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@Digicoled's Digest - Computing, for all? - 3 views

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  • Martin Burrett on 11 Nov 17
     
    "Evidence gathered from The Royal Society showed that "pedagogies for computing in schools remain less developed than those for other subjects", and that "the provision of the subject at GCSE was sporadic". Recommendations from the report suggest a push to realise the ambition of recent curriculum and qualifications reforms, to improve gender balance in computing, and ensure there is a strong supply of computing teachers entering the profession."
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Can Mary Shelley's Frankenstein be read as an early research ethics text? | Medical Hum... - 7 views

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  • Can Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein be read as an early research ethics text?
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  • Frankenstein is an early and balanced text on the ethics of research upon human subjects and that it provides insights that are as valid today as when the novel was written.
  • Mary Shelley conceived the idea for and started writing Frankenstein in 1816 and it was first published in 1818.1 In its historical context, the earlier 17th and 18th centuries had seen the early signs of the rise of science and experimentation. Francis Bacon (1561–1626) had laid the theoretical foundations in his “Great Insauration”2 and scientists such as Boyle, Newton, and Hooke developed the experimental methods. Sir Robert Talbor, a 17th century apothecary and one of the key figures in developing the use of quinine to treat fevers, underlined this: “the most plausible reasons unless backed by some demonstrable experiments seem but suppositions or conjectures”.3
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  • The 18th century saw the continued construction of foundations upon which all subsequent medical experimentation has been built.
  • Lady Mary Montagu promoted smallpox vaccination; its proponents experimented on prisoners to study its efficacy, and James Jurin, the secretary of the Royal Society, developed mathematical proof of this in the face of ecclesiastical opposition.4 Many of the modern concepts of therapeutic trials were described although not widely accepted. Empirical observation through experimentation was starting to be recognised as the tool that allowed ascertainment of fact and truth. An account of Dr Bianchini’s experiments on “Le Medicin Electrique”, reported to the Royal Society explains that “The experiments were made by Dr Bianchini assisted by several curious and learned men … who not being able to separate what was true … determined to be guided by their own experiments and it was by this most troublesome though of all the others the most sure way, that they have learned to reject a great number of what have been published as facts.”5
  • Similarly, Henry Baker’s report to the Royal Society, describing Abbe Nollet’s experiments, outlined the need for comparative studies and that “treatment should not be condemned without a fair trial”6 and a Belgian doctor, Professor Lambergen, describing the use of deadly nightshade for the treatment of breast cancer wrote “Administration of this plant certainly merits the attention of the medical profession; and surely one may add entitles the medicine to future trials … nevertheless the most efficacious medicines are such if its efficacy by repeated trials be approved.”7 In the mid 18th century James Lind conducted the first controlled trial to establish a cure for scurvy and his Treatise on the Scurvy contains what could be seen in modern terminology as the first “review of the current literature” prior to a clinical trial.8
  • Her motives for writing Frankenstein are more difficult to define. In her introduction to the 1831 edition she writes that she wanted her work to … speak to the mysterious fears of our nature and awaken thrilling horror—one to make the reader dread to look round. If I did not accomplish these things, my ghost story would be unworthy of its name … (p 7, p 8)
  • The 1818 preface, written by Percy Bysshe Shelley, indicates a deeper purpose. He wrote that the story recommends itself as it “…affords a point of view on the imagination for the delineating of human passions more comprehensive and commanding than any which the ordinary relations of existing events can yield…” (p 11) and that “…I am by no means indifferent to the manner in which ... moral tendencies (that) exist in the sentiments of characters shall affect the reader…”(p 12).
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Professor John Hattie Pressing Education's Fast Forward | Royal Reports - 1 views

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  • Mark Gleeson on 09 Feb 13
     
    "What a kid needs is not more… he needs different," says Dr. John Hattie. At the time, Hattie was talking about student retention, but his words make sense in many areas of education, including education technology.
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UK Study: Parents, Not Teachers, Key to Education | Education News - 79 views

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  • Children are influenced by everything around them, the way their parents act, what their parents say and do, and increasingly as they spend more time ‘with’ celebrity figures how these role models act.
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 28 Mar 12
     
    A study by the Royal Economic Society, to be presented this week, finds that parental effect on test results is five times that of teachers' influence. This comes in the wake of warnings by Sir Michael Wilshaw last week that teachers were unable to properly do their own jobs because parents were expecting them to cover their own parenting skill shortfalls and to become surrogate family for the students.
  • Mark Gleeson on 29 Mar 12
     
    It all happens well before school comes into the equation. If a child grows up in a literature rich, engaging environment with adults that spend quality time giving opportunities for great learning experiences in the world, the worst teachers still can't decoy that child's enthusiasm for learning. He can always learn at home. But if the child grows up neglected, not nurtured with rich learning experiences ( and I'm not talking about helicopter parents spending every waking moment ramming study down their throats - just quality conversation and hands on experiences )l doesn't get read to or taken out to shop, teachers are fighting an uphill battle with a disengaged individual. Parents, don't wait for school teachers to teach your kids. Start straight away..
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The role of Twitter in Personal Learning Networks | ClintLalonde.net - 2 views

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  • Roland Gesthuizen on 16 Jan 12
     
