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OLDaily - Text Edition by Stephen Downes Mar 09, 2016
How to teach quantum mechanics to kids
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I made the comment in Istanbul on Saturday
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particular bit of knowledge that's foundational. Why, we
could even start by teaching quantum mechanics to kids