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sontimalonti

Here Be Dragons: An Introduction to Critical Thinking - 0 views

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  • Here Be Dragons is a free 40 minute video introduction to critical thinking. It is suitable for general audiences and is licensed for free distribution and public display.
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      Russel Tarr on 21 Apr 09
       
      I thought this would be a very nice video to use with students who are studying "Theory of Knowledge" at IB.
  • Here Be Dragons is a free 40 minute video introduction to critical thinking. It is suitable for general audiences and is licensed for free distribution and public display.
  • Most people fully accept paranormal and pseudoscientific claims without critique as they are promoted by the mass media. Here Be Dragons offers a toolbox for recognizing and understanding the dangers of pseudoscience, and appreciation for the reality-based benefits offered by real science.
  • sontimalonti on 28 Apr 09
     
    "science never suppresses good science! - intrduction to debunking claims of paranormals & pseudoscientists.
David Wetzel

Wiki or Blog: Which is Better? - 0 views

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  • David Wetzel on 17 May 10
     
    Both wikis and blogs provide teachers with a a dynamic process for integrating Web 2.0 technology in their science and math classes. These two types of online tools offer students a more engaging process for learning. Both are relatively easy tools which do not require teachers or students to learn any special program tools or computer skills. Their uses and applications are only limited by the vision and purpose for helping students learn.
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Ace Dee

How Facebook and Twitter Interplayed with SEO - 1 views

With the gaining popularity of Facebook and Twitter, our company's website has accessed a wide market which resulted to huge returns and met targeted PageRank in search engines. Such social network...

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Ace Dee

Taking the Shortest Route to Small Business SEO - 1 views

My company wanted to take the shortest route to SEO for our small business. To achieve this goal, we sought the help of Oracle Digital for identifying the keywords that will link the website to our...

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Reynold Redekopp

Robert Putnam - Bowling Alone - Journal of Democracy 6:1 - 5 views

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  • ocial scientists in several fields have recently suggested a common framework for understanding these phenomena, a framework that rests on the concept of social capital. 4 By analogy with notions of physical capital and human capital--tools and training that enhance individual productivity--"social capital" refers to features of social organization such as networks, norms, and social trust that facilitate coordination and cooperation for mutual benefit.
  • Whether or not bowling beats balloting in the eyes of most Americans, bowling teams illustrate yet another vanishing form of social capital.
  • the most fundamental form of social capital is the family, and the massive evidence of the loosening of bonds within the family (both extended and nuclear) is well known.
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  • Across the 35 countries in this survey, social trust and civic engagement are strongly correlated; the greater the density of associational membership in a society, the more trusting its citizens. Trust and engagement are two facets of the same underlying factor--social capital.[End Page 73] America still ranks relatively high by cross-national standards on both these dimensions of social capital. Even in the 1990s, after several decades' erosion, Americans are more trusting and more engaged than people in most other countries of the world. The trends of the past quarter-century, however, have apparently moved the United States significantly lower in the international rankings of social capital. The recent deterioration in American social capital has been sufficiently great that (if no other country changed its position in the meantime) another quarter-century of change at the same rate would bring the United States, roughly speaking, to the midpoint among all these countries, roughly equivalent to South Korea, Belgium, or Estonia today. Two generations' decline at the same rate would leave the United States at the level of today's Chile, Portugal, and Slovenia.
  • Other demographic transformations. A range of additional changes have transformed the American family since the 1960s--fewer marriages, more divorces, fewer children, lower real wages, and so on. Each of these changes might account for some of the slackening of civic engagement, since married, middle-class parents are generally more socially involved than other people. Moreover, the changes in scale that have swept over the American economy in these years--illustrated by the replacement of the corner grocery by the supermarket and now perhaps of the supermarket by electronic shopping at home, or the replacement of community-based enterprises by outposts of distant multinational firms--may perhaps have undermined the material and even physical basis for civic engagement.
  • The technological transformation of leisure. There is reason to believe that deep-seated technological trends are radically "privatizing" or "individualizing" our use of leisure time and thus disrupting many opportunities for social-capital formation. The most obvious and probably the most powerful instrument of this revolution is television. Time-budget studies in the 1960s showed that the growth in time spent watching television dwarfed all other changes in the way Americans passed their days and nights. Television has made our communities (or, rather, what we experience as our communities) wider and shallower. In the language of economics, electronic technology enables individual tastes to be satisfied more fully, but at the cost of the positive social externalities associated with more primitive forms of entertainment. The same logic applies to the replacement of vaudeville by the movies and now of movies by the VCR. The new "virtual reality" helmets that we will soon don to be entertained in total isolation are merely the latest extension of this trend. Is technology thus driving a wedge between our individual interests and our collective interests? It is a question that seems worth exploring more systematically.
  • who stress that closely knit social, economic, and political organizations are prone to inefficient cartelization and to what political economists term "rent seeking" and ordinary men and women call corruption.
  • Reynold Redekopp on 02 Dec 09
     
    An article about the loss of social capital in America
Emily Johnson

Cloud Services Sustain Virtual Companies. - 0 views

Cloud Services Sustain Virtual Companies More and more companies are going virtual, which allows employees to telecommute, work from the road, and be based anywhere on the planet. This approach s...

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john sega

Reliable Desktop Computer Support Service - 1 views

We all know that a computer offers us a lot of benefits. That is why, it is always essential for us to keep our PC in good condition at all times. Unfortunately, I have experienced desktop problems...

