The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete - 137 views
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sociology. Forget taxonomy, ontology, and psychology. Who knows why people do what they do? The point is they do it, and we can track and measure it with unprecedented fidelity. With enough data, the numbers speak for themselves.
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The big target here isn't advertising, though. It's science. The scientific method is built around testable hypotheses. These models, for the most part, are systems visualized in the minds of scientists. The models are then tested, and experiments confirm or falsify theoretical models of how the world works.
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But faced with massive data, this approach to science — hypothesize, model, test — is becoming obsolete.
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article discussing whether math models can replace other tools for understanding the world.
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I dissagree. Maybe for someone who can cope with the massive scale Google works with but for the average student bah humbug. As far as the students I see the scientific method still needs to be taught as they need a lot of help learning how to gather reliable information from the web. As far as google is concerned the students simplistic, unevaluated searches are as valuable as someone who actually understands what they are looking for or maybe more valuable because more students are doing almost thoughtless searches. The real need is a good course, hopefully online, to teach students how to do a reasoned search. agoogleaday is a start.
educational-origami - Bloom's Digital Taxonomy - 145 views
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This is an update to Bloom's Revised Taxonomy which attempts to account for the new behaviours and actions emerging as technology advances and becomes more ubiquitous.
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Details last edit Oct 9, 2009 12:19 am by achurches - 56 revisions - locked Tags a churches blooms blooms digital taxonomy blooms revised taxonomy digital edorigami learning a churches blooms blooms digital taxonomy blooms revised taxonomy digital edorigami learning a churches blooms blooms digital taxonomy blooms revised taxonomy digital edorigami learning Type a tag name. Press comma or enter to add another. Cancel Table of Contents Synopsis: A little Disclaimer: Introduction and Background: Bloom's Domains of learning The Cognitive Domain - Bloom's Taxonomy Bloom's Revised Taxonomy Bloom's Revised Taxonomy Sub Categories Bloom's as a learning process. Is it important where you start? Must I start with remembering? Bloom's Digital Taxonomy Bloom's Digital Taxonomy Summary Map Bloom's Digital Taxonomy and Collaboration. Resources: Web 2.0 Tutorials Acknowledgements:This is the introduction to Bloom's Digital Taxonomy. The different taxonomical levels can be viewed individually via the navigation bar or below this introduction as embedded pages. Synopsis: This is an update to Bloom's Revised Taxonomy which attempts to account for the new behaviours and actions emerging as technology advances and becomes more ubiquitous. Bloom's Revised Taxonomy accounts for many of the traditional c
Ahead - Playground for creative minds - 86 views
Misunderstood Minds | PBS - 91 views
www.AllAboutGermany.NET | Moving to Germany | Visiting Germany | Living and W... - 19 views
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There’s a sort of proletarian parochialism to be found in Berlin
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the parochial attitude of many western Berliners towards eastern Berlin
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Font Size May Not Aid Learning, but Its Style Can, Researchers Find - NYTimes.com - 110 views
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Is it easier to remember a new fact if it appears in normal type, like this, or in big, bold letters, like this?
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Font size has no effect on memory, even though most people assume that bigger is better. But font style does.
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New research finds that people retain significantly more material — whether science, history or language — when they study it in a font that is not only unfamiliar but also hard to read.
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The Default Major - Skating Through B-School - NYTimes.com - 41 views
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Dr. Mason, who teaches economics at the University of North Florida, believes his students are just as intelligent as they’ve always been. But many of them don’t read their textbooks, or do much of anything else that their parents would have called studying. “We used to complain that K-12 schools didn’t hold students to high standards,” he says with a sigh. “And here we are doing the same thing ourselves.”
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all evidence suggests that student disengagement is at its worst in Dr. Mason’s domain: undergraduate business education.
