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Research or answers?

    What’s the role of the internet in education? A place to do research or a resource that provides us with quick answers? A place where the variety of sources is valuable because you get a wikianswer by a random person as well as a scholarly article all in one place? Or a place […]

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Note taking: a basic skill on the road to inquiry

I’d quit trying to tell my students to “paraphrase” or “say in their own words” what they found out on the internet or elsewhere. At worst it doesn’t work. At best it works superficially. Having to paraphrase a sentence or piece of text that’s staring nice and beautiful in front of you is unnatural. Instead, […]

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Flipping the classroom

  The 1st Coursera Partners’ Conference that took place at UPenn on April 5th-6th, included panel sessions on a variety of interesting topics. One of the sessions was on the concept of the flipped classroom and how MOOCs might improve on-campus teaching. The panelists of this session were Kathy Takayama from Brown University, Akiba Covitz […]

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History in the making: The 1st Coursera Partners’ Conference

The 1st Coursera Partners’ Conference took place at the University of Pennsylvania on Friday, April 5th and Saturday, April 6th, 2013. The first notable event of the conference was the panel discussion lead by Amy Gutmann that took place on Saturday at the majestic Irvine Auditorium. The invited panelists included (from left to right): Thomas […]

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Google kids doesn’t exist but Choosito! does

I read a very interesting article today posted on Slate by Michael Agger. The title of the article is ‘Google kids: Why doesn’t it exist?’ Michael Agger makes a plea for a search environment that would let the user say “I’m six” and get results appropriate for a six year old. He also makes a […]

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The many faces of cyberbullying

The purpose of this post is to clarify what is involved in cyberbullying and give an overview of typical profiles of cyberbullies. What is cyberbullying? I like definitions. They keep my head clear. Cyberbullying involves the use of the internet, cell phone, or other interactive technology that results in hurt feelings, ridicule, and sometimes even […]

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