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Education Week's Digital Directions: Educators Move Beyond the Hype Over Skype - 52 views

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    • Brian Mull
      Brian Mull on 08 Feb 11
       
      This isn't just for Skype. Anything we do in the classroom should be targeting specific educational goals.
    • Brian Mull
      Brian Mull on 08 Feb 11
       
      ...or connecting with university professors or experts in the field.
    • Brian Mull
      Brian Mull on 08 Feb 11
       
      Some, such as brian Crosby have done this. http://learningismessy.com/blog/?p=196
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  • In Virginia’s Albemarle County district, Fisher encourages her teachers to use Skype and other collaboration tools because she believes there is no equivalent for giving students an audience for their work. She compares it to a team sport, in which the Skype activity is game day, and other days of class spent in preparation are like after-school practices. “The fact that there’s a game on Friday night ramps up practice on Monday afternoon,” says Fisher. “When you look at what the Web allows us to do, every kid in your classroom can have a worldwide audience. That’s true for writing, and that’s true for some of these oral-presentation types of things,” such as videoconferencing.
  • But according to research funded by Skype Technologies, finding other teachers to connect with remains more frustrating for educators interested in using Skype than gaining permission from administrators and school technology personnel to use the software.
    • Brian Mull
      Brian Mull on 08 Feb 11
       
      But make no mistake - the latter is still a frustrating sticking point in many schools and districts.
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Shared Governance Is a Myth - Commentary - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 14 views

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shared by D. S. Koelling on 09 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • It takes years of rank and the bitter­sweet experience of extensive committee service to realize that faculty influence on the operation of the university is an illusion, and that shared governance is a myth.
  • Committees report to administrative officers who are at liberty to accept, reject, or substantially alter faculty recommendations.
  • One would think that faculty senates exercise jurisdiction over a range of college life and policy. In reality, the right of many senates does not extend beyond making recommendations to the president, who is under no obligation to accept them.
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  • A more probable source of this way of doing business is the residue of an old ideal of the university. Such survivals of previous practices are not unusual in social life. Physicians, for example, experience a struggle between two competing understandings of their field: the prevalent view that treating patients is a business, and the residue of the old ideal that it is a calling. Ministers live the same ambiguity. Faculty committees constitute the respect that today's university pays to the old notion that it is a community of students and scholars. The impotence of the committees is acknowledgment that at this time in history, institutions of higher education are business ventures, in certain ways similar to factories.
  • If education is primarily a business, managers hire the faculty. If universities are communities of students and scholars, faculty members hire the managers.
  • The growing disempowerment of the faculty is accelerated by the distance of governing boards from campus processes.
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Pay by swiping your iPhone 5, iPad 2 - 54 views

www.theage.com.au/...e-5-ipad-2-20110126-1a4me.html NFC Crumbware
shared by Tom March on 01 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • NFC would let Apple's iAd advertising network personalise ads to the places where a customer is spending money. That could double or triple the ad rates that Apple charges,
  • "Near-Field Communication", a technology that can beam and receive information at a distance of up to four inches,
  • Tom March on 01 Feb 11
     
    I included the magic (to global corporations coffers) of NFC in presentations I made back to 2005 at NECC. It's here... Let's whim shopping begin!
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A Meeting with Elders | International Field Program Seminar-Spring '11 - 8 views

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  • The importance of a respect for elders was illustrated as soon as the meeting started. Mr. A introduced us to the community leaders, and made sure that highest ranking leader was invited to say his piece first. Once he did that the discussion became lively and we were all encouraged to contribute. Understanding the cultural norms around formal meetings and political discussions is good manners, but it also will help us understand the social norms during our work, as well as help us better analyze the upcoming election process. It is social norms such as respect for elders that informs the political practices built into Liberian society, and the manner in which democracy functions.
  • I’m personally interested in the existence of generational gaps in West Africa, especially around conflicting notions of the role of youth in society.
  • I’d specifically like to explore the impact of the spread of a global youth culture facilitated by communications technology on youth voice in both Monrovia and New York’s Liberian community.
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  • A Meeting with Elders
  • As my name is common in Liberia, and is associated with specific ethnic groups between Sierra Leone and Liberia, it will be interesting for me to navigate these issues from a personal standpoint.
  • I also believe that through religious institutions is the best way to really get to know members of any community.
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Atlantic Avenue: Adventures in Consumption Landscapes [IFP Beirut] | International Fiel... - 18 views

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  • I grew up in a Muslim and Christian home, and because of my Iranian passport, I am legally and exclusively Muslim (in that nation’s eyes at least). I don’t ever identify with a religion, but if I do, I say I’m both. Most people are confused by this response, and so at best it leads to a converse. At worst, it easily fends off people who want to put me neatly and nicely into a box of their own choosing
    • Fabiola Berdiel
      Fabiola Berdiel on 04 Mar 11
       
