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Playing to Learn - 0 views

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    By Susan Engel, New York Times Op-Ed, published February 1, 2010.
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Succeed with math : every student's guide to conquering math anxiety - 0 views

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    By Shelia Tobias, New York: College Entrance Examination Board: Distributed to the trade by the MacMillan Pub. Co, 1987
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College Discovery Programs at LaGuardia Community College - 0 views

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    "...were created in 1965 at the City University of New York to assist students who have the potential to succeed in college but lack the educational foundation and economic resources necessary to pursue a degree."
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Memory Lab, Washington University in St. Louis - 0 views

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    Current research being conducted at the Memory Lab includes studies that pertain to education, including how frequent quizzes might improve students' retention of new materials.
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At City College, a Battle Over Remedial Classes for English and Math - 0 views

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    By Carol Pogash, from the Bay Citizen; published in the New York Times, June 24 2010. This story looks at City College of San Francisco (CCSF), a community college with a particularly long sequence of remediation courses. A trustee made a controversial recommendation that the sequence be shortened.
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Why ePortfolio is the Tool of the Time and Who is Enaaeebling It -- Campus Technology - 0 views

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    By Trent Batson in Campus Technology, May 20 2009. Batson argues that, though the e-Portfolio movement seems to have gained some traction in recent years, the technology offerings are still inadequate, and the rate of successful adoption and integration is also low. He introduces a new organization, the Association for Authentic, Experiential, and Evidence-Based Learning (AAEEBL), a professional association that focuses on e-Portfolios. Follow the aaeebl tag for more.
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    See page 3, where LaGuardia is included in the list of "shining examples of good work" on the e-Portfolio front!
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Forget What You Know About Good Study Habits - 0 views

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    By Benedict Carey in the Health section, The New York Times, September 6, 2010. The author shares findings that contradict common knowledge about study habits. Techniques that have had proven success in studies are alternating study environments, mixing content, spacing study session and self-testing.
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Writing in Digital Environments (WIDE) Research Center, Michigan State University - 0 views

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    From their About page, "The WIDE Research Center creates new knowledge about digital communication and promotes the transfer of this knowledge to school, workplace, and community contexts to promote learning, knowledge work, and citizenship."
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Recession's Impact Widespread - 0 views

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    Reported by Anthony Mason of CBS News, September 28 2010. A look at the discrepancy between rich and poor, as the gap grows. Video.
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Q & A: Judith Rodin - 0 views

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    By Eric Nee, Stanford Social Innovation Review, May 20, 2009. Rodin heads the Rockefeller Foundation and, in this interview, discusses their new initiative to fund organizations that work on innovation processes. The two examples are crowdsourcing (they fund InnoCentive, a for-profit that sponsors contests to solve other company's R&D problems) and collaborative competitions (they partnered with Changemakers, where the participants collaborate on each other's solutions).
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On writing : a memoir of the craft - 0 views

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    By Stephen King, New York: Scribner: 2000.
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Measuring learner's performance in e-learning recommender systems - 0 views

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    By Khairil Imran Ghauth and Nor Aniza Abdullah in Australasian Journal of Educational Technology 2010, 26(6), 764-774. From the abstract, "we propose a new e-learning recommender system framework that uses content-based filtering and good learners' ratings to recommend learning materials, and in turn is able to increase the student's performance."
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Evolving storylines……..(ES): A participatory design process? - 0 views

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    Posted by Rick Davies to Monitoring and Evaluation NEWS (blog). No date, but note that this is updated from a May 2007 version published on another of Davies' blogs. From abstract, "Evolving storylines is a participatory method of developing multiple alternative views of the future, or interpretations of the past, in the form of branching stories." Davies describes the process, where each participant is both creating and evaluating the work of his/her peers.
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International Journal of ePortfolio - 0 views

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    The International Journal of ePortfolio (IJeP) is a new journal from Virginia Tech that will begin publication in the summer of 2011. Manuscript submission to begin Jan 2011. IJeP is to be a "double-blind, peer-reviewed, open access journal freely available online."
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College, Inc. - 0 views

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    On Frontline, PBS "Investigating how Wall Street and a new breed of for-profit universities are transforming the way we think about college in America..."
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    Mentioned in the Learning thread of the Jam.
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Little brother - 0 views

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    Novel by Cory Doctrow. Published by Tor Teen, 2008. This book has been published both in print (see WorldCat or Amazon to find a copy) and for free, online (at this link) under Creative Commons license. This is tagged with technology; online texts provide new opportunities for teachers and students.
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Understanding the supplemental instruction (SI) model - 0 views

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    By David R. Arendale from New Directions for Teaching and Learning, vol 1994, issue 60, pp. 11-21. This is a widely-cited article that explains supplemental instruction.
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Hanging_Out.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 0 views

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    Youth culture and practice in relationship to the new media - how youth culture and practice is changing in the United States..
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Bone - 0 views

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    by Faye Myenne Ng. New York: Hyperion 1993. Novel about a Chinese American family living in San Francisco's Chinatown.
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They say/I say: the moves that matter in persuasive writing - 0 views

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    by Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein. New York : W.W. Norton, 2007. Called "The Strunk & White of academic writing." by Richard Bullock, Wright State University.
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    RA uses in class weeks 4 & 7, semester 3.
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