February 2012
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“The explanation for this effect returns us to the benefits of not being able to...”
– Jonah Lehrer on why being sleepy and drunk is great for creativity. Lehrer’s must-read new book, Imagine: How Creativity Works, comes out in March and is now available on pre-order. (via curiositycounts)
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ohmuffins:
“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you’ve felt that way.”
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Charles Bukowski
Feel better :o)
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Mathematics Education: Being Outwitted by... →
A fascinating read. Here’s an excerpt:
In a well-publicized paper that addressed why some students were not learning to read, Reid Lyon (2001) concluded that children from disadvantaged backgrounds where early childhood education was not available failed to read because they did not receive effective instruction in the early grades. Many of these children then required special...
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Sidenote
Today is the three year anniversary of me quitting smoking. I’m not sharing this for pats on the back, kudos, or congratulations. I’m sharing because there are those of you who may want to quit, and I want you to know it’s possible.
Has anyone else out there quit? How long has it been for you?
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6 Technologies to Watch in Higher Ed →
Here’s one of them:
3. Game-based learning
By using game mechanics, universities are enticing students to learn through serious games. Ball State students created a historical video game for fourth-grade students last year. The game filled a void that Indiana textbooks left in the state’s only action during the Civil War: Morgan’s Raid.
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Multimedia usage within the classroom: Four mini... →
Here’s part of the first one:
Wilmington Community Digital Storytelling Collaboration Introduces Students to Storytelling
In Wilmington North Carolina, the Watson School of Education has partnered with the Boys and Girls Club and utilized a dropout prevention grant from the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI) to develop a seven-week storytelling summer program. “With...
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20 Twitter Hashtags Every Teacher Should Know... →
Here are the first five:
These Twitter chats cover anything and everything in education, and represent a great jumping off point for those just getting started in Twitter education chats.
#edchat – Talk to a variety of educators around the world through #edchat, Tuesdays at noon and 7 p.m. EST.
#lrnchat – Every Thursday night from 8:30-10 p.m. EST, you can connect with other educators and...
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The Syllabi
coursekit:
Finally, a tumblr that digitally enhances everyone’s favorite learning keystone, the syllabus.
The syllabi aims to “help the curious reader fully understand a topic” by providing comprehensive reading lists on topics like The Science of Mysteries, The Wisdom of Crowds, and Culture-Bound Syndromes.
But unlike your average learning document, each post is filled with links, and...
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“That’s what.”
– She
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The real way to build a social network →
A great article from the co-founder of LinkedIn. Thought some of my education followers may find this useful. I especially liked the advice at the end (incorporating it into a presentation tonight!):
Reid’s rules
In the next day: Look at your calendar for the past six months and identify the five people you spend the most time with — are you happy with their influence on you?
In...
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“Journalists are much better at writing than they are at reading — which means...”
– Felix Salmon, How Sharing Disrupts Media via Wired.com (via stoweboyd)
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Do Students Have Copyright to Their Own Notes? →
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“With teachers, true expertise also includes mastery over many areas of...”
– Technology Transforms Teachers Into Master Chefs of the Classroom
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10 Brain-Based Learning Laws That Trump... →
These two were my favorites, because they’ve had the biggest impact on my style of presenting.
4. White space trumps information dumps.
Many presenters try to cram as much information and data into their presentation as the time permits. We’ve assumed that content covered means content learned. We’ve also assumed that if we cover more content, the listener learns more.
Wrong! The...
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Four Recursive Practices for Teaching and Learning →
Here was one of my favorites:
Curating
Simply narrating isn’t enough to instill students with the sense that what they think and how they think will affect them for the rest of their lives. They must curate their learning, organize their thoughts, and arrange it in ways that make sense to them. I imagine it is very much like John Cusack’s character “Rob” in the movie High Fidelity, in which...
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Last surviving veteran of First World War dies... →
Mrs Green passed away in her sleep at a care home in Norfolk just two weeks before her 111th birthday.
The great-grandmother signed up to the Women’s Royal Air Force (WRAF) 93 years ago in September 1918, when she was aged just 17.
She was the last surviving person to have served in WWI following the death of British-born sailor Claude Choules in Australia last year.
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“A challenge one might present to the Instructional Design community of late is...”
– When Did You First Realize You Were a Designer?
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Do You Write with Your Students? →
I really loved reading this. I hate to quote so much of the article (please do click through), but I’m a big supporter of this idea.
Technology will also never replace the need to be literate. Students will always need to be able to read and write. And it’s essential that they are able to do both incredibly well.
How do we prepare our students for the critical literacy skills ...
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“And then Schmidt’s stand-up act: beware billionaires describing technology as...”
– Stowe Boyd • Google Is Now Officially Evil (via mediafuturist)
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Read Aloud Story ideas?
novicephoenix:
Hey Tumblr!
Tomorrow I have my observation and for a part of the lesson, I’m doing a Read Aloud with my kids. I have my lesson, but I need a better story for it, something that my kids could analyze more. In the past, I read Eve Bunting’s Fly Away Home which a children’s book about homelessness.
Help! Does anyone have any awesome short stories that I could to them?
Signal...
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Rate My Professor: Ted Mosby →
thinkbrit:
I’m delighted.
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“The deluge of criticism Komen faced on Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr came two...”
– Outcry Grows Fiercer After Funding Cut by Cancer Group — NYTimes.com (via discoverynews)
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iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch Apps for Special... →
An outstanding list, broken into categories. And you can easily download and share the doc.
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ohmuffins asked: I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE.