Group items matching
in title, tags, annotations or url

Sort By: Relevance | Date Filter: All | Bookmarks | Topics Simple Middle

1More

Talking Tom Cat 2 - 2 views

shared by Martin Burrett on 11 Jun 12 - No Cached

5More

The Protégé Effect | Psychology Today - 27 views

www.psychologytoday.com/...the-prot-g-effect learning education technogy

shared by maureen greenbaum on 13 Jun 12 - No Cached

most cutting-edge tool under development is the “teachable agent” — a computerized character who learns, tries, makes mistakes and asks questions just like a real-world pupil.
...

Cancel
Stanfor
...

Cancel
Student tutors feel chagrin when their virtual pupils fail; when the characters succeed, they feel what one expert calls by the Yiddish term nachas.
...

Cancel
...2 more annotations...
Betty’s Brain, who has been “taught” about environmental science by hundreds of middle school students. Even though users’ interactions with Betty are virtual, the social impulses that make learning-by-teaching so potent still come into play
...

Cancel
The Protégé Effect
...

Cancel

1More

The future is already here - its just not very evenly distributed… | eLearnin... - 1 views

donalomahony.edublogs.org/...st-not-very-evenly-distributed

shared by Donal O' Mahony on 15 Jun 12 - No Cached

Game Accessibility Guidelines | Basic - 37 views

www.gameaccessibilityguidelines.com/basic game accessibility guidelines

shared by Judith Way on 19 Sep 12 - No Cached

1More

Coder for Raspberry Pi - 44 views

googlecreativelab.github.io/coder raspberry_pi google coder coding tool free programming

shared by Dimitris Tzouris on 04 Oct 13 - No Cached

1More

Stoodle - 79 views

stoodle.ck12.org collaboration whiteboard

shared by Elizabeth Resnick on 16 Dec 13 - No Cached

How We Retrieve Memories - Brain Basics #1 - Scientific American - 68 views

www.scientificamerican.com/...ieve-memoriesbrain-basics-no-1

shared by anonymous on 27 Apr 14 - No Cached

1More

Once upon a time... Life - YouTube - 49 views

www.youtube.com/isgota youtube biology education animation

shared by sjkm 's bookmarks on 26 Apr 14 - No Cached

Learn the Basics | digitalliteracy.gov - 82 views

www.digitalliteracy.gov/...learner literacy digitalliteracy resources basics

shared by Benjamin Light on 15 Apr 13 - No Cached

48More

The Future of College? - The Atlantic - 29 views

www.theatlantic.com/...375071 future college education pedagogy

shared by Maureen Greenbaum on 16 Aug 14 - No Cached

proprietary online platform developed to apply pedagogical practices that have been studied and vetted by one of the world’s foremost psychologists, a former Harvard dean named Stephen M. Kosslyn, who joined Minerva in 2012.
...

Cancel
inductive reasoning
...

Cancel
Minerva class extended no refuge for the timid, nor privilege for the garrulous. Within seconds, every student had to provide an answer, and Bonabeau displayed our choices so that we could be called upon to defend them.
...

Cancel
...45 more annotations...
subjecting us to pop quizzes, cold calls, and pedagogical tactics that during an in-the-flesh seminar would have taken precious minutes of class time to arrange.
...

Cancel
felt decidedly unlike a normal classroom. For one thing, it was exhausting: a continuous period of forced engagement, with no relief in the form of time when my attention could flag
...

Cancel
One educational psychologist, Ludy Benjamin, likens lectures to Velveeta cheese—something lots of people consume but no one considers either delicious or nourishing.)
...

Cancel
because I had to answer a quiz question or articulate a position. I was forced, in effect, to learn
...

Cancel
adically remake one of the most sclerotic sectors of the U.S. economy, one so shielded from the need for improvement that its biggest innovation in the past 30 years has been to double its costs and hire more administrators at higher salaries.
...

Cancel
past half millennium, the technology of learning has hardly budge
...

Cancel
fellow edu-nauts
...

Cancel
Lectures are banned
...

Cancel
attending class on Apple laptops
...

