Exploring and Embracing the Power of Technology To Enhance Student LearningWilliam Brennan, Ed.D.
Presentation delivered to the Miles College Faculty prior to the start of the Fall 2012 semester. This two day conference was a blast. Great job Miles College!
Exploring and Embracing the Power of Technology To Enhance Student LearningWilliam Brennan, Ed.D.
Presentation delivered to the Miles College Faculty prior to the start of the Fall 2012 semester. This two day conference was a blast. Great job Miles College!
Looking in from the outside: Developing your own windows of opportunities usi...Sue Beckingham
As educational developers and trainers the focus of our work is on supporting others to learn and develop new skills. We do this in a variety of different ways from face to face to blended and distance learning. Increasingly technology is providing innovative ways to enhance teaching and learning and to engage learners. This may include the use of video, audio and images as well as Web 2.0 tools and social media. The potential to socially share this knowledge and to use technology to mediate this process is an important aspect of our own professional development. Shining a spotlight on how we can use social media to do this, I will share some of the key tools I have used and the impact they have had.
Giftedkids.ie - Gifted Advocacy & Support for Gifted ChildrenGiftedkids.ie
Presentation given as part of the Giftedkids.ie workshop at the Irish Centre for Talented Youth's Gifted Education Conference on March 13th 2010, Dublin City University
School libraries are at the heart of a new digital learning nexus. Our world changed in April 1993 when the Mosaic 1.0 browser was released to the general public. The challenges we face are equally creative as they are complex. What is your focus for tomorrow?
Coherence, Engagement, and Usefulness as Sensemaking Criteria in Participato...Simon Buckingham Shum
Slides presenting the article:
Selvin, A.M. and Buckingham Shum, S. (2009). Coherence, engagement, and usefulness as sensemaking criteria in participatory media practice. In: Sensemaking Workshop, ACM Computer-Human Interaction (CHI) Conference, 2009, 4-5 April 2009, Boston, MA, USA. ePrint: http://oro.open.ac.uk/12910
Looking in from the outside: Developing your own windows of opportunities usi...Sue Beckingham
As educational developers and trainers the focus of our work is on supporting others to learn and develop new skills. We do this in a variety of different ways from face to face to blended and distance learning. Increasingly technology is providing innovative ways to enhance teaching and learning and to engage learners. This may include the use of video, audio and images as well as Web 2.0 tools and social media. The potential to socially share this knowledge and to use technology to mediate this process is an important aspect of our own professional development. Shining a spotlight on how we can use social media to do this, I will share some of the key tools I have used and the impact they have had.
Giftedkids.ie - Gifted Advocacy & Support for Gifted ChildrenGiftedkids.ie
Presentation given as part of the Giftedkids.ie workshop at the Irish Centre for Talented Youth's Gifted Education Conference on March 13th 2010, Dublin City University
School libraries are at the heart of a new digital learning nexus. Our world changed in April 1993 when the Mosaic 1.0 browser was released to the general public. The challenges we face are equally creative as they are complex. What is your focus for tomorrow?
Coherence, Engagement, and Usefulness as Sensemaking Criteria in Participato...Simon Buckingham Shum
Slides presenting the article:
Selvin, A.M. and Buckingham Shum, S. (2009). Coherence, engagement, and usefulness as sensemaking criteria in participatory media practice. In: Sensemaking Workshop, ACM Computer-Human Interaction (CHI) Conference, 2009, 4-5 April 2009, Boston, MA, USA. ePrint: http://oro.open.ac.uk/12910
Today, we know more about the universe than about our society. It's time to use the power of information to explore social and economic life on Earth and discover options for a sustainable future. Together, we can manage the challenges of the 21st century, combining the best of all knowledge.
The FuturICT Knowledge Accelerator is a previously unseen multidisciplinary international scientific endeavour with focus on techno-socio-economic-environmental systems.
The ultimate goal of the FuturICT flagship project is to understand and manage complex, global, socially interactive systems, with a focus on sustainability and resilience. Revealing the hidden laws and processes underlying societies probably constitutes the most pressing scientific grand challenge of our century and is equally important for the development of novel robust, trustworthy and adaptive information and communication technologies (ICT), based on socially inspired paradigms.
