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in title, tags, annotations or urlScratchEd - 42 views
Eric Mazur on new interactive teaching techniques - 19 views
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“Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.”
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they create the illusion of teaching for teachers, and the illusion of learning for learners
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Sitting passively and taking notes is just not a way of learning. Yet lectures are 99 percent of how we teach!
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Wikipedia project to support OER | Hewlett OER Grantees Meeting 2012 - 11 views
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In theory, Open Educational Resources and wikis go hand in hand. In our ranks, we have some of the most dedicated and accomplished users and advocates the collaborative online tools. So why is it that the OER article on Wikipedia carries the site's second-lowest quality rating? It's not just one article - the Open Access article shows room for improvement; the Open Educational Practices article doesn't exist; and numerous related articles could be improved as well.
Is the Internet hurting children? - CNN.com - 61 views
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The explosive growth of social media, smartphones and digital devices is transforming our kids' lives, in school and at home. Research tells us that even the youngest of our children are migrating online, using tablets and smartphones, downloading apps.
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All adults know that the teen years are a critical time for identity exploration and experimentation. Yet this important developmental phase can be dramatically twisted when that identity experimentation, however personal and private, appears permanently on one's digital record for all to see.
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Howard Gardner, a professor and researcher at the Harvard Graduate School of Education who developed the concept of multiple intelligences, calls kids' use of digital media and technology "epochal change." He compares the revolution in digital media to the invention of the printing press because of its extraordinary impact on the way we communicate, share information and interact with one another. As a society, we have no choice but to engage with this new reality and work to ensure that it affects our kids in healthy, responsible ways.
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'Amid the buzz over the Facebook IPO, the ever-evolving theories about how Twitter is reshaping our communications and speculation about where the next social media-enabled protest or revolution will occur, there is an important question we've largely ignored. What are the real effects of all this on the huge segment of the population most affected by social media themselves: our children and our teens?'
For Those Who Want to Lead, Read - John Coleman - Harvard Business Review - 58 views
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"Even as global literacy rates are high (84%), people are reading less and less deeply. The National Endowment for the Arts (PDF) has found that "[r]eading has declined among every group of adult Americans," and for the first time in American history, "less than half of the U.S. adult American population is reading literature." Literacy has been improving in countries like India and China, but that literacy may not translate into more or deeper reading."
Harvard Education Letter - 27 views
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Learning to see all behavior as a form of communication, for example, is a key principle that helps when teachers are frustrated or confused by how students are acting. Even though students’ behavior can look bizarre or disruptive, their actions are purposeful and are their attempts to solve a problem.
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About 10 percent of the school population—or 9–13 million children—struggle with mental health problems. In a typical classroom of 20, chances are good that one or two students are dealing with serious psychosocial stressors relating to poverty, domestic violence, abuse and neglect, or a psychiatric disorder. There is also growing evidence that the number of children suffering the effects of trauma and those with autism-related social deficits is also on the rise.
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- Edudemic - 9 views
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Sensing the excitement from online education tools like edX, Google has just unveiled a (very beta) version of its own course building software. If you’ve ever wanted to run your own online courses, this might be worth your time
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So we packaged up the technology we used to build Power Searching and are providing it as an open source project called Course Builder. We want to make this technology available so that others can experiment with online learning
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We believe Google’s preliminary efforts here may be useful to those looking to scale online education through the cloud
ReferenceME for iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation) and iPad on the iTunes App Store - 51 views
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all the references generated can be sent to your essay via email
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ReferenceME creates Bibliographies, Citations/Footnotes for Harvard, Chicago, Vancouver, MHRA, MLA, Oxford and APA.
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"Better essays, faster! Simply scan the barcode of a book using your mobile phone camera, and ReferenceME will create your bibliography and citations in moments. If there is no barcode you can simply enter the books ISBN or you can enter the details yourself, and turn them into references in any of the major styles used by universities and libraries."
Harvard Education Letter - 101 views
How Online Innovators Are Disrupting Education - Jason Orgill and Douglas Hervey - Harvard Business Review - 122 views
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flips education on its head
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The Flipped Classroom: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H4RkudFzlc
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First, online education isn't the one and only teaching tool.
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Second, online education integration will help teachers make a more impactful influence on students.
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Social Science Statistics Blog - 0 views
I Won't Hire People Who Use Poor Grammar. Here's Why. - Kyle Wiens - Harvard Business Review - 143 views
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Everyone who applies for a position at either of my companies, iFixit or Dozuki, takes a mandatory grammar test.
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But grammar is relevant for all companies. Yes, language is constantly changing, but that doesn't make grammar unimportant. Good grammar is credibility, especially on the internet.
Woodberry Poetry Room - 50 views
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