Cancel
Lectures, Kosslyn says, are cost-effective but pedagogically unsound. “A great way to teach, but a terrible way to learn.”
...

Cancel
Minerva boast is that it will strip the university experience down to the aspects that are shown to contribute directly to student learning. Lectures, gone. Tenure, gone. Gothic architecture, football, ivy crawling up the walls—gone, gone, gone.
...

Cancel
“Your cash cow is the lecture, and the lecture is over,” he told a gathering of deans. “The lecture model ... will be obliterated.”
...

Cancel
One imagines tumbleweeds rolling through abandoned quads and wrecking balls smashing through the windows of classrooms left empty by students who have plugged into new online platforms.
...

Cancel
when you have a noncurated academic experience, you effectively don’t get educated.
...

Cancel
Liberal-arts education is about developing the intellectual capacity of the individual, and learning to be a productive member of society. And you cannot do that without a curriculum.”
...

Cancel
“The freshman year [as taught at traditional schools] should not exist,” Nelson says, suggesting that MOOCs can teach the basics. “Do your freshman year at home.”) Instead, Minerva’s first-year classes are designed to inculcate what Nelson calls “habits of mind” and “foundational concepts,” which are the basis for all sound systematic thought. In a science class, for example, students should develop a deep understanding of the need for controlled experiments. In a humanities class, they need to learn the classical techniques of rhetoric and develop basic persuasive skills. The curriculum then builds from that foundation.
...

Cancel
What, he asks, does it mean to be educated?
...

Cancel
methods will be tested against scientifically determined best practices
...

Cancel
Subsidies, Nelson says, encourage universities to enroll even students who aren’t likely to thrive, and to raise tuition, since federal money is pegged to costs.
...

Cancel
We have numerous sound, reproducible experiments that tell us how people learn, and what teachers can do to improve learning.” Some of the studies are ancient, by the standards of scientific research—and yet their lessons are almost wholly ignored.
...

Cancel
memory of material is enhanced by “deep” cognitive tasks
...

Cancel
he found the man’s view of education, in a word, faith-based
...

Cancel
ask a student to explain a concept she has been studying, the very act of articulating it seems to lodge it in her memory. Forcing students to guess the answer to a problem, and to discuss their answers in small groups, seems to make them understand the problem better—even if they guess wrong.
...

Cancel
e traditional concept of “cognitive styles”—visual versus aural learners, those who learn by doing versus those who learn by studying—is muddled and wrong.
...

Cancel
pedagogical best practices Kosslyn has identified have been programmed into the Minerva platform so that they are easy for professors to apply. They are not only easy, in fact, but also compulsory, and professors will be trained intensively in how to use the platform.
...

Cancel
Professors are able to sort students instantly, and by many metrics, for small-group work—
...

Cancel
a pop quiz at the beginning of a class and (if the students are warned in advance) another one at a random moment later in the class greatly increases the durability of what is learned.
...

Cancel
he could have alerted colleagues to best practices, but they most likely would have ignored them. “The classroom time is theirs, and it is sacrosanct,
...

Cancel
Lectures, Kosslyn says, are pedagogically unsound,
...

Cancel
I couldn’t wait for Minerva’s wrecking ball to demolish the ivory tower.
...

Cancel
The MOOCs will eventually make lectures obsolete.”
...

Cancel
Minerva’s model, Nelson says, will flourish in part because it will exploit free online content, rather than trying to compete with it, as traditional universities do.
...

Cancel
The MOOCs will eventually make lectures obsolete.”
...

Cancel
certain functions of universities have simply become less relevant as information has become more ubiquitous
...

Cancel
Minerva challenges the field to return to first principles.
...

Cancel
MOOCs will continue to get better, until eventually no one will pay Duke or Johns Hopkins for the possibility of a good lecture, when Coursera offers a reliably great one, with hundreds of thousands of five-star ratings, for free.
...

Cancel
It took deep concentration,” he said. “It’s not some lecture class where you can just click ‘record’ on your tape.”
...

Cancel
part of the process of education happens not just through good pedagogy but by having students in places where they see the scholars working and plying their trades.”
...

