Monday, September 26, 2011
Do You Suffer From Decision Fatigue? - NYTimes.com
Do You Suffer From Decision Fatigue? - NYTimes.com
Many useful ideas: of note:
"Part of the resistance against making decisions comes from our fear of giving up options. The word “decide” shares an etymological root with “homicide,” the Latin word “caedere,” meaning “to cut down” or “to kill,” and that loss looms especially large when decision fatigue sets in."
Saturday, September 24, 2011
Friday, September 23, 2011
Hacked messages
I was trying to find an old email, and stumbled upon one from a friend who's account had been hacked. Here's what it said, and my reply. Too fun...
Hope you get this on time,sorry I didn't inform you about my trip to UK for a Program, I'm presently in UK and am having some difficulties here because i misplaced my wallet on my way to the hotel where my money and other valuable things were kept. presently i have limited access to internet,I will like you to assist me with a loan of $1,000 to sort-out my hotel bills and to get myself back home.
I have spoken to the embassy here but they are not responding to the matter effectively,I will appreciate whatever you can afford to assist me with,I'll Refund the money back to you as soon as i return,let me know if you can be of any help.I don't have a phone where i can be reached.
Please let me know immediately.
Regards,
Thomas.
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I have spoken to the embassy here but they are not responding to the matter effectively,I will appreciate whatever you can afford to assist me with,I'll Refund the money back to you as soon as i return,let me know if you can be of any help.I don't have a phone where i can be reached.
Please let me know immediately.
Regards,
Thomas.
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No problem. Hook up with George at Fasters and tell him the big guy sent you. Let me know how it goes.
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Teaching Success
Teaching Success
random - great idea for a school to figure out what teaching excellence is going on.
random - great idea for a school to figure out what teaching excellence is going on.
7 Things about teaching...
http://www.victoria.ac.nz/fca/teaching/how-learning-works.aspx
The seven principles of learning used by Ambrose et al. (2010) come from a developmental and holistic perspective. They begin with the recognition that:
Learning is a developmental process that intersects with other developmental processes in a student's life, and
Students enter our classrooms with skills, knowledge, and abilities, and importantly, with social and emotional experiences that influence what they value, how they perceive themselves and others, and how they will engage in the learning process.
(1) Students' prior knowledge can help or hinder learning.
(2) How students organise knowledge influences how they learn and apply what they know.
(3) Students' motivation determines, directs, and sustains what they do to learn.
(4) To develop mastery, students must acquire component skills, practice integrating them, and know when to apply what they have learned.
(5) Goal-directed practice coupled with targeted feedback enhances the quality of students' learning.
(6) Students' current level of development interacts with the social, emotional, and intellectual climate of the course to impact learning.
(7) To become self-directed learners, students must learn to monitor and adjust their approaches to learning.
The seven principles of learning used by Ambrose et al. (2010) come from a developmental and holistic perspective. They begin with the recognition that:
Learning is a developmental process that intersects with other developmental processes in a student's life, and
Students enter our classrooms with skills, knowledge, and abilities, and importantly, with social and emotional experiences that influence what they value, how they perceive themselves and others, and how they will engage in the learning process.
(1) Students' prior knowledge can help or hinder learning.
(2) How students organise knowledge influences how they learn and apply what they know.
(3) Students' motivation determines, directs, and sustains what they do to learn.
(4) To develop mastery, students must acquire component skills, practice integrating them, and know when to apply what they have learned.
(5) Goal-directed practice coupled with targeted feedback enhances the quality of students' learning.
(6) Students' current level of development interacts with the social, emotional, and intellectual climate of the course to impact learning.
(7) To become self-directed learners, students must learn to monitor and adjust their approaches to learning.
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Fwd: How to be a Retronaut
two very cool things.
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D.I. von Briesen
The Creator is Greater
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The Creator is Greater
Monday, September 19, 2011
some tools...
zoomit is the one for screen annotation and tracking/zooming- bunch of youtube vids on it as well. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897434
The monitor software is yawcam (yet anoter webcam...) http://www.yawcam.com/
and the video is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVNrkXM3TTI
I'm pretty excited about combining these tools to make a nice single video with multiple inputs.
The recording software i showed you was called screencastomatic : http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/ and is generally easier to use than i found it to be when i showed you.
Saturday, September 17, 2011
-RIP-The fall of "the lost gardens of Apollo": The end of a mythical place in Second LIfe - YouTube
-RIP-The fall of "the lost gardens of Apollo": The end of a mythical place in Second LIfe - YouTube
I loved to show people the Lost Gardens, so it came as a shock when some students told me it was no longer there. I'm very saddened by this. The video should give you an idea about the kind of views you could get there- not the vertical setups, and the light effects.
