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• Catalysing collaborative initiatives in computer-supported collaborative learning

  "a case study and formative evaluation..."

  tags: case studies collaboration evaluation infrastructure

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• Long Live the Web: A Call for Continued Open Standards and Neutrality: Scientific American

  "Several principles are key to assuring that the Web becomes ever more valuable. The primary design principle underlying the Web’s usefulness and growth is universality" Universality is the Foundation, para. 1).

  tags: web open freedom technology Berners-Lee Tim

• Robert Slavin | IEE | University of York

  "Leading educational psychologist Robert Slavin is a Professor in the IEE" (Biography, ¶1, retriieved 2010.12.14 [page updated 2010.11.11]). This page lists selected publications and presentations.

  tags: Slavin Robert E. education educational psychology cooperative learning motivation

• Business Writing Tips from ULiveandLearn - Organizing Business Documents - Using an Outline - iContact Community

  Covers why and how to make an outline

  tags: business tips writing concept mapping and outlining wink_students

• TeachPaperless: Why Teachers Should Blog

  "There is no substantial qualitative definition of a blog. Blogs, or rather blogging platforms, just exist. The quality or essence of a blog is given meaning only via what the author does with the blog and how the blog is responded to" (¶4, retrieved 2010.12.13).

  tags: blogs Descartes learning teachers teaching

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• TESOL Connections: A Sequence of Critical Thinking Task

  "This article [by John Beaumont] is from Volume 1, Issue 4 of TESOL Journal" (TESOL Connections [website], Features, December 2010).

  tags: Bloom's taxonomy critical thinking TESOL Connections education resources tasks teaching

  • Scriven and Paul begin to define critical thinking as ‘‘the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action’’ (quoted in Foundation for Critical Thinking, 2009, para. 2).
  • Bloom (1956) offered one of the first comprehensive elaborations of these important skills. Since the conception of Bloom’s Taxonomy, his colleagues (Anderson & Krathwohl, 2001) have carried on his work and developed a two-dimensional taxonomy for learning, teaching, and assessing student learning outcomes. The Knowledge Dimension identifies four types of knowledge: factual, conceptual, procedural, and metacognitive. The second aspect of Bloom’s Taxonomy, the Cognitive Process Dimension, outlines six ways of thinking (remember, understand, apply, analyze, evaluate, and create) and their many subprocesses.
  • For the purposes of this article, critical thinking is defined as the practice and development of an active, conscious, purposeful awareness of what one encounters both in the classroom and in the outside world. It is a kind of thinking and learning that demands an investment in personal and communal learning on the part of the student and teacher. Critical thinking does not discount the emotional or gut responses that everyone has. Rather, it complements and enters into dialogue with them so that reasoned judgments are possible.
  • Observing is the basic starting point of the sequence—so basic, in fact, that some teachers may not immediately consider it to be critical thinking at all. However, observing is critical thinking because it involves a fundamental level of analysis.
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• SCoPE: Seminars: Definitions of Motivation - What does motivation mean to you?

  URLs for optional course readings on metacognition shared by Roxanne (2010.12.03)

  tags: seminars SCoPE motivation

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RSA Animate - Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us

From carrots and sticks, to auto-go-juice:

BR 2-19: Wuthering Heights

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The most impressive passage for me was when Heathcliff ...[said], "I have to remind myself to breathe – almost to remind my heart to beat" (Bronte, 1989, p. 65). That made me realize how much our thoughts and emotions influence our lives.

Reference

Bronte, Emily. (1989). Wuthering Heights [Longman Classics series]. Harlow, Essex: Longman Group UK.

BR 2-18: Wild America

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This book is full of surprises. I was most surprised to learn, "There are more than three hundred national parks, ... seashores, ... forests, and recreation areas" in the U.S. (Cox, 1990, p. 4). I have visited some of them already. Reading this book makes me want to visit some more.

Reference

Cox, Teresa. (1990). Wild America. Harlow, Essex: Longman Group UK.

BR 2-17: Wild America by Teresa Cox

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In this book there were lots of surprises. The most surprising bit of information about the U.S. was that there are literally hundreds of "national parks, national seashores, national forests, and [national] recreation areas" (Cox, 1990, p. 4). I've seen some of them already. I really want to go and see more of them soon!

References

Cox, Teresa. (1990). Wild America. Harlow, Essex: Longman Group UK.

BR 2-16: Emile Bronte's Wuthering Heights

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My favorite line in the book is when Heathcliff says, "I have to remind myself to breathe – almost remind my heart to beat!" (Bronte, 1989, p. 65). It reminds me how strongly our thoughts can influence our bodies.

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Reference

Bronte, Emily. (1989). Wuthering Heights [Longman Classics series]. Harlow: Longman Group UK.

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• ARCS Categories - Attention

  "Peruse the pages of this website to learn about the concept of motivational design, the theoretical foundation of the ARCS model, the systematic motivational design process, examples of ARCS-related research areas, and a few of the places and people associated with ARCS-related studies and practices" (ARCS Categories, Long Term and Immediate Goals, ¶2, retrieved 2010.12.03).

  tags: motivation theory volition

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