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Antonella S

PRAZE : Learning Management System : The University of Melbourne - 22 views

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peer-assessment peer-feedback

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  • Antonella S on 12 Sep 16
     
    Software designed to manage peer-assessment of students' essays (or other types of work)
Clint Heitz

Using Old Tech (Not Edtech) to Teach Thinking Skills | Edutopia - 44 views

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communication thinking skills low_tech collaboration analysis resources

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  • Clint Heitz on 02 Feb 16
     
    Interesting sticky note strategy for text analysis and low-key essay construction.
smilex3md

A tenured professor asks: Are you scared of your students? (essay) - 36 views

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ug grad teaching students scared article sayer

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  • smilex3md on 16 Jan 17
     
    "Are You Scared of Your Students? A professor wonders whether the classroom has become an unsafe space for the faculty."
Brianna Crowley

At Risk of Losing Our Creativity - Finding Common Ground - Education Week - 6 views

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creativity education

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  • In the World is Flat by Thomas Friedman he said, "Those who are waiting for this recession to end so someone can again hand them work could have a long wait." In the book Out of Our Minds by Sir Ken Robinson, he writes, "Rebuilding the communities that have been left bereft by the recession will depend on imagination, creativity and innovation."
  • Brianna Crowley on 18 Apr 12
     
    Essay on how to not lose sight of the importance of creativity in the classroom--in spite of the current emphasis on testing.
BalancEd Tech

Beyond the Five-Paragraph Essay - National Writing Project - 89 views

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Writing Essay Book

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  • BalancEd Tech on 27 Aug 12
     
    1 hour podcast with the authors.
Steven Engravalle

5 Must-Have iOS Apps For Writers | Edudemic - 91 views

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writing apps

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  • Steven Engravalle on 14 Sep 12
     
    Check out these top 5 Apple applications for essay writing to make getting organizing and presenting your thoughts in a coherent manner a much easier process.
  • June Griffin on 17 Sep 12
     
    These apps strike me as aids to plagiarism, not to writing. I wouldn't recommend them.
Randolph Hollingsworth

Digital History Project hub site for historians - 28 views

digitalhistory.unl.edu/syllabi.php

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  • Randolph Hollingsworth on 08 Jan 12
     
    Digital history is an emerging and rapidly changing academic field. The purpose of the Digital History Project is to educate scholars and the public about the state of the discipline by providing access to: interviews with scholars about topics related to digital history; presentations and essays about the field by noted scholars; syllabi and student projects from courses in digital history; reviews of major online projects and of tools which may be of use to digital historians; indices of peer-reviewed scholarship and digital projects; a directory of historians practicing digital history; and a clearinghouse of current events and news items of interest. Partners The site is made available through the generous support of the John and Catherine Angle Fund. It received production assistance from the New Media Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. This site is maintained by Douglas Seefeldt, Assistant Professor of History & Faculty Fellow, Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, and William G. Thomas, III, John and Catherine Angle Chair in the Humanities and Professor of History, both of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Kate Pok

T.A. Toolbar, Essay Grading Software: Grade Essays Faster, Better! - 139 views

tatoolbar.com

grading teaching tools edtech

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  • Kate Pok on 15 Nov 11
     
    the expensive version
Kate Pok

eMarking Assistant: Save time grading papers and giving feedback - 57 views

emarkingassistant.com

grading teaching tools

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  • Kate Pok on 15 Nov 11
     
    a tool for grading essays
Tracy Tuten

The real economics of massive online courses (essay) | Inside Higher Ed - 2 views

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MOOC credentials education higher education

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  • Is there a model out there, or an institution/student mix that could effectively utilize MOOCs in such a way as to get around this flaw? It’s hard to tell. Recent articles on Inside Higher Ed have suggested that distance education providers (like the University of Maryland’s University College – UMUC) may opt to certify the MOOCs that come out of these elite schools and bake them into their own online programs. Others suggest that MOOCs could be certified by other schools and embedded in prior learning portfolios.
  • The fatal flaw that I referred to earlier is pretty apparent:  the very notions of "mass, open" and selectivity just don’t lend themselves to a workable model that benefits both institutions and students. Our higher education system needs MOOCs to provide credentials in order for students to find it worthwhile to invest the effort, yet colleges can’t afford to provide MOOC credentials without sacrificing prestige, giving up control of the quality of the students who take their courses and running the risk of eventually diluting the value of their education brand in the eyes of the labor market.
  • In other words, as economists tell us, students themselves are an important input to education. The fact that no school uses a lottery system to determine who gets in means that determining who gets in matters a great deal to these schools, because it helps them control quality and head off the adverse effects of unqualified students either dropping out or performing poorly in career positions. For individual institutions, obtaining high quality inputs works to optimize the school’s objective function, which is maximizing prestige.
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  • We also know that there are plenty of low- to no-cost learning options available to people on a daily basis, from books on nearly every academic topic at the local library and on-the-job experience, to the television programming on the National Geographic, History and Discovery channels. If learning can and does take place everywhere, there has to be a specific reason that people would be willing to spend tens of thousands of dollars and several years of their life to get it from one particular source like a college. There is, of course, and again it’s the credential, because no matter how many years I spend diligently tuned to the History Channel, I’m simply not going to get a job as a high-school history teacher with “television watching” as the core of my resume, even if I both learned and retained far more information than I ever could have in a series of college history classes.
  • Tracy Tuten on 09 Aug 12
     
    On why MOOCs are flawed
Tracy Tuten

Socratic Method Research Portal - 6 views

www.socraticmethod.net

teaching socratic learning philosophy method education

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  • Tracy Tuten on 09 Aug 12
     
    Essays on how to use the socratic method
Christian King

How to Do What You Love - 35 views

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books education inspiration career work lifehacks

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  • Christian King on 11 Jun 12
     
    An interesting essay on the topic of career choices. Well argued and inspired by the changing approaches to work in society.
Steven Szalaj

How to Fix the Schools - NYTimes.com - 97 views

www.nytimes.com/...ra-how-to-fix-the-schools.html

Education American International Schools improve

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  • Steven Szalaj on 19 Sep 12
     
    Excellent essay on improving education in America
Steven Szalaj

'An Industry of Mediocrity' - NYTimes.com - 36 views

www.nytimes.com/...an-industry-of-mediocrity.html

Education Teacher Training college

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  • Steven Szalaj on 21 Oct 13
     
    A essay pointing to the need for better, more rigorous teacher training as an important way to create significant, meaningful improvement in American Education. The Keller points to some programs that offer hopeful solutions.
Don Doehla

Refocusing Students: How to Get Their Attention Back | Edutopia - 80 views

www.edutopia.org/...r-attention-back-maurice-elias

students attention edutopia

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  • Don Doehla on 17 Oct 13
     
    "Did you know that when reading, one's mind will wander 20 to 40 percent of the time while perusing a text, regardless of whether it is a book, blog, email, narrative, essay, or anything else? This is one of many fascinating findings reported in Dan Goleman's new book, Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence and it calls us to remember that students can't learn what they are not paying attention to. "
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