“The idea that learning happens via training is questionable and we knew that going in and we supported that with our findings,” she said.
The study also identified six types of learners: purposive planners, explorers, visionaries, problem solvers, reluctant learners and pinballs. The January 2010 issue of Impact published by the Ivey Business School defines the categories as follows:
“Visionaries are people who find out about new technologies and think about what these could do for them personally and in their organizations. Visionaries are sometimes explorers. They tend to be lateral thinkers, and look at technology from a very strategic perspective.”
"A new study from the University of Western Ontario identifies six types of IT learners. Richard Ivey professor and co-author of the study Deborah Compeau reveals some surprises about how people learn technology in organizations. "
It would be taking a huge leap of faith to just have cell phones out there during the school day. Would it make students text more than they already do, or would it take away the allure if it weren't against the rules?
life isn't as simple as it once appeared. Career and Marriage are transformed from abstract hopes into concrete decisions. Every one that is made closes off other possibilities. And every so often, we take stock of life, pondering its purpose, what it is that makes us happy, our responsibilities to others, whether meaning can be found in our work, etc.
prep schools and top tier colleges traffic in a perverse illusion: that building a perfect resume is the same thing as building a perfect life
since every subculture has its pathologies, you're probably not doing things right unless the other people in your world are at least slightly uncomfortable with some way in which you're challenging its assumptions.
GRADUATE education is the Detroit of higher learning. Most graduate programs in American universities produce a product for which there is no market (candidates for teaching positions that do not exist) and develop skills for which there is diminishing demand (research in subfields within subfields and publication in journals read by no one other than a few like-minded colleagues), all at a rapidly rising cost (sometimes well over $100,000 in student loans).
Just about every district provides online tools for students and families, including parent portals that show things such as grades, missing assignments, even the balance in lunch accounts.
One big concern in online learning is the digital divide. Wealthier households tend to have the full complement of computers and high-tech stuff; poorer households do not.
Agreed. I'll consider the iPad an educational resource when Apple starts giving some serious grants for it. Till then, it just seems like Jobs wants schools to join the bandwagon the way consumers do.
Do you think that Caitlin is bullied? If yes, how is she bullied? If no, why not?
Bully. What does the word make you think of? For some people,
it's that girl at school who always makes fun of them. For others, it's the
biggest guy in the neighborhood who's always trying to beat them up or take
their things. Sometimes "bully" means a whole group of kids, ganging up
on
If the rubric is primarily used for instruction and will be shared with your students, then it should be non-judgemental, free of educational jargon, and reflect the critical vocabulary that you use in your classroom.
This is why I sometimes struggle with rubrics. A project might be technically correct, but lack originality and creativity. Creativity is hard to scale.
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