Launched in 2015, the Foundation for Young Australians’ (FYA) New Work Order research series, encompassing five reports to date, has analysed how disruption to the world of work has significant implications for young Australians.
We invite you to join us for a day of making, collaborating, trying, teaching, designing, testing, and learning in the name of Open Research and Education.
Storytelling is still the most effective way to teach and coach. Here’s why.
What’s easier to remember? An abstract, conceptual theory or an inspiring plot, possibly a real one? The answer is easy. Everyone knows that a story is a much more powerful and effective tool to deliver a message, even to teach a lesson. It’s simpler to articulate for the speaker. For the audience, it’s easier to understand and to remember.
How Kids Benefit From Learning To Explain Their Math Thinking | MindShift | KQED News
Math teachers of older students sometimes struggle to get students to explain their thinking with evidence. It’s hard to get kids in the habit of talking about how they are thinking about a problem when they’ve had many years of instruction that focused on getting the “right answer.” That’s why educators are now trying to get students in the habit of explaining their thinking at a young age. The Teaching Channel captured kindergarten and first grade teachers pushing students to give evidence for their answers in situations where there are several ways to think about a problem.
Assessing Your Students | Nelson Education Inspired Instruction
NETA Assessment relates to our testing materials. Under NETA Assessment, Nelson's authors create multiple-choice questions (MCQs) that reflect research-based best practices for constructing effective questions and testing not just recall but also higher-order thinking. Our guidelines were developed by David DiBattista, a 3M National Teaching Fellow whose recent research as a professor of psychology at Brock University, St. Catharines, has focused on multiple-choice testing. All Test Bank authors receive training at workshops conducted by Prof. DiBattista, as do the copyeditors assigned to each Test Bank. A copy of Multiple Choice Tests: Getting Beyond Remembering (2008), Professor DiBattista's guide to writing effective tests, is included with every Nelson Test Bank/Computerized Test Bank package.
Writing Good Multiple Choice Test Questions | Center for Teaching | Vanderbilt University
Multiple choice test questions, also known as items, can be an effective and efficient way to assess learning outcomes. Multiple choice test items have several potential advantages: Versatility: Multiple choice test items can be written to assess various levels of learning outcomes, from basic recall to application, analysis, and evaluation. Because students are choosing from a set of potential answers, however, there are obvious limits on what can be tested with multiple choice items. For example, they are not an effective way to test students’ ability to organize thoughts or articulate explanations or creative ideas. Reliability: Reliability is defined as the degree to which a test consistently measures a learning outcome. Multiple choice test items are less susceptible to guessing than true/false questions, making them a more reliable means of assessment. The reliability is enhanced when the number of MC items focused on a single learning objective is increased. In addition, the objective scoring associated with multiple choice test items frees them from problems with scorer inconsistency that can plague scoring of essay questions. Validity: Validity is the degree to which a test measures the learning outcomes it purports to measure. Because students can typically answer a multiple choice item much more quickly than an essay question, tests based on multiple choice items can typically focus on a relatively broad representation of course material, thus increasing the validity of the assessment. The key to taking advantage of these strengths, however, is construction of good multiple choice items.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The danger of a single story | TED Talk | TED.com
Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice -- and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding.
Herb Alpert’s ‘Whipped Cream Lady’ now 76, living in Longview and looking back | The Seattle Times
The Whipped Cream Lady who is the model on the memorable LP cover of the 1965 Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass' "Whipped Cream & Other Delights" is 76 now and living in Longview. Dolores Erickson wants to tell all you teen dreamers, "Enjoy the memories."
Me, My Selfie And I: Self-Expression In The Digital Age - Intelligence Squared (podcast)
We are living in the age of selfie mania. Everyone from the Pope to Obama has appeared in one. In the past, only a handful of people were able to propagate their own images, whether it was artists like Rembrandt or Van Gogh painting self-portraits, society beauties commissioning fashionable artists to create a flattering likeness of themselves to be admired by a select few. But now, the smartphone has democratised visual self-expression. The instant transferability of photos to social media and imaging apps at our disposal allow us all to constantly ‘curate’ our look and present ourselves as we want the world to see us, recording ourselves day by day. But what effect is this cultural addiction having on us? Do we look out at our exciting world as observers full of curiosity, or do we simply wonder how we look in it, and what filter would work best? Has the selfie reduced life to a popularity contest governed by likes, Instagram followers and Facebook friends? How do we deal with the increasing social pressure to constantly post images of an impossibly perfect self?
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This project explores the ways that urban commuter college students constitute and use space for academic work. Higher education is almost universally portrayed through the experience of students at residential colleges and universities living on campuses well provided with dormitories, libraries, laboratories, and athletic facilities. But despite this outsized presence in the media, today’s college student is more likely to commute to classes. Community colleges—which typically lack residence halls—educate nearly half of all students in the United States, and many public four-year institutions also have substantial numbers of commuters. With growing urban populations worldwide, the urban commuter student is the future of undergraduate education.
