Skip to main content

Home/ EDUC 439/639 Social Networking - Fall 2012/ Group items tagged Yale

Rss Feed Group items tagged

Mathieu Plourde

Yale Names Insider, Peter Salovey, Its New President - 0 views

  •  
    "That means figuring out ways for deserving students to wind up on this campus," he said, "but it also means a digital strategy that makes more of Yale's treasure - whether it's scholarship or pedagogy or collections - available online. Moving from a collection of opportunities to a deliberate strategy for giving the riches of Yale, the wealth of Yale, away."
Mathieu Plourde

Global Youth in the Digital Age - 0 views

  •  
    "In my remarks today I'll try to discuss some of the reasons why engagement using digital texts and tools in our classrooms is difficult. One of the main impediments to this work is the fact that the Common Core State Standards make little room for integration of new literacies. My talk will focus on the nature of information on the Internet and its implications for how teachers think about reading comprehension, critical thinking, and learning in a digital information age. In short, we need to embrace all literacies. We will explore how the Internet poses new challenges for global learners that extend beyond traditional reading comprehension skills in order to encompass these new literacies as well as the higher level thinking skills associated with them."
Mathieu Plourde

The Great Skill Recession - 0 views

  •  
    "he rate of unemployment still stands stubbornly close to 8 per cent, while millions of unemployed workers have given up looking for jobs, taking them out of the official statistics of the jobless. Yet, the US Labor Department shows 3 million jobs requiring special skills that remain unfilled. "
1 - 3 of 3
Showing 20 items per page