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Rigor, Grit, Collaboration: Teachers Share Why Buzzwords Don’t Always Inspire

Edsurge

According to Cornell University Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE), “research shows that educational experiences that are active, social, contextual, engaging, and student-owned lead to deeper learning.” Not a word so much as a cliche, this quote can be traced to Richard Riley, Secretary of Education during the Clinton Administration.

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Defending the liberal arts: How my students took the higher-learning plunge, from the banks of the St. Lawrence

The Hechinger Report

Reading, writing assignments, presentations and discussions covered history, cultural difference, environmental manipulation and what was technically possible. At the same time, the students learned why Canadians wanted the project and they came to understand the ever-present frictions in the intimate Canada-U.S.

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The survival of higher education (2): Changing times

Learning with 'e's

My two keynotes were conceived, written and presented over a decade ago in 2000, at a time when the Web was still in its infancy. It is literally the ‘ architecture of participation ’ (O''Reilly, 2004; Barsky and Purdon, 2006) and demands active engagement as a natural facet of its character (Kamel Boulos and Wheeler, 2007).

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What you see is what you do

Learning with 'e's

They are not limited to display and presentation mode, although many teachers confine themselves within this functionality. A strong recommendation is for teachers to step aside, practice the social constructivist mantra of letting students interact with the content, and also each other as they learn.

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The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release

Hack Education

In October of 2006 , Gartner said that Apple’s “best bet for long-term success is to quit the hardware business and license the Mac to Dell.” Gartner is perhaps best known for its “Hype Cycle,” a proprietary graphic presentation that claims to show how emerging technologies will be adopted. Inevitable.

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A traditional model of organizational knowledge creation

Connecting 2 the World

Sometimes this content knowledge is transferred in the form of presentations, interviews, or workplace dialog. Paper presented at the Trust Management. Challenges in collaborative writing in the contemporary corporation. Paper presented at the Computer Support for Collaborative Learning (CSCL) 2002 Conference, Boulder, CO.

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Experiential Learning Simply Explained

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

This model, along with thought-provoking examples of experiential learning activities, offers tangible insights into how this methodology can be applied across diverse educational settings. Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation. Measuring Collaboration Among Grant Partners. Lohmeier, J. W., & Tollefson, N.