We think that integrating ICT, Complexity Science and the Social Sciences will create a paradigm shift, facilitating a symbiotic co-evolution of ICT and society. Data from our complex globe-spanning ICT system will be leveraged to develop models of techno-socio-economic systems. In turn, insights from these models will inform the development of a new generation of socially adaptive, self-organized ICT systems.
On Social Learning, Sensemaking Capacity, and Collective IntelligenceSimon Buckingham Shum
We are transitioning to an era in which the authority of previously dependable sources of understanding is increasingly called into question, in tandem with societal and global challenges that require new ways of thinking. Correspondingly, hard questions are now being asked about our education system’s adequacy. Our challenge is to create the infrastructures in which “K–Life” learners develop the capacities to thrive personally, and as citizens, under unprecedented conditions of uncertainty. The capacity to make sense of complex personal, intellectual, and social dilemmas is what we need to foster in our children, graduates, researchers, and employees: these skills can be summarized as “social learning.” This session will describe a range of R&D initiatives to illustrate socio-technical responses to these challenges, including intensively collaborative projects like the SocialLearn Project, the OLnet Project, the Compendium Institute, and the Learning Warehouse.
My Personal Learning Network: PresentationElaine Hall
This presentation outlines the process of developing my own personal learning network (PLN). Includes mission statement, goals, scope, objectives, resources, management strategies and successes. This was pulled together as a class project but way overdue for its application to professional development, lifelong learning, and scholastic endeavors. While complex in its current status, though, the PLN is constantly transformative - it will grow, it will change, and it will evolve just as the people, situations, and understandings within my life will also change. That's the beauty of an active personal learning network!
Advancements in learning technologies are being driven from an increasing diversity of domains of practice and research. The “open” agenda – open architecture, open source, open standards, open access, open learning, open networks, open data, and open educational resources – is very much at the forefront of these advances for a growing international community of practice. While this agenda is valued highly in the education sector, openness is not the only driver of change or innovation with ICT. Social media continues to shape the nature of much engagement online and the late 20th century mantra that “content is king” is giving way to a fresh focus on so-called “21st century skills” and competencies where digital literacy is as important as critical thinking and problem solving. Meanwhile, discourses on sense-making and developments in knowledge management and knowledge-sharing infrastructures continue to inform the theory and practice of e-learning. This presentation acknowledges these trends and a broad range of narratives that track the evolution of e-learning as a means of contextualising a frontier ready for further technological innovation: the stimulation and support of questioning online. In particular, research into why-questioning is highlighted. Why? Because the semantics involved typically involve ambiguity, dialog or further inquiry. More specifically, investigation into why-questioning reveals that the object it seeks is explanatory content – and content that can be characterized as such presents a number of challenges for learning technology design.
Culture and learning in the digital age: experiences from Brussels and the w...Frederik Questier
F. Questier, Culture and learning in the digital age: experiences from Brussels and the world, Guest lecture at Communications University of China, School of Distance and Continuing education, 14/10/2010. On request of the audience, an introduction to Belgian culture was added.
The Generative AI System Shock, and some thoughts on Collective Intelligence ...Simon Buckingham Shum
Keynote Address: Team-based Learning Collaborative Asia Pacific Community (TBLC-APC) Symposium (“Impact of emerging technologies on learning strategies”) 8-9 February 2024, Sydney https://tbl.sydney.edu.au
Slides from my contribution to the panel convened by Jeremy Roschelle at the International Society for the Learning Sciences: Engaging Learning Scientists in Policy Challenges: AI and the Future of Learning
Deliberative Democracy as a strategy for co-designing university ethics aro...Simon Buckingham Shum
Buckingham Shum, S. (2021). Deliberative Democracy as a strategy for co-designing university ethics around analytics and AI in education. AARE2021: Australian Association for Research in Education, 28 Nov. – 2 Dec. 2021
Deliberative Democracy as a Strategy for Co-designing University Ethics Around Analytics and AI in Education
Simon Buckingham Shum
Connected Intelligence Centre, University of Technology Sydney
Universities can see an increasing range of student and staff activity as it becomes digitally visible in their platform ecosystems. The fields of Learning Analytics and AI in Education have demonstrated the significant benefits that ethically responsible, pedagogically informed analysis of student activity data can bring, but such services are only possible because they are undeniably a form of “surveillance”, raising legitimate questions about how the use of such tools should be governed.
