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Roland Gesthuizen

Putting heads together - 1 views

  • 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
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    "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."
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    Some interesting implications here for teams at schools including their composition and providing training to develop social skills.
John Pearce

Group discussion made easy | micromobs - 1 views

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    micromobs is a group messaging service and is the easiest way to manage and communicate with multiple groups. micromobs presents your group messages as a stream of content which means you can chose which messages to respond to and which messages to skim over or ignore. This means your group messages will no longer clutter your inbox, and you wont need to go to different websites to interact with your various social groups.
Tony Richards

The Atlantic Online | January/February 2010 | What Makes a Great Teacher? | Amanda Ripley - 0 views

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    "What Makes a Great Teacher? Image credit: Veronika Lukasova Also in our Special Report: National: "How America Can Rise Again" Is the nation in terminal decline? Not necessarily. But securing the future will require fixing a system that has become a joke. Video: "One Nation, On Edge" James Fallows talks to Atlantic editor James Bennet about a uniquely American tradition-cycles of despair followed by triumphant rebirths. Interactive Graphic: "The State of the Union Is ..." ... thrifty, overextended, admired, twitchy, filthy, and clean: the nation in numbers. By Rachael Brown Chart: "The Happiness Index" Times were tough in 2009. But according to a cool Facebook app, people were happier. By Justin Miller On August 25, 2008, two little boys walked into public elementary schools in Southeast Washington, D.C. Both boys were African American fifth-graders. The previous spring, both had tested below grade level in math. One walked into Kimball Elementary School and climbed the stairs to Mr. William Taylor's math classroom, a tidy, powder-blue space in which neither the clocks nor most of the electrical outlets worked. The other walked into a very similar classroom a mile away at Plummer Elementary School. In both schools, more than 80 percent of the children received free or reduced-price lunches. At night, all the children went home to the same urban ecosystem, a zip code in which almost a quarter of the families lived below the poverty line and a police district in which somebody was murdered every week or so. Video: Four teachers in Four different classrooms demonstrate methods that work (Courtesy of Teach for America's video archive, available in February at teachingasleadership.org) At the end of the school year, both little boys took the same standardized test given at all D.C. public schools-not a perfect test of their learning, to be sure, but a relatively objective one (and, it's worth noting, not a very hard one). After a year in Mr. Taylo
Rhondda Powling

Glassboard. Private group sharing done right. - 2 views

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    Glassboard is an app for Android, Windows, and iOS phones that enables you to create and participate in private groups. Using the app you can create and participate in as many groups as you like. You can specify which groups can see the content you share and you can share notes, links, pictures, and videos. The content you share and the content others share with you is displayed in a news feed on your mobile device.
crescent crave

International Netherlands Group - Job Vacancies - Jobs Worldwide - 0 views

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    ING Group is a Dutch multinational banking and financial services corporation based in Amsterdam. The business of this company is primarily insurance services, direct banking, investment banking, retail banking, commercial banking, and asset management. ING means Internationale Nederlanden Groep or International Netherlands Group in English. The company is also one of the Dutch members of the Inter-Alpha Group of Banks, a cooperative consortium of 11 prominent European Banks.
John Pearce

Beyond Mere Gathering - 0 views

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    This article outlines ways to increase the productivity of groups, whether they be face-to-face or remotely connected through Web 2.0.
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    Proponents of Web 2.0 and social networking often make claims for the benefits of this popular (supposedly new) phenomenon that include the likelihood of collaboration and group problem-solving as students from around the world team to take on important challenges. While collaboration might result if the activities are structured in ways that produce those results, decades of school and corporate efforts suggest that quality is unlikely to result from throwing folks together in groups while leaving issues of process to happenstance. This article outlines ways to increase the productivity of groups, whether they be face-to-face or remotely connected through Web 2.0.
Steve Madsen

