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What Great Teachers and Great Salespeople Have in Common

EdNews Daily

By Betsy Hill and Roger Stark For some, this comparison will seem obvious. We hope that, like most good analogies, the aptness of the comparison ultimately enlightens. The first (which was really the second chronologically) was re-reading the words of a professor quoted in What the Best College Teachers Do by Ken Bain (2004).

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Technology and Digital Media in the Classroom: A Guide for Educators

Waterford

It’s important to keep in mind that older students may have differing needs in comparison to the youngest students, where one hour of high-quality digital activities is always the limit. Education, Communication & Information, 2004, 4(1), pp. 2–5 years old : No more than one hour of high-quality digital activities or programming.

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QS World University Rankings 2018: The Global Trends

EdNews Daily

The 2018 QS World University Rankings are the largest guide to global higher education performance that QS, a London-based higher education think-tank, has produced since its inaugural edition of 2004. One nation that is seeing particular benefits this year from strong industry-university links is Australia.

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Our mutual friends

Learning with 'e's

The notion of wisdom of crowds put forward by James Surowiecki (2004) relies on people working together, even when they don''t know each other directly. 2004) The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many are Smarter than the Few. Festinger Social Comparison Theory 11. But that is the subject matter for another blog post. Surowiecki, J.

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Experiences in Self-Determined Learning: Moving from Education 1.0 Through Education 2.0 Towards Education 3.0

User Generated Education

Philipp Schmidt (2007) provide an excellent comparison of how Education 1.0 George Siemens (2004) has defined the characteristics Connectivism: Learning and knowledge rests in diversity of opinions. Education 1.0 can be compared to Web 1.0 where there is a one-way dissemination of knowledge from teacher to student. Keats and J.

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A New Social Science? Statistics Outgrowing Other STEM Fields

TeachThought - Learn better.

Enrollment in its undergraduate statistics program grew from just 34 majors in 2004 to 224 currently. For comparison, in 2013, the share of women who graduated with an undergraduate degree in computer science was 18%; in engineering, it was 23%; and, in physics, it was 19% ( see data here ).

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Many Hispanic students never have a teacher who looks like them

The Hechinger Report

By way of comparison, white non-Hispanics make up just 31.8 In a 2004 study of Tennessee third-graders, Thomas S. In Nashville, Hispanic students almost never see faces like their own at the front of a classroom. Hispanics account for 21.5 percent of Nashville students, but less than 2 percent of teachers, according to a recent report.