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Demetri Orlando

Report of the Committee of ten on ... - Google Books - 1 views

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curriculum

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  • Demetri Orlando on 09 Apr 10
     
    Google full text book - the foundation of secondary school curriculum 1894 - Report of the committee of 10
susan carter morgan

Hacking the Academy - 4 views

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hacking academy book

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    A BOOK CROWDSOURCED IN ONE WEEK MAY 21-28, 201
Demetri Orlando

Audio Books - LibriVox Recently Cataloged - 0 views

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audio audiobooks ebooks jhuidm

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    public domain audio books read by actors
Dolores Gende

The Innovative Educator: 19 bold (not old) ideas for change - 5 views

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willrichardson change 21stcenturylearning

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  • Dolores Gende on 04 Jan 13
     
    Excellent summary of Will's book
Sarah Hanawald

School Change Consulting - Beyond Testing - 0 views

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21stcenturyskills teaching technology

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  • Sarah Hanawald on 21 Sep 08
     
    The whole site is really interesting, I like this article. The author, Tony Wagner, has a new book out about what he calls "The Global Achievement Gap" and what to do about it.
Demetri Orlando

CK-12 - Next Generation Textbooks - 0 views

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ebooks digital_texts textbooks

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    Customize and create your own text book. Share with creative commons license.
Demetri Orlando

TEDxNYed: Jeff Jarvis: This is BS - 0 views

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tedxnyed

shared by Demetri Orlando on 09 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Just as journalists must become more curator than creator, so must educators.
  • we need to move students up the education chain. They don’t always know what they need to know, but why don’t we start by finding out? Instead of giving tests to find out what they’ve learned, we should test to find out what they don’t know. Their wrong answers aren’t failures, they are needs and opportunities.
  • Google, he said, is looking for “non-routine problem-solving skills.
  • ...5 more annotations...
  • “In the real world,” he said, “the tests are all open book,
  • We must stop looking at education as a product – in which we turn out every student giving the same answer – to a process, in which every student looks for new answers.
  • Why shouldn’t every university – every school – copy Google’s 20% rule, encouraging and enabling creation and experimentation, every student expected to make a book or an opera or an algorithm or a company
  • Rather than showing our diplomas, shouldn’t we show our portfolios of work as a far better expression of our thinking and capability?
  • education serves a unique role in society of preparing individuals for the “vital combat for lucidity”.
  • Demetri Orlando on 09 Mar 10
     
    Jeff Jarvis's notes for his presentation at TEDxNYed in which he critiques the TED style as perpetuating the sage on the stage.
Demetri Orlando

Individual Knowledge in the Internet Age (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE - 2 views

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knowledge learning hype

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    Must read article pointing out the fallacy (and danger) of Internet hype around collaboration, memory, and books.
Sarah Hanawald

Is deep reading a thing of the past? - Books - NewsObserver.com - 2 views

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reading books literacy

shared by Sarah Hanawald on 31 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • Sarah Hanawald on 31 Jan 11
     
    This article also appeared in the Charlotte Observer. The question I have is "how can we teach students to read deeply online?" Because online text isn't going away.
Demetri Orlando

Focus Manifesto - 2 views

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focus multitasking

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    Free online book about focusing one's energy in this age of multi-tasking.
susan carter morgan

open thinking » Five Recommended Readings? - 0 views

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reading shirky institutions

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  • susan carter morgan on 07 Jun 09
     
    he Associate Dean of Faculty Development & Human Resources at my workplace has asked me to recommend five readings (e.g., books, articles, blogpost, etc.) that would help inform his understanding of current changes regarding social networks, knowledge, and technology in education. Rather than develop the list alone, I thought it appropriate to (at least attempt to) crowdsource responses from individuals in my network. So, what readings would you recommend to an educational leader in charge of faculty development in a teacher education program? Any responses are greatly appreciated.
Bill Campbell

Lessons Learned from the Hybrid Course Project at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee - 0 views

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vhsnotes1-5 vhs-bp-oet blendedlearning education onlinelearning

shared by Bill Campbell on 31 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • Lessons Learned from the Hybrid Course Project
  • Lesson #1: There is no standard approach to a hybrid course.
  • Lesson #2: Redesigning a traditional course into a hybrid takes time.
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  • he broke his content presentations into less than ten minute streaming video clips, and he interspersed his mini-lectures with student-centered problem-solving activities.
    • Bill Campbell
      Bill Campbell on 31 Jan 12
       
