Egalitarian push-back from readers of the Economist in response to its "Capitalism and inequality" special report. - http://www.economist.com/news...
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Important report > "Understanding low and
discontinued Internet use amongst young people in Britain" - this blog
post by the authors links the the full report. Concluding para excerpted
below: - http://blogs.oii.ox.ac.uk/policy...
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Rereading Zhao and Frank's terrific 2003 "Factors Affecting Technology Uses in Schools: An Ecological Perspective" http://www.webcitation.org/6BgDdu1.... Related: 2006 blog post: http://fm.schmoller.net/2006...
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#7 in @donaldclark 's "7 reasons why the obsession with maths doesn’t add up" has a nice instance of Gove ignorance. - http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.co.uk/2012...
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A measured piece by Amanda Ripley in Time magazine
mainly about learning physics with @Udacity, with comparative snapshots
of physics provision at Georgetown University.
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Worth reading in full. Why CC-BY? OASPA's explanation
as to why this most unrestrictive of Creative Commons licenses is "the
gold standard" for OA publishing. - http://oaspa.org/why-cc-by/
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The Telegraph's @iainmartin1 on today's PMQs "On the
substance, Miliband was merciless. The Government keeps providing him
with a steady flow of material: the energy price farce, the West Coast
rail fiasco and the Mitchell imbroglio. The Labour leader is neatly
knitting this into a narrative of serial government incompetence." - http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news...
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"Why Learning Math Is Political" via @audreywatters
has an interesting comment on it about the problem of word problems when
the language of the word problem is not the language of the learner. - http://thejosevilson.com/2012...
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With a prime focus on immediate/rapid deposit in an OA
repository, today's new Irish "National Principles on Open Access
Policy Statement" - is simple and clear, and different from the UK
position. - http://www.tcd.ie/Library...
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Licensing Data as Open Data - an 8 minute explanatory
video from JISC. [The text of the voice-over ought to be there alongside
it.] - http://infteam.jiscinvolve.org/wp...
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Very useful, candid food for thought from
@petermurrayrust in: 'Open Access: What is it and what does “Open”
mean?' prompting me to join OKF's discussion list about OA. - http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr...
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Hmmm. Esther Quintero examines data-driven decision
making, and concludes: "Being data-driven is only useful if you have a
strong theory by which to navigate; anything else can leave you heading
blindly toward a cliff". "Can" is the operative word, I think. - http://shankerblog.org/?p=7015
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Interesting broad (bipartisan, even) line-up at the
TEL closing event, including David Willetts, Charles Clarke, Alison
Wolf, Celia Hoyles, Diana Laurillard, Vanessa Pittard, Richard Noss, Tim
O'Shea. - http://tel.ac.uk/6th-nov...
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Judge the openness of a journal with HowOpenIsIt? from
SPARC, PLOS & OASPA, which has 6 facets of openness (Reader Rights,
Reuse Rights, Copyrights, Author Posting Rights, Automatic Posting,
Machine Readability), and simple criteria for judging each facet. [The
PDF itself is CC-NC-ND which makes it hard to reuse a.k.a. pretty
closed.] - http://www.plos.org/wp-cont...
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Gavyn Davies in the FT explains clearly the IMF's new
scepticism about the efficacy of austerity programmes. See also p41-43
of IMF World Economic Outlook - huge PDF- http://www.imf.org/externa... - http://blogs.ft.com/gavynda...
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New article by @reedyreedles (Peter Reed) about #oer in the #OpenAccess peer reviewed @A_L_T journal. Related: Reed's slides from PK session at #altc2012 http://t.co/FMVGKVNn. Abstract below - http://www.researchinlearningt...
"This research investigates the current awareness of, and participation
in, the open content movement at one UK institution for higher
education. The open content movement and the open educational resources
can be seen as potential methods for reducing time and cost of
technology-enhanced learning developments; however, its sustainability
and, to some degree, its success are dependent on critical mass and
large-scale participation. Teaching staff were invited to respond to a
questionnaire. Respondents (n= 59) were open to the idea of sharing
their own content and, similar to other studies, demonstrated existing
practices of sharing resources locally amongst colleagues; however,
there was little formal, large-scale sharing using suitable licenses.
