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Dennis Swender
from Into the Driver's Seat
August 28, 2019 11:22 PM
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Via The Scout Report "Students and educators may find The Dartmouth E-Guide to Academic Success to be a helpful resource. This e-guide is a free downloadable book published by Dartmouth College's Academic Skills Center in 2017. In 8 chapters and fewer than 100 pages (double-spaced), it offers readers a thorough, concise narrative reference for how to survive and thrive in college. It begins by introducing readers to the idea of a growth mindset and explaining how to set effective goals for college, then walks readers through strategies for time management. The e-guide also includes a variety of methods for important study skills, such as taking useful notes, reading efficiently, and writing college essays. Students (current and former) may also find the e-guide's tips on overcoming procrastination and enhancing productivity to be helpful. Links to cited references (both peer-reviewed and popular) and additional information are included throughout the book, and it makes good use of explanatory graphics as well. This e-guide was written by Carl Thum, Director of the Academic Skills Program, and Jonathan Lu, an undergraduate student at Dartmouth College."
Via Jim Lerman
Listening is about taking in information, but it can also be an opportunity to validate an individual’s current experience.
Via Dr. Tom D'Amico (@TDOttawa)
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Dennis Swender
from Moodle and Web 2.0
July 7, 2019 4:34 PM
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In the follow-up to “The Innovator’s Mindset,” my book written with Katie Novak titled “Innovate Inside the Box” (expected release mid-August 2019), I identify three c…
Via Felix Jacomino, Juergen Wagner
Countable.us makes it easier to know what your representatives are voting on, and to tell them how you think they should vote. For each upcoming bill, you can suggest a yea or nay to your representative via email or can even send video messages. Each bill also has a lively debate section so the yeas and nays can share, upvote their opinions and learn from each other. The result is seeing more informed and better arguments in favor of your preferences, and perhaps more importantly, against.
IssueVoter.us is similar to Countable in that you give your opinions to your representatives. But IssueVoter puts a different spin on it by giving you a “scorecard” highlighting how closely your representatives votes align to your preferences. The site is still new, so the functionality is not as great as it could be, but the concept is worth note.
Bang the Table focuses on engagement at a local level. They create civic engagement dashboards for cities that allow residents to stay informed and share opinions about city projects. They offer several levels of engagement, from simply dispensing information for the city to engaging citizens in collective discussions and decision making. Fayetteville, AR used them to make the engagement page Speak Up Fayetteville, which informed citizens about projects such as the Cultural Arts Corridor.
Via june holley
Pinterest boasts more than 1,000 ideas about how students can self-evaluate their own learning. My Google search on the same topic offered six million results. Clearly, the resources are plentiful. But just because students can doesn’t mean they will.
Over the course of their education, I estimate that K-12 students walk through the doors of approximately 40 teachers.
How can we motivate students to want to evaluate their own learning? And how can we help them do this successfully? The first step is to reframe self-evaluation within the context of the learning environment rather than primarily as a task-oriented process.
Via John Evans
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Dennis Swender
from Edumorfosis.it
July 3, 2019 3:36 AM
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Are there new buildings going up in your city? There are in Seattle–cranes are everywhere you look. They help to erect to steel I beams and concrete elevator shafts that frame the buildings. It’s the infrastructure that has been around for 150 years that you forget about when the exterior finishes go on and the drywall goes up.
Ever drive by a port and see stacks of shipping containers? You’ve seen them on the back of trucks going down the highway. The standard for those containers was developed 90 years and they have been a useful organizing construct for the transportation industry ever since.
Courses have been the organizing framework of secondary and postsecondary education for two centuries. The Committee of Ten in 1892 set some standards for courses. With a strong equity impulse, the committee recommended that “every subject which is taught at all in a secondary school should be taught in the same way and to the same extent to every pupil so long as he pursues it, no matter what the probable destination of the pupil may be, or at what point his education is to cease.”
Via Edumorfosis
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Dennis Swender
from The Student Voice
June 24, 2019 11:51 AM
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There is a general notion that students who live in decent housing units within or around their university have a better chance of exceling academically. So much so that a lot of tertiary…
Via Peter Mellow
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Dennis Swender
from Education 2.0 & 3.0
June 23, 2019 8:03 PM
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This guide supports faculty and instructors interested in developing their students' critical thinking skills through a year-long community of learning.
Via Elizabeth E Charles, Yashy Tohsaku
Cluttered with confusing terminology, it and other densely worded documents are a significant barrier to college student success
Via LGA
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Dennis Swender
June 11, 2019 11:44 AM
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The U.S. hosted almost a million international students in 2015. That figure represents a 10 percent increase from the prior year. The list of countries sending the most students to the United States has been relatively stable during the past 10 years.
