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Google announced a new education program that will help teachers manage and push out apps and other educational content to classroom Android tablets. Via John Evans Delete the scoop?
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People who have taken dozens of massive open online courses share their advice for those teaching them. Delete the scoop?
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Okay, if an elearning template’s going to rock your world you need to get out of your cubicle and go take a walk outside. Enjoy the life around you. Then come back and finish reading this blog post. I’ll be waiting. Delete the scoop?
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If you’re like most educators, you probably made your share of teaching mistakes. This report features more than a dozen essays by instructors who were willing to share their early-career missteps and the lessons they learned.
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Universities have become prestige-seeking machines. Nick Romeo on how higher education has changed, and what needs to be done to save it. Delete the scoop?
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There is an issue, which may or may not be a problem for universities around the world, but that is certainly gaining a lot of attention in Britain and the United States—namely, attention itself. Delete the scoop?
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It’s probably the question I’m most asked in workshops on learner-centered teaching. “What are some good places to start? Delete the scoop?
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For all the star power harnessed by massive-open-online-course providers, Yale University has been a notable absence. While many of its elite peers scrambled to get out ahead of the MOOC wave, Yale bided its time. Delete the scoop?
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Modern psychiatric drugs treat the chemistry of the whole brain, but neurobiologist David Anderson believes in a more nuanced view of how the brain functions. Delete the scoop?
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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.
In an unprecedented arrangement that involves aspects of MOOCs and a major technology company's support, the Georgia Institute of Technology will soon begin offering an online master's degree in computer science at an unusually low cost. 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 Nik Peachey 
Lou Salza's curator insight,
May 16, 8:53 AM
I have been using text to speech almost exclusively for reading articles on the web, newspapers, and courese reading for a course in Leadership I am taking at Case Western Reserve University. I love the e-readers ( Read and Write Gold; Kindle, and Audio books) because I can jack up the speed and read with my ears as fast as non dyslexics who are fluent readers read with their eyes. We need to understand the 'cost' of eye reading to dyslexic students even when they "graduate" from OG or Wilson: the burden of phonological processing is too high in terms of fatigue. If we don't make the technology more available and acceptable in schools we will deny intelligent students with print challenges the opportunity to study in college, graduate or professional schools. I still read paper books. Right now I am reading A light in August by Faulkner. It is on my night stand and it is a wonderful if slow experience for me. For some, print will never 'fall away' and allow for effortless decoding and pholonological recoding.--Lou
Excerpt: "Understanding how reading on paper is different from reading on screens requires some explanation of how the brain interprets written language. We often think of reading as a cerebral activity concerned with the abstract—with thoughts and ideas, tone and themes, metaphors and motifs. As far as our brains are concerned, however, text is a tangible part of the physical world we inhabit. In fact, the brain essentially regards letters as physical objects because it does not really have another way of understanding them. As Wolf explains in her book Proust and the Squid, we are not born with brain circuits dedicated to reading. After all, we did not invent writing until relatively recently in our evolutionary history, around the fourth millennium B.C. So the human brain improvises a brand-new circuit for reading by weaving together various regions of neural tissue devoted to other abilities, such as spoken language, motor coordination and vision..." 
Rob Buser's comment,
May 20, 7:37 PM
NEW Marketing and Camapigning mind opening article (click) http://www.tumblr.com/blog/robbuser
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The BTtoP Project, in partnership with the S. Engelhard Center and the Association of American Colleges and Universities, has for nearly eleven years offered theoretical, financial, and practical assistance to colleges and universities of all types working to strengthen their campus cultures for learning. These campuses are among the most intentional in addressing an underlying issue higher education now faces—the uncertainty regarding its core purposes and thereby its failure to achieve an integrative vision of educational aims and outcomes. All of the other issues facing higher education—spiraling costs, access, how to adapt new pedagogies, technologies and “delivery systems,” etc.—will be resolved or not depending on how the underlying issue of purpose is addressed. To that end, the Project has encouraged all campus constituents to devote their energies, resources, and attention toward support for the whole learner and opportunities for engagement and purposefulness—intellectual, emotive, behavioral, and civic. Delete the scoop?
