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Put Poor Students to Work - Brainstorm - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 14 views

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shared by Dana Huff on 27 Nov 11 - No Cached

Dana Huff on 27 Nov 11

Sent to me just now via a my blog. Would be a great piece to pair with "A Modest Proposal."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Sent to me just now via a my blog. Would be a great piece to pair with "A Modest Proposal."</div>

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Dyslexia has a language barrier | Education | The Guardian - 1 views

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" dyslexic in one language but not another. It shows that readers of Chinese use a different part of their brains to readers of English. eported prevalence of dyslexia is much higher in English (about 5-6%) than Chinese. I surveyed 8,000 schoolchildren in the Beijing region, with Yin Wengang of the Chinese Academy of Science, and found that about 1.5% were dyslexic. English, French and Italian dyslexics all showed the same abnormal activity involving the brain system underlying phonemic analysis. In Alan, this theory predicts accurately that the affected language will be English, since Japanese does not require analysis into phonemes.a key peak in brain activity in Chinese readers fell outside the network typically used by European readers. The second surprise was that dyslexics showed lower activation in several key reading areas compared with normal Chinese readers, but this was in a very different brain area from Frith's European dyslexics. Chinese dyslexia may be caused by a different genetic anomaly than English dyslexia."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">" dyslexic in one language but not another. It shows that readers of Chinese use a different part of their brains to readers of English. eported prevalence of dyslexia is much higher in English (about 5-6%) than Chinese. I surveyed 8,000 schoolchildren in the Beijing region, with Yin Wengang of the Chinese Academy of Science, and found that about 1.5% were dyslexic. English, French and Italian dyslexics all showed the same abnormal activity involving the brain system underlying phonemic analysis. In Alan, this theory predicts accurately that the affected language will be English, since Japanese does not require analysis into phonemes.a key peak in brain activity in Chinese readers fell outside the network typically used by European readers. The second surprise was that dyslexics showed lower activation in several key reading areas compared with normal Chinese readers, but this was in a very different brain area from Frith's European dyslexics. Chinese dyslexia may be caused by a different genetic anomaly than English dyslexia."</div>

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Experience Institute - 5 views

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C Reed on 26 Nov 14

Experience Institute is a 12-month higher education program based on real world experiences.

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'Teach Naked' Effort Strips Computers From Classrooms - Technology - The Chronicle of H... - 0 views

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Here's the kicker, though: The biggest resistance to Mr. Bowen's ideas has come from students, some of whom have groused about taking a more active role during those 50-minute class periods.
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Introduce issues of debate within the discipline and get the students to weigh in based on the knowledge they have from those lecture podcasts, Mr. Bowen says.
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"Strangely enough, the people who are most resistant to this model are the students, who are used to being spoon-fed material that is going to be quote unquote on the test," says Mr. Heffernan. "Students have been socialized to view the educational process as essentially passive. The only way we're going to stop that is by radically refiguring the classroom in precisely the way José wants to do it."
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"inverted classroom."
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'I paid for a college education and you're not going to lecture?'"
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PowerPoint is not the problem. It is how PPt is used.
- anonymous on 24 Jul 09
  
  That's exactly the point. Of course we do need discussions in classrooms, but we also need to enable students to perform well in them, and here is where technology comes in: You can facilitate it in the learning process. - The headline of this article makes things far too easy...
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">That's exactly the point. Of course we do need discussions in classrooms, but we also need to enable students to perform well in them, and here is where technology comes in: You can facilitate it in the learning process. - The headline of this article makes things far too easy...</div>
  
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Patrick Higgins on 23 Jul 09

I like how Bowen is questioning the use of tech for tech's sake. This further shows how it's not about the technology, but about the teaching.

