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onepulledthread

Why Changing the Mission of Grad Programs is Hard… and Getting Harder | Sad Iron - 16 views

www.sadiron.com/ams-is-hard-and-getting-harder

higher education tenure workload faculty governance

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  • onepulledthread on 22 Sep 13
     
    blog discusses increasing workload for faculty, threats to faculty governance, and lower number of tenured professors.  Good blog generally to follow on higher ed issues
Mark Clemente

Eyes on the Solar System - 87 views

solarsystem.nasa.gov/eyes

nasa solar system

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  • Mark Clemente on 10 Nov 10
     
    "Eyes on the Solar System" is a 3-D environment full of real NASA mission data. Explore the cosmos from your computer. Hop on an asteroid. Fly with NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft. See the entire solar system moving in real time. It's up to you. You control space and time.
Martin Burrett

Citizen Science - 81 views

www.filamentgames.com/...citizen-science

science eco environment citizen science games

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  • Martin Burrett on 17 Jul 12
     
    A role-playing game which highlights what we can do to make a better world by being citizen scientists. Take the character on a science adventure and follow the clues to complete the missions. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science
Thieme Hennis

Cowbird · About - 75 views

cowbird.com/about

storytelling mobile community

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  • Thieme Hennis on 10 Jan 14
     
    "Cowbird is a library of human experience. We are a community of tens of thousands of storytellers, located all over the world. We offer free and simple storytelling tools for anyone to use, combining photos, audio, and text into heartfelt personal vignettes. We've designed Cowbird to reflect the basic truths that all human lives are interconnected, that great stories can come from anywhere, and that we can learn a lot from each other, once we make the time to listen. This is a place to slow down and go deeper - our mission is to build to world's first public library of human experience, so the knowledge and wisdom we accumulate as individuals may live on as a part of the commons, available for this and future generations to look to for guidance."
Gerald Carey

NASA - The Space Shuttle - 49 views

www.nasa.gov/...the_shuttle

space nasa shuttle

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  • Gerald Carey on 09 Apr 11
     
    From the site: "Since 1981, NASA space shuttles have been rocketing from the Florida coast into Earth orbit. The five orbiters - Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour - have flown more than 130 times, carrying over 350 people into space and travelling more than half a billion miles, more than enough to reach Jupiter. Designed to return to Earth and land like a giant glider, the shuttle was the world's first reusable space vehicle. More than all of that, though, the shuttle program expanded the limits of human achievement and broadened our understanding of our world. In this feature, we look back at the Shuttle's historic missions, the people it flew into space, and its achievements."
James Allen

Talking History - 96 views

www.talkinghistory.org

history socialstudies auido

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  • James Allen on 23 Mar 11
     
    Talking History, based at the University at Albany, State University of New York, is a production, distribution, and instructional center for all forms of "aural" history. Our mission is to provide teachers, students, researchers and the general public with as broad and outstanding a collection of audio documentaries, speeches, debates, oral histories, conference sessions, commentaries, archival audio sources, and other aural history resources as is available anywhere.
Marc Patton

Welcome to Absurd Math - 4 views

www.learningwave.com/abmath

Teaching_Ideas Mathematics

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  • Marc Patton on 27 Jun 12
     
    Absurd Math is an interactive mathematical problem solving game series. The player proceeds on missions in a strange world where the ultimate power consists of mathematical skill and knowledge.
Siri Anderson

Xperitas Mission, Vision & History | Xperitas - 10 views

www.xperitas.org/...mission-history

Leslie_Gale Carleton international_education travel

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  • Siri Anderson on 13 Jun 19
     
    Lovely non-profit that facilitates genuine intercultural experiences for students/teachers. Less bells and whistles than the for-profit competition, but better experiences overall. Worth checking out.
Martin Burrett

@ReachRobotics Launches Coding Education App - ReachEDU - 6 views

ukedchat.com/...reachrobotics-coding

robotics STEM

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  • Martin Burrett on 20 May 19
     
    "Functioning with the quadruped MekaMon robot, Reach EDU will utlise MekaMon's sophisticated locomotion and personality to entertain, inspire and educate students from across the academic spectrum by bringing creative learning and advanced robotics together. Operating alongside the existing MekaMon gaming app, Reach EDU will launch with six guided missions to support the KS2 Computer Science curriculum with plans to formally expand into KS3 and 4 in the next academic year."
Martin Burrett

