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Studying English in North America: Opening the door to further study – Latin Correspondent
This article described types of programs and provided examples of programs in Canada (1) and the U.S.(4).
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Creating a Generation of Innovators — The Learner's Way
Coutts, Nigel. (2015.12.20).
- What is needed is a broad culture of innovation where diverse skills and dispositions merge to offer the best chance of a unique idea emerging and importantly making it to market. Significantly the definition of innovation very much includes the ability to deliver on the imaginative ideas Australians are known for but are presently handing off to international developers to capitalise on. For schools such a definition is useful as it encourages a shift away from vague conversations about creativity and imagination and looks at how these skills can be used in ways that bring about change
- Innovation requires a pedagogy that values a student focused learning processes over teacher directed transfer of knowledge. Teaching for innovation is by nature messy and imprecise. In the short term results on traditional assessments may not be what we would expect from traditional methods but if we desire to produce innovators this needs to be accepted
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Sunday, December 27, 2015
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StudyAbroad | The LLD Project Blog
StudyAbroad category archives of The Language Learner Development (LLD) Project Blog
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Viet Nam English proficiency rises in global ranking - Society - VietNam News
"Viet Nam is ranked a medium-level country along with Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan."
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EducationHQ Australia - Language is the passport to personal mobility, opportunity and prosperity
Mullane, Kurt. (2015.12.09). Language is the passport to personal mobility, opportunity and prosperity.
- English actually trails Chinese and Spanish as the third most commonly spoken language in the world, just ahead of Bengali, Hindi and Arabic. In 1950 about 9 per cent of the world’s population spoke English as their first language. That figure is now about 5.6 per cent.
- While the proportion increases significantly when you add speakers of English as a second or third language, we’re still left with around 70-80 per cent of humanity not speaking English. Being a monolingual English-speaker places you firmly in humanity’s minority group.
- The view that ‘English is enough’ fails to acknowledge that being bilingual or multilingual is an increasingly necessary passport to personal mobility, opportunity and prosperity, particularly in knowledge and services based economies where the ability to collaborate and communicate effectively across borders is a prized skill-set.
- Julie Bishop got it right in 2011 when she suggested language learning could be a "brilliant form of soft diplomacy", strengthening our capacity to work collaboratively in an increasingly interdependent and volatile world.
- The number of students who discontinue languages study when they have discretion over that decision is very high. The reasons for attrition are complex and varied, but the perception among students that studying a language represents a low value proposition is one of most potent determining factors.
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ld-working-papers: Intro. (Minematsu & Barfield)
"Through the dialogue that goes back and forth between the writer and reader responders, the readers can experience the developmental process of each exploration, as well as recognize the different and critical perspectives the responders bring to the process."
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Learner Development Working Papers – JALT LD-SIG
Barfield, A., & Minematsu, A. (Eds.). (2014). Learner Development Working Papers: Different Cases, Different Interests. Tokyo: JALT Learner Development SIG. ISBN (online edition) 978-4-901352-44-4.
Sunday, December 13, 2015
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8 Free Mind Map Tools & How to Best Use Them
Saikat Basu proposed seven features to consider when selecting mind-mapping tools (app's or services): Cost Off- or on-line affordances, General usability, Aesthetics, Template availability, Portability of your work, & Affordances for collaboration.
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How to Configure Your Mac's Firewall | Macinstruct
Four-year-old (2011.12.17) instructions and illustrations still serve as a guide for configuration of OS 10.11.1 (2015.12.09).