Our prior work has drawn on the rich concepts and methods developed in human-centred system design, and participatory/co-design, to design, deploy and validate practical tools that give a voice to non-technical stakeholders (e.g. educators; students) in shaping such systems. We are now expanding the depth and breadth of engagement that we seek, looking to the Deliberative Democracy movement for inspiration. This is a response to the crisis in confidence in how typical democratic systems engage citizens in decision making. A hallmark is the convening of a Deliberative Mini-Public (DMP) which may work at different scales (organisation; community; region; nation) and can take diverse forms (e.g. Citizens’ Juries; Citizens’ Assemblies; Consensus Conferences; Planning Cells; Deliberative Polls). DMP’s combination of stratified random sampling to ensure authentic representation, neutrally facilitated workshops, balanced expert briefings, and real support from organisational leaders, has been shown to cultivate high quality dialogue in sometimes highly conflicted settings, leading to a strong sense of ownership of the DMP's final outputs (e.g. policy recommendations).
This symposium contribution will describe how the DMP model is informing university-wide consultation on the ethical principles that should govern the use of analytics and AI around teaching and learning data.
March 2021 • 24/7 Instant Feedback on Writing: Integrating AcaWriter into yo...Simon Buckingham Shum
Slides accompanying the monthly UTS educator briefing https://cic.uts.edu.au/events/24-7-instant-feedback-on-writing-integrating-acawriter-into-your-teaching-18-march/
What difference could instant feedback on draft writing make to your students? Over the last 5 years the Connected Intelligence Centre has been developing and piloting an automated feedback tool for academic writing (AcaWriter), working closely with academics across several faculties. The research portal documents how educators and students engage with this kind of AI, and what we’ve learnt about integrating it into teaching and assessment.
In May, AcaWriter was launched to all students along with an information portal. Now we want to start upskilling academics, tutors and learning technologists, in a monthly session to give you the chance to learn about AcaWriter, and specifically, good practices for integrating it into your subject. CIC can support you, and we hope you may be interested in co-designing publishable research.
AcaWriter handles several different ‘genres’ of writing, including reflective writing (e.g. a Reflective Essay; Reflective Blogs/Journals on internships/work-placements) and analytical writing (e.g. Argumentative Essays; Research Abstracts & Introductions). This briefing will demo AcaWriter, and show it can be embedded in student activities. We hope this sparks ideas for your own teaching, which we can discuss in more detail.
ICQE20: Quantitative Ethnography Visualizations as Tools for ThinkingSimon Buckingham Shum
Slides for this keynote talk to the 2nd International Conference on Quantitative Ethnography
http://simon.buckinghamshum.net/2021/02/icqe2020-keynote-qe-viz-as-tools-for-thinking/
24/7 Instant Feedback on Writing: Integrating AcaWriter into your TeachingSimon Buckingham Shum
https://cic.uts.edu.au/events/24-7-instant-feedback-on-writing-integrating-acawriter-into-your-teaching-2-dec/
What difference could instant feedback on draft writing make to your students? Over the last 5 years the Connected Intelligence Centre has been developing and piloting an automated feedback tool for academic writing (AcaWriter), working closely with academics across several faculties. The research portal documents how educators and students engage with this kind of AI, and what we’ve learnt about integrating it into teaching and assessment.
In May, AcaWriter was launched to all students along with an information portal. Now we want to start upskilling academics, tutors and learning technologists, in a monthly session to give you the chance to learn about AcaWriter, and specifically, good practices for integrating it into your subject. CIC can support you, and we hope you may be interested in co-designing publishable research.
AcaWriter handles several different ‘genres’ of writing, including reflective writing (e.g. a Reflective Essay; Reflective Blogs/Journals on internships/work-placements) and analytical writing (e.g. Argumentative Essays; Research Abstracts & Introductions).
This briefing will demo AcaWriter, and show it can be embedded in student activities. We hope this sparks ideas for your own teaching, which we can discuss in more detail.
