Our teenagers need social skills, not social networks | Christina Patterson |... A few months ago, I was asked to give a talk about fun. The chief executive of a local council had read a column I had written about the culture of the NHS and wanted me to lecture senior managers on “how to have fun in the workplace”. An image of David Brent dad-dancing around The Office flashed into my mind, but I dismissed it and said yes. Faced with a booked council chamber, questions about PowerPoint and the prospect of an hour that made a cervical smear feel like a treat, I dredged through memories of working life from the age of 15. There was the job in the health food shop, where the manager told me I should eat carrots for my spots. And the fun? The fun, I now know from a weekend report, was from something called “social intelligence”. More than 200 employers were interviewed, and they nearly all said that social intelligence was now more important in new recruits than IQ or exam results.
But where do you get it? Still, the big lesson is clear. College papers: Students hate writing them. Professors hate grading them. Let... Llustration by Robert Neubecker Everybody in college hates papers. Students hate writing them so much that they buy, borrow, or steal them instead. Plagiarism is now so commonplace that if we flunked every kid who did it, we’d have a worse attrition rate than a MOOC. And on those rare occasions undergrads do deign to compose their own essays, said exegetic masterpieces usually take them all of half an hour at 4 a.m. to write, and consist accordingly of “arguments” that are at best tangentially related to the coursework, font-manipulated to meet the minimum required page-count. Oh, “attitudes about cultures have changed over time”? I’m so glad you let me know. Nobody hates writing papers as much as college instructors hate grading papers (and no, having a robot do it is not the answer). When I was growing up, my mother—who, like me, was a “contingent” professor—would sequester herself for days to grade, emerging Medusa-haired and demanding of sympathy.
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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: 9 Things Every Student Should Be ... March 8, 2014 Today I want to introduce you to some basic features integrated in Google Docs and which your students can use to help them with their research projects and also boost their collaborative workforce. 1- Research feature While composing in Google Docs students can very easily conduct a research on any highlighted word or phrase without having to change tabs or open new windows. To do this, they simply highlight the phrase they want to research and right click on it then select "research". A window pane will be displayed on the right hand sidebar with the search results of their query. 2- Search for scholarly articles and images Besides doing a web search for their queries, students can also search for images, scholarly articles, and quotes related to the phrase or word they highlighted. 3- Commenting Using the comment feature provided by Google Docs, students will be able to leave feedback on each others work.
They can also include audio feedback using these tools. 24 Teachers Who Are Sick Of Their Students' Shit. Guide to understanding the Introverted. Dose. Posted Sep 11, by Christen Grumstrup What is your favorite Hue? "Jackman". GOOD ANSWER! 1. This classic response...even the teacher thought it was funny. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
What Is the Origin of Freshman, Sophomore, Junior and Senior? Ian K. asks: Why are students called freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors? Rather than referring to a student’s year of study, in U.S. high schools and colleges, first year students are freshmen, second years are sophomores, third year students are juniors, and the most experienced are seniors. Yet although this practice seems uniquely American, its origins date back several centuries to Cambridge where in 1688: The several degrees of persons in the University Colledges . . . Fresh Men, Sophy Moores, Junior Soph, or Sophester. And lastly Senior Soph. That said, the origins of these individual terms go back even farther. Freshman A child of Modern English, “freshman” dates back to the mid-16th century where it has invariably meant either “newcomer” or “novice.” Sophomore Likely derived from folk use of two Greek terms, sophos, meaning “wise,” and moros, meaning “foolish, dull,” sophomore originally probably meant a wise moron!
Junior Senior Bonus Secondary and Higher Ed Facts. The Other 21st Century Skills. Many have attempted to identify the skills important for a learner today in this era of the 21st century (I know it is an overused phrase). I have an affinity towards the skills identified by Tony Wagner: Critical thinking and problem-solvingCollaboration across networks and leading by influenceAgility and adaptabilityInitiative and entrepreneurialismEffective oral and written communicationAccessing and analyzing informationCuriosity and imagination Today I viewed a slideshow created by Gallup entitled, The Economics of Human Development: The Path to Winning Again in Education.
Here are some slides from this presentation. This presentation sparked my thinking about what other skills and attributes would serve the learners (of all ages) in this era of learning. Some other ones that I believe important based on what I hear at conferences, read via blogs and other social networks include: Grit Resources for Educators: Resilience Hope and Optimism. Pupils begin 'tough' new national curriculum.