Wabi-sabi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wabi-sabi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Marc ... damn, can't remember his name- my manager for first engagement with pwc 13 years ago- took me aside and said, "perfection is the enemy of the good".. it's made more sense the longer it's been, and i now use that regularly in my workshops for teachers. I found a quote to go with it, "done beats perfect every time" and made up a few of my own:
something done imperfectly beats nothing done perfectly, or the flips, nothing done perfectly is worse than something done imperfectly.
or, 'nothing done perfectly is done' - yeah, i like that.
anyway , wabisabi it is... found courtesy of... hmm.. where did I find that?
Now i don't know, but it may have had to do with a squidoo blog, or maybe a noschese post...
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Education Transformation, Khan vs. Veritasium, etc....
Good point- i'm at the community college level, and teach a graduate social media course. I have found however, that my son is a more apt learner of some concepts than some of my students.
Metaphorically speaking, if you create a wheelchair ramp and door button and high contrast, obvious signs for those with disabilities, it helps everyone else who happens to use them (think how nice it is to hit the door button with your knee when your arms are full, or be able to push your cart full of AV media on a well-built ramp).
Do learning styles (uh oh, here we go again with the styles!) really vary that much between ages and institutions? Is a good lesson not a good lesson for most ages?
And while we've deviated quite successfully from the original poster's question, I can't resist but share these recent discoveries I found while reading up on the Khan Academy. Forgive me if the posts are duplicates:
First paragraph- needed a good facilitator, but core element was youtube: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/19/magazine/19FOB-WWLN-Kelly-t.html
This article talks about khan academy changing math (again, perhaps more K-12, but what college doesn't have to deal with the math issue?): http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/07/ff_khan/
However, reading the critiques on one version of this story let me to this blog, and in particular, this post about "pseudoteaching" : http://fnoschese.wordpress.com/2011/02/21/pt-pseudoteaching-mit-physics/ - which in part suggests that even the very best presenters (i.e. MIT's Walter Lewin in Physics) are not getting better results for their behavior.
and a cross thread brought me to this guy, who's videos challenge a bit- he likes to explore people's misunderstandings:
Here's one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bTdMmNZm2M&feature=relmfu
and here's one about the misunderstanding/reinforcing of that misunderstanding- VERY IMPORTANT:
http://www.youtube.com/user/1veritasium#p/u/36/eVtCO84MDj8
Jump to 1:50 if you're in hurry. The gist of what he is saying is that if you have a misconception, traditional presentation methods will simply reinforce your misunderstanding because you'll zone out if you think you know it already. He proposes in part, focusing on MISconceptions, to force viewers to think, 'waittaminute...?!"..
And finally, a critical view along similar lines- how harvard graduates (harvard is a university, though my daughter is applying there!) don't know how seasons or moon phases work: http://www.learner.org/resources/series28.html (you have to click the VOD button and allow pop-ups, but there is a short version of this on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0wk4qG2mIg but it doesn't do the original justice.
Hope this was useful for some of you. I find it all fascinating, and am trying to figure out where and how the education revolution will occur.
d.i.
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Arvind Gupta: Turning trash into toys for learning | Video on TED.com
Arvind Gupta: Turning trash into toys for learning | Video on TED.com:
I need to get my kids to do this on a rainy day...
I need to get my kids to do this on a rainy day...
RSA Animate - Changing Education Paradigms - YouTube
RSA Animate - Changing Education Paradigms - YouTube:
combination of a great talk by sir ken robinson + the marker animation of RSA.
combination of a great talk by sir ken robinson + the marker animation of RSA.
Educational Transformation through Technology at MIT - TEAL
Educational Transformation through Technology at MIT - TEAL:
Interestingly, I'd proposed a "flexlab" last year... so while MIT beat me to the punch, I did come up with it independently- i'm hoping for no computers, but a netbooks checkout system, and 3 portable podiums (spectrum industries' MAP - mobile access podium) and some flexible furniture.
FW: mit education site
From: DI vonBriesen
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 6:56 AM
To: Hal Lohn; Todd Koonts; Felesia Stukes
Cc: Chad Ray
Subject: mit education site
In looking at some of MIT’s education work I came across this site:
http://web.mit.edu/edtech/casestudies/imoat.html it seems to be just a collection of various inititiaves they’ve had going on- though the date suggests it only goes up to 2005- but who knows?
Related research points to these 2 videos as counterpoints to the khanacademy sort of model, which does have its detractors:
http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_meyer_math_curriculum_makeover.html
http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html
This second one I’d seen before, and particularly like it when the RSA folks get hold of one of these and doll it up- replacing the video with their dynamic art (for ken robinson).
d.i.
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