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Clint Heitz

This Is How The Way You Read Impacts Your Memory And Productivity - 17 views

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  • Studies have shown that taking notes by longhand will help you remember important meeting points better than tapping notes out on your laptop or smartphone. The reason for that could be that “writing stimulates an area of the brain called the RAS (reticular activating system), which filters and brings clarity to the fore the information we’re focusing on
  • says one explanation for the benefit of reading analog books may come down to something called metacomprehension deficit. “Metacomprehension refers to how well we are ‘in touch with,’ literally speaking, our own comprehension while reading,” says Mangen. “For instance, how much time do you spend reading a text in order to understand it well enough to solve a task afterwards?”
  • “Length does indeed seem to be a central issue, and closely related to length are a number of other dimensions of a text, e.g., structure and layout. Is the content presented in such a way that it is required that you keep in mind several occurrences/text places at the same time?” says Mangen. In other words, she says, complexity and information density may play a role in the importance of the medium providing the text.
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  • “It is not–and should not be–a question of either/or, but of using the most appropriate medium in a given situation, and for a given material/content and purpose of reading,”
  • As the study cited above mentions, like other digital readers, you probably think you are absorbing the information better than you actually are, and thus move through the book faster.A simple solution to this is to simply slow down and take more time reading the material, and you might absorb the information just as well as those who naturally take longer to read a paper book.
Kim Ibara

HP Blogs - Successful EdTech: First the Verbs, then the Nouns - The HP Blog Hub - 62 views

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  • In teaching, our focus needs to be on the verbs, which don't change very much, and NOT on the nouns (i.e. the technologies) which change rapidly and which are only a means. For teachers to fixate on any particular noun as the "best" way (be it books or blogs, for example) is not good for our students, as new and better nouns will shortly emerge and will continue to emerge over the course of their lifetimes. Our teaching should instead focus on the verbs (i.e. skills) students need to master, making it clear to the students (and to the teachers) that there are many tools learners can use to practice and apply them.
    • Kim Ibara
      Kim Ibara on 21 Nov 10
       
      This is what we need to explain to our teachers, administrators, and boards of education in order to make it clear where our technology initiatives originate.
  • Once we know what verbs you're intending to activate in the classroom, then we can start talking about the technology nouns that will support these activities and experiences
  • While the technology nouns are ever changing and improving, the educational VERBS remain the same. Powerful learning VERBS do not go obsolete, so neither will your instructional plans designed around them.
Sunny Jackson

NCCU Library - 46 views

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Richard Bradshaw

DigitalBookIndex: THE 1930s: Federal Writers' Project (20TH c U.S. HISTORY) (e-Book, eT... - 13 views

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  • Richard Bradshaw on 02 Jul 13
     
    WPA Writer's Project: Guides to the States
m. vest

Amazon.com: Michael Morpurgo: Books, Biography, Blog, Audiobooks, Kindle - 11 views

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war horse michael morpurgo author

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      m. vest on 16 Apr 12
       
      Who is the author of War Horse?
    • m. vest
      m. vest on 16 Apr 12
       
      Besides War Horse, name three other books written by Mr. Morpurgo.
  • m. vest on 16 Apr 12
     
    Michael Morpurgo
Don Doehla

Connect to a Chorus of Voices - 35 views

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  • Don Doehla on 24 Aug 13
     
    "A collection of stories is the way to rewrite a singular history that has been in textbooks....I think it takes a lot of people telling a lot of stories about what their experience has been, what the experience of their ancestors has been." The speaker is Tommy Orange, an Oakland-based media consultant, writer, and digital storyteller who is an enrolled member of the Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma and describes himself as "a father, a son, a brother, an uncle, a partner, a storyteller, and a committed member and servant of his community." For Issue #3 of The Republic of Stories, our quarterly online publication, Arlene Goldbard interviewed Tommy and Tony Platt, author of books inlcuding Grave Matters: Excavating California's Buried Past, who lives in Berkeley and Big Lagoon, California, and serves as secretary of the Coalition to Protect Yurok Cultural Legacies at O-pyuweg (Big Lagoon).
s2 art

educational technology & distance education books bibliography - 40 views

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  • Dominique-Alain JAN on 14 Feb 10
     
    Interesting list but most of these book have more than 10 years. Maybe too old in a such moving and growing up subject.
  • s2 art on 14 Feb 10
     
    yes, they are old, but as a relative newbie to teaching AND technology I thought I'd share.
Benjamin Light

