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Benjamin Jörissen

Harvard Education Letter September/October 2008: Teaching 21st Century Skills - 0 views

  • As 2014 approaches—the deadline for all students to be proficient on state tests—academics, educators, business groups, and policymakers are finding common ground in a movement to bring “21st century skills” to the classroom, prompting state agencies and district leaders across the country to rewrite curriculum standards and even to contemplate big changes to existing state testing systems.
  • Some of these skills have always been important but are now taking on another meaning—like collaboration
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    September/October 2008 Teaching 21st Century Skills What does it look like in practice? by Nancy Walser Call it a quiet revolution. As 2014 approaches-the deadline for all students to be proficient on state tests-academics, educators, business groups, and policymakers are finding common ground in a movement to bring "21st century skills" to the classroom, prompting state agencies and district leaders across the country to rewrite curriculum standards and even to contemplate big changes to existing state testing systems. What are 21st century skills, who's pushing them, and what does 21st century teaching look like in practice? Although definitions vary, most lists of 21st century skills include those needed to make the best use of rapidly changing technologies; the so-called "soft skills" that computers can't provide, like creativity; and those considered vital to working and living in an increasingly complex, rapidly changing global society (see "Skills for a New Century," p. 2). "Some of these skills have always been important but are now taking on another meaning-like collaboration. Now you have to be able to collaborate across the globe with someone you might never meet," explains Christopher Dede, a Harvard professor who sits on the Massachusetts 21st Century Skills Task Force. "Some are unique to the 21st century. It's only relatively recently, for example, that you could get two million hits on an [Internet] search and have to filter down to five that you want."
Benjamin Jörissen

In-class laptop use sparks backlash, possibly lower grades - Ars Technica - 0 views

  • Recent studies of the educational value of in-class computer use, however, are suggesting that it's difficult for these programs to improve classroom performance, and there are some signs that a backlash may be brewing.
  • The 1:1 laptop programs do seem to help with the students' ability to use the technology they're exposed to, and a variety of studies show what might be an unexpected benefit: improved writing skills.
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  • Outside of these areas, however, the benefits of 1:1 laptop availability are mixed. Different studies have found changes in math and science test performance that were inconsistent. In general, the authors argue, the benefits of laptops come in cases where the larger educational program has been redesigned to incorporate their unique capabilities,
  • unless the use of laptops is focused on providing a relevant portion of the lesson plan, they'll (obviously) wind up being irrelevant at best, and a distraction at worst
  • Of course, given their popularity with college students, laptops are showing up in classrooms where they have nothing to do with lesson plans at all.
  • That's the theory. The reality is that everything from IM chats to online shopping excursions take place over the in-class ether, distracting everyone involved:
  • What's to be done?
  • Our own Jacqui Cheng suggests a variation on this: make all laptop users sit in the back, so that they only distract each other, and let them figure out whether their grades are suffering on their own.
James OReilly

ThinkBalm publishes business value study « ThinkBalm: Immersive Internet insi... - 0 views

  • Nearly 30% of survey respondents (19 of 66) said their organization recouped their investment in immersive technologies in less than nine months, once their project(s) launched.
  • The top motivations for investment in immersive technology in 2008 /1Q 2009 were enabling people in disparate locations to spend time together, increased innovation, and cost savings or avoidance.
  • Early implementers are choosing the simplest use cases first. The most common were learning and training (80%, or 53 of 66 respondents focused on this use case) and meetings (76%, or 50 of 66 respondents). Some intend to take on more complex use cases in 2010 or 2011.
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  • Immersive technology won out over a variety of alternatives primarily due to low cost and the increased engagement it delivers. The leading alternatives were Web conferencing and in-person meetings, followed by phone calls.
  • Work-related use of the Immersive Internet is in the early adopter phase. Before it can pass into the early majority phase, practitioners and the technology vendors who serve them must “cross the chasm.” The most common barriers to adoption are target users having inadequate hardware, corporate security restrictions, and getting users interested in the technology.
James OReilly

Manager-Schelte: Schulbücher machen Unternehmer schlecht - Nachrichten Politi... - 0 views

