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Political Debate In Australia - 1 views

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shared by Tony Searl on 26 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • Despite the exponential increases in public education and access to information in the past century, the quality of political debate appears to have become increasingly unsophisticated, appealing to the lowest common denominator of understanding
    • Tony Searl
      Tony Searl on 26 Jul 11
       
      this is so true
  • In 1860 the technology was primitive but the ideas were profound and sophisticated. In 2011 technology is sophisticated but the ideas uttered by presidential aspirants are embarrassing in their banality, ignorance and naivety.
    • Tony Searl
      Tony Searl on 26 Jul 11
       
      absolutely why little of the DER has ANYTHING to do with technology. Like a rat with a gold tooth
  • In 2006 I suggested that it might be time to actually define ''Education'', something omitted in the draft bill, and to explore its role in personal and community life, but this was rejected as too ambitious.
  • Tony Searl on 26 Jul 11
     
    This is by far the best-educated cohort in our history - on paper, anyway - but apparently lacking in courage, judgment, capacity to analyse or even simple curiosity, except about immediate personal needs.
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Section 1: Getting Started | SocioloG+ - 7 views

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shared by Jenny Gilbert on 25 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Jenny Gilbert on 25 Sep 11
     
    best guide found so far for getting to know G+ 
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Stykz - The first multi-platform stick figure animation program - 0 views

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  • John Pearce on 14 Apr 09
     
    "Stykz is the first multi-platform stick figure animation program in the world (as far as we know!), and it is COMPLETELY FREE! If you've ever used Pivot StickFigure Animator, you'll feel right at home and will appreciate the extra features that Stykz has to offer! And even if you haven't used Pivot, you'll find Stykz to be a powerful, easy to learn tool for creating great looking stick figure animations quickly and efficiently."
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Annotating the Web with Diigo on the iPad - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 3 views

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  • Roland Gesthuizen on 26 Apr 11
     
    But I have discovered another use for Diigo: annotating websites on the iPad. As far as I know, Diigo offers the only means to highlight passages and add annotations to websites from within the iPad's native Safari browser. Diigo does this through the Web Highlighter bookmarklet, which opens up a toolbar that looks like this:
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Lessons from Schrödinger's Cat - The Learner's Way - 0 views

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shared by Nigel Coutts on 03 Feb 19 - No Cached
  • Nigel Coutts on 03 Feb 19
     
    There are some ideas which seem to translate nicely into fields of thought far from their point of origin. These are  ideas which shine a metaphorical light on concepts and allow us to develop a deeper understanding of that concept once we see it from a fresh perspective. Schrödinger's Cat is one such idea.
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I dare you to measure the "value" I add « No Sleep 'til Summer:: - 5 views

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shared by Chris Betcher on 24 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • But never will you be able to judge me or my students by one day or one test. Never will I give one iota of care about your tests, no matter how hard I work to help my students to do their best on it, knowing they aren’t meant to pass it because it is written far above their reading levels, and were written with native English speakers in mind. You can’t measure me as a teacher, because you haven’t imagined teachers like me or classes like mine. Their experiences are outside yours.
  • Tell me how important your data and tests are, and I will tell you how I don’t value your data because it tells me so little about my students yet so much about your educational system.
  • Your data says one thing: your system is what fails my students.
  • Chris Betcher on 24 Mar 12
     
    Tell me about the algorithms you applied when you took data from 16 students over a course of nearly five years of teaching and somehow used it to judge me as "below average" and "average".
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Learning with 'e's: Learners as producers - 5 views

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shared by Tania Sheko on 15 Sep 13 - No Cached
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      Tania Sheko on 15 Sep 13
       
      Teachers must become comfortable with becoming co-learners if they are to remain relevant to students in a technology rich learning economy.
  • The effect of "learners as producers" as they post, comment and add value to their friends' posts is incredible. The multiplier effects of such means of transfer of knowledge are far-reaching. It goes beyond what a teacher can necessarily and possibly teach within the confines of the formal contact hours. The combination of synchronous and asynchronous learning has definitely enriched students' as well as the teacher's learning.
  • Tania Sheko on 15 Sep 13
     
    Teachers won't be redundant in the new technology rich learning economy, but they will need to adapt as conditions change, becoming guides and mentors rather than instructors. summary via Judy O'Connell

Photo competition, I'd love your votes! - 0 views

started by Louise Robinson-Lay on 15 Jul 15 no follow-up yet
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Why borrowing from the 'best' school systems sounds good - but isn't - The Washington Post - 0 views