The Costs of Overemphasizing Achievement - 83 views

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  • First, students tend to lose interest in whatever they’re learning. As motivation to get good grades goes up, motivation to explore ideas tends to go down. Second, students try to avoid challenging tasks whenever possible. More difficult assignments, after all, would be seen as an impediment to getting a top grade. Finally, the quality of students’ thinking is less impressive. One study after another shows that creativity and even long-term recall of facts are adversely affected by the use of traditional grades.
    • Deb White Groebner
      Deb White Groebner on 13 May 11
       
      SO true!
    • Terie Engelbrecht
      Terie Engelbrecht on 27 Jun 11
       
      Very true; especially the "avoiding challenging tasks" part.
  • Unhappily, assessment is sometimes driven by entirely different objectives--for example, to motivate students (with grades used as carrots and sticks to coerce them into working harder) or to sort students (the point being not to help everyone learn but to figure out who is better than whom)
  • Standardized tests often have the additional disadvantages of being (a) produced and scored far away from the classroom, (b) multiple choice in design (so students can’t generate answers or explain their thinking), (c) timed (so speed matters more than thoughtfulness) and (d) administered on a one-shot, high-anxiety basis.
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  • The test designers will probably toss out an item that most students manage to answer correctly.
  • the evidence suggests that five disturbing consequences are likely to accompany an obsession with standards and achievement:
  • 1. Students come to regard learning as a chore.
  • intrinsic motivation and extrinsic motivation tend to be inversely related: The more people are rewarded for doing something, the more they tend to lose interest in whatever they had to do to get the reward.
  • 2. Students try to avoid challenging tasks.
  • they’re just being rational. They have adapted to an environment where results, not intellectual exploration, are what count. When school systems use traditional grading systems--or, worse, when they add honor rolls and other incentives to enhance the significance of grades--they are unwittingly discouraging students from stretching themselves to see what they’re capable of doing.
  • 3. Students tend to think less deeply.
  • 4. Students may fall apart when they fail.
  • 5. Students value ability more than effort
    • Deb White Groebner
      Deb White Groebner on 13 May 11
       
      This is the reinforcement of a "fixed mindset" (vs. (growth mindset) as described by Carol Dweck.
  • They seem to be fine as long as they are succeeding, but as soon as they hit a bump they may regard themselves as failures and act as though they’re helpless to do anything about it.
  • When the point isn’t to figure things out but to prove how good you are, it’s often hard to cope with being less than good.
  • It may be the systemic demand for high achievement that led him to become debilitated when he failed, even if the failure is only relative.
  • But even when better forms of assessment are used, perceptive observers realize that a student’s score is less important than why she thinks she got that score.
  • just smart
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  • It bodes well for the future
  • the punch line: When students are led to focus on how well they are performing in school, they tend to explain their performance not by how hard they tried but by how smart they are.
  • In their study of academically advanced students, for example, the more that teachers emphasized getting good grades, avoiding mistakes and keeping up with everyone else, the more the students tended to attribute poor performance to factors they thought were outside their control, such as a lack of ability.
  • When students are made to think constantly about how well they are doing, they are apt to explain the outcome in terms of who they are rather than how hard they tried.
  • And if children are encouraged to think of themselves as "smart" when they succeed, doing poorly on a subsequent task will bring down their achievement even though it doesn’t have that effect on other kids.
  • The upshot of all this is that beliefs about intelligence and about the causes of one’s own success and failure matter a lot. They often make more of a difference than how confident students are or what they’re truly capable of doing or how they did on last week’s exam. If, like the cheerleaders for tougher standards, we look only at the bottom line, only at the test scores and grades, we’ll end up overlooking the ways that students make sense of those results.
  • the problem with tests is not limited to their content.
  • if too big a deal is made about how students did, thus leading them (and their teachers) to think less about learning and more about test outcomes.
  • As Martin Maehr and Carol Midgley at the University of Michigan have concluded, "An overemphasis on assessment can actually undermine the pursuit of excellence."
  • Only now and then does it make sense for the teacher to help them attend to how successful they’ve been and how they can improve. On those occasions, the assessment can and should be done without the use of traditional grades and standardized tests. But most of the time, students should be immersed in learning.
  • the findings of the Colorado experiment make perfect sense: The more teachers are thinking about test results and "raising the bar," the less well the students actually perform--to say nothing of how their enthusiasm for learning is apt to wane.
  • The underlying problem concerns a fundamental distinction that has been at the center of some work in educational psychology for a couple of decades now. It is the difference between focusing on how well you’re doing something and focusing on what you’re doing.
  • The two orientations aren’t mutually exclusive, of course, but in practice they feel different and lead to different behaviors.
  • But when we get carried away with results, we wind up, paradoxically, with results that are less than ideal.
  • Unfortunately, common sense is in short supply today because assessment has come to dominate the whole educational process. Worse, the purposes and design of the most common forms of assessment--both within classrooms and across schools--often lead to disastrous consequences.
  • grades, which by their very nature undermine learning. The proper occasion for outrage is not that too many students are getting A’s, but that too many students have been led to believe that getting A’s is the point of going to school.
  • research indicates that the use of traditional letter or number grades is reliably associated with three consequences.
  • Iowa and Comprehensive Tests of Basic Skills,
    • Benjamin Light
      Benjamin Light on 19 Nov 12
       