      As I was reviewing information from Brain Rules to confirm my recollection about the 10 minute rule, I found the following quote from Medina that also seems signficant with regard to a possible hybrid course advantage. He says the most common communication mistake is "relating too much information with not enough time devoted to connecdting the dots. Lots of force feeding, very little digestion." Might this be an advantage of presenting information online in a content-heavy course? Maybe the logistics of breaking up a 45 minute period that don't work well face-to-face might work better by presenting some content online. My gut says yet, but I'd like to see real examples of this.
    • Bill Campbell
      Bill Campbell on 31 Jan 12
       
      This is interesting because it is consistent with the research report in the book Brain Rules by John Medina. Brain Rules reported that students attention in a class drops a significant amount after 10 minutes and that you need to change gears to get another 10 minutes. So breaking up a video lecture into 10 minutes segments seperated by releveant problem sovling fits right in with that.
  • Hybrid instructors should allow six months lead time for course development.
  • Lesson #3: Start small and keep it simple.
  • "Integrate online with face-to-face, so there aren't two separate courses."
  • "The emphasis is on pedagogy, not technology. Ask yourself what isn't working in your course that can be done differently or better online."
  • Lesson #4: Redesign is the key to effective hybrid courses to integrate the face-to-face and online learning.
  • , instructors need to make certain that the time and resources required to create a hybrid course are available before they commit to the process.
  • Students need to have strong time management skills in hybrid courses, and many need assistance developing this skill.
    • Bill Campbell
      Bill Campbell on 31 Jan 12
       
      Participation in an online course might be an authentic way to provide high-school (and maybe older middle-school) students the opportunity to practice time management skills in an authentic way. However, this would need to be handled carfully so students who are not successful at first are not completey lost or so far behind that they can't be successful later after learning from their mistakes.
  • Contrary to many instructors' initial concerns, the hybrid approach invariably increases student engagement and interactivity in a course.
  • Lesson #6: Students don't grasp the hybrid concept readily.
  • Lesson #5: Hybrid courses facilitate interaction among students, and between students and their instructor.
  • Surprisingly, many of the students don't perceive time spent in lectures as "work", but they definitely see time spent online as work, even if it is time they would have spent in class in a traditional course.
  • Lesson #7: Time flexibility in hybrid courses is universally popular.
  • Lesson #8: Technology was not a significant obstacle.
  • Lesson #9: Developing a hybrid course is a collegial process.
  • Lesson #10: Both the instructors and the students liked the hybrid course model.
  • They stated that the hybrid model improved their courses because Student interactivity increased, Student performance improved, and They could accomplish course goals that hadn't been possible in their traditional course.
  • Bill Campbell on 31 Jan 12
     
    Teaching with Technology Today: Volume 8, Number 6: March 20, 2002
  • Bill Campbell on 31 Jan 12
     
    This article about the lessons learned during a higher-ed blended learning project is a decade old but still interesting and relevant.
Demetri Orlando

Cushing Academy - A library without the books - The Boston Globe - 0 views

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ebooks

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    I don't think we necessarily need an espresso machine, but I would like to shift in the direction of a more digitally-friendly library workspace.
Demetri Orlando

Literacy Debate - Online, R U Really Reading? - Series - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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reading

shared by Demetri Orlando on 27 Jul 08 - Cached
  • What we are losing in this country and presumably around the world is the sustained, focused, linear attention developed by reading
  • What the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation
  • Demetri Orlando on 27 Jul 08
     
    NYT article questioning the impact of the web on reading.
Demetri Orlando

Playing to Learn - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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elementary play

shared by Demetri Orlando on 03 Feb 10 - Cached
  • So what should children be able to do by age 12, or the time they leave elementary school? They should be able to read a chapter book, write a story and a compelling essay; know how to add, subtract, divide and multiply numbers; detect patterns in complex phenomena; use evidence to support an opinion; be part of a group of people who are not their family; and engage in an exchange of ideas in conversation.
Lorri Carroll

The Super Book of Web Tools for Educators - 5 views

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Web2.0 tools education technology

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  • Lorri Carroll on 11 Jun 11
     
    Publication by eleven prominent bloggers, teachers, and school administrators
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