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Javier E

Getting Into the Ivies - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...getting-into-the-ivies.html

admission university foreign globalization

shared by Javier E on 28 Apr 14 - No Cached
  • For American teenagers, it really is harder to get into Harvard — or Yale, Stanford, Brown, Boston College or many other elite colleges — than it was when today’s 40-year-olds or 50-year-olds were applying. The number of spots filled by American students at Harvard, after adjusting for the size of the teenage population nationwide, has dropped 27 percent since 1994.
  • The share for any individual college is minuscule, of course. In 2012, about 33 out of every 100,000 American 18- to 21-year-olds were attending Harvard, down from 45 per 100,000 in 1994. These changes in the share tell you how much harder, or easier, admission has become for American teenagers on average. Between 1984 and 1994, it became easier at many colleges. The college-age population in this country fell during that time to 14.1 million in 1994 from 16.5 million in 1984, and the number of foreign students was relatively stable.
  • For students from the Northeast applying to elite colleges in the region, college admissions have probably become even more difficult in recent decades than these statistics suggest. Not only have colleges globalized, they have also become less regional, admitting more students from states like North Carolina, Texas and Washington.
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  • Over the last 20 years, several large colleges, like N.Y.U. and the University of Southern California, have improved markedly, effectively increasing the number of seats on elite campuses
  • On average, about 15 percent of students at elite colleges receive Pell grants, which as a rule of thumb go to students in the bottom half of the income distribution.
  • Low-income applicants are left to compete for the remaining slots with applicants who have the highest test scores, most impressive extracurricular activities and most eloquent essays.
  • Michelle Wendt on 29 Apr 14
     
    After reading this i felt I could assuage the parents group at my daughter's school who were heartbroken that their siblings were not accepted into the school as well.
Margaret FalerSweany

What's Lost as Handwriting Fades - 52 views

www.nytimes.com/...lost-as-handwriting-fades.html

handwriting

shared by Margaret FalerSweany on 03 Jun 14 - No Cached
  • Children not only learn to read more quickly when they first learn to write by hand, but they also remain better able to generate ideas and retain information.
  • When children had drawn a letter freehand, they exhibited increased activity in three areas of the brain that are activated in adults when they read and write
  • When the children composed text by hand, they not only consistently produced more words more quickly than they did on a keyboard, but expressed more ideas.
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  • cursive writing may train self-control ability in a way that other modes of writing do not
  • For adults, typing may be a fast and efficient alternative to longhand, but that very efficiency may diminish our ability to process new information
  • students learn better when they take notes by hand than when they type on a keyboard.
  • writing by hand allows the student to process a lecture’s contents and reframe it — a process of reflection and manipulation that can lead to better understanding and memory encoding.
Roland Gesthuizen

School Report - BBC News School Report explained - 7 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...17074181

schoolreport BBC news media journalism education school

shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 17 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • In March, schools take part in an annual News Day, creating video, audio and text-based news reports, and publishing them on a school website, to which the BBC aims to link. The next News Day is Thursday 21 March 2013. Listen
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 17 Sep 12
     
    "BBC News School Report gives 11-16 year-old students in the UK the chance to make their own news reports for a real audience. Using lesson plans and materials from this website, and with support from BBC staff and partners, teachers help students develop their journalistic skills to become School Reporters."
amberdewire

Create a New Rubric - 46 views

rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php

rubric assessment Rubistar teaching Education resources tools

shared by amberdewire on 05 Aug 15 - Cached
  • amberdewire on 05 Aug 15
     
    Rubistar
Russell Boyce

Statistics - Introduction to Basic Concepts - 66 views

bobhall.tamu.edu/...Introduction.html

Topic 2 measures of center real world IADA spread graphic representation

shared by Russell Boyce on 17 Aug 10 - Cached
  • Russell Boyce on 17 Aug 10
     
    Provides an in depth description of center of spread terms followed by a real world example of how acquired skills can be applied to address the problem of coming up with a descriptive statistical summary of how the class performed on the test.
Ann Steckel

BBC News - Is multi-tasking a myth? - 36 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...magazine-11035055

shared by Ann Steckel on 23 Aug 10 - Cached
  • What that suggests, the researchers say, is that multi-task are more easily distracted by irrelevant information. The more we multi-task, the less we are able to focus properly on just one thing.
  • A raft of studies has found that, actually, multi-tasking is a good way to do several things badly.
  • We're not really multi-tasking. We're switching between tasks in an unfocused or clumsy way."
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  • Amazing, but as it turns out, quite logical. "The brain has very specialised modules for different tasks, like language processing and spatial recognition. It stands to reason that two similar tasks are much harder to do simultaneously, because they're using similar bits of tissue."
  • Driving and talking doesn't use the same bits of brain. Answering an e-mail while chatting on the phone does. In effect, we are creating information bottlenecks.
Siri Anderson

