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Dana Huff

Flash cards, vocabulary memorization, and study games | Quizlet - 6 views

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flashcards vocabulary education quiz tools notetaking

shared by Dana Huff on 14 Apr 11 - Cached
  • Dana Huff on 14 Apr 11
     
    My students told me about this site where they make study guides and flash cards for themselves. It's free, and it would be particularly good for studying information that you have to memorize.
  • The0d0re Shatagin on 18 Apr 11
     
    Thanks to you - and your students - for the tip!
Dennis OConnor

Jeff Clark - Portfolio Illustrating Patterns in Data - 14 views

neoformix.com/...index.html

Data visualization infographic infographics twitter 21cif analytics

shared by Dennis OConnor on 29 Apr 11 - Cached
  • Dennis OConnor on 29 Apr 11
     
    This is a tantalizing portfolio page of infographic generators.  As a writing teacher I see many applications. As an information fluency advocate I see a way to understand data that excites the mind. Many of these programs use social media sources to build visual comparisons and patterns.   What a find! 
andrew bendelow

Education Week: Why Core Standards Must Embrace Media Literacy - 5 views

www.edweek.org/...36baker.h30.html

education core standards media literacy

shared by andrew bendelow on 28 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • andrew bendelow on 28 Jun 11
     
    Problems with CC media literacy standards: " focus marginalizes uses of a range of other media/digital literacies associated with social-networking sites, blogs, wikis, digital images/videos, smartphone/tablet apps, video games, podcasts, etc., for constructing media content, building social networks, engaging audiences, and critiquing status quo problems.And, other than a mention of the need to "evaluate information from multiple oral, visual, or multimodal sources," there is no specific reference in the common standards to critical analysis and production of film, television, advertising, radio, news, music, popular culture, video games, media remixes, and so on. Nor is there explicit attention on fostering critical analysis of media messages and representations."
Leslie Healey

Reading Digitally Infographic - 23 views

www.ryanbretag.com/blog

infographic reading ebooks

shared by Leslie Healey on 19 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • Leslie Healey on 19 Nov 11
     
    if you had doubts about the chance to engage more kids with eReaders, this infographic might change your mind. I am planning a digital reading course next year, and will use this to argue my case to administration
  • Mark Smith on 20 Nov 11
     
    This graphic is nice ... but who conducted the study? How was this information gathered? Why should we trust it?
Mark Smith

The art of slow reading | Books | The Guardian - 9 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...slow-reading

reading

shared by Mark Smith on 19 Jul 10 - Cached
Adam Babcock liked it
  • Seeley notes that after a conversation with some of her students, she discovered that "most can't concentrate on reading a text for more than 30 seconds or a minute at a time. We're being trained away from slow reading by new technology."
  • Leslie Healey on 20 Jul 10
     
    My students have even told me that they cannot read in school because it is "too distracting" with friends and activities, etc!!! The phones are vibrating, the latest drama unfolds minute by minute--I have decided that half my job it is train them to recognize the proper environment for the proper activity. It is slow going!
  • Adam Babcock on 26 Jul 10
     
    I noticed this myself in my second year of college; the way I was reading (especially literature, etc) was changing rapidly as I became more inundated with short-message communication (Facebook, email, texting, etc.). I would even argue that our composition models are changing. I can fire off short bursts of information very quickly (like right now). However, I am finding more often that I may have to actually plan to find a place to read (frightening...?).
Mark Smith

How facts backfire - The Boston Globe - 7 views

www.boston.com/...how_facts_backfire

brain belief reading

shared by Mark Smith on 13 Jul 10 - Cached
  • Recently, a few political scientists have begun to discover a human tendency deeply discouraging to anyone with faith in the power of information. It’s this: Facts don’t necessarily have the power to change our minds. In fact, quite the opposite. In a series of studies in 2005 and 2006, researchers at the University of Michigan found that when misinformed people, particularly political partisans, were exposed to corrected facts in news stories, they rarely changed their minds. In fact, they often became even more strongly set in their beliefs. Facts, they found, were not curing misinformation. Like an underpowered antibiotic, facts could actually make misinformation even stronger.
Susan Payne

Beyond Social Networking: Building Toward Learning Communities -- THE Journal - 0 views

thejournal.com/...ward-Learning-Communities.aspx

socialnetworking web2.0

shared by Susan Payne on 18 Jul 09 - Cached
  • specific instructional use is more effective and acceptable for students to understand why the teacher has created the space. What Social Networking Does Not Offer to Learning
  • While this level of connection and shared information is a great first step in community building, it does not necessarily lead to learning communities or the sharing of ideas. This must happen intentionally and is where the instructor is very much a necessary support to the process.
Susan Payne

Beyond Social Networking: Building Toward Learning Communities -- THE Journal - 0 views

thejournal.com/...ward-Learning-Communities.aspx

shared by Susan Payne on 18 Jul 09 - Cached
  • specific instructional use is more effective and acceptable for students to understand why the teacher has created the space.
  • While this level of connection and shared information is a great first step in community building, it does not necessarily lead to learning communities or the sharing of ideas. This must happen intentionally and is where the instructor is very much a necessary support to the process.
  • Susan Payne on 18 Jul 09
     
    Teachers as guides to move students beyond the social piece to forming a learning community.
anonymous