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shalani mujer

PC Technical Support's Great Contribution - 1 views

Our Daycare Center has computers that are specially made for children's use. Each unit has child-friendly and educational games that will surely be enjoyed by the children. It is a good thing that ...

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David Ellena

- 5 reasons cell phones benefit a 1:1 environment - 0 views

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  • 2:1 environment, with a computer and a phone, is required.
  • This is the world for which we have to prepare today’s students.
  • Not only is it beneficial to support students with their success in school environments that look like real-life environments, it
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  • is also beneficial to schools.
  • Reduce drain on bandwidth
  • More resources available to al
  • Transfer and apply school learning to daily life
  • More time on tas
  • Workaround for battery life issues
  • David Ellena on 26 Dec 13
     
    This technology os here to stay we might as well utilize it
milesmorales

The Dry Erase Board: A Cool Tool For Learning - 0 views

The dry erase board or whiteboards as some know it has been a great help in providing knowledge to the youth today. It has many sizes to choose from and has always been the best tool for many mento...

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milesmorales

Homeschooling Tips That Will Really Help You Out - 0 views

Kids in public schools face many hurdles today, the bulk of which we never had to deal with when we were young. The best way to help your kids avoid these pitfalls is to homeschool them, and the he...

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Sasha Thackaberry

MOOCs in the developing world - Pros and cons - University World News - 4 views

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  • Massive open online courses have brought education from top universities to armchair scholars across the globe. Now some are wondering whether MOOCs, as they are called, could help elevate developing nations.
  • Advocates say the MOOC could bring quality instruction to poverty-stricken places where university attendance is little more than a fantasy. But critics worry that the largely Western-style courses could equate to a new form of imperialism and push out more effective forms of education.
  • the MOOC has blossomed worldwide – including in developing nations such as India and China.
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  • Among edX’s students are 300,000 from India alone, said CEO Anant Agarwal – also a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT who taught the first, hugely successful edX MOOCs – at a 19 June forum on “MOOCs in the Developing World” held at the United Nations headquarters in New York City
  • The proponents-versus-sceptics conversation was moderated by Ben Wildavsky, director of higher education studies at the Rockefeller Institute, policy professor at the University at Albany of the State University of New York and author of the award-winning book The Great Brain Race: How global universities are reshaping the world.
  • Unlike colonialism, Agarwal told the forum, MOOCs could boost human rights in some countries. “The numbers are staggering,” he said. “I’m really hard-pressed to understand how someone would say this is United States hegemony.”
  • Among those sceptical of MOOCs’ effects on the developing world is Professor Philip Altbach, director of the Center for International Higher Education at Boston College and a globally recognised higher education analyst.
  • He called the online ventures “neo-colonialism of the willing” and noted that US academics have developed most of the online curricula available to students in poorer countries.
  • The pedagogical assumptions are mainly Western,” Altbach said during the panel discussion as Agarwal shook his head vehemently. “One has to ask whether this is a good thing for students in non-Western learning environments.”
  • Although online classes can be helpful in engineering or other technical fields, the humanities are another story. The benefit to developing nations, therefore, is limited, Katz said.
  • According the United Nations, 25% of children who enrol in primary school drop out before finishing. About 123 million youth aged 15 to 24 years lack basic reading and writing skills.
  • Poorer nations need high quality education, said Professor S Sitaraman, senior vice-president of India’s Amity University, but MOOC offerings should be marketed and vetted cautiously
  • “There are a lot of students [in India] who are hungry for knowledge but don’t have access to knowledge,” he said at the United Nations event. “We welcome new things, as long as it serves a purpose.”
  • The larger MOOCs platforms – edX, Coursera and Udacity, for example – have made inroads in nearly every country and are experimenting with ways to help students in places without advanced infrastructure or technology.
  • “It doesn’t replace other kinds of education,” she said during the forum. “We’re clearly filling some need here. I think it adds value and doesn’t replace.”
  • At their best, MOOCs complement existing educational institutions around the world, said Barbara Kahn, a marketing professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business who teaches classes on Coursera.
  • Although MOOCs have experimented with a variety of techniques to engage students, many lean on old, ineffective teaching methods, Katz argued. In order to appeal to and help students in other countries, he said, educators will have to do better. “MOOCs embody the newest technology – the internet – and the oldest – the lecture,” he said. “That doesn’t mean you get the best of both. I gave up lecturing as a teaching method in the late 1960s.”
  • MOOCs “are being adopted and not adapted”, added Altbach.
  • Agarwal cautioned against worrying too much about those issues. He noted that a 10% completion rate in a course with more than 100,000 students means 10,000 students finished the class.
  • It is not surprising, Agarwal said, that educators have few answers for the more serious questions about bringing MOOCs to needy people worldwide. “MOOCs are two years old,” he said. “We’ve done traditional education for 500 years and we still haven’t figured it out.
neshadlema

BETRAYBD - 0 views

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mikejohnarizona

How To Become The Perfect Landlord? - 0 views

Treating your tenants well and getting along with them can help you to increase profitability and avoid unpleasant surprises in the future. We present to you the ten points that a good landlord mus...

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priyanshu1

How E-Learning Websites Can Benefit Your Child? | Swiflearn - 0 views

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  • priyanshu1 on 12 Sep 20
     
    Online learning is equivalent to the vast ocean. An unlimited number of educational resources are available in all the E-Learning websites - Swiflearn.
bengalic

How to Complete the Most of Online Shopping in Bangladesh? - 2 views

The evolution of the internet has completely transformed the traditional shopping experience. People can now find products worldwide and shop instantly, with payments made within seconds. They also...

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