Category — Teaching

Physics.org – Physics Life: “”

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i wonder who makes the argument that physics is irrelevant…..

Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Opinion / Op-ed / How ‘Dungeons’ changed the world: “”

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imagination doesn’t solve all problems, but it does help.

Individual Profs and teaching with the Web:

Outside of courseware packages there are the bloggers/wikis/post nukers’ and probably a few others. Here’s a quick list of the profs I know/watch/read who use social software as teaching tools:

Jason Nolan

Alex Halavais

Ron Deibert

Likely many others can be identified through Alex’s list of ScholarsWhoblog What I think is an essential issue to chosing your teaching spaces is just how much interactivity you want/need the students to have. Will they be doing reflective journaling online? Do you want them to comment on each other’s work? Will they need to do online collaboration? Are you students living in the same dorm together or are they spread out over a large metropolis area and unlikely to meet f2f? Taking all this into account, I keep coming back again & again to blogging and wikis. Is it just because that’s all I know, or is it because it works over and over?

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this must be only the set that she knows in person.

IT Conversations: Academia – Bloggercon III:

http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail276.html

this looks like it could be interesting.

eLearning Reviews: research on elearning – reviewed for you:
http://www.elearning-reviews.org/

interesting and handy.

World Likely to Miss Primary Education Target:

From BBC.com (do only the British care about this? why isn’t this fronting American news sources?):

The United Nations’ target of universal primary education by 2015 is unlikely to be reached, a new report shows.

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this should surprise no one. the world economic system does not really support this and is not structured to support this, and the world would be a vastly different place if it was structured with some sense of social justice.

Clark Aldrich’s Six Criteria of an Educational Simulation – Learning Circuits:
The more I build, evaluate, and discuss educational simulations, the more I realize we need to establish some better terms. Specifically, there are six criteria that are emerging as critical, and ultimately not just to simulations but all educational e

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this is pretty interesting…..

Clark Aldrich’s Six Criteria of an Educational Simulation – Learning Circuits:
The more I build, evaluate, and discuss educational simulations, the more I realize we need to establish some better terms. Specifically, there are six criteria that are emerging as critical, and ultimately not just to simulations but all educational e

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this is pretty interesting…..

New Blog about Teaching Philosophy… ….:

New Blog about Teaching Philosophy….

…here, and featuring, so far, some graduate students and faculty connected to the University of Connecticut and Baylor University.

[Leiter Reports: Editorials, News, Updates]

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i sort of teach philosophy… i teach theory…..

Worship the yellow:

National Geographic Prints The Greatest Ever Scientific Article In the History of The World..

You get the feeling someone just lost it one day in the editorial meeting. Frankly, I’m going to have this one framed. Worship the Yellow, my young friends.

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clearly the National Geographic gets it right.