  • In ihren Schulbüchern werden nur die Exzesse des Systems und Fehlentscheidungen von Managern gelehrt.
  • Karin Andersson ist Mitte 40, verfügt nur über ein begrenztes Kapital, möchte aber ein Solarium eröffnen. Wie stellt sie das am besten an? Dieses unternehmerische Szenario, wie es das Leben nicht schöner schreiben könnte, findet sich in einem schwedischen Schulbuch für die Mittelstufe. Im deutschen Pendant sucht man derlei Gedankenexperimente leider vergebens
  • „Die in deutschen Schulbüchern abgebildete Arbeitswelt ist primär eine Welt der Arbeitnehmer, streckenweise des Handwerks, nur selten eine unternehmerische“, sagt Simone Lässig, Leiterin des Georg-Eckert-Instituts für internationale Schulbuchforschung in Braunschweig.
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  • Gerade in puncto Praxisorientierung bestehe in Deutschland dringender Nachholbedarf,
  • Mit der 2006 verabschiedeten sogenannten Oslo-Agenda verständigten sich die EU-Staaten darauf, dass in den Schulen ein Unternehmerbild vermittelt werden müsse, das als Lebensziel für junge Menschen ebenso attraktiv und realistisch erscheint wie das eines Arbeitnehmers.
  • systematischen „Hetzjagd gegen die freie Marktwirtschaft“.
  • „Wachstum und Beschäftigung hängen wesentlich davon ab, dass wir dazu beitragen, dass unternehmerische Initiative freigesetzt wird.“
  • Jugendliche gar zu wettbewerbsscheuen Etatisten und Kapitalismuskritikern erzogen werden
  • in Deutschland würden Vorurteile und Misstrauen gegenüber Märkten und Managern geschürt, vermeintliche Gefahren und negative Auswirkungen wirtschaftlichen Handelns betont, Wachstum und Innovation insgesamt skeptisch beurteilt
  • Unternehmerisches Denken gehört zu den Grundfähigkeiten, die jeder haben muss, der heute eine Schule verlässt
  • Deutsche Schulbücher heben bei wirtschaftlichen Themen noch immer die Rolle des Staates hervor
  • Dort glichen die Bücher zuweilen kleinen „Gebrauchsanweisungen“ für das Gründen und Führen einer Firma
Ricky nelson

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Michèle Drechsler

survey - Socialbookmarking and Education - 3 views

Hello I am preparing a thesis in information sciences and communication at the University of Metz. (France). My research focuses on the practices of socialbookmarking in the field of Education. As...

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Hamburger eLearning Magazin - Hamburg bloggt - 0 views

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    An der Uni Hamburg wird das Thema eLearning in vielen Bereichen immer wichtiger. Um sich einen Überblick zu verschaffen, was in Sachen elektronischer Wissensvermittlung in den verschiedenen Fachbereichen so passiert, bietet sich die Lektüre des neu herausgegebenen Hamburger eLearning Magazins an. Ab sofort berichtet das Zentrale eLearning-Büro (ZeB) der Universität Hamburg einmal pro Semester über entsprechende eLearning-Aktivitäten.
anonymous

ABSOLVENTA im Interview: Was ist die „Marke Ich" ? - 0 views

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    Pascal Tilgner ist Mitbegründer der Jobbörse ABSOLVENTA in Berlin. ABSOLVENTA ist mittlerweile eines der erfolgreichsten E-Recruiting-Unternehmen in Deutschland. Die Jobbörse will Absolventen und Young Professionals den Einstieg ins akademische Berufsleben erleichtern. Mit mir sprach Pascal Tilgner über sein Portal, über das Berufsleben und über Erfolg.
Syed Amjad Ali

E-Templates - A new approach in Rapid E-Learning Course Development - 0 views

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    Advanced eLearning Authoring Tools have made eLearning Development Easy The rapid and extensive advances in technology have brought on incredible innovation in all fields of human interest. The impact of the same can be seen in the e-learning space, and these days, this specialized segment is breaking new ground continuously.
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Major fashion brand Gucci has announced that it will accept payments in crypto - Gyansager - 0 views