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The Case for Breaking Up With Your Parents - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Hi... - 5 views

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More than love, sex, courtship, and marriage; more than inheritance, ambition, rivalry, or disgrace; more than hatred, betrayal, revenge, or death, orphanhood—the absence of the parent, the frightening yet galvanizing solitude of the child—may be the defining fixation of the novel as a genre, what one might call its primordial motive or matrix, the conditioning psychic reality out of which the form itself develops.
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Mark Smith on 07 May 12

"This is the play-date generation. ... There was a time when children came home from school and just played randomly with their friends. Or hung around and got bored, and eventually that would lead you on to something. Kids don't get to do that now. Busy parents book them into things constantly-violin lessons, ballet lessons, swimming teams. The kids get the idea that someone will always be structuring their time for them."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"This is the play-date generation. ... There was a time when children came home from school and just played randomly with their friends. Or hung around and got bored, and eventually that would lead you on to something. Kids don't get to do that now. Busy parents book them into things constantly-violin lessons, ballet lessons, swimming teams. The kids get the idea that someone will always be structuring their time for them."</div>

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Mark Smith on 07 May 12

A great article, worth 15 minutes.

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A Rubric for Evaluating Student Blogs - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 10 views

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Going Short - Lingua Franca - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 8 views

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Leslie Healey on 08 Nov 11

concise review of what makes cogent, stylish prose. Just addressed this in class last week, and not nearly as succinctly as yagoda!

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10 Tips on How to Write Less Badly - Do Your Job Better - The Chronicle of Higher Educa... - 18 views

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Donalyn Miller on 18 Sep 10

10 Tips on How to Write Less Badly

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Carol Dweck's Attitude-The Chronicle of Higher Education - 14 views

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What They're Reading on College Campuses - Publishing - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 11 views

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Leslie Healey on 03 Feb 11

very cool list: some conservative, some liberal, some fiction, some satire, some bio, some nonfiction

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">very cool list: some conservative, some liberal, some fiction, some satire, some bio, some nonfiction</div>

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A Rubric for Evaluating Student Blogs - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 1 views

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Todd Finley on 26 Mar 11

Rating Characteristics 4 Exceptional. The blog post is focused and coherently integrates examples with explanations or analysis. The post demonstrates awareness of its own limitations or implications, and it considers multiple perspectives when appropriate. The entry reflects in-depth engagement with the topic. 3 Satisfactory. The blog post is reasonably focused, and explanations or analysis are mostly based on examples or other evidence. Fewer connections are made between ideas, and though new insights are offered, they are not fully developed. The post reflects moderate engagement with the topic. 2 Underdeveloped. The blog post is mostly description or summary, without consideration of alternative perspectives, and few connections are made between ideas. The post reflects passing engagement with the topic. 1 Limited. The blog post is unfocused, or simply rehashes previous comments, and displays no evidence of student engagement with the topic. 0 No Credit. The blog post is missing or consists of one or two disconnected sentences.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner"> Rating Characteristics 4 Exceptional. The blog post is focused and coherently integrates examples with explanations or analysis. The post demonstrates awareness of its own limitations or implications, and it considers multiple perspectives when appropriate. The entry reflects in-depth engagement with the topic. 3 Satisfactory. The blog post is reasonably focused, and explanations or analysis are mostly based on examples or other evidence. Fewer connections are made between ideas, and though new insights are offered, they are not fully developed. The post reflects moderate engagement with the topic. 2 Underdeveloped. The blog post is mostly description or summary, without consideration of alternative perspectives, and few connections are made between ideas. The post reflects passing engagement with the topic. 1 Limited. The blog post is unfocused, or simply rehashes previous comments, and displays no evidence of student engagement with the topic. 0 No Credit. The blog post is missing or consists of one or two disconnected sentences.</div>

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Dugg Lowe on 27 Mar 11

No matter how you achieved on your college life it is with relation to your papers writing.

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We Can't Teach Students to Love Reading - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Highe... - 14 views

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shared by Mark Smith on 07 Aug 11 - No Cached

My hyper-attentive habits were alienating me further and further from the much older and (one would have thought) more firmly established habits of deep attention. I was rapidly becoming a victim of my own mind's plasticity, until a new technology helped me to remember how to do something that for years had been instinctive, unconscious, natural.
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Five Questions That Will Improve Your Teaching - 13 views

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"Will what I am about to do or say bring me closer to the person with whom I am communicating—or will it push me further away?"
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"Is what I am doing (or about to do) going to connect to the student's self-interest?"
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"Who's doing the work?"
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"Is what I'm doing connected to higher-order thinking?"
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News: Calibrating Students' B.S. Meters - Inside Higher Ed - 8 views

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Daniel Bruno on 20 Apr 11

Great article on critical literacy

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