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Patrick Higgins

How to Bring Service Learning to Your School | Edutopia - 0 views

  • direct collaboration with the recipients of the service, and should be genuine and personally meaningful, generating emotional consequences that can build empathy and challenge preexisting ideas and values.
  • It is widely agreed that the next component -- reflection -- is the hallmark of high-quality service learning.
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    Service Learning and how to do it well.
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

Answer service is new way to cheat : Lifestyle : Ventura County Star - 0 views

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    "Now that we're aware ChaCha exists, I can assure you that we will begin discussion of a formal policy to prohibit cell phone use in classes," said Gerard O'Sullivan, vice president for academic affairs at Neumann College in Delaware County, Pa. He said most professors already prohibited cell phone use in class.
Patrick Higgins

USA Service - 0 views

Patrick Higgins

USA Service - 0 views

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    Obama announces the launch of usaservice.org and commits to renewed community involvement on the part of citizens.
Patrick Higgins

English Pronouncing Dictionary with Instant Sound Free Online - 0 views

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    Learn how to pronounce words via this online service.
Patrick Higgins

Educational Leadership:Teaching Social Responsibility:Service Learning and Civic Partic... - 0 views

  • The strongest effects have generally been found for service learning programs that have the explicit aim of developing active citizenship, in contrast with those that emphasize community service and character building
Danielle Kopp

Angela Maiers Educational Services - 0 views

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    great resources
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    You all must read her.
Patrick Higgins

iCharts | create, share, and embed interactive charts online - 0 views

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    Charts for everything. Haven't tried to upload any data yet, but the available data is nice to look at. Try searching for something that interests you.
Patrick Higgins

How To: Build Instruction Around Your Region's History | Edutopia - 0 views

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    Great service learning and community involvement projects and ideas.
Patrick Higgins

FeedBlitz - The Leading RSS and Blog to Email Service - 0 views

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    another way to get all of your web content to filter to one place.
Patrick Higgins

Peace Corps | Coverdell World Wise Schools - 2 views

  • Teachers, home-schoolers, service-learning providers—find rich educational opportunities and cross-cultural lessons, stories, activities, videos, and much more.
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    Great opportunity to connect 
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    If you are looking to bring speakers to your classroom, the Peace Corps, as part of their responsibilities, offer educational outreach to schools. You can contact them through this website to set something up.
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    Thanks Pat, this will work well for our Change the World Unit!
Patrick Higgins

Video Annotation Tool [Academic Technology Services, UMN] - 1 views

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    so cool.
Patrick Higgins

Plan B - Skip College - NYTimes.com - 1 views

  • Perhaps no more than half of those who began a four-year bachelor’s degree program in the fall of 2006 will get that degree within six years, according to the latest projections from the Department of Education.
  • Of the 30 jobs projected to grow at the fastest rate over the next decade in the United States, only seven typically require a bachelor’s degree, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
  • Among the top 10 growing job categories, two require college degrees: accounting (a bachelor’s) and postsecondary teachers (a doctorate)
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  • this growth is expected to be dwarfed by the need for registered nurses, home health aides, customer service representatives and store clerks. None of those jobs require a bachelor’s degree.
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    I think there is validity to this one.
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