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Neil Postman in 1969:
"As I see it, the best things schools can do for kids is to help them learn how to distinguish useful talk from bullshit. I will ask only that you agree that every day in almost every way people are exposed to more bullshit than it is healthy for them to endure, and that if we can help them to recognize this fact, they might turn away from it and toward language that might do them some earthly good..."
The song remains the same
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Martin Debattista's curator insight,
May 24, 7:31 AM
Reminds me of the 'attention economy' in Geert Lovink's book "No Comment" I am reading just now for my research:
"In the attention economy, value is measured in the amount of time you happen to spend with any given media object or person. This can bea web site, watching your favorite show on television, text messaging afriend, talking on the phone, or blogging about the concert you attended-last night. For a long time the attention economy remained a hyped-upconcept, launched during the speculative 1990s to point to the shift fromthe production of tangible goods to immaterial services. The point thatmakes attention such an interesting commodity is the fact that it is soscarce. As Michael Goldhaber Writes in his 1996 Principles of the NewEconomy: "Attention is scarce because each of us has only so much of it to give, and it can come only from us-not machines, computers or anywhere else. Attention is another way of saying "time," as in "Where I choose to spend my time."
Lynn O'Connell for O'Connell Meier's curator insight,
May 24, 9:03 PM
"Associations are positioned to be the ultimate curators." Delete the scoop?
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If you’re planning on creating a course take a peak at this list of some of the top things people hate about eLearning... 
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May 18, 2:35 PM
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Here's a handy visual step-by-step guide to choosing the best digital content for a blended learning environment. Useful for all skill levels! Delete the scoop?
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Andrew McGettigan: Free online courses are on the cusp. Can they go from intriguing experiment to workable solution to our higher education crisis? Delete the scoop?
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For those who wish they could better remember names and faces, a new demo app for Google Glass now gives you notes on how you know each person. Delete the scoop?
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We hear often of the "high expectations" schools must have of and for their students, yet we seldom hear of the expectations students have of their schools. ... Delete the scoop?
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(THUNDER BAY)– Student registrations jumped another 18.4% in Winter 2013, as compared to Winter 2012, to a record 14,871 registrations generated and supported by Contact North I Contact Nord in online and distance programs and courses offered by Ontario’s public colleges, universities, high schools, literacy and basic skills and other training providers. Delete the scoop?
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Spoken word artist "Suli Breaks" recently went viral with his take on the current state of higher education. What is achieves on an emotional level, however,... Delete the scoop?
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E-readers and tablets are becoming more popular as such technologies improve, but research suggests that reading on paper still boasts unique advantages Via RitaZ, NikolaosKourakos, Jim Lerman 
RitaZ's curator insight,
May 12, 8:00 AM
Teachers need to find a way to take advantage of the different modes of reading for different purposes in order to reap the benefits of each (and to teach our students to do so). Thanks, Adele!
Ken Morrison's curator insight,
May 12, 3:12 PM
This article does a great job and helping us realize the real and perceived reasons why people feel that reading on paper is more benefitial for them. At this point in history, people do tend to remember more if they read from paper. We can often remember which region of a page we learned something even if we read it several weeks ago. We like the transition of one side of the book being heavier than the other as we progress through the pages. Book designers take great efforts to design how books look, feel and smell. Digital books are disrupting our experience and interaction with the written text. Many people are in a mental state before reading a printed text that it is more serious and meaningful. This mindset may be changing how we engage the brain and thus how much we remember.
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May 13, 5:54 PM
But why, one could ask, are we working so hard to make reading with new technologies like tablets and e-readers so similar to the experience of reading on the very ancient technology that is paper? Why not keep paper and evolve screen-based reading into something else entirely? Screens obviously offer readers experiences that paper cannot. Scrolling may not be the ideal way to navigate a text as long and dense as Moby Dick, but the New York Times, Washington Post, ESPN and other media outlets have created beautiful, highly visual articles that depend entirely on scrolling and could not appear in print in the same way. Some Web comics andinfographics turn scrolling into a strength rather than a weakness. Similarly, Robin Sloan has pioneered the tap essay for mobile devices. The immensely popular interactive Scale of the Universe tool could not have been made on paper in any practical way. New e-publishing companies like Atavist offer tablet readers long-form journalism with embedded interactive graphics, maps, timelines, animations and sound tracks. And some writers are pairing up with computer programmers to produce ever more sophisticated interactive fiction and nonfiction in which one's choices determine what one reads, hears and sees next. Delete the scoop?
