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Enoch Hale

How Teaching is Like Composting | Faculty Focus - 1 views

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    "I started composting at our summer place in 2009, and now I'm a convert. In the summer, we live on an island that's mostly rock covered with something the locals call "organic matter." Growing anything this far north on this soil base is challenging, but compost has made a big difference. My bleeding hearts, campanulas, delphinium, phlox, and coral bells are far more impressive than they used to be."
Tom Woodward

The 2 Teenagers Who Run the Wildly Popular Twitter Feed @HistoryInPics - Alexis C. Madr... - 1 views

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    "I'm talking about @HistoryInPics, which, as I discovered, is run by two teenagers: Xavier Di Petta, 17, who lives in a small Australian town two hours north of Melbourne, and Kyle Cameron, 19, a student in Hawaii. "
Jonathan Becker

Has the Internet Really Changed Everything? - Backchannel - 1 views

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    Pretty interesting way to try to answer this question.
anonymous

A New Pedagogy is Emerging... and Online Learning is a Key Contributing Factor | Contac... - 4 views

  • continuing development of new knowledge, making it difficult to compress all that learners need to know within the limited time span of a post-secondary course or program.
  • ncreased emphasis on skills or applying knowledge to meet the demands of 21st century society, skills such as critical thinking, independent learning, knowing how to use relevant information technology, software, and data within a field of discipline, and entrepreneurialism.
  • developing students with the skills to manage their own learning throughout life
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  • Today’s students have grown up in a world where technology is a natural part of their environment. Their expectation is that technology will be used where appropriate to help them learn, develop essential information and technology literacy skills, and master the technology fluency necessary in their specific subject domain.
  • Recent developments in digital technologies, especially web 2.0 tools such as blogs, wikis and social media, and mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets, have given the end user, the learner, much more control over access to and the creation and sharing of knowledge.
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    Via Stephen Downes's recent post; a nice accessible summary discussion for non-techies about how technology is changing teaching. Good teaching resource, I think.
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