Category: Good Read
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Worth Watching: World Education Systems
Poverty, equity, education, data, technology, social class, teachers, students, and the future. Andreas Schleicher is a German-born statistician and researcher in the field of education. He is the Division Head and coordinator of the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment and the OECD Indicators of Education Systems programme.
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Occupying Classrooms: A #digped Discussion
Originally posted Oct. 11 by Sean Michael Morris @ the Digital Pedagogy Lab ========================================= We hope that you’ll join us for this #digped chat on Friday, October 14 at 10AM Mountain Time. ========================================= Quite often, I don’t have the words to speak. To respond. To cry havoc. I have spoken many times already and have…
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Explore ANTH101 – exemplary open education
Case Study: http://anth101.com/ ANTH 101 is an innovative, open online course in cultural anthropology from Michael Wesch at Kansas State University. This is an exemplary demonstration of the open education teaching and learning philosophy. Please explore and maybe even enroll! There is no better way learn and grow than to participate. It is designed around…
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Headwinds or tailwinds? via Scott Mcleod
Scott Mcleod via dangerously irrelevant ================= David Brooks said over at the New York Times: The crucial social divide today is between those who feel the core trends of the global, information-age economy as tailwinds at their backs and those who feel them as headwinds in their face. And that’s really it, isn’t it? We have…
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CABE Pledge to Use Asset Based Language
The Colorado Association of Bilingual Education holds their annual conference this week, and several UCD faculty are board members, directors and presenters. At the conference this year, CABE is asking all its members to take a pledge to use additive language, such as Bilingual, Emerging Bilingual, Emergent Bilingual, or Dual Language Learners, and to avoid…
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The Colorado Paradox (the Atlantic)
A review of the state of education in the state… ================ DENVER— Colorado businesses are enjoying a robust recovery from the recession. Good jobs and great quality of life are luring college graduates to the state. But Colorado’s own students are at a disadvantage. By 2020, three-quarters of Colorado’s jobs are likely to require some…
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Fostering Social and Emotional Learning Through Technology
Can technology effectively facilitate the development of competencies and character qualities, in addition to cognitive skills? If yes, what are the opportunities to capture to make it happen? What are the immediate, mid-term, and long-term barriers to remove? How can multistakeholders work together to create a roadmap for this vision? The New Vision for Education…
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NMC Horizon Report > 2016 Higher Ed Edition
The Horizon Report is an an ongoing research project designed to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have an impact on learning, teaching, and creative inquiry in higher education. The report is crowdsourced annually by the New Media Consortium (NMC) and EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) – calling upon an international cohort of expert panelists in…