JPL Space Infographics - 20 views

ukedchat.com/...pl-space-infographics-ictmagic

space NASA infographics

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  • Martin Burrett on 08 Sep 17
     
    "An amazing collection of inforgraphics from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory showing aspects of space and the missions to discover its secrets."
Lisa C. Hurst

Inside the School Silicon Valley Thinks Will Save Education | WIRED - 10 views

www.wired.com/altschool

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  • Lisa C. Hurst on 05 May 15
     
    "AUTHOR: ISSIE LAPOWSKY. ISSIE LAPOWSKY DATE OF PUBLICATION: 05.04.15. 05.04.15 TIME OF PUBLICATION: 7:00 AM. 7:00 AM INSIDE THE SCHOOL SILICON VALLEY THINKS WILL SAVE EDUCATION Click to Open Overlay Gallery Students in the youngest class at the Fort Mason AltSchool help their teacher, Jennifer Aguilar, compile a list of what they know and what they want to know about butterflies. CHRISTIE HEMM KLOK/WIRED SO YOU'RE A parent, thinking about sending your 7-year-old to this rogue startup of a school you heard about from your friend's neighbor's sister. It's prospective parent information day, and you make the trek to San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood. You walk up to the second floor of the school, file into a glass-walled conference room overlooking a classroom, and take a seat alongside dozens of other parents who, like you, feel that public schools-with their endless bubble-filled tests, 38-kid classrooms, and antiquated approach to learning-just aren't cutting it. At the same time, you're thinking: this school is kind of weird. On one side of the glass is a cheery little scene, with two teachers leading two different middle school lessons on opposite ends of the room. But on the other side is something altogether unusual: an airy and open office with vaulted ceilings, sunlight streaming onto low-slung couches, and rows of hoodie-wearing employees typing away on their computers while munching on free snacks from the kitchen. And while you can't quite be sure, you think that might be a robot on wheels roaming about. Then there's the guy who's standing at the front of the conference room, the school's founder. Dressed in the San Francisco standard issue t-shirt and jeans, he's unlike any school administrator you've ever met. But the more he talks about how this school uses technology to enhance and individualize education, the more you start to like what he has to say. And so, if you are truly fed up with the school stat
Enid Baines

Top 10 Ways to Wake-up Students in Class - SimpleK12 - 51 views

blog.simplek12.com/...op-10-ways-to-wake-up-students

GRR teaching resources resources

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  • . Require students to give answers in their best British accent.
  • Have Chuck Norris randomly appear in one of your Power Points roundhouse kicking a wolf. For some reason, students are obsessed with him.
  • Play a sound clip of the Mission Impossible theme, have them act as 007 until the music stops. Then, whoever they end up next to, that is their partner for the activity
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  • Place random discussion or reading comprehension questions on sticky notes underneath a handful of desks. When you are ready to ask questions, ask them to peek and read-aloud the questions.
Jon Dorbolo

The World's Richest College Dropout Urges Colleges to Stop Dropouts - Jordan Weissmann ... - 22 views

www.theatlantic.com/...265251

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  • Gates sees this problem largely as a matter of incentives. Publications such as U.S. News and World Report reward colleges for the resources they spend on students and their exclusivity, but not necessarily for their results. High SAT scores will move a colleges up in the rankings (and so, it should be noted, will having a high graduation rate). Making sure your alums have a well-paid job, or a job at all, will not. To begin fixing this problem, we need need flip U.S. News' logic, Gates said, and reward schools that "take people with the low SAT and actually educate them well."  
    • Jon Dorbolo
      Jon Dorbolo on 18 Nov 12
       
      Taking in less qualified students in order to bring them up to speed is part of the the Land Grant University mission. Sal Khan (Khan Academy) recently observed that for students who take longer to master fundamental math skills, once they do so they accelerate faster such that they catch up to those who are ahead. Ubiquitous learning is species survival.
Marc Hamlin