Sunday, December 06, 2015
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Forms of Intelligence | Tomorrow's Professor Postings
This extract from Chapter 3, How students learn in residence halls (Blimling, 2015), focuses on various facets of situated, participatory and experiential learning potentially viable in numerous socio-cultural milieu (TP Message 1451, 2015.12.01). Blimling, Gregory S. (2015). Student learning in residence halls: What works, what doesn't, and why. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
- being knowledgeable and being intelligent are not the same. Being knowledgeable generally refers to having access to information and facts as well as the ability to recall them. Intelligence usually refers to a person’s ability to reason, solve problems, think critically, comprehend subject matter, use language to communicate effectively, construct relationships, employ logic, and manipulate numbers (Gardner, 1999)
- Learning how to express emotions within a social system is knowledge acquired through social interaction governed by the rules and customs of the culture. One culture may encourage open and intense expression of emotional feelings, whereas another may see that same behavior as inappropriate. The exception is primal emotions, such as fear when confronted by a predator. Emotional expression is a matter of how much or the degree to which one expresses an emotion. Plutchik’s (1980) eight basic emotions include continuums from minimal to extreme expression:
Trust: acceptance to admiration
Fear: timidity to terror
Surprise: uncertainty to amazement
Sadness: gloominess to grief
Disgust: dislike to loathing
Anger: annoyance to fury
Anticipation: interest to vigilance
Joy: serenity to ecstasy
Combinations of these basic emotions create other forms of expressions. For example, the combination of the emotions joy and trust produce love, while the combination of the emotions anticipation and anger produce aggression (Plutchik, 1980). - Experiencing diversity challenges expectations not only by increasing acceptance of different cultural, ethnic, and racial groups but also by enhancing students’ overall psychological functioning (Crisp & Turner, 2011). Pascarella (1996) reached a similar conclusion from the national study of student learning that found that diversity experiences in the first year of college had long-term positive effects on critical thinking throughout college, particularly for white students.
- Experiential learning creates cognitive understanding and information retention through the transformative process of experience (Kolb, 1984; Kolb, Boyatzis, & Mainemelis, 1999). Siegel (2012) explains that the transformative process of learning through experience “directly shapes the [neurological] circuits responsible for such processes as memory, emotion, and self-awareness … [by] altering both the activity and the structure of the connections between neurons” (p. 9).
Kolb (1984) outlines four stages of experiential learning: (1) concert experience; (2) reflective observations; (3) abstract conceptualization; and (4) active experimentation. Students can start anywhere in the process but return to test their understandings and modify them based on experience.
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Edudemic search results for "digital citizenship"
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"The mission of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is to promote policies that will improve the economic and social well-being of people around the world."
Sunday, November 29, 2015
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Millennium Development Goals | Explore Taylor & Francis Online
"Established following the Millennium Summit of the United Nations in 2000, the Millennium Development Goals were formed to galvanise efforts to meet the needs of the world's poorest. Eight goals were defined and twenty-one targets were set to be completed by 2015. / To mark the final year of this programme, Taylor & Francis Group are delighted to be offering free access to selected research related to each of the eight Millennium Development Goals" (¶¶1-2, 2015.11.17). The offer of free access apparently will expire at the end of November 2015 (Goal 7: Ensure Environmental Sustainability,¶3, http://goo.gl/zjYrCb).
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Collaboration & Connectedness the Key to Quality Teaching — The Learner's Way
In this post, Nigel Coutts shared a story of collective teacher development activity that focused on online teacher discussion regarding visual note-making with students. He provided a model for other teachers ready to take the leap into cyber-teacher development–or considering doing so, suggesting: "Most teachers recognise the potential for collaboration between students and the importance of it as a component of a 21st Century education[,] and yet many do not take full advantage of the opportunities they have for collaboration as teachers. Others have found the benefits and willingly share ideas gathered from their personal learning network" (2015.11.01, ¶1).
Sunday, November 15, 2015
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3 Ways to Become a More Effective Learner
In this Entrepreneur.com blog post, staf writer Laura Entis recap's learning tips from "Nate Kornell, an associate professor of cognitive psychology at Williams College who studies learning strategies" (¶2).
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Towards the end of this book review Barlow noted: "Many colleges have processes certifying teachers in uses of technology, yet I have heard of none that certifies its technologists in the ways of teaching or in educational psychology."
