EDUC897 S11

This is my first test using Diigo. It may be of interest to some in EDUC 897.

Awesome. You see we can also have conversations about shared links. Keep it up!

Device agnostic approach to content distribution (except the Amazon Kindle). Includes Google's book scanning project.

If you associate the era of the American Revolution with individual liberty, you're right in more ways than you probably realized. In the lead-up to the War of Independence and during the revolution itself, prosecutions for prostitution, sodomy, and drunkenness were rare. Divorce was easy. Women entered a wide range of professions. Members of different races mixed freely in raucous taverns.

"ClassOwl launched this week and has 750 members, according to Sam Purtill, its founder, who is a sophomore majoring in philosophy. The site allows students to "follow" their classes and input class assignments and due dates, which then trigger notifications as deadlines near."

The Customer Reviews are interesting. For one thing, I've never seen such polarized reviews for a non-political book. Speaking of which, I checked the day before publication of Bill Clinton's thousand-page memoir, and hundreds of people had already posted their reviews, about 50/50 positive/negative, with comments like "there's not a single thing that's new in this whole book."

""I had never imagined that the test would someday be turned into a blunt instrument to close schools - or to say whether teachers are good teachers or not - because I always knew children's test scores are far more complicated than the way they're being received today.""

Note: There is a free Kindle version of their book. Supported through the MacArthur Foundation's $50 million initiative to explore how technology is changing kids and learning, Cathy Davidson and David Theo Goldberg discuss learning in the digital age. More information is at www.digitallearning.macfound.org

"The Secretary of Education's Commission on the Future of Higher Education completed its work in September 2006 with the release of its final report, A Test of Leadership: Charting the Future of U.S. Higher Education."

Said Washburn, author of University Inc., a book on industry's ties to academia: "This is an egregious example of a public university being willing to sell itself for next to nothing."

The bill would create "higher education curriculum review teams" to review and make recommendations to the State Board of Education on all proposed curriculum revisions. We believe this would be an important step in correcting the problems with recent curriculum adoptions - including science standards.

"Like many graduates, she's now faced with the larger worry of living back at home while also paying down vast amounts of debt. "

"What is the Great American Teach-In? A day to remind ourselves and our students that citizenship means asking questions, finding answers and standing up for what you believe in... and that education must mean that too."

Colleges can reap major benefits from meaningful engagement with faculty, yet many institutions find it difficult to do. In partnership with Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count, Public Agenda has developed core principles and promising practices for engaging faculty in changing institutions and closing student achievement gaps. This new Cutting Edge Series paper, "Engaging Adjunct and Full-Time Faculty in Student Success Innovation," builds on our existing work in faculty engagement and is based on fresh research with higher education experts and community college faculty.

We understand that, somehow, learning can be distributed, that active learning is now easier to manage, that social learning has become a fact of life, that authentic learning opportunities are all around us, that information is all around us, that archiving and examining student work produces a whole new harvest of learning--we understand all this and we understand "high-impact learning practices," but we have yet to put it all together.

This is on the Opinion page of today's Wilminton News Journal: "A Post editorial this week criticized our organization, the Michigan-based Mackinac Center for Public Policy, suggesting that we meant to chill academic freedom through a state Freedom of Information Act request that we filed with three public universities."

I don't know for which of these two characters I should feel worse...

I thought this was very interesting.

"The future of higher education: how technology will shape learning is an Economist Intelligence Unit white paper, sponsored by the New Media Consortium. The Economist Intelligence Unit's editorial team executed the survey, conducted the interviews and wrote the report. The findings and views expressed do not necessarily reflect the views of the sponsor."

In "crisis on campus" Mark Taylor writes (p. 6) "When information is the currency of the realm, education is more valuable than ever." In this New York Times book review, GEOFFREY NUNBERG reviews a new book on "The Information" by James click, raising the problem of what we might mean by "information."

The Science Leadership Academy is a partnership high school between the School District of Philadelphia and The Franklin Institute. SLA is an inquiry-driven, project-based high school focused on 21st century learning that opened its doors on September 7, 2006. SLA provides a rigorous, college-preparatory curriculum with a focus on science, technology, mathematics and entrepreneurship. Students at SLA learn in a project-based environment where the core values of inquiry, research, collaboration, presentation and reflection are emphasized in all classes.