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Barbara Moose

http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational_leadership/mar09/vol66/num06/Plagiarism_in_the_Internet_Age.aspx - 0 views

www.ascd.org/...arism_in_the_Internet_Age.aspx

plagiarism Internet research intellectual_property

shared by Barbara Moose on 25 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Teachers who wish to prevent plagiarism should devote extensive instruction to the component tasks of writing from sources
  • instruction should focus on
  • summarizing sources
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  • Instructional materials like these imply that teachers can stop inappropriate use of sources through three strategies: (1) teaching students from early grades the nuts and bolts of crediting all sources they use; (2) designing plagiarism-proof assignments that spell out how works should be cited and that include personal reflection and alternative final projects like creating a brochure; and (3) communicating to students that you're laying down the law on plagiarism ("I'll be on the lookout for this in your papers, you know").
  • Any worthwhile guide to preventing plagiarism should Discuss intellectual property and what it means to "own" a text. Discuss how to evaluate both online and print-based sources (for example, comparing the quality and reliability of a Web site created by an amateur with the reliability of a peer-reviewed scholarly article). Guide students through the hard work of engaging with and understanding their sources, so students don't conclude that creating a technically perfect bibliography is enough. Acknowledge that teaching students how to write from sources involves more than telling students that copying is a crime and handing them a pile of source citation cards.
  • That pedagogy should both teach source-reading skills and take into consideration our increasingly wired world. And it should communicate that plagiarism is wrong in terms of what society values about schools and learning, not just in terms of arbitrary rules.
  • through formal education, people learn skills they can apply elsewhere—but taking shortcuts lessens such learning.
  • communicate why writing is important. Through writing, people learn, communicate with one another, and discover and establish their own authority and identity. Even students who feel comfortable with collaboration and uneasy with individual authorship need to realize that acknowledged collaboration—such as a coauthored article like this one—is very different from unacknowledged use of another person's work.
Ed Webb

'Beowulf' nude scene prompts complaint to Menasha school board | greenbaypressgazette.com | Green Bay Press-Gazette - 0 views

www.greenbaypressgazette.com/...article

shared by Ed Webb on 12 Feb 09 - No Cached
  • alternative assignments involve writing and, "Why should she get punished for not going to the movie?"
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 12 Feb 09
       
      Because, you know, writing is punishment.
  • social repercussions for a student whose parents refuse to give permission to watch a film in class.
Gregory Louie

Students tap into technology - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - 1 views

www.pittsburghlive.com/...s_612698.html

shared by Gregory Louie on 23 Feb 09 - Cached
  • use their laptops to read "Don Quixote" and Dante's "Divine Comedy" on the Internet
  • Technology is the wave of the future
  • a computer program
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  • "Most jobs require computers," noted Brittnee Stephen, 16, as she assembled a slideshow on her HP Mini laptop. "It's good that we're learning it now."
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 23 Feb 09
       
      The technology is still very visible, if students are talking in terms of 'computers' rather than the skills involved. We don't talk about 'paper' but writing, critical reading etc. Yet here the platform itself is emphasized. Early days, I guess.
  • has just begun incorporating technology
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 23 Feb 09
       
      Uh, no. They have been using 'technology' forever, in the form of, say, books.
  • students seem far more interested in learning via interactive technology than they had been with a chalkboard and an overhead projector
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 23 Feb 09
       
      Well, the problem here is that some of that can be ascribed to novelty. Once every class uses 'interactive technology' (yuk) then how much difference will there be? The tools are great. All tools can be useful. But focus on the pedagogy, people!
    • Scott Merrick
      Scott Merrick on 25 Feb 09
       
      I'm for focusing on understanding. I love the word "pedagogy" because most lay people don't really know what it entails--theory (which can be anything institutional or community deems effective or correct), practice (which, as we know, can be summed up with the phrase "mileage will vary"), and some third thing which if I could come up with it I'd have the magic 3 elements in an effective argument. I think effective tools used effectively by effective teachers (there! 3 uses of one adjective!) will remain effective as long as they are used to promote understanding. No argument here, Ed, just sayin'...
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 26 Feb 09
       
      Perhaps the magic third thing would be 'attitude' or 'state of mind'? Alternatively, perhaps another of those non-transparent terms, 'praxis'. The point I was trying to make, of course, was that it ain't what you use, it's the way that you use it.
  • "I think the kids that have turned school off because it's boring to them will come here and see something familiar,"
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 23 Feb 09
       
      Boring and familiar seem to me to be closely related, not opposites. I suspect that often when students say their learning environment is 'boring' they mean 'challenging'.
  • Educational technology does not come cheaply
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 23 Feb 09
       
