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Patrick Higgins

Wikipedia to Color Code Untrustworthy Text | Wired Science | Wired.com - 0 views

  • “Online collaboration is becoming more and more central to the way in which knowledge is created and assembled worldwide,” said computer scientist Luca de Alfaro, who runs the UCSC Wiki Lab and led the WikiTrust project. “There are more and more services that simply cannot exist without some notion of user reputation and trust in the content.”
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    "Online collaboration is becoming more and more central to the way in which knowledge is created and assembled worldwide," said computer scientist Luca de Alfaro, who runs the UCSC Wiki Lab and led the WikiTrust project. "There are more and more services that simply cannot exist without some notion of user reputation and trust in the content."
Patrick Higgins

Writing in the Middle Grades, 6-8 - 0 views

  • Students possess knowledge about written language and a variety of forms of writing; quality instruction reflects students’ experience and knowledge.
  • Writing is a social activity; writing instruction should be embedded in social contexts. Students can take responsibility in shaping the classroom structures that facilitate their work.
  • Writing is effectively used as a tool for thinking and learning throughout the curriculum.
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  • Assessment that both benefits individual writers and their teachers’ instructional planning is embedded within curricular experiences and represented by collections of key pieces of writing created over time.
  • Authors and teachers who write can offer valuable insights to students by mentoring them into process and making their own writing processes more visible.
  • Technology provides writers the opportunity to create and present writing in new and increasingly flexible ways, particularly in combination with other media.
Patrick Higgins

Pseudoscience - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • Pseudoscience is defined as a body of knowledge, methodology, belief, or practice that is claimed to be scientific or made to appear scientific, but does not adhere to the scientific method,[2][3][4] lacks supporting evidence or plausibility,[5] or otherwise lacks scientific status.[6] The term comes from the Greek root pseudo- (false or pretending) and "science" (from Latin scientia, meaning "knowledge"). An early recorded use was in 1843 by French physiologist François Magendie,[1] who is considered a pioneer in experimental physiology.
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    A good entry point to the study of pseudoscience.
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    Wikipedia entry point on pseudoscience
Patrick Higgins

An Open Letter to School Administrators | The Principal of Change - 1 views

  • It is not how well you can speak, or the knowledge that you bring to your school, but it is how you empower those around you to do amazing things.
Patrick Higgins

ChaCha. Good Answer. - 0 views

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    How cool is this? Text your question to ChaCha and they reply with an answer in minutes. Similar to goog411, but has a better name.
Patrick Higgins

Knol: a unit of knowledge - 0 views

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    Google's version of wikipedia. All peer reviewed.
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    Let's give this a try.
Patrick Higgins

What to learn: 'core knowledge' or '21st-century skills'? - USATODAY.com - 0 views

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    Do kids learn to think by reading great literature, doing difficult math and learning history, philosophy and science? Or can they tackle those subjects on their own if schools simply teach them to problem-solve, communicate, use technology and think creatively?
Patrick Higgins

How Things Work - How Things Work Home Page - 0 views

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    UVA's site about how things work.
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