The data gathered concurs with other research suggesting a lack of
awareness to the Creative Commons licenses as well as a lack of
participation in large open educational resource repositories."
- You
from
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Formative feedback - the key to better learning - coherent summary by @donaldclark focusing on @dylanwiliam @eric_mazur & Paul Black - http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.co.uk/2012...
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The BBC reports that MInisters "have asked Facebook,
Microsoft and IBM to help design training" for Computer Science
teachers, with 50 £20,000 scholarships offered to graduates with 2.1
degrees to be trained. - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news...
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"The Hybrid Model for Open Access Publication of
Scholarly
Articles – a Failed Experiment?" by Bo-Christer Björk is an
author-centric view of the possible reasons for the lack of success of
the hybrid model. [PDF] - http://openaccesspublishing.org/hybrid...
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@LizBennett1 argues that MOOCs may work fine for those who already have a high degree of autonomy and criticality. - http://lizbennett2.wordpress.com/2012...
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Mass engagement in learning at extremely low cost. My response in the Times Higher to Alan Ryan's MOOC Opinion piece http://goo.gl/lU3c7 - http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story...
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The (#openaccess) Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, has a well explained peer-review based publishing model. - http://plato.stanford.edu/about...
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Fresh from The Big Innovation Centre. "3D Policy: Why
Britain needs a policy framework for 3D" (printing....) 38 page PDF, by
Andrew Sissons and Spencer Thompson - http://www.biginnovationcentre.com/Assets...
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Open Call for Fellowship Applications for 2013-2014 at
the Harvard "entrepreneurial but non-profit" Berkman Center for
Internet & Society. - http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/getinvo...
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Not before time. ORCID ID creator now runs under
https, with working links to Privacy Policy and Terms & Conditions.
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#bindersfullofwomen Amazon reviews: witty feminist critique of Romney http://www.webcitation.org/6BV15M5...
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Via @mentalese Science Magazine's 2003 "Tragedy of
the Commons?" Special Issue, with some of it free to access - alas not
Elinor Ostrom's 1999 "Revisiting the Commons: Local Lessons, Global
Challenges" - http://www.sciencemag.org/site...
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Fuller coverage of Myhrvold's deplorable 3D printing DRM patent by @doctorow in Boing Boing. - http://boingboing.net/2012...
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Version 1.0 of "Good practices for university open-access policies" from the Harvard Open Access Project just out. - http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/hoap...
The principal author, Peter Suber's explanation: "In
anticipation of worldwide Open Access Week, the Harvard Open Access
Project is pleased to release version 1.0 of a guide to good practices
for university open-access policies. Gathering together recommendations
on drafting, adopting, and implementing OA policies, the guide is based
on policies adopted at Harvard, Stanford, MIT, and a couple of dozen
other institutions around the world. But it's not limited to policies of
this type and includes recommendations that should be useful to
institutions taking other approaches. The guide is designed to evolve.
As co-authors, we plan to revise and enlarge it over time, building on
our own experience and the experience of colleagues elsewhere. We
welcome suggestions. The guide deliberately refers to "good practices"
rather than "best practices". On many points, there are multiple,
divergent good practices. Good practices are easier to identify than
best practices. And there can be wider...
more...
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Techdirt reports that Pearson has caused the taking down of 1.5m teacher & student blogs with a single DMCA Notice. - https://www.techdirt.com/article...
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Jay Bhatt succeeds Michael Chasen as CEO of Blackboard according to Blackboard's Ray Henderson @readmeray - http://www.rayhblog.com/blog...
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"Thank you, #OpenAccess Movement" @Downes points to Heather Morrison's piece about the dramatic growth of Open Access repositories. - http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin...
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Repugnance, as in this 22 page PDF by Nobel economist Alvin Roth, is relevant to #openaccess, #NHS & "marketisation" generally. - http://kuznets.fas.harvard.edu/~aroth...
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Worth reading> "Dutch disease and the failure of OER initiatives" by @ajcann. - http://scienceoftheinvisible.b...
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The baseline general knowledge of computer science expressed in 16 tentative tweets by Anthony Finkelstein @profserious - http://blog.prof.so/2012...
