Why did the Templars mark this mysterious spot on the map? - BBC Reel
Delve into the myths and legends that surround the mysterious Knights Templar. The Templars' mystical 'place of power'The hermitage of San Bartolomé was built by the Templars in a very specific spot.Now Playing A Templar town's underground twinUnder the hill town of Osimo lies a network of tunnels and chambers mysteriously connecting the city's palaces.Watch now HistoryThe secret 'Vatican' of the TemplarsSome of the most powerful members of the Knights Templar were buried at The Church of Santa Maria do Olival.Watch now HistorySintra's mysterious 'inverted tower'BEST OF 2019: Quinta da Regaleira's 'inverted tower' celebrates Portugal's Templar past.Watch now
“Sunrise, Sunset”: A Reflection on Assessment and the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education
ACRLog welcomes a guest post from Donna Witek, Associate Professor and Public Services Librarian at the University of Scranton. Photo by Moyan Brenn on Flickr When I first learned about assessment at the very beginning of my professional work as a librarian, there was one aspect of the process that made complete sense to me.
Open University Innovations Report #4
This series of help sheets is designed for people who are trying out distance and online education for the first time, and for teachers who have already taught at a distance and want to try something new. Each help sheet outlines one approach to learning at a distance and provides guidance on how to put this into practice. All the help sheets are based on approaches covered in past Innovating Pedagogy reports and take into account that students may have only limited access to technology and the Internet. The latest report in our annual series explores new forms of teaching, learning and assessment for an interactive world, to guide teachers and policy makers in productive innovation. Download Innovating Pedagogy 2020 This eighth report, produced in collaboration with the National Institute for Digital Learning (NIDL), Dublin City University, Ireland, proposes ten innovations that are already in currency but have not yet had a profound influence on education in their current form.
Developing Quality in Mathematics Education
Complying with EU data privacy laws: The DQME3 Project Personal Data Protection Policy From May 25th, 2018 new EU laws have been in force to protect personal data privacy. These laws require us to provide a Data Privacy Policy for our Project, especially with regard to data collection for our newly restored DQME Webpage.
Using the New IL Framework to Set a Research Agenda by TTW Contributor Troy Swanson
[I have posted on the new (draft) Information Literacy Framework from ACRL here, and you can also read the thoughts of others here.] As we approach the upcoming ALA Annual Conference in Las Vegas (in June) where our task force will unveil a more complete draft, I wanted to offer some thoughts on how this Framework connects to undergrads with a special nod toward my community college colleagues. (I do not speak for the Task Force in this post.)
50+ Tools for Differentiating Instruction Through Social Media
Imagine a world where resources were limited to what was found in the classroom or the school closet known as the "Curriculum Materials Room." Picture a world where students wrote letters with pen and paper to communicate with other students and adults outside of the building. Due to postage costs, the teacher either sent the letters in bulk or paid for stamps out of his or her own pocket.
Confirmation bias in science: how to avoid it
One of the most common arguments against a scientific finding is confirmation bias: the scientist or scientists only look for data that confirms a desired conclusion. Confirmation bias is remarkably common—it is used by psychics, mediums, mentalists, and homeopaths, just to name a few. As you may guess from such a list, deliberate use of confirmation bias is held in low esteem by scientists, and allowing confirmation bias to get the better of your results is regarded as a particularly sad form of incompetence. Yet, whenever science meets some ideological barrier, scientists are accused of, at best, self-deception, and, at worst, deliberate fraud. Examples of this are scattered across the Internet with respect to evolution, gun control, sex education, and, of course, global warming.
The Information Literacy Standards/Framework Debate
For many months, a task force has been drafting and circulating a new document to replace the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education, which were adopted in 2000 and, like all ACRL standards, had come up for review. Members have been encouraged to provide feedback through several public drafts. Now that the new Framework is coming up for formal adoption at the end of this month, critics are mobilizing.
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is not a pedagogy
An article by Sarah Bergsen, Erik Meester, Paul Kirschner and Anna Bosman So-called ‘educational innovations’ in which the teacher assumes the role of ‘facilitator, mentor or coach’ do not appear to be very successful. Nevertheless, ‘constructivist’ ideas are still popular in education, as evidenced by the everlasting large number of minimally guided instructional practices.
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“Librarian Impact on Student Information Literacy Skills in First-Year Seminar Programs.” With M. Sara Lowe, Natalie Tagge, and Sean M. Stone. portal: Libraries and the Academy. Accepted: January 1, 2015; Anticipated Publication Date: July 2015. “Degrees of Impact: Analyzing the Effects of Progressive Librarian Course Collaborations on Student Performance.”
The 10 Most Significant Education Studies of 2020
Calling 2020 a turbulent year would be an understatement. As the pandemic disrupted life across the entire globe, teachers scrambled to transform their physical classrooms into virtual—or even hybrid—ones, and researchers slowly began to collect insights into what works, and what doesn’t, in online learning environments around the world. Meanwhile, neuroscientists made a convincing case for keeping handwriting in schools, and after the closure of several coal-fired power plants in Chicago, researchers reported a drop in pediatric emergency room visits and fewer absences in schools, reminding us that questions of educational equity do not begin and end at the schoolhouse door.
