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Sarah Hanawald

Top 100 Tools for Learning: Summary PDF - 0 views

  • Between January and March 2008 155 learning professionals shared  their Top 10 favourite tools for learning  (either for their own personal learning or for creating learning for others).  We used these lists to compile the Top 100 Tools for Learning Spring 2008. 
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    From the UK, top 100 tools for learning. Mostly web app's, lots of web2.0. Would be handy for a presentation, sort of "how many of these do you know about" overview for folks.
Demetri Orlando

There's Only One Way to Stop a Bully - NYTimes.com - 2 views

  • in American curriculums, a growing emphasis on standardized test scores as the primary measure of “successful” schools has crowded out what should be an essential criterion for well-educated students: a sense of responsibility for the well-being of others.
  • teachers, janitors and bus drivers are all trained to identify instances of bullying, and taught how to intervene.
susan  carter morgan

Are wired kids well served by schools? | Tech news blog - CNET News.com - 0 views

  • Among the generation of kids growing up wired, many teens are hyper-motivated to learn a special skill like how to create a podcast, direct a YouTube video, publish an anime site, or hack an iPhone.
susan  carter morgan

21st Century Teaching and Learning, Part 1 : April 2008 : THE Journal - 0 views

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    New technology has challenged the way in which education is delivered, but newer technologies are now challenging how people process information and what they expect to be able to do with that information.
Demetri Orlando

Thoughts About Education: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - 3 views

  • The second way to enhance motivation is to make children aware of how much fun learning can be. This strategy is preferable on many counts.
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    enjoyment of learning can be a flow state
Marti Weston

Cool Websites, Software and Internet Tips - 2 views

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    Make Use of Blog -- All about making effective use of digital resources.
Sarah Hanawald

Why Every Professor Needs Linguistics 101 - Commentary - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 1 views

  • By sophomore year, they say, college students have gained little ground in any of these areas. What do these three measures have in common? They ask students to think about language less intuitively and instead as a system with rules.
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      That's a huge leap in one sentence. How so? What's the evidence that weaknesses in these three areas are language-based?
susan  carter morgan

Creating Passionate Users: Crash course in learning theory - 0 views

  • the learner's brain will do everything possible to look for something more interesting.
  • The most compelling and motivating reason/benefit is almost always the thing you say only after you've answered at least three "Yeah, but WHY do I care?" questions.
  • Those who have taught a topic have a big advantage writing about it--they've fielded the questions and watched people struggle.
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  • Remember, it's never about you. It's about how the learner feels about himself as a result of the learning experience
Jason Ramsden

YouTube - Kaplan University Desks TV - 0 views

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    A Kaplan University commercial that speaks about "Desks TV"; school that fits in your life and adapts to how you learn.
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