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Eric Langhorst

Strictly business? Personal tweets make profs more "credible" - 32 views

arstechnica.com/...edible-than-scholarly-ones.ars

twitter research personal education teaching credibility social media

shared by Eric Langhorst on 29 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Casey Finnerty on 29 Mar 11
     
    "The group that only saw social tweets ended up rating that professor higher in credibility than the group that saw only scholarly tweets. Researchers also said there was an especially significant difference in ratings when it came to whether a professor was "caring" or not. "These results support previous research that shows revealing personal information can increase a professor's perceived credibility," says the paper. "[I]t was interesting to note that the scholarly tweets did not significantly raise competence ratings in the groups that saw the scholarly posts. This could be an indication that caring, not competence, is the most important dimension when it comes to assessing perceived credibility on social networking sites." Not all students felt good about the social tweets, though. The researchers found that older students tended to rate the professors lower in credibility after having viewed their Twitter accounts. These students were also more likely to think it was a bad idea for profes"
  • Casey Finnerty on 29 Mar 11
     
    Note the limitation of the study: (fake) professors were all female. Also, younger and older students responded differently.
audrey wei

Free Online Learning at GCFLearnFree.org - 93 views

www.gcflearnfree.org/topics

resources office_2007_training advanced_business business_curriculum business_department

shared by audrey wei on 29 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • audrey wei on 29 Mar 11
     
    Free Online Learning at GCFLearnFree.org
  • Christian King on 27 May 12
     
    Just an excellent resource particularly for business or the IT curriculum. Better than many of the paid resources we have.
Kurt Schmidt

A Perfect Storm in Undergraduate Education, Part 2 - Advice - The Chronicle of Higher E... - 43 views

chronicle.com/...126969

shared by Kurt Schmidt on 04 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • But, in the past few generations, the imagery and rhetoric of academic marketing have cultivated a belief that college will be, if not decadent, at least primarily recreational: social activities, sporting events, and travel.
  • Increasingly, students are buying an "experience" instead of earning an education, and, in the competition to attract customers, that's what's colleges are selling.
  • a growing percentage of students are arriving at college without ever having written a research paper, read a novel, or taken an essay examination. And those students do not perceive that they have missed something in their education; after all, they have top grades. In that context, the demands of professors for different kinds of work can seem bewildering and unreasonable, and students naturally gravitate to courses with more-familiar expectations.
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  • Students increasingly are pressured to go to college not because they want to learn (much less become prepared for the duties of citizenship), but because they and their parents believe—perhaps rightly—that not going will exclude them from middle-class jobs.
  • At most universities, a student is likely to be unknown to the professor and would expect to feel like a nuisance, a distraction from more important work.
  • As academic expectations have decreased, social programming and extracurricular activities have expanded to fill more than the available time. That is particularly the case for residential students, for whom the possibility of social isolation is a source of great anxiety.
  • College has become unaffordable for most people without substantial loans; essentially they are mortgaging their future in the expectation of greater earnings. In order to reduce borrowing, more and more students leave class early or arrive late or neglect assignments, because they are working to provide money for tuition or living expenses.
  • As students' anxiety about the future increases, no amount of special pleading for general-education courses on history, literature, or philosophy—really anything that is not obviously job-related—will convince most students that they should take those courses seriously.
  • But at the major universities, most professors are too busy to care about individual students, and it is easy to become lost amid a sea of equally disenchanted undergraduates looking for some kind of purpose—and not finding it.
  • we need to make "rigorous and high-quality educational experiences a moral imperative."
  • D. S. Koelling on 04 Apr 11
     
    ". . . we need to make 'rigorous and high-quality educational experiences a moral imperative.'"
D. S. Koelling

Helping First-Year Students Help Themselves - Commentary - The Chronicle of Higher Educ... - 1 views

chronicle.com/...127168

education first year students college health

shared by D. S. Koelling on 20 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • 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.
  • Many young adults weren't taught the basic life skills and coping mechanisms for challenging times.
  • 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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  • Parents and high-school educators certainly have a role to play, but college administrators and professors cannot abdicate their role as an influential socialization force to guide young adults toward better self-management.
  • The way to combat the decline in emotional health among first-year students is to offer them opportunities to build such self-efficacy from the start.
  • Teaching interpersonal skills of self-presentation is also essential, as it makes students' interactions with roommates, professors, and professional colleagues flow more smoothly. By following suggestions popularized by Dale Carnegie during the Great Depression—to think in terms of the interests of others, smile, and express honest and sincere appreciation—my Generation WTF students report being happily stunned by more-successful interviews, better relationships with family members, and more-meaningful interactions with friends.
  • While much of my advice seems revolutionary to them, adults from previous generations know that I'm simply teaching a return to core values of self-control, honesty, thrift, and perseverance­—the basic skills that will allow those in "emerging adulthood" to get on with life.
anonymous

