it and would like to keep it this way. If the young population of Brazil were well educated we would take over the USA power. We have resources, we have industry and we have a huge population willing to work, and many wanting to change the world for a better, more cultivated, more respectuos and less consumist and selfish one. Equity in education in Brazil would change the whole world....for better!
  • asimpson321 on 03 Feb 12
     
    I think we cannot just look at the education system alone to consider if it is successful. The overall environment and peoples' effort in making equality works in their country are also important. If education system is just a mean to an end to achieve high score in PISA, it is not so difficult to do so. However, what exactly is the function of an education system in society is important.
  • Bonnie Chung on 06 Feb 12
     
    I admire Finland's intensive teacher-training and union collaboration. I think it is one of the important keys to the educational success. Of course, equity for students is very important. But, it is not enough to make the success. I would like to share a link which shows what Finland's Minister of Education says about their excellent teacher-training and union collaboration. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/justin-snider/keys-to-finnish-education_b_836802.html
anonymous

articulo4_esp.pdf (application/pdf nesnesi) - 2 views

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Qualitative Data Analysis

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  • anonymous on 26 Nov 10
     
    I think we need to know more about how to deal with qualitative data.
  • jean-marie nau on 27 Nov 10
     
    thank you. did you have a look at it to see where it could fit in our research?
  • anonymous on 28 Nov 10
     
    I think we need to have some software to facilitate the data analysis process. I've heard there are tools, but I do not know what are they and how to use them. It'd be great if we can have a class on these issues.
Miriam Martinez

Embodied Child. Computer Interaction. Why embodiment matters - 1 views

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  • Miriam Martinez on 16 Jan 11
     
    The author present the interaction of children with media tools. Understanding the concept of "Embodiment means how the nature of a living entity's cognition is shaped by the form of its physical manifestation in the world" As we saw the theory is basis in the believe that the nature of the human mind is largely determined by the form of the human body. Then, Dividing the cognition then in Spatial, Physical and finally Metaphorical. Moreover the Embodied Child were analysed by the interaction with the computer, categorizing in Input design, interface design and interaction design.
Sven A. Miller

News: Wikipedia Aims Higher - Inside Higher Ed - 1 views

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  • Beyond grades, the fact that students are producing work that will be scrutinized by the public, not just a professor, heightens the incentive to do good work, several professors noted. Several reported that their students sent links to their entries to their parents — something they never did with papers.
  • “time-suck,”
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      Sven A. Miller on 12 Jul 11
       
      This is an acute problem - also within the MA!!!
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  • all these metacognitive process that we have such a hard time teaching
  • — and in this case actually defend yourself
  • It is going take time for … students who are less tech-savvy to be able to move on
  • sacrifice parts of his syllabus and devote about two full class periods to teaching students the technical ins and outs of writing and editing in Wikipedia and communicating with other editors
  • Sven A. Miller on 12 Jul 11
     
    Two dozen universities now have courses where students are working on Wikipedia as part of their formal coursework. Many of those campuses have "Wikipedia ambassadors" tasked with helping professors weave writing and editing Wikipedia entries into the syllabus. Even Ferriero's office at the National Archives and Records Administration now employs a "Wikipedian in residence" in charge of fostering relationships with galleries, libraries, archives and museums.
  • asimpson321 on 03 Feb 12
     
    Interesting! If it is a good piece of work,it doesn't matter whether it is judged by one professor/public. It does matter what students learn during the process and how they can improve their work further.
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