Category: Good Read
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Epic Learning: Large Class as Intentional Design
from DML Central | FULL ARTICLE … Pedagogical practices such as this — the curation and publication of classmate’s work by classmates — contribute to students being entangled in each other’s work, creating contagion where students pursue inquiries of their own design, inquiries that matter to them and begin to matter to their classmates as…
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Watch: The Life of an Undocumented High-School Senior
via the Atlantic Ilse Cruz was brought into the United States by her mother when she was 4 years old, and has no memories of her native Mexico. She also doesn’t feel truly American—because she’s undocumented. “American culture and Mexican culture, they’re both a part of who I am but I can’t understand either one…
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GoodRead: Are College Lectures Unfair? (NYTimes)
DOES the college lecture discriminate? Is it biased against undergraduates who are not white, male and affluent? The notion may seem absurd on its face. The lecture is an old and well-established tradition in education. To most of us, it simply is the way college courses are taught. Even online courses are largely conventional lectures…
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Professor Phil Strain and Pyramid Model Consortium
Professor Phil Strain and Pyramid Model Consortium colleagues offer suggestions in “Supporting Children & Families during a Difficult Time” (Fox, Hemmeter, Strain, Allen, Ferro, & Binder, 2016) for program leaders and practitioners in dealing with potential issues and supporting young children and families during challenging times. Click here to access the PDF of this article.
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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…