Givology Johnathan Chung - Google+ - Over 200 Free Online Educational Resources (v.2.3) … Over 200 Free Online Educational Resources (v.2.3) Warning: Very long post. Please open in a new browser tab. Here is decades' worth of knowledge freely available online for those who love to learn. What are your favorite sites to learn from? (View the original post for any future updates: I. Khan A Academic Earth - Online courses from the world's top sc TED - Technology, Entertainment, & MIT Open Cour Stanford Engineering Ever Open Yale C About U. - Collection of free online courses from About. Wikiv YouTube The Open University - Study at the University of the Peoplewww.uopeople.org More Open Courses: V. VI.
Basic Ingredients for Blended Learning Success As blended learning implementation managers, we feel the same anxiety as a sprinter on the starting block. We know that once upright with our legs under us, we will have the opportunity to realize an accelerated learning experience, greater efficiency, and teacher and student empowerment. At the same time, we are acutely aware that the stumble of a defunct login credential--or worse, Internet outage--can sap enough teacher buy-in from our blended programs to kill their momentum. As with any new system, a strong start is critical to every blended program’s success. Here are some of the common stumbling blocks and how to avoid them. Provisioning: Even if your rosters aren’t finalized, create your teachers’ and students’ online content accounts at least a week before school starts. Above all, be open and honest. Additional contributors to this article: Will Eden is the Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Alpha Public Schools. Jin-Soo Huh is the Director of Technology at KIPP Chicago.
School Choice | College Achievement | Public Schools As U.S. politicians continue to debate the merits of allowing parents to choose their children’s schools, research financed by the Department of Education has found that school choice programs significantly improve the future educational prospects of children who might otherwise attend lower quality schools. On Monday the National Bureau of Economic Research released a working paper written by Harvard, Dartmouth and Brown University researchers, providing “the first evidence of the impact of school choice on the college achievement gap.” The researchers, two economists and two education policy experts, looked at Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools in North Carolina and the effect of their school choice program “on college matriculation and degree completion.” “CMS implemented an open enrollment public school choice program in the Fall of 2002,” says the paper. Of the eight public schools in that district, the researchers ranked four as “low quality” and four as “high quality.”
The Foamy Rules for Rabid Tools The brother-in-law lives in the ‘burbs and needed five trees removed. Not big trees — 10 to 15 feet tall, six-inch trunks. Not a problem. I live on the edge of a redwood forest in Northern California. There are sturdy oaks, playful maples, lovely madrones, weed-like bay laurels, and, of course, giant redwoods. You need a chainsaw. Then there’s Marty. Last, there’s the Rocket. Even if you’ve never handled a chainsaw, you’ve probably used a handsaw. When Marty and I showed up, we dropped all five trees, cut up the trunks and branches, and stacked them into disposable piles in an hour. The lesson: the correct tool is exponentially more productive. That’s a long introduction to say an obvious thing, but I’m going to make it even longer. Context shapes perspective, so thanks to the contents of his garage, he knows of no universe where there are chainsaws. The lesson again: the correct tool is going to make you exponentially more productive. The Foamy Rules My foamy rules: Rands, edit? No.
Opportunity Culture - Extending the Reach of Excellent Teachers — Study Shows School Choice Improves College Achievement Gap A study funded by the Department of Education found that school choice programs have a positive impact on student achievement in college, the Daily Caller reports. On Monday, the National Bureau of Economic Research released a working paper written by Harvard, Dartmouth and Brown University researchers, providing “the first evidence of the impact of school choice on the college achievement gap.” The target of the study was the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School District in North Carolina. The CMS school choice program went into effect in 2002. The study found that students who were successfully able to take advantage of school choice performed significantly better than those who did not. Of the eight public schools in that district, the researchers ranked four as “low quality” and four as “high quality.” Although researchers David J.
30 free programming eBooks - citizen428.blog() Since this post got quite popular I decided to incorporate some of the excellent suggestions posted in the comments, so this list now has more than 50 books in it. BTW: I’m not very strict on the definition of “ebook”, some of them are really just HTML versions of books. [UPDATED: 2012-01-18] Learning a new programming language always is fun and there are many great books legally available for free online. Lisp/Scheme:Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic ComputationHow to Design ProgramsInterpreting Lisp (PDF, suggested by Gary Knott)Let Over LambdaOn LispPractical Common LispProgramming in Emacs LispProgramming Languages. Ruby:The Bastards Book of Ruby (suggested by Dan Nguyen)Clever Algorithms (suggested by Tales Arvelos)Data Structures and Algorithms with Object-Oriented Design Patterns in RubyLearn Ruby the Hard WayLearn to ProgramMacRuby: The Definitive GuideMr. Erlang:Concurrent Programming in ErlangLearn You Some Erlang for Great Good
Toddlers and Tablets The first iPad was released in April 2010. Three years later, a Pew Internet survey found that half of American parents with children at home own a tablet computer. Mosey on over to the iTunes app store, and 9 of the top 10 paid education apps are designed for small children, ages four and up. To summarize: families with means are loading up on tablets, and they are buying education apps targeted at preschoolers. I believe four-year-olds will shape the future of education technology (edtech), long before they ever set foot in a kindergarten classroom. Made for Little Fingers Touchscreens are the most intuitive interfaces ever created for small children. Leading app developer Duck Duck Moose believed it was designing for four- and five-year-olds when it noticed two-year-olds using its math apps. Children do incredible things when they are free to explore and learn. But parents are still not fully sold on kids and tablets. Learn at Home But not impossible. Apps of the Future Kids and Tablets.
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