Increase Student Engagement by Getting Rid of Textbooks - 8 views
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Medium does matter
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The students do not learn "better" because my life as a teacher is "easier." Convenience is not a form of effective pedagogy. My students learn better when they take the active role in finding and choosing texts, asking their own questions, and creating their own projects. In my 9th grade West Civ class, this means students learn directly from primary sources (see the Internet History Sourcebook, the Perseus Project, the Library of Congress's 'Teaching with Primary Sources' project, and the Internet Archive) without the filter of a textbook middleman. It means that they keep daily blogs full of questions and reflections on our learning and that they engage with our crowdsourced Q&A wiki.
Questioning the potential value of Skype and videoconferencing in the classro... - 0 views
Qu'est-ce qu'un quiz Informatique ? - 0 views
TooFAST VERSION 1.5 - 2 views
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TooFAST is a secure and free anonymous online assessment tool TooFAST allows anyone to develop an online assessment questionnaire that is accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. TooFAST allows multiple question formats and allows an unlimited number of surveys to be completed. The software automatically summarizes and consolidates the comments, in real-time, on the web or as XML.
Patricia Ryan: Don't insist on English! | Video on TED.com 2010 dec (filmed) 2011 (posted) - 1 views
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"At TEDxDubai, longtime English teacher Patricia Ryan asks a provocative question: Is the world's focus on English preventing the spread of great ideas in other languages? (For instance: what if Einstein had to pass the TOEFL?) It's a passionate defense of translating and sharing ideas. About Patricia Ryan Patricia Ryan has spent the past three-plus decades teaching English in Arabic countries -- where she has seen vast cultural (and linguistic) change."
Wordle - Frequently Asked Questions - 0 views
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Wordle is a Java applet, and Java applets are not permitted to write anything to your disk. So, while the applet could generate a jpeg, it wouldn't be able to give it to you! You can certainly take a screenshot of the Wordle applet.
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There's a "Print..." button below the Wordle area, on the left-hand side. Press it. You will be prompted to allow the Wordle "Java applet" to access your printer. Please check the checkbox that says "Always permit", and accept the dialog.
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Windows users will need to use third-party software to generate a PDF from the print dialog. Adobe Acrobat is fine, but I happen to use the free-as-in-beer CutePDF Writer. I have no relationship to the folks who make CutePDF, nor do I take any responsibility for anything that might happen as a result of your using it. If you do use CutePDF, you'll also need to install Ghostscript, a free-as-in-speech PostScript interpreter. The PDFs you make in this way are fully scalable, and suitable for making posters, T-Shirts, what have you. Please tell me about anything interesting you've done with Wordle.
Utterz - Frequently Asked Questions - 0 views
News: The Web of Babel - Inside Higher Ed - 1 views
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Some adventurous professors have used Twitter as a teaching tool for at least a few years. At a presentation at Educause in 2009, W. Gardner Campbell, director of the academy of teaching and learning at Baylor University, extolled the virtues of allowing students to pose questions to the professor and each other — an important part of the thinking and learning process — without having to raise their hands to do so immediately and aloud. And in November, a group of professors published a scientific paper suggesting that bringing Twitter into the learning process might boost student engagement and performance.
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But while Lomicka and her tech-forward peers are not advocating that every college go the way of Chapel Hill, they are finding out that some relatively novel teaching technologies that are used by academics of all stripes, such as Twitter and iTunes U, are particularly useful for teaching languages.
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At Emory University, language instructional content is far and away the biggest export of its public repository on iTunes U, where visitors from around the world have downloaded more than 10 million files since Emory opened the site in 2007.
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Une question de données publiques - Voix Haute - 1 views
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Savons-nous combien l’état (collectivités locales comprises) dépense chaque année pour l’achat de manuels pédagogiques ?
KS3 questioning & Bloom's taxonomy - 0 views
ScienceDirect - Current Biology : Cultural Confusions Show that Facial Expressions Are ... - 0 views
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Central to all human interaction is the mutual understanding of emotions
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achieved primarily by a set of biologically rooted social signals evolved for this purpose—facial expressions of emotion
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Rather than distributing their fixations evenly across the face as Westerners do, Eastern observers persistently fixate the eye region
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