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Tom Parker

A River Runs Through Us | International Rivers - 19 views

www.internationalrivers.org/...river-runs-through-us

world rivers; local impacts; damming

shared by Tom Parker on 12 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • Tom Parker on 12 Jul 11
     
    A River Runs Through Us (about 30 min.) is personal and hopeful introduction to one of the biggest threats facing our world's lifelines, as told by the people at the forefront of the global movement. Impacts of damming rivers - Paraguay, India, Africa. Good introduction to rivers and environmental crisis.
Kelly Sereno

SIRS: Making Students Literate in Digital Age - 70 views

sks.sirs.com/...hst-article-display

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      Kelly Sereno on 13 Oct 11
       
      Pro - Argument #1
  • The American Library Association encourages schools and libraries to think twice before keeping kids off social media, saying such prohibition "does not teach safe behavior and leaves youth without the necessary knowledge and skills to protect their privacy or engage in responsible speech." Their policy statement on the topic says that instead of restricting access, librarians and teachers "should educate minors to participate responsibly, ethically and safely."
  • Perhaps the biggest objection to widespread use of social sites is the likelihood that kids will encounter irrelevant or even offensive material--a fear that many teachers say is overblown. While the Web can seem like "a sea of pornography and idiots," says James Lerman, the author of several books on educational technology, schools must help students figure out how to navigate it so they "can get to the good stuff" that's applicable to school.
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  • The American Library Association encourages schools and libraries to think twice before keeping kids off social media, saying such prohibition "does not teach safe behavior and leaves youth without the necessary knowledge and skills to protect their privacy or engage in responsible speech.
Marti Pike

BBC News - Stephen Hawking warns artificial intelligence could end mankind - 22 views

www.bbc.com/...technology-30290540

shared by Marti Pike on 03 Dec 14 - No Cached
  • suggests the words he might want to use next.
    • Marti Pike
      Marti Pike on 03 Dec 14
       
      Some Smart Phones already do a little of this. 
  • useful
  • re-design itself at an ever increasing rate,
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  • Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution,
  • fooling a high proportion of people into believing they are talking to a human.
  • algorithms
  • believes it will come in the next few decades.
  • But he is betting that AI is going to be a positive force.
  • destroy millions of jobs.
  • Elon Musk has warned that AI is "our biggest existential threat".
  • "The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race."
  • "More must be done by the internet companies to counter the threat, but the difficulty is to do this without sacrificing freedom and privacy."
  • write much faster with his new system.
  • he didn't want a more natural voice.
  • children who need a computer voice
Cindy Glenn

JotForm · Easiest Form Builder - 84 views

www.jotform.com

shared by Cindy Glenn on 04 Apr 11 - Cached
    • A Gardner
      A Gardner on 05 Apr 11
       
      How does this compare with Google forms or Bravenet?
    • Lauren Mason
      Lauren Mason on 01 Jan 12
       
      I think it is more user-friendly and quicker than Google forms. Very easy to use, yet many sophisticated options.
    • Scott Floyd
      Scott Floyd on 21 Sep 12
       
      I like the fact I can get the responses emailed to me as the creator instead of just a notification email. I also like the ability to export all responses as PDF files instead of just a giant spreadsheet.
    • Ann Czeponis
      Ann Czeponis on 25 Jul 14
       
      it is very intuitive - biggest difference for me - SUPPORT.  the jotform team is amazingly responsive.
  • Ben W on 04 Apr 11
     
    Create easy forms that automatically sync with DropBox.
  • Cindy Glenn on 25 Jun 11
     
    Shared at edubloggercon
Julia Gardiner

Lateline - 29/10/2012: PMs plan for every child to learn an Asian language - 14 views

www.abc.net.au/...s3621224.htm

shared by Julia Gardiner on 10 Mar 15 - No Cached
    • Julia Gardiner
      Julia Gardiner on 10 Mar 15
       
      The rationale or thinking behind introducing languages early in primary school
  • Gillard Government's Asian Century white paper sets an aspiration for Australia to rank as the world's 10th biggest economy by 2025, capitalising on the rapid economic growth in the region.
  • education will be the key and wants all school students to study an Asian language.
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  • funded
  • where all the new teachers might come from
  • where all the new teachers might come from.
  • the gold standard
    • Julia Gardiner
      Julia Gardiner on 10 Mar 15
       