Reintroducing students to Research - 144 views

homepages.gac.edu/...LakeForest.html

research resources tools

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  • First, we think research, broadly defined, is a valuable part of an undergraduate education. Even at a rudimentary level, engaging in research implicates students in the creation of knowledge. They need to understand that knowledge isn’t an inert substance they passively receive, but is continually created, debated, and reformulated—and they have a role to play in that process.
  • we recognize that research is situated in disciplinary frameworks and needs to be addressed in terms of distinct research traditions.
  • research is a complex and recursive process involving not just finding information but framing and refining a question, perhaps gathering primary data through field or lab work, choosing and evaluating appropriate evidence, negotiating different viewpoints, and composing some kind of response, all activities that are not linear but intertwined.
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  • learning to conduct inquiry is itself complex and recursive. These skills need to be developed throughout a research project and throughout a student’s education.
  • the hybrid nature of libraries today requires students to master both traditional and emerging information formats, but the skills that students need to conduct effective inquiry—for example, those mentioned in your mission statement of reading critically and reasoning analytically—are the same whether the materials they use are in print or electronic.
  • Too often, traditional research paper assignments defeat their own purpose by implying that research is not discovery, but rather a report on what someone else has already discovered. More than once I’ve had to talk students out of abandoning a paper topic because, to their dismay, they find out it’s original. If they can’t find a source that says for them exactly what they want to say—better yet, five sources—they think they’ll get in trouble.
  • In reality, students doing researched writing typically spend a huge percentage of their time mapping out the research area before they can focus their research question. This is perfectly legitimate, though they often feel they’re spinning wheels. They have to do a good bit of reading before they really know what they’re looking for.
  • she has students seek out both primary and secondary sources, make choices among them, and develop some conclusions in presentations that are far from standard literary criticism. One lab focuses on collecting and seeking relationships among assigned literary texts and other primary sources from the second half of the twentieth century to illuminate American society in that time period.
  • For this lab, groups of students must find ten primary sources that relate in some way to literary texts under discussion and then—here’s the unusual bit—write three new verses of “America the Beautiful” that use the primary sources to illuminate a vision of American society. Instead of amber waves of grain and alabaster cities, they select images that reformulate the form of the song to represent another vision of the country. At the end of the course, her final essay assignment calls upon all of the work the previous labs have done, asking students to apply the skills they’ve practiced through the semester. While students in this course don’t do a single, big research project, they practice skills that will prepare them to do more sophisticated work later.
  • Marc Hamlin on 01 Dec 12
     
    What are our assumptions about how students get research done in the humanities? How do those assumptions affect our instruction, and what really is our students' approach to research?
Rose Whittingham

ScienceDirect.com - Teaching and Teacher Education - In search of the essence of a good... - 51 views

www.sciencedirect.com.ezproxy.cqu.edu.au/...S0742051X03001185

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    • Rose Whittingham
      Rose Whittingham on 23 Feb 13
       
      And this is what I have the most issues with. I have an active disdain for the "transfer of knowledge" model and want to inspire staff and students to focus on the SKILLS, which I believe are the indicators of lifelong learning and a valuable education experience.
  • self-concepts are extremely resistant to change, even in the light of facts that clearly contradict them (Swann, 1992).
  • Stated more positively, with more balance between the various levels, the teacher will experience less inner and outer frictions. Ideally, there is a complete “alignment” of the levels, which means that the teacher's behavior, competencies, beliefs, identity and mission together form one coherent whole matching the environment.
Don Doehla

Learning Forward - Professional Learning for Student Results - 33 views

www.learningforward.org

professionaldevelopment resources learning education learningforward pd

shared by Don Doehla on 25 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • Don Doehla on 25 Jun 13
     
    Learning Forward has established standards for teacher and administrative leadership and publishes resources for the implementation of various initiatives, including professional development for developing professional leaders in many educational capacities. A good resource to check out!
Jeff Edwards

ICDL - International Children's Digital Library - 141 views

en.childrenslibrary.org

multilingual interlingual mother tongue

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  • Sue Franckel on 10 Jan 12
     
    Online books for all languages
  • Marc Patton on 29 Jun 12
     
    The mission of the International Children's Digital Library Foundation (ICDL Foundation) is to support the world's children in becoming effective members of the global community - who exhibit tolerance and respect for diverse cultures, languages and ideas -- by making the best in children's literature available online free of charge.
  • Jeff Edwards on 18 Mar 16
     
    A huge collection of projectable childrens books in many different languages. Would be great as a resource for parents to continue L1 development at home or in a mother tongue class
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