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Giving credit. Report from Sebastian Thrun's talk to the Sloan Consortium's 18th annual conference. Excerpt below. - http://www.insidehighered.com/news...
"But in his comments to the Sloan-C crowd, Thrun from the very first
took great pains not to aggrandize himself or his fellow MOOCsters. He
peppered his comments with statements like "I'm not the first to think
about online education" and "as you surely know better than me," and at
one point told the assembled that he was "just stepping in your
footsteps." (In a nod to those who have complained that much of the
recent news coverage has ignored an earlier iteration of massive online
courses staged several years ago by Stephen Downes and George Siemens,
Thrun himself referred to the "MOOC hype" and acknowledged that various
people had beaten him to the idea, even if his and other recent courses
are "perhaps a bit more massive."
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Unequal childhood. Why striving mainly for "great
teachers" and "great schools" is a flawed policy approach. US study
shows that the "concerted cultivation" used by middle class parents
outweighs the effect of weak schools. http://dx.doi.org/10... - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news...
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The Wonk - not to be confused with The Scholar or The Expert - and a particular threat to society at large. Via @dianeravitch - http://jerseyjazzman.blogspot.co.uk/2012...
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@Andrew_Adonis makes a clear case in this piece for the UK voting age to be reduced from 18 to 16. - http://andrewadonis.com/2012...
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Confronting the snake oil problem. @AnthonyCody
responds in a calm and step-by-step way to a provocative & (till it
was changed) egregiously insultingly titled piece by Tom Segal, an
analyst (sic) with VC company RethinkEducation. - http://blogs.edweek.org/teacher...
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Educause briefing: "What Campus Leaders Need to Know
About MOOCs" [3 p PDF]. A bit of a thin brew; no credit to Downes and
Siemens; reasonable clarity about possible business models; refers to
"the MOOC bandwagon". - http://www.educause.edu/library...
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Crimestoppers supporting The Sheffield College's "Human Trafficking Uncovered" online course www.traffickinguncovered.com - http://www.crimestoppers-uk.org/media-c...
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#openaccess This record of the May 2004 HoC Science and Technology Committee makes rewarding reading. Two small excerpts below. - http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa...
"Mr Friend: True, and the answer to my mind is open access, when
everybody could have free access. What I would urge this Committee to
consider is the recommendations to government that any articles based on
publicly-funded research should be freely accessible over the
Internet." "Professor Williams: .... in my journal, and I publish papers
all round the world, the vast majority of institutions do not work in
this area, they could not, in fact, understand what we publish, and I
think one has to be very careful in determining policy on the basis that
everybody should have free access to what we publish."
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Unmissable, via @jjn1. Huitson's "How the BBC betrayed
the NHS: an exclusive report on two years of censorship &
distortion" - http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourbeeb...
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The FT's @PickardJE underscores the woeful irrelevance of Osborne’s employee ownership plan. Via @anyapalmer. - http://blogs.ft.com/westmin...
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Just published. Good basic data for everyone - a driver for growth and efficiency. The Danish approach. [40 page PDF] - http://www.digst.dk/Home...
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Balanced, informative piece by @donaldclark on IWBs, on my mind because I’m involved in IT procurement for @UTCSheffield - http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.co.uk/search...?
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THE (?) piece by Stanford President John Hennessy
arguing that e-learning offers a way forward for the Western academy,
allowing universities to reach more people, to improve their teaching
and to keep costs down. - http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-u...
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Kudos to @audreywatters for her "ALEC, Ed-Tech, and the Privatization of Education", which lists big companies that fund ALEC. [http://goo.gl/yv2eN lists some who've severed ties] - http://www.hackeducation.com/2012...
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And about time too. Some media credit for the 2008 onwards pioneering work of @downes and @gsiemens on MOOCs. - http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...
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.@Czernie strong piece by Cambridge IP economist http://rufuspollock.org/ "CC should Drop the Non-Com and No-Derivs Licenses" - http://blog.okfn.org/2012...
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"Nothing to hide" - Milena Popova - @elmyra -
applies the Stross Test to the Communications Data Bill. And finds it
wanting. - http://milenapopova.eu/2012...
