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The conversation about how to improve American education has taken on an increasingly confrontational tone.
Is firing bad instructors the only way to improve schools? New evidence suggests that poor teachers can learn to be good ones.
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Some teachers embrace technology and social media. Others lurk. Many ignore. So what does the average teacher do if they’re somewhere in the middle? Why, use the handy infographic from Online Colleges of course!
Below you’ll see a guide to who is using social media (pretty much everyone is aware of it) to which actual social networks they prefer.
Read more: http://edudemic.com/2012/07/a-teachers-guide-to-social-media/
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This video explains how QR codes are changing the way we access information in the real world through scanning a new kind of code with a camera phone.
It teaches:
- How barcodes and QR codes are similar
- What scenarios are useful for QR codes and what's needed to scan them
- How QR Codes make the real world clickable
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Tom Vander Ark is an education advocate, advisor, and author of Getting Smart: How Personal Digital Learning is Changing the World. Tom is Founder and Executive Editor of Getting Smart and a partner in Learn Capital.
Learning doesn't happen only in a lecture hall, a lab, or a classroom in the 21st century. Today's students must become better prepared for global competitiveness with technology-based literacy skills that include research, analysis of complex data from multiple resources, problem-solving and effective communication. Students deserve to access the best teachers any time, any place with flexible pacing to allow acceleration of their learning paths.
To meet unique individual needs, today's schools are combining a high tech, high touch approach centered around students -- offering excellent teaching that requires advanced communication and critical thinking skills.
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Education is no longer about pencils and schoolbooks but iPads and internet connections, a new infographic charting the evolution of the use of technology in education shows.
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Are your knees knocking at the thought of walking into a classroom for the very first time this fall? Have no fear!
We asked our friends on Facebook to share their best pearls of wisdom for new teachers, and they generously sent their inspiration, advice and need-to-know strategies. Think of them as your virtual mentors—like all teachers, we’re here to help one another succeed!
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The official Microsoft Security Blog provides in-depth discussion of security, cybersecurity and technology trends affecting trust in computing, as well as timely security news, trends, and practical security guidance.
Gust MEES: what YOU can do to help for a more secure Internet in your country http://gustmeesen.wordpress.com/2012/03/16/beginners-it-security-guide/
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Continuing our theme of using Twitter in education this week, we bring you a look at the ways Twitter is causing the current lecture model to evolve. The following analysis is brought to you by our content partners over at Online Universities.
Gone is the time when PowerPoint was the most impressive communication technology in the lecture hall. These days, students and professors enjoy the power of Twitter, a tool that allows for digital discussions to supplement and even guide lecture sessions. So how exactly is Twitter changing the college lecture as we know it?
Read on to find out about 10 different ways.
- Mobile devices are welcome in the lecture hall once again - Lectures become a conversation - Bashful students are speaking up - More students get connected in large lectures - Students stay engaged beyond the lecture - Dorm discussions don’t happen as much anymore, and that’s OK - There’s more information saved now than ever before - Students think about lectures even when they’re not at school - Review sessions happen anywhere - Fewer classroom disruptions exist
Read more: http://edudemic.com/2012/07/twitter-college-lecture/
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Appthority cast a spotlight on the hidden behaviors of the top free mobile apps. The report reveals the security issues raised by the BYOD movement, app market fragmentation for developers, popular app categories and the sensitive data that apps can access.
Gust MEES: read also my blog about BYOD here http://gustmees.wordpress.com/2012/07/07/bring-your-own-device-advantages-dangers-and-risks/
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An animated presentation about concept mapping. Focuses on how groups can employ the technique as a tool for collaborative planning and problem solving. he presentation was first given at Swarthmore College's Staff Development Week on January 11, 2011. 
Becky Schivley Mather's comment February 26, 2013 5:25 PM
PBL is a tremendously powerful strategy- but it is misunderstood and misused way too often! These articles should help clarify the concepts!
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IT organizations are justifiably concerned about the security risks inherent in bringing your own device (BYOD). Many are turning to mobile device management (MDM) products and services to address the problem. But a number of mobile security vendors believe organizations are focusing the device when they should be focusing on the data.
