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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 23, 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 beginning of these remarks about life-long language reminded me of Japan.
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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)
Sunday, June 14, 2015
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1226 Optimizing Your Writing Process: Write Nonlinearly
"Besides seeing projects as complex in space, the prolific also see them as complex in time. While novice writers see writing as "just writing," the prolific see it as a process consisting of these or similar stages: 1. Conceptualization (a.k.a. note-taking or "noodling around") 2. Planning and outlining (a little more structured than above) 3. Research 4. First Draft 5. Revision(s) 6. Final Draft 7. Submission(s) 8. Cash the Check (for freelance and other writers who get paid)" (Tales of Space and Time, ¶1).
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PLOS ONE: Gender on the Brain: A Case Study of Science Communication in the New Media Environment
"The journey of information from scientific journal through the various layers of public reception was characterised by the evolution of increasingly diversified, personalised and politicised meaning" (Discussion: How do science, gender and media intersect in contemporary society, ¶1, 2015.06.09).
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Netiquette: Ground Rules for Online Discussions
"a dozen online discussion rules to include in your syllabus. Notice that most of them are just as applicable in face-to-face discussions."
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"Scrutiny of the evidence-base for many claims of sex difference produces plentiful examples of methodological weakness and interpretative bias. In particular, neuroscientific studies of sex difference routinely presume a simplistic gender binary in research design and interpretation; ignore large within-sex variation in favour of emphasising small differences between the sexes; and privilege determinist biogenetic explanations for brain differences over the equally plausible explanation that plastic brains are shaped by systematically different sociocultural experience" (¶2, 2015.06.09).
Sunday, June 07, 2015
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Hands-Off Teaching Cultivates Metacognition | Edutopia
"Metacognition (or thinking about thinking) is the secret to and driving force behind all effective learning. If you want your students to learn as much as possible, then you want to maximize the amount of metacognition they're doing. It's a pretty simple equation. The only problem is that most classrooms are set up to promote metacognition in the teachers, not the students."
Sunday, May 31, 2015
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Cambridge English Teacher Development Tracker | stopnthinkELT
This post introduces "a development framework which divides teaching competency into 5 categories, across 4 stages of development" (What is it? ¶1).
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A Guide to Doing Statistics in Second Language Research Using SPSS - R
Larson-Hall, J. (2010). A guide to doing statistics in second language research using R. - a companion to Larson-Hall's book on SPSS
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The Trouble with Standardized Testing | Creative by Nature
"Washback becomes negative when learners spend so much time preparing for exams that they do not develop the actual skills and abilities those tests are meant to measure, thereby calling into question the very validity (and wisdom) of the tests themselves."
Sunday, May 24, 2015
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What Is Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs?
This straight-forward introduction to Maslow's theory of motivation explains both deficiency needs and being or growth needs (p. 1 of 6).
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Psychology Dictionary: Psychology Terms from A to Z
"The psychology dictionary contains an A to Z listing of psychological terms with definitions and examples. Terms included in the psychology dictionary cover every subject and sub-field of psychology, from research methods to child development. New terms are added regularly." (2015.05.19)
Sunday, May 17, 2015
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Social media: A guide for researchers | Research Information Network
This 2011 "guide discusses the use of social media for research and academic purposes...[,] not ...the many other uses that social media is put to across society" (¶2, 2015.05.11).
Sunday, May 03, 2015
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State of the Commons - Creative Commons
"With this report, we’re taking a big step toward better measuring the size of the commons. We’re also sharing all of the data and methodologies that we used to find these numbers, and making a commitment to hone and update these findings in the months and years to come. We’re also telling the stories of events from 2014 that have impacted the size, usability, and relevance of the commons"
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Copyright Act: Ownership of Copyright (Canada)
Copyright Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. C-42)
Sunday, April 26, 2015
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Learning English the STELLAR way - Channel NewsAsia
"Learning English the fun way while raising standards - a primary school programme called Strategies for English Language Learning and Reading (STELLAR) strives to do just that. " (deck, 2015.04.22)
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Wiley, D. (2015.03.24). The Remix Hypothesis [weblog post]. Retrieved from ...
- In it’s simplest form, The Remix Hypothesis states that changes in students outcomes occurring in conjunction with OER adoption correlate positively with faculty remixing activities. Specifically, I hypothesize relationships between (at least) three levels of remix activity by faculty who adopt OER and changes in student outcomes, based on what I’ve seen in the research to date.
- I don’t have empirical data from a specifically designed study to corroborate The Remix Hypothesis yet, but I hope to either validate or disprove it empirically in the next few years in collaboration with my awesome partners in the Open Education Group
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Wiley, D. (15 March 2014). Clarifying the 5th R [weblog post]. Retrieved from: http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/3251
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The Access Compromise and the 5th R
Wiley, D. (05 March 2014). The Access Compromise and the 5th R [weblog post]. Retrieved from: http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/3221
- Over the last year my thinking about the attack on personal property has slowly expanded and generalized to include not just publishers, but our own campuses as well
- the time has come to add a 5th R to my framework – “retain.” Hopefully this 5th R will elevate the ownership conversation in the open education community, allowing us to talk about it explicitly and begin the work necessary to support and enable it directly.
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A Creative Commons wiki page showcasing open education resource projects.
Sunday, April 19, 2015
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Best practices for attribution - CC Wiki
"Here are some good (and not so good) examples of attribution" (2015.04 19).