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Museums and open education. e-Literate piece by Beth
Harris and Steven Zucker urging "Museum people" to get involved in
discussion about Open Education. - http://mfeldstein.com/museums...
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Preschool (and older?) children use the scientific method. Via @rdp_life. Shades of Papert in Alison Gopnik's work - http://goo.gl/ipvAq - more generally. Also interesting stuff on Bayes networks and (human) learning. - http://www.nytimes.com/2012...
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"at a cafe in Vienna .... sensing history and family
memory pulling at my sleeve" great line by @profserious in Why I Do What
I Do - http://blog.prof.so/2012...
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Support for PBS (and not just Big Bird) in the
Scientific American after Romney's philistine threat to stop subsidising
it (with 0.00012% of the federal budget). - http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/evo-eco...
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"Let us have merit pay in Congress".. Impassioned
hostility to Race to the Top from School Superintendent John Kuhn in
this six minute video. Kuhn can write well as well as speaking
powerfully: http://theeducatorsroom.com/author... - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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In "The Problem with Value-Added Measurement" [5 page
PDF] US high school maths teacher @garyrubinstein points out that a
faulty measure of outcomes is not better than an accurate measure of
inputs, and that neither measures student achievement, student learning,
or student growth directly - http://www.webcitation.org/6BD2xTy...
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These very smart "Notes on technology behind cMOOCs" by @mhawksey passed me by when they were originally written. - http://mashe.hawksey.info/2012...
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"No, you're not entitled to your opinion." Terrific
piece about rationality by Patrick Stokes via @Stephen_Curry. Excerpt
below. - http://theconversation.edu.au/no-your...
"The problem with “I’m entitled to my opinion” is that, all too often,
it’s used to shelter beliefs that should have been abandoned. It becomes
shorthand for “I can say or think whatever I like” – and by extension,
continuing to argue is somehow disrespectful. And this attitude feeds, I
suggest, into the false equivalence between experts and non-experts
that is an increasingly pernicious feature of our public discourse."
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Stanford MOOC Machine Learning impact. 2 of 6 winners
of Hewlett Foundation Awards in Short Answer Scoring Competition did
Andrew Ng's ML course. - http://gettingsmart.com/news...
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Testing and assessing learners. More clear, relevant
(including to the UK) evidence-based wisdom from Matthew Di Carlo in the
Shanker Blog. - http://shankerblog.org/?p=6835
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Puzzling. Does anyone understand the OU's copyright
statement on this interesting "Handbook of social media for researchers
and supervisors" [PDF - 140 pages!] by Shailey Minocha and Marian Petre
from the OU's Centre for Research in Computing? http://www.webcitation.org/6BAPfxH...
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Via @jrodwyer "Do patent and copyright law restrict
competition and creativity excessively?" Yes, according to US Judge
Posner, whose two paragraphs on the damage caused by software patents
are incisive and comprehensive. - http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/2012...
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"Learn. Think. Do. That's the Udacity experiment."
@SebastianThrun makes good use of Herb Simon's "Learning results from
what the student does and thinks and only from what the student does and
thinks. The teacher can advance learning only by influencing what the
student does to learn." - http://blog.udacity.com/2012...
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Grit, aka The Character Premium. Something to teach
"the poor"? A way to ignore poverty? A way to do something about
poverty? Take your pick: Valerie Strauss Washington Post 2012 - http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...; Yvonne Roberts Young Foundation 2009 - http://www.youngfoundation.org/files...; Demos 2011 - http://www.demos.co.uk/files...; Sheffield Cutlers Company 2012 - http://releasing-the-magic.blo....
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Via @sirbobkerslake - About the Government Digital
Service. "To ensure the Government offers world-class (sic) digital
products (sic!) that meet people’s needs". If they meet people's needs
the world-classness can surely take care of itself. - http://digital.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/about...
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Making Sense of MOOCs by Sir John Daniel is written by
someone who knows their onions. *But* the @udacity coverage is
inaccurate, and Downes looks to have justified issues with the
discussion of cMOOCs. There are probably other issues. But on balance,
the research paper, which Daniels points out was written in a hurry,
will do more good than harm. - http://www.tonybates.ca/wp-cont...