Gust MEES: check out also my blog about "BYOD" here http://gustmees.wordpress.com/2012/07/07/bring-your-own-device-advantages-dangers-and-risks/
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Leadershipwatch – Aad Boot
Today’s and tomorrow’s leaders are more and more facing cross-cultural challenges caused by globalization, emerging economies and new markets. How to notice differences in cultures? How to understand their impact on people behavior and performance? How to avoid cross-cultural friction and conflict? How to lead people and teams with different cultural backgrounds? How to create successful collaboration and teamwork cross-border?
Effectively dealing with cross-cultural challenges like these is rapidly becoming one of the key differentiators for effective leaders and successful companies.
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Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews is an electronic, peer-reviewed journal that publishes timely reviews of scholarly philosophy books.
Damien Freeman takes on the monumental task of developing a theory of aesthetic experience that accounts for its emotional aspects, its ethical aspects, and the role certain kinds of aesthetic experience can play in a fulfilling life. Despite the enormity of the task, he does an excellent job in so few pages. There are, of course, problems, but the issues that I take with the argument are largely in the details and not in the big picture.
Freeman's main argument is that aesthetic experience can uniquely offer a form of what he calls a plenary experience of emotion. This particular kind of experience is significant to the aesthetic experience because it deals with our emotions as a whole (what he calls the whole emotional economy rather than just parts of the emotions) and thereby offers a unique kind of experience that plays a significant role in our overall thriving emotional life.
Freeman's argument takes as its context the expressivist theories of Tolstoy, Collingwood, and Wollheim; but I believe that he advances his argument to a more comprehensive account of the ways in which we engage with art emotionally and why it is good for us to do so.
Read more, very interesting...: http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/32199-art-s-emotions-ethics-expression-and-aesthetic-experience/
Patrizia Splendiani's comment,
July 30, 2012 3:37 AM
Hi; about my suggestion, in italian, it was my mistake... Sorry!
Gust MEES's comment,
July 30, 2012 6:01 AM
@Patrizia Splendiani,
Hi Patrizia, don't worry, it's OK. I already publish in English, French and German and that's a lot of work; can't publish more languages ;) Have a nice day, Gust
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Journey School in California puts increased emphasis on teaching computer ethics.
You can protect a classroom computer from malware and viruses, but how do you prevent students from using a classroom computer to harm someone else?
One school thinks it has an answer. Journey School in Aliso Viejo, a city in southern California, puts increased emphasis on teaching computer ethics. This task is made all the more interesting considering the school contains zero internet-ready devices for its sixth through eighth graders.
“As the children mature we recognize that, as they get into middle school, we want them to use these tools that we have for the good and for their learning,” Journey School administrator Shaheer Faltas said to The Orange County Register. “We don’t think they need a lot of instruction in how you use Excel or Microsoft Word – what they need to know is what is the appropriate use of these resources.”
Read more: http://www.faronics.com/2012/teaching-empathy-in-an-online-world/
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Happy SysAdmins Day! Here's a post dedicated to all the hard work SysAdmins do for organizations around the globe.
Gust MEES: think on these persons who make your e-Learning available through secure Internet connexion and who are taking care of IT-Security in your Local Network, you need them ;)
Read more about their big responsibilities: http://www.gfi.com/blog/47-reasons-to-thank-a-sysadmin-today/
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Mobile learning is in the air, almost everyone realizes the potential, and some companies are now taking tentative first steps.
A great list... Read more: http://www.upsidelearning.com/blog/index.php/2012/05/28/a-list-of-interesting-mobile-learning-links/
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We have been saying it over and over again - mobile learning is here to stay! It's only a matter of time before you will need to be invovled in it.
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For Russell, titleless leadership is based on four cornerstones: Self-Alignment: Behavioral integrity. People remember what you are.
Possibility Seeds:
- Encourages and nurtures others.
-Titleless leaders plant possibility seeds “not because there’s a mentoring- or succession-planning program, but because they’re operating with a better together approach.”
- Soul Courage: Step-up and offer your best self. Push outside your comfort zone to do the right thing.
- and Winning Philosophies: It’s only when we’re all winning that we truly all win.
==> Focus on group wins and not the politics of individual wins. <==
The Titleless Leader is a handbook of behaviors and thinking to help you lead from where you are. Certainly, they’re not easy and require some change in perspective, but will create more meaning and value in you workplace and more importantly in your life.