       The gold standard =any excellent example of something, like how Olympians are the gold standard for athletes
  • If you understand through the learning of language how people think, how they construct meaning, what is important to them culturally, then I think that gives us better insights into the people that we're going to be working with in the future and negotiating with.
  • The Prime Minister says she'll force the curriculum changes by tying them to Commonwealth funding to state and private schools.
    • Julia Gardiner
      Julia Gardiner on 10 Mar 15
       
      Is this  good policy making? Some would  consider  it 'blackmail'!
  • Broadly, teachers and education experts have welcomed the plan, but question where the money is going to come from.
  • catchcry of the Hawke and Keating governments
    • Julia Gardiner
      Julia Gardiner on 10 Mar 15
       
      The Hawke-Keating Government refers to the Federal Government of Australia from 11 March 1983 to 11 March 1996. It was a Labour government
  • Currently across all levels of schooling there's around 18 per cent of our young people who are studying one of the four priority Asian languages: Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Indonesian and Korean. And that diminishes to fewer than 6 per cent by the time they get to Year 12.
    • Julia Gardiner
      Julia Gardiner on 10 Mar 15
       
      How do we encourage students to  continue  learning an Asian language into the final years  of high school and  eyond?
  • say we simply don't have enough Asian language teachers to deliver the Prime Minister's vision and for the last decade the numbers of graduates have been declining.
  • hat's happened because universities have been under these budget constraints and when they've made decisions about what to cut, they cut courses with low enrolments and there goes the languages.
  • JEANNIE REA, PRESIDENT, NATIONAL TERTIARY EDUCATION UNION
    • Julia Gardiner
      Julia Gardiner on 10 Mar 15
       
      Suggested reasons for the decline in language graduates and therefore  in language teachers. 
  • will help.JULIA GILLARD: We live in an age of different learning possibilities and choices. What we can do through the National Broadband Network, what we can do through having the world's first online national curriculum, which is what the Australian curriculum is, means we can get a deeper penetration of language, literacy and learning.
  • e Prime Minister acknowledges the shortages, but says technology
  • will help.
    • Julia Gardiner
      Julia Gardiner on 10 Mar 15
       
      This argument t can be debated.  It would suggest that technology in itself will be a solution!
  • we need to be looking very carefully at what sort of encouragement and incentives we can provide to students so they continue doing a language, go on and major in a language in university and then go on to teach in the area.
  • JEANNIE REA:
    • Julia Gardiner
      Julia Gardiner on 10 Mar 15
       
      What type of incentive scan be offered/
  • Julia Gardiner on 10 Mar 15
     
    The Prime Minister wants all school students to study an Asian language to secure Australia's future in the Asian Century.
  • nadinebailey on 11 Mar 15
     
    Completely deluded. Even here in Singapore, surrounded supposedly by chinese speakers the international schools are not getting it right and success stories are unusual ...
Maureen Greenbaum

15 Surprising Discoveries About Learning - InformED : - 59 views

www.opencolleges.edu.au/...ing-discoveries-about-learning

learning brain

shared by Maureen Greenbaum on 15 Feb 15 - No Cached
  • Conscientiousness and Openness have the biggest influence on academic success.
  • people learn better when using multiple, short training episodes rather than one extended session
  • participants who held jobs with higher levels of complexity with data and people, such as management and teaching, had better scores on memory and thinking tests
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  • Students who walked in another experiment doubled their number of novel responses compared with when they were sitting.
  • Making mistakes while learning can benefit memory and lead to the correct answer, but only if the guesses are close-but-no-cigar,
  • . You can improve your learning by expecting to share it with others.
  • Findings suggest that simply telling learners that they would later teach another student changes their mindset enough so that they engage in more effective approaches to learning than did their peers who simply expected a test.
Mrs. Lail2

Homework, Sleep, and the Student Brain | Edutopia - 101 views

www.edutopia.org/...nd-student-brain-glenn-whitman

Homework education

shared by Mrs. Lail2 on 26 May 14 - No Cached
  • The biggest contributor to the length of a student's homework is task switching.
  • When a student chooses to check their text, respond and then possibly take an extended dive into social media, they lose a percentage of the learning that has already happened. As a result, when they return to the AP essay or honors geometry proof, they need to retrace their learning in order to catch up to where they were. This jump, between homework and social media, is actually extending the time a student spends on an assignment.
Celia Emmelhainz

