100 Blogs That Will Make You Smarter

By Alisa Miller Reading blogs doesn’t have to be an exercise in futility or a waste of time. Your blog addiction can serve you well by with these blogs that are sure to make you smarter. These blogs bring you information about politics, education, technology, art, literature, an international perspective on life and culture, and much more. Become a regular reader of these blogs and who knows how intelligent you will be in the end. Politics Whether you fall to the left, right, or down the middle, these political blogs will open your eyes and expand your mind and bolster your leadership skills. Daily Kos. News Get the latest news about the nation, the world, the economy, health care, and even some off-the-wall news stories with these blogs. AC360. Higher Education These blogs come from professors and universities and share a wealth of information that will surely expand your world and help make you smarter. Lessig. Technology Harga-Blog. Sports The Wages of Wins Journal. International Perspective

Wayland High School's One-to-One iPad Pilot allthingslearning LEARNing! Actually, it’s about education, training and LEARNing. It’s for educators and teachers who are interested in making a real difference to the lives of their students, their colleagues and their organisations – basically, people who are interested in “doing business” differently in education. People in education are often divided into two categories – “the thinkers” and “the doers”. Traditionally, many of our discussions have been about “TEACHing”. This “design flaw” confuses the means and ends in education – and keeps all of us apart. What we need is more “thinking doers” who come together – across the lines that have been drawn in the sand (or the “schoolyard”) – to talk about “what really matters” in education. LEARNing – student LEARNing, educator LEARNing, institutional LEARNing! allthingslearning by Tony GURR is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Like this: Like Loading...

Khan Academy Collaborative writing software online with Writeboard. Write, share, revise, compare. Hello, We launched Writeboard back in October of 2005 as a stand-alone service. A few years later we integrated Writeboards into Basecamp Classic and Backpack. Today, the vast majority of Writeboards are created inside those two products. As part of refocusing on Basecamp, we’ve decided to retire Writeboard.com. But don’t worry — any Writeboards you already created here at Writeboard.com will continue to work. Thanks to everyone who used Writeboard.com over the years. Onwards, Jason Fried, Founder & CEO, Basecamp

Worksheets, Lesson Plans, Teacher Resources, and Rubrics from TeAch-nology.com Publications The following provides pointers to most of the publications I’ve produced over the year. The following contains some statistics about the publications before listing them by year of publication. If you want to see some citation metrics for these, take a look at my Google scholar profile. David Jones, Colin Beer, Damien Clark, (2013), The IRAC framework: Locating the performance zone for learning analytics, to be presented at ASCILITE’2013 David Jones, Avoiding the learning analytics fad: Forgotten insights and example applications, Invited presentation at the Inaugural University Analytics Forum, Melbourne, 26-27 September, 2013 David Jones, Colin Beer, Moving beyond a fashion: Likely paths and pitfalls for learning analytics, Invited presentation at Blended Learning’2013, Sydney, 18-19 September, 2013 David Jones (2013), Moodle, BIM, reflective journals and TPACK: Suggestions for moving beyond, to be presented at Moodlemoot’AU 2013 Abdul Hafeez-Baig, Raj Gururajan, David Jones and P.

Educational Insanity – You either love a good dichotomy or you don’t. This is about online learning, mostly in higher education. Especially in the wake of the UVA fiasco, I’ve been pondering online learning and the term “MOOC” (massively open online course), which I believe has been co-opted from folks like George Siemens, Dave Cormier, and Steven Downes. Those guys taught the Connectivism MOOC in 2008 and, most recently, the Change11 MOOC. Here’s a bit of a history of their courses. Dave Cormier made the video below in December 2010: In a similar vein, though clearly with their own spin and innovations, Jim Groom et al. have been offering ds106 (digital storytelling) as a MOOC in recent years. Then, along came the folks at Coursera and Udacity and Udemy and… It’s unclear if the founders of these entities explicitly adopted the MOOC terminology or if the “mainstream” media applied the term to those outfits. So, what we have, essentially, are two VERY different kinds of MOOCs. So, that’s our first dichotomy… Thoughts? Tags: higher ed., MOOC, online learning

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