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Kent Gerber

Can I have your half-attention, please? : Macleans OnCampus - 0 views

oncampus.macleans.ca/...ave-your-half-attention-please

laptops classroom news academic

shared by Kent Gerber on 02 Mar 09 - Cached
  • While some professors seek to exclude the devices from the classroom, others are creating multimedia-rich curricula in which students can draw on online resources and interact with each other. Banning laptops is just plain wrong, according to Don Krug, associate professor at UBC’s department of curriculum studies. He says students are adults, and the best a professor can hope for is a “respectful learning environment,” where students limit their own behaviour. “If they really want to learn the information, they will. They’re paying a lot of money,” he says. “We’re better off teaching them how to be responsible learners.”
    • Kent Gerber
      Kent Gerber on 02 Mar 09
       
      Shows two polar solutions to laptop problems: total ban & adapting curricula to include multi-media interaction. Also presents respectful learning environment as best course for students who are adults.
  • Kent Gerber on 02 Mar 09
     
    Article that mentions teacher's frustrations with laptops and various coping strategies.
Justin Medved

Information-rich and attention-poor - 0 views

www.theglobeandmail.com/...article1285001

for:dharter for:mdil search

shared by Justin Medved on 14 Sep 09 - Cached
  • With almost all of the world's codified knowledge at your fingertips, why should you spend increasingly scarce attention loading up your own mind just in case you may some day need this particular fact or concept? Far better, one might argue, to access efficiently what you need, when you need it. This depends, of course, on building up a sufficient internalized structure of concepts to be able to link with the online store of knowledge. How to teach this is perhaps the greatest challenge and opportunity facing educators in the 21st century.
  • Those of us who are still skeptical might recall that Plato, in the Phaedrus, suggested that writing would “create forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it.”
  • Justin Medved on 14 Sep 09
     
    A MUST read for all educators!
Susan Manning

The Myth about Online Course Development - 1 views

net.educause.edu/...erm0617.pdf

stout instructionaldesign

shared by Susan Manning on 05 Jun 09 - No Cached
  • Susan Manning on 05 Jun 09
     
    Lone Ranger method. Offers key questions on whether faculty should develop alone.
Ed Webb

Will $99 Moby tablet swim or sink? | eSchoolNews.com - 35 views

www.eschoolnews.com/...will-99-tablet-swim-or-sink

tablet moby Turkey Malaysia USA linux

shared by Ed Webb on 30 Mar 10 - Cached
  • In Turkey we are about to start 1 to 1 netbook for 15.000.000 students with $ 7 per month installments for 36 months through credit cards. I knew technology would change until we complete to provide 15.000.000 netbooks. So I will write to Marvel. We can finance them, we can buy the first 1.000.000 netbooks at $ 120 per piece. I hope quality and functions are as they say . Hurra, education complainers. It is time to go online courses for 60 million USA K12 students. You have no excuse now.
  • We have dealt with Tablet PC before in one of our Smart School initiatives here in Malaysian and I must say the Moby Tablet is quite impressive.
Peg Dryden

100 Google Search Tricks for the Savviest of Students | Online College Courses - 185 views

www.onlinecollegecourses.com/...s-for-the-savviest-of-students

Google Search research tools Tricks

shared by Peg Dryden on 26 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • Jean Potter on 26 Jan 11
     
    suggestions for specialized Google searches - including using Google as a proxy. Some good ideas here.
Daryl Bambic

University of the People - The world's first tuition-free online university - 160 views

www.uopeople.org

education university e-learning

shared by Daryl Bambic on 02 Mar 11 - Cached
  • Daryl Bambic on 02 Mar 11
     
    Jeff Utech turned me onto this one!
  • charliemacneil on 02 Mar 11
     
    Are there not a number of Universities offering free access to all course content and only charging those who actually wish to be assessed?
Glenda Baker

WebTools4u2use - Finding the Right Tool - 248 views

webtools4u2use.wikispaces.com/Finding the Right Tool

Wiki tools resources

shared by Glenda Baker on 25 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Glenda Baker on 25 Sep 11
     
    How do you choose the right tool?
  • Michelle Whitman on 26 Sep 11
     
    Thanks for sharing this. I shared it with an online teaching course I am taking. This is a great organized resource.
Glenda Baker

The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete - 137 views

www.wired.com/...pb_theory

Science Data statistics google technology

shared by Glenda Baker on 27 Sep 11 - Cached
  • sociology. Forget taxonomy, ontology, and psychology. Who knows why people do what they do? The point is they do it, and we can track and measure it with unprecedented fidelity. With enough data, the numbers speak for themselves.
  • The big target here isn't advertising, though. It's science. The scientific method is built around testable hypotheses. These models, for the most part, are systems visualized in the minds of scientists. The models are then tested, and experiments confirm or falsify theoretical models of how the world works.
  • But faced with massive data, this approach to science — hypothesize, model, test — is becoming obsolete.
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  • Petabytes allow us to say: "Correlation is enough."
  • There's no reason to cling to our old ways. It's time to ask: What can science learn from Google?
  • It's time to ask: What can science learn from Google?
  • Glenda Baker on 27 Sep 11
     
    article discussing whether math models can replace other tools for understanding the world.
  • Wax Brackett on 03 Oct 11
     