Wiggio - Makes it easy to work in groups. - 0 views

shared by Steve Madsen on 11 Sep 08 - Cached
  • Wiggio lets you use the following group tools, and it’s all for free! Messages— send mass text messages, voice messages and emails from wiggio Calendar— keep a shared group calendar that will send you text message reminders before all your meetings, practices, rehearsals, games and other events Poll—survey your entire group and get their responses as they answer Folder— dump all your groups’ files into one folder and never send another attachment Meetings— never walk 15 minutes through the snow to get to a 10 minute meeting again… setup free conference calls and web chats on Wiggio Links— keep a shared favorites folder
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    This seems to have a more intuitive feel as compared to the likes of yahoo groups and google groups. Will be testing it out with a class.
Rhondda Powling

Blastgroups - Create a Free Group Website and Email List for any Group - 1 views

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    A Blast Group is similar to a Ning, but FREE!! Allows the creation, for each of your students, their own page. It can have their own "stream", plus you can have a main page with a forum, blog, links, calendar etc. The idea is that students will contribute useful links etc, have a place where they can bounce ideas off each other, be aware of deadlines, as well as having their own space to capture their thoughts as we go along. Blast Groups can be private or public
Rhondda Powling

ThinkBinder - 4 views

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    Think Binder is a website that gives students a place to create online study groups. In each group students can share files, share links, chat, and draw on a collaborative whiteboard. Students can create and join multiple groups. Getting started with Think Binder is very easy and quick..
dean groom

IT VET HSC Study Group - 39 views

I've kicked off http://vetinfotech.ning.com for my year 12 VET Information Technology class. Basically I am scaffolding this years coaching for the new exam out of there. I have 9 kids. It will use...

it mentors vet

started by dean groom on 24 Jul 08 no follow-up yet
Nigel Coutts

Why we fear data and how our perception can change. - The Learner's Way - 0 views

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    Data occupies a somewhat curious place within education. Mention it to teachers and you tend to get one of two responses. One group will roll their eyes and with great sarcasm how data is "so exciting". The other group responds with something akin to "actually I quite like data" indicating that experience has shown them that they are members of a small group. The question is why do some people find data to be a useful and fascinating tool while others see it as a good method for inducing sleep? 
crescent crave

Burberry Group Inc. - Job Vacancies - Jobs Worldwide - 0 views

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    Jobs Abroad, Work Abroad, International Jobs Online - We all know that Burberry is a luxurious brand for fashion. If a person owns one of their products, a lot of people reacts. If you are given a chance to work with Burberry Group Inc., will you work for them? Burberry Group Inc. is a British luxury fashion house located in London, England. This renowned fashion house focuses on ready-to-wear outerwear, sunglasses, cosmetics, and fragrances.
Michelle Thompson

Blended Learning - YouTube - 0 views

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    Innovative use of blended learning, using a rotating centres approach: Teacher instruction, Group work, Technology group. They are able to do more differentiated instruction within this model and looks like they're using some digital curriculum or an LMS.
Chris Betcher

Free Technology for Teachers: 7 Services for Sending Group Texts to Parents and Students - 4 views

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    Managing a list of cell phone numbers can be a daunting task. Here are seven services that educators can use to easily send and manage group text messages.
anonymous

Plurking Educators - Group | Diigo - 0 views

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    A group for people who are using plurk for educational networking and/or learning from their personal learning network
Jenny Gilbert

VCE English - Group | Diigo - 0 views

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    The group is a start for generating resources related to the delivery of VCE English units 1-4 in Victoria Australia. I hope you will join in!
John Pearce

Using Google Apps to make the most of group work - 5 views

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    From the Google For Students blog comes this set of notes on how to set up a group project using gmail and Google Docs. There are some other good tips in the Comments.
Russell Ogden

VCE Psych Exchange - 7 views

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    Teachers taking the Victorian Certificate of Education Psychology units can share resources via this Diigo group
dean groom

UpToUs - Manage your kids' activities and connect with other parents - 0 views

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    Communities Start a community for your classroom, sports team or any other trusted group. Its fast, free and easy. Applications Take advantage of free built-in applications: Centralized calendar Volunteering organizer Homework panel File Upload/Download Photo sharing Discussion groups Potluck organizer Snack scheduler
rasel ahmed

History Teachers Group - 9 views

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