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Rhondda Powling

Awesome Graphic on 21st Century Pedagogy ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning - 11 views

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shared by Rhondda Powling on 05 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • Rhondda Powling on 05 Apr 13
     
    Concepts that make 21st century pedagogy by Andrew Churches.
Rhondda Powling

Top 10 Search Modifiers: Why They Matter, What They Are & How To Use Them - 3 views

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shared by Rhondda Powling on 01 Nov 13 - No Cached
  • Rhondda Powling on 01 Nov 13
     
    A useful post that give a lot of good advice about how to get the best from your Google searches. Google has become very good at understanding and providing relevant results for many popular queries, so there are a lot of people getting into bad habits and lazy with their searches and simply taking the auto-selected results. As teachers we should be teaching our students to explore more deeply and critically appraise all their results before coming to any conclusions or using the information. Students need to learn to use Google search modifiers. These manual commands can be used in any search queries and will allow you force Google to bring you the results you want.
Tony Searl

Turning Children into Data - 4 views

www.alfiekohn.org/...data.htm

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shared by Tony Searl on 24 Aug 10 - Cached
  • The teachers understood that learning doesn’t have to be measured in order to be assessed. 
  • It focused on teachers’ personal “connection[s] with our subject area” as the basis for helping students to think “like mathematicians or historians or writers or scientists, instead of drilling them in the vocabulary of those subject areas or breaking down the skills.”  In a word, the teachers put kids before data.
  • All that does is corrupt the measure (unless it’s a test score, in which case it’s already misleading), undermine collaboration among teachers, and make teaching less joyful and therefore less effective by meaningful criteria.
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  • kids should have a lot to say about their assessment.
  • we want to create an environment where students can “experience success and failure not as reward and punishment but as information."  
  • students’ desire to learn?
  • The more that students are led to focus on how well they're doing, the less engaged they tend to become with what they're doing. 
  • A school that’s all about achievement and performance is a school that’s not really about discovery and understanding.
  • teachers’ isolation, fatalism, and fear (of demands by clueless officials to raise test scores at any cost).
  • Tony Searl on 24 Aug 10
     
    "While some education conferences are genuinely inspiring, others serve mostly to demonstrate how even intelligent educators can be remarkably credulous, nodding agreeably at descriptions of programs that ought to elicit fury or laughter, avidly copying down hollow phrases from a consultant's PowerPoint presentation, awed by anything that's borrowed from the business world or involves digital technology. Many companies and consultants thrive on this credulity, and also on teachers' isolation, fatalism, and fear (of demands by clueless officials to raise test scores at any cost). With a good dose of critical thinking and courage, a willingness to say "This is bad for kids and we won't have any part of it," we could drive these outfits out of business -- and begin to take back our schools."
Jess McCulloch

Teachers on learning curve | The Australian - 0 views

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shared by Jess McCulloch on 07 Apr 08 - Cached
  • As a matter of course, technology is also changing the way teachers teach -- from how they engage their students and manage their classrooms, to how they shape their working day, manage their professional lives -- and indeed how they think about a career in education.
  • this is affecting the way she manages the class.
  • "Firstly, I teach in smaller grabs of time," she says, "but this is a good thing. I personally believe that teaching has long been too auditory. It is important to cater for different perceptual styles -- visual, auditory and kinesthetic (learning by doing) -- especially when teaching younger children."
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  • Before the internet, to be a teacher you had to be everything in one person. Now there is a range of possibilities and many more people can become part of the education process,"
    • Jess McCulloch
      Jess McCulloch on 07 Apr 08
       
      Maybe a good conversation starter for technoLOTE?
  • "This is not to diminish the role of educators to simply and an administrative job," she says. "Teaching is an intellectual skill. It is the art of getting people to expand their minds, have insights, develop values and to grow emotionally. That will not change."
    • Jess McCulloch
      Jess McCulloch on 07 Apr 08
       
      A great definition of teaching - one for those who still think they have to know all the content.
anonymous