      Powerful self-reflection and positioning yourself within the context, one of the goals of participant observation
  • My personal ethnic ambiguity invites questions as much as it doesn’t. The ability to “pass” as a member of a community, albeit religious, ethnic, or otherwise made me realise I might need to hash out some of the answers to the uncomfortable questions I avoid asking myself, at least before Beirut.
  • Atlantic Avenue: Adventures in Consumption Landscapes [IFP Beirut]
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Contextual Analysis- Uganda (Sarita Vengal) | International Field Program Seminar-Sprin... - 11 views

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  • Food and grocery stores definitely plays an important role in this community. There were also an unexpected amount of African art and music stores. I think diaspora communities like this have a lot of meeting and community aid establishments to help immigrants navigate the American system of living.
    • Fabiola Berdiel
      Fabiola Berdiel on 04 Mar 11
       
      Very insightful contextual analysis
  • I honestly didn’t see too many advertisements outside of the West African diaspora context. The ads that I did see were not billboards or real advertisements. There were mostly posters or small signs showcasing the sales in each of the stores.
  • As a native New Yorker, who grew up in an Indian diaspora community, I felt like a lot of the sights resonated with my childhood.  And to make things even more familair, I lived in Niger for a few months and did feel a certain connection to the area.
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  • I also didn’t see that many women walking around, it was mostly men who were hanging around local hot spots. The women that I did see, were going somewhere specific and not really hanging out outside.
  • Contextual Analysis- Uganda (Sarita Vengal)
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10 years after laptops come to Maine schools, educators say technology levels playing f... - 73 views

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  • We have math teachers doing online skill-based type of things and online quizzes,” Robinson said. Students use a site called, Glogster where they create digital posters, and upload photos and music for reports.
    • Steve Ransom
      Steve Ransom on 20 Mar 11
       
      Pretty low-level use for math... there are so many more powerful things that laptops could be used for.
  • Having laptops means all students can do the same quality report, regardless of their parents' income, “because they all have the same tools,”
  • We tried filtering. It's a losing battle,” Robinson said. “There's always a way around it. Now our approach is teaching responsibility.”
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  • “At our house, there are signs, 'No Facebook from 7 to 9:30,'” Angus King said. “Part of it is supervision, he said. You don't hand the keys to your car to your teenager without rules.
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Chrome 11 Has Speech Recognition - 101 views

blogs.sitepoint.com/html5-speech-input-fields HTML5 speech recognition microphone browser
shared by Doug Henry on 17 May 11 - No Cached
  • Doug Henry on 17 May 11
     
    The latest Chrome browser has microphone input and speech recognition built into HTML 5 - to use, install Chrome, plug in your mic - go to the Sitepoint page - it worked for me!
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Introduction to Artificial Intelligence - Fall 2011 - 16 views

www.ai-class.com artificial intelligence ai stanford course
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  • A bold experiment in distributed education, "Introduction to Artificial Intelligence" will be offered free and online to students worldwide during the fall of 2011. The course will include feedback on progress and a statement of accomplishment. Taught by Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig, the curriculum draws from that used in Stanford's introductory Artificial Intelligence course. The instructors will offer similar materials, assignments, and exams.Artificial Intelligence is the science of making computer software that reasons about the world around it. Humanoid robots, Google Goggles, self-driving cars, even software that suggests music you might like to hear are all examples of AI. In this class, you will learn how to create this software from two of the leaders in the field. Class begins October 10.
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Ralph Tyler's Little Book - 43 views

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  • The belief at the time was that schools should require strong discipline and that "children should not talk to one another; all communication should be between the teacher and the class (Tyler, 1975)."
  • What educational purposes should the school seek to attain? How can learning experiences be selected which are likely to be useful in attaining these objectives? How can learning experiences be organized for effective instruction? How can the effectiveness of learning experiences be evaluated?
  • Following the introduction of the Army's intelligence test, a "Testing Movement" in education, became established and spread throughout the United States
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  • He saw testing and "the holes in testing for memorization"
  • as a problem to study for life
  • The most important and comprehensive curriculum experiment ever carried on in the United States..."
  • This methodology engages the student in a number of projects. The projects he defined as "a purposeful activity carried to completion in a natural setting
  • most famous work was his "little" book Basic Principles of Curriculum and Instruction
  • War I, as it soon would be called, would have a dramatic effect on education
  • The fifth and final section describes "How a school or College staff may work on curriculum building."
  • do not have clearly defined purposes
  • 1. Establish broad goals or objectives.2. Classify the goals or objectives.3. Define objectives in behavioral terms.4. Find situations in which achievement if objectives can be shown.5. Develop or select measurement techniques.6. Collect performance data.7. Compare performance data with behaviorally stated objectives.
  • education as "an active process
  • It involves the active efforts of the learner himself."
  • The first of these was through direct instruction
  • Tyler's greatest gift to the field of education was the development of an objectives-based evaluation model.
  • "the father of behavioral objectives.
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The Habitable Planet: A Systems Approach to Environmental Science - 74 views

