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What is iGoogle? - 0 views

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    discussed during Classroom 2.0 Live Meetup on April 30, 2008
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Ewan Macintosh - Awesome EduTech guy - 0 views

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    Ewan in the Moodle/Games in Edu A list blogger. Great insight, creativity and action!
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Raising expectations « Educational Discourse - 0 views

  • they will continue to live like their parents with the same expectations
  • what students might need to do well as they leave school
  • Communication skills - delivering their message clearly without misconceptions.
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  • ollaborative decision-making and work strategies. Groups are vital to progress - working together to create a product is found in nearly all professions - from construction to high-tech scientific work. Up until now collaborative - group - work has been “done” but there seems to be a lack of focus on learning those essential dynamics for productive collaboration.
  • Students are mostly “me” focused, it goes with the age.
  • he system really doesn’t encourage novel ideas or divergent thinking. Instead, there continues to be a dominate frame of reference that if you “learn” enough information and can then answer the questions on a test,
  • here needs to be direct instruction on effective and non-effective collaboration
  • Presentation skills, on the other hand, are largely neglected in schools, and few people put effort into developing them. Thus, presentation skills are a primary differentiator among you and your peers.”
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Metavolution - What is AI? - 0 views

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    the Appreciative Inquiy Approach to learning. Compares with the Problem Based Learning Approach.

Merging the tried-and-true with the new - 43 views

started by jkrauss on 13 Jun 08 no follow-up yet
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Situated Cognition and the Culture of Learning - 18 views

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    A research paper by John Seely Brown, Allan Collins and Paul Duguid, one of my favorites - Authors discuss learning theory and how conventional schooling too often ignores the influence of school culture on what is learned in school. Good background for why PBL works, especially the info on using tools.
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Contrarian Investor Predicts Economic Crash in China - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • As most of the world bets on China to help lift the global economy out of recession, Mr. Chanos is warning that China’s hyperstimulated economy is headed for a crash, rather than the sustained boom that most economists predict.
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      How will the Chinese economic crash effect the world economy?
  • “Bubbles are best identified by credit excesses, not valuation excesses,” he said in a recent appearance on CNBC. “And there’s no bigger credit excess than in China.”
  • Mr. Chanos, 51, whose hedge fund, Kynikos Associates, based in New York, has $6 billion under management, is hardly the only skeptic on China. But he is certainly the most prominent and vocal.
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  • Most economists and governments expect Chinese growth momentum to continue this year, buoyed by what remains of a $586 billion government stimulus program that began last year, meant to lift exports and consumption among Chinese consumers.
  • Mr. Chanos often responds to critics of short-selling by pointing to the critical role they played in identifying problems at Enron, Boston Market and other “financial disasters” over the years.
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    "James S. Chanos built one of the largest fortunes on Wall Street by foreseeing the collapse of Enron and other highflying companies whose stories were too good to be true."
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Teaching Tools: Using Online Simulations and Games - 19 views

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    3 examples of teachers bringing gaming into classroom, reflecting on what works. Near end of this post, there's info about setting up free trial of SimCEO. Would like to hear your reactions/reviews if you give it a try.
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Found Poetry - Primary Source Set - For Teachers (Library of Congress) - 0 views

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    OH and you know what I thought of-- Wordles with key words-- when you look under "Advanced" in Wordle they show how you can emphasize (make bigger) certain words based on their value to you.
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What Does Successful Project-Based Learning Look Like? | Edutopia - 0 views

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    The end of the school year provides educators with opportunities to reflect: blogger Bob Lenz used his time to create a working definition of project based learning.
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How to submit your site or blog to Google webmaster Tool - 0 views

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    Google Webmaster is a tool that gives us the chance to Submit your website/blog sitemap to Google so our blog can be easily and rapidly indexed in Google search engine. Once you have been able to submit your website sitemap, What Google does is to start sending bots to your website or blog and crawling your website or blog pages and posts.
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How To Back Up Your Blogger Blog Data And Keep It Secured !! - 0 views

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    Today, we are going to talk about a very vital information you should have know from the beginning of your blogging journey. Data back up. Someone may ask what is a back up ? Back up is the process of copying and archiving of computer data so it may be used to restore the original when may the current data is lost or damaged.
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Questions Before Answers: What Drives a Great Lesson? | Edutopia - 0 views

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    Students engage more passionately when trying to answer a question that interests them. Here are ten opening questions that have inspired this kind of learning
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Project-Based Learning: What Experts Say | Edutopia - 0 views

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    "Educators and researchers share their views on why project-based learning is an important learning strategy for classrooms."
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What is PBL? | Project Based Learning | BIE - 0 views

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    A great site on Project Based Learning 
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