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“Business education has come to be defined in the minds of students as a place for developing elite social networks and getting access to corporate recruiters,”
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Helping First-Year Students Help Themselves - Commentary - The Chronicle of Higher Educ... - 1 views
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According to a yearly national survey of more than 200,000 first-year students conducted by researchers at the University of California at Los Angeles, college freshmen are increasingly "overwhelmed," rating their emotional health at the lowest levels in the 25 years the question has been asked. Such is the latest problem dropped at the offices of higher-education administrators and professors nationwide: Young adults raised with a single-minded focus on gaining admission to college now need help translating that focus into ways to thrive on campus and beyond.
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Many young adults weren't taught the basic life skills and coping mechanisms for challenging times.
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The consequences for students who lack those skills have become increasingly clear both on campus and after graduation. At Pitt, where I teach, and at other institutions, student-life administrators have noticed a marked decrease in resiliency, particularly among first-year students. That leads to an increase in everything from roommate disagreements to emotional imbalance and crisis. After graduation, employers complain that a lack of coping mechanisms makes for less proficient workers: According to a 2006 report by the Conference Board, a business-research group, three-quarters of surveyed employers said incoming new graduates were deficient in "soft" skills like communication and decision making.
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Popplet - 225 views
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Another way to present information visually. Very neat and easy to use.
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story map for your ideas; demo tool for showing what you know.
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Collect ideas, brainstorm, collaborate. Easy to use site.
Blog, Tweet, Design: Student Journalists Go Far Beyond Writing | MindShift - 48 views
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Article discussing shift in journalism courses (college level) and student expectations. Similar k-12?
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It's like there are two types of people- those who are online and those who are not? I know that's glib and endless permutations exist but It's such an interesting chasm for in my mind I assume the future generations will all be on the same page with tech but then probably technology will always be moving on leaving a similar gap between users of the older tools compared with users of the newer? It's the disruptive nature of these tools that have lead to the need to focus on the technology rather than the written content. Journos need to curate not write content. The two worlds are overlapping but not really aligning.
Resource: Minds of Our Own - 97 views
What Are the 7 Mind Frames of Learning? - Finding Common Ground - Education Week - 62 views
Teachers: Five Ways to Ease Back into School | Edutopia - 49 views
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planning to see kids on my first day or two back to school
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If you know that on that first day you will return to your classroom you'll have a friend to help and talk with it'll be much easier.
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fun back-to-school tasks
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A guide to online educational resources. - NYTimes.com - 90 views
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Richard Ludlow started the nonprofit Academic Earth two years ago after M.I.T.'s OpenCourseWare helped him pass linear algebra as a Yale undergraduate. His site offers the courses of 10 elite universities — 130 full courses and more than 3,500 video lectures. Viewers can turn the tables on professors and grade courses. Other guidance includes "Editor's Picks" and "Playlists," lectures selected around a theme like "First Day of Freshman Year" and "You Are What You Eat."
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Connexions, started at Rice University 10 years ago, debundles education for the D.I.Y. learner. Anyone can write a "module," the term for instructional material that can be a single sentence or 1,000 pages. Connexions hosts more than 16,000 modules that make up almost 1,000 "collections." A collection might be, say, an algebra textbook or statistics course.
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Daniel Colman is a curator of sorts. He sifts through the vast amount of free courses, movies and books offered online to find what he considers the very best in content and production value. Then he features them on Open Culture, the Web site he founded in 2006. It's a task in keeping with his mission as associate dean and director of Stanford's continuing education program.
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Thousands of pieces of free educational material - videos and podcasts of lectures, syllabuses, entire textbooks - have been posted in the name of the open courseware movement. But how to make sense of it all? Businesses, social entrepreneurs and "edupunks," envisioning a tuition-free world untethered by classrooms, have created Web sites to help navigate the mind-boggling volume of content. Some sites tweak traditional pedagogy; others aggregate, Hulu-style.
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Amazing online resources for education
Tinkercad - Mind to design in minutes - 7 views
Memofon: Convert the text notes in mind maps - 42 views
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