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  • The Habitable Planet is a multimedia course for high school teachers and adult learners interested in studying environmental science. The Web site provides access to course content and activities developed by leading scientists and researchers in the field.
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Scientists make quantum breakthrough - 25 views

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  • Scientists have demonstrated for the first time that atoms can be guided in a laser beam and possess the same properties as light guided in an optical communications fiber.
  • Abstract Speckle patterns produced by multiple independent light sources are a manifestation of the coherence of the light field. Second-order correlations exhibited in phenomena such as photon bunching, termed the Hanbury Brown–Twiss effect, are a measure of quantum coherence. Here we observe for the first time atomic speckle produced by atoms transmitted through an optical waveguide, and link this to second-order correlations of the atomic arrival times. We show that multimode matter-wave guiding, which is directly analogous to multimode light guiding in optical fibres, produces a speckled transverse intensity pattern and atom bunching, whereas single-mode guiding of atoms that are output-coupled from a Bose–Einstein condensate yields a smooth intensity profile and a second-order correlation value of unity. Both first- and second-order coherence are important for applications requiring a fully coherent atomic source, such as squeezed-atom interferometry.
  • Australian National University
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The Liberal Arts Are Work-Force Development - Do Your Job Better - The Chronicle of Hig... - 35 views

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  • Now consider that, according to the American Association of Community Colleges, about half of all freshmen and sophomores are enrolled at the nation's 1,300 two-year colleges, and many of those students transfer to four-year institutions. For a large percentage of people who earn bachelor's degrees, then, the liberal-arts portion of their education was acquired at a two-year college. Next, factor in all of the community-college students who enter the work force after earning two-year degrees or certificates, and whose only exposure to the liberal arts occurred in whatever core courses their programs required. The conclusion becomes obvious: Two-year colleges are among the country's leading providers of liberal-arts education, although they seldom get credit for that role.
  • Employers rank communication and analytical skills among the most important attributes they seek in new hires, according to the National Association of Colleges and Employers. Perhaps those of us who teach those very skills at community colleges should embrace the integral role we play in preparing the nation's workers rather than rejecting the idea of work-force development as somehow beneath us.
  • More important, this new perspective could have a positive effect on student success. If we come to see ourselves as preparing students not just for transfer but ultimately for the work force, students may be more likely to understand the relevance of the skills that we teach them and better able to use those skills for some purpose other than just getting a passing grade.
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  • Require lots of writing. As the management guru Peter Drucker argued, communication is the one skill required of all professionals, regardless of field. "As soon as you take one step up the career ladder," he said, "your effectiveness depends on your ability to communicate your thoughts in writing and in speaking."
  • Clearly, one of the best things we can do for students is to require them to write—a lot.
  • Focus on critical thinking. A common complaint of employers, as reflected in the NACE survey, is that many workers have difficulty thinking for themselves. They may be thoroughly trained, having mastered all of the concepts in the textbooks, but, inevitably, situations arise that weren't covered in the books. When that happens, the ability to think critically, independently, and creatively becomes indispensable.
  • Bring the real world into the classroom. Another strategy we can adopt, if we want our courses to be more relevant, is to make our class discussions, case studies, experiments, and assignments as real-world-based as possible. For example, in my composition courses, I not only allow students to choose their own essay topics, but I also encourage them to write about issues related to their prospective majors. I also assign reading (in addition to the old textbook standbys) from newspapers, popular magazines, even the Internet.
  • Make the connection. Take advantage of every opportunity to connect what students are doing in class with what they will be doing some day as employees. My students hear the term "the real world" so much that, by the middle of the term, they're starting to roll their eyes. But it's important for them to understand that the work we're doing now in class isn't just a series of meaningless exercises, another set of hoops for them to jump through on their way to a degree. They're going to have to do these things for real one day—describe processes, do research to find solutions, draw comparisons—and my course may be the last time anyone ever actually teaches them how.
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Race to the Top evens playing field, challenges teachers | The Iowa Center for Public A... - 16 views

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    • Laura Clausen
      Laura Clausen on 30 Jun 11
       
      I wonder if our focus on standardized tests will pollute our focus on what's best for our children - especially expectation learners.
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Professional blog | 21st Century Educator - 85 views

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  • open source and free
    • Betzi Bateman
      Betzi Bateman on 26 Jun 11
       
      I agree with everything, but the "free" part. Haven't we all heard the saying, "you get what you pay for?" The best textbook I know about is Campbell's Biology. It was written by tons of experts in the field. Did they all volunteer to write it? Shouldn't experts be compensated for their time in the creation of quality textbook content? I know we would all like everything to be free, but writing (or producing audio or video) GOOD content takes skill and expertise. Are all these people supposed to do this for free? I just don't understand the idea behind this.
  • Marsha Ratzel on 25 Jun 11
     
    Great list of attributes that new era textbook should have. What should be added? What is missing? Great prompt for kids to answer.
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ASCD Express 10.07 - Field Notes: Three Ways I Changed What My Grades Say - 38 views

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    My article
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