Source: ghoulmannA new study has found that the small amount of text you can see on your handheld device may makeit vastly easier for people with learning disabilities to comprehend.
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Do Cell Phones Belong in the Classroom? - Robert Earl - National - The Atlantic (via infoneer-pulse)
This isn’t a generation that “used to being entertained”. They’re not using phones because “attention spans are short”, but because education isn’t engaging them. Every student, whether peer or not, that I’ve worked with, when they’re actually engaged with learning, they’re fascinated by it.
This isn’t a generational problem (as if our generation were, all-too-predictably, the ones that came and fucked up the smooth order of things), but a systemic educational problem. It’s the industrial, “banking” schooling model that causes a lot of these problems, not some nebulous short attention spans. Previous generations doodles to pass away the time in boring classes - and so do we, but we also have cell phones, so why not use them too? When the only question a classroom generates is “why am I even here?”, then it’s no wonder that people turn into the neutral medium of the internet (or just cell phone/handheld/whatever use) to whittle away the time in a place they’re forced to be.
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“Institutions and departments should develop written guidelines so that faculty members who create, study, and teach with digital objects; engage in collaborative work; or use technology for pedagogy can be adequately and fairly evaluated and rewarded,” says the MLA guidance. “The written guidelines should provide clear directions for appointment, reappointment, merit increases, tenure, and promotion and should take into consideration the growing number of resources for evaluating digital scholarship and the creation of born-digital objects. Institutions should also take care to grant appropriate credit to faculty members for technology projects in teaching, research, and service.”
Standardization and coherent policy is one of the most important things for bringing any institution to the 21st century. Otherwise, you get chaos.
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Source:A new service called MentorMob aims to make it easier to learn new information and skills by offering curated “playlists”—collections of links to the best articles, videos, and websites on a particular topic.
This could be used like Pinterest, or Livebinder, collecting links to articles, videos, music, and tools on a specific topic. There are academic and recreational collections that you can check out to get inspired, or use in your classroom!
Source: 9while9To be held in Silver Spring, Maryland at Chelsea School (a short walk from Silver Spring Metro). 2:00pm to 4:45 pm. On exhibit other contemporary distros; all versions of Precise, except server. Lists of people favorite post install procedures.
Please signal boost and share. Any questions? Want to RSVP?
My initial feelings about Calligra on Ubuntu (Precise) are that it’s stellar. By the end of the weekend I hope have a better feel for what assistive technologies it provides, whether collaboration features are included, and what kind of community has grown around this project. I would love for example, if AftertheDeadline were turned into a Calligra plugin or extension.
(If you write or teach others about writing, please please take a moment to learn what After the Deadline can offer. It’s already powerful and is very extensible.)
Source: gfbertiniBlueprint for P2P Society: The Partner State & Ethical Economy « Learning Change http://ping.fm/RktMc
Source: kidt82And yet plain old C just passed Java as the most popular language while C++ takes third place to them both.
Source: azspotThe biggest justification for change is not economic but moral. It is that if we don’t act now we will be short-changing our children. They live in a world that is shaped by physics, chemistry, biology and history, and so we – rightly – want them to understand these things. But their world will be also shaped and configured by networked computing and if they don’t have a deeper understanding of this stuff then they will effectively be intellectually crippled. They will grow up as passive consumers of closed devices and services, leading lives that are increasingly circumscribed by technologies created by elites working for huge corporations such as Google, Facebook and the like. We will, in effect, be breeding generations of hamsters for the glittering wheels of cages built by Mark Zuckerberg and his kind.
In Why coding is not the new literacy, the author argues:
Coding is not the new literacy because it will never be a requirement that every man, woman and child must know how to code in order to communicate fully. It is a function of the development of communication, not its…
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web20classroom: The Complete Dropbox For Educators: http://t.co/RU60e6k4
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Source: gfbertiniEasy-to-apply, scientifically-based approaches for engaging students in the classroom Cognitive scientist Dan Willingham focuses his acclaimed research on the biological and cognitive basis of learning. His book will help teachers improve their practice by explaining how they and their…
