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António Teixeira

Benjamin Zander | Teachers TV - 0 views

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benjamin zander positive thinking

shared by António Teixeira on 02 Aug 08 - Cached
  • Talking to headteachers at a conference organised by the National College of School Leadership, Zander explains why we should stop listening to the negative voices in our heads and give ourselves and others an A-grade. He urges people to think positively and be open to possibilities. He argues that we spend too much time and energy being weighed down by negative thinking and downward spirals. The secret, he says, is to try to live in possibility, and not to take yourself too seriously.
  • António Teixeira on 02 Aug 08
     
    Participação de Benjamin Zander numa conferência de líderes escolares...
Hugo Domingos

How the iPhone Could Reboot Education | Gadget Lab | Wired.com - 0 views

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wired.com mobile iphone education university m-learning

shared by Hugo Domingos on 08 Feb 10 - Cached
  • How do you educate a generation of students eternally distracted by the internet, cellphones and video games? Easy. You enable them by handing out free iPhones — and then integrating the gadget into your curriculum.
  • That’s the idea Abilene Christian University has to refresh classroom learning. Located in Texas, the private university just finished its first year of a pilot program, in which 1,000 freshman students had the choice between a free iPhone or an iPod Touch.
  • Think web apps to turn in homework, look up campus maps, watch lecture podcasts and check class schedules and grades. For classroom participation, there’s even polling software for Abilene students to digitally raise their hand.
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  • The iPhone is aiding Abilene in giving students the information they need — when they want it, wherever they want it, said Bill Rankin, a professor of medieval studies who helped plan the initiative.
  • Conversely, the problem with the internet is there’s too much information, and it’s difficult to determine which data is valuable.
  • nstead of standing in front of a classroom and talking for an hour, Rankin instructs his students to use their iPhones to look up relevant information on the fly. Then, the students can discuss the information they’ve found, and Rankin leads the dialogue by helping assess which sources are accurate and useful.
  • “Polling opens up new realms for people for discussion,” said Tyler Sutphen, an ACU sophomore who has participated in the iPhone initiative for a year. “It’s a lot more interactive for those who aren’t as willing to jump up and throw out their answer in class. Instead, you push a button on the iPhone.”
António Teixeira

School & Games Overlay - 0 views

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GBL games education learning

shared by António Teixeira on 17 Feb 10 - Cached
  • That’s what I imagine, schools and classrooms that are as permeable as possible, so that learning leaks out — not that we’re losing it, but because we’ve stopped trying to contain it, allowing learning to grow, to network, to fertilize other learning.
  • School is a closed environment
  • But I’m wondering about a commercial opportunity, or open source collaboration, to develop a package that overlays a schools curriculum with some sort of ARG (alternate reality game), along with game master instructions, social network plugins, a variety of barcoded clue stickers that can be planted, etc. Seems like some hard-fun learning.
  • António Teixeira on 17 Feb 10
     
    Artigo sobre a importância dos jogos na aprendizagem.
Teresa Pombo

Giving Children the Tools is Not Enough | edte.ch - 0 views

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shared by Teresa Pombo on 18 Dec 09 - Cached
  • Giving Children the Tools is Not Enough
  • Unless classroom technology is the same in every classroom, teachers are often left trying to develop and nurture a mindset, an open ethos of approprate use in a single year.
António Teixeira

TEDxNYed: This is bullshit « BuzzMachine - 0 views

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TED education Jarvis teaching lectures

shared by António Teixeira on 12 Mar 10 - Cached
  • What does this remind of us of? The classroom, of course, and the entire structure of an educational system built for the industrial age, turning out students all the same, convincing them that there is one right answer
  • But that is what education and media do: they validate.
  • Do what you do best and link to the rest.
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  • We tell them our answers before they’ve asked the questions. We drill them and test them and tell them they’ve failed if they don’t regurgitate back our lectures as lessons learned. That is a system built for the industrial age, for the assembly line, stamping out everything the same: students as widgets, all the same.
  • Google, he said, is looking for “non-routine problem-solving skills.”
  • “In the real world,” he said, “the tests are all open book, and your success is inexorably determined by the lessons you glean glean from the free market.”
  • We must stop our culture of standardized testing and standardized teaching
  • 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. Life is a beta.
  • The school becomes not a factory but an incubator.
  • António Teixeira on 12 Mar 10
     
    As notas de Jeff Jarvis para uma TED Talk que ainda não está disponível em vídeo.
Hugo Domingos

Intelligent Video: The Top Cultural & Educational Video Sites | Open Culture - 0 views

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education documentaries teaching film media

shared by Hugo Domingos on 22 Jun 09 - Cached
  • Hugo Domingos on 22 Jun 09
     
    Os melhores sites com documentários e vídeos educacionais
António Teixeira

New virtual bank for teachers to share ideas | Education | The Guardian - 0 views

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shared by António Teixeira on 16 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Will a virtual bank for teachers to share ideas revolutionise lesson planning or stifle creativity?
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      António Teixeira on 16 Apr 09
       
