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Next Time, Fail Better - Commentary - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

  • The work of coding, I discovered, was an endless round of failure, failure, failure before eventual success. Computer-science students are used to failing. They do it all the time. It's built into the process, and they take it in stride.
  • Humanities students are not used to failure. They want to get it right the first time.
  • Perhaps of all the humanities, the creative arts come closest to valuing failure. Poets and painters don't expect to get it right the first time. That's the idea of workshopping as a pedagogy, right? Still, there's a real difference. I'd be willing to bet that most creative writers bring a piece of work into a workshop secretly hoping it's a success. Sure, they know they need help on aspects of their story or poem, but that's not the same as failing. A computer program that doesn't run is a failure. A program that produces no usable data about the text it was set up to analyze is a failure. Why don't those failures devastate the developers? Because each time their efforts fail, the developers learn something they can use to get closer to success the next time.
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  • That's what we should be teaching humanities students—to look at what went wrong and figure out how to learn from it
  • kind of administrator who is not afraid to take chances for fear of failure.
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    what the humanities could learn from computer programmers
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Five Best Practices for the Flipped Classroom | Edutopia - 186 views

  • It doesn't solve anything. It is a great first step in reframing the role of the teacher in the classroom. It fosters the "guide on the side" mentality and role, rather than that of the "sage of the stage." It helps move a classroom culture towards student construction of knowledge rather than the teacher having to tell the knowledge to students.
  • We must first focus on creating the engagement and then look at structures, like the flipped classroom, that can support.
  • If the flipped classroom is truly to become innovative, then it must be paired with transparent and/or embedded reason to know the content.
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  • One of the best way to create the "need to know" is to use a pedagogical model that demands this.
  • Will you demand that all students watch the video, or is it a way to differentiate and allow choice
  • Will you allow or rely on mobile learning for students to watch it?
  • Lack of technology doesn't necessarily close the door to the flipped classroom model, but it might require some intentional planning and differentiation.
  • you must build in reflective activities to have students think about what they learned, how it will help them, its relevance
  • Students need metacognition to connect content to objectives
  • The focus should be on teacher practice, then tools and structures.
sha towers

Wikispaces - Wikis for Teachers - 85 views

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    free, private, secure space for educators
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SoundCloud - Share Your Sounds - 97 views

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    i'm sure there's an application for this in education, though not sure what at the moment!
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Aspect Ratio Calculator (ARC) - 1 views

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    great tool for figuring out ratios for images or videos on the web if you need to resize.
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Word Counter - 29 views

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    simple counter for words and characters, can type directly or paste in
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History in 140 Characters: Asking Educators to Use Twitter - Naomi Coquillon - Technolo... - 51 views

  • When I discuss Twitter in workshops, responses range from "I just don't have time for that -- it's enough to keep up with email and Facebook" to "you just can't have a conversation on Twitter." And I understand. I wasn't always so fond of Twitter. I wondered how I would ever say anything useful in 140 characters
  • What I've come to love as I use Twitter, and the value I share with these teachers, is being exposed to more thought-provoking articles than I ever had before, and learning of new resources just as soon as they become available.
  • to provide our followers with the latest news about our resources or great material from other institutions, as well as being a way to get in touch with us.
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  • Verizon Thinkfinity, "Why Use Twitter? Tell Us Your Tips"
  • Thirty Interesting Ways to Use Twitter"
  • "Help a Fellow Teacher Get on Twitter,"
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    ideas and links to other resources for creatively using twitter in the classroom
sha towers

Free Online Course Materials | MIT OpenCourseWare - 86 views

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    MIT's opencourseware feels like the logical outgrowth of Illich's "learning webs" (from Deschooling essay) 
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Doctoral degrees: The disposable academic | The Economist - 27 views

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    article from the Economist "The Disposable Academic: Why doing a PhD is often a waste of time
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