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Cathy Oxley

Will Richardson » home - 1 views

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  • Cathy Oxley on 13 Nov 09
     
    This is Will's wiki - Why the Read / Write Web Changes Everything. "It is not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change" - Charles Darwin "The illiterate of the 21st Century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." -- Alvin Toffler
Jodie Riek

Twurdy Search - Search for Readable Results - 0 views

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  • Jodie Riek on 17 Mar 12
     
    Everyone has different reading abilities. Some people searching the web are university professors and others are 5 year old children. Twurdy has been created to provide people with access to search results that suit their own readability level. 
Amanda Rablin

Streams of Content, Limited Attention: The Flow of Information through Social Media (ED... - 0 views

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shared by Amanda Rablin on 09 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Amanda Rablin on 09 Nov 10
     
    Very interesting read. Think of it in the context of eudcation, and it presents challenges and opportunities.
Cathy Oxley

Naming in a Digital World: Creating a Safe Persona on the Internet - ReadWriteThink - 0 views

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  • Cathy Oxley on 10 Jan 10
     
    Naming takes on new meanings in digital settings-as students build personas through e-mail addresses, screen names, and online profiles, they can be unaware of the ways that others may read the information they share.
Roland Gesthuizen

Robert J. Samuelson - School reform's meager results - 0 views

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shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 15 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • few subjects inspire more intellectual dishonesty and political puffery than "school reform." Since the 1960s, waves of "reform" haven't produced meaningful achievement gains.
  • no one has yet discovered transformative changes in curriculum or pedagogy, especially for inner-city schools, that are (in business lingo) "scalable" -- easily transferable to other schools, where they would predictably produce achievement gains.
  • The larger cause of failure is almost unmentionable: shrunken student motivation. Students, after all, have to do the work. If they aren't motivated, even capable teachers may fail.
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  • Motivation is weak because more students (of all races and economic classes, let it be added) don't like school, don't work hard and don't do well.
  • Against these realities, school "reform" rhetoric is blissfully evasive. It is often an exercise in extravagant expectations.
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 15 Sep 10
     
    "few subjects inspire more intellectual dishonesty and political puffery than "school reform. Since the 1960s, waves of "reform" haven't produced meaningful achievement gains."
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 15 Sep 10
     
    Intersting to read about what many school reviews try to skip around.
Roland Gesthuizen

Balloon boy gets the space flight experience without dad going to jail | News.com.au - 0 views

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shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 09 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 09 Oct 10
     
    "With just a weather balloon, some polystyrene an iPhone and a video camera, Luke Geissbuhler and his seven-year-old son Max experience the blackness of space - and it didn't involve Max risking his life."
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 09 Oct 10
     
    Nice to read the father-son bonding to build this experiment. :-)
Roland Gesthuizen

One to One Computing: A Summary of the Quantitative Results from the Berkshire Wireless... - 1 views

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shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 07 Nov 10 - Cached
  • The results found that both the implementation and outcomes of the program were varied across the five 1:1 settings and over the three years of the student laptop implementation. Despite these differences, there was evidence that the types of educational access and opportunities afforded by 1:1 computing through the pilot program led to measurable changes in teacher practices, student achievement, student engagement, and students’ research skills.
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 07 Nov 10
     
    "This paper examines the educational impacts of the Berkshire Wireless Learning Initiative (BWLI), a pilot program that provided 1:1 technology access to all students and teachers across five public and private middle schools in western Massachusetts. Using a pre/post comparative study design, the current study explores a wide range of program impacts over the three years of the project's implementation."
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 07 Nov 10
     
    Reading an interesting tertiary summary report of a 1:1 pilot computer progrqam.
Roland Gesthuizen

Stephen Fry on the dawn of the digital age - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporat... - 0 views

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shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 18 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • "It's always been the case that whatever young people are doing now and whatever is the fashion now, there will be crusty and unfortunately ignorant people who think that somehow it has less weight, less heft, less intellectual respectability, less connection with our cultural identity, less seriousness," he said. "It's nearly always nonsense."
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 18 Jan 11
     
    "In what could be one of the great misjudgments since the record company that turned down The Beatles, one of Stephen Fry's teachers once described him as "feckless, fickle, flamboyant and evasive .. He told ABC Radio's PM of his enthusiasm for all things digital, including micro-blogging site Twitter, which he think has also been misjudged as trivial."
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 18 Jan 11
     
    Fascinating to read this interview with Stephen Fry and consider how he has engaged with social media such as Twitter.
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