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Nigel Coutts

Girls in Tech - Reflections from VIVID Ideas - The Learner's Way - 0 views

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shared by Nigel Coutts on 12 Jun 16 - No Cached
  • Nigel Coutts on 12 Jun 16
     
    Sydney has become a beacon that brings people together and sparks conversations. Most recently the conversation centred on the topic of girls in tech and what might be done to re-dress the gender balance in STEAM subjects and related career pathways. Sponsored by INTEL this Vivid Ideas event drew a mix of entrepreneurs, educators and tech luminaries to the Museum of Contemporary Art on a Saturday afternoon to share their ideas on what might be done.
Rhondda Powling

Do Podcasts Help Students Learn? - 3 views

www.convergemag.com/...rge-Washington-University.html

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shared by Rhondda Powling on 30 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Rhondda Powling on 30 Nov 10
     
    In Autumn 2009, the George Washington University's Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning studied a world history class of 262 students to find the answer. The answer isn't simply "yes or no" - it depends on the student's learning style, gender and motivation.
Roland Gesthuizen

Putting heads together - 1 views

web.mit.edu/...collective-intel-1001.html

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shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 03 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • Groups whose members had higher levels of “social sensitivity” — the willingness of the group to let all its members take turns and apply their skills to a given challenge — were more collectively intelligent. “Social sensitivity has to do with how well group members perceive each other’s emotions,”
  • What our results indicate is that people with social skills are good for a group — whether they are male or female.
  • We also think it’s possible to improve the intelligence of a group, by either changing the members of a group, or teaching them better ways of interacting
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  • the key point is great, that features of the group can be more important than features of the individuals that make up the group, for determining outcomes
  • clarifying the conditions under which the proportion of women makes a difference would be interesting
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 03 Jan 11
     
    "A new study co-authored by MIT researchers documents the existence of collective intelligence among groups of people who cooperate well, showing that such intelligence extends beyond the cognitive abilities of the groups' individual members, and that the tendency to cooperate effectively is linked to the number of women in a group."
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 03 Jan 11
     
    Some interesting implications here for teams at schools including their composition and providing training to develop social skills.
Rhondda Powling

National Literacy Trust research reveals widening gender gap in boys' and girls' attitu... - 1 views

www.literacytrust.org.uk/...es_towards_reading_and_writing

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shared by Rhondda Powling on 08 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Rhondda Powling on 08 Feb 11
     
    Children, Reading Champions, Reading Connects, Reading The Game, Schools & teaching, Words for Work, Young People
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