An introduction to argumentation for UTS:CIC PhD students (with some Learning Analytics examples, but potentially of wider interest to students/researchers)
Webinar: Learning Informatics Lab, University of Minnesota
Replay the talk: https://youtu.be/dcJZeDIMr2I
Learning Informatics
AI • Analytics • Accountability • Agency
Simon Buckingham Shum
Professor of Learning Informatics
Director, Connected Intelligence Centre
University of Technology Sydney
Abstract:
“Health Informatics”. “Urban Informatics”. “Social Informatics”. Informatics offers systemic ways of analyzing and designing the interaction of natural and artificial information processing systems. In the context of education, I will describe some Learning Informatics lenses and practices which we have developed for co-designing analytics and AI with educators and students. We have a particular focus on closing the feedback loop to equip learners with competencies to navigate a complex, uncertain future, such as critical thinking, professional reflection and teamwork. En route, we will touch on how we build educators’ trust in novel tools, our design philosophy of “embracing imperfection” in machine intelligence, and the ways that these infrastructures embody values. Speaking from the perspective of leading an institutional innovation centre in learning analytics, I hope that our experiences spark productive reflection around as the UMN Learning Informatics Lab builds its program.
Biography:
Simon Buckingham Shum is Professor of Learning Informatics at the University of Technology Sydney, where he serves as inaugural director of the Connected Intelligence Centre. CIC is a transdisciplinary innovation centre, using analytics to provide new insights for university teams, with particular expertise in educational data science. Simon’s career-long fascination with software’s ability to make thinking visible has seen him active in communities including Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, Hypertext, Design Rationale, Scholarly Publishing, Semantic Web, Computational Argumentation, Educational Technology and Learning Analytics. The challenge of visualizing contested knowledge has produced several books: Visualizing Argumentation, Knowledge Cartography, and Constructing Knowledge Art. He has been active over the last decade in shaping the field of Learning Analytics, co-founding the Society for Learning Analytics Research, and catalyzing several strands: Social Learning Analytics, Discourse Analytics, Dispositional Analytics and Writing Analytics. http://Simon.BuckinghamShum.net
Despite AI’s potential for beneficial use, it creates important risks for Australians. AI, big data, and AI-informed decision making can cause exclusion, discrimination, skill loss, and economic impact; and can affect privacy, security of critical infrastructure and social well-being. What types of technology raise particular human rights concerns? Which human rights are particularly implicated?
Abstract: The emerging configuration of educational institutions, technologies, scientific practices, ethics policies and companies can be usefully framed as the emergence of a new “knowledge infrastructure” (Paul Edwards). The idea that we may be transitioning into significantly new ways of knowing – about learning and learners, teaching and teachers – is both exciting and daunting, because new knowledge infrastructures redefine roles and redistribute power, raising many important questions. What should we see when open the black box powering analytics? How do we empower all stakeholders to engage in the design process? Since digital infrastructure fades quickly into the background, how can researchers, educators and learners engage with it mindfully? This isn’t just interesting to ponder academically: your school or university will be buying products that are being designed now. Or perhaps educational institutions should take control, building and sharing their own open source tools? How are universities accelerating the transition from analytics innovation to infrastructure? Speaking from the perspective of leading an institutional innovation centre in learning analytics, I hope that our experiences designing code, competencies and culture for learning analytics sheds helpful light on these questions.
Towards Collaboration Translucence: Giving Meaning to Multimodal Group DataSimon Buckingham Shum
Vanessa Echeverria, Roberto Martinez-Maldonado, and Simon Buck- ingham Shum.. 2019. Towards Collaboration Translucence: Giving Meaning to Multimodal Group Data. In Proceedings of ACM CHI conference (CHI’19). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Paper 39, 16 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300269
Collocated, face-to-face teamwork remains a pervasive mode of working, which is hard to replicate online. Team members’ embodied, multimodal interaction with each other and artefacts has been studied by researchers, but due to its complexity, has remained opaque to automated analysis. However, the ready availability of sensors makes it increasingly affordable to instrument work spaces to study teamwork and groupwork. The possibility of visualising key aspects of a collaboration has huge potential for both academic and professional learning, but a frontline challenge is the enrichment of quantitative data streams with the qualitative insights needed to make sense of them. In response, we introduce the concept of collaboration translucence, an approach to make visible selected features of group activity. This is grounded both theoretically (in the physical, epistemic, social and affective dimensions of group activity), and contextually (using domain-specific concepts). We illustrate the approach from the automated analysis of healthcare simulations to train nurses, generating four visual proxies that fuse multimodal data into higher order patterns.