      I wonder how the MAP test is set?
  • Rob Reynolds on 14 May 11
     
    The message of Daniel Pinks book "Drive" applies here. Paying someone more, i.e. good grades, does not make them better thinkers, problems solvers, or general more motivated in what they are doing. thanks for sharing.
  • Terie Engelbrecht on 27 Jun 11
     
    Excellent summary!
James Miscavish

20 Best Websites To Download Free EBooks | Freebies - 6 views

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  • James Miscavish on 09 Jul 09
     
    Free ebooks...not necessarily all ed related
Andrew McCluskey

Learning, Freedom and the Web [e-Book] - 46 views

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OER open educational resources education web 2.0 educational technology technology Mozilla ebook web tools resources

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  • Andrew McCluskey on 03 Dec 12
     
    "How can the ideas of the open source movement help foster learning? What are the most effective ways to bring learning to everyone? How does openness help the spread of knowledge? Part exhibition catalog, part manifesto, this is a concise, fun-to-read introduction to what Mozilla is doing to support learners everywhere."
Matt Renwick

Annie Murphy Paul on Why 'Digital Literacy' Can't Replace The Traditional Kind | TIME.com - 117 views

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Literacy e-reader research annie murphy paul time

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    • Matt Renwick
      Matt Renwick on 07 Apr 13
       
      The F-pattern when reading online could have been helpful for the reader in this article.
  • Bernard Cooperman on 08 Apr 13
     
    Both the author of the article and the people she criticizes are making a fundamental mistake. It is an illusion that kids once learned facts in some deeper way. If the tree octopus had been presented in a book, the kids would have made the same mistake. Much of traditional teaching was not about absorbing certain facts but about learning techniques for accessing those facts. The internet and google really have changed the way we access information. The real challenge is how to restructure knowledge itself to take advantage of the new forms of accessibility. And as for using technology in the classroom: banning computers is like forcing kids to memorize arithmetic tables in an age when everyone has a calculator. We don't need slide rules nor an abacus and there is no reason to teach kids how to use them.
Celia Emmelhainz

Book Chat: Why Does College Cost So Much? - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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      Celia Emmelhainz on 08 Feb 13
       
      yeah but then what? you still aren't dealing with the economic motivation for attending college, and the fact that it may not pan out for disadvantaged students. i.e. they get the 4.0 and degree, and still don't have the networks or corporate savvy to get a good job. 
  • Georgia HOPE scholarship has increased college attendance in Georgia
  • erit-based price discounts only help determine which school a student attends.
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  • Everyone has three objectives for higher education: lower tuition, higher quality, and less government spending on subsidies. The unfortunate truth is that we can have any two of these, but we can’t have all three. If we mandate low tuition, we have to give on one of the other two. Either the government has to increase spending on subsidies, or the quality of the education schools will be able to provide will suffer. There are no easy choices
anonymous

Clements, K. (2016). [e-Book] Why Open Educational Resources Repositories Fai... - 13 views

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REA Recursos Educativos Abiertos OER Open Educational Resources

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    Durante las dos últimas décadas, millones de Recursos Educativos Abiertos (REA) están a libre disposición para los profesores y estudiantes en línea. Estos recursos son generalmente accesibles a través Repositorios de Objetos de Aprendizaje (LORS), que son bases de datos con una interfaz de usuario. Los Repositorios de Objetos de Aprendizaje rara vez se utilizan en todo su potencial y, a menudo se considerados como "fracasos". Estudios anteriores han demostrado que la calidad tiene un papel crítico en el éxito de los sistemas de información, tales como LORS. Sin embargo no existen pautas comunes para la garantía de calidad para los enfoques LORS, ni existen estudios sobre la contribución de los diferentes enfoques de aseguramiento de la calidad LOR para el éxito de un repositorio. La medición de la calidad y el éxito han demostrado ser un desafío en la comunidad de investigación debido a la naturaleza subjetiva y dinámica de tales conceptos. Para hacer frente a este reto, esta tesis estudia la percepción de los usuarios y desarrolladores con LOR desde mútiples perspectivas metodológicas. La aportación de esta tesis al discurso académico se debe a su profundización de la comprensión de las percepciones de los usuarios y desarrolladores de LORS sobre la calidad y el éxito de los repositorios. para ello se desarrollaron marcos para enfoques de garantía de calidad y medidas de éxito de Repositorios de Objetos de Aprendizaje con el fin de identificar y enfoques de diseño que aumentarían el éxito de los repositorios, como un aporte teórico. Los resultados de estos estudios muestran que opiniones de los expertos en combinación con los enfoques de calidad generados por los usuarios (por ejemplo, sistemas de recomendación revisiones por pares, comentando, etiquetado, etc.) contribuyen al éxito del repositorio.El aporte práctico de esta tesis es un conjunto de recomendaciones hacia el diseño de estrategias de calidad de los Repositorio
  • anonymous on 19 Apr 16
     