    I dissagree. Maybe for someone who can cope with the massive scale Google works with but for the average student bah humbug. As far as the students I see the scientific method still needs to be taught as they need a lot of help learning how to gather reliable information from the web. As far as google is concerned the students simplistic, unevaluated searches are as valuable as someone who actually understands what they are looking for or maybe more valuable because more students are doing almost thoughtless searches. The real need is a good course, hopefully online, to teach students how to do a reasoned search. agoogleaday is a start.
Ty Bradley

The Physics Classroom - 7 views

www.physicsclassroom.com

shared by Ty Bradley on 29 Oct 09 - Cached
    • Ty Bradley
      Ty Bradley on 14 Apr 13
       
      A great review site for assisting in your presentation.  Also has questions should you want to include them.
  • Deborah Batzer on 29 Oct 09
     
    The Physics Classroom is an online interactive tutorial of basic physics concepts. The lessons use an easy-to-understand language to present common physics principles discussed in a first-year high school physics course.
Julia Gardiner

Lateline - 29/10/2012: PMs plan for every child to learn an Asian language - 14 views

www.abc.net.au/...s3621224.htm

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    • Julia Gardiner
      Julia Gardiner on 10 Mar 15
       
      The rationale or thinking behind introducing languages early in primary school
  • Gillard Government's Asian Century white paper sets an aspiration for Australia to rank as the world's 10th biggest economy by 2025, capitalising on the rapid economic growth in the region.
  • education will be the key and wants all school students to study an Asian language.
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  • funded
  • where all the new teachers might come from
  • where all the new teachers might come from.
  • the gold standard
    • Julia Gardiner
      Julia Gardiner on 10 Mar 15
       
       The gold standard =any excellent example of something, like how Olympians are the gold standard for athletes
  • If you understand through the learning of language how people think, how they construct meaning, what is important to them culturally, then I think that gives us better insights into the people that we're going to be working with in the future and negotiating with.
  • The Prime Minister says she'll force the curriculum changes by tying them to Commonwealth funding to state and private schools.
    • Julia Gardiner
      Julia Gardiner on 10 Mar 15
       
      Is this  good policy making? Some would  consider  it 'blackmail'!
  • Broadly, teachers and education experts have welcomed the plan, but question where the money is going to come from.
  • catchcry of the Hawke and Keating governments
    • Julia Gardiner
      Julia Gardiner on 10 Mar 15
       
      The Hawke-Keating Government refers to the Federal Government of Australia from 11 March 1983 to 11 March 1996. It was a Labour government
  • Currently across all levels of schooling there's around 18 per cent of our young people who are studying one of the four priority Asian languages: Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Indonesian and Korean. And that diminishes to fewer than 6 per cent by the time they get to Year 12.
    • Julia Gardiner
      Julia Gardiner on 10 Mar 15
       
      How do we encourage students to  continue  learning an Asian language into the final years  of high school and  eyond?
  • say we simply don't have enough Asian language teachers to deliver the Prime Minister's vision and for the last decade the numbers of graduates have been declining.
  • hat's happened because universities have been under these budget constraints and when they've made decisions about what to cut, they cut courses with low enrolments and there goes the languages.
  • JEANNIE REA, PRESIDENT, NATIONAL TERTIARY EDUCATION UNION
    • Julia Gardiner
      Julia Gardiner on 10 Mar 15
       
      Suggested reasons for the decline in language graduates and therefore  in language teachers. 
  • will help.JULIA GILLARD: We live in an age of different learning possibilities and choices. What we can do through the National Broadband Network, what we can do through having the world's first online national curriculum, which is what the Australian curriculum is, means we can get a deeper penetration of language, literacy and learning.
  • e Prime Minister acknowledges the shortages, but says technology
  • will help.
    • Julia Gardiner
      Julia Gardiner on 10 Mar 15
       
      This argument t can be debated.  It would suggest that technology in itself will be a solution!
  • we need to be looking very carefully at what sort of encouragement and incentives we can provide to students so they continue doing a language, go on and major in a language in university and then go on to teach in the area.
  • JEANNIE REA:
    • Julia Gardiner
      Julia Gardiner on 10 Mar 15
       
      What type of incentive scan be offered/
  • Julia Gardiner on 10 Mar 15
     
    The Prime Minister wants all school students to study an Asian language to secure Australia's future in the Asian Century.
  • nadinebailey on 11 Mar 15
     
    Completely deluded. Even here in Singapore, surrounded supposedly by chinese speakers the international schools are not getting it right and success stories are unusual ...
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