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How about no grades for classwork? It might happen in some North Texas classrooms this ... - 52 views
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One idea brought up by several speakers this year is a hybrid grades-free way of evaluating students. In each case, it included a high-bar pass/fail approach to class assignments, with a final, more regular grade for the entire semester. One of the speakers who presented what he called a “Not Yet” grade was “digital ethnographer” Michael Wesch, a professor at Kansas State University. That’s his photo at the top. He told the crowd that they had to inspire “wonder” in their students in order to get them to learn as much as possible. Some key quotes from him: “Low standards/high stakes are the opposite of what you want.”
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“The new divide will be between those with wonder and curiosity and those without.”
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Keynote speaker George Couros is a what’s called a “division principal” back home in Canada. He’s a blogger and author who is all about encouraging creativity and change in public education with an emphasis on taking advantage of digital tools. He told the conference that that it’s foolish to deny students use of their smartphones and other digital tools in the classroom — and even on exams. In 2015, being able to figure out what information is relevant is more important than memorization when most facts are a click away, he said.
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"The new divide will be between those with wonder and curiosity and those without." "The world only cares what you can do with what you know," Couros said. He said he clashed with a teacher back home who complained that his approach would let students Google up the answers for her exams. His response: "If I can look up the answers to the questions on your test on Google, your questions suck."
A Social Network Can Be a Learning Network - Online Learning - The Chronicle of Higher ... - 28 views
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Social bookmarking. When you save a Web site as a favorite or bookmark, it's added to a list that stays within that browser. Use another computer, and you don't have access to that bookmark. When you use a social-bookmarking service, you save your bookmarks on that server, making them available to you wherever you access the Web, and allowing you to share them with others. Ask your students to create accounts on a social-bookmarking service and to bookmark Web sites, news articles, and other resources relevant to the course you're teaching. Create a unique "tag" for your course and have your students use it, so that their bookmarks can be easily found. Ask students to apply multiple tags to the resources they bookmark, as a way to help them locate their bookmarks quickly and to prepare them for the kind of keyword searching they'll need to do when using library databases. If you're teaching a face-to-face or hybrid class, be sure to spend some class time having students share their latest finds, so they can see the connections between this work outside class and classroom discussions. Students most likely won't find this difficult. After all, you're asking them to surf the Web and tag pages they like. That's something they do via Facebook every day. By having them share course-related content with their peers in the class, however, you'll tap into their desires to be part of your course's learning community. And you might be surprised by the resources they find and share.
Education Week: Publishers Turn to Cloud Computing to Offer Digital Content - 47 views
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struggling to strike a balance between print and digital curricula for students, textbook publishers are taking to the cloud to house new digital resources and curricula.
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cloud computing
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dip their toes into
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In Connectivism, No One Can Hear You Scream: a Guide to Understanding the MOOC Novice |... - 1 views
American adults see online courses as at least equivalent in most ways | Inside Higher Ed - 17 views
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Gallup Poll on American's views of online courses: Mixed - "online instruction is at least as good as classroom-based courses in terms of providing good value, a format most students can succeed in, and instruction tailored to each individual. But they question the rigor of testing and grading, and whether employees will view such degrees positively..."
Online teaching andlearning - 63 views
Calls from Washington for streamlined regulation and emerging models | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views
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more of online “innovations” like competency-based education.
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reauthorization of the Higher Education Act might shake out.
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flow of federal financial aid to a wide range of course providers, some of which look nothing like colleges.
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Why Online Programs Fail, and 5 Things We Can Do About It - Hybrid Pedagogy - 76 views
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More and different types of learning and teaching are available in the digital environment. We must convince ourselves that we don’t yet understand digital education so we may open the doors more broadly to innovation and creativity
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we shouldn’t set off on a cruise, and build the ship as we go
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Few institutions pay much attention to re-creating these spaces online
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Intel: Light beams can replace electronic signals for future computers - SmartPlanet - 12 views
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Here’s how it works, step by step: The transmitter chip is made of four hybrid silicon lasers. Light beams from the lasers each travel into an optical modulator. The modulator encodes data onto the beams at 12.5Gbps. The four beams are then combined and output to a single optical fiber, for a total data rate of 50Gbps. At the other end of the link, the receiver chip separates the four optical beams and directs them into photo detectors. The photo detectors convert data back into electrical signals.
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a video explanation:
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“silicon photonics,”
Futurist: To fix education, think Web 2.0 - CNET News - 0 views
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He suggested a "hybrid" learning approach. Schools can teach essential knowledge and critical thinking through somewhat traditional means. But they should complement that teaching with what Seely Brown called "passion-based learning" that focuses on getting students more engaged with topic experts.
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The Discussion Forum is Dead; Long Live the Discussion Forum - Hybrid Pedagogy - 74 views
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There are better forums for discussion than online discussion forums. The discussion forum is a ubiquitous component of every learning management system and online learning platform from Blackboard to Moodle to Coursera.
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as though one relatively standardized interface can stand in for the many and varied modes of interaction we might have in a physical classroom
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predetermined variables
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Diigo in College/University - 253 views
Some questions: Is it possible to get an RSS feed of group annotated links that are no longer live pages, but are instead highlighted static pages? This way I can get a feed of a the links that ...
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