February 2012
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The Greatest Radio Station in the World →
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If you can’t be in New Orleans (today or any day), tune into OZ!
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Mardi Gras live stream WDSU New Orleans →
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Mardi Gras live stream WWL New Orleans →
It ain’t just any old ordinary Tuesday.
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The disadvantages of an elite education →
An elite education not only ushers you into the upper classes; it trains you for the life you will lead once you get there. I didn’t understand this until I began comparing my experience, and even more, my students’ experience, with the experience of a friend of mine who went to Cleveland State. There are due dates and attendance requirements at places like Yale, but no one takes them very...
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Why teaching is hard
One of the hardest things...
“I want to know how a hundred years ago Louis Armstrong was able to get an...”
– Wynton Marsalis (via thgts)
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Ensuring student success – Students are not to... →
Many students may appear to be unqualified, unprepared and uninterested. But if you believe, as I do, that each one of them has a talent, each of one them has a capacity to develop – intellectually and emotionally – then it follows that each one should be given a fair chance to succeed.
— Arshad Ahmad, president, Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, Canada
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New Horizons for Learning EdTech Database →
The venerable New Horizons for Learning journal, now hosted at Johns Hopkins University, has announced the addition of a database of educational technology tools reviewed by educators.
January 2012
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Why student success is such a radical idea
MIT recently announced its plans to offer its free online course materials with the opportunity to earn certificates of completion through its new MITx platform.
Sebastian Thrun recently announced he is leaving Stanford to offer free online courses through a platform called Udacity.com, which also will offer certificates of completion.
Both MITx and Udacity are experiments in offering online...
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“I used to think that technology could help education. I’ve probably spearheaded...”
– Steve Jobs | 1996 interview with Wired.com (via courtenaybird)
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UK universities earn millions collecting overdue... →
Universities have raised almost £50m (US $77 million) from fining students for overdue library books in the past six years.… With fines as little as 10p for each day a book is overdue, it shows that students are returning thousands of books late each year.
— The Guardian
So what will they do when “books” are no longer “returnable”?
— Visual Turn
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“Writing scientific papers is rather like writing poetry in an ancient verse...”
– Chris Frith, Making Up the Mind: How the Brain Creates Our Mental World (2007)
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“I have recently argued that the one useful response to today’s teacher...”
– Eric Rofes, A Radical Rethinking of Sexuality and Schooling (2005)
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December 2011
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The 11 Best Science Books of 2011 →
— by Maria Popova, via Brain Pickings
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rightbrainbook asked: I came across your blog, and I think a project I'm working one fits nicely with what you're talking about, specifically visual learning. Interesting how things fall so parallel sometimes, well great blog! Check mine out if you'd like to see more about the project
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When an adult took standardized tests forced on... →
A school board member takes versions of his state’s standardized tests in math and reading, and realizes something is really wrong with these high-stakes exams.
— Washington Post
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Why Aren't We Smarter Already? Evolutionary Limits... →
We put a lot of energy into improving our memory, intelligence, and attention. There are even drugs that make us sharper, such as Ritalin and caffeine. But maybe smarter isn’t really all that better. A new paper published in Current Directions in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, warns that there are limits on how smart humans can get, and any...
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Human Brains Unlikely to Evolve Into a 'Supermind'... →
Human minds have hit an evolutionary “sweet spot” and — unlike computers — cannot continually get smarter without trade-offs elsewhere, according to research by the University of Warwick.
— ScienceDaily
November 2011
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“What we learned is that when it comes to the brain and cooperation, the whole is...”
– It takes two: Brains come wired for cooperation, neuroscientists discover (via wildcat2030)
If vertebrate “brains come wired for cooperation,” as reported in this research, why is it that students so often resist working in groups? The answer is simple: schooling and other mechanisms of...
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Citation Obsession? Get Over It! →
Bibliographic citation has apparently eclipsed perfect grammar and the five-paragraph theme as the preoccupation of persnickety professors. What a colossal waste. Citation style remains the most arbitrary, formulaic, and prescriptive element of academic writing taught in American high schools and colleges. Now a sacred academic shibboleth, citation persists despite the incredibly high cost-benefit...
October 2011
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Out in the West: The Mormon Church is going... →
“It begins at the kitchen table where your father cracks gay jokes. It is furthered at school where the teachers allow kids to call each other fag. It grows into a hot flame in the church pew on Sunday where you are told that the door to eternity is narrow and policed, where the lines between lost and saved are engraved into your skin. All of that fear must go somewhere. It cannot be...
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“Changing education isn’t quite as simple as starting a company, because we...”
– How This College Dropout Wants To Change Education | Fast Company (via infoneer-pulse)
September 2011
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Whether you are sitting for an important test or...
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“As it stands, we seek to decrease inequality and poverty by improving...”
– Why Education Is Not an Economic Panacea - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education (via infoneer-pulse)
It took me a long time to get this, but it is irrefutably true. We have been working the wrong side of the equation for decades.
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August 2011
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