an advantage of the Internet is that students can stop the lecture and rewind when they do not understand something.
Online Learning Is Growing on Campus - NYTimes.com - 29 views
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Kristin Joos built interactivity into her Principles of Sociology course to keep students engaged. There are small-group online discussions, and students join a virtual classroom once a week using a conferencing software called WiZiQ.
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In a conventional class, “I’m someone who sits toward the front and shares my thoughts with the teacher,” she said. In the 10 or so online courses she has taken in her four years, “it’s all the same,” she said. “No comments. No feedback. And the grades are always late.”
Students tap into technology - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - 1 views
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use their laptops to read "Don Quixote" and Dante's "Divine Comedy" on the Internet
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Technology is the wave of the future
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a computer program
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The Future of Reading - 'Reading Workshop' Approach Lets Students Pick the Books - Seri... - 0 views
Merce Cunningham, Influential Choreographer, Dies - Obituary (Obit) - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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Merce Cunningham, the American choreographer who was among a handful of 20th-century figures to make dance a major art and a major form of theater, died Sunday night at his home in Manhattan.
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Mr. Cunningham ranks with Isadora Duncan, Serge Diaghilev, Martha Graham and George Balanchine in making people rethink the essence of dance and choreography, posing a series of “But” and “What if?” questions over a career of nearly seven decades.
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'No Child' Law Is Not Closing a Racial Gap - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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“We’re lifting the basic skills of young kids,” said Bruce Fuller, an education professor at the University of California, Berkeley, “but this policy is not lifting 21st-century skills for the new economy.”
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The Tell-All Generation Learns When Not To, at Least Online - NYTimes.com - 55 views
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They are more diligent than older adults, however, in trying to protect themselves. In a new study to be released this month, the Pew Internet Project has found that people in their 20s exert more control over their digital reputations than older adults, more vigorously deleting unwanted posts and limiting information about themselves. “Social networking requires vigilance, not only in what you post, but what your friends post about you,” said Mary Madden, a senior research specialist who oversaw the study by Pew, which examines online behavior. “Now you are responsible for everything.”
Few Students Show Proficiency in Science, Tests Show - NYTimes.com - 18 views
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Only one or two students out of every 100 displayed the level of science mastery that the department defines as advanced
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a smaller proportion of American 12th graders demonstrated proficiency in science than in any other subject that the federal government has tested since 2005 — except history
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Twenty-one percent of the nation’s 12th graders scored at or above the proficient level in science on the 2009 tests, compared with 42 percent who demonstrated proficiency on the most recent economics exam, and 38 percent and 26 percent, respectively, on the most recent nationwide reading and math tests.
CUNY Adjusts Amid Tide of Remedial Students - NYTimes.com - 24 views
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“Throughout high school, I was a good math student, and to find out that it was my lowest grade of all three was really surprising,”
CUNY Adjusts Amid Tide of Remedial Students - NYTimes.com - 21 views
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“The course is really a refresher, but they aren’t ready for a refresher. They need to learn how to learn.”
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The knowledge gap at community colleges is increasingly being recognized as a national problem.
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“Many, many community college presidents will say that math developmental education is the most difficult problem they’re facing,”
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TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST FACTORY FIRE - City Room Blog - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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