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The Choking Game - Resources and Information - 6 views

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    compilation of links about this deadly game
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Creativity in schools: 'Schools have the technology but lack the will to use it' | Reso... - 4 views

  • The obsession over the last decade with narrow, academic targets and tightly-drawn lesson plans has driven out much of the spontaneity and fun of learning, says Dickinson. "We are squandering children's creativity and we are almost wasting their childhood with this obsession with skill-based, academic education."
  • The obsession over the last decade with narrow, academic targets and tightly-drawn lesson plans has driven out much of the spontaneity and fun of learning, says Dickinson. "We are squandering children's creativity and we are almost wasting their childhood with this obsession with skill-based, academic education."
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Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab - 4 views

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    The study of persuasive technology = "Captology"
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An investigation of attitudes of students and teachers about participating in a context... - 3 views

  • Students can learn any time and any where with mobile devices. Consequently, context-aware ubiquitous learning (u-learning) is emerging as a new research area. It integrates wireless, mobile and context awareness technologies
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    Students can learn any time and any where with mobile devices. Consequently, context-aware ubiquitous learning (u-learning) is emerging as a new research area. It integrates wireless, mobile and context awareness technologies.

Please comment on my Chang Education Ideas - 4 views

started by Walter Antoniotti on 31 Aug 11 no follow-up yet
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Employers More Accepting of Online Degrees - 0 views

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    Surprisingly, it's mostly because they're just seeing them more often...
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Technology Review: Global Warming Bombshell - 2 views

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    The importance of accurate data
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School superintendent to Governor: Please make my school a prison - 2 views

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    "The State of Michigan spends annually somewhere between $30,000 and $40,000 per prisoner, yet we are struggling to provide schools with $7,000 per student."

Bubbabrain 10 Million Game Challenge - 1 views

started by darren mccarty on 19 Nov 11 no follow-up yet
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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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Wake Up and Smell the New Epistemology - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher... - 1 views

  • "It is imperative that someone studying this generation realize that we have the world at our fingertips — and the world has been at our fingertips for our entire lives. I think this access to information seriously undermines this generation's view of authority, especially traditional scholastic authority." Today's students know full well that authorities can be found for every position and any knowledge claim, and consequently the students are dubious (privately, that is) about anything we claim to be true or important.
  • Of course, this new epistemology does not imply that our students have become skilled arbiters of information and interpretation. It simply means that they arrive at college with well-established methods of sorting, doubting, or ignoring the same. That, by itself, is not troubling. Many professors encourage students to question authority, and would welcome more who challenged and debated ideas. But this new epistemology carries some heavy baggage — indeed, it is inseparably conjoined with personal economics. Short of fame or a lottery win, today's students recognize that a college degree is the minimum credential they will need to attain their desired standard of living (and hence "happiness"). So this new epistemology produces a rather odd kind of student — one who appears polite and dutiful but who cares little about the course work, the larger questions it raises, or the value of living an examined life. And it produces such students in overwhelming abundance.
  • we must respect students as thinkers, even though their thinking skills may be undeveloped and their knowledge base shallow. Moreover, our respect must be genuine. Students have keen hypocrisy sensors and do not like being patronized.
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  • It is not just residential-college students who live in a bubble — many faculty members do as well.
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Accredited Online MBA Programs - 0 views

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    A near comprehensive list of accredited colleges and universities that offer online MBA programs (AceOnlineSchools)
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Social Invention Gorup - 0 views

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    Keith helps people in organizations innovate and manage complexity by working with groups to unleash creativity, discover opportunities and build on momentum. A founding partner of the Social Invention Group, his eclectic skills are grounded in business management, organization development, complexity science, strategy development, and graphic facilitation... all with an improvisational twist.
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Guide to Taking an Online Paralegal Course - 0 views

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    Online paralegal courses are a relatively new concept in legal education, so it can seem a little daunting to enroll in a program taught completely online or through correspondence. The aim of this guide is to provide a better understanding of this alternative mode of education.
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Gone missing - Home - Doug Johnson's Blue Skunk Blog - 0 views

  • I keep thinking about a prediction made in the mid-90's by a federal DOE official that in the future, economically disadvantaged students will all have computers while the wealthy students will have human teachers.
    • Kimberly Herbert
       
      I can see this happening. Teaching needs a human face and interaction on some level, especially the lower grades.
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List of Online Schools - 0 views

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    A list of accredited online schools offering diplomas, certificates and degrees.
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Steli Efti: Learning Resources - 0 views

  • Speed Reading Software - Wow!?! That works really fast;-)
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    Cool software! Must have.
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Steven C. Hayes, Ph.D.: Are We Too Smart For Our Own Good? - 0 views

  • We are smarter, perhaps. But our emotional and social intelligence seems to be going backwards.
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    interesting commentary on rising intelligence; makes the point that our emotional and social intelligence may be moving backwards
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How to Check an Online School's Accreditation | eHow.com - 0 views

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    Just because online degrees are now more accepted than ever by employers doesn't mean it makes sense to take a class from some shady, fly-by-night online college...
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