Read more, very interesting...: http://www.leadershipnow.com/leadingblog/2012/07/the_titleless_leader.html
Via Ana Cristina Pratas
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In 21st Century we need not ONLY talking about Internet-Safety, Online-Safety and IT-Security, but we need to secure our computers and ANY other related device connecting to Internet, such as also our smartphones! I will present you now a tutorial on How-To create best protection (as on March 2012) for your computer and this with mostly FREE tools and FREE Online Services…
Also will I provide you a worksheet which helps you planning your weekly tasks!
In 21st Century while using "Bring Your Own Device" (Hashtag for Twitter = #BYOD) there is a MUST to know about basic IT-Security knowledge! The teachers role is NOT anymore to be the MOST important person, but the LEARNER! So the teacher needs to have that basic knowledge to share it with its learners and to try to keep a safe Learning Workspace... Online and Offline, in the "internal learning network" and also in the "external learning network"!
As Teachers, Educators and Instructors we have to deal with Apps, OpenSource software, Freeware, different OS devices, so we need to know about the risks and dangers! We need to know how to get protected these devices also!
It's not ONLY the IT-Admin's responsibility, IT-Security is the responsibility of ALL of us!!!
Check also:
- http://gustmees.wordpress.com/2012/07/07/bring-your-own-device-advantages-dangers-and-risks/ ;
- http://gustmees.wordpress.com/category/get-smart-with-5-minutes-tutorials/
- http://www.scoop.it/t/apple-mac-ios4-ipad-iphone-and-in-security
- http://www.scoop.it/t/ict-security-tools
- http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet
===> Be aware of the malware! <===
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Study from Kaspersky Labs: Digital Consumer’s Online Trends and Risks Modern consumers live a full-scale digital life. Their virtual assets like personal photos and videos, work documents, passwords to access social networking and online banking credentials are of the utmost importance and users are very concerned about safety of such data. We at Kaspersky Lab maintain and expand the leading expertise in IT security risks, malware and vulnerabilities in order to protect consumers in the best possible way.
To better understand our customers, their computer and Internet usage patterns and attitudes towards security and the safety of data, we initiated a study into this valuable information.
Although users acknowledge the existence of various online threats, a significant share of them are reckless in terms of security.
===> Even now 16% of laptop owners, 50% of Macbook users and 65% (!) of smartphone owners do not use any kind of security software on their devices. <===
Check out also http://gustmees.wordpress.com/2012/07/07/bring-your-own-device-advantages-dangers-and-risks/ to get a maximum of informtion about BYOD!
Gust MEES: a MUST READ for people using BYOD!
Read more [pdf]:
http://www.kaspersky.com/downloads/pdf/kaspersky_lab_consumer_survey_report_eng_final.pdf
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3. Europäischer Fachkongress
Professional Learning Europe
Thema: Aligning HR and Learning
25.-27.
Die Frage, wie sie ihre Mitarbeiter – vom Führungskräftenachwuchs bis zur Generation 50plus – für kommende Herausforderungen qualifizieren können, brennt Unternehmen derzeit auf den Nägeln. Für viele liegt die Antwort in digitalen Lernangeboten. Aktuelle Forschungsergebnisse und praktische Erfahrungen mit den neuen Lerntechnologien vermittelt der Fachkongress Professional Learning Europe (PLE) vom 25. bis 27. September 2012 parallel zur Fachmesse Zukunft Personal in Köln. Der Kongress versammelt bereits zum dritten Mal E-Learning-Experten und Interessierte.
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Given the hype of national media coverage of massive open online courses (MOOCs), it is refreshing to see more recent analysis looking at important attributes such as revenue models, dropout rates, and instructional design. Steve Kolowich at Inside Higher Ed wrote a revealing and important article looking at early demographic data. Jeff Young at the Chronicle wrote an excellent article about Coursera’s contract with the University of Michigan, along with key insights into Coursera’s and the university’s motivations.
Audrey Watters, in response to an article in the Atlantic, asks the tough question of whether we should care about the high dropout rates of current courses offered in this new model.
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http://mfeldstein.com/four-barriers-that-moocs-must-overcome-to-become-sustainable-model/
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Developing effective elearning requires expertise in Project Management, Computer-based Instructional Design, Multimedia Design, Instructional Technology a...
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