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Queen's University Belfast | Postgraduate Researcher Development Programme
"The Programme offers students a comprehensive range of training courses, 1-2-1 support and skills development opportunities and is co-ordinated by the Postgraduate Training Team, based in the International and Postgraduate Student Centre. The Postgraduate Researcher Development Programme aims to support Postgraduate Research Students in developing a range of professional skills to successfully complete their research and increase their employability."
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Frazer, P. (n.d.). Writing a conference paper [PDF]. Retrieved from http://www.qub.ac.uk/sites/PostgraduateCentre/PostgraduateResearcherDevelopmentProgramme/FileStore/Filetoupload,379614,en.pdfThis postgraduate student writer's guide provides strategic advice and practical exercises. It covers the process from conference proposals to write-ups, and includes suggestions for further reading.
- This short handbook is designed to help you identify some strategies for success. These strategies are focused around the communication of complex ideas in an accessible and professional manner
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Impact of Social Sciences – Who, What, Where, When, Why: Using the 5 Ws to communicate your research
In this LSE blog post, Andy Tattersall explained the practice and merits of creating lay summaries to expand audiences and increase impacts of research.
- A published paper has an abstract as a way for fellow researchers and students to quickly glance at whether the paper is useful for them. But an abstract is a very short, concise report of the research paper. A lay summary can expand on that and take the important information such as results and make them more prominent.
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Mendeley | What advanced search features are there ...
"Advanced Search Operators"
Sunday, April 12, 2015
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- This post provided reflections from multiple perspectives on prospects for streamlining submission and reviewing of scholarly articles. The blog on which it appeared seems to partially fulfil the mission of the Society for Scholarly Publishing (sidebar blurb).
- One challenge I’m considering is how we can better capture and surface information that is currently lost in the submission process. For example, many journals ask for highlights, key findings, implications, publicity/outreach summaries, statements of novelty and so on as part of the submission process, to assist editorial triage and review. Often, this information is never published alongside the article. Why not?
- When Charlie Rapple joined the crew in The Scholarly Kitchen in Feb. 2015, David Crotty wrote: "Charlie is a co-founder of Kudos, which helps researchers, institutions, funders and publishers maximize the visibility of research (covered in 2013 in this post). Charlie is also the Associate Director of strategic publishing consultancy TBI Communications, Treasurer of UKSG, and an Associate Editor of Learned Publishing" (Welcoming a New Chef into the Kitchen: Charlie Rapple, http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2015/02/23/welcoming-a-new-chef-into-the-kitchen-charlie-rapple/).
- Publishers have worked hard over the last decade to streamline the submission process and reduce the time from submission to publication, but this does not address the issue that causes the largest delay, which is having to reformat and resubmit papers to multiple journals.
- When Michael Clarke started blogging for The Scholarly Kitchen in 2009, he was "currently principal for Clarke Publishing Group." He also had "worked at the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the University of Chicago Press" (Welcome Michael Clarke to the Kitchen, http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2009/06/15/welcome-michael-clarke-to-the-kitchen/).
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In this book review, Ingfei Chen surmised, "Combing through decades of cognitive science investigations of memory and learning, he [the book's author, Benedict Cary] has pulled together its best lessons into a practical and engaging guide" (¶4), and paraphrased advice to the effect that, "Students need to understand that learning happens not only during reading and studying, but in all sorts of ways, so that they can examine their own habits to know which ones may be helping or not, and make adjustments" (Experimenting with learning tactics, ¶4).
- Combing through decades of cognitive science investigations of memory and learning, he has pulled together its best lessons into a practical and engaging guide
- Students need to understand that learning happens not only during reading and studying, but in all sorts of ways, so that they can examine their own habits to know which ones may be helping or not, and make adjustments
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A wake up call to use available know-how to save millions of human lives and trillions of dollars that future outbreaks could take.
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This site claimed to be "the leading international education and experiential travel resource" (2015.04.06). Major site divisions apparent in tabs near the top of the home page seemed to cover interning, studying, volunteering, and teaching abroad.
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The original piece is here: http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/edtechresearcher/2014/08/navigating_the_two_kinds_of_online_discussion_forums.html
- It's hard to have a functional conversation online with hundreds or thousands of people, and it's hard to find what you are looking for in sprawling threads
- Duh! (¶2, 2015.04.060
- Questions can have right answers; discussions can't
- Really?!? Since when?
- all kinds of ideas, pedagogies, assumptions, and beliefs are baked into technical design decisions
- Including the hard and fast, yet perhaps philosophically and pedagogically untenable distinctions between questions and (other) discussion prompts on edX.
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"HarvardWrites is a joint venture of the Harvard College Writing Program, the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, and the departments and schools represented on our site. The project was made possible through a generous grant from the Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching" (Digital Initiative, ¶1, 2015.04.06). The homepage had distracting (read annoying), endlessly animated in both first and second screenfuls.
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"A capitonym is a word whose meaning changes based on whether or not it is capitalized" (n.d.). Thanks to Sandra Nelson for pointing this out to the LearningwithComputers group way back when!
Sunday, April 05, 2015
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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
- 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.
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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
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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).
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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."
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How to Make a Presentation Stick
Kruse summarized six principles for making memorable presentations with a mnemonic, SUCCESS: Simplicity Unexpectedness Credentials Concreteness Emotions Stories
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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.
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Derek Bruff reflected on a conference presentation by Linda Nilson, and provided links to both a background article and slides from the presentation.
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TED Talk Takeaways: 8 Ways to Hook Your Audience
SlideShare Blog post by Gavin McMahon (2014.07.30)
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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.
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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.
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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)
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APA Style Blog: When and How to Include Page Numbers in APA Style Citations
Explanations and examples of in-text citations
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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"
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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).
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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.
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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
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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)