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Measuring English Proficiency in Real-World Situations - Language Testing International
"The 2012 Guidelines are available online, supported with glossed terminology and annotated, multimedia samples of performance at each level for speaking and writing, and examples of oral and written texts and tasks associated with each level for reading and writing. ESL teachers will be particularly interested in exploring the English Proficiency Guidelines online." (Cutshall, 2015, ¶18, 2015.11.09)
Sunday, November 08, 2015
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geyrhalterfilm - NGF - Population Boom
Glaser, M., Kitzberger, M., Widerhofer, W. & Geyrhalter, N. (Producers), and Boote, Werner (Director). (2013). Population Boom [Documentary film]. Austria: Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion.
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Embracing Differentiation and Reclaiming Audacity: An Interview with James Hilton | EDUCAUSE
Hilton explained differences between cooperation and collaboration, and envisioned higher education that could be personalized at scale.
- One important lesson I've learned about multi-institutional collaborations involves alignment. It's critical from the beginning to not be in a rush. A collaboration needs to have a clearly aligned purpose behind it.
- Part of the issue here, I think, is that people confuse the word collaboration with the word cooperation. In common language, we use those terms almost interchangeably, but they're very different concepts.
- Collaborations are hard. They require a lot of energy. They bring huge benefits, but no one should enter into a collaboration lightly. You can enter into cooperation lightly, because it's always good to be cooperative, but you need to be much more intentional about collaborations.
- A second lesson I've learned about multi-institutional collaborations involves how challenging it is to design collaborations and systems that are adaptive, that respond to the fact that the world is fundamentally a complex system. Whatever you plan, there's going to be a change somewhere down the line, and you're going to have to respond to that change.
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Sunday, October 25, 2015
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MultiBrief: Effectively incorporating technology with English learners
In this article, Herrmann explains principles to guide the adoption and utilisation of technology to help meet general and specific needs of English-as-an-additional language learners.
- Perhaps the first consideration is the instructional purpose of the lesson, and how the technology will enhance that purpose or help students to achieve the goals and objectives of the lesson.
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Technology, as mentioned earlier, has the power to increase student knowledge and skills in various content areas. Yet another consideration that must be taken into account when working with English learners is how the technology is increasing academic language knowledge and skills.
It is critical, then, that teachers take into account not only the content goals and objectives for the lesson, but also the language goals and objectives as well as the linguistic demand of the tasks students will need to accomplish in the classroom.
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English learners need additional instructional supports or scaffolds, including providing students with necessary background knowledge that other students may possess, using graphic organizers, pictures/visuals, demonstrations and realia, and providing redundant information and differentiated instruction based on students' language proficiency level.
When researching various technology tools, it is critical that we investigate how the tool addresses these principles.
- The use of technology in the classroom is quickly becoming not only commonplace, but also essential for helping students gain the 21st-century skills they will need to be successful in the future.
- when implementing technology in the classroom, an important component of instruction is to teach students how to use technology effectively and responsibly. Students may need guidance and instruction on how to use technology appropriately given the task and learning at hand, how to avoid distractions with technology, and how to effectively navigate the digital world.
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How to apply | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
- not provided in English
- it may be difficult to understand how to operate the electronic application system
- grant administrators at your host institution will help you
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Royalty Free Music & Sounds – Year 10 Multimedia
This post provided "a list of links where you will be able to find royalty free and creative commons based music and sound effects" (¶1, 2015.10.21).
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Home - Evaluating resources - Library Guides at UC Berkeley
"How do you make sense of the quality of resources and evaluate their authority and appropriateness for your research?" This library guide advocates careful evaluation of the suitability, authority, and other indicators of resource quality, and provides pointers to a number of reference works and related websites.
