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How Do Football and Soccer Measure Up When it Comes to Brain Injuries? | Big Think
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Best of Luck With the Wall (video)
In his film Best of Luck With the Wall, director Josh Begley takes us on a journey across the entire US/Mexico border. It’s a simple premise — a continuous display of 200,000 satellite images of the border from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico — but one that delivers a powerful feeling of how large the world is and how meaningless borders are from a certain perspective.
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Comparing the 2016 and 2012 FLVC Student Textbook Survey Results
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NMC Releases Horizon Project Strategic Brief on Digital Literacy | The New Media Consortium
This project was launched because there is a lack of consensus across the field about how to define digital literacy and implement effective programs. A survey was disseminated throughout the NMC community of higher education leaders and practitioners to understand how digital literacy initiatives are impacting their campuses. The NMC’s research examines the current landscape to illuminate multiple models of digital literacy — universal literacy, creative literacy, and literacy across disciplines — around which dedicated programs can proliferate a spectrum of skills and competencies.
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Facebook Lets Advertisers Exclude Users by Race - ProPublica
From ProPublica - "Imagine if, during the Jim Crow era, a newspaper offered advertisers the option of placing ads only in copies that went to white readers. That’s basically what Facebook is doing nowadays."
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The Great Unbundling of Textbook Publishers -e-Literate
"If current trends continue, then textbook publishers will soon find that it no longer makes sense for them to be selling products based on the value of the content. The real money will be in a few areas: High-end digital products that directly or indirectly improve student outcomes Related services that help colleges improve student outcomes Services that help colleges improve the unsexy but critical aspects staying viable, from marketing to administration
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Creating Personalized Learning for English Language Learners
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See how a school district will save hundreds of thousands on textbooks | MLive.com
Mona Shores Public Schools stands to save $80,000-$100,000 every time the district doesn't buy new textbooks because it's using openly licensed resources.
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It’s time for a new story: The talks of Session 4 of TEDWomen 2016 | TED Blog
In Session 4 of TEDWomen 2016 at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, seven speakers (and a ballet company!) asked us to rethink how we tell each other stories, to empower us all.
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Although there is a great deal of psychological research on misinformation, there’s no summary of the literature that offers practical guidelines on the most effective ways of reducing the influence of myths. The Debunking Handbook boils the research down into a short, simple summary, intended as a guide for communicators in all areas (not just climate) who encounter misinformation.”
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@patrickmlarkin nice tweet! #cse627f16 https://t.co/y3gejrGpXZ
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CURMUDGUCATION: The Death of Testing Fantasies
test manufacturers and the policy wonks who love them have so convinced themselves that these tests are super-important and deeply valuable that they tend to believe that students think so, too.
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For the past half year, I’ve been experimenting with the free texting app Remind. Now used by more than 35 million teachers, students, and parents nationwide, Remind is simple: It allows me to text my students and their families and allows them to text me.
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Great piece on helping #OER scale in K12 from #FutureReady asst. superintendent @patrickmlarkin #GoOpen #inacol16 https://t.co/SxnIryYtCc
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Recommended boook for teaching writing.
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Goal: Make It About the Relationships
Good relationship-building activities to utilize with students.
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Strategies to Help Students ‘Go Deep’ When Reading Digitally | MindShift | KQED News
casual digital reading on the internet has instilled bad habits in many students, making it difficult for them to engage deeply with digital text in the same way they do when reading materials printed on paper.
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the problem is to know what questions to ask
“So, when we say that education is the best tool to prevent conflict, we are not only talking about education as usual, but about brand new skills to master and control the new powerful tools that ICTs and social media put in our hands. And it is not only digital literacy in the sense of knowing how to use a computer, or an Internet browser. Not even digital literacy in the sense of knowing where to get good information and how to manage it. It is about new strategic literacies to live in a brand new world that is just disclosing itself.” – Ismael Peña-López
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Two rounds? Jumping the gun a little, aren't we? https://t.co/zofQLPEs5d
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MPCC - Minnesota Partnership for Collaborative Curriculum
@turnerhj @patrickmlarkin @annapnolin We have some great examples of collaboratively created #OER https://t.co/zqmcGhdU3x
Sunday, October 30, 2016
My Weekly Diigo Bookmarks (October 30, 2016)
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