jack andraka (@jackandraka)10/21/13 7:00 AMnice blog on the importance of #openaccess and happy Open Access Awareness Week:) ...tmi.me/1aYYiC
http://figshare.com/blog/Open_Access_Is_Not_Just_For_Scientists_It%27s_For_Everyone/72
Scott McLeod (@mcleod)10/21/13 7:01 AM‘Chayn’, a New Website for Pakistan’s Victims of Domestic Abusebit.ly/1gZ6Ga7
Bryan Alexander (@BryanAlexander)10/21/13 7:03 AM@cogdog is revving up a project on education on the open Web. This is fun, important stuff, so feed him feedback:cogdogblog.com/2013/10/17/as-…
what scales is the teaching (to many) not necessarily the experience of those aiming to learn
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There is a better model out there for scaling open learning, it is right under our browsers… the web itself.
huge. yes.
of rather than on... ness
Randy Kluver (@rkluver)10/22/13 6:28 AM@barrywellman @wenhongchen refers to twitter's web traffic, 60% comes from outside of US.blog.twitter.com/2008/twitter-w…
Global Voices (@globalvoices)10/22/13 7:04 AMToday's digest - Moroccan Netizens Protest Teen Trial over Public Kisseepurl.com/HoT-D
Michael Lewkowitz (@Igniter)10/22/13 7:05 AMOn relentlessness and time horizons for social impact -> Luck and doggedness - buff.ly/1aBm85W by @nicktemple1#socent #impact
Trust is a Drug http://t.co/Lg9uhl2GvR by @DovSeidman in @bigthinkOriginal Tweet: https://twitter.com/bluelobsternets/status/392379852961361921
very keen - spent at least an hour taking Dov in..
“@msuster: Stunningly fascinating part of American culture & misperception. Including my own http://t.co/L5VuLnGqnb”Woah.Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/orbuch/status/392476902851481601
double whoa.. - the danger of just one story..
"Teaching Value in Academic Med Centers" in @JAMA - excellent article mentions @CostsofCare video modules: http://t.co/i0I14VqVilOriginal Tweet: https://twitter.com/ChrisMoriates/status/392793188865277952
Essay of the Day: The Economics of a Self-Managed Society http://t.co/mwha9uHn7yOriginal Tweet: https://twitter.com/P2P_Foundation/status/392838047458672640
so resonating with a people experiment..
RT @Edutopia RT @dmlresearchhub: Using #Minecraft to teach youth abt the global food market at @AMNH http://t.co/cx0L7OOrYS#gbl #edtechOriginal Tweet: https://twitter.com/NLearning/status/392854410478354432
The Piano Guys did it again. After hauling a piano up the Great Wall, maybe they wished they were the Violin Guys. http://t.co/NOJSQPwW5sOriginal Tweet: https://twitter.com/chademeng/status/392859843947556865
Michael Josefowicz (@toughLoveforx)10/22/13 12:03 PM@NewsNeus On a different thread, I've been mulling gov policies compare contrast. Alberta, Colorado, Barcelona at#ecosys cc @JennaR
Alfie Kohn (@alfiekohn)10/22/13 5:08 AM1 of 3: Two new books offer complementary critiques of traditional educ & intriguingly different alternatives, both worth a read…
Alfie Kohn (@alfiekohn)10/22/13 5:09 AM2 of 3: Leaving to Learn (ow.ly/pYr4y) argues high schoolers need to do real things outside of school…
Alfie Kohn (@alfiekohn)10/22/13 5:10 AM3 of 3: Invent to Learn (ow.ly/pYr9q) sees kids as makers, shows how tech can be used to play & discover, not memorize facts
Alfie Kohn (@alfiekohn)
10/14/13 7:27 AM
How'd I miss this? Bill Gates in '09 explained why he funds Common Core: “a large uniform base of customers”:ow.ly/pxALx
 Alex Osterwalder (@AlexOsterwalder)
10/23/13 6:37 AM
Can you prove your business model? From Idea to Business - Episode 5 goo.gl/5LhPb5 #bmgen#leanstartup #custdev
 Fred Bartels (@fredbartels)
10/23/13 6:37 AM
The Fugitive Slave Act forced northerners into supporting slavery. RTTT & #CCSS are forcing liberals into supporting poverty.
