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in title, tags, annotations or urlA Quilt Of A Country - Print View - The Daily Beast - 37 views
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disparate
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discordant
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The Millions : Ask the Writing Teacher: Story Arc(s) - 46 views
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arc is the structure on which plot hangs
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Change should occur, but not necessarily within a character.
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How to Fix Our Math Education - NYTimes.com - 63 views
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the assumption that there is a single established body of mathematical skills that everyone needs to know to be prepared for 21st-century careers. This assumption is wrong. The truth is that different sets of math skills are useful for different careers, and our math education should be changed to reflect this fact.
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Today, American high schools offer a sequence of algebra, geometry, more algebra, pre-calculus and calculus (or a “reform” version in which these topics are interwoven). This has been codified by the Common Core State Standards, recently adopted by more than 40 states. This highly abstract curriculum is simply not the best way to prepare a vast majority of high school students for life.
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A math curriculum that focused on real-life problems would still expose students to the abstract tools of mathematics, especially the manipulation of unknown quantities. But there is a world of difference between teaching “pure” math, with no context, and teaching relevant problems that will lead students to appreciate how a mathematical formula models and clarifies real-world situations.
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Workplace Learning Today by Brandon Hall Research - Served Fresh Daily - 15 views
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I wonder what the demographic for this data is? I looked all over, and even downloaded the pdf report from Experian Simmons, but I couldn't find any data on the population surveyed. I find the data in this report in conflict with data from Pearson survey (http://www.slideshare.net/PearsonLearningSolutions/pearson-socialmediasurvey2010) that surveyed just higher education. I am guessing Experian is surveying a much larger population, and as such, is giving us skewed information? I wonder if we will ever know?
The Scarlet "P" | TechTicker - 0 views
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To me “sound pedagogy” isn’t a guarded gateway through which all things must pass before becoming true learning, it’s an ideal that should permeate and inform everything.
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the perpetual conflict between the educational technology unit and the learning and teaching unit
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The educational technologist are seen to be tech-obsessed, light on pedagogy and prone to obscure abbreviations; while the academics are stereotyped as waffley anti-technologists with a love of chalk-and-talk. Adding to this complexity, each sphere tends to be characterised by a distinct culture and common language. Often times the divisions are so clearly delineated that, despite units merging on paper, the two spheres operate largely independently of one another.
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A Meeting with Elders | International Field Program Seminar-Spring '11 - 8 views
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The importance of a respect for elders was illustrated as soon as the meeting started. Mr. A introduced us to the community leaders, and made sure that highest ranking leader was invited to say his piece first. Once he did that the discussion became lively and we were all encouraged to contribute. Understanding the cultural norms around formal meetings and political discussions is good manners, but it also will help us understand the social norms during our work, as well as help us better analyze the upcoming election process. It is social norms such as respect for elders that informs the political practices built into Liberian society, and the manner in which democracy functions.
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I’m personally interested in the existence of generational gaps in West Africa, especially around conflicting notions of the role of youth in society.
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I’d specifically like to explore the impact of the spread of a global youth culture facilitated by communications technology on youth voice in both Monrovia and New York’s Liberian community.
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Using Picture Books to Teach Plot Development and Conflict Resolution - ReadWriteThink - 93 views
Optimism Bias: Human Brain May Be Hardwired for Hope -- Printout -- TIME - 62 views
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manipulated positive and negative expectations of students while their brains were scanned and tested their performance on cognitive tasks. To induce expectations of success, she primed college students with words such as smart, intelligent and clever just before asking them to perform a test. To induce expectations of failure, she primed them with words like stupid and ignorant. The students performed better after being primed with an affirmative message. Examining the brain-imaging data, Bengtsson found that the students' brains responded differently to the mistakes they made depending on whether they were primed with the word clever or the word stupid. When the mistake followed positive words, she observed enhanced activity in the anterior medial part of the prefrontal cortex (a region that is involved in self-reflection and recollection). However, when the participants were primed with the word stupid, there was no heightened activity after a wrong answer. It appears that after being primed with the word stupid, the brain expected to do poorly and did not show signs of surprise or conflict when it made an error
Lewisville's texting-in-class program gets thumbs-up from teachers, students | Dallas-Fort Worth Communities - News for Dallas, Texas - The Dallas Morning News - 57 views
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After they finished answering the question about the Kashmir conflict via their smartphones and other devices, Harris’ students said the technology allows them to share more information and exchange ideas with each other.
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being able to use technology you’ve grown up with just feels natural. “It fits in with what we’re doing at home,”
Browse by MN Academic Standards | MN Video Vault - 0 views
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"Dakota Conflict" 56:25 min. Explores the causes, events and aftermath of the fierce fighting that broke out in 1862 between MN's white European settlers and the native people of the state. URL: http://www.mnvideovault.org/index.php?id=8011&select_index=0&popup=yes
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How to Develop Positive Classroom Management | Edutopia - 87 views
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nly by building positive relationships within the school
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while 80 percent said that classroom-management training, conflict resolution, guidance counseling, and mediation are effective for improving discipline.
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Agree on Classroom Rules at the Beginning of the Year
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Opinion | Don't Fix Facebook. Replace It. - The New York Times - 12 views
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If we have learned anything over the last decade, it is that advertising and data-collection models are incompatible with a trustworthy social media network. The conflicts are too formidable, the pressure to amass data and promise everything to advertisers is too strong for even the well-intentioned to resist.
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the real challenge is gaining a critical mass of users. Facebook, with its 2.2 billion users, will not disappear, and it has a track record of buying or diminishing its rivals (see Instagram and Foursquare). But as Lyft is proving by stealing market share from Uber, and as Snapchat proved by taking taking younger audiences from Facebook, “network effects” are not destiny. Now is the time for a new generation of Facebook competitors that challenge the mother ship.
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When a company fails, as Facebook has, it is natural for the government to demand that it fix itself or face regulation. But competition can also create pressure to do better. If today’s privacy scandals lead us merely to install Facebook as a regulated monopolist, insulated from competition, we will have failed completely. The world does not need an established church of social media.
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