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Benjamin Jörissen

Wikis as a Tool for Collaborative Course Management - 0 views

  • In today’s Web 2.0 world, wikis have emerged as a tool that may complement or replace the use of traditional course management systems as a tool for disseminating course information.  Because of a wiki’s collaborative nature, its use also allows students to participate in the process of course management, information sharing, and content creation.
  • Traditional course management systems such as Blackboard, Moodle, or WebCT
  • are often document-centered
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  • This paper describes best practices for using a collaborative web application known as a wiki to augment a traditional course management system.
  • y introducing a wiki for collaborative course management, students also learn to interact with a real world tool, enabling them to accomplish some tasks that would be more cumbersome if not impossible using a traditional course management system.
  • Wikis are useful for students to share their class notes (O’Neill, 2005; Guth, 2007). O’Neill proposes that “the instructor places skeletal lecture notes onto a wiki site, and students flesh them out with materials they have learned in class...” 
  • Maloney (2007) suggests that today’s course management systems are not being used to their fullest potential. Because they are “built around the … course, not the … student,”
  • “The role that the systems play most often is like that of an advanced photocopier
  • a next-generation CMS must be centered around the student’s learning, not the course’s administration
  • In one project, each group set up its own wiki page to chronicle work and share materials with other group members. A template provides the structure for students to enter their names and tasks completed.
  • To promote collaboration, two or three students are assigned specific dates throughout the semester to post their notes from class to the wiki. To ensure that they were posted in a timely fashion, students had to complete their wiki notes prior to the start of the following class. Classmates then reviewed these “Wikipedia-style” notes pages, and added information that they learned but the original authors may have omitted.
  • The instructor provided a template containing the class date, space for the contributors to enter their names, and a blank page below for the notes.
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    JOLT - Journal of Online Learning and Teaching
Benjamin Jörissen

12 eLearning Predictions for 2009 - 0 views

  • #1 - "Self-Directed Learning" Increases
  • eLearning 2.0 Grows
  • rapid growth in the use of wikis for content presentation
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  • growth in discussions and social networks for collaborative learning
  • organizations who try to create big eLearning 2.0 Strategies will move much slower than organizations who adopt easy to use tools and make tactical use of these tools
  • Pressure for Social Learning Solutions in Corporate Learning
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    Social learning solutions like social homework help provided by Cramster; CampusBug, Grockit, TutorVista, EduFire, English Cafe, and the list goes on and on. What will happen to about 20% of the workplace learning professionals is that some VP/C level in your company will have their teenager or college age kid use one of these services and tell them about it. They will they proceed to wonder why you aren't doing something similar.
Benjamin Jörissen

e-Start Web Area - 0 views

  • How are pupils and teachers encouraged and motivated to relate to digital culture and use digital technology?
  • main incentives usually offered with respect to digital technology use are concerned with life after schooling and the promise of a future career in the workplace. The ineffectiveness of such incentives is clearly evidenced in the “lifestyle choices” of many children
  • the role of both face to face (friends, relatives, family, peers, neighbors, memberships to groups, etc) and remote (online help facilities, helplines, etc) social and resource networks needs to be recognized (Selwyn, 2004). Social networks may represent a significant determinant in the process within which different pupils and teachers, as members of diverse communities and collectivities, identify a “use” for digital technology in their daily and leisure lives, develop an interest towards this use, establish an initial and later a meaningful engagement with digital tools and contents and sustain this interest and engagement throughout time by expanding their skills and knowledge.
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  • Essentially then, pupils’ and teachers’ membership to different social communities, which may be considered as sources of advice and agents of socialization into differentiated forms of culture, is an influential aspect of digital literacy development.
  • Could the school as a significant socialization and enculturation agent address effectively factors related to issues of relevance and social networks and empower pupils and teachers to participate in digital practice, not only as consumers of digital dominant culture but also as producers and communicators of their own culture?”
James OReilly

Landesrecht BW Ministerium für Kultus, Jugend und Sport | Verwaltungsvorschri... - 0 views

