Stephen Downes: Things You Really Need To Learn - 88 views
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to educators, I ask, if you are not teaching these things in your classes, why are you not?
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1. How to predict consequences
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The prediction of consequences is part science, part mathematics, and part visualization. It is essentially the ability to create a mental model imaging the sequence of events that would follow, "what would likely happen if...?"
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Paperless Tiger « buckenglish - 0 views
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Does this jettisoning of time-honored titles mean that the paperless classroom is also lacking a creator, controller and grader? Is the paperless classroom also a teacherless paradigm? The answer is in some regards, yes. I have removed myself from center stage. I have relinquished the need to control every class. I have stopped seeing work as stagnant…completed and submitted by students and then graded by me. I have let go of my need to pre-plan months at a time, in favor of following the path that unfolds as we learn together. My classes are not, however, teacherless, just less about the teaching and more about the learning. The students know that I am ready and willing to be student to their insights, that they can teach, create, control and even evaluate their own learning.
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In the absence of my control, the students have many choices to make
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Teachers often say that modern students are lazy. I have long felt that as the shifting winds of technology began to gain force, we teachers were the ones who were unwilling to do the work of rethinking our roles and meeting the students were they were learning already. Rethinking paper as the primary tool of class is a step in the right direction because it forces a rethinking of the how and why of teaching and learning.
On Campus, Vampires Are Besting the Beats - washingtonpost.com - 0 views
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Here we have a generation of young adults away from home for the first time, free to enjoy the most experimental period of their lives, yet they're choosing books like 13-year-old girls -- or their parents. The only specter haunting the groves of American academe seems to be suburban contentment.
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two-thirds of freshmen identify themselves as "middle of the road" or "conservative." Such people aren't likely to stay up late at night arguing about Mary Daly's "Gyn/Ecology" or even Robert Pirsig's "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance."
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"I have stood before classes," he tells me, "and seen the students snicker when I said that Melville died poor because he couldn't sell books. 'Then why are we reading him if he wasn't popular?' "
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2009 Horizon Report » One Year or Less: Mobiles - 0 views
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Students can respond to open-ended or multiple-choice questions, and their answers can be immediately tabulated, graphed and displayed to the class via a website without proprietary equipment.
Sequoia Choice - Home - 0 views
Q&A: Set all students as friends or not? - 39 views
Got a classroom setup question: "Can I set student accounts so that they can only send and receive messages from me (not to each other?)" The answer is YES! Here is how: When you create a ...
Academic Productivity » Diigo - Web Highlighter and Sticky Notes, a delicious... - 0 views
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In my experience, what makes diigo better? it saves the content of the page you bookmark, not only the link. Magnolia used to do that before they lost all their user’s data You can highlight! Important, as sometimes you don’t remember what was interesting in a page Posts are Private by default There’s a bunch of community features behind it. Example: pop psych you can post to other sites, including delicious (they are an example of openness)
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On top of all this, there’s another feature that may well become revolutionary: adding sticky notes to pages, in a way that other people can see it. When using the Diigo toolbar, you can see what other people have highlighted, and also comments (sticky notes) they added. That means that you are no longer limited to leaving comments on blogs, you can do so in any type of page (even static pages). Diigo enables you to drop your comment exactly where it is relevant, not at the end of a long list.
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All in all, I’ve never seen an entrance in a monopolized market (social bookmarking) with this strength and resolution. Diigo is very impressive, and my bookmarking tool of choice.
Talkin' 'bout my cerebration. » Evernote - 1 views
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The power of networked learning outperforms that of any individual. It was great to experience real collaboration (common goal and unrestricted sharing) and I’ve no doubtmy learning has benefitted.
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However if I create the learning environment where they see opportunity for access through choice, they respond and access the technology readily. This reinforces to me something I have long believed in – it is the pedagogy that matters, not the tools. Knowing this, I can create and manage the environment that results in student engagement with all of these tools to enable and encourage learning.
The Edurati Review: Sailing the 7 C's of Motivation - 37 views
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Facilitating motivation involves a multitude of processes, seven of which will be examined here.1. Challenge2. Choice3. Control4. Caring5. Curiosity6. Competence7. Connectedness
Young Adults' Choices - 23 views
Jigsaw Planet - Online Jigsaw Puzzle Games - 67 views
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Consider the work of a famous artist or that of your students. Upload them and try to put them back together. Good spatial awareness/problem solving.
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Assemble or create virtual jigsaws with your own photos and images. A great resource to hide clues, a twist on a multiple choice quiz or answers to homework. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Photos+&+Images
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Make a puzzle out of one of your pics and put puzzle together on line. Idea: DO a class pic on mimio first day of school
The New York Times Kind of Misinterprets a Study About Tests and Learning - 64 views
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But, before the multiple choice, standardized testing crowd starts thumping their chests, it's important to note the kind of test the researchers administered. After reading the passage, students "wrote what they remembered in a free-form essay for 10 minutes. Then they reread the passage and took another retrieval practice test." So, to decipher the wonkitude, the students read a passage, wrote a reflection essay, reread the passage a second time, and then wrote another reflection essay.That's a far cry from bubbling in the letter "C" on a scantron form.
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A new study claims testing helps kids get smarter-except, the tests that make a difference aren't the ones you think.
Weebly Tutorial - 49 views
Let Kids Rule the School - NYTimes.com - 110 views
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We want young people to become independent and capable, yet we structure their days to the minute and give them few opportunities to do anything but answer multiple-choice questions, follow instructions and memorize information. We cast social interaction as an impediment to learning, yet all evidence points to the huge role it plays in their psychological development.
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They named their school the Independent Project.
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Finally, they embarked on a collective endeavor, which they agreed had to have social significance.
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What is eType? | - 91 views
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eType is your online multi-language dictionary with translations and word substitutes to virtually any language in the world. eType is your writing guide that auto-completes your words as you type them, enabling you to type faster and boost your level of confidence in your writing. eType prevents you from making spelling mistakes before they happen and helps you select the best word choice possible – even if you are not writing in your native language.
I-Search - Emerging Perspectives on Learning, Teaching and Technology - 100 views
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She introduces the concept of the I-Search to her students and has them select a topic they would like to explore
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I-Search is the process of searching for answers to questions which have personal meaning to the writer combined with a metacognitive review of the search process.
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In the I-Search process, students have ownership of their research
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College is a waste of time - CNN.com - 49 views
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Of course, some people want a formal education. I do not think everyone should leave college, but I challenge my peers to consider the opportunity cost of going to class. If you want to be a doctor, going to medical school is a wise choice. I do not recommend keeping cadavers in your garage. On the other hand, what else could you do during your next 50-minute class? How many e-mails could you answer? How many lines of code could you write?
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