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Kevin Watson

Why Second Life is already second-best for education - 1 views

www.metaversejournal.com/...eady-second-best-for-education

digiciv second life education romanticism

shared by Kevin Watson on 07 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Kevin Watson on 07 Oct 10
     
    It's crazy how much the internet has influenced education. It is changing the way we learn. Who knows how far it will go.
Gideon Burton

A University of Virginia student has a bright idea: 'Flash seminars' - 2 views

www.washingtonpost.com/...AR2011022002666.html

flash seminar unconference self-directed learning

shared by Gideon Burton on 21 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Gideon Burton on 21 Feb 11
     
    I love this idea of innovation on campus. Students taking charge of their education and taking advantage of their educational environment.
Bri Zabriskie

Higher education: iVy League | The Economist - 0 views

www.economist.com/...higher-education

higher education education digital

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  • Bri Zabriskie on 06 Apr 12
     
    Woah. 
Erin Hamson

The Frontier In American History: Chapter X - 0 views

xroads.virginia.edu/...chapter10.html

shared by Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • As the American pioneer passed on in advance of this new tide of European immigration, he found lands increasingly limited
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10
       
      The close of the Frontier
  • . But the captains of industry by applying squatter doctrines to the evolution of American industrial society, have made the process so clear that he who runs may read.
  • it seemed not impossible that the outcome of free competition under individualism was to be monopoly of the most important natural resources and processes by a limited group of men whose vast fortunes were so invested in allied and dependent industries that they constituted the dominating force in the industrial life of the nation
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10
       
      Unregulated turn of events, the people were turned loose and made the best of it. What is wrong with this? They set the standards, and there is no room for competition.
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  • Mr. Harriman
  • mastering the economic forces of the nation
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10
       
      According to Adam Smith and the free market economy theory, the people are the best regulators. This sounds like socialism...
  • The Granger and the Populist were prophets of this reform movement. Mr. Bryan's Democracy, Mr. Debs' Socialism, and Mr. Roosevelt's Republicanism all had in common the emphasis upon the need of governmental regulation of industrial tendencies in the interest of the common man
  • "the State University and the public school system which it crowns would be the strongest evidence of its fitness which it could offer."
  • "general system of education ascending in regular gradations from township schools to a State University, wherein tuition shall be gratis and equally open to all," expresses the Middle Western conception born in the days of pioneer society and doubtless deeply influenced by Jeffersonian democracy.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10
       
      applying pioneer principles of avaliability and indivdualism to education and other opportunities to suceed in life as presently constituted.
  • propaganda to induce students to continue
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10
       
      Want everyone to go to college to become their best individual self.
  • all under the ideal of service to democracy rather than of individual advancement alone
  • The times call for educated leaders.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10
       
      And have yet to cease to call for experienced leaders. Which is why we are all sitting here reading this, to become educated leaders.
  • The test tube and the microscope are needed rather than ax and rifle in this new ideal of conquest
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10
       
      influence of technology on life
  • It is hardly too much to say that the best hope of intelligent and principled progress in economic and social legislation and administration lies in the increasing influence of American universities.
  • able to think for themselves, governed Dot by ignorance, by prejudice or by impulse, but by knowledge and reason and high-mindedness,
  • The learning of the few is despotism; the learning of the many is liberty.
  • At first pioneer democracy had scant respect for the expert.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10
       
      individualism
  • That they may perform their work they must be left free, as the pioneer was free, to explore new regions and to report what they find; for like the pioneers they have the ideal of investigation, they seek new horizons.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10
       
      application of pioneer ideals
  • Thus it is the function of the university to reveal to the individual the mystery and the glory of life as a whole
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10
       
      opening the mind to new ideas and ideals
Gideon Burton

Georgetown University Digital Commons » Home - 0 views

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elerning education2.0 web2.0 tools education georgetown

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  • Gideon Burton on 14 Nov 10
     