  • Die Schule legt in einem jährlichen Fortbildungsplan ihre schulentwicklungsbezogenen Qualifizierungsanforderungen und Qualifizierungsmaßnahmen fest.
  • Lehrerinnen und Lehrer sind verpflichtet, ihre berufsspezifischen Kompetenzen zu erhalten und stetig weiterzuentwickeln.
  • Sie wirken bei der Umsetzung des schulischen Fortbildungsplans aktiv mit, indem sie nach Maßgabe des jeweiligen Fortbildungsplans geeignete Fortbildungsangebote auswählen. Die Erfüllung der Fortbildungsverpflichtung ist vorrangig im Wege kooperativer und motivierender Personalführung durch die Schulleitung sicherzustellen. Unbeschadet der Zuständigkeit der Gesamtlehrerkonferenz nach § 2 Abs. 1 Nr. 2 Konferenzordnung kann die Schulleitung Lehrerinnen und Lehrer in zu begründenden Fällen zur Wahrnehmung bestimmter Fort- bzw. Weiterbildungsmaßnahmen verpflichten.
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  • Jede Lehrerin und jeder Lehrer hat das Recht auf Förderung im Rahmen einer schulbezogenen und schulübergreifenden Personalentwicklung; diese schließt eine Beratung und gegebenenfalls eine Vereinbarung über die Teilnahme an personenbezogenen Qualifizierungsmaßnahmen durch die Schulleitung ein. Beratung und gegebenenfalls Vereinbarung sind Bestandteil des in regelmäßigen Abständen zu führenden Beratungsgesprächs.
  • Lehrerinnen und Lehrer dokumentieren die von ihnen wahrgenommene Fort- und Weiterbildung durch die Zusammenführung entsprechender Nachweise in einem Portfolio
James OReilly

China Earthquake Donation Guide: 35 and more ways to give - 0 views

  • China Earthquake Donation Guide: 24+ ways to give - UPDATED
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    English: This post provides a guide to how you can donate toward China earthquake relief efforts in Sichuan. Over 35 and more ways are compiled to give donations. German: Dieses Posting ist ein Handbuch, wie Sie Spenden für Chinas Wiederaufbau-Anstrengungen nach dem Erdbeben in Sichuan leisten können. Über 35+ Möglichkeiten für Spenden sind gelistet. Chinese: 这个职位提供了指导你如何可以捐赠对中国四川的抗震救灾的我们现在已经有35种方式可以让你们捐款 http://e-i-consulting.blogspot.com/
Jonas Hildebrandt

Stiftung Begabtenförderungswerk berufliche Bildung - 0 views

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    Berufsabsolventinnen und Berufsabsolventen, die in der Ausbildung und danach in einer mindestens zweijährigen Berufstätigkeit besondere Leistungen gezeigt haben, können sich für ein Aufstiegsstiegsstipendium bewerben.
Gudrun Porath

EDGE - 0 views

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    "This year's Question is "How is the Internet changing the way YOU think?" Not "How is the Internet changing the way WE think?" We spent a lot of time going back on forth on "YOU" vs. "WE" and came to the conclusion to go with "YOU", the reason being that Edge is a conversation. "WE" responses tend to come across like expert papers, public pronouncements, or talks delivered from stage. We wanted people to think about the "Internet", which includes, but is a much bigger subject than the Web, an application on the Internet, or search, browsing, etc., which are apps on the Web. Back in 1996, computer scientist and visionary Danny Hillis pointed out that when it comes to the Internet, "Many people sense this, but don't want to think about it because the change is too profound. Today, on the Internet the main event is the Web. A lot of people think that the Web is the Internet, and they're missing something. The Internet is a brand-new fertile ground where things can grow, and the Web is the first thing that grew there. But the stuff growing there is in a very primitive form. The Web is the old media incorporated into the new medium. It both adds something to the Internet and takes something away." "
Jonas Hildebrandt

Wirbel um neue Homepage: Hat die CDU die Schwulen vergessen? - 0 views

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    Die Homepage der CDU Hessen erstrahlt seit wenigen Tagen in neuem Glanz. Für die Schwulenorganisation in der Union wurde der Relaunch allerdings zum Ärgernis - sie wird gar nicht mehr erwähnt. Ein Versehen, betont die CDU.
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