"I think that Daniel is correct to point to the similarity between the
current crop of xMOOCs and the elite universities’ previous unsuccessful
forays into the world of online learning (does anyone remember
Universitas 21 or California Virtual University?) but given that we (the
cMOOC people) were around then and that this is what we built instead,
it is all more disappointing that Daniel didn’t attempt more than a
cursory look at cMOOCs."
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Will ICT reforms sideline teachers? @BobHarrisonSet
seems to think so in this piece about the drafting of new POS for ICT in
schools. - http://www.sec-ed.co.uk/blog...
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Via Downes. Australia's University of Southern Queensland launches the first OERu prototype #oer. - http://wikieducator.org/Austral...
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Interesting and not-through-gritted-teeth assessment
of Miliband's speech from @iainmartin1 - no ideological bedfellow of Ed M
- in The Telegraph. - http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news...
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Plenty of insights in "It's Not About You" by
@timoreilly. The bit at the end about Father Madeleine in 'Les
Miserables' strikes a chord. - http://www.linkedin.com/today...
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Consensus is the absence of sustained objection.
Surprisingly useful. British Standard 0: 2011 [PDF] has a good
definition in para 3.16 of "consensus": - http://www.bsigroup.com/upload...
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School reform. England is not the USA, but the views
of @andrew_adonis on this argument from @dianeravitch would be
interesting & valuable. - http://prospect.org/article...
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'Children will not learn to think for themselves if
their teachers are expected merely to do as they are told.' From this 2
page PDF of the Cambridge Primary Review's "Policy priorities for
primary education" - http://www.primaryreview.org.uk/downloa...
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"Learning requires effort from learners .... To judge
it as you would a weekend in Benidorm is deeply demeaning." A view on
Ofsted’s new ‘Trip Adviser’ website from Mick Fletcher of The Policy
Consortium. - http://feweek.co.uk/2012...
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Two thoughtful and interesting NYRB articles mainly
about Finland's school system by @dianeravitch. The first is "Schools We
Can Envy" - http://goo.gl/eprLC; the second is "How, and How Not, to Improve the Schools". - http://www.nybooks.com/article...
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@rjsharpe 's final editorial for Research in Learning
Technology highlights accessibility as the "killer characteristic" of
learning technology - http://www.researchinlearningt...
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From time to time we are patients of the NHS. Why does
the NHS need a "Head of NHS Brand - Offer to the Public", reporting to a
post called "Director of Customer Relations"? - http://www.jobs.nhs.uk/cgi-bin...
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Playing about with @ImpactStory. Here is how Issue 18.3 of Research In Learning Technology looks @a_l_t #rlt - http://impactstory.it/collect...
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Smart: the Short DOI Service. Think of this as a Tiny
URL or Google Shortener for Digital Object Identifiers, which can turn,
say, http://dx.doi.org/10... into http://doi.org/jfs - http://shortdoi.org/
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.@donaldclark "Overhead projectors: the trapezoid projection of boredom". [OHPs live on as "visualisers".] - http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.co.uk/2012...
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A how-to video by @HansRosling explains the free
Gapminder Desktop, so that offline you can show animated statistics from
your own Mac, Windows, or Linux desktop. - http://www.gapminder.org/desktop...
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WTFU!. Joe Wilson "a Glaswegian with an incurable
social justice complex" @joecar has spotted Samuel L. Jackson's slick,
funny but affecting support call for Obama, funded by a Super PAC, the
Jewsih Council for Education and Research http://jcer.info/. - http://www.joewilsons.net/2012...
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"Treating the iPad as a computer and expecting it to
serve as a laptop", is my top pick from "5 Critical Mistakes Schools
Make With iPads (And How To Correct Them)". US-centric, but relevant to
the UK. - http://edudemic.com/2012...
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A single source of categories and concepts that
reflect the state of the art of the computing discipline. Via @eduardamr
ACM's 2012 Computer Classification System is just that. Available in
various formats including XML, Word, and flat and interactive HTML. - http://dl.acm.org/ccs_flat.cfm
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Eclectic small group of 13 that I am in that micro-lends via Kiva. Why not join us? @malpaso @cliveshepherd @MooreAnswers - http://www.kiva.org/team...