Buying Copyrights, Then Patrolling the Web for Infringement - NYTimes.com - 55 views

www.nytimes.com/...03righthaven.html

copyright

shared by anonymous on 03 May 11 - No Cached
  • “I was shocked,” Mr. Hill said. “I thought maybe it was a joke or something to scare me. I didn’t know the picture was copyrighted.”
  • Peter Linehan on 03 May 11
     
    The article describes a company named Righthaven that purchases the rights to stories and images from newspapers. It then sues anyone who uses the material without copyright clearance. They seem to specialize in non-corporate infringers who are likely to settle before a trial. Bloggers beware!
Javier E

A New Measure for Classroom Quality - NYTimes.com - 84 views

www.nytimes.com/...01bausell.html

education instruction research efficiency

shared by Javier E on 03 May 11 - No Cached
  • Test scores are an inadequate proxy for quality because too many factors outside of the teachers’ control can influence student performance from year to year — or even from classroom to classroom during the same year.
  • there’s a far more direct approach: measuring the amount of time a teacher spends delivering relevant instruction — in other words, how much teaching a teacher actually gets done in a school day.
  • Thirty years ago two studies measured the amount of time teachers spent presenting instruction that matched the prescribed curriculum, at a level students could understand based on previous instruction. The studies found that some teachers were able to deliver as much as 14 more weeks a year of relevant instruction than their less efficient peers.
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  • There was no secret to their success: the efficient teachers hewed closely to the curriculum, maintained strict discipline and minimized non-instructional activities, like conducting unessential classroom business when they should have been focused on the curriculum.
  • A focus on relevant instructional time also implies several further reforms: Lengthening the school day, week and year; adopting a near-zero-tolerance policy for disruptive behavior, which classroom cameras would help police; increasing efforts to reduce tardiness and absenteeism; and providing as much supplementary and remedial tutoring (the most effective instructional model known) as possible.
Jac Londe

Ubuntu Server - 16 views

www.ubuntu.com/...overview

Ubuntu Server OS Web3.0 Wifi ip dns PC Plug kiload

shared by Jac Londe on 21 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • Secure, fast and powerful, Ubuntu Server is transforming IT environments worldwide. Realise the full potential of your infrastructure with a reliable, easy-to-integrate technology platform.
  • Why use Ubuntu for servers?
  • Jac Londe on 21 Jul 11
     
    Trouver le kiload Combien de megs sont utilisés dans l'espace mémoire du PC Plug
Glenda Baker

Email Etiquette and the Perils of "Reply All" - Ron Ashkenas - Harvard Business Review - 50 views

blogs.hbr.org/...-etiquette-and-the-perils.html

Email etiquette community

shared by Glenda Baker on 11 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • Glenda Baker on 11 Jul 11
     
    vignette and thoughtful ideas about email etiquette and communication (community.) Adults struggle with this stuff at my school - how do we teach kids learn?
Tricia Rodriguez

Modus rolls out 'green' modular learning environments - Manufacturing - The Southwest B... - 26 views

www.swbooster.com/...1

shared by Tricia Rodriguez on 19 Oct 11 - No Cached
    • Tricia Rodriguez
      Tricia Rodriguez on 19 Oct 11
       
      Interesting that a module classroom could be an individual classroom akin to a "portable" classroom.  Revolution the building of classrooms as well as the theory of what goes on within them.
Steve Ransom

Look Both Ways Before Crossing Powerpoint - 152 views

www.slideshare.net/...re-crossing-powerpoint-9632569

powerpoint presentation skills gr8

shared by Steve Ransom on 13 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Steve Ransom on 13 Oct 11
     
    Great and visual slideshare press
  • Kirstie Truluck on 14 Oct 11
     
    Anyone know of a presentation like this aimed at secondary education? As a teacher I think about the same issue - get a point - all the time. Power Point can, unfortunatly, become a useless and boring mess of stolen text and fancy slide transitions. I could see using this in an educational setting even though the aim feels business related.
  • Steve Ransom on 14 Oct 11
     