Matrix.org is a non-profit initiative, currently being incorporated as a dedicated non-profit Matrix.org Foundation in the UK. It acts as a neutral guardian of the Matrix spec, nurturing and growing Matrix for the benefit of the whole ecosystem. The board of Matrix.org Foundation will be made up of key participants in the Matrix community as well as independent advisors from the wider internet and telco industries.
Hello and welcome to Radio Story School (RSS). Here I'll teach you how to make documentary sounding audio stories for podcasts or radio. I believe audio stories are heart-hitting. Just hearing someone’s voice can hit you straight in the heart and move you to laughter or tears. You can make heart-hitting audio stories too. And no, I don't think you need fancy gear or complicated tutorials to do it. Just keep it simple, have fun and continue learning, that's what I'm all about, and that's what this - RSS - is all about. I'm Zena Kells.
DocNow is a tool and a community developed around supporting the ethical collection, use, and preservation of social media content. DocNow responds to the public's use of social media for chronicling historically significant events as well as demand from scholars, students, and archivists, among others, seeking a user-friendly means of collecting and preserving this type of digital content. DocNow has a strong commitment to prioritizing ethical practices when working with social media content, especially in terms of collection and long-term preservation. This commitment extends to Twitter's notion of honoring user intent and the rights of content creators.
The use of open practices by learners and educators is complex, personal, and contextual; it is also continually negotiated. Higher education institutions require collaborative and critical approaches to openness in order to support faculty, students, and learning in an increasingly complex higher education environment.
an easy-to-use tool designed for the cultural heritage community as well as schools and colleges to build interactive educational resources. LINKED CANVAS helps people to explore artworks and artefacts visually, conceptually and contextually.
How far would you go? – David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts
This year at Inquiry Hub, we really want to showcase our students, and highlight the amazing things they do. Like Andrew raising $50,000 and continuing to find ways to give, Kassandra and Celina creating webcomic with a focus on representing diversity, and Laef creating a voting app that got a – lot of – great – publicity all on it’s own! It is amazing to be able to work with students that feel empowered, and who are continually showing us just how far they are willing to go!
On September 19 and 20, Hurricane Maria wreaked havoc on the eastern Caribbean. On September 19 a major earthquake struck central Mexico. On September 22, a group of colleagues interested in helping out sat down at The Butler Library Studio at Columbia University in New York to plan an event to help emergency teams on the ground to have better maps. In 1 week, 3 other libraries and labs joined the effort. In 1 month, more than 20 libraries and labs had replicated the model. The verified, open source map for all of Puerto Rico is almost complete. Many others joined in the effort to help Mexico. How was this done? Universities and Colleges, and their Libraries and Digital Scholarship Labs in particular, have the latent capacity to gather quickly and react to the urgencies we can expect from the anthropocene and our vulnerable political landscapes: reams of good will, talent, space, colleague networks, communication and management lines, pedagogical wherewithal, computational savvy, and much more. The nimble tents toolkit provides timelines, instructions and sample materials to help your team and organization tap into that potential.
It usual for people to start writing their thesis text in the middle – that is with the actual NEW stuff that’s been done. Some people might not, and that’s fine, but beginning with middle work is a very common pattern. The reason for starting in the middle is that once you know what you have to say, then you can construct the argument for rest of the thesis. So after the middle work you go back to the beginning to sort out how the whole text will be structured, knowing where its all going. Getting the middle in shape allows you to answer the question – What do I have to say in my thesis and to whom? What is my ‘material’? What is the best way to organise and present it? Now this sounds as if middle work ought to be really simple. However it’s not. The big challenge after the field work is often not in the analysis per se, but rather it’s in breaking the analysis up into two or three or four chapters that ‘work’. To do this successfully, have to find two, three or four meta-categories – these become chapters – that you can then use to gather together the material that constitutes your results.
Sidewalk Flowers: An Illustrated Ode to Presence and the Everyday Art of Noticing in a Culture of Productivity and Distraction – Brain Pickings
A gentle wordless celebration of the true material of aliveness. Sidewalk Flowers (public library) tells the wordless story of a little girl on her way home with her device-distracted father, a contemporary Little Red Riding Hood walking through the urban forest. Along the way, she collects wildflowers and leaves them as silent gifts for her fellow participants in this pulsating mystery we call life — the homeless man sleeping on a park bench, the sparrow having completed its earthly hours, the neighbor’s dog and, finally, her mother’s and brothers’ hair.
Pollen is a publishing system that helps authors make functional and beautiful digital books. I created Pollen so I could make my web-based books Practical Typography, Typography for Lawyers, and Beautiful Racket. Sure, go take a look. Are they better than the last digital books you encountered? Yes they are. Would you like your next digital book to work like that? If so, keep reading.
This is a bold claim, but I stand behind it: if you learn and follow these five typography rules, you will be a better typographer than 95% of professional writers and 70% of professional designers. (The rest of this book will raise you to the 99th percentile in both categories.) All it takes is ten minutes—five minutes to read these rules once, then five minutes to read them again.
