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Tero Toivanen

BBC News - Finland makes broadband a 'legal right' - 0 views

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    Good news from Finland!
Tarmo Toikkanen

Facebook Announces New Homepages: It's All About the Stream - ReadWriteWeb - 0 views

  • One highlight of the new homepages is a new 'publisher' feature which looks almost exactly like a similar feature on FriendFeed. Users can now easily post updates, notes, photos, and videos right from their homepage without having to go to the specific application first.
  • Just like on FriendFeed, users can now easily block updates from others if they turn out to be spammers or are simply posting too few interesting (or too many) updates.
  • Thanks to updates to Facebook's privacy settings, users will now also be able to follow others without having to become actual 'friends.' This is basically the same 'friendship' model that Twitter has implemented on its service.
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  • Facebook is slowly moving towards combining some of the best features of FriendFeed and Twitter on its homepages as it has seen how quickly users latched on to Twitter and its real-time updates.
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    Facebookin uudet ominaisuudet tulevat käyttöön 11.3.2009. Tässä käydään läpi, mitä uutta on tiedossa. Huhut kasvavasta kilpailusta Friendfeedin ja Twitterin kanssa sävyttävät spekulaatiota.
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    New Facebook features revealed
Tero Toivanen

12 things you didn't know Google Docs could do | News | TechRadar UK - 0 views

  • 7. Full screen mode
  • 8. Emulate classic word processors
  • 9. Publish to your blogClick "Share > Publish as Web Page" in any document. Next click "Set your blog site settings" and enter your login details. You can publish to Blogger, LiveJournal, SquareSpace and others.
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  • 10. Create new documents fastHere's a trick from the Official Google Docs Blog [googledocs.blogspot.com]. Drag the following link to your browser's bookmark bar:New Document [http://docs.google.com/?action=newdoc]Select the bookmark to make a new Google Doc.
  • 11. Open MS Word docs in Google Docs with FirefoxDownload the Google Toolbar for Firefox. Go to the installed Toolbar's options and choose "Tools". Tick the box labelled "Google Docs" and click "Edit". Tick the box labelled "Double-click a file icon". Save the changes and Microsoft Word docs will now open in Firefox.
  • 12. Take it to the limitGoogle Docs files can be up to 500k in size with a limit on embedded images of 2MB. There's a combined limit of 5,000 documents.
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    Lisää esimerkkejä Google Docs:in ominaisuuksista.
Tarmo Toikkanen

BBC News - World News America - Why do Finland's schools get the best results? - 1 views

  • Finland's schools score consistently at the top of world rankings, yet the pupils have the fewest number of class hours in the developed world.
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  • A tactic used in virtually every lesson is the provision of an additional teacher who helps those who struggle in a particular subject. But the pupils are all kept in the same classroom, regardless of their ability in that particular subject.
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    "Finland's schools score consistently at the top of world rankings, yet the pupils have the fewest number of class hours in the developed world."
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    BBC:n artikkeli suomalaisista kouluista. Hyvä lyhyt video.
Tarmo Toikkanen

What is the Future of Teaching? - 0 views

  • According to the New York Times Bits blog, a recent study funded by the US Department of Education (PDF) found that on the whole, online learning environments actually led to higher tested performance than face-to-face learning environments.
  • “In many of the studies showing an advantage for online learning, the online and classroom conditions differed in terms of time spent, curriculum and pedagogy. It was the combination of elements in the treatment conditions (which was likely to have included additional learning time and materials as well as additional opportunities for collaboration) that produced the observed learning advantages,” writes the authors of the report (emphasis theirs). “At the same time, one should note that online learning is much more conducive to the expansion of learning time than is face-to-face instruction.”
  • We can conclude that those in online learning environments tested better, but not necessarily why.
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  • Researchers warned that “various online learning implementation practices may have differing effectiveness for K–12 learners than they do for older students,” which seems plausible.
  • The word education, after all, comes from the Latin educare, which means, “to lead out.” I.e., think Socrates. Anyone can absorb information from a book or video, but good teachers will always be necessary to draw out that knowledge and help students develop the skills needed to think critically about the information they consume. In other words, online learning tools are just like any other tools in a teacher’s bag of tricks: what matters is how they’re applied. The instruction of good teachers will be made better by the proper application of web tools, while bad teachers won’t necessarily be made better by utilizing online education methods.
  • It comes down to knowing how to best use the tools at your disposal to maximize the impact of education for students, which has always been what separates good teachers from bad ones. The major difference between teachers of today and teachers of the future is that in the future educators will have better online tools and will require better specialized training to learn how to utilize them properly.
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      Exactly. The tools are not the point, it's the learning results that matter. And they stem from the learning activities, which in turn are supported by the tools that are employed.
  • Teachers will certainly need to adapt in order to use new tools and methods, but that’s nothing new. Online education may never completely replace face-to-face learning, though as the Department of Education study shows, with enough time and under the guidance of a good teacher, online learning environments can produce results that are just as good or better than classroom learning. Online learning is likely to be used more often to enhance face-to-face learning in the future, however, and in communities where classroom learning is infeasible due to lack of funds, online learning is an adequate stand-in.
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    Hyvin tiivistettyä ajatusta opetuksen tulevaisuudesta.
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    Good analysis on the impact of new tools, and the need for great teachers.
Tero Toivanen