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Editor’s note: Steve Wishman is a presentation designer at Prezi. Known for creating rich cinematic presentations for TED presenters and Silicon Valley leaders, engineers, startups, and more, Steve comes to Prezi with a lofty but simple goal: to create breathtaking visual stories that help change the world. Via Baiba Svenca
Rosemary Tyrrell's insight:
Some good insights in the article, but I can't say I'm crazy about the sample Prezis. 
academiPad's curator insight,
May 20, 5:56 AM
This is a blog post from prezi. If you now think that this one pushes prezi as a tool, you are correct. However, the first two of three tips (Create an outline first, Keep it clear) are true for every presentation software. The third tip about camera movement is where prezi can become useful - if useful enough for you, you have to decide yourself. 
Mrs Mularski's curator insight,
May 20, 7:33 AM
Gives great insight into how to create a good presentation with or without using Prezi. 
Alfredo Corell's curator insight,
May 20, 12:05 PM
Think as a cameraman while designing your prezi presentations Delete the scoop?
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Technology makes the tools, but what are the general characteristics that make an effective educator a 21st century educator? Via John Evans 
Gust MEES's curator insight,
May 17, 4:07 PM
===> Teachers need to evolve as fast as technology does. <===
By adopting an open mind and awareness on the rapidly-developing technologies and their possible uses in classroom instruction, teachers become future-ready for the 21st century.
Learn more:
- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=Education+3.0
Kasey Rasmussen's curator insight,
May 17, 4:54 PM
Proud that my kids are in a district with many forward thinking teachers in Leander ISD.
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All jobs require a certain set of talents and skills, whether natural or acquired. But what skills does an instructional designer need in order to be successful and stand out? Delete the scoop?
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The best social media tools for your classroom are free, easy to use, and right here. We break down some of the newest and noteworthy for you. Delete the scoop?
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Participants who used an iPad exhibited significantly higher transfer learning scores compared to traditional textbook readers. Gertner found that those who used an iPad scored higher on transfer learning than those using a traditional text. Gertner suggests that the integration of multimedia elements (i.e., the organization and presentation of content) may lead to greater gains on transfer learning scores. Delete the scoop?
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Do learning apps on mobile phones cure students of their texting addictions, or just make them worse? Delete the scoop?
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When students act as producers in pulling together the elements that make up a simple audio podcast, they can become better content providers in the process. Delete the scoop?
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At http://www.learnclick.com it is very simple to create quizzes. For gap-filling exercises (so-called cloze tests) you just mark the words with your mouse. Learnclick.com also lets you generate drag & drop, drop down and matching exercises. You can insert images, video and sound into your quizzes. Share the quizzes with your students and view detailed statistics on how well your students performed. It is the ideal tool for language teachers. Via Nik Peachey 
Christine Bushong's curator insight,
May 16, 10:02 AM
Unfortunately, this tool isn't free. It's $19/yr for the Basic Plan. 
Philip's comment,
May 16, 9:41 PM
@Christine: Even so, it's very affordable ($19/y is less than $2 a month). It not being free might actually be a good thing, since you get good support with your subscription and we can pay our bills, so the product will not get closed down anytime soon. See also http://www.learnclick.com/blog/an-alternative-to-google-forms-for-creating-quizzes/
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Why did you decide to go to college?
Asking that question of new students in a more formal way might help colleges find ways to encourage more students to complete their programs, according to a new study from University of Rochester education researchers published in The Journal of College Student Development. Delete the scoop?
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Sir Ken Robinson outlines 3 principles crucial for the human mind to flourish -- and how current education culture works against them. Delete the scoop?
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Jeffrey Beall has criticized the publisher on his blog. The company, based in India, says his comments are criminal under Indian law.
Jeffrey Beall is a metadata librarian at the University of Colorado at Denver, but he's known online for his popular blog Scholarly Open Access, where he maintains a running list of open-access journals and publishers he deems questionable or predatory. Delete the scoop?
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Truth, we’re told, is the first casualty of war. But as I hunker in my office bunker, the dull thud of history term papers landing on my desk, columns of sleep-deprived and anxiety-ridden students trudging past the door, I’m convinced that truth is also the first casualty of undergraduate paper writing. It is not only the historical truths trampled in the mangled and muddied papers written by my students. More insidiously, a deeper truth also suffers. Only tatters remain of the contract, implicit but immemorial, that teachers will grade student papers fairly and honestly. This shared conviction, that the students’ level of writing can be raised only if the teacher levels with them, now seems a historical artifact. Delete the scoop?
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Some great tips!