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" The University of Pennsylvania is working on new guidelines to limit its professors' freelance work for online education companies. The university proposed new guidelines Tuesday to show how its conflict of interest policy applies to professors who want to teach online courses through outside firms. Penn said outside ventures “may create the potential for conflicts of interest that did not arise in the past" for faculty because of Penn's existing online educational offerings and new offerings the university is developing. The university makes clear it has first dibs on its professors’ time, including professors who want to teach online courses..."
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If it is successful, the show could become a template for future joint projects.
"Television viewers — even those who watch the more sober-minded PBS — are generally not keen on sitting through long speeches. But TED, the nonprofit group that sponsors conferences on ideas, thinks it has found a way to bring its signature 18-minute talks to a TV audience that may not have found them on the Web or through mobile apps. .." Delete the scoop?
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Welcome to a new series of short posts. These posts will be short, timely, and will come between my weekly longer in-depth posts. Please sign up for 21centuryedtech by email or RSS to follow all e... Delete the scoop?
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People who have taken dozens of massive open online courses share their advice for those teaching them.
"Most are driven mainly by curiosity rather than the desire to show off their certificates to any potential employer, and none has paid for a verified certificate."
"Clarity and organization are key." "Professors are the stars." "Text still matters." "Passion matters most."
'Mr. Seiter agrees that it as possible to learn as much online as in a traditional course, but that to do so usually requires doing optional readings, which most MOOCers skip."
Markus Lauer- ""If you want to become an expert in the field," he says, "I think you need the book."
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Interesting view from Hard Core MOOCers...as much as it may be viewed that "professors are the stars" not sure I like that concept..the subject should be the star and the students should be at the centre.
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Georgia Tech announced on Tuesday that it would work with Udacity, a company that runs massive open online courses by well-known professors, to offer a series of online courses that students could complete to earn a graduate degree from the university." The university and Udacity are partners in the project, with support from AT&T. Degree-seeking students will have to apply and will pay about $7,000. " made up of video lectures and computer-graded homework assignments. Students who want the possibility of credit or a degree will have to apply for admission to the university and pay tuition, and those students will get access to teaching assistants and, in some cases, have their assignments graded by people."
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Via Robin Good 
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May 24, 11:42 AM
Se ve genial la herramienta, la probaré y les cuento! @JoannaPrieto Delete the scoop?
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There is a great deal of energy, enthusiasm, and change happening in today's education sector. Existing and new education providers are leveraging the Internet, ICT infrastructure, digital content,...
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A Florida measure awaiting Gov. Rick Scott's signature would open the door to more online providers, including MOOCs. Delete the scoop?
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Google is commemorating the 37th birthday of classic Atari game Breakout in the best possible way: It turned Google Image Search into a version of the game. Delete the scoop?
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You’ve been assigned your first online class to teach and you feel like you’re ready. You’ve done your homework and learned the ins and outs of the institution’s course management system. 
Jim Goldsmith's comment,
May 13, 4:50 PM
A short articile that lists five basic ways to build social presence into online learning. Useful for people new to online learning development.
Jodi Lynn's curator insight,
May 14, 3:29 PM
He mentions having students introduce themselves and I can see where VoiceThread would work great for that! Delete the scoop?
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.Here's a rundown of the best s'cool tools from the first quarter of 2013. These are the tools that had you clicking, sharing, and tweeting away. Per the usual, we're only highlighting those tools that are free to use (in some capacity) or currently in beta. Delete the scoop?
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Faculty at several colleges have pushed back against online teaching collaborations with outside vendors, saying they want to use technology on their own terms. Via Smithstorian 
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May 9, 12:11 PM
Many professors recognize that online education is changing the landscape of academe. But faculty members at several colleges are making it clear that they will not be steamrolled.
Philosophy professors at San Jose State University last week wrote an open letter saying they refused to use material from an edX course, taught by a famous Harvard University professor, for fear that California State University administrators were angling for a way to eventually gut their department.
"Let's not kid ourselves; administrators at the CSU are beginning a process of replacing faculty with cheap online education," they wrote. At Duke University a week earlier, an undergraduate-faculty council voted down a push by the provost's office to offer small online courses for credit through 2U, a company that sells an online platform and support services to colleges.
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In response to the budgetary pressures, the University of Saskatchewan will no longer maintain its flock of about 300 sheep on its campus farm but it will make animals available to meet teaching and research needs in the College of Agriculture and Bioresources and for the Western College of Veterinary Medicine.
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How can reporters use new media to cover the news? CBC Radio columnist and co-founder of the Academy of the Possible, Jesse Hirsh speaks to rdigitaLife host ... Delete the scoop?
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