Panel held at LAK13: 3rd International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge
http://simon.buckinghamshum.net/2013/03/lak13-edu-data-scientists-scarce-breed
Educational Data Scientists: A Scarce Breed
The Educational Data Scientist is currently a poorly understood, rarely sighted breed. Reports vary: some are known to be largely nocturnal, solitary creatures, while others have been reported to display highly social behaviour in broad daylight. What are their primary habits? How do they see the world? What ecological niches do they occupy now, and will predicted seismic shifts transform the landscape in their favour? What survival skills do they need when running into other breeds? Will their numbers grow, and how might they evolve? In this panel, the conference will hear and debate not only broad perspectives on the terrain, but will have been exposed to some real life specimens, and caught glimpses of the future ecosystem.
Keynote Address, International Conference of the Learning Sciences, London Festival of Learning
Transitioning Education’s Knowledge Infrastructure:
Shaping Design or Shouting from the Touchline?
Abstract: Bit by bit, a data-intensive substrate for education is being designed, plumbed in and switched on, powered by digital data from an expanding sensor array, data science and artificial intelligence. The configurations of educational institutions, technologies, scientific practices, ethics policies and companies can be usefully framed as the emergence of a new “knowledge infrastructure” (Paul Edwards).
The idea that we may be transitioning into significantly new ways of knowing – about learning and learners – is both exciting and daunting, because new knowledge infrastructures redefine roles and redistribute power, raising many important questions. For instance, assuming that we want to shape this infrastructure, how do we engage with the teams designing the platforms our schools and universities may be using next year? Who owns the data and algorithms, and in what senses can an analytics/AI-powered learning system be ‘accountable’? How do we empower all stakeholders to engage in the design process? Since digital infrastructure fades quickly into the background, how can researchers, educators and learners engage with it mindfully? If we want to work in “Pasteur’s Quadrant” (Donald Stokes), we must go beyond learning analytics that answer research questions, to deliver valued services to frontline educational users: but how are universities accelerating the analytics innovation to infrastructure transition?
Wrestling with these questions, the learning analytics community has evolved since its first international conference in 2011, at the intersection of learning and data science, and an explicit concern with those human factors, at many scales, that make or break the design and adoption of new educational tools. We are forging open source platforms, links with commercial providers, and collaborations with the diverse disciplines that feed into educational data science. In the context of ICLS, our dialogue with the learning sciences must continue to deepen to ensure that together we influence this knowledge infrastructure to advance the interests of all stakeholders, including learners, educators, researchers and leaders.
Speaking from the perspective of leading an institutional analytics innovation centre, I hope that our experiences designing code, competencies and culture for learning analytics sheds helpful light on these questions.
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
Model Attribute Check Company Auto PropertyCeline George
In Odoo, the multi-company feature allows you to manage multiple companies within a single Odoo database instance. Each company can have its own configurations while still sharing common resources such as products, customers, and suppliers.
How to Make a Field invisible in Odoo 17Celine George
It is possible to hide or invisible some fields in odoo. Commonly using “invisible” attribute in the field definition to invisible the fields. This slide will show how to make a field invisible in odoo 17.
A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
Welcome to TechSoup New Member Orientation and Q&A (May 2024).pdfTechSoup
In this webinar you will learn how your organization can access TechSoup's wide variety of product discount and donation programs. From hardware to software, we'll give you a tour of the tools available to help your nonprofit with productivity, collaboration, financial management, donor tracking, security, and more.
Palestine last event orientationfvgnh .pptxRaedMohamed3
An EFL lesson about the current events in Palestine. It is intended to be for intermediate students who wish to increase their listening skills through a short lesson in power point.
The French Revolution, which began in 1789, was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France. It marked the decline of absolute monarchies, the rise of secular and democratic republics, and the eventual rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. This revolutionary period is crucial in understanding the transition from feudalism to modernity in Europe.
