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Tarmo Toikkanen

EU Kids Online - EU Kids Online - Research - Department of Media and Communications - Home - 0 views

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    Statistics on children's and teenagers' use of online services.
Tarmo Toikkanen

Facebook 'enhances intelligence' but Twitter 'diminishes it', claims psychologist - Tel... - 0 views

  • Sudoku also stretched the working memory, as did keeping up with friends on Facebook, she said. But the ''instant'' nature of texting, Twitter and YouTube was not healthy for working memory.
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    Spending time on the Facebook networking site could enhance a key element of intelligence that is vital to success in life, a psychologist has claimed, but using Twitter may have the opposite effect.
Tarmo Toikkanen

Notschool.net - 0 views

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    Notschool.net is an international 'Online Learning Community' offering an alternative to traditional education for young people who, for a variety of reasons, are unable to engage with school or other complementary provisions such as home tutoring or specialist units. After almost 9 years and 5000 young people, Notschool.net is a full-time alternative provision; successfully demonstrating that young people for whom 'school does not fit' can renew their confidence in learning and gain a range of qualifications that recognise their progress.
Jukka Purma

JIME - Building Open Educational Resources from the Ground Up: South Africa's Free High... - 0 views

  • Ultimately this involves instilling practices within the organization or project that imitate the very characteristics of the resources that OER projects serve to create and support.
  • In March 2002, Mark Horner, a graduate student in physics at the University of Cape Town (UCT), presented a demonstration on waves at a science fair in South Africa. After the demonstration, several high school students approached him, explaining that they did not have a science textbook, and had never had wave phenomena described to them before. The students had pooled their money to purchase a notebook and pen, and they asked Horner to write down the demonstration, step by step, so they could share the notes with their classmates and teachers. Wanting to give the students more than the steps of a wave demonstration, Horner returned to UCT and engaged his colleagues in writing a high school science text that would be free and sharable for all teachers and learners in South Africa. In the process, Free High School Science Texts (FHSST) was born.
  • Through its communication and networking channels, the project grew from an original group of five graduate students who wrote the content locally, to over 420 volunteers who have, since 2002, signed up for an account and logged onto the project website.[[3]] The number of active and sustained contributors of content, however, was smaller—about 50 volunteer authors globally, from South Africa to India, Pakistan, Scotland, and the United States. Of these 50 active volunteers, approximately ten became core participants, contributing content regularly and consistently (i.e., weekly).
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  • Getting volunteers set up to use the CVS repository was a laborious process, and volunteers needed extensive technical understanding. As a result, this placed a substantial burden on the core team volunteers, who had to facilitate contributions from the other volunteers. To lessen this burden, the project experimented with WikiBooks.
  • As a result, FHSST shifted to a third solution, the eventual development and implementation of a content management system (CMS)[[5]]. Drupal was chosen because it was free, relatively easy to set up, and met volunteer needs effectively.
  • In order to submit content to FHSST within the Drupal system, volunteers signed up on the FHSST website, logged on, and chose from the list of available assignments based upon their expertise and interests. The sign-up and log-on processes did not require a screening for credentials. During the initial stages of the project, people volunteered to complete large sections of text, such as chapters. However, FHSST soon found that many of the sections were not being completed within expected timeframes. As a result, FHSST began to divide volunteer tasks into smaller assignments, such as portions of chapters, drawings, illustrations, activities, and examples. FHSST noted that this adaptation facilitated volunteers’ ability to consistently complete assignments within expected timeframes.
  • Since its inception, FHSST offered face-to-face work sessions in which volunteers in the same geographic area met together to develop content collaboratively
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  • The aim of our trials was to identify the weaknesses in the books to inform our second-round editing process and make sure we fix the issues to make the books as usable as possible to our target audience. We also wanted to identify […] what is the [science] laboratory situation at the schools? Do they have equipment to do the experiments so that we could […] tailor our content accordingly.
  • experimentation and adaptation are central components of an open education projects’ ability to sustain itself
  • Since FHSST did not obtain funding until four years after its inception,
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    Mielenkiintoinen ja onnistunut "agile" oppikirjankirjoitusprojekti
Tarmo Toikkanen

Topmarks Education: teaching resources, interactive resources, worksheets, homework, ex... - 0 views

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    Categorized learning games and activities, suitable for IWBs and on the web.
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