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Stanford's "Education's Digital Future" initiative -
@edfstanford - looks influenced by the excellent Roy Pea @rdp_life. The
earnest pictures on the home page of this otherwise admirable new Drupal
7 web site put me off a bit, but that's an old cynic talking. - http://edf.stanford.edu/
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Who needs a smart phone? Nice piece by Jacob Aron
about workarounds being developed at the Indraprastha Institute of IT
in New Delhi enabling plain old feature phones to geo-locate (Possibly
scraped from the New Scientist). - http://www.equities.com/news...
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Angry Huffington piece by #edtech @GaryStager about being "hoodwinked by Joel Klein and the Rupert Murdoch-owned company he leads" - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gary-st...
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Education Funding in Texas. Part I of some dry,
entertaining & scary analysis by John Kuhn (Superintendent of the
Perrin-Whitt Independent School District in Texas, USA), from which it
can be seen that Texas is not like England, but that similar arguments
about the causes of educational success abound in both. - http://blogs.edweek.org/teacher...
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"Bugs in Tech Heaven". @DianeRavitch reports on trouble with technology and a Pearson online curriculum in Alabama, USA. - http://dianeravitch.net/2012...
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Graffiti and property rights. http://socialmediacollective.org/2012... by @zephoria examines free speech and the defacement of the racist "civilized man and the savage" ad. - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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Contextual Accountability is a brave and impressive
essay by John Kuhn who is superintendent of a the Perrin-Whitt school
district in Texas. - http://theeducatorsroom.com/2012...
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.@suebecks It is time to start designing for the ears -
TED talk explaining the importance of acoustic quality for learning
spaces. - http://www.ted.com/talks...
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Film review - "Won't Back Down". A brutal and
convincing demolition by Andrew O'Hehir of the Anschutz-funded
anti-union pro-Charter film. - http://www.salon.com/2012...
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"No technology can ever be too arcane or complicated
for the black t-shirt crowd." @typicalprog nearly had me with "Linus
Torvalds goes off on Linux and Git". - http://typicalprogrammer.com/...
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Grand Theft Auto, piano, or Spanish lessons probably
preferable to web-based brain training, says Scientific American writer
Gary Stix. - http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/talking...
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Why is Romney so utterly lacking in "understanding of
how life looks to the rest of us"? @dweinberger comes up with a smart
& credible explanation. - http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger...
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Businesses having patents on genes is not in the
public interest. Link to today's interesting media release about
ACLU/PUBPAT application to the US Supreme Court to rule that patents on
breast cancer genes are invalid. - http://www.aclu.org/womens-...
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@xtophercook Interesting and comprehensive data about
the proportion of looked after children in schools judge outstanding,
good, satisfactory or inadequate. Did you get anywhere on the coalfield
question? - http://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans...
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History, as recorded on Twitter, is vanishing from the
web, according to this Arxiv blog post. (The fact that NSA or GCHQ may
have got things archived properly is beside the point I suppose.) - http://www.technologyreview.com/view...
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#rlt
- Worth reading: "Students and recorded lectures: survey on current use
and demands for higher education" by Gorissen and colleagues - http://www.researchinlearningt...
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Heartfelt anecdotal reflection from @profserious about the equity arguments for the proportion going through HE high. - http://blog.prof.so/2012...
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Shocking figures about what universities in Africa have to pay for bandwidth in "Bandwidth and #OpenAccess
in Developing Countries" by Kevin Zelnio in the Scientific American.
Makes the case for bandwidth lite design of OA repositories and journal
web sites. - http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/evo-eco...
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Four different short, contrasting thought provoking high-level descriptions of mathematics by Alexandre Borovik - http://education.lms.ac.uk/2012...
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Via @guzdial - Understanding and Improving Learning in
Undergraduate Science and Engineering, from the US National Academy of
Sciences. - http://www.nap.edu/catalog...
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YES is my short answer to @AJCann 's q about whether
he should run a free intro to microbiology as a MOOC modelled on the
Google Search course; with first or second year undergraduates helping
as part of their coursework. And if I was Leicester University, I would
make a point of offering Alan the time and money to get it set up. [Just
saying..] - http://scienceoftheinvisible.b...
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