- Free iPad Notes – Handwriting, drawing, typing, audio recording and speech to text! http://t.co/zDUN9FyM via @zite #
- What If Schools Created a Culture of “Do” INSTEAD of a Culture of “Know?” http://t.co/TW4BW4yQ via @zite #
- Digital Textbooks Go Straight From Scientists to Students http://t.co/NLGcO9Cz via @zite #
- How the craziest f#@!ing “theory of everything” got published and promoted http://t.co/9zTfdWkV via @zite #
- Daily Papert http://t.co/6MSW7rEs. Short note imagining 19th century surgeons and teachers being transported to today #
- Ten Skills Every Student Should Learn http://t.co/Dnyw7rj3 via @zite #
- The Power of Introverts http://t.co/7EPvze52 via @zite #
- How to Create Your Own Textbook — With or Without Apple http://t.co/WCoaD0NB via @zite #
- Rethinking university teaching in the digital age http://t.co/RPEyrBVP (link to PDF). “Learning as shared understanding” #
- How To Focus In The Age of Distraction | Edudemic http://t.co/vOX1yk6j. Some good advice here, simply presented, concise and clear #
- A Conversational Framework for Instruction http://t.co/XzRylP4g. Useful interactive summary #
Tag: digital textbooks
- I support the January 18th Wikipedia blackout to protest SOPA and PIPA. Show your support here http://t.co/AnJlypdH #
- http://t.co/cTkPUcqJ blacked out in protest of SOPA / PIPA – The Oatmeal http://t.co/h0Myd5h9 #
- I support #wikipediablackout Show your support here http://t.co/AnJlypdH #
- RT @czernie: This is useful- http://t.co/RUSUQvL1, a wiki of tools, services,and collections that can facilitate digital research #
- RT @mpaskevi: Wikipedia blacked today, but you can still access the #SOPA (http://t.co/9nZVVqmF) and #PIPA (http://t.co/WrWWhsY3) articles #
- Authentic learning Resources http://t.co/8yxme4AS <- useful introduction to authentic learning #
- Daily Papert: “children learn so much without being taught” http://t.co/xU97tPVt #
- Publishers to use digital textbooks to kill resale market http://t.co/vWdleDUY via @zite #
- Academic publishers have become the enemies of science http://t.co/zTl1VcXQ via @zite #
- They walk straight past us’ http://t.co/Ph7KvJCW via @zite. Very moving story of striving for something when you have nothing #
- @Suhaifa you can always ask. Might depend on how old the issues are. Or u can do an iPad app deal 🙂 #
- Your memory of events is distorted within seconds http://t.co/dQtyADT9. For when you think that your students should remember what you said #
- Stem Cell Implants Help Heal Traumatic Brain Injury In The Lab http://t.co/9w2Jb5M3 via @zite #
- Scientists create world’s tiniest ear http://t.co/oSaVdER9 via @zite #
- How would you like your bionic vision? http://t.co/KOBR5tSP. We’re getting close to the point where “real” & “virtual” don’t mean anything #
- White House Strangles SOPA, Citing Censorship Concerns http://t.co/TMXevAaT via @zite. Government pays attention to its people. What next? #
- “We’ll take your study. But could you, er… cite some articles in our journal please?” http://t.co/f23OrSQ9 <- disgusting #
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Posted to Diigo 01/08/2012
- We need highly educated teachers, appreciation of the profession, empower teachers, have decision making in classroom and school level etc. When these are in place we may focus on education, instead of training children to tests.
- I think, however, that these stories are missing one important thing: smart, continuos development of the system
- So what is smart continuos development? It is a bit like agile software development.
Here is my (agile) values for educational system development:
- Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
- Working class room / school / school district over comprehensive documentation
- Stakeholder (administration, schools, teachers, researchers, parents etc.) collaboration over contract negotiation
- Responding to change over following a plan
Finally. There’s always room to be better.
With 4 New Products, Kno Finally Looks Like a Contender in the E-Textbook Industry
- This opens access up to students using any browser and any device, and sets Kno apart from other digital textbook providers who’ve focused on iOS and Android devices
- Kno’s app will now be available on the Web, not just on the iPad
- Kno is unveiling a Facebook app. Students will be able to access their textbooks while on the website where they’re already spending a large portion of their time
- students’ relationship with their textbooks isn’t simply about reading, it’s studying and (just as likely) cramming. Indeed, on the first day of class, says Rashid, a textbook is the most important tool a student has. But as the semester progresses, the value of the textbook diminishes; and the value of the student’s notes — the information the student has curated, highlighted, jotted down, annotated, and so on — surpasses it. So when it comes time to study for finals, the student’s notes — from class and from the textbook — are what matters. And to that end, the last product announced by Kno today is Journal. Like Quiz Me, this feature is now a standard part of the Kno iPad app. Journal automatically transfers all the images, text and media that a student highlights, along with annotations and notes (and eventually audio recordings from class too, says Rashid) from the textbook into a separate (but in-app) notebook for easy review