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2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
Acetabularia Information For Class 9 .docxvaibhavrinwa19
Acetabularia acetabulum is a single-celled green alga that in its vegetative state is morphologically differentiated into a basal rhizoid and an axially elongated stalk, which bears whorls of branching hairs. The single diploid nucleus resides in the rhizoid.
Introduction to AI for Nonprofits with Tapp NetworkTechSoup
Dive into the world of AI! Experts Jon Hill and Tareq Monaur will guide you through AI's role in enhancing nonprofit websites and basic marketing strategies, making it easy to understand and apply.
Macroeconomics- Movie Location
This will be used as part of your Personal Professional Portfolio once graded.
Objective:
Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
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Schools Network Meeting, Jan 18 2012
Briefing for Milton Keynes & Birmingham
Headteachers & Local Authority
Learning Technology Research
@ The Knowledge Media Institute
Simon Buckingham Shum
Knowledge Media Institute
Senior Lecturer & Assoc. Director (Technology)
http://simon.buckinghamshum.net
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research partners — next generation internet,
learning, collaboration and search
4. 3 things I do which you might be
interested in
• Collective Intelligence: making
people smarter by connecting who
they know and what they know
• Mapping Dialogue & Debate:
scaffolding individuals and groups
in making sense of messy problems
and complex debates
• C21 transferable learning
dispositions and skills: tools
grounded in “learning power”
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5. 3 things I do which you might be
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people smarter by connecting who
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dispositions and skills: tools
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6. 3 things I do which you might be
interested in
§ Collective Intelligence: making
people smarter by connecting who
they know and what they know
§ Mapping Dialogue & Debate:
scaffolding individuals and groups
in making sense of messy problems
and complex debates
§ C21 transferable learning
dispositions and skills: tools
grounded in “learning power”
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7. Collective Intelligence: Evidence Hubs
• A way for a reflective learning community to share who and where
they are, what they are working on, and what they’re learning
• Demonstrator site for Open Education movement: http://ci.olnet.org
• (Watch the intro movies)
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• A way for a reflective learning community to share who and where
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14. 3 things I do which you might be
interested in
§ Collective Intelligence: making
people smarter by connecting who
they know and what they know
§ Mapping Dialogue & Debate:
scaffolding individuals and groups
in making sense of messy problems
and complex debates
§ C21 transferable learning
dispositions and skills: tools
grounded in “learning power”
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15. Dialogue Mapping the Election TV
debates
http://people.kmi.open.ac.uk/sbs/2010/04/debate-replay-with-map
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17. Teaching Yr 8’s evidence-based scientific
deliberation through Dialogue Mapping
Okada, A. and Buckingham Shum, S. (2008). Evidence-Based Dialogue Maps as a Research Tool to Investigate the Quality of School Pupils’
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Scientific Argumentation, International Journal of Research and Method in Education, 31(3), pp. 291–315 (Special Issue: Coffin, C. and O’Halloran,
K.A, (Eds.) Researching Argumentation in Educational Contexts: New Methods, New Directions). Article PrePrint: http://oro.open.ac.uk/11773
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What are the facts? Over almost seventy years, in study after study, conducted by
scientists and educationalists in numerous countries, studies conducted by such bastions of
racial rationalism as the Inner London Education Authority, the US Army, and Harvard and
on every measure of intellectual
Oxford Universities,
ability and educational attainment Blacks
perform significantly worse, on average, than
Whites. In the case of average IQ, for
example, the average Negro figure is only
85% of the White average. In fact the higher the proportion of
White genes the higher the intelligence: a pure-bred Negro fresh
out of Africa scores nearer 70%.
Readers can consult Race by Dr. John R. Baker, former Reader in Cytology at Oxford University, published by the Oxford University
Press, or The Testing of Negro Intelligence, an exhaustive review of hundreds of studies demonstrating racial differences in intellectual
ability by Dr. Audrey M. Shuey, and of course there is The Bell Curve by Herrnstein and Murray. 20
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ELLI: Effective Lifelong Learning Inventory
A web questionnaire generates a spider diagram summarising the learner’s self-
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people smarter by connecting who
they know and what they know
§ Mapping Dialogue & Debate:
scaffolding individuals and groups
in making sense of messy problems
and complex debates
§ C21 transferable learning
dispositions and skills: tools
grounded in “learning power”
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