Ojämlik utbildning i skolan skapar digitalt klassamhälle De digitala klasskillnaderna ökar i den svenska skolan. En orsak är att kunskapen om internet och dess möjligheter skiftar mycket mellan olika lärare. Det hävdar Ulli Samuelsson, forskare i pedagogik vid Högskolan i Jönköping, i en färsk doktorsavhandling. De flesta tror att alla unga använder datorer och drar fördel av alla möjligheter som den nya tekniken erbjuder. Men snarare ökar den digitala ojämlikheten i Sverige. – Den svenska skolan ska ge alla elever en likvärdig utbildning men det uppdraget uppfylls inte när det gäller digital kompetens, säger hon. Ulli Samuelsson har själv en bakgrund i IT-branschen, bland annat som utbildare. – Mina barn hade en fördel då de växte upp i ett hem med hög ”digital kompetens”. Hon talar då inte om att ungdomar kan fastna framför datorn i timtal, om risken för att drabbas av digital stress eller näthat. Under arbetet med sin doktorsavhandling skickade Ulli Samuelsson ut en enkät eleverna i årskurs sju i en kommun i södra Sverige. Fonot.
Home - 21st Century Skills Toolkit - LibGuides at Monterey Public Library The students, for the most part, paid attention; however, before the presentations I would ask them if they liked free food? I let them know that at the end of the presentation, we were going to play a game to see how well they paid attention to me. This got the kids going. At the end of the presentation, we played Jeopardy which included categories that coved each topic I talked about. I found is that there was always at least one kid on each team who paid enough attention to know how to FIND the answers the team didn't know by looking at the resources I provided. Overall, visitng the school and doing the presentations is a positive experience that helps build a relationship bewteen the Teen Librarian, the students, and the teachers.
ITL Research HBO Still Doesn't Get It: Game of Thrones Again the Most Torrented Show | Underwire Photo: Helen Sloan/HBO Three seasons in and Game of Thrones still continues to set records — both legitimate and otherwise. After hitting ratings milestones earlier this year, it now has yet another accomplishment to boast about: the most pirated show of 2013. This latest honor comes via TorrentFreak, which found that the Season 3 finale of the show had 5.9 million downloads via BitTorrent, beating other shows like Breaking Bad and The Walking Dead by large margins. It’s not that HBO doesn’t acknowledge the volume of torrenting taking place. For the last decade evidence has mounted that, while some measure of media piracy is inevitable, it thrives on inconvenience: given the means, viewers will generally pay for a legitimate source, but only if they can get to it more easily than an illegal one. With a show like Game of Thrones, the impetus to piracy is twofold. This is the reality of the river that HBO is riding.
Ny forskning – det utmärker en skicklig lärare Under de senaste 20 åren har det forskats intensivt om läs och skrivsvårigheter. Men trots att kunskapen har ökat fortsätter elevernas resultat att sjunka i internationella jämförelser. Orsaken är klyftan mellan teori och praktik, menar Catharina Tjernberg, lärare och forskare vid Stockholms universitet. – Kunskapen når inte lärarna. I sin senaste studie har Catharina Tjernberg tittat på varför yrkesskickliga lärare jobbar som de gör i klassrummen. – I min studie blir det tydligt att den erfarenhetsbaserade kunskapen som överförs mellan lärare är minst lika viktig som den teoretiska, säger hon. Catharina Tjernberg har gjort en praktikorienterad studie på en skola där hon dels har observerat hur lärarna arbetar på lektionerna, dels har samtalat med dem om det pedagogiska arbetet. Den skola Catharina Tjernberg har studerat har utvecklat en modell där lärarna följer varandras lektioner. – Det här har gjort att man har medvetandegjort saker för varandra, säger Catharina Tjernberg.
Media Fear Tactics - Articles - Gavin de Becker It would be interesting if the standards of Truth in Advertising were applied to television news as they sometimes are to television commercials. In that unlikely situation, TV news writers would be required to use phrases and words that convey accurate information – as opposed to the phrases and words they use today. I want to help you break the code of alarming newspeak so that you can more easily find the valuable information that may (or may not) be part of a story. Given the disturbing reasons we’ve all been watching so much TV news, it would be understandable to overlook the sheer ridiculousness that is inherent in some of the sensationalism. Though not offered as a comprehensive glossary, here are some examples of words and phrases I think you’ll quickly recognize: POSSIBLE: As in “Next Up: Possible links between Saddam Hussein and tooth decay…” “Officials are worried about possible attacks against…” means there have been no such attacks. Are these two things linked? They sure do.
CSTA - Computer Science in K-8 Computer Science Begins in K–8 Computer science is increasingly being recognized as an essential element of education for every child. And, as is the case for every academic discipline, the learning of core concepts and skills must begin at the beginning of a child's formal education. As part of CSTA's commitment to computer science education in all grades, this section provides resources that we believe will help elementary and middle school teachers begin incorporating key computer science content into their classroom practice in an appropriate and engaging way. K–8 Computer Science: Building a Solid Foundation This document is a comprehensive look at K–8 CS. Click here to download the PDF K–8 Research Reading List This document provides a reading list of references (and urls) drawn from current and past research on computer science education in K–8 (students from ages 5 though 12).
Infographic: How online courses have changed the way people learn by CPA Practice Advisor The internet and the availability of free courses have dramatically changed how users around the world are learning. This is readily apparent in the infographic at the URL below. According to the organization, in 1999, the University of Tübingen in German became the first college to offer Open Courseware (OCW), aka, free college course materials online. In 2002, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) started its Open Courseware website.
Hemläxors nytta inte självklar John Hatties metastudie ”Synligt lärande” har fått ett stort genomslag i den svenska och internationella skoldebatten. Hattie är professor i utbildningsvetenskap vid University of Melbourne i Australien. I fokus för debatten har varit införandet av evidensbaserade och effektiva undervisningsmetoder. Så, vad säger Hatties metastudie om hemläxors relevans för elevers lärande? Den övergripande slutsatsen är att effekten av hemläxor är positiv men låg. Men ju yngre eleverna är desto mindre är de positiva effekterna, menar Hattie. Vad säger statistiken? Hatties sammanställning av forskningsresultaten om hemläxors effekt på elevers lärande består av flera metastudier med sammanlagt över 100 000 elever. Rätt utformade kan läxor stärka Hemläxornas effekt på elevernas lärande är en komplex fråga, visar Hatties metaanalys. För det andra kan föräldrars hjälp med hemläxor ha en positiv effekt på barns och ungdomars lärande. Formativ återkoppling avgörande Text: Vanja Lozic Referens: Hattie, John.
How Your iPhone Is Weakening Your Will What's the Latest Development? Researchers at Harvard Business School have found that small mobile devices which close off your posture to the world also close your attention, weakening your ability to engage the world around you. In an experiment, "researchers paid 75 participants to use one of a range of devices--iPod Touch (a handy iPhone stand-in), iPad, laptop, and desktop--to play the same gambling game." The researcher monitoring them then said: "I will get some forms ready for you to sign so I can pay you and you can leave. What's the Big Idea? The real aim of the experiment was to time which individuals took the longest to find the wandering experimenter and determine if waiting time correlated to device used. "94% of the desktop users worked up the nerve to leave the room, while only 50% of the Touch users gave chase. Photo Credit: Shutterstock.com Read it at Fast Company