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At M.I.T., Large Lectures Are Going the Way of the Blackboard - NYTimes.comCAMBRIDGE, Mass. ? For as long as anyone can remember, introductory physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was taught in a vast windowless amphitheater known by its number, 26-100.
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Admission questions to Oxford, Cambridge called 'out there'You might expect Oxford and Cambridge universities to ask prospective students to compare the works of Chaucer to Boccaccio or to explain the theory of relativity. Instead, Oxford wants to know: "Would you rather be a novel or a poem?" Cambridge asks applicants: "What would you do if you were ...
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Cloudworks: social networking for learning designThe paper argues that one of the key challenges in encouraging more innovative uses of technologies is getting teachers to share designs. We will report on empirical data gathered through interviews and workshops which provides a better understand of the design process, how designs are ...
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Cloudworks: social networking for learning designThe paper argues that one of the key challenges in encouraging more innovative uses of technologies is getting teachers to share designs. We will report on empirical data gathered through interviews and workshops which provides a better understand of the design process, how designs are ...
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Learning through E-networks and Related M&E IssuesThis paper aims to assess different types of learning that can be mediated by various E-network functions, in order to suggest ways forward for two latinamerican rural networks, Grupo Chorlaví and FIDAMERICA. The main question that we address in this paper is ‘How can regional E-mediated ...
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Organizing - people, power and change - fullOrganizers identify, recruit and develop leadership; build community around leadership; and build power from that community. Organizers bring people together, challenging them to act on behalf of their shared values and interests. They develop the relationships, motivate the participation, ...
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Reflections for people with power to change their worldThis reflection book is a compilation of the reflections we have shared in our section presentations this semester in PAL-177, Organizing: People, Power, and Change, by Marshall Ganz. If I tell you my dream you might forget it. If I act on my dream you might remember it. If I involve you in my ...
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Citizen engagement in science and technology policy: a commentary on recent UK experienceA complex area of scientific, social and ethical debate was being dealt with in an apparently arrogant and high-handed manner. At the same time, the public’s legitimate questions over risk and technological development were dismissed as irrational and ignorant. Whilst the BSE and GM food cases ...
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Citizenship, technology and learningIt is clear that schools and teachers can use information and communications technology ( ICT) to achieve the aims of understanding, enquiry and participation. Yet it is also clear that ICT can be (and is currently being) used to support only limited forms of citizenship education . From this ...
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