Sunday, October 11, 2015
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How to Create Advanced Firewall Rules in the Windows Firewall
An illustrated guide
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Mendeley is evolving! | Mendeley Blog
"Mendeley Profile – your professional public face We continue to refine the look, feel and functionality of your Profile page. This will make it easier for you to complete your profile, and for others to see your professional interests and achievements, at a glance. Over time this will also make profiles more discoverable. We are also extremely excited about the upcoming integration between Mendeley and Scopus – the leading scientific bibliographic database. This will give Mendeley users an easy way to access and add curated metadata about millions of publications."
Sunday, September 20, 2015
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Emotional Intelligence | What It Is and Why It Matters
Cherry (n.d.) recapped "Definitions, History, and Measures of Emotional Intelligence" (subtitle).
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Guide to Academic and Scientific Publication | LinkedIn
This post contains links to Kindle and Epub versions of a free ebook.
Sunday, September 06, 2015
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Medical Alert Systems Comparison - Consumer Reports
- GPS mobile1
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Sunday, August 23, 2015
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MWIS Newsletter - August 2015: I want to write a book...
"TESOL Press is currently accepting responses to calls as well as unsolicited manuscripts. More information and the proposal form can be found by clicking on the Read & Publish tab on the TESOL webpage and then clicking on Information for Authors."
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5 Useful Tips for International Students With Dependents in the U.S. - US News
Farrell, Louis. (2015.06.23). 5 Useful Tips for International Students With Dependents in the U.S. Retrieved from http://www.usnews.com/education/blogs/international-student-counsel/2015/06/23/5-useful-tips-for-international-students-with-dependents-in-the-us
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"a broad array of guides, manuals and handbooks to meet the needs of learners, administrators and researchers"
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English as a second language in universities | The Nation
"Not only inside the university but after graduating when it comes to career options[,] the knowledge and fluency of English can be very helpful. Every professional job needs a good usage of English. To engage in international trade activities, to develop technical skills required in modern industries and for many other opportunities in developing the personal career, need the usage of English" (¶13, 2015.08.19).
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Yang, S. M., & Lin, Lillian. (2015.06.26).
- Taiwan's Consumers' Foundation has called on local universities to take responsibility for improving English-language skills among their students, in view of the fact that a certain standard of English proficiency is a prerequisite to obtaining a degree.
- The foundation urged the country's universities to help improve their students English proficiency by offering more training so that the students would not need to spend a fortune taking English classes at cram schools.
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Rediscovering Nature’s Paradigm, Part I | Creative by Nature
- While many of the words and concepts of systems theory are new, systems thinking is not. Systems thinking is a way of looking at the world ecologically and holistically, where one focuses on patterns, connections and processes, and how seemingly separate things form coherent wholes.
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Sunday, August 16, 2015
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Speaking the global language - Education | The Star Online
Rajaendram and Khor (2015) quoted an open letter from "a group of prominent Malaysian" that embraced integrative motivation for developing English proficiency: "'[I]f we aspire to be more proficient in the language, we are only trying to be better citizens of the world'" (¶4). What a breathe of fresh air among all the integrative motives that articles like this one often highlight! Rajaendram, Rebecca, & Khor, Ann-Marie. (2015, August 9). Speaking the global language. The Star Online, Education section. Retrieved from http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Education/2015/08/09/Speaking-the-global-language/
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Writing an Effective Abstract for Journal Submission | Rene Tetzner | LinkedIn
"An academic or scientific abstract should briefly and comprehensively summarise the contents of the paper it precedes. It should not contain information that is not present in the article and it should report, not evaluate, what can be found in the paper" (Abstract, ¶1, 2015.07.11).
