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Patrick Higgins

Papers Facing Worst Year for Ad Revenue - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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advertising future media nytimes reading

shared by Patrick Higgins on 25 Jun 08 - Cached
  • Patrick Higgins on 25 Jun 08
     
    Future of the newspaper looks grim.
  • Patrick Higgins on 25 Jun 08
     
    This is an article I have been waiting for. Interesting to start to see the future of news. Yet, I still wonder how many people are getting their news from sources other than print or TV.
Patrick Higgins

Using Writing In Mathematic - 0 views

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connections mathematics metacognition prompts thinking writing

shared by Patrick Higgins on 24 Jun 08 - Cached
  • Patrick Higgins on 24 Jun 08
     
    This site shows some great ways to get started writing in math classes.
Patrick Higgins

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childpoverty connections bethechange

shared by Patrick Higgins on 17 Dec 08 - No Cached
  • Patrick Higgins on 17 Dec 08
     
    Great stat if you are looking to start a discussion on poverty in the U.S. I don't know the source behind the data yet, but I am trying.
Patrick Higgins

How to Find Anything Online: Become an Internet Research Expert | Webdesigner Depot - 0 views

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research search reference

shared by Patrick Higgins on 29 Dec 09 - Cached
  • Patrick Higgins on 29 Dec 09
     
    I love how this one begins "start with Wikipedia..."
Patrick Higgins

Symbaloo - start simple - 1 views

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symbaloo simple start

shared by Patrick Higgins on 08 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Patrick Higgins on 08 Apr 10
     
    hmm.
Erica Hartman

Official Google Blog: Our Googley advice to students: Major in learning - 0 views

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googley connections google njbtea

shared by Erica Hartman on 16 Jul 08 - Cached
  • ... communication skills. Marshalling and understanding the available evidence isn't useful unless you can effectively communicate your conclusions.
  • .. analytical reasoning. Google is a data-driven, analytic company. When an issue arises or a decision needs to be made, we start with data. That means we can talk about what we know, instead of what we think we know.
  • . a willingness to experiment. Non-routine problems call for non-routine solutions and there is no formula for success. A well-designed experiment calls for a range of treatments, explicit control groups, and careful post-treatment analysis. Sometimes an experiment kills off a pet theory, so you need a willingness to accept the evidence even if you don't like it.
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  • ... team players. Virtually every project at Google is run by a small team. People need to work well together and perform up to the team's expectations.
  • ... passion and leadership. This could be professional or in other life experiences: learning languages or saving forests, for example. The main thing, to paraphrase Mr. Drucker, is to be motivated by a sense of importance about what you do.
  • Patrick Higgins on 25 Jul 08
     
    Great article from the Google Blog about who they want and how to promote thinking skills in the classroom.
  • Patrick Higgins on 25 Jul 08
     
    Read this. It's worth it.
Patrick Higgins

elearnspace: Distributed Learning Environments - 0 views

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shared by Patrick Higgins on 26 Jun 08 - Cached
  • A bit of stress, a bit of ambiguity, and a bit of confusion are healthy contributors to learning. As long as we have a feedback loop where learners can contribute and faculty can respond and adapt, we have the basics in place. Connections are the starting point of all learning. It's so obvious...and therefore so often overlooked. We really need to think about types of connections learners have with each other and content...and ways that we can extend the learning experience by critically analyzing and forming those initial connections.
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      Patrick Higgins on 26 Jun 08
       
      Check this out. If that doesn't say exactly what I have been trying to put into words, than I don't know what will. This is the whole point behind the class. Let's let them wrestle with the uncomforable aspects of learning and thinking! Let's let them make connections!
Patrick Higgins

How tablets will change magazines, books, and newspapers - Feb. 10, 2010 - 1 views

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tablets books change reading publishing

shared by Patrick Higgins on 23 Feb 10 - Cached
  • The point is, Kelly says, media are changing. As they get mashed up with other media, newer forms are born. "Right now digital magazines are in the same phase that cinema was when it started out just recording plays. They weren't really movies." Reading will evolve. It's our job to make sure, however, that magazines adapt along with it.
Patrick Higgins

21st century Pedagogy | Educational Origami - 0 views

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pedagogy 21stcenturyskills 21stcenturylearning assessment education

shared by Patrick Higgins on 15 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Patrick Higgins on 15 Aug 09
     
    Couple this one with the list of beliefs about writing, and it's amazing to see how we have created this class very similarly to the graphic.
Patrick Higgins

7 Bad Writing Habits You Learned in School | Copyblogger - 6 views

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writing copyblogger

shared by Patrick Higgins on 30 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Go around citing the sources of all of your ideas and people will start avoiding you, because it’s boring as hell
  • Patrick Higgins on 30 Oct 09
     
    What do you think of this?
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  • Danielle Kopp on 31 Oct 09
     
    Pat - this is such a true article - but can it fit anywhere in our classrooms? As an avid reader I have to admit that some of the BEST stuff I've read is just from the heart of an author. I like this - how can I use without making people angry ?? :)
  • Patrick Higgins on 01 Nov 09
     
    Danielle, That's precisely the question I want everyone thinking about. We truly focus so much of our energies on getting the format down and getting the "i's" dotted and "t's" crossed, and for many of the students we teach, that is completely necessary; however, as we begin to look at the next phase of what we'd like to do in the district which includes more than just being "proficient" on some state test, can we blend some of the thinking in this post into what we are doing. And as for making people angry, my advice is that you don't get the results you really want without making a few people angry along the way. Not that you try to, but when you know that what you are doing will make your students better, you just go with it.
  • Danielle Kopp on 01 Nov 09
     
    Pat - I'd love to share this post with the kids or incorporate parts of it. I have to say that the best writing that the kids have done is usually the writing they do when we're in class and they just write. One of the hardest parts of teaching English is having to read 130 well constructed essays that follow the rubric but are so dry and boring that I have to restrain myself from stabbing my eyes out with my pen. It all goes back to the fact that in our H.S. the kids can write a great 5 paragraph essay or write persuasively but they have NO VOICE and I feel that the stress on structure and grammar could be why they have no voice. Interesting - we should discuss this a bit at our next Connections meeting!
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