Diigo bookmarks (weekly)

• Allan Savory: How to fight desertification and reverse climate change | Talk Video | TED.com

  tags: burning carbon dioxide climate climate change desertification ecology food security fossil fuels grasslands grazing herding livestock TED

  • burning one hectare of grassland gives off more, and more damaging, pollutants than 6,000 cars
  • We cannot reduce animal numbers to rest it more without causing desertification and climate change. We cannot burn it without causing desertification and climate change. What are we going to do? There is only one option, I'll repeat to you, only one option left to climatologists and scientists, and that is to do the unthinkable, and to use livestock, bunched and moving, as a proxy for former herds and predators, and mimic nature. There is no other alternative left to mankind.
  • What we are doing globally is causing climate change as much as, I believe, fossil fuels, and maybe more than fossil fuels. But worse than that, it is causing hunger, poverty, violence, social breakdown and war, and as I am talking to you, millions of men, women and children are suffering and dying. And if this continues, we are unlikely to be able to stop the climate changing, even after we have eliminated the use of fossil fuels.
  • if we do what I am showing you here, we can take enough carbon out of the atmosphere and safely store it in the grassland soils for thousands of years, and if we just do that on about half the world's grasslands that I've shown you, we can take us back to pre-industrial levels, while feeding people. I can think of almost nothing that offers more hope for our planet, for your children, and their children, and all of humanity.

• Allan Savory: How to fight desertification and reverse climate change | Talk Video | TED.com

  • burning one hectare of grassland gives off more, and more damaging, pollutants than 6,000 cars

• Suffix Prefix Dictionary - A dictionary of suffix and prefix meanings

  This site boasted it was "the most comprehensive online dictionary of biological and medical prefixes and suffixes" (2015.04.03).

  tags: biology dictionaries medicine prefixes resources suffixes vocabulary vocabulary development

• Why Use Active Learning? | ablconnect

  This page highlighted menus for: Research on Learning Goals, Research on Activity Types, and More Research. It also posited a group (and partnership) "goal to collect, categorize, and curate specific instances of active [and activity-based] learning across multiple institutions."

  tags: active learning activity-based learning approaches learning research SoTL teaching teacher development

• How to Make a Presentation Stick

  Kruse summarized six principles for making memorable presentations with a mnemonic, SUCCESS: Simplicity Unexpectedness Credentials Concreteness Emotions Stories

  tags: memorability presentations

• Rubrics - Teaching Excellence & Educational Innovation - Carnegie Mellon University

  The Eberly Center [for] TEEL: Design & Teach a Course > Teach Your Course > Rubrics page defined rubric, cited advantages, and gave examples of rubrics for assessing class participation, presentations, project work, and writing assignments.

  tags: assessment class participation education evaluation feedback grading presentations projects writing

• Learning Styles: Fact and Fiction – A Conference Report | Center for Teaching | Vanderbilt University

  Derek Bruff reflected on a conference presentation by Linda Nilson, and provided links to both a background article and slides from the presentation.

  tags: cognitive processing cognitive science colleges conferences controversy Felder-Silverman model Gardner Howard hypotheses learning learning styles multiple intelligences teaching modalities teaching practices

• TED Talk Takeaways: 8 Ways to Hook Your Audience

  SlideShare Blog post by Gavin McMahon (2014.07.30)

  tags: hooks presentations TED tips

• On-Screen Proofreading: A Handbook for Editors of Academic and Scientific Articles

  Olson, Linda. (2014). On-screen proof-reading: A handbook for editors of academic and scientific articles. [n.p.]: eAcademia.

  tags: academic writing editing editors handbooks proofreading publication

• The Top 42 Widgets To Add To Your Blog’s Sidebar - The Edublogger

  In this April 1st post, Waters lists useful widgets and points out a demo blog where most are in use. Then she provides instructions for adding them to a WordPress blog.

  tags: blog gadgets and widgets Edublogs wink_students widgets WordPress

• Tomorrow's Professor eNewsletter: 1396. Creativity Theories Relevant to Innovation

  "This chapter summarizes the contributions of bedrock creativity theorists and the relevance of their main ideas to innovation. The chapter deals with two questions: 1. What are the creative processes used by creative people, and 2. What does a creative person look like." (Tom's Prof. extract, ¶3)

  tags: creativity education innovation theories

• APA Style Blog: When and How to Include Page Numbers in APA Style Citations

  Explanations and examples of in-text citations

  tags: APA style citations page numbers paraphrases quotations wink_students

• Can we develop e-learning that respects adult learning principles? - DynaMind eLearning

  "Most e-learning doesn’t adhere to Knowles’ adult learning principles. Collaborative and problem-based online workshops (or eWorkshops) provide us with ample more opportunities to abide by the principles than self-paced e-learning modules. It’s much harder to design eWorkshops well, but the depth achieved is much more satisfying. Respect for adult learning principles goes both ways"

  tags: adult learners adult learning principles andragogy collaboration e-learning facilitation Knowles learning motivation problem-based learning respect

• How languages evolve - Alex Gendler | TED-Ed

  In the animated stimulus video for this TED-Ed lesson, "Alex Gendler explains how linguists group languages into language families, demonstrating how these linguistic trees give us crucial insights into the past" (Let's Begin, ¶1, 2015.03.31).

  tags: evolution languages TED-Ed

• Likert Scaling

  In this Research Methods Knowledge Base article, William M.K. Trochime outlines "the basic steps in developing a Likert or 'Summative' scale" (¶1). He also provides an example of a 10-item, forced-choice instrument for measuring employees' self-esteem.

  tags: assessment item-total correlations Likert research methods scaling surveys

• Rubrics for Assessment

  This page provides brief explanations and an impressive menu of links to resources and tools for assessing and providing feedback to learners on technology-supported activities and projects. Categories include: Rubrics for Assessment - General Rubric Generators Assessing … Blogging Assessing Coding & Gaming Assessing Graphic Organizers Assessing Podcasts Assessing Technology & Social Media Assessing Video, Screencasting, and Digital Storytelling Projects Assessing Websites/Digital Portfolios Assessing Wikis

  tags: assessment education formative assessment learning PBL project-based learning resources rubrics summative assessment teaching technology tools

• Educational Malpractice – The Child Manufacturing Process | Creative by Nature

  "[I]f the learner-centered model has proven itself to be so effective, and the high-stakes testing approach of the factory model has not, why is this model still dominant in many “leading” nations around the world? Why are so many business and government leaders in nations like the United States, Japan, Britain and Korea obsessed with test scores and international rankings? Are they not aware of the social consequences of this approach?" (¶10, 2015.03.30)

  tags: children collaboration creativity education factories factory models international learner-centered learning manufacturing models self-direction

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