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Global Kids' Digital Media InitiativeProject launched in January 2006 with support from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Global Kids’ Digital Media Initiative (DMI) is a series of interrelated programs designed to encourage and support teenagers in thinking critically about the role of digital media in their ...
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Using Alternative Assessment Models to Empower Youth-directed LearningTashawna is a high school senior in Brooklyn, NY. In the morning she leaves home for school listening to her MP3s, texting her friends about meeting up after school at Global Kids, where she participates in a theater program, or FIERCE, the community center for LGBT youth. On the weekend she'll ...
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The Power of "Why?" - asking questions is more powerful than memorizing answers.Three years ago, Ross A. Kearney II wanted to build a trade school. Kearney, mayor of the coastal city of Hampton, Virginia, thought a new trade school would curb the high drop-out rate in a community where nearly half the residents live in poverty. He took his pitch to a city-appointed commission. ...
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Parents Of Nasal Learners Demand Odor-Based Curriculum"Nasal learners often have difficulty concentrating and dislike doing homework," Panos said. "They also frequently have low grades in math, reading, and science. If your child fits this description, I would strongly urge you to get him or her tested for a possible nasal orientation."
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Learning to ShareProfessional excellence is difficult to achieve outside of a good organization. Conversely, flourishing organizations are difficult to develop without good people. A domain where the intersection of professional and organizational goods is particularly important, especially in our information ...
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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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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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Towards new learning networksWhat should the educational landscape of the future look like? What types of institutions, spaces and places for learning should we see develop? Where, and with whom, should learning happen? Our argument in this paper is that, if we are interested in achieving a fully personalised education ...
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2020 and beyond: Future scenarios for education in the age of new technologiesSince the late 1990s nation states around the world, and international organisations such as the OECD and UN, have been exploring the future of education in the 21st century. This publication is intended to challenge and disturb some of the assumptions underlying these discussions by reviewing ...
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Learning community building: lessons learned from an online professional development program for in-service teachers.The importance of learning community building for professional development has been widely recognized, particularly for online professional development. This paper reports the efforts of an online professional development program to help in-service teachers form learning communities. Evaluation ...
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