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OLDaily - Text Edition by Stephen Downes Dec 22, 2016


Knovation Integration Services Simplifies Access to OER
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This is an entrant into the single-signon arena, and it
does so by offering easier access to open educational
resources (why anyone would need to sign on to access open
educational resources is not explained). And it's not clear
to me how all if this is "simplified". "Knovation
http://www.knovationlearning.com/" target="_blank maintains
a collection of thousands of online lessons and learning
objects for use by teachers, which are maintained in its
Content Collection
http://www.knovationlearning.com/solutions/content-collection/"
target="_blank, searchable via netTrekker
http://www.knovationlearning.com/solutions/nettrekker/"
target="_blank and organized and shared with icurio
http://www.knovationlearning.com/solutions/icurio/"
target="_blank." Related: ISKME partners
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with Clever Linkwhich offers - you
guessed it - single sign-on for OERs.
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The DigitalLearningification of Museums
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Wouldn't it be interesting if libraries and museums took
over the bulk of the educational responsibilities we
currently assign to schools? That's not exactly what Barry
Joseph is suggesting here, but it seems like a logical
consequence. He does make the case that "that museums are
unique and influential informal learning institutions that
can be powerful spaces for young people to learn, connect
and create digital media." Why then would you also need
schools and lessons and such. Oh sure, there's a scheduling
and management problem, but young people could explore
different fields of interest at different facilities over
time.
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Death of the Textbook, Really
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the use of digital textbooks in academia has faced two
related problems: first, the textbooks are still more
expensive that other options, such as buying and reselling
physical textbooks, and second, students are in increasing
numbers simply not buying the required texts. While Ryan
Petersen and Jared Pearlman suggest that this may herald a
new model for textbook publishing, it's not clear the
solution they describe will be greeted with open arms. The
model, called "Inclusive Access" offers a radical solution:
force everybody to buy the digital materials, and add the
cost to their course fees. Its a model only a publisher
would love, and does nothing to address the core issues.
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Top 100 - Innovaciones educativas
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This resource (169 page PDF
https://publiadmin.fundaciontelefonica.com/index.php/publicaciones/add_descargas?tipo_fichero=pdf&idioma_fichero=es_es&title=Top+100+-+Innovaciones+educativas&code=541&lang=es&file=TOP_100_online.pdf&_ga=1.42747682.686589012.1481998993)
is in Spanish. Don't let that deter you. The actual list
starts on page 43 and in the pages following there's a lot
to explore. If you do read some Spanish it's also worth
looking at the first 27 pages where they offer major themes
and the lay of the land in educational technology. "Estamos
seguros de que los resultados de este esfuerzo serán
una herramienta que permitirá difundir un
conocimiento que consideramos de gran valor para toda la
comunidad educativa y la sociedad en general."
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Next Generation Science Standards-Based Assessments Are
Coming. How Should Teachers Prepare?
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This no doubt will attract criticism from the usual
sources. "Rather than asking that students simply 'know'
the science of reproduction, the NGSS requires that they
'develop models to describe' its processes." It's a
constructivist approach; rather than simply being given
models, students need to build them for themselves. The
reason (in my mind) is that each student's cognitive
environment is unique, and models developed from this
environment - you can't simply impose it from above.
Aligned with this, the NGSS creates "three dimensional
learning" (3D learning). "in 3-LS1-1, the basic Core Idea
is reproduction, the SEP is use of models, and the CCC is
patterns of change."
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CRTC rules high-speed Internet a basic service, sets
targets
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This is a pretty basic issue in our household. The targets
set by the Canadian Radio-television and
Telecommunications Commission - at least 50 megabits per
second and upload speeds of at least 10 Mbps - are five
time download (and 10 times upload) what we are currently
able to reach here in Casselman, a rural community roughly
half way between Montreal and Ottawa. There's no excuse for
it, not when telecommunications companies made $8
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last year. Related: Michael Geist column
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Top Ten Makerspace Favorites of 2016
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Fun toys: a list. I like the one where you saw your own
balsa wood planks and build stuff. "We noticed an important
shift in Maker Education.  Once driven by STEM and
makerspace in a box types of kits, we are seeing much more
of an emphasis on open-ended exploration and stocking
makerspaces with materials that foster that. "
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