      The cost of books is astronomical!
  • "Learning is changing,"
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 23 Feb 09
       
      Was it EVER the case that we could "just deliver a lecture and expect all the kids to get it"?
    • Gregory Louie
      Gregory Louie on 26 Feb 09
       
      Computer technology in my classroom has revolutionized my teaching of biology. Instead of static images on a printed page, or talk and chalk, my students can manipulate 3-D images of DNA, RNA and proteins. These have even been embedded in a research-based learning progression that leads the students to a robust understanding of the foundational elements of molecular literacy. 1. Atoms and molecules are constantly in motion. (A visualization is not possible on a 2-3 printed page.) 2. All atoms and molecules have a 3-D structure that determines how they interact with other particles. 3. Charges and other intermolecular forces play a role in atomic and molecular interactions. My students can see these for themselves, change the number of particles in a box, or the distribution of charge on a large particle or the temperature of the box and other thought experiments which they can follow in real-time. There is no way, I could do that without the computer!
MJ Kraus

Mind - When a Parent's Love Comes With Conditions - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...15mind.html

love children tough love parenting praise

shared by MJ Kraus on 26 Sep 09 - Cached
  • praising children for doing something right isn’t a meaningful alternative to pulling back or punishing when they do something wrong. Both are examples of conditional parenting, and both are counterproductive.
  • In practice,
  • unconditional acceptance by parents as well as teachers should be accompanied by “autonomy support”: explaining reasons for requests, maximizing opportunities for the child to participate in making decisions, being encouraging without manipulating, and actively imagining how things look from the child’s point of view.
  • MJ Kraus on 26 Sep 09
     
    Conditional parenting vs. unconditional love, with research support
Ed Webb

Howard Community, Pa. college make admissions pact -- baltimoresun.com - 0 views

www.baltimoresun.com/...ransfer15apr15,0,5447885.story

dickinson dickinsoncollege communitycolleges education news

shared by Ed Webb on 15 Apr 09 - Cached
  • "I think the fundamental financial model for American higher education is broken, and therefore we need to look for alternative ways of providing an education that is appropriate and optimal but that uses our resources in slightly different ways," Durden said. "So here you have the opportunity to cut in half the price of a liberal arts education."
  • The Carlisle, Pa., school is entering into the same agreement with Montgomery College and two community colleges in Pennsylvania. Within several years, Durden hopes to have up to 15 participants.
  • One expert said the partnership was rare, and encouraging. "It's positive all around," said George R. Boggs, president of the American Association of Community Colleges. "It's great to see a university or four-year liberal arts school reaching out and giving those kids a chance and bringing them into their institution."
webExplorations

Welcome | Flat World Knowledge - 5 views

www.flatworldknowledge.com

books ctl

shared by webExplorations on 17 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Rob Reynolds on 17 Sep 09
     
    Free textbooks on-line
  • webExplorations on 28 Apr 11
     
    Books that are customizable using Open Source licensing (if you change it, share the changes back to the community for the good of all.) Books are free if read online along with a wide variety of printed and eBook options for reasonable amounts. Limited library right now but I suspect this area of alternative books will be growing rapidly.
Peter Beens

PLUS - Picture Licensing Universal System - 37 views

www.useplus.com

Plus copyright license TGJ TGJxx photography

shared by Peter Beens on 22 Dec 09 - Cached
  • Peter Beens on 22 Dec 09
     
    The PLUS Coalition is an international non-profit initiative on a mission to simplify and facilitate the communication and management of image rights. Organized by respected associations, leading companies, standards bodies, scholars and industry experts, the PLUS Coalition exists for the benefit of all communities involved in creating, distributing, using and preserving images. Spanning more than thirty countries, these diverse stakeholders have collaborated to develop PLUS, a system of standards that makes it easier to communicate, understand and manage image rights in all countries. The PLUS Coalition exists at the crossroads between technology, commerce, the arts, preservation and education.
  • Peter Beens on 22 Dec 09
     
    An alternative to creative commons licensing?
Kelly Cousins

Did You Say "Intellectual Property"? It's a Seductive Mirage - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF) - 43 views

www.gnu.org/...not-ipr.html

copyright

shared by Kelly Cousins on 23 Jan 10 - Cached
  • The term carries a bias that is not hard to see: it suggests thinking about copyright, patents and trademarks by analogy with property rights for physical objects.
    • Kelly Cousins
      Kelly Cousins on 23 Jan 10
       
