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Katie Day

Smarthistory: a multimedia web-book about art and art history - 0 views

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    << Smarthistory.org is a free multi-media web-book designed as a dynamic enhancement (or even substitute) for the traditional art history textbook. Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker began smARThistory in 2005 by creating a blog featuring free audio guides in the form of podcasts for use in The Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Soon after, we embedded the audio files in our online survey courses. The response from our students was so positive that we decided to create a multi-media survey of art history web-book. We created audios and videos about works of art found in standard art history survey texts, organized the files stylistically and chronologically, and added text and still images. >>
Katie Day

The Impact of Digital Tools on Student Writing and How Writing is Taught in Schools | P... - 0 views

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    "A survey of teachers who instruct American middle and high school students finds that digital technologies are impacting student writing in myriad ways and there are significant advantages from tech-based learning. Some 78% of the 2,462 advanced placement (AP) and National Writing Project (NWP) teachers surveyed by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project say digital tools such as the internet, social media, and cell phones "encourage student creativity and personal expression." In addition: 96% agree digital technologies "allow students to share their work with a wider and more varied audience" 79% agree that these tools "encourage greater collaboration among students" According to teachers, students' exposure to a broader audience for their work and more feedback from peers encourages greater student investment in what they write and in the writing process as a whole. At the same time, these teachers give their students modest marks when it comes to writing and highlight some areas needing attention. Asked to assess their students' performance on nine specific writing skills, teachers tended to rate their students "good" or "fair" as opposed to "excellent" or "very good." Students received the best ratings on their ability to "effectively organize and structure writing assignments" and their ability to "understand and consider multiple viewpoints on a particular topic or issue." Teachers gave students the lowest ratings when it comes to "navigating issues of fair use and copyright in composition" and "reading and digesting long or complicated texts.""
Katie Day

Actually Going to Class? How 20th-Century. - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Educa... - 0 views

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    Interesting to think how this relates to primary and secondary education.... not just tertiary..... "In an era when students can easily grab material online, including lectures by gifted speakers in every field, a learning environment that avoids courses completely-or seriously reshapes them-might produce a very effective new form of college. That was the provocative notion posed here recently by Randy Bass, executive director of Georgetown University's Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship, during the annual meeting of the Educause Learning Initiative. He pointed out that much of what students rate as the most valuable part of their learning experience at college these days takes place outside the traditional classroom, citing data from the National Survey of Student Engagement, an annual study based at Indiana University at Bloomington. Four of the eight "high-impact" learning activities identified by survey participants required no classroom time at all: internships, study-abroad programs, senior thesis or other "capstone" projects, or the mundane-sounding "undergraduate research," meaning working with faculty members on original research, much as graduate students do."
Katie Day

World Values Survey -- the world's most comprehensive investigation of political and so... - 0 views

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    a collaborative non-profit research venture -- one output of which is the Inglehart Values Map
Louise Phinney

Inside Look at Modern Study Habits | MindShift - 0 views

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    StudyBlue recently surveyed 500 students about what study habits got them through finals. The picture of the modern student that emerged from student responses highlights the importance of digital devices, especially mobile technology.
Jeffrey Plaman

Trends in Bullying and PeerVictimization David Finkelhor - 0 views

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    The surveys that reflect change over the longest time periods, going back to the early 1990s, consistently show declines in bul‐ lying and peer victimization, some of it remarkably large. The more recent trends, since 2007, show some declines, but less consistently
Jeffrey Plaman

Making Sense of Data - Course - 0 views

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    This is a 10-15 hr online course that introduces essential concepts of understanding data, organizing and displaying it using Fusion Tables. This would be good for students who are undertaking survey research or other data collection activities. 
Jeffrey Plaman

Mobile Access Shifts Social Media Use and Other Online Activities | Pew Research Center... - 0 views

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    Accessing the internet on mobile devices The survey shows that 91% of teens go online from a mobile device, at least occasionally. African-American teens are
Keri-Lee Beasley

dotvoting.org -- easy online dot voting -- no registration needed - 1 views

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    easy online dot voting -- no registration required
Sean McHugh

The truth about Finland's education miracle » Spectator Blogs - 0 views

  • The Finnish fan club rarely talks about its mathematics performance in TIMSS, an international survey focusing more on curriculum-based knowledge – which plummeted over the last decade.
  • Others questioned whether it represents a victory at all since important knowledge had been sacrificed along the way.
  • while Finland scores well on PISA, this particular league table is designed to test everyday rather than curriculum-based knowledge. This means that it lacks key concepts of importance for further studies in mathematically intensive subjects, such as engineering, computer science, and economics. This is an obvious defect: such subjects are likely to be crucial for developed countries’ future economic well-being.
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  • So Finland might not be so great after all, partly because its centralised curriculum has ignored certain concepts that are not tested in PISA.
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