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Tinkering Toward Utopia - 0 views

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  • Korea, for example — pupils are expected to uphold the national honor, whereas many U.S. youths regard the test as yet another boring set of blanks to pencil in on answer sheets" (p. 36).
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      Ssouth Korean students are both better behaved in the classroom AND less willing to collaborate in any fashion. As an American teacher used to using collaborative groups had much difficulty convincing students that anythig beyond individual effort was permissible. Their nation is at the pinnacle of industrial age education, while American education (at least the tchrs who went there with me) are well beyond it.
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The role of theory in doctoral education - 1 views

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    Module 1 Assignment 2
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The Test Chinese Schools Still Fail - 1 views

shared by Lisa Durff on 04 Jan 11 - No Cached
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    "...what about the entrepreneurs and innovators needed to run a 21st century global economy?" China's educational system seems based on behaviorist learning theories.
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EDUC-7105-1 Learning Theory and Educat - 0 views

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    Richard's blog
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Learning Theory and Educational Technology - 0 views

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    Aretha's blog
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Is Skinner Out of the Box and in the Classroom? - EduCon 2.3 - January 28-30, 2011 - Ph... - 1 views

  • Is Skinner Out of the Box and in the Classroom?
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      This EduCon presentation may apply to our discussions of learning theory in EDUC8845
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Kop, R., & Hill, A. (2008). Connectivism: Learning theory of the future or vestige of t... - 1 views

Learning in a complex, chaotic system is not cyclical nor is it linear. The learning brain, i.e. any alive brain, resembles a jungle -> from Caine & Caine way long ago in undergrad work and I since...

EDUC8845 connectivism siemens

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Wired 13.02: Revenge of the Right Brain - 0 views

  • the abilities that matter most are now closer in spirit to the specialties of the right hemisphere - artistry, empathy, seeing the big picture, and pursuing the transcendent.
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      Because the quickly rising developing nations are becoming adept at producing young minds that are so left-brained - hence outsourcing.
  • Conceptual Age
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      The Age of Creativity or The Era of Thinking Outside the Box ?
  • Outsourcing to Asia
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      Compare to movie by Bob Compton entitled Two Million Minutes.
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  • communicating with the other side of the globe falls essentially to zero
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      Ah, excuse me, this is already the case, as Skype users already know.
  • India becomes (by 2010) the country with the most English speakers in the world
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      Is this true?
  • we in the US must do right-brain work better
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      And educate our students to do so as well
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Define your terms - 0 views

How does your definition of educational technology reflect the times in which you live?

EDUC8840

started by Lisa Durff on 07 Mar 11 no follow-up yet
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Definition of ET_classS05.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 0 views

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    Definitions of Educational Technology.
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braindevelopment.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 0 views

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    EDUC8113 instructor's crash course pdf from another course....good foundation in brain development.
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Innovations in Education - 2 views

Week 1 Possible innovations: * Geocaching in schools - unsuccessful at my school * Podcasting - unsuccessful at my school * Online newspaper - unsuccessful and reverted to paper versio...

EDUC8841

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Notes onDissonance - 2 views

Reading Bruner interview in Nucci p.102: Aristotle claimed that stories begin with what is ordinary in the world and then there is something that intrudes upon the ordinary, some dissonant event. ...

EDUC8113 EDUC8841 dissonance storytelling

started by Lisa Durff on 15 Jun 11 no follow-up yet
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Nature vs nuture - 1 views

I'm filling in a critical thinking chart from EDUC8112 to organize my thoughts. It is originally from Paula Dawidowicz.

EDUC8113 naturevsnurture

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