    Kirstie, you can find many such presentations on Slideshare... just a matter of weeding through them. Here's a lighthearted approach to the many concepts that students might relate to: http://www.microsoft.com/office/powerpoint-slidefest/do-and-dont.aspx
Liane St. Laurent

Use Chromebooks for Student Assessments - Chrome for Business and Education Help - 57 views

support.google.com/...3273084

chromebook assessment management

shared by Liane St. Laurent on 20 Dec 13 - No Cached
  • Liane St. Laurent on 20 Dec 13
     
    How to set up chromebooks to securely deliver assessments.
Matt Renwick

Why Change Management Fails | Psychology Today - 51 views

www.psychologytoday.com/...why-change-management-fails

change management psychology

shared by Matt Renwick on 06 Dec 14 - No Cached
  • They fail fundamentally because it is conceived as an outside-in process, moving about parts of the organization, rather than an inside-out process which focuses on change within individuals.
  • 70% of large-scale change programs didn’t meet their goals
  • when changes fail, people often grow cynical.
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  • change doesn't happen without individual people changing their thinking, beliefs and behavior
  • think differently about their jobs
  • change efforts often falter because individuals overlook the need to make fundamental changes in themselves.
  • managers don’t act as role models for change
  • combine efforts that look outward with those that look inward
    • Matt Renwick
      Matt Renwick on 07 Dec 14
       
      Kind of how we kept our vision statements, but also added the mission, instead of getting rid of the vision altogether.
  • alignment with their own life purposes
  • cognitive dissonance
  • Linking strategic and systemic intervention to genuine self-discovery and self-development by leaders is a far better path to embracing the vision of the organization and to realizing its business goals.
  • behavioral data to affect employee performance
    • Matt Renwick
      Matt Renwick on 07 Dec 14
       
      How we monitor levels of instruction as a school.
  • explain that story to all of the people involved in making change happen
  • Anyone leading a major change program must take the time to think through its "story"
  • change is an inside-out process
Maureen Greenbaum

L3D Philosophy - 36 views

l3d.cs.colorado.edu/philosophy.html

technology Education

shared by Maureen Greenbaum on 17 Jun 13 - Cached
  • uture is not out there to be "discovered": It has to be invented and designed.
  • Learning is a process of knowledge construction, not of knowledge recording or absorption. Learning is knowledge-dependent; people use their existing knowledge to construct new knowledge. Learning is highly tuned to the situation in which it takes place. Learning needs to account for distributed cognition requiring knowledge in the head to combined with knowledge in the world. Learning is affected as much by motivational issues as by cognitive issues.
  • previous notions of a divided lifetime-education followed by work-are no longer tenable.
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  • Professional activity has become so knowledge-intensive and fluid in content that learning has become an integral and inseparable part of "adult" work activities.
  • require educational tools and environments whose primary aim is to help cultivate the desire to learn and create, and not to simply communicate subject matter divorced from meaningful and personalized activity.
  • current uses of technology in education: it is used as an add-on to existing practices rather than a catalyst for fundamentally rethinking what education should be about in the next century
  • information technologies have been used to mechanize old ways of doing business‹rather than fundamentally rethinking the underlying work processes and promoting new ways to create artifacts and knowledge.
  • important challenge is that the ?ld basic skillsº such as reading, writing, and arithmetic, once acquired, were relevant for the duration of a human life; modern ?asic skillsº (tied to rapidly changing technologies) will change over time.
  • We need computational environments to support "new" frameworks for education such as lifelong learning, integration of working and learning, learning on demand, authentic problems, self-directed learning, information contextualized to the task at hand, (intrinsic) motivation, collaborative learning, and organizational learning.
  • Instructionist approaches are not changed by the fact that information is disseminated by an intelligent tutoring system.
  • Lifelong learning is a continuous engagement in acquiring and applying knowledge and skills in the context of authentic, self-directed problems.
  • ubstantial empirical evidence that the chief impediments to learning are not cognitive. It is not that students cannot learn; it is that they are not well motivated to learn.
  • Most of what any individual "knows" today is not in her or his head, but is out in the world (e.g., in other human heads or embedded in media).
  • technology should provide ways to "say the 'right' thing at the 'right' time in the 'right' way
  • challenge of whether we can create learning environments in which learners work hard, not because they have to, but because they want to. We need to alter the perception that serious learning has to be unpleasant rather than personally meaningful, empowering, engaging, and even fun.
  • making information relevant to the task at hand, providing challenges matched to current skills, creating communities (among peers, over the net), and providing access to real practitioners and experts.
  • What "basic skills" are required in a world in which occupational knowledge and skills become obsolete in years rather than decades?
  • reduce the gap between school and workplace learning
  • How can schools (which currently rely on closed-book exams, the solving of given problems, and so forth) be changed so that learners are prepared to function in environments requiring collaboration, creativity, problem framing, and distributed cognition?
  • problem solving in the real world includes problem framing calls into question the practice of asking students to solve mostly given problems.
  • teachers should see themselves not as truth-tellers and oracles, but as coaches, facilitators, learners, and mentors engaging with learners
Jamie Bridge