(25) Wikimedia: accessible (new) media for (almost) all - 0 views

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    Wikimedia: accessible (new) media for (almost) all
Tero Toivanen

U.S. Dept. of Ed. Reaffirms OER Support, Highlights Competency-Based Assessment | EDUCAUSE - 1 views

  • And she noted that the department and the Obama Administration’s commitment to OER began “at the top,” with President Obama highlighting his support for “the creation of a new online and open source clearinghouse of courses” to help higher education achieve the goal of making the United States first in the world in the proportion of students graduating from college by 2020.
  • all the new intellectual property produced as a result of those grants, whether it’s a new open course or modules, or new kinds of learning materials,… would be released with a Creative Commons CC-BY license
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    Yhdysvalloissa vihreätä valoa avoimille oppimisympäristöille.
Tarmo Toikkanen

Christopher D. Sessums :: Blog :: Driven to Distraction: Notes on Young Adults Living a... - 0 views

  • This quote struck me on many levels. Specifically, the notion of being distracted in the "other features" seemed to be a loaded statement. Do students consider exploring outside the realm of what is defined as "learning" as a distraction? Isn't exploring different facets of an application just as important as using it for its intended purpose? This led me to consider how many educators have so poisoned students thinking that being "off-task" is even considered to be a bad thing. Have we so stymied students that they believe if they are not formally "learning," if they become "sidetracked," that they are wasting their time? When did curiosity become a negative thing? (When it killed the proverbial cat, I suppose.) As I think about it, if young adults find new media a distraction, then perhaps "learning" has become too narrowly defined. This then led me to wonder how we can "measure" self-directed learning in this new media context? In other words, how can we show the different levels of learning that takes place in these new contexts?
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    Christopher Sessums pohtii, ovatko sosiaalisen median tarjoamat seikkailumahdollisuudet todella haitallisia oppimiselle, vai ovatko ne oppimisen ydintä.
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    Do students consider exploring outside the realm of what is defined as "learning" as a distraction? Isn't exploring different facets of an application just as important as using it for its intended purpose? This led me to consider how many educators have so poisoned students thinking that being "off-task" is even considered to be a bad thing.
Tarmo Toikkanen

10 New Privacy Settings Every Facebook User Should Know - 2 views

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    "In this guide we present a thorough overview of the most important privacy settings which includes previous settings that are still relevant as well as new privacy settings that have been added by Facebook."
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    Facebookin yksityisyysasetukset menivät uusiksi. Tässä ohjeet, kuinka säätää oma näkyvyys sopivaksi.
Tero Toivanen

Social Media's Effect on Learning - Digits - WSJ - 0 views

  • Adults must be socially stimulated to learn, which is why language retention is usually only successful for adults when they are immersed with other language-speakers. Bilingual people “build new bridges” in the brain, said Dr. Kuhl, and their brains are constantly adapting and reshuffling data as they translate.
  • “Bilingual people aren’t cognitively smarter, but they are more cognitively flexible,” she added. “Practice at constant switching improves an aspect of their cognitive abilities. They become more facile at adjusting to new situations and inventing new situations.”
  • This is much like what people do when they’re updating their Twitter status, instant-messaging friends, or answering text messages and emails while they’re doing something else. Dr. Kuhl said this multitasking, where people are stimulating new patterns of sequential processing, could then reap the same benefits as bilingualism.
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    Researchers are figuring out how the interaction Social Media spurs can stimulate brain activity.
Tarmo Toikkanen