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Raising proficiency in English pivotal to next gen's future | theSundaily
"Education Ministry secretary general Tan Sri Madinah Mohamad said the future generations need to be equal or better in their English proficiency to compete in the rapidly changing globalised world" (Achariam, 2015). Achariam, Timothy. (2015, August 6). Raising proficiency in English pivotal to next gen's future. The Sun Daily [Kuala Lumpur]. Retrieved from http://www.thesundaily.my/news/1512360
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25 maps that explain the English language - Vox
"25 maps and charts that explain how English got started and evolved into the differently accented languages spoken today" (deck, 2015.08.09)
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eLearning Course Evaluation: The Ultimate Guide For eLearning Professionals - eLearning Industry
In this 2015.04.17 post, Pappas covered "why eLearning course evaluation is important, when to do it and, most importantly, how."
Sunday, August 09, 2015
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Importance, Citation Reports and Impact Factor | LinkedIn
Tetzner suggested, "It is always best to choose a refereed or peer-reviewed journal because this means that the research articles published by that journal have been evaluated by scholars and researchers who specialise in the subject area" (¶2), and recommended, "Ulrich’s Periodical Directory, online access to which can be gained through most university libraries, … to determine whether a journal is peer reviewed" (¶2).
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MOOC Professors' Agency in the Face of Disruption (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE.edu
- MOOCs can be an opportunity to empower faculty to explore, create, and express themselves in new ways through open and digital education. To do this requires establishing the proper institutional context, one that allows for experimentation and grassroots, faculty-led initiatives to flourish. We have argued in this article that a focus on soft infrastructure — the resources, values, and affirmations that support faculty agency in experimenting with digital learning — has helped us create this context
- In a nutshell, empowerment via support
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Abe Fellowship — Fellowships & Grants — Social Science Research Council
This page provides an overview of the Abe Fellowship Program, its purpose and research agenda: "The Abe Fellowship Program Committee seeks applications for research explicitly focused on policy-relevant and contemporary issues with a comparative or transnational perspective that draw the study of the United States and Japan into wider disciplinary or theoretical debates" (Policy-Relevant, Contemporary, and Comparative or Transnational Research, ¶2) from eligible candidates every year by September 1st.
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PEN00031 | UKEdChat - Supporting the Education Community
"Title: Persuasive letter about persuasive letters Description: A letter which attempts to persuade the reader to write their own persuasive letter, and which highlights some of the main points to include. Category: Primary English/Literacy > Non-fiction"
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Summative Assessment In eLearning: What eLearning Professionals Should Know - eLearning Industry
This post identifies five types of summative assessment applicable to online learning environments, and offers four tips for making summative assessments.
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Master language to stay competitive, says deputy minister - Nation | The Star Online
In Choong Sin Woon's first official speech as Deputy Education Minister, he intimated that Malaysia's once competitive business advantage "is now being threatened" by diminishing English proficiency of people in the region (The Star Online, 2015, ¶7). Rajaendram, Rebecca. (2015, August 2). Master language to stay competitive, says deputy minister. The Star Online. Retrieved from http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Nation/2015/08/02/Chong-Embrace-English-Master-language-to-stay-competitive-says-deputy-minister/
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The Teacher’s Guide To Open Educational Resources | Edudemic
Comforto (2015) explained how to identify open educational resources (OERs), listed a handful of places to start looking for them, and provided micro reviews of repositories for literature, math and science OERs, as well as videos, courses and textbooks. She included suggestions for appropriate use and re-use of OERs, and invited comments pointing out similar repositories or resources. Comforto, Nicole. (2015, July 30). The Teacher’s Guide To Open Educational Resources [Web log post]. Retrieved from http://www.edudemic.com/guide-open-educational-resources/
Sunday, August 02, 2015
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So…how do we ‘teach’ listening? | The Language Gym
In this blog post, Conti reiterated inadequacies in methods from previous posts about teaching listening to secondary-level additional (modern) language learners in the UK. He then outlined skills and conditions necessary for successful listening comprehension. As he enumerated practical implications of those skills for learning and teaching activities, he provided illustrative sequences of tasks that teachers could set for learners to help them develop their listening comprehension.