 Downes (@Downes)
10/23/13 6:39 AM
A Few Words on ePortfolios [Stephen Downes at Limited News] ift.tt/1aFMy6Aift.tt/17fphgI
In the MOOCs we have offered over the years, such as Connectivism and Connective Knowledge (CCK08), we approached this issue by encouraging students to use their own blogs or websites. In this case, the primary function of the central course management system was not to create and store student ePortfolios, but to aggregate from them and to facilitate the sharing of their contents with other students. In this light, a worthwhile project developed at University of Mary Washington called "a domain of one's own" is probably the modern version of ePortfolios.http://umwdomains.com/ It incourages students to establish their own web presence independently of service providers.
future platform in head.. the brain - ness
Increasingly in the future students will be responsible for managing their own online learning records and creative products. Though they may use a variety of services - such as Blogger, Flickr, YouTube, Google Docs, and more - to store their work, they will need to manage these resources, index them, and enable access to them. This will enable them to balance between the process-oriented and product-oriented aspect of their work. This will become important as employers will over time rely less on tests and formal assessments, and will instead look for tangible evidence of personal achievement in web-based repositories. Maintaining an ePortfolio will become tomorrow's equivalent of achieving certification and polishing up one's resumé.
 David Gilbert (@DavidGilbert43)
10/23/13 6:40 AM
I sense a tension (lovely phrase) between the emerging more lively model for #NHScitizen assembly & NHSE (TK?) need for a central 'thing'
 Diane Ravitch (@DianeRavitch)
10/23/13 6:39 AM
Jason Stanford: What Alternative to Standardized Testing?wp.me/p2odLa-6ed
 Brent Leary (@BrentLeary)
10/23/13 6:40 AM
#pbls13 is kicking off. Looking forward to Walter Isaacson's keynote.
 Boing Boing (@BoingBoing)
10/22/13 1:24 PM
Antibiotic resistance: Watch a documentary tonight, join in a live chat tomorrowdlvr.it/4BDnPm
 David Wees (@davidwees)
10/23/13 6:59 AM
@grantwiggins @gfrblxt @DianeRavitch No disagreement here that the system needs to change, but I am pretty sure the coaches are part of it.
 Jennifer Borgioli (@DataDiva)
10/23/13 6:09 AM
If this is last tweet I ever tweet, I'm okay with that. By @grantwiggins, an amazing open letter to @DianeRavitch:grantwiggins.wordpress.com/2013/10/23/is-…
I always find it odd that defenders of teachers won’t ever criticize teachers and want to highlight forces outside of classrooms and schools because then they are tacitly admitting that teaching doesn’t make much of a difference.Good teachers get good results; weak teachers don’t. Why can’t we say this and thus work on what is in our control – the teaching?
what if the idea of control is the issue.
how could you possibly have control of authentic teaching?
we can mostly control what we model.
but that holds nothing over someone seeking knowledge.
unless of course we fabricate/manufacture/shame people into thinking that
ie not a teacher if I don't produce a b c et al in students
In terms of evidence, let’s start with the remediation rate: Nationwide, as you know, the remediation rate in college is 40%. ACT reports that 30% graduating HS students are not ready for college. This can only happen in a “K-12 system” that is not a system at all. I find it hard to blame poverty and privatization for such an institutional failure to link K-12 to college in assessment and grading locally. And having spent decades in schools, I can tell you why this occurs: teachers are allowed to work in isolation and set grading and testing policies completely on their own.
oh my.
perhaps more like 70-90% not ready by terms we give for ready.. according to d pope's 95%.
unless we are actually affirming that cheating is #1 skill. then 95% ready.
oh my .. grant wiggins?
Let’s look at Hattie’s research: there are over 30 powerful interventions thattrump socio-economic status, yet it is extremely rare to find those practices in use in any one school. The pressing question for all teachers and administrators is: why is it so rare, in the face of two decades of research? Poverty, politics, and privatization have nothing to do with teachers using best practices. In medicine it is termed malpractice not to use such practices.
look at weak curriculum, a need you underscore: in 20 years of doing UbD work I still find local curricula and assessment to be woefully inadequate and primitive. Our research shows that over 90% of curricula are still framed by discrete topics instead of complex ideas, challenges, and tasks – a fact that Ralph Tyler bemoaned over 70 years ago. Teachers still march through discrete low-level content because that is how curriculum is written. How is that anything but a local-educator and supervisor problem?
true.. good point. but we can do much better than that.. no?
and perhaps we stay where we are because of original statement about teachers grading et al ... in their own way..?
Let’s look at structural issues that are also within the control of educators: schooling is still organized based on “seat time” instead of demonstrated mastery. Students are typically grouped by age and follow a curriculum that is jam packed with content to be covered (often driven by rigid pacing guides) despite the obvious fact that people learn at different rates and have varied interests. This issue is as old as Ralph Tyler’s criticisms
well that is spot on.. if teachers felt they had control.. but they don't.. ie mandatory finals week et al.. people you are talking about... principals teachers .. too afraid of loosing money... so they bow to money givers
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