February 2012
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faircopy asked: miraciously?
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martiniqueeny:
Dear Stephanie,
Your 3 absences will result in your letter grade dropping. I am a working mother so I understand, but you need to come up with a better plan for when your children get sick. I know you have turned in your assignments and do well on your exams, but I have to enforce the letter grade drop. Also, if you miss one more day I will withdraw you from the class. Do you...
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“Frederick Bartlett was there first. In 1917, the British psychologist began...”
– Jonah Lehrer, Learning to Forget
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Google-Trained Minds Can't Deal with Terrible... →
infoneer-pulse:
College and university librarians are concerned about students’ search skills, and no wonder:
At Illinois Wesleyan University, “The majority of students — of all levels — exhibited significant difficulties that ranged across nearly every aspect of the search process,” according to researchers there. They tended to overuse Google and misuse scholarly databases. They preferred...
Stuff Smart People Like: Neuroscience feels more... →
stuffsmartppllike:
An article in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience from 2008 suggests what many research psychologists already intuitively feel. Namely, having a neuroscience explanation in your scientific article (even if illogical) makes the work seem more satisfying.
We tested this hypothesis by giving…
“After the pageant has gone glimmering, and the whirl of the midnight ball is...”
– Lafcadio Hearn, on the city’s slow return to normalcy after Mardi Gras. (via americanroutes)
The Greatest Radio Station in the World →
nolanews:
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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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.