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Omar Cafini

WOWIO: Free Books + Free Minds - 0 views

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    A new service to download free books
Jeff VanDrimmelen

GigaOM » Cell Phones for Summer Reading - 0 views

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    GigaOM does a great round up of five possible cell phone book reading applications.  If, as some people suggest, the future of education is on cell phones, this could be pretty important.
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    GigaOM does a great round up of five possible cell phone book reading applications.  If, as some people suggest, the future of education is on cell phones, this could be pretty important.
Sharon Elin

Has Ontario taught its high-school students not to think? | University Affairs - 1 views

  • most of the students I see are not so much disengaged as poorly trained for university expectations. Students' ability to do analysis and synthesis seems to have been replaced by rote memorization and regurgitation in both the sciences and the humanities. This is a complaint that I hear from instructors in senior high-school classes through to professors in the humanities.
  • students do not really understand what they are doing even when they have covered the material in high school.
  • More important is the ability to relate these facts in new ways, to see them in a new light, and to bring quite disparate ideas together to solve new problems or create new forms of art. This ability to analyze and synthesize is what makes good scientists, writers, philosophers and artists. It is the ability needed to drive a knowledge-based economy.
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  • Much of the new curriculum in the junior grades is considered by many experienced teachers to be beyond the mental development of students at that level. This encourages blind memorization rather than understanding.
  • Moreover, the new curriculum significantly reduces time spent on the visual arts, and was so content-heavy that it greatly limited the amount of time available for developing analytical and conceptual-understanding skills from kindergarten on
  • much of the teaching at the elementary level is now directed to passing those tests, as schools are rated publicly on the results
  • our students entering university are a year younger. The teenage brain is still developing its "executive functions" during this time, so students enter university with a year's less ability to analyze and plan ahead.
  • grade inflation is clearly present
    • Sharon Elin
       
      I agree this trend toward video and video games has reduced reading habits and turned the focus off text and onto multimedia delivery of information, but I'm not sure this trend alone has reduced analytical skills. Many video games require deep levels of analytical maneuvering to complete. A great book to read on this is Steven Johnson's book, "Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter"
  • The trend among young people to move away from reading and towards video and video games, means they spend less time developing reading/writing/analytical skills
  • They do not appreciate that, even as students, they will be expected to develop new knowledge, not just regurgitate existing facts.
  • Students continue to demonstrate serious deficiencies in problem solving skills, basic math skills, and hands-on laboratory skills when they arrive at the university level
  • There may be 10 years of students who have been taught not to think, and reversing that effect will be not be easy without a determined effort.
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Life In The UK Test Book - 0 views

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Walter Antoniotti

Education Internet Library - 0 views

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    A collection of free Internet materials designed for help students studying to become teachers, new teachers, and experienced teachers with the art of teaching.
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Free Life in UK Test - 0 views

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Life in UK The Test | Life in UK The Test Booking | Life in UK The Test Centres. - 0 views

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    British citizen ship test is designed to help people prepare to take the 'Life in UK the Test' 3rd Edition a mandatory test required by the Home office for those who wish to apply for their British Citizenship or a Settlement.
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