      Limita a criatividade?! Ler um livro alguma vez limita a imaginação?...
  • At present, most teachers wince at the very mention of virtual learning platforms. Most VLPs are a horrific combination of required - the government has declared that all schools must have one - and useless. Unconnected and underdeveloped, many VLPs are devoid of content: empty cathedrals, monuments to technological failure.
  • "The students we teach come from a media age; they are visually bombarded from every angle. As teachers we have to compete against their entertainment. A worksheet is not enough to engage them any more."
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  • Fears have been expressed that the bank will encourage teachers to skimp on planning, encouraging them to copy and paste material at the last minute like their more irresponsible students.
  • A star rating like that used by eBay will allow teachers to rank resources they have tried and approved, encouraging - as Iglesias puts it - "the cream to rise to the top".
  • Because the project is entirely open source, downloaded resources can be adapted and changed without fear of breaching copyright laws.
  • Developed with EU funding and pioneered in Spain, the bank's source code is free for other countries to use and copy.
  • To maintain quality assurance, all of the bank's resources will be vetted by local authorities and/or the national learning grid.
  • In the next academic year, all schools will have access to a new National Digital Resource Bank.
  • The idea is to pull together all the resources created by teachers, schools and public funding into one central location.
  • "We should be promoting tools rather than content," says Jenkins. "Students should be encouraged to be critical by remixing, commenting on and sharing the resources they are given. They should be creating their own content.
  • António Teixeira on 16 Apr 09
     
    Os britânicos, em breve, passarão a ter uma base de dados de recursos centralizada para uso de todos os professores.
Hugo Domingos

News: The Evidence on Online Education - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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research education elearning online learning study

shared by Hugo Domingos on 27 Jul 09 - Cached
  • The study found that students who took all or part of their instruction online performed better, on average, than those taking the same course through face-to-face instruction
  • hose who took "blended" courses -- those that combine elements of online learning and face-to-face instruction -- appeared to do best of all
  • But the positive results appeared consistent (and statistically significant) for all types of higher education, undergraduate and graduate,
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  • For its conclusions, however, the Education Department considered only a small number (51) of independent studies that met strict criteria.
  • The use of video or online quizzes -- frequently encouraged for online education -- "does not appear to enhance learning,"
  • Using technology to give students "control of their interactions" has a positive effect on student learning, however. "Studies indicate that manipulations that trigger learner activity or learner reflection and self-monitoring of understanding are effective when students pursue online learning as individuals,"
  • "Studies in which learners in the online condition spent more time on task than students in the face-to-face condition found a greater benefit for online learning,
  • In many of the studies showing an advantage for online learning, the online and classroom conditions differed in terms of time spent, curriculum and pedagogy. It was the combination of elements in the treatment conditions (which was likely to have included additional learning time and materials as well as additional opportunities for collaboration) that produced the observed learning advantages
  • Education Secretary Arne Duncan urged educators to consider the report's findings. “This new report reinforces that effective teachers need to incorporate digital content into everyday classes and consider open-source learning management systems, which have proven cost effective in school districts and colleges nationwide,”
  • "It gives people greater opportunity for flexibility, for experiential learning, for illustrating things in multiple ways such as visualization." What the study demonstrates, she said, is that colleges need to think broadly about using online education,
  • "This report correctly recognizes that online learning and blended learning are growing components of higher education and, employed properly, can play a significant role in promoting student learning.
  • These results demonstrate why more research is needed
  • Successful education has always been about engaging students whether it is in an online environment, face to face or in a blended setting. And fundamental to that is having faculty who are fully supported and engaged in that process as well."
  • Hugo Domingos on 27 Jul 09
     
    Análise ao resultado de um estudo do Dep. Educação dos EUA sobre as vantagens do online learning.
Hugo Domingos

Podcast Generator - Open Source Podcast Publishing Solution - 1 views

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opensource podcast generator podcasting software free

shared by Hugo Domingos on 13 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Podcast Generator is a free web based podcast publishing script written in PHP: upload media files (audio-video) via a web form along with episode information and automatically create podcast w3c-compliant feed including iTunes specific tags
  • Podcast Generator is a free web based podcast publishing script written in PHP: upload media files (audio-video) via a web form along with episode information and automatically create podcast w3c-compliant feed including iTunes specific tags
  • Setup Wizard);
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  • Supports ANY media filetype (mp3, ogg, mpg, m4v, mov, pdf, etc...) and allows to create mixed audio and video podcasts;
  • Dynamically created "Recent podcasts" and "Podcast Archive" web pages;
António Teixeira

Open Source Physics - 0 views

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science physics resources opensource

shared by António Teixeira on 15 Nov 09 - Cached
  • António Teixeira on 15 Nov 09
     
    "The OSP Collection provides curriculum resources that engage students in physics, computation, and computer modeling. Computational physics and computer modeling provide students with new ways to understand, describe, explain, and predict physical phenomena."
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