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Dennis OConnor

21CIF Self-Paced Website Evaluation Class: Join Now - 0 views

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21cif information fluency website evaluation moodle

shared by Dennis OConnor on 14 Aug 09 - Cached
  • 8 hour self-paced online class devoted to Website Evaluation using investigative search methods.  Course Ends August 31, 2009
  • Dennis OConnor on 14 Aug 09
     
    8 hours of Self Paced Instruction Investigative Searching 20/10
anonymous

Wolfram|Alpha Blog : What We've Been Doing This Summer - 0 views

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wolframalpha search

shared by anonymous on 21 Aug 09 - Cached
  • anonymous on 21 Aug 09
     
    What's new at Wolfram Alpha. Can it get even better?
  • anonymous on 21 Aug 09
     
    What's new at Wolfram Alpha. Can it get even better? If you don't have the Google/Wolfram addon for Firefox, go get it NOW
Fabian Aguilar

BBC NEWS | UK | Education | Youth drop-out rate hits new high - 0 views

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edu_news

shared by Fabian Aguilar on 19 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Record numbers of young people are not in school, college or work in England, official figures show.
  • The ranks of 18-24-year-olds considered to be "Neets" - not in education, employment or training - has risen by more than 100,000 in the past year.
  • The statistics show that in total, 835,000 18 to 24-year-olds are now Neets, up from 730,000 for the same quarter last year.
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  • In the second quarter of 2008, 209,000 16 to 18-year-olds were Neets, 24,000 fewer than the same quarter this year.
  • Neets are likely to have low skills and poor experience so the training and work on offer must be meaningful. Otherwise it will just be a stopgap before further unemployment.
Ed Webb

Obama's Oxy professor reports: 'He still didn't agree about that grade' | L.A. Now | Los Angeles Times - 0 views

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teaching grading education Obama

shared by Ed Webb on 18 Aug 09 - Cached
  • He urged other professors and teachers to “realize that in any class you could have a child, a young man or woman, who could do incredibly great things in the world. So teach as well as you can.”
Anne Bubnic

Today's Question: Should social media be used in education? - Columbia Missourian - 0 views

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social media facebook twitter elearning ad4dcss

shared by Anne Bubnic on 07 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Educators, however, find themselves with mixed opinions about the role of social media in higher education and its importance in the classroom. Some see it as the technology of tomorrow, an important piece to the puzzle of connecting with students, while others try it doubtingly in their classrooms, assuming that the traditional face-to-face contact cannot be replaced.
  • Some people find social media to be a positive experience for education. "We’re globally connected,”  said Jason Ohler, a former professor of education technology at the University of Alaska, now a media psychology professor at Fielding Graduate University in Santa Barbara, Calif. “It only makes sense to be globally connected when we pursue education."
  • Anne Bubnic on 07 Aug 09
     
    Educators find themselves with mixed opinions about the role of social media in higher education and its importance in the classroom. Some see it as the technology of tomorrow, an important piece to the puzzle of connecting with students, while others try it doubtingly in their classrooms, assuming that the traditional face-to-face contact cannot be replaced.
anonymous

Poof! 'Template writing' on FCAT shows up in 12 districts- - 0 views

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testing

shared by anonymous on 20 Jul 09 - Cached
  • Writing exams from 49 schools were found to have "template writing" -- instances in which students from the same school used identical or similar phrases on FCAT essays, such as "Poof! Now I'm in dragon land." The patterns were discovered when the exams were scored. Some educators blame the problem on FCAT, the state's high-stakes test, and the pressure to score well. The phrases found repeatedly seem an attempt to showcase colorful, creative writing, and they might be viewed that way if they were used by individual children. But when many youngsters in a school write the same way, the department suspects that rote memorization, rather than good writing, is at play.
  • anonymous on 20 Jul 09
     
    What have we done to education? Look what some schools are doing just to get past the state tests!
Thomas Ho

Hand Book : Educating the Net Generation : The University of Melbourne - 0 views

www.netgen.unimelb.edu.au/...handbook.html

shared by Thomas Ho on 15 Jul 09 - Cached
  • The publication Educating the Net Generation: A Handbook of Findings for Practice and Policy is now available to download. The Handbook is the main outcome of the Educating the Net Generation project. It provides a set of practice and policy guidelines developed from the project findings.
    • Thomas Ho
      Thomas Ho on 15 Jul 09
       
      this could be very useful, but one has to make time to work their way through so much of it!
Ruth Howard

Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age | HASTAC - 0 views

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future learning education hastac HASTAC MIT research universities

shared by Ruth Howard on 15 Jul 09 - Cached
  • Forms and models of learning have evolved quickly and in fundamentally new directions.
  • All these acts are collaborative and democratic, and all occur amid a worldwide community of voices.
  • Self-learning: Today’s learners are self-learners.
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  • Today’s learning is interactive and without walls. Individuals learn anywhere, anytime, and with greater ease than ever before. Learning today blurs lines of expertise and tears down barriers to admission. While it has never been confined solely to the academy, today’s opportunities for independent learning have never been easier nor more diverse.
  • with participatory learning and digital media, these conventional modes of authority break down.
  • They create their own paths to understanding.
  • learning to judge reliable information.
  • finding reliable sources.
  • learning how.
  • collective pedagogy
  • fostering and managing levels of trust.
  • collective checking, inquisitive skepticism, and group assessment.
  • growing complexities of collaborative and interdisciplinary learning
  • Networked learning
  • in contrast, is committed to
  • cooperation, interactivity, mutual benefit, and social engagement
  • The power of ten working interactively will invariably outstrip the power of one looking to beat out the other nine.
  • contrastingly, is an “open source” culture that seeks to share openly and freely in both creating and distributing knowledge and products.
  • Networking through file-sharing, data sharing, and seamless, instant communication is now possible.
  • Learning never ends. How we know has changed radically.
  • new institutions must begin to think of themselves as mobilizing networks.
  • mobilize flexibility, interactivity, and outcomes. Issues of consideration in these institutions are ones of reliability and predictability alongside flexibility and innovation.
  • Students may work in small groups on a specific topic or together in an open-ended and open-sourced contribution.
  • These ten principles, the authors argue, are the first steps in redesigning learning institutions to fit the new digital world.
Anne Bubnic

All You Need To Know About Twitter - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...07basics.html

education twitter 21st century learning

shared by Anne Bubnic on 09 May 09 - Cached
  • Anne Bubnic on 09 May 09
     
    To the Internet hipsters who discovered Twitter in 2006, Oprah's inaugural tweet - FEELING REALLY 21st CENTURY, she typed - was the end of the era, the shark jump. But that's like saying the Beatles were over after they appeared on "The Ed Sullivan Show."\nTwittermania has only begun. In the days after Oprah's show, Twitter's traffic growth is accelerating. The ratings service HitWise now ranks twitter.com as America's No. 38 Web site. It's about to rocket past CNN and Wells Fargo.
Ted Sakshaug

Mac and Linux versions available NOW! | Seavus DropMind™ Blog - 0 views

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mindmapping education educators

shared by Ted Sakshaug on 06 May 09 - Cached
  • Ted Sakshaug on 06 May 09
     
    mindmapping software for mac and linux
anonymous

Creating a Hackintosh: Installing Mac OS X on Netbooks from the Dell Mini 9, MSI Wind, Lenovo S10, and more - OS X Daily - 0 views

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mac

shared by anonymous on 05 May 09 - Cached
  • Creating your own cheap Mac Hackintosh out of a PC Netbook is pretty popular right now, so I compiled a list of various how-to guides mostly for myself but figured I would share it with our readers as well. The guides rank from reasonably easy (Dell Mini 9) to an arduous hack, and it’s technically against Apple’s OS X EULA agreement, so whether or not it’s worth proceeding with making one of these frankenstein Macs is entirely up to you.
  • anonymous on 05 May 09
     
    A list of articles that explain how to turn an inexpensive laptop into a Mac - a Hackintosh
  • anonymous on 05 May 09
     
    I'm seeing more and more of these at conferences. This is a list of sites that explain how to do it. How to turn a cheap netbook into a Mac.
anonymous

Wolfram Alpha Google :: Firefox Add-ons - 0 views

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wolfram firefox

shared by anonymous on 23 May 09 - No Cached
  • anonymous on 23 May 09
     
    Wow! See both results on the same page! LOVE IT!
  • anonymous on 23 May 09
     
    Now see both Google search results AND Wolfram search results in teh same browser window. Start at google and search. The wolfram results appear on the right side. How excellent is that?
anonymous

Top News - Senate bill supports 21st-century skills - 0 views

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21st century skills

shared by anonymous on 29 May 09 - Cached
  • anonymous on 29 May 09
     
    Mabey some Federal dollars will be enough to move some districts to modernize their curriculum.
  • anonymous on 29 May 09
     
    Now there is MONEY incentive to modernize your curriculum.
Ed Webb

Op-Ed Columnist - The Uneducated American - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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krugman opinion education NYT

shared by Ed Webb on 12 Oct 09 - Cached
  • we have a college graduation rate that’s slightly below the average across all advanced economies.Even without the effects of the current crisis, there would be every reason to expect us to fall further in these rankings, if only because we make it so hard for those with limited financial means to stay in school. In America, with its weak social safety net and limited student aid, students are far more likely than their counterparts in, say, France to hold part-time jobs while still attending classes. Not surprisingly, given the financial pressures, young Americans are also less likely to stay in school and more likely to become full-time workers instead.
  • we need to wake up and realize that one of the keys to our nation’s historic success is now a wasting asset. Education made America great; neglect of education can reverse the process.
yc c

Does the Brain Like E-Books? - Room for Debate Blog - NYTimes.com - 10 views

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ebooks reading psychology article

shared by yc c on 16 Oct 09 - Cached
  • However, displays have vastly improved since then, and now with high resolution monitors reading speed is no different than reading from paper.
    • yc c
      yc c on 16 Oct 09
       
      opposite from above mention
yc c

Does the Brain Like E-Books? - Room for Debate Blog - NYTimes.com - 0 views

roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/...does-the-brain-like-e-books

shared by yc c on 16 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Still, people read more slowly on screen, by as much as 20-30 percent. Fifteen or 20 years ago, electronic reading also impaired comprehension compared to paper, but those differences have faded in recent studies.
    • yc c
      yc c on 16 Oct 09
       
      Gloria Mark, below, mentions the opposite
  • displays have vastly improved since then, and now with high resolution monitors reading speed is no different than reading from paper.
    • yc c
      yc c on 16 Oct 09
       
      here
  • A hyperlink brings you to information faster but is also more of a distraction.
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  • More and more, studies are showing how adept young people are at multitasking. But the extent to which they can deeply engage with the online material is a question for further research.
anonymous

thematic mapping blog: Using KML for Thematic Mapping - Research Paper Now Available - 6 views

blog.thematicmapping.org/...thematic-mapping-research.html

googleearth mapping

shared by anonymous on 05 Nov 09 - Cached
  • anonymous on 05 Nov 09
     
    "The purpose of this paper is to examine how KML, Keyhole Markup Language, can be used for thematic mapping. A thematic map displays the spatial pattern of a social or physical phenomenon, such as population density, life expectancy or climate change. "
  • anonymous on 05 Nov 09
     
    Got a student who needs a fun project? This might be right up his/her alley.
anonymous

Diigo conversations push kids deeper - Reflections of a Techie - 21 views

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diigo-in-education

shared by anonymous on 25 Nov 09 - Cached
Ed Webb liked it
  • But I have to tell you that despite all the pain in my neck this has been, I'm LOVING Diigo.  We are annotating the blogs as we read them and then dissecting what they mean.  Now imagine my little kids (6th graders you kNow) trying to understand that the geochemistry of this sediment can tell scientist about the cycling of sea levels...and this cycling is important to the coastal cities survival throughout the world.  We're just at the most basic places, but they are digging through...asking me questions and pulling out info they think is relevant.I have them write summaries and email those summaries from Diigo to me each weekend.  OK...not all are great.  But most of these kids "get it" and are pretty interested in the science being conducted.  I think they are also grooving on the conversation we get from highlighting important things from the blogs and then chatting (via the annotation commenting feature) about why it's important and what are the next things we should look for.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 25 Nov 09
       
      This is VERY good! Congratulations! I LOVE to read about teachers who are experimenting out of their comfort zone with technologies like Diigo that produce such positive results. This experiment you're doing with your kiddos is something that will change forever how they view online resources. And, it will change how they look at the web. All very positive, and all skills that will last far into their education. Yes, it is, as you say, the BEST.
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