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School of Education at Johns Hopkins University-Making Thinking Visible - 2 views
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imagine learning to dance when the dancers around you are all invisible. Imagine learning a sport when the players who already know the game can't be seen. Bizarre as this may sound, something close to it happens all the time in one very important area of learning: learning to think.
25 More Tech Tips and Tricks - NYTimes.com - 5 views
Beautiful web-based timeline software - 5 views
Free online OCR - 5 views
Visible Thinking - 11 views
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dispositions
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culture
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"Developing thinking dispositions-whether it is a disposition to strive for understanding, to figure out the complexities of fairness, to seek truth, or hunt for creative solutions-occurs within a cultural context. It is within cultural contexts that we develop our patterns of behavior and thinking that become our habits. Therefore, Visible Thinking uses an enculturative approach to develop students' thinking, immersing students in a rich culture of thinking in schools and classrooms."
Teacher-Replacing Tech: Friend or Foe? | Fast Company - 0 views
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cybernetic takeover might mean a redefinition of "teacher" as a research assistant or intellectual coach,
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Just as the Internet replaced telephone operators and the nightly news anchor as the default source of information, teachers may be next on the chopping block. Automated learning is a cheap solution to recession-swelling class sizes and renewed calls to make technological innovation a centerpiece of education.
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“Students who took all or part of their class online performed better, on average, than those taking the same course through traditional face-to-face instruction.”
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"Just as the Internet replaced telephone operators and the nightly news anchor as the default source of information, teachers may be next on the chopping block. Automated learning is a cheap solution to recession-swellingbclass sizes and renewed calls to make technological innovation a centerpiece of education."
Minus - Share simply. - 3 views
The Case For Social Media in Schools - 3 views
Class Blogs - 6 views
Connect with TIME - TIME.com - 6 views
Location Sites Experiment to Attract Mainstream Users - NYTimes.com - 1 views
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This month, Facebook introduced Places, which adds some Foursquare-like features to its social network. If Places catches on with Facebook’s 500 million users, many think it could bring location-sharing to the masses.
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Ms. Aley has chosen to use the app to also reveal her location to her Facebook friends and Twitter followers. The rewards make using the app worthwhile, she said, and the privacy trade-off “really never crossed my mind.”
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