Flip This Library: School Libraries Need a Revolution - 82 views

www.schoollibraryjournal.com/...CA6610496.html

shared by Celia Emmelhainz on 23 Jun 11 - Cached
  • One of the biggest business battles of our time is between Microsoft and Google. The two have very different business models.
    • Rob Darrow
      Rob Darrow on 23 Jun 11
       
      This article was written in 2008. I wonder how many libraries have changed since then?
  • libraries
    • Celia Emmelhainz
      Celia Emmelhainz on 15 Mar 13
       
      Good framework for what a learning commons could be - but how can we do it in narrow library centers?
jojomitty

Teach students to communicate effectively in the Innovation Age | eSchool News - 4 views

www.eschoolnews.com/...ectively-in-the-innovation-age

technology tieclass edtech education

shared by jojomitty on 26 Jan 16 - No Cached
    • jojomitty
      jojomitty on 26 Jan 16
       
      This is one of the biggest challenges in education and technology; things move and change so quickly that it is hard to keep up and keep in touch with the latest trends.
  • Educators must now focus on the 4 Cs (collaboration, communication, creativity, and critical thinking)
jojomitty

Teach students to communicate effectively in the Innovation Age | eSchool News - 31 views

www.eschoolnews.com/...2

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    • jojomitty
      jojomitty on 26 Jan 16
       
      Students love paper/pencil graphic organizers, and they are very effective tools. Digital ones need to be used by students as well.
  • Being a good communicator is more complicated in the Innovation Age
    • jojomitty
      jojomitty on 26 Jan 16
       
      This is one of the biggest challenges of students today. They have to process SO much information, and we have to guide them in how to best communicate that information effectively.
dahlb12

The 3 biggest Twitter problems for teachers-and how to overcome them | eSchool News - 33 views

www.eschoolnews.com/...3-twitter-problem-teachers

Twitter problems teachers solutions

shared by dahlb12 on 22 Apr 17 - No Cached
    • dahlb12
      dahlb12 on 22 Apr 17
       
      Great Ideas! Social media is extremely hard to police
Maureen Greenbaum

How diplomas based on skill acquisition, not credits earned, could change education - T... - 15 views

hechingerreport.org/-earned-could-change-education

based education competency skill testing

shared by Maureen Greenbaum on 24 Jun 17 - No Cached
  • a new teaching approach here called “proficiency-based education” that was inspired by a 2012 state law.
  • law requires that by 2021, students graduating from Maine high schools must show they have mastered specific skills to earn a high school diploma.
  • CompetencyWorks, a national organization t
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  • By 2021, schools must offer diplomas based students reaching proficiency in the four core academic subject areas: English, math, science and social studies. By 2025, four additional subject areas will be included: a second language, the arts, health and physical education.
  • proficiency-based idea has also created headaches at some schools for teachers trying to monitor students’ individual progress.
  • Students have more flexibility to learn at their own pace and teachers get time to provide extra help for students who need it
  • It wasn’t for lack of trying,” Bowen said. “It was a systems design problem.”
  • offer students clarity about what they have to learn and how they are expected to demonstrate they’ve learned it.
  • at schools that have embraced the new system, teachers say they are finding that struggling students are seeing the biggest gains because teachers are given more time to re-teach skills and students better understand the parameters for earning a diploma.
  • Deciding to believe that all students are capable of learning all of the standards, she said, “was scary.”
  • Multiple-choice questions have virtually disappeared. Homework is checked, but not graded.
  • students get less than a proficient score, they must go back and study the skill they missed. They are then given a chance to retake the relevant portions of the test until they earn a satisfactory score.
  • We inherited a structure for schooling that was based on time and on philosophical beliefs that learning would be distributed across a bell curve,
  • get crystal clear about what we want students to know and be able to do and then how to measure it.”
Martin Leicht

What happened to America's teens when coronavirus disrupted high school? - 10 views

www.washingtonpost.com/...teens-poll-academics

shared by Martin Leicht on 15 Nov 21 - No Cached
  • biggest challenge of the pandemic was not that I was depressed but just, every day became the same thing. It kind of became, like, boring and saddening because this isn’t what I’m used to.
    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 15 Nov 21
       
      You can't do the same thing online that you did in class. It doesn't translate.
  • Covid gave them the chance to see that, hey, our kids actually learn better when they have a little bit of a break.
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