Webcasting: Live from Your Classroom - 6 views
One in eight children in Hawaiʻi live in poverty, according to KIDS COUNT dat... - 10 views
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“We have more children in poverty now, more children living in high-poverty neighborhoods, and over a quarter of our children living in families where parents lack secure employment,
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To read the full report, visit the Annie E. Casey Foundation website.
Microsoft Live@edu - 20 views
The future of the classroom - Fortune Tech - 5 views
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the future of education really hinges on the shifting roles of teacher and student.
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students will learn at their own pace, using software that adapts to their strengths and weaknesses. In other words: aided by emerging technology, the teacher-student relationship—and the classroom itself—will be remade. That is the coming education revolution.
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front of a classroom, a teacher would monitor students' progress and assist those who are struggling on an ad-hoc basis.
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Students First, Not Stuff - 71 views
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a discrete set of standards and outcomes
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we've spent billions of dollars on technology that by almost every measure has had little or no widespread effect.
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Thoreau - Walking - Webtext - 41 views
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When I go out of the house for a walk, uncertain as yet whither I will bend my steps, and submit myself to my instinct to decide for me, I find, strange and whimsical as it may seem, that I finally and inevitably settle south-west, toward some particular wood or meadow or deserted pasture or hill in that direction. My needle is slow to settle—varies a few degrees, and does not always point due south-west, it is true, and it has good authority for this variation, but it always settles between west and south-south-west. The future lies that way to me, and the earth seems more unexhausted and richer on that side. The outline which would bound my walks, would be, not a circle, but a parabola, or rather like one of those cometary orbits, which have been thought to be non-returning curves, in this case opening westward, in which my house occupies the place of the sun. I turn round and round irresolute sometimes for a quarter of an hour, until I decide for the thousandth time, that I will walk into the south-west or west. Eastward I go only by force; but westward I go free.
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I must walk toward Oregon, and not toward Europe. And that way the nation is moving, and I may say that mankind progress from east to west.
The Evolving MOOC (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE.edu - 13 views
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All content can be learned directly through the online courseware, but learning by students benefits from guidance by a teacher and conversations with peers
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we aim to bring a valuable curricular resource to more students without removing the important role of face-to-face engagement.
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It is important to mention here that there is evidence that many people who takes MOOCs arrange meetings with others in the course that live near enough, in order to discuss the matter, help each other, and generally improve their learning experience. Face to face interaction does not have to be preestablished by the MOOC designer/provider, nor it have to take place in classrooms.
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we decided to create curricula for teachers to bring to their classrooms using MOOC technology
Issaquah School District: 5000 Days - 5 views
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Take today's kindergartner and fast forward 5,000 days: Will that same child be a confident graduate prepared to tackle his or her dreams? Stay tuned as the 5,000 Days Project follows the lives of a diverse group of students as they progress through the Issaquah School District. The participants are being filmed each year, and their final video documentaries will be posted here as they graduate.
Final Report: Friendship | DIGITAL YOUTH RESEARCH - 1 views
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Social relations—not simply physical space—structure the social worlds of youth.
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When teens are involved in friendship-driven practices, online and offline are not separate worlds—they are simply different settings in which to gather with friends and peers
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these dynamics reinforce existing friendship patterns as well as constitute new kinds of social arrangements.
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Latest News : Clemson University - 23 views
Busting the myths of AI in education - 10 views
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"When you mention Artificial Intelligence (AI), you're likely to get a variety of responses ranging from the fear that robots will take over our jobs - and our lives - to the conviction that it will transform our future for the better. Now that AI is becoming an integral part of organisations such as NASA, the NHS and even your local council, is it time for education to embrace the power of AI? I believe that it is. While algorithms will never be a substitute for a good teacher, there are some exciting new ways that AI can help schools to spot patterns of progress, or identify pupils who are having difficulties with their learning."
TECHNOLOGY AS A THREAT TO PRIVACY: Ethical Challenges - 5 views
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The aim of this paper is to assess the impact of technology on the private lives of people. It is approached from a socio-ethical perspective with specific emphasis on the implication for the information profession. The issues discussed are the concept privacy, he influence of technology on the processing of personal and private information, the relevance of this influence for the information profession, and proposed solutions to these ethical issues for the information profession.
Help with free online textbooks - 110 views
To all: Thank you so much. Keep the resources coming! These are wonderful and I am so appreciative of your help. Take care, Keith
Culture - 8 views
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tend to avoid competition or activities that will set them apart from their own group.
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Many children are taught early that European Americans are not trustworthy.
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extended family, which plays a major role in each family member's life.
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Display Content Printable Version - 33 views
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old by Governor Harrison to place his faith in the good intentions of the United States, Tecumseh offers a bitter retort.
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revitalize their societies so that they can regain life as a unified people and put an end to legalized land grabs.
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You wish to prevent the Indians from doing as we wish them
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Creativity is rejected: Teachers and bosses don't value out-of-the-box thinking. - 47 views
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This is the thing about creativity that is rarely acknowledged: Most people don’t actually like it. Studies confirm what many creative people have suspected all along: People are biased against creative thinking, despite all of their insistence otherwise.
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Staw says most people are risk-averse. He refers to them as satisfiers.
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Satisfiers avoid stirring things up, even if it means forsaking the truth or rejecting a good idea.
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The Trouble with Black Boys - - by Pedro A. Noguera / Education Rights / In Motion Maga... - 0 views
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The effects of growing up in poverty, particularly for children raised in socially isolated, economically depressed urban areas, warrants greater concern, especially given that one out of every three Black children is raised in a poor household.(20) Here the evidence is clear that the risks faced by children, particularly African American males, in terms of health, welfare, and education, are substantially greater.(21) A recent longitudinal study on the development of children whose mothers used drugs (particularly crack cocaine) during pregnancy found that when compared to children residing in similar neighborhoods from similar socio-economic backgrounds, the children in the sample showed no greater evidence of long term negative effects. This is not because the incidence of physical and cognitive problems among the sample was not high, but because it was equally high for the control group. The stunned researchers, who fully expected to observe noticeable differences between the two groups, were compelled to conclude that the harmful effects of living within an impoverished inner-city environment outweighed the damage inflicted by early exposure to drugs.(22)
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This observational data seems to be confirmed by this study using EEG results - http://berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2008/12/02_cortex.shtml
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