Top 100 Influential Education Blogs | Onalytica Blog UPDATE: You can see an updated list here. Over the last 5 years there was a sharp increase in the number of education blogs in various areas such as art education, technology, creative writing, mathematics, or drama, from primary school level to lifelong learning approaches. Despite this surge in education blogs, there haven't been many attempts at classifying the blogs according to their authority. We will present a ranking of education blogs ordered by their Onalytica Influence Index. The Influence Index we compute at Onalytica shares the same idea with the impact factor that nowadays all academic journals publish on their cover. Essentially impact factors just represent what is common wisdom; that some publications matter more than others, and impact factors attempt to quantify this. Our influence measuring methodology is based on the Input/Output model developed by the Nobel Prize winner Wassily Leontief. The model takes into account all references and citations between the blogs.
Links to School Bloggers The Top 100 Bloggers of 2013: Ten Niches, Ten Bloggers! Welcome to this compilation of the top 100 bloggers of 2013! I’m going to go through ten separate categories and take a quick look at all the best and brightest from those markets. Ranging from health and fitness to SEO and internet marketing, there’s a lot of fantastic bloggers. This list won’t be the be-all and end-all of the ultimate blogging enthusiasts, but it will feature many bloggers who have stood out and are pretty recognisable in their respective niches. So without further ado, let’s dive right in! Top 10 Social Media/Internet Marketing Bloggers Jeff Bullas – Jeff Bullas is a very popular social media blogger, who runs a popular blog all about social media and online market (bet you weren’t expecting that!. Jason Keath – Jason founded Social Fresh, a social media company that has grown exponentially since its inception back in 2008. Kim Garst – Kim runs both a personal blog as well as Boom! Stanford Smith – Mr.
Bud the Teacher | Inquiry & Reflection for Better Learning Yesterday, I had the opportunity to sit in on a conversation with some smart folks in the maker education community1. We were continuing a conversation we started on Twitter a month or so back. You can watch a recording of yesterday’s piece of the conversation here. You should listen/watch the conversation. Read More What’s the Pretty Thing? This is a post in two voices that lives in two places. Read More A First Draft in Two Voices Some of this post has been in my drafts folder for maybe a couple of months now. Read More On Boundaries, Constraints, & Kits I really appreciated Jennifer’s post last week about body image and where she saw large kids reflected, or misreflected, in literature. Read More I Was a Fat Kid. I’m writing a series of posts about my experiences at CMK. Read More #CMK18 – Make Magic Happen. My family spent some time today in Mesa Verde National Park. Read More Some Truth Amidst Our Tourism I’m writing a series of posts about my experiences at CMK.
The Polka-dotted Teacher A Diagram Of 21st Century Pedagogy - The modern learner has to sift through a lot of information. That means higher level thinking skills like analysis and evaluation are necessary just to reduce all the noise and establish the credibility of information. There is also the matter of utility. Context matters, and the diagram from edorigami below captures this, though not from the perspective of the student and content knowledge, but the teacher and various pedagogical components themselves, including Higher-Order Thinking Skills, Peer Collaboration, and Media Fluency. (See also our framework on the 6 channels of 21st century Learning.) Overall the diagram offers a nice framework for the concept not of 21st century learning, but 21st century pedagogy by focusing on several core components of modern learning: metacognition (reflection), critical thinking, technology, and problem and project-based learning.
Infinite Thinking Machine Blog 21Classes – Classroom and Education Blogs - Home Lisa Nielsen: The Innovative Educator Using the E-Portfolio to Validate Student Learning February 12, 2013 By: Ken Scott, EdD in Instructional Design, Teaching with Technology Too often our students consider their work in the classroom as required assignments—not work that has anything to do with what they will be doing in the real world. Oh, maybe they are picking up some skills they might use in their future employment, but that’s about it. As teachers, how do we get students to understand that the work they do in our classes—such as team projects, community service, technical papers, and even research—is relevant to what they will be doing after they graduate? How do we encourage them to keep their materials and use them to validate their work as students? I see the need for students to understand that the work they do has value-added merit as part of their overall repertoire of academic preparation and social contributions. In our media-hyped, socially networked, information-at-your-smart-phone-apps world, why have we in higher education not capitalized on this process?
The Prose of Blogging (and a Few Cons, Too) The Prose of Blogging (and a Few Cons, Too) Can the technology often derided as the favored tool of lowbrow cyber rogues actually be used to improve student writing? Educators are beginning to demonstrate it can. READY, AIM, BLOG Bachenheimer and a group of high school teachers launched a project to see what impact blogging would have on student performance. At the Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia, Principal Chris Lehmann champions integration of technology into all aspects of the curriculum. "We don't start out by saying we want to start a blog," he says. Lehmann views blogging as just one part of a holistic curriculum that he says should be grounded in technology. "Blogging for the sake of blogging is fine, but what is the value added?" That's a question educational blogging advocates are now coming around to answer, and the value they're finding may seem preposterous to those who associate blogging with barely literate loudmouths and cyber predators.
Ausbildung: Wertschätzung und Selbstverwirklichung ist wichtiger als das Einkommen | Karriere Früher ging es bei Jugendlichen eher um hohes Einkommen und Karriere. Heute scheint ihnen Spaß, Selbstverwirklichung, Wertschätzung und Abwechslung wichtiger. Das deckt sich auch mit dem gängigen Bild der sogenannten Generation Y, wie die Berufseinsteiger auch genannt werden. Die zukünftigen Azubis betrachten ihre Ausbildungszeit als Investition in die Zukunft, für die sie gut und umfassend qualifiziert sein wollen. Für Volker Linde, Bildungschef der niedersächsischen Kammern, belegen die Befragungen seine Vermutungen. Unternehmenskultur für Jugendliche erfahrbar machen Für Hotelier Kristian Kamp vom Strandhotel Duhnen in Cuxhaven liegen die Schlussfolgerungen auf der Hand: "Für mich als Unternehmer bedeutet das: Will ich gute Nachwuchskräfte haben, muss ich einen Weg finden, unsere Unternehmenskultur für die Jugendlichen erfahrbar zu machen."
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