      Michael Geyer- I think this is where the confusion of it all sets in like we discussed.
  • alternative names would be an improvement
  • The term “intellectual property” is at best a catch-all to lump together disparate laws.
    • Kelly Cousins
      Kelly Cousins on 23 Jan 10
       
      This is why we have to be dileberate about our decisions while in education.
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  • Nonlawyers who hear one term applied to these various laws tend to assume they are based on a common principle and function similarly.
  • Since these laws developed independently, they are different in every detail, as well as in their basic purposes and methods.
  • If you want to think clearly about the issues raised by patents, or copyrights, or trademarks, the first step is to forget the idea of lumping them together, and treat them as separate topics.
    • Kelly Cousins
      Kelly Cousins on 23 Jan 10
       
      This becomes our responsibility as information specialists in education. Be aware and prepared.
  • Kelly Cousins on 23 Jan 10
     
    Just what is intellectual property?
Michele Brown

Stephen R. Covey: Our Children and the Crisis in Education - 61 views

www.huffingtonpost.com/...ren-and-the-cris_b_545034.html

education leadership

shared by Michele Brown on 21 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves -- who can take initiative and be the solution to problems. They need people who can build trust and get along with others, and solve complex challenges in teams without much supervision.
  • "Partnerships between schools and parents in educating the whole child, which includes developing both the character strength and the competencies required to really succeed in the 21st Century."
  • A.B. Combs Elementary School in Raleigh, North Carolina
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  • Seven Habits of Highly Effective People -- a set of universal, timeless, self-evident principles common to every enduring, prospering society, organization, or family. I take no credit for these principles. I simply organized, sequenced and articulated them. These principles include 1) taking personal responsibility and initiative, 2) getting clear about what's important to you and setting goals, 3) putting those priorities first and being disciplined, 4) seeking mutual benefit in all interactions with others -- the golden rule, 5) seeking to understand others from their perspective first before making your point, 6) valuing differences and creating third-alternative solutions to problems that are better than "my way" or "your way," and 7) taking care of and renewing yourself in all four areas of life -- body, mind, heart and spirit.
  • The approach is inside-out, with the teachers and administrators learning, living and modeling the principles themselves first, and then, at the most basic level, integrating the principles into their teaching every day. There is no new curriculum. The principles of effectiveness are creatively woven by teachers into every subject -- reading, math, history, science, social studies, art, etc. From the moment they walk into the school each day until the final bell rings, the children soak in their adult leaders' belief that they are leaders of their own lives, have unique talents, and can make a difference.
  • We don't define leadership as becoming the CEO or the few percent who will end up in big leadership positions. We are talking about leading your own life, being a leader among your friends, being a leader in your own family. Leadership, as one school put it, is doing the right thing even when no one is looking.
  • The world has moved into one of the most profound eras of change in human history.
Nicholas Kapranos

Spezify - 68 views

www.spezify.com

Spezify visualization search engine search alternative

shared by Nicholas Kapranos on 28 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Mary-Ann Updike on 28 Apr 10
     
    A search engine that presents search results visually which makes it easy to distinguish between text, image and video sources. Images can be enlarged and videos can be watched on the search page.
  • anonymous on 30 Apr 10
     
    This is very cool.
Steve Ransom

The Innovative Educator: Erase Unnecessary Costs by Getting Smart about Interactive Whiteboards - 48 views

theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/...ecessary-costs-by-getting.html

iwb rationale argument critique alternative

shared by Steve Ransom on 17 May 10 - Cached
  • Steve Ransom on 17 May 10
     
    A nice dispelling of common myths of IWB adoption
Michelle Kassorla

OpenSimulator - 46 views

opensimulator.org/Main_Page

Sim Moo 3d Avatar

shared by Michelle Kassorla on 15 Feb 11 - Cached
  • Bob Rowan on 15 Feb 11
     
    Alternative to Second Life, mentioned by Vicki Davis at PETE&C 2011, cheaper than Second Life, allows archiving of "islands"
  • Michelle Kassorla on 18 Feb 13
     
    OpenSimulator is an open source multi-platform, multi-user 3D application server. It can be used to create a virtual environment (or world) which can be accessed through a variety of clients, on multiple protocols. It also has an optional facility (the Hypergrid) to allow users to visit other OpenSimulator installations across the web from an account on a 'home' OpenSimulator installation.
webExplorations

Home » LibreOffice - 34 views

www.libreoffice.org

tools

shared by webExplorations on 23 May 11 - No Cached
  • webExplorations on 23 May 11
     
    This is an excellent (and free) alternative to Microsoft Office. Can be used on either Macintosh or Windows.
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