Chris, Jamie and Michael discuss their personal learnings and articles of the week.
Articles of the Week
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The 4Ss of Note-Taking With Technology | Edutopia edutopia.orgRecently, a number of articles have surfaced reporting the ineffectiveness of note taking with laptops, in keeping with the findings of Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer detailed in The Pen Is Mightier Than the Keyboard. These authors assert that when students used laptops in lecture courses, they transcribed notes rather than synthesized information. As a result, those students then performed poorly on cognitively demanding tasks. However, before making a blanket statement that one device may be better than another (e.g. pen vs. laptop) or calling into question what may be the best note-taking system, what if we approach the concept by identifying what is best for individual students? In other words, does the system . . .
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But some parents, teachers and privacy law scholars say ClassDojo, along with other unproven technologies that record sensitive information about students, is being adopted without sufficiently considering the ramifications for data privacy and fairness, like where and how the data might eventually be used.
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Apple Users Vs. Android Users According To YouGov Profiles – Business Insider businessinsider.comUK market research and polling company YouGov has released a fascinating tool where you can search for any brand, famous personality, sports team, political leader, or music artist and find out what differentiates their customers and fans from the rest of the pack. Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-users-vs-android-users-according-to-yougov-profiles-2014-11#ixzz3JOSnMOVA
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Teaching Metacognition: Insight Into How Your Students Think Is Key To High Achievement In All Domains – InformED : opencolleges.edu.auA few years ago, I came across some interesting research by cognitive psychologist Ronald T. Kellogg. He claimed that the mark of an expert writer is not years of practice or a hefty vocabulary, but rather an awareness of one’s audience. This made sense to me, and I wondered if it were true in other disciplines as well. As it turns out, the difference between novices and experts in a wide variety of fields can be attributed to a single trait, the trait that prompts great writers to consider their readers: the ability to step outside of yourself.
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