GeoThentic {Geospatial Technologies + Authentic Learning} - 59 views

www.ltspaces.com/geothentic

geography expedition Doering geothentic geospatial social_studies

shared by Siri Anderson on 20 Oct 10 - Cached
  • Siri Anderson on 20 Oct 10
     
    Learning modules for geography education following the TPACK model.
Julie Whitehead

Digital Literacy - 1 views

www.nwlg.org/digitalliteracy

digitalliteracy 21stcenturyskills information_literacy

shared by Julie Whitehead on 08 Jun 09 - Cached
  • Steve Ransom on 08 Jun 09
     
    Interactive quiz and learning modules on issues surrounding information (digital) literacies
kathy adkisson

Pennsylvania Digital Learning Library Materials & Resources - 58 views

www.pdesas.org/...search

math reading resources digital content science social studies websites

shared by kathy adkisson on 24 Mar 10 - Cached
  • kathy adkisson on 24 Mar 10
     
    Pennsylvania's new digital learning library. Click on Materials and Resources and search for lesson, web links, videos, resources and assesments by grade level, subject, keyword.
smcmackn

Web 2.0 The machine is using us - 34 views

www.youtube.com/watch

web2.0 MichaelWesch

shared by smcmackn on 13 Mar 10 - Cached
  • The Machine is Us/ing Us (Final Version) mwesch 16 videos Subscribe Subscribed
  • Siri Anderson on 13 Mar 10
     
    I'm surprised that his final list of things that need to be reconsidered doesn't include education.
Wayne Holly

Free Social Teaching and Learning Network focused solely on education - 58 views

sophia.org

teaching social learning

shared by Wayne Holly on 17 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • Some people describe Sophia as a mash up of Wikipedia, YouTube, and Facebook — focused solely on teaching and learning. It’s where you can teach what you know and learn what you don’t. Whether you’re a high school student, college student, teacher, professor, tutor or parent, Sophia makes knowledge easier to share, easier to find, and easier to organize. And it’s free.
  • webExplorations on 17 Jan 11
     
    A new startup social networking site focusing on teaching and learning.
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  • webExplorations on 17 Jan 11
     
    It will be interesting to see how this site develops. I plan to use it to host some learning modules I'm working on.
  • Siri Anderson on 19 Jan 11
     
    Sophia hosts free online learning content in multimedia "packets" tied to MN K-12 standards. A blend of Facebook, Wikipedia, Atomic Learning, and Hippocampus.
  • Wayne Holly on 07 Feb 11
     
    Some people describe Sophia as a mash up of Wikipedia, YouTube, and Facebook - focused solely on teaching and learning. It's where you can teach what you know and learn what you don't. Whether you're a high school student, college student, teacher, professor, tutor or parent, Sophia makes knowledge easier to share, easier to find, and easier to organize. And it's free.
Bob Rowan

Steve Hargadon: Thoughts on Social Networking in Education - 46 views

www.stevehargadon.com/...s-on-social-networking-in.html

social networking education classroom20

shared by Bob Rowan on 02 Mar 11 - Cached
  • the act of blogging, and becoming a part of the blogging conversation, were important for teacher professional growth
  • blog "to the empty room" for 9 months
  • It would take away the personal benefit of the journeys that they had been on to get where they were
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  • "I don't know anyone here."
  • threaded discussion forum
  • On a blog, the main author is on a pedestal, and blogs tend to favor posts which reflect the self-importance of the blogger or comments which tend toward extremism
  • What makes social networking for professional development so powerfu
  • not geographically or physically bounded
  • takes place 24X7
  • llows for asynchronous contribution
  • contribution by those who would never previously have written an article for a journal or made a formal presentation
  • Bob Rowan on 02 Mar 11
     
    Comments on the founding of Classroom 2.0 and how teachers who were not previously participating in online social networking were more comfortable using the Classroom 2.0 site than maintaining and otherwise participating in blogs
  • Bob Calder on 03 Mar 11
     
    NSDL recently underwent a reorganization into discipline subsections with intense work by degree candidates. One of them from WCU was denied credit for work and publication because there were no page numbers. The head of the project called her advisor and fixed the problem, but they rethought the model and added separate online journals for contributors. At this point, the chemistry portal is a model of how the whole thing should turn out. http://chemdl.org It has moodle modules, a textbook, lessons, virtual labs. I will link to a google spreadsheet with all URIs in a few days. Right now my kids are putting it together. ;-) Bob
maureen greenbaum