Cancel
“hydraulic metaphor” of education—the idea that the main task of education is to increase the flow of knowledge into the student—an “old fallacy.”
...

Cancel
I remembered what I was like as a teenager headed off to college, so ignorant of what college was and what it could be, and so reliant on the college itself to provide what I’d need in order to get a good education.
...

Cancel
it is designed to convey not just information, as most MOOCs seem to, but whole mental tool kits that help students become morethoughtful citizens.
...

Cancel
for all the high-minded talk of liberal education— of lighting fires and raising thoughtful citizens—is really just a credential, or an entry point to an old-boys network that gets you your first job and your first lunch with the machers at your alumni club.
...

Cancel
Its seminar platform will challenge professors to stop thinking they’re using technology just because they lecture with PowerPoint.
...

Cancel
professors and students increasingly separated geographically, mediated through technology that alters the nature of the student-teacher relationship
...

Cancel
The idea that college will in two decades look exactly as it does today increasingly sounds like the forlorn, fingers-crossed hope of a higher-education dinosaur that retirement comes before extinction.
...

Cancel

1More

The Doctor and the Dalek - 40 views

ukedchat.com/...bbc-the-doctor-and-the-dalek sci-fi coding programming

shared by Martin Burrett on 28 Dec 14 - No Cached

2More

Is Brick & Mortar Education Going to be Left in the Dust by Online Learning &... - 52 views

blogs.adobe.com/...arning-flipped-classrooms.html education 21stcenturyskills learning online learning pli ilp personalized personalized learning

shared by Jon Tanner on 04 Nov 13 - No Cached

Jon Tanner on 04 Nov 13

"Cognitive theories of education that anchor approaches like Constructivism have been suggested as preferable approaches for many decades. Unfortunately traditional educational institutions, as well as certification bodies and most notably political administrations have long favored didactic instruction (basically drill and kill, lecture-centric approaches to education) because the results of these methods are far simpler to track and report. "

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Cognitive theories of education that anchor approaches like Constructivism have been suggested as preferable approaches for many decades. Unfortunately traditional educational institutions, as well as certification bodies and most notably political administrations have long favored didactic instruction (basically drill and kill, lecture-centric approaches to education) because the results of these methods are far simpler to track and report. "</div>

...

Cancel
Jon Tanner on 04 Nov 13

This quote explains what I've been trying to articulate for a while.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">This quote explains what I've been trying to articulate for a while.</div>

...

Cancel

3More

Inversions - Practical Theory - 1 views

practicaltheory.org/...index.php VLE education chris_lehmann

shared by Tony Baldasaro on 15 Sep 09 - Cached

Then, class, rather than being a time when all kids sat and received the instruction, could be the time when they reinforce skills by doing problem sets, worked on real-world application projects, collaborated with teachers to reinforce concepts, etc... in some ways, it's an inversion of what we traditionally think of as a math class.
...

Cancel
If we use technology to invert that idea, so that kids could watch the teacher's demonstration of the skills and concepts at home (and with the ability to rewind when necessary,) we could allow kids the opportunity to apply and practice their knowledge in the space where they can get help, collaborate, etc... doesn't that make more sense? (Interestingly, I was trying to imagine what that would look like in an English classroom, and I realized that is, in many respects, similar to what we do already when we ask kids to read the book at home, and then come in and interact with the community to uncover the deeper aspects of the text. Hm.)
...

Cancel

Tony Baldasaro on 15 Sep 09

I'm about 80% of the way through Disrupting Class by Clayton Christensen and Michael Horn. (Yeah, I know... I'm the last one to read it.) There's a lot that's very interesting about the book, and while we should critically examine the book, it is still a fascinating read. If nothing else, it is continuing to make me think about how much more could happen in our classrooms if we created more opportunities for students to learn basic skills and content outside of class, rather than inside class. I've been thinking a lot about math class. How many students would learn math more efficiently if they could watch math videos, narrated by a teacher with problems done "on the board" as they watched with multiple examples of concepts (think geometry here, as an example) that speak to different learning modalities.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">I'm about 80% of the way through Disrupting Class by Clayton Christensen and Michael Horn. (Yeah, I know... I'm the last one to read it.) There's a lot that's very interesting about the book, and while we should critically examine the book, it is still a fascinating read. If nothing else, it is continuing to make me think about how much more could happen in our classrooms if we created more opportunities for students to learn basic skills and content outside of class, rather than inside class. I've been thinking a lot about math class. How many students would learn math more efficiently if they could watch math videos, narrated by a teacher with problems done "on the board" as they watched with multiple examples of concepts (think geometry here, as an example) that speak to different learning modalities.</div>

...