Nearpod - 32 views

No, that's not bait and switch. That's business.

review tools

started by charliemacneil on 14 Aug 14 2 follow-ups, last by Jamie Bridge on 15 Aug 14
Michele Rosen

Kahoot! | Game-based blended learning & classroom response system - 133 views

getkahoot.com

shared by Michele Rosen on 31 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • A game-based classroom response system For schools, universities, & businesses
  • Ask thought provoking questions
  • Easy-to-use, inclusive & highly engaging
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  • Students, take control of your own learning
  • Martin Burrett on 31 Oct 13
     
    This has got to be the funkiest instant poll, quiz, response site around. Create questions, quizzes and polls with optional uploaded images for participants to complete in real time from a computer or mobile device. The users access the quiz by using a pin code. The 'question master' gets the data back instantly and it is stored on the site or can be downloaded. This is superb for checking the knowledge of children in your class or that your audience is still awake. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools
  • Deborah Baillesderr on 06 Apr 14
     
    A fun online interactive, gamebased way to give quizzes. You can also do discussions and survey. Here is a short youtube video on how to use it, www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfoyDG8HG6A&list=UUaW4ssrzSaQeAZbA3mo73DQ
  • Deborah Baillesderr on 06 Apr 14
     
    An easy and fun way to give quizzes. You can also do discussions and surveys. Here is a short youtube video on how to use it, www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfoyDG8HG6A&list=UUaW4ssrzSaQeAZbA3mo73DQ
jilung hsieh

Failure Is the Best Thing That Could Happen to Google Glass | Business | WIRED - 44 views

www.wired.com/...t-could-happen-to-google-glass

privacy

shared by jilung hsieh on 16 Apr 14 - Cached
  • Today, for one day only, Google Glass goes on sale to everyone in the U.S. Everyone, that is, with an extra $1,500
  • Aggrieved Glass lovers could play out the persecuted nerd narrative, but such arguments miss the point.
Tracy Tuten

A guide to online educational resources. - NYTimes.com - 90 views

www.nytimes.com/...18openbox-t.html

education NYTimes guide DE courses

shared by Tracy Tuten on 22 Apr 10 - Cached
  • 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."
  • 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.
  • 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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  • At last count, the site had 2,700 audio and video lectures from more than 25 universities; 268 audio books; and 105 e-books. Dr. Colman says he looks for lectures that "take ideas and make them come to life." And so you can learn 37 languages on Open Culture, or stream Jane Austen audio books, Hitchcock films and a John Hopkins biology lecture.
  • Why pay for test prep? M.I.T. OpenCourseWare has culled introductory courses in physics, calculus and biology, along with problem sets and labs, to help students prep for the Advanced Placement exams. (Not to miss an opportunity, there’s a link to the admissions office.)
  • Sydney Lacey on 22 Apr 10
     
    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.
  • Tracy Tuten on 23 Apr 10
     
    Amazing online resources for education
jeffduckett

'Grit' Is More Important Than IQ - Business Insider - 85 views

www.businessinsider.com/-more-important-than-iq-2013-5

learning teaching

shared by jeffduckett on 04 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • jeffduckett on 04 Jun 13
     
    "Student Test Scores Show That 'Grit' Is More Important Than IQ"
Hobbes W

Dealing with organizational hubris and humility - Jeffrey Braithwaite - 27 views

www.jeffreybraithwaite.com/...nizational-hubris-and-humility

hubris humility education university organization business Braithwaite news research

shared by Hobbes W on 07 Jul 14 - No Cached
  • Hobbes W on 07 Jul 14
     
    "Maybe this ego-driven reporting of one's capabilities only happens among American college professors? Hardly. You do not have to stretch your observational powers too far to see that most of those at the helm of big companies, political parties, prestigious legal practices, or accounting and consulting groups have large doses of self-belief. It's only a small step to hubris."
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