The Future of Learning: An Interview with Alfred Bork - 82 views

net.educause.edu/...erm9946.html

bork adaptive learning

shared by maureen greenbaum on 29 May 11 - No Cached
  • nteraction should be frequent
  • as in human conversation
  • active environment maintains student interest for a long period of time, even with difficult learning material.
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  • the computer, keeping detailed records on student performance and using these records in making decisions about what is next to be presented to the student.
  • In our traditional learning environments, some students learn and some do not. It is this second group of students that we want to help.
  • problem of almost all modern learning is the lecture, a noninteractive way of learning
  • , on a moment-to-moment basis, just what the student knows and just what learning problems are occurring
  • It begins immediately with a question, with no preceding text.
  • experience the joy of discovery.
  • tutorial approach to learning makes it possible for everyone to learn.
  • critical factor is that we can react to individual student problems
  • key concept for structuring highly interactive learning experiences is the Benjamin Bloom concept of mastery learning.
  • goal is for everyone to learn everything to the mastery level, grades will no longer be useful
  • A student who has not learned in one way probably needs a different approach, rather than another go-round with the material that was not previously successful in assisting learning.
  • In such an environment, learning and evaluation are no longer separate activities but are part of the same process, intimately blended. So the student is not conscious of taking tests, and we avoid the problems of cheating.
  • highly interactive learning is intrinsically motivating. Motivation is particularly important in a distance-learning environment, since none of the "threats" of the classroom, such as low grades, are available.
  • mastery-based computer segment could also offer human contact. Small groups could work together, either locally or remotely via electronic communication.
  • existing authoring systems. Since they were, and still are, mostly directed toward supplying information, these were inadequate for creating highly interactive software.
  • Bertrand Ibrahim at the University of Geneva,
  • omputer stores much of the information as the students progress through the material.
  • Teaching faculty, in the sense that we know them today, may cease to exist, except for in smaller, advanced courses. But their skills and experiences will be important in the design of learning modules.
  • High costs of development can lead to low costs per student, if many students use the material.
  • $30,000 per student-hour of high-quality learning material
  • highly effective highly interactive distance-learning courses would have a large potential market, making them much cheaper per student than current courses, and if well developed, they will be much superior for almost all students
  • The typical approach is to give some released time to faculty and to give limited support for programming and media production. It is unlikely, almost impossible, that good learning material will be developed this way.
  • Universities are too stuck in their current ways of doing things to be able to compete with well-developed material from "outside." Most university faculty and administrators do not appreciate the current problems of learning and so are not prepared for these future directions.
Greta Oppe

The properties of solids, liquids and gases - ABPI - Resources for Schools - 64 views

www.abpischools.org.uk/...slg2.cfm

education technology web2.0 learning materials liquids properties solids science matter animation gases

shared by Greta Oppe on 03 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • Gerald Carey on 03 Jun 11
     
    One of many resources at ABPI
  • Greta Oppe on 04 Jun 11
     
    Animation: The properties of solids, liquids and gases
emma wood

FAME (Faculty & Administrator Modules in Higher Education) Homepage - 32 views

fame.oln.org/index.html

education highereducation udl resources

shared by emma wood on 14 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • emma wood on 14 Sep 11
     
    A resource to improve the quality of education for students with disabilities.
Tricia Rodriguez

Modus rolls out 'green' modular learning environments - Manufacturing - The Southwest Booster - 26 views

www.swbooster.com/...1

shared by Tricia Rodriguez on 19 Oct 11 - No Cached
    • Tricia Rodriguez
      Tricia Rodriguez on 19 Oct 11
       
      Interesting that a module classroom could be an individual classroom akin to a "portable" classroom.  Revolution the building of classrooms as well as the theory of what goes on within them.
Tricia Rodriguez

Modular Learning Ireland, Science & Technology Module University Subjects Ireland - 32 views

www.aua.ie/modular-learning-part-time

shared by Tricia Rodriguez on 19 Oct 11 - No Cached
    • Tricia Rodriguez
      Tricia Rodriguez on 19 Oct 11
       
      This is the future of education
  • flexible learning
  • Up-skilling/retraining
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  • professional development requirements
    • Tricia Rodriguez
      Tricia Rodriguez on 19 Oct 11
       
      Student centered--> Meeting the student where they stand at this moment in time
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