Transfer of learning - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • Type Characteristics Near Overlap between situations, original and transfer contexts are similar Far Little overlap between situations, original and transfer settings are dissimilar Positive What is learned in one context enhances learning in a different setting (+) Negative What is learned in one context hinders or delays learning in a different setting (+) Vertical Knowledge of a previous topic is essential to acquire new knowledge (++) Horizontal Knowledge of a previous topic is not essential but helpful to learn a new topic (++) Literal Intact knowledge transfers to new task Figural Use some aspect of general knowledge to think or learn about a problem Low Road Transfer of well-established skills in almost automatic fashion High Road Transfer involves abstraction so conscious formulations of connections between contexts High Road /Forward Reaching Abstracting situations from a learning context to a potential transfer context High Road / Backward Reaching Abstracting in the transfer context features of a previous situation where new skills and knowledge were learned
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    "Transfer (of learning) research can be loosely framed as the study of the dependency of human conduct, learning or performance on prior experience."
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    Siirtovaikutus, eli kuinka yhdessä kontekstissa opittu siirtyy käytettäväksi toisiin konteksteihin. Klassinen opetuksen ongelma, kuinka siirtovaikutus saadaan syntymään.
Minna Koskinen

Free Technology for Teachers: New Discussion Features in Google Docs - 0 views

  • Google Docs has had a commenting system for almost a year now. That system is a good one that I use for commenting on my students' writing. In fact, I just finished commenting on half a dozen essays.
  • Right now discussions in Google Docs is only available for new documents. If you created a document prior to this morning, it won't have the discussion feature enabl
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    Commects and discussions in Google Docs
Tarmo Toikkanen

 News Singleview - European Year of Creativity and Innovation 2009 - EUROPA - 0 views

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    Vastaa kyselyyn opetuskäytännöistä 15.10. mennessä jos operation koulussa.
Tarmo Toikkanen

Wikipedia enters a new chapter | Technology | The Guardian - 0 views

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    Tutkimusta Wikipedian kasvun hidastumisesta. Kannattaa lukea mielenkiinnolla, mutta myös kriittisesti.
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    News item referencing research on why the growth of Wikipedia is slowing. They just missed one obvious potential reason: maybe after 3 million articles, there aren't that many important topics to put into a dictionary...
Tarmo Toikkanen

Why PBworks - 0 views

  • As we've added additional functionality, such as Access Controls, Document Management, Mobile support, and now our new Legal Edition, we've gone well beyond traditional wiki functionality.  As a result, the name "PBwiki" no longer reflected how we think of ourselves, and even more importantly, how our users think of us. 
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    PBWiki kulkee nykyään nimellä PBWorks. Samat wikitoiminnot ovat käytössä, mutta lisäksi on tarjolla monia muita toiminnallisuuksia, kuten dokumenttienhallinta.
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    PBWiki renamed itself to PBWorks as they added new features to their wiki engine, such as document management.
Tero Toivanen

Flipped Classroom A New Learning Revolution - 1 views

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    Käänteinen luokkahuone: opetus ja oppiminen tapahtuu kotona, ja kotitehtävät tehdään koulussa. Tässä on ideaa :-)
Tero Toivanen

2011.11 OERu Meeting summary - WikiEducator - 0 views

  • In thinking about the next evolution of open learning, TRU Open Learning has conceptualized a new model for open education. In keeping with our outcomes based philosophy of higher education we can envision a truly open model for higher education. Judith Murray refers to this new model as "Open Education 2.0". The conceptual framework for "Open Education 2.0" requires us to think not only in terms of the "Traditional Model", but in addition to envision a parallel model where we can have Any learner, using Any material, and being supported (taught, instructed, facilitated, mentored, tutored) by Anyone, to achieve learning which is then subjected to Our assessment, in order to receive Our credit, which can be applied towards Our credential.
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      OER-yliopiston myötä syntymässä uusi käsitteellinen viitekehys oppimiselle: "Open Education 2.0"
Tarmo Toikkanen

Free Music Archive - 1 views

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    "The Free Music Archive is an interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads. The Free Music Archive is directed by WFMU, the most renowned freeform radio station in America. Radio has always offered the public free access to new music. The Free Music Archive is a continuation of that purpose, designed for the age of the internet."
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    Vapaata musiikkia omiin podcasteihin tai videoihin.
Tarmo Toikkanen

backchan.nl -- Conferences - 0 views

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    "backchan.nl is a tool for involving audiences in presentations by letting them suggest questions and vote on each other's questions. backchan.nl is intended for conference or event organizers who want a new way to solicit questions from the audience and make better use of question and answer time."
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    Taustakanava konferensseihin ja vastaaviin tilaisuuksiin. Soveltunee opetukseenkin.
Tarmo Toikkanen

50 Useful Google Apps for Writers - Learn-gasm - 0 views

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    50 google-työkalua kirjoittajille.
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    Writers, especially those who work from home or who juggle busy schedules around multiple assignments, have a lot to manage-note pads, sticky notes, brainstorming lists, correspondence with clients and editors, and even personal documents and materials that take up a lot of space and time. With its new applications and tools, Google continues to make it easier to manage all that. Below are some of our top picks for the most useful Google apps for writers.
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