Cancel

1More

Plagiarism | Common Craft - 120 views

www.commoncraft.com/...plagiarism Plagiarism Video

shared by BalancEd Tech on 28 Oct 11 - No Cached

1More

Mathelona Challenge - 53 views

www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/...maths-challenge maths addition subtraction flash

shared by Martin Burrett on 12 Jul 12 - No Cached

10More

What would an exceptional middle and high school computer science curriculum include? -... - 48 views

www.quora.com/ter-science-curriculum-include high school school computer computer science middle school curriculum science coding code programming include

shared by Steve Kelly on 26 Mar 15 - No Cached

What would an exceptional middle and high school computer science curriculum include?
...

Cancel
This isn't a complete answer, but one thing the very first introductory classes should require is that the students turn off all their electronic computers and actually learn to walk through  algorithms with a computer that exists only on paper. (Or, I suppose, a whiteboard or a simulator.) This exercise would give the students a grounding in what is going on inside the computer as a very low level.My first computer programming class in my Freshman year of high school was completely on paper. Although it was done because the school didn't have much money, it turned out to be very beneficial.Another class I had in high school, that wouldn't normally be lumped into a Computer Science curriculum but has been a boon to my career, was good old Typing 101.
...

Cancel
If you followed the CS Unplugged curriculum your students would know more about CS than most CS grads:http://csunplugged.orgIt's a really great intro to basic computer science concepts and very easy for students to understand.  Best of all you don't even need a computer per student if your school doesn't have the budget,
...

Cancel
...6 more annotations...
For younger students, I think that the ability to make something professional-looking, like a real grown-up would, is paramount.  Sadly, I think this means that LOGO and BASIC aren't much use any more*.
...

Cancel
So, we have a few choices.  You can try to write phone apps that look just like real phone apps, design interactive websites that look just like real interactive websites, or do something with embedded systems / robotics.  Avoid the temptation to make these things into group projects; the main thing every student needs to experience is the process of writing code, running it, debugging it, and watching the machine react to every command.
...

Cancel
It is important to consider what an 11 to 18-year old is familiar with in terms of mathematics and logical thinking. An average 11-year old is probably learning about fractions, simple cartesian geometry, the concept of units, and mathematical expressions. By 15, the average student will be taking algebra, and hopefully will have the all-important concept of variables under his/her belt. So much in CS is dependent on solid understanding that symbols and tokens can represent abstract concepts, values, or algorithms. Without it, it's still possible to teach CS, but it must be done in a very different way (see Scratch).
...

Cancel
At this point, concepts such as variables, parenthesis matching, and functions (of the mathematical variety) are within easy reach. Concepts like parameter passing, strings and collections, and program flow should be teachable. More advanced concepts such as recursion, references and pointers, certain data structures, and big-O may be very difficult to teach without first going through some more foundational math.
...

Cancel
I tend to agree strongly with those that believe a foundational education should inspire interest and enforce concepts and critical thinking over teaching any specific language, framework, system, or dogma.
...

Cancel
The key is that the concepts in CS aren't just there for the hell of it. Everything was motivated by a real problem, and few things are more satisfying than fixing something you really want to work with a cool technique or concept you just learned.
...

Cancel

Steve Kelly on 26 Mar 15

Great resource for teachers (especially those of us not initially trained in Computer Science) about what should 'count' as Computer Science. Worth the read!

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Great resource for teachers (especially those of us not initially trained in Computer Science) about what should 'count' as Computer Science. Worth the read!</div>

...

Cancel