CONVERSATION MAP/What is it? - 1 views

hybrid.ucsc.edu/...index.html

application media discussion network information

shared by anonymous on 15 Jul 09 - Cached
  • anonymous on 15 Jul 09
     
    an interesting application/site that allows you to examine "semantic relationships" between elements in an online site/discussion.
Adam Babcock

Does Your Language Shape How You Think? - NYTimes.com - 5 views

www.nytimes.com/...29language-t.html

writing english education reading language culture globe gender

shared by Adam Babcock on 29 Aug 10 - Cached
  • Native American languages impose on their speakers a picture of reality that is totally different from ours, so their speakers would simply not be able to understand some of our most basic concepts, like the flow of time or the distinction between objects
  • rash-landed on hard facts and solid common sense, when it transpired that there had never actually been any evidence to support his fantastic claims
  • new research has revealed that when we learn our mother tongue, we do after all acquire certain habits of thought that shape our experience in significant and often surprising ways.
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  • if different languages influence our minds in different ways, this is not because of what our language allows us to think but rather because of what it habitually obliges us to think about
  • You may well wonder whether my companion was male or female, but I have the right to tell you politely that it’s none of your business. But if we were speaking French or German, I wouldn’t have the privilege to equivocate in this way
  • but I do have to tell you something about the timing of the event: I have to decide whether we dined, have been dining, are dining, will be dining and so on. Chinese, on the other hand, does not oblige its speakers to specify the exact time of the action in this way, because the same verb form can be used for past, present or future actions.
  • When speakers were asked to grade various objects on a range of characteristics, Spanish speakers deemed bridges, clocks and violins to have more “manly properties” like strength, but Germans tended to think of them as more slender or elegant.
  • gendered languages” imprint gender traits for objects so strongly in the mind that these associations obstruct speakers’ ability to commit information to memory
  • When French speakers saw a picture of a fork (la fourchette), most of them wanted it to speak in a woman’s voice, but Spanish speakers, for whom el tenedor is masculine, preferred a gravelly male voice for it.
  • Nonetheless, once gender connotations have been imposed on impressionable young minds, they lead those with a gendered mother tongue to see the inanimate world through lenses tinted with associations and emotional responses that English speakers — stuck in their monochrome desert of “its” — are entirely oblivious to.
Kristin Bergsagel

Does Your Language Shape How You Think? - NYTimes.com - 3 views

www.nytimes.com/...29language-t.html

language linguistics cognition science

shared by Kristin Bergsagel on 05 Sep 10 - Cached
  • if different languages influence our minds in different ways, this is not because of what our language allows us to think but rather because of what it habitually obliges us to think about.
  • When your language routinely obliges you to specify certain types of information, it forces you to be attentive to certain details in the world and to certain aspects of experience that speakers of other languages may not be required to think about all the time. And since such habits of speech are cultivated from the earliest age, it is only natural that they can settle into habits of mind that go beyond language itself, affecting your experiences, perceptions, associations, feelings, memories and orientation in the world.
Donalyn Miller

The Best Ways To Back-Up Your Computer & Online Work | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the... - 4 views

larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/...k-up-your-computer-online-work

technology Web2.0

shared by Donalyn Miller on 26 Sep 10 - Cached
  • Donalyn Miller on 26 Sep 10
     
    Tips for backing up your computer content and online information.
Adam Babcock

The Texting Revolution Is Here - WSJ.com - 2 views

online.wsj.com/...3673604575550201949192336.html

writing edtech mobile research

shared by Adam Babcock on 07 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • We default to text to relay difficult information. We stare at our phone when we want to avoid eye contact.
  • has named "micro-coordination"—"I'll txt u in 10mins when I know wh/ restrnt."
  • it steals from quiet reflection. "When people have a mobile device and have even the smallest increment of extra time, they will communicate with someone in their life,"
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  • If I were to call someone, it would have to be urgent," she says. "Otherwise, it's sort of rude and invasive.
  • "American Idol put texting on the map," says AT&T's Mr. Collins.
Mary Worrell

digitalresearchtools / FrontPage - 3 views

digitalresearchtools.pbworks.com

research tools wiki education teaching web2.0

shared by Mary Worrell on 22 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Karen LaBonte on 22 Feb 10
     
    This wiki collects information about tools and resources that can help scholars (particularly in the humanities and social sciences) conduct research more efficiently or creatively. Whether you need software to help you manage citations, author a multimedia work, or analyze texts, Digital Research Tools will help you find what you're looking for. We provide a directory of tools organized by research activity, as well as reviews of select tools in which we not only describe the tool's features, but also explore how it might be employed most effectively by researchers.
  • Mary Worrell on 30 Sep 10
     
    Great wiki of research tools!
Victoria Keech

MyAlltop - victeach71 - 2 views

my.alltop.com/victeach71

rss feeds aggregate. information

shared by Victoria Keech on 28 Dec 09 - No Cached
  • Victoria Keech on 28 Dec 09
     
    Another way to aggregate feeds, manage online learning from news, blogs and magazines
Mary Worrell

Search Engine's YouTube channel launches: Does the Internet make you dumber? Boing Boing - 4 views

www.boingboing.net/...search-engines-youtu.html

education web2.0 technology learning

shared by Mary Worrell on 14 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Mary Worrell on 14 Jan 10
     
    This video is funny and does a good job of questioning why we care about rote memorization. Why isn't it good enough just to go and look up information? Why must we scold ourselves if we don't have it memorized? Has some great applications to educational debate today and where technology fits.
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