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Vahid Masrour

MIT + Khan Academy = We All Win. | Edudemic - 0 views

  • It’s like the ultimate flipped classroom. It’s a flipped school.
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      VERY interesting idea.
Vahid Masrour

Educational Leadership:For Each to Excel:Preparing Students to Learn Without Us - 0 views

  • lives in a moment when personalizing the learning experience is not just a possibility—it's almost an expectation
  • The ability to learn what we want, when we want, with whomever we want as long as we have access creates a huge push against a system of education steeped in time-and-place learning.
  • we need to fundamentally rethink what we do in the classroom with kids
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  • are we preparing students to learn without us?
  • the new dance that teachers have to learn in order to guide students to success—letting each student create his or her own learning experience yet still meet the expectations of the class, the school, the state, and now, perhaps, the nation
  • students have real difficulty identifying what they love
  • Sometimes finding a passion just takes time; for some students, it takes several texts or subjects before they find something that really sparks an interest.
  • blogs
  • social bookmarks
Vahid Masrour

Eric Mazur on new interactive teaching techniques | Harvard Magazine Mar-Apr 2012 - 0 views

  • shift from “teaching” to “helping students learn.”
  • ctive learning overthrows the “transfer of information” model of instruction, which casts the student as a dry sponge who passively absorbs facts and ideas from a teacher
  • rethink the nature of the college course
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  • Websites and laptops have been around for years now, but we haven’t fully thought through how to integrate them with teaching so as to conceive of courses differently
  • ask my students to read my lecture notes before class, and then tell me what questions they have [ordinarily, using the course’s website], and when we meet, we discuss those questions.
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Project Management for Instructional Designers - 0 views

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    probably worth a read.
Vahid Masrour

Become a Content Curation King | ClickZ - 0 views

  • there's one thing that we have now that we didn't have in the 90's…the mass adoption of social media
  • it isn't just about information seeking, it's also about synchronizing a community
Vahid Masrour

Google Plus: Is This the Social Tool Schools Have Been Waiting For? - 0 views

  • it may well be the granular level of privacy afforded by Google+ that is the key to making this a successful tool for schools
  • many schools and teachers have still been reluctant to "friend" students
  • it's also about sharing with the right people. Circles will allow what educational consultant Tom Barnett calls "targeted sharing," something that will be great for specific classes and topics
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  • that "always public" element of Twitter that makes many nervous
  • Skype has become an incredibly popular tool to bring in guests to a classroom via video chat -
  • teachers are already talking about the possibility of not just face-to-face video conversation but the potential for integration of whiteboards, screen-sharing, Google Docs, and other collaborative tools
  • Google + seems like the solution for someone like me who wants to use the web to have conversations about school topics with students and parents and yet not have students and parents have access to my personal posts.
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      Parents and students on different Circles. You know you want it!
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