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shared by Aaron Davis on 29 Sep 15 - No Cached
  • In education, too, the impact of policy borrowing is far less immediate or impressive. For those who work in classrooms and schools, the inconvenient truth is that the real benefits of borrowing from the best are not always visible or tangible.
  • Policies can be easily borrowed, but the processes of implementation that make them work in context largely cannot
  • *Take effective design principles rather than entire policies, and develop new approaches based on these. *Develop such approaches in context by drawing heavily upon the good and effective practice that already resides within the system. *Put in place high-quality implementation processes so that the impact of any new approach will be maximized. *Invest in continued adaptation and refinement of any new initiative or intervention to ensure a close cultural and contextual fit.
  • Aaron Davis on 29 Sep 15
     
    A post from Alma Harris, Yong Zhao and Michelle Jones on the importance of developing contextual solutions. A reminder why things like IOI Process and the Modern Learning Canvas are so important as they offer a method for developing unique solutions.
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t r u t h o u t | Lessons to Be Learned From Paulo Freire as Education Is Being Taken O... - 5 views

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shared by Tony Searl on 26 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Not only does she not have any experience in education and is totally unqualified for the job, but her background mimics the worst of elite arrogance and unaccountable power
  • For Freire, pedagogy was central to a formative culture that makes both critical consciousness and social action possible
  • pedagogy at its best is not about training in techniques and methods, nor does it involve coercion or political indoctrination. Indeed, far from a mere method or an a priori technique to be imposed on all students, education is a political and moral practice that provides the knowledge, skills and social relations that enable students to explore for themselves the possibilities of what it means to be engaged citizens, while expanding and deepening their participation in the promise of a substantive democracy
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  • ffering a way of thinking beyond the seeming naturalness or inevitability of the current state of things, challenging assumptions validated by "common sense," soaring beyond the immediate confines of one's experiences, entering into a dialogue with history and imagining a future that would not merely reproduce the present.
  • Giving students the opportunity to be problem posers and engage in a culture of questioning in the classroom foregrounds the crucial issue of who has control over the conditions of learning, and how specific modes of knowledge, identities and authority are constructed within particular sets of classroom relations.
  • Paulo strongly believed that democracy could not last without the formative culture that made it possible. Educational sites both within schools and the broader culture represented some of the most important venues through which to affirm public values, support a critical citizenry and resist those who would deny the empowering functions of teaching and learning.
  • Tony Searl on 26 Nov 10
     
    There is little interest in understanding the pedagogical foundation of higher education as a deeply civic and political project that provides the conditions for individual autonomy and takes liberation and the practice of freedom as a collective goal
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edublogs: Angela McFarlane @ BLC07: Why do we build communities? - 0 views

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shared by Mark Boyle on 03 Mar 09 - Cached
  • I think eduBuzz.org has helped create not just this, but far more in terms of explicit reflection that wasn't there before. I'm wondering whether reflection is, in fact, a personal, private thing rather than a community issue, since often the community at large may not choose to be 'interested' in what you have to say. Take live blog posts, for example, written for the author more than the audience. The biggest problem of online communities, and we've seen this, too, in East Lothian and eduBuzz.org, is that novices in particular find it hard to filter information. Angela says that the problem is one students have, but so many of our teachers and managers also have trouble filtering what is important, what is of interest and might be important, what is of interest but might be a waste of time, and what is of no interest at all, personal or professional. Teachers and students are guilty of not knowing how to question the authority of an information source, other than to say blogs must be relatively poor quality and the BBC must be of relatively high quality (both, of course, had had their moments). And again, not just students but for many teachers, too, it is not cool to have an extensive vocabulary to express oneself. We see a resistance in students to use words to say how they are feeling beyond 'good', 'bad' and fine (and I'd be advocating the use of sites like We feel fine to both educate our students and help counter this claim to some extent), and we also see resistance from some teachers to use a more extensive vocabulary to think about teaching and learning. Finally, both teachers and students, because we over test, tend to not want to do anything that doesn't fit into the test. We cut and paste without engaging with material, we can take tests but cannot learn.
    • Mark Boyle
      Mark Boyle on 04 Mar 09
       
      From Diigo

How And Why To Make Side Projects Work At A Digital Agency - 1 views

started by digividia on 29 Apr 24 no follow-up yet
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