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Dennis Swender
from The Student Voice
June 11, 2019 11:01 AM
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Students, teachers and reformers are pushing back against the failures of mainstream higher education.
Via Peter Mellow
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Dennis Swender
from Into the Driver's Seat
June 11, 2019 10:53 AM
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"The chart above is based on an analysis done by The New York Times and the Urban Institute’s Center on Education Data and Policy. We undertook this project because the college-dropout crisis is a major contributor to American inequality. Many lower-income and middle-class students excel in high school only to falter in college. They then struggle to get good jobs.
"College matters so much because it isn’t just about book learning or the development of tangible skills. It’s one of the first obstacle courses of adult life. The students who complete it typically go on to earn more and live healthier and happier lives, research shows.
"For too long, high-school students, parents and guidance counselors have hardly thought about graduation rates when choosing a college. And for a long time on many campuses, administrators and faculty members didn’t even know what their college’s graduation rate was.
"But now people are starting to realize the stakes. “The issue of college completion is front and center for presidents and trustees,” said Ted Mitchell, a former Obama administration official who runs the American Council on Education, a consortium of universities.
"Some high school administrators have also started focusing on the problem, in part out of frustration. Over the years, they have watched their hard-working, talented graduates struggle in college. “It’s disappointing, to say the least,” said Catherine Suitor, the chief advancement officer at Alliance, a network of charter schools in Los Angeles.
"In response, Alliance has put together its own ranking, based on colleges’ graduation rates for students who are black or Latino (as most Alliance students are). It then encourages students to attend a college with a relatively high rate. “A bachelor’s degree,” Suitor said, “is the single most influential determinant in multigenerational change and ending the cycle of poverty.” Jim Lerman's insight: This is a very important article for anyone even loosely connected to educating young people and adolescents.
Via Jim Lerman
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Dennis Swender
August 28, 2019 11:07 PM
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This data visualization uses the ACS Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) to explore trends in higher education for those aged 18 to 34.
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Dennis Swender
July 10, 2019 11:14 PM
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Listing them all in one place, and thinking about what these programs might mean for higher ed.
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Dennis Swender
July 6, 2019 3:21 AM
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How well do YOU know the past?
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Dennis Swender
July 6, 2019 2:53 AM
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According to a new poll, Democratic Party voters are more easily influenced by entertainment - movies, television, music - than Republican voters are.
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Dennis Swender
from Edumorfosis.it
July 3, 2019 3:37 AM
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Does College still matter? The Department of Education makes the case that college is more valuable than ever: Degree holders earn $1 million more that workers without postsecondary education and the innovation economy is likely to require a more educated workforce. But averages and projections hide the rapid loss of faith in higher education as the escalator to the middle class.
Frustrated with increasing costs and underemployed grads living in their parent’s basement, less than half of American adults have confidence in higher education, a big decline in the last three years according to Gallup.
With this rapid loss of faith in higher ed, expensive nonselective colleges are in trouble. A dozen trends have conspired to create the beginning of the end of college as we know it.
Via Edumorfosis
Special Issue: Towards the digital university: where are we and where are we going?
Via LGA
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Dennis Swender
June 23, 2019 7:47 PM
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The following 10 colleges boast the largest student bodies in the U.S.
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Dennis Swender
from Edumorfosis.it
June 15, 2019 4:57 AM
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What are the college soft skills that will benefit your learners graduating into post secondary schools? We've whittled it down to 5, and what they can do right now to start sharpening them. But first, a word of truth.
The Internet is awash in advice about the soft skills on which workers and entrepreneurs should focus. While this is all well and good, it fails to take into account the real age group that needs to harness and hone those skills: college students. For this reason, we must encourage learners to consider early on which college soft skills are most useful, and to then intentionally practice them.
Via Edumorfosis
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Dennis Swender
June 11, 2019 11:28 AM
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Don’t be afraid to leave your hometown. Go far far away from your hometown. You’ll feel homesick at first. Then, you’ll realize all the freedom you...
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Dennis Swender
from Digital Delights
June 11, 2019 10:59 AM
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Online learning, new media, connectivism, MOOCs, personal learning environments, new literacy, and more from Stephen Downes
Via Ana Cristina Pratas
Our online book club continues our reading of Shoshana Zuboff’s The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. Today we’re covering chapters 11: The Right to the Future Tense and 12: Two Species of Power. In…
Via Ana Cristina Pratas
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