    My Masters thesis (the full title is The Twitter experience : the role of Twitter in the formation and maintenance of personal learning networks) is now public in the DSpace archives at Royal Roads University.
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Resurrect computer science - but don't kill off ICT - 2 views

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  • Florence Dujardin on 28 Jan 12
     
    the JISC developing digital literacies programme recognises that digital literacies are always plural and are highly context-specific. They go well beyond the 'basic skills' mentioned in the Royal Society report. The digital world is not a single, homogenous space and, as a result, the literacies we require to traverse and interact in this space vary enormously. This does not make for an easy, one-size-fits-all knowledge transfer approach but it certainly recognises the diverse world in which we live, both online and offline.
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Chemistry World - Interactive Podcast Periodic Table - 115 views

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  • Martin Burrett on 17 Nov 11
     
    A periodic table of podcasts from Royal Society of Chemistry covering most elements. You can download or listen online. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science
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The Royal Google: Making My Google Teacher Academy Video | Amy's MOOCs: Professional Di... - 67 views

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  • Donna Baumbach on 17 May 14
     
    just too cool - love this!
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There's a map for that - 41 views

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  • Derrick Grose on 14 Jun 13
     
    The Royal Canadian Geographical Society reports on how students can explore the history and geography of Canada using maps that weigh 45 kilograms and cover half of a school gym!
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PicMonkey - 107 views

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  • Martin Burrett on 14 Mar 12
     
    A superb image editing site. Just upload your image and choose your options until it's just right. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Photos+%26+Images
  • Elizabeth Resnick on 26 Apr 12
     
    like picnic only better!  There is a free trial right now for all the royal effects.
  • Michele Brown on 13 Feb 14
     
    "Transform your photos with fast, easy, gorgeous effects."
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History of the Monarchy - 50 views

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  • Martin Burrett on 26 Feb 12
     
    Read information about the kings and Queens of England, Scotland and the UK using this interactive timeline. Just click on the images to find out more about that king or queen. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/History
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Cartes de Montréal - 1 views

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  • Cartes actuelle de la ville de Montréal
  • Cartes des quartiers et arrondissements de Montréal
  • Cartes du quartier Centre-Ville (PDF) »» Cartes du quartier Côte-des-Neiges - Notre-Dame-de-Grâce (PDF) »» Cartes du quartier Rosemont (PDF) »» Cartes du quartier Outremont (PDF) »» Cartes du quartier Plateau Mont-Royal (PDF) »» Cartes du quartier Ahuntsic / Cartierville (PDF) »» Cartes du quartier Villeray / Saint-Michel (PDF) »» Cartes du quartier Hochelaga-Maisonneuve (PDF) »» Cartes du quartier Lachine (PDF) »» Cartes du quartier Verdun (PDF) »» Cartes du quartier Saint-Léonard (PDF) »» Cartes du quartier Westmount (PDF) »» Cartes du quartier Saint-Henri / Petite-Bourgogne (PDF) »» Arrondissement Rivière-des-Prairies Pointe-aux-Trembles (PDF) »» Autres plans Carte détaillée du Montréal Souterrain (PDF) »» Carte détaillée du Montréal Souterrain par la STM (PDF) »» Carte détaillée du Montréal Souterrain RESO (PDF) »» Carte des pistes cyclables de Montréal et ses banlieues(PDF) (PDF) »» Pistes cyclables de la Ville de Montréal(PDF) (PDF) »» Plan du campus de l'Université de Montreal (PDF) »» Plan du campus de l'UQAM »» Carte du réseau d'autoroute du grand Montréal (PDF) »» Plan du Vieux Port de Montréal (PDF) »» Voir aussi: cartes sur le site de la STM
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Internet 2010 in numbers - 98 views

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  • Cathy Yungmann on 14 Jan 11
     
    Charts and graphs of 2010 internet use
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About | Edge - 0 views

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shared by Ruth Howard on 19 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • Edge is different from the Algonquin Roundtable or Bloomsbury Group, but it offers the same quality of intellectual adventure. Closer resemblances are the early seventeenth-century Invisible College, a precursor to the Royal Society. Its members consisted of scientists such as Robert Boyle, John Wallis, and Robert Hooke. The Society's common theme was to acquire knowledge through experimental investigation. Another inspiration is The Lunar Society of Birmingham, an informal club of the leading cultural figures of the new industrial age — James Watt, Erasmus Darwin, Josiah Wedgewood, Joseph Priestly, and Benjamin Franklin. The online salon at Edge.org is a living document of millions of words charting the Edge conversation over the past fifteen years wherever it has gone. It is available, gratis, to the general public.
  • Edge.org offers "open-minded, free ranging, intellectually playful ... an unadorned pleasure in curiosity, a collective expression of wonder at the living and inanimate world ... an ongoing and thrilling colloquium." 
  • encourages people who can take the materials of the culture in the arts, literature, and science and put them together in their own way. We live in a mass-produced culture where many people, even many established cultural arbiters limit themselves to secondhand ideas, thoughts, and opinions. Edge.org consists of individuals who create their own reality and do not accept an ersatz, appropriated reality. The Edge community consists of peole who are out there doing it rather than talking about and analyzing the people who are doing it.
  • Ruth Howard on 19 Jun 11
     
    If you love TED this is possibly more rivetting!
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