    Durante las dos últimas décadas, millones de Recursos Educativos Abiertos (REA) están a libre disposición para los profesores y estudiantes en línea. Estos recursos son generalmente accesibles a través Repositorios de Objetos de Aprendizaje (LORS), que son bases de datos con una interfaz de usuario. Los Repositorios de Objetos de Aprendizaje rara vez se utilizan en todo su potencial y, a menudo se considerados como "fracasos". Estudios anteriores han demostrado que la calidad tiene un papel crítico en el éxito de los sistemas de información, tales como LORS. Sin embargo no existen pautas comunes para la garantía de calidad para los enfoques LORS, ni existen estudios sobre la contribución de los diferentes enfoques de aseguramiento de la calidad LOR para el éxito de un repositorio. La medición de la calidad y el éxito han demostrado ser un desafío en la comunidad de investigación debido a la naturaleza subjetiva y dinámica de tales conceptos. Para hacer frente a este reto, esta tesis estudia la percepción de los usuarios y desarrolladores con LOR desde mútiples perspectivas metodológicas. La aportación de esta tesis al discurso académico se debe a su profundización de la comprensión de las percepciones de los usuarios y desarrolladores de LORS sobre la calidad y el éxito de los repositorios. para ello se desarrollaron marcos para enfoques de garantía de calidad y medidas de éxito de Repositorios de Objetos de Aprendizaje con el fin de identificar y enfoques de diseño que aumentarían el éxito de los repositorios, como un aporte teórico. Los resultados de estos estudios muestran que opiniones de los expertos en combinación con los enfoques de calidad generados por los usuarios (por ejemplo, sistemas de recomendación revisiones por pares, comentando, etiquetado, etc.) contribuyen al éxito del repositorio.El aporte práctico de esta tesis es un conjunto de recomendaciones hacia el diseño de estrategias de calidad de los Repositorios de
Louisa Guest

Harvard Education Letter - 27 views

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education behaviour

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      Louisa Guest on 08 Sep 12
       
      get print friendly version for staff
  • Learning to see all behavior as a form of communication, for example, is a key principle that helps when teachers are frustrated or confused by how students are acting. Even though students’ behavior can look bizarre or disruptive, their actions are purposeful and are their attempts to solve a problem.
  • About 10 percent of the school population—or 9–13 million children—struggle with mental health problems. In a typical classroom of 20, chances are good that one or two students are dealing with serious psychosocial stressors relating to poverty, domestic violence, abuse and neglect, or a psychiatric disorder. There is also growing evidence that the number of children suffering the effects of trauma and those with autism-related social deficits is also on the rise.
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  • If teachers are supported to set up classrooms to promote success, these students (and other challenging students who have similar behaviors but may not have individualized education plans, or IEPs) can improve their performance in school and in life.
  • Making positive attention more predictable in the classroom can help break the cycle of negative attention-seeking behaviors. Putting one-on-one time on the student’s personal visual schedule (even if it’s only a couple minutes to read a student’s favorite page in a book) or setting a timer for 10 minutes and telling the student that’s when you will be back are just two strategies that can help.
  • Teachers who work with challenging students need support from administrators and others in the school. It is very stressful to have a student in class who is constantly disruptive. In order to make the necessary investment, the teacher needs substantive support from administrators to avoid frustration and burnout and to garner the energy to provide effective interventions. When administrators delegate some of the teacher’s responsibilities to other people in the building, the teacher can devote more time to finding solutions. Regularly meeting with consultants (e.g., special educators, mental health professionals, and behavior analysts) can be essential for designing how the student progresses, but it also takes up the teacher’s prep time. If possible, the administrator can arrange coverage so that the teacher can meet with consultants at times other than lunch and prep. Support staff can instruct small groups of children while the teacher works with the student with behavior challenges. And since there are usually so many people involved with a struggling student, delineating a clear coordination plan is also critical. It can be helpful, as a team, to make a list of responsibilities and indicate who is responsible for what.
  • The more intensely the student is taught the underdeveloped skills, and the more the environment is changed to encourage appropriate behavior, the more quickly the student’s behavior is likely to change.
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