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Not in agreement with the 'taskmaster' element but I have similar concerns about teaching evaluations. "Michele Pellizzari, an economics professor at the University of Geneva in Switzerland, has a more serious claim: that course evaluations may in fact measure, and thus motivate, the opposite of good teaching. "

"In short, says Stahl, "[infants] take surprising events as special opportunities to learn." This theory, that we're born knowing certain rules of the world, isn't new. We see evidence of it not only in humans but in lots of others species, too. What's new is this idea: that core knowledge seems to motivate babies to explore things that break those rules and, ultimately, to learn new things."

"active learning feed" "active learning" "higher ed" "pedagogy" "lecture" "instructional strategies"

"And his tweets, some of them uncomfortably raw, struck a nerve. Fellow journalists, technology writers and countless others spent the past several days monitoring Twitter, hoping for the best but preparing for the worst. An online community that is so often dismissed for being quintessentially banal - think of the proverbial tweet of what someone had for breakfast - embraced Scott's grief in a way we rarely see play out in public. "

Interesting, nuanced take on "virtual reality" and journalism.

How news agencies embrace social media and leverage "eyes and ears on the ground" to find and verify information, to craft the narrative and share news. How might we use such tactics in education?

"Not Just On the Web but Of the Web" Excellent, accessible discussion about making web content unique to its platform, using mainstream (NPR) examples.

h/t David C.

Stunning. Sometimes you just need to push content. This is a great example of how to do it well.