Gifted Students, Thinking Skills and ICT! - 0 views

www.teachers.ash.org.au/...ICTGT.htm

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shared by anonymous on 30 Nov 08 - Cached
  • anonymous on 30 Nov 08
     
    These are all links to help you embed ICT into your teaching and learning.
Steve Madsen

Domabotics - 0 views

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shared by Steve Madsen on 26 Dec 08 - Cached
  • Robotics is fast becoming an integral part of the school curriculum with it's ability to integrate across a broad range of topics, most notably the Technology, Science and Math Key Learning Areas. Robotics encourages kids to think creatively, analyse situations and apply critical thinking and problem solving skills to real world problems. Teamwork and co-operation are a cornerstone of any robotics project. Students learn it is acceptable to make mistakes, especially if it leads them to better solutions. Robotics is a fun and engaging way to teach fundamental technology, maths and science concepts.
    • Steve Madsen
      Steve Madsen on 26 Dec 08
       
      Nice description as to why to teach robotics
  • Steve Madsen on 26 Dec 08
     
    Australian site that seems to deal with robotics indepth.
Tony Searl

What is data science? - O'Reilly Radar - 1 views

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shared by Tony Searl on 22 Dec 10 - Cached
  • how to use data effectively -- not just their own data, but all the data that's available and relevant
  • Increased storage capacity demands increased sophistication in the analysis and use of that data
  • Once you've parsed the data, you can start thinking about the quality of your data
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  • It's usually impossible to get "better" data, and you have no alternative but to work with the data at hand
  • The most meaningful definition I've heard: "big data" is when the size of the data itself becomes part of the problem
  • Precision has an allure, but in most data-driven applications outside of finance, that allure is deceptive. Most data analysis is comparative:
  • Storing data is only part of building a data platform, though. Data is only useful if you can do something with it, and enormous datasets present computational problems
  • Hadoop has been instrumental in enabling "agile" data analysis. In software development, "agile practices" are associated with faster product cycles, closer interaction between developers and consumers, and testing
  • Faster computations make it easier to test different assumptions, different datasets, and different algorithms
  • It's easer to consult with clients to figure out whether you're asking the right questions, and it's possible to pursue intriguing possibilities that you'd otherwise have to drop for lack of time.
  • Machine learning is another essential tool for the data scientist.
  • According to Mike Driscoll (@dataspora), statistics is the "grammar of data science." It is crucial to "making data speak coherently."
  • Data science isn't just about the existence of data, or making guesses about what that data might mean; it's about testing hypotheses and making sure that the conclusions you're drawing from the data are valid.
  • The problem with most data analysis algorithms is that they generate a set of numbers. To understand what the numbers mean, the stories they are really telling, you need to generate a graph
  • Visualization is crucial to each stage of the data scientist
  • Visualization is also frequently the first step in analysis
  • Casey Reas' and Ben Fry's Processing is the state of the art, particularly if you need to create animations that show how things change over time
  • Making data tell its story isn't just a matter of presenting results; it involves making connections, then going back to other data sources to verify them.
  • Physicists have a strong mathematical background, computing skills, and come from a discipline in which survival depends on getting the most from the data. They have to think about the big picture, the big problem. When you've just spent a lot of grant money generating data, you can't just throw the data out if it isn't as clean as you'd like. You have to make it tell its story. You need some creativity for when the story the data is telling isn't what you think it's telling.
  • It was an agile, flexible process that built toward its goal incrementally, rather than tackling a huge mountain of data all at once.
  • we're entering the era of products that are built on data.
  • We don't yet know what those products are, but we do know that the winners will be the people, and the companies, that find those products.
  • They can think outside the box to come up with new ways to view the problem, or to work with very broadly defined problems: "here's a lot of data, what can you make from it?"
Nigel Coutts

An Introduction to Design Thinking (Part 1) - 0 views

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shared by Nigel Coutts on 31 May 15 - No Cached
  • Nigel Coutts on 31 May 15
     
    'Design Thinking' might just be the next 'new' old thing in education. In her recent address to the National Press Club, Catherine Livingstone of The Business Council of Australia included 'Design Thinking' amongst the critical STEM skills required for Australia's future. But what do we mean by 'Design Thinking' and why should educators be interested?
Tony Searl

