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in title, tags, annotations or urlThoreau's Walking - 2 - 0 views
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"A white man bathing by the side of a Tahitian was like a plant bleached by the gardener's art compared with a fine, dark green one growing vigorously in the open fields."
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Life consists with Wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him.
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Hope and the future for me are not in lawns and cultivated fields, not in towns and cities, but in the impervious and quaking swamps.
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100 Helpful Websites for New Teachers | Teaching Degree.org - 13 views
The Facebook Classroom: 25 Facebook Apps That Are Perfect for Online Education - College Degree.com - 2 views
Education 2.0 - Edmodo - Free Private Microblogging For Education - 28 views
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strong and growing. Thank you!
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If you are fearful of Facebook and MySpace then you need to create an Edmodo account. Edmodo was designed specifically for educational purposes. You must be a teacher, student, or parent to gain access. It allows you all the amenities of those other social networking sites but with a lot more security/privacy.
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You are so right. I already love edmodo!
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Is it COPPA Compliant?
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I've used Edmodo for 3 years now. It has revolutionized my teaching to the degree that I don't know what I'll do if I ever have to stop using it.
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That is great question. And do you need parent permission for students to use it?
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Is it free?
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Yes, it is free and you can manage student accounts. It is only open to those you invite in and only educators may obtain an account. You may monitor and moderate all conversations, administer quizes, embed media, etc. The groups feature is very effective and you may grant access to your group to other classes. We just had 700+ students interacting in a global collaboration project, Digiteen. Students do not need an email address to use Edmodo, so under 13 is OK for CIPA. It looks much like Facebook, so kids love it and parents need some education on it as they fear it at first. Parents can get monitoring access so they may monitor their child's activity. It is a great tool to show parents how social media is used in education.
Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants - 1 views
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Our students have changed radically. Today’s students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach.
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today's students think and process information fundamentally differently from their predecessors
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we can say with certainty that their thinking patterns have changed
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Master's coursework degree - 28 views
100 Fantastic Book Sites for Kids & Teens | Associate Degree - Facts and Information - 69 views
The Atlantic Online | January/February 2010 | What Makes a Great Teacher? | Amanda Ripley - 82 views
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embodies the most stunning finding to come out of education research in the past decade: more than any other variable in education—more than schools or curriculum—teachers matter.
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Parents have always worried about where to send their children to school; but the school, statistically speaking, does not matter as much as which adult stands in front of their children. Teacher quality tends to vary more within schools—even supposedly good schools—than among schools
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The results are specific and surprising. Things that you might think would help a new teacher achieve success in a poor school—like prior experience working in a low-income neighborhood—don’t seem to matter. Other things that may sound trifling—like a teacher’s extracurricular accomplishments in college—tend to predict greatness.
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Defining Active Learning | Faculty Focus - 40 views
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Most faculty know that active learning is important even though many still lecture pretty much exclusively.
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Words Matter: "The process of having students engage in some activity that forces them to reflect upon ideas and how they are using those ideas. Requiring students to regularly assess their own degree of understanding and skill at handling concepts or problems in a particular discipline. The attainment of knowledge by participating or contributing. The process of keeping students mentally, and often physically, active in their learning through activities that involve them in gathering information, thinking and problem solving."
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This has interesting points about active learning!
College Freshmen Stress Levels High, Survey Finds - NYTimes.com - 13 views
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In the survey, “The American Freshman: National Norms Fall 2010,” involving more than 200,000 incoming full-time students at four-year colleges, the percentage of students rating themselves as “below average” in emotional health rose. Meanwhile, the percentage of students who said their emotional health was above average fell to 52 percent. It was 64 percent in 1985.
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“More students are arriving on campus with problems, needing support, and today’s economic factors are putting a lot of extra stress on college students, as they look at their loans and wonder if there will be a career waiting for them on the other side.”
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“Students know their generation is likely to be less successful than their parents’, so they feel more pressure to succeed than in the past,” said Jason Ebbeling, director of residential education at Southern Oregon University. “These days, students worry that even with a college degree they won’t find a job that pays more than minimum wage, so even at 15 or 16 they’re thinking they’ll need to get into an M.B.A. program or Ph.D. program.”
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Steve Hargadon: Thoughts on Social Networking in Education - 46 views
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the act of blogging, and becoming a part of the blogging conversation, were important for teacher professional growth
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blog "to the empty room" for 9 months
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It would take away the personal benefit of the journeys that they had been on to get where they were
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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
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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
CUNY Adjusts Amid Tide of Remedial Students - NYTimes.com - 21 views
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“The course is really a refresher, but they aren’t ready for a refresher. They need to learn how to learn.”
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The knowledge gap at community colleges is increasingly being recognized as a national problem.
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“Many, many community college presidents will say that math developmental education is the most difficult problem they’re facing,”
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Embracing the Cloud: Caveat Professor - The Digital Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 37 views
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My work as chief privacy and security officer at a large public university has, however, given me pause to ask if our posture toward risk prevents us from fully embracing technology at a moment of profound change.
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Consequently, faculty members are accepting major personal and institutional risk by using such third-party services without any institutional endorsement or support. How we provide those services requires a nuanced view of risk and goes to the heart of our willingness to trust our own faculty and staff members.
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The technologically savvy among us recognize that hard physical, virtual, and legal boundaries actually demark this world of aggressively competitive commercial entities. Our students, faculty, and staff often do not.
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Thoreau - Walking - Webtext - 41 views
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When I go out of the house for a walk, uncertain as yet whither I will bend my steps, and submit myself to my instinct to decide for me, I find, strange and whimsical as it may seem, that I finally and inevitably settle south-west, toward some particular wood or meadow or deserted pasture or hill in that direction. My needle is slow to settle—varies a few degrees, and does not always point due south-west, it is true, and it has good authority for this variation, but it always settles between west and south-south-west. The future lies that way to me, and the earth seems more unexhausted and richer on that side. The outline which would bound my walks, would be, not a circle, but a parabola, or rather like one of those cometary orbits, which have been thought to be non-returning curves, in this case opening westward, in which my house occupies the place of the sun. I turn round and round irresolute sometimes for a quarter of an hour, until I decide for the thousandth time, that I will walk into the south-west or west. Eastward I go only by force; but westward I go free.
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I must walk toward Oregon, and not toward Europe. And that way the nation is moving, and I may say that mankind progress from east to west.
Panorama and "reverse" panorama software - 3 views
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