Another area that's still hazy is the e-portfolio feedback system. As Pirie put it, "If I have no audience for what I'm doing, why should I care?" But the question is, who should do the reviewing and provide the feedback to the student — faculty members, the program adviser, somebody from the career services department or peers in the program?
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Vocabulary.com - Learn Words - English Dictionary - 33 views
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This site is a great way for anyone to expand their vocab. It allows teachers and students to create lists and has thousands of already made lists from literature, speeches, history, current news, plus more.
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"We don't know what the right choice or mix of reviewers is," she conceded, "but we do know [e-portfolios] should be reviewed on a regular basis" to get specific feedback to the student around content, structure and overall usability.
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And there are questions around expanding the usage of e-portfolios within the online program. "Are we missing pieces?" asked Pirie. "What touchpoints are the most essential for the students throughout that three-year process?"
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Access-Purpose-Audience all addressed in this IHE ePortfolio system plan.
How Teens Do Research in the Digital World | Pew Research Center's Internet & American ... - 105 views
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Overview Three-quarters of AP and NWP teachers say that the internet and digital search tools have had a “mostly positive” impact on their students’ research habits, but 87% say these technologies are creating an “easily distracted generation with short attention spans” and 64% say today’s digital technologies “do more to distract students than to help them academically.”
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Overall, the vast majority of these teachers say a top priority in today’s classrooms should be teaching students how to “judge the quality of online information.”
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The internet and digital technologies are significantly impacting how students conduct research: 77% of these teachers say the overall impact is “mostly positive,” but they sound many cautionary notes
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On Academic Labor » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names - 24 views
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they want to keep costs down and make sure that labor is docile and obedient
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If you have to control people, you have to have an administrative force that does it
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we should put aside any idea that there was once a “golden age.” Things were different and in some ways better in the past, but far from perfect
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A transcript of remarks given by Noam Chomsky about the labor crisis in high ed.
Academic Skills on Web Are Tied to Income Level - NYTimes.com - 41 views
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a new study shows that a separate gap has emerged, with lower-income students again lagging more affluent students in their ability to find, evaluate, integrate and communicate the information they find online.
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Teachers have to expect and recognize that they can’t just say ‘Google something,’ because some of our students still don’t know what that means
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teachers often assumed that because adolescents seemed so comfortable with technology that they actually knew how to use it in an academic context. Teachers have the “perception that the students are already tech savvy and can navigate and move around more quickly than the teachers,” Mr. Damico said. “B
Why Girls Tend to Get Better Grades Than Boys Do - The Atlantic - 40 views
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Gone are the days when you could blow off a series of homework assignments throughout the semester but pull through with a respectable grade by cramming for and acing that all-important mid-term exam. Getting good grades today is far more about keeping up with and producing quality homework—not to mention handing it in on time.
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girls succeed over boys in school because they tend to be more mastery-oriented in their schoolwork habits. They are more apt to plan ahead, set academic goals, and put effort into achieving those goals. They also are more likely than boys to feel intrinsically satisfied with the whole enterprise of organizing their work, and more invested in impressing themselves and their teachers with their efforts.
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boys approach schoolwork differently. They are more performance-oriented. Studying for and taking tests taps into their competitive instincts. For many boys, tests are quests that get their hearts pounding. Doing well on them is a public demonstration of excellence
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5 Terrific Web Tools to Create Academic Digital Portfolios ~ Educational Technology and... - 134 views
Back-to-College Special: Academic Contributions Aren't Just Cerebral - OpenSecrets Blog - 6 views
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Back-to-College Special: Academic Contributions Aren't Just Cerebral
How Scholars Hack the World of Academic Publishing Now - Robinson Meyer - The Atlantic - 16 views
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If you want to understand the modern academy, it wouldn't hurt to start at "impact factor." Citation cartels.
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"A Beginner's Outline for Your Paper"