Twitter / Home - 1 views

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shared by Tony Searl on 24 Dec 08 - Cached
  • dougpete @JoHart It's going to be a skill to learn, to be sure. #beatcancer
  • Fifikins No, I wouldn't steal a car, but geez, if I could download one for free on the internet I damn sure would!
  • melhutch RT @MaryKayG It will be wonderful when cancer is something we teach students about in History class. #beatcancer
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  • annehodg RT @GeekTown Every tweet that has #beatcancer today raises money for cancer research - they're going for world record today. Please RT
  • annehodg RT @ GeekTown Every tweet that has #beatcancer today raises money for cancer research - they're going for world record today. Please RT
  • annehodg RT @ GeekTown Every tweet that has #beatcancer today raises money for cancer research - they're going for world record today. Please RT
  • raises money for cancer research - they're going for world record today. Please RT
  • annehodg RT @ GeekTown Every tweet that has #beatcancer today raises money for cancer research - they're going for world record today. Please RT
  • anonymous on 24 Dec 08
     
    Grammar Grater - short, lively podcasts on vocab and usage in the Information Age
Tony Searl

Relationships and Uncertainty Matter Most: David Brooks in the New Yorker on Educationa... - 7 views

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shared by Tony Searl on 21 Jan 11 - No Cached
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  • Brooks is arguing for a teaching that prioritizes inquiry, analysis, and process rather than mastering basic skills and learning the classics
  • inquiry based approach where students discuss and debate ideas, understand the importance of critically examining accepted wisdom, seek out new information and new sources and put them into the mix, construct their own answers and put them into play against other perspectives, deepening their understanding as they build their cases and accumulate more evidence for their point of view, yet still respectfully recognizing the possible validity of other points of view.
  • any environment where students and teachers are on the same inquiring side, exploring ideas and making meaning together.
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  • school effectiveness is measured solely by test scores on multiple choice tests, and not on whether students are deeply connecting with teachers or whether they are developing deeper understanding, a sense of nuance, a respect for multiple perspectives, a creativity that finds and then assesses many possible right answers.
  • how can we reconcile this January 2010 New Yorker Brooks with that December 2008 New York Time Brooks?
  • Tony Searl on 21 Jan 11
     
    She stressed the importance of collecting conflicting information before making up one's mind, of calibrating one's certainty level to the strength of the evidence, of enduring uncertainty for long stretches as an answer became clear, of correcting for one's biases.
Roland Gesthuizen

NAPLAN-style testing has 'failed' US schools - 5 views

www.watoday.com.au/...us-schools-20110501-1e395.html

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shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 07 May 11 - No Cached
  • Professor Darling-Hammond said Australia would be wiser to follow the examples of Finland, Korea, Shanghai and Singapore, whose 15-year-olds achieve the best results in numeracy, literacy and science in comparisons with other developed nations.
  • While the basic skills literacy and numeracy tests were designed to help teachers identify children with learning difficulties needing assistance, they are now being used as a competitive measure of school performance on the federal government's My School website.
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 07 May 11
     
    NAPLAN-style testing and reporting has failed in the United States by narrowing the curriculum and corrupting education standards, says a chief education adviser to the US President, Barack Obama. .. The US tests have been criticised for narrowing the curriculum to reading and maths and multiple-choice formats.
Certificate IV Assessment

Certificate IV in Training and Assessment: The Key to New Career - 6 views

The Certificate IV in Training and Assessment is the right course for enhancing and advancing the skills of employees in our company. For those who wanted to be employed as a nationally recognised ...

Certificate IV in Training and Assessment

started by Certificate IV Assessment on 25 Oct 11 no follow-up yet
amanda077

writing competition with personality development class - 1 views

i have heard the 2020 writing competition and personality development class will be conducted under the famous writers and freelancers supervision to enhance the writing skills and find the inner a...

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started by amanda077 on 27 Sep 20 no follow-up yet
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