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Deep Listening | The Center for Contemplative Mind in Society
"As a classroom practice, deep listening requires that students witness their thoughts and emotions while maintaining focused attention on what they are hearing. It trains them to pay full attention to the sound of the words, while abandoning such habits as planning their next statement or interrupting the speaker. It is attentive rather than reactive listening. Such listening not only increases retention of material but encourages insight and the making of meaning. "
Sunday, July 26, 2015
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Honda To Set English as Official Language - Japan Real Time - WSJ
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Taylor & Francis Open | Taylor & Francis Online
This page presents various options and restrictions for open access publishing with the Taylor & Francis Group.
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http://informalscience.org/images/research/TheUserFriendlyGuide.pdf
Recommended in July 2015 Tomorrow's Professor excerpt
Sunday, July 19, 2015
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Beyond Active Learning: Transformation of the Learning Space (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE.edu
- The nature of work today is inherently team-based and collaborative, often virtual, and geographically distant. Companies are seeking creative, collaborative employees who have an exploratory mindset. Employers seek graduates who can be more immediately productive in today's fast-paced economy.
- Active learning, an instructional model that focuses the responsibility of learning on learners, fits the flipped classroom perfectly. Students work in teams to solve problems that are often multidisciplinary in nature, using techniques that are technology-rich. Active learning classrooms are generally characterized by furniture and technology settings that foster small-group collaboration, a rich-media working environment, and the ability to easily reconfigure within the class period.
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The ability to rearrange furniture and technology quickly and easily will be highly desirable. Some project activities will need nothing more than comfortable furniture, food, and caffeine. Others will require sophisticated computational analysis and the ability to do rapid prototyping.
Acoustics will be a concern and will need to accommodate a wide range of activities. It seems likely that such space will support more than one team or activity simultaneously. That will be a highly desirable trait, fostering serendipitous discovery and innovation.
The ability to quickly and easily capture the group's activities and progress will also be desirable. An emerging class of powerful and effective collaboration tools enables project teams to save and store project elements, resources, concepts, plans, designs, models, and renderings—in short, all the "stuff" that a team might find or make.
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Wiley: Professional Development
This page lists items to include with a book project proposal.
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"Every researcher now needs to know about open access and we’re here to help you find out how" (deck, ¶1, 2015.06.16).
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12 Mind Tricks That Win People Over and Help You Get Ahead
"Maintain eye contact for 60% of a conversation The key to eye contact is balance. While it’s important to maintain eye contact, doing so 100% of the time is perceived as aggressive and creepy. At the same time, if you only maintain eye contact for a small portion of the conversation, you’ll come across as disinterested, shy, or embarrassed. Maintaining eye contact for roughly 60% of a conversation comes across as interested, friendly, and trustworthy."
Sunday, July 12, 2015
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How to give a persuasive presentations: A Q&A with Nancy Duarte | TED Blog
Oct. 31, 2012, TED Blog post by Kate Torgovnick May
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TESOL Connections - Professional Development Special Issue: July 2015
Chang, M. (2015, July). Résumé writing: Tips for English language teachers. TESOL Connections, Professional Development Special Issue.
Sunday, June 28, 2015
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E-Learning: Three Habits That Digital Natives Need to Change | Ken Turner(LION) | LinkedIn
"An important area that digital natives have been unable to manage effectively is their own personal learning. There are 3 very specific habits that new learners bring with them into the E-Learning environment that need to be "un-learned" so effective "re-learning" can take place" (¶5, retrieved 2015.06.26).
Sunday, June 21, 2015
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"This is the pre-publication version of the article which will be published in volume 8, no, 2 of Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice. / To reference this paper: Saunders MNK and Rojon C (2015) Dealing with reviewers’ comments in the publication process. Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice. DOI: 10.1080/17521882.2015.104746" (deck, 2015.06.18).
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Deeper Learning | Hewlett Foundation
"using their knowledge and skills in a way that prepares them for real life" (What is deeper learning, ¶3, 2015.06.18)
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