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J.Randolph Radney

QuickWire: German Students Start DNA Dating Site - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of High... - 3 views

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    This reminds me of a science research project that was proposed in the Monday section of ENGL 2300 this past semester. Hmm...
J.Randolph Radney

TeachPaperless: 10 Ways to Help Students Ask Better Questions - 1 views

  • The points students bring up are thought-provoking. However, I'm most impressed by the questions they ask one another. They clarify and ask follow-up questions. They make inferences. They ask connecting questions and critical thinking questions. It's a messy process, but it's beautiful messy. It's art.
  • As long as a question is respectful, I want students to question their world. This applies to analyzing mathematical processes, thinking through social issues, making sense out of a text or analyzing the natural world for cause and effect.
  • I require students to ask questions before, during and after reading.
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  • Three times a week, we do inquiry days, where students begin with their own question in either social studies or science and they research it, summarize it and then ask further questions. While my initial goal involved teaching bias, loaded language and summarization, I soon realized that students were growing the most in their ability to ask critical thinking questions.
  • Feedback on questions: I highlight their questions in Google Docs and leave comments on their blogs with very specific feedback.
  • Sometimes I'll ask a really lame question and then say, "Someone tell my why that question sucked?" or I'll ask a deeper question and say, "Why was that a hard question to answer?" The goal is to get them to see deeper questions and to also think about why a question is deep or shallow.
  • Some students have a really hard time with questioning strategies.
  • I teach students about inquiry, clarifying, critical thinking and inference questioning.
  • Students sometimes ask me questions. Other times they ask partners or small group questions. Still other times they ask the questions to the whole class.
  • Technology allows students to take their time in crafting a question while having access to the questions of their peers.
J.Randolph Radney

Stanford Students Start Their Own Course-Management Web Site - Wired Campus - The Chron... - 0 views

  • A student-run Web site at Stanford University seeks to convince students to input their class assignments to keep themselves—and their classmates—more organized. It could, founders hope, grow into a student-run course-management system.
  • Once one student adds an assignment in a class, everyone else in the class has it added to their calendars, as well. Ultimately, he’d like to expand the site to include social events on campus, to help students better plan every aspect of their lives. He also plans to allow students to flag incorrect assignments.
J.Randolph Radney

Home - TRU Library Subject / Research Guides at Thompson Rivers University Library - 0 views

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    Here are some library resources.
J.Randolph Radney

For Einstein's Birthday, Hebrew U. Unveils Online Archive of Physicist's Work - Wired C... - 0 views

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    eLearning now equals the mass (of online documents) times the velocity of light squared!
J.Randolph Radney

Profile - 0 views

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    This is for Carla.
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Generation Y: They've arrived at work with a new attitude | www.usatoday.com | Readability - 0 views

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    What do you think of this description of a subculture in our society?
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Elev8ed - 0 views

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    This is a call for videos from students.
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Arab Democracy Reference and Live Feeds - Home / Map - 0 views

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    Arab Democracy site helps provide information on protests in the Middle East.
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