    An attractive, simple entry point for using Web 2.0 tools in teaching and learning -- at least for the Georgetown University community. It's too bad that theirs is a closed system, but the tools they are promoting and displaying do show a good range of various technologies and tools that can be adopted in higher education.
David Potter

Access Technologists Higher Education Network - 0 views

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digiciv web2.0 education

shared by David Potter on 19 Nov 10 - Cached
  • David Potter on 19 Nov 10
     
    The purpose of ATHEN is to collect and disseminate best practices in access technology within and for the higher education environment as well as present a collective voice for the professional practice of access technology in higher education.
Bri Zabriskie

Thoughts on education and creativity - 0 views

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education digiciv economics evolution open collaboration digital revolution

shared by Bri Zabriskie on 16 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • Bri Zabriskie on 16 Dec 10
     
    YOU GOTTA WATCH THIS VIDEO ABOUT THE NEED FOR AN EDUCATIONAL REVOLUTION!!!
Greg Williams

Teaching in Social and Technological Networks « Connectivism - 0 views

www.connectivism.ca/?p=220

connectivism teaching learning education

shared by Greg Williams on 26 Sep 12 - Cached
  • What is the role of a teacher?
    • Greg Williams
      Greg Williams on 26 Sep 12
       
      And what is the role of education? Hard to know what the teacher should be doing if we can't answer that
  • How can we achieve clear outcomes through distributed means? How can we achieve learning targets when the educator is no longer able to control the actions of learners?
  • control is being replaced with influence.
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  • A curator is an expert learner.
  • they don’t adhere to traditional in-class teacher-centric power structures. A curator balances the freedom of individual learners with the thoughtful interpretation of the subject being explored.
Gideon Burton

GOOGLE - LiveBinder - 0 views

www.livebinders.com/...3803

google education

shared by Gideon Burton on 08 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • Gideon Burton on 08 Jan 12
     
    Many ways of using Google products in education all compiled here.
Gideon Burton

College for $99 a Month by Kevin Carey | StraighterLine - 0 views

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education college StraighterLine innovation

shared by Gideon Burton on 30 Jan 12 - Cached
  • Gideon Burton on 30 Jan 12
     
    An innovative approach to higher education (See also www.straighterline.com)
Kristen Nicole Cardon

Race to Nowhere | Changing lives one film at a time - 2 views

www.racetonowhere.com

education stress testing documentary achievement film clilp digiciv

shared by Kristen Nicole Cardon on 28 Sep 10 - Cached
  • Kristen Nicole Cardon on 28 Sep 10
     
    I highly suggest watching this clip.  It's food for thought if nothing else--what are the flaws of our educational system, what are the consequences of those flaws, and how can we fix it?
  • Bri Zabriskie on 28 Sep 10
     
    Hey Kristen, this guy writes music for children and also political songs. This song he wrote is along those same lines. You might be interested: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dAujuqCo7s
Gideon Burton

LearnCentral - ed tech webinars - 0 views

www.learncentral.org

education2.0 webinars edtech collaboration teaching technology elluminate

shared by Gideon Burton on 20 Sep 10 - Cached
  • Gideon Burton on 20 Sep 10
     
    This organization sponsors great webinars on technology and education
Gideon Burton

OER Commons - 0 views

www.oercommons.org

OER opencontent education learning

shared by Gideon Burton on 16 Sep 10 - Cached
  • Gideon Burton on 16 Sep 10
     
    A very good aggregator of open educational content.
  • Gideon Burton on 16 Sep 10
     
    This is particularly useful for diversifying the kinds of content that you search for on a given topic
Margaret Weddle

Eliot, Charles W., ed. The Harvard Classics and Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction. 1909... - 0 views

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literature education reading

shared by Margaret Weddle on 23 Sep 10 - Cached
  • Margaret Weddle on 23 Sep 10
     
    The Harvard Classics as free online open source books. They were advertised that, if read, they would provide an excellent Liberal Arts education. Some are simply selections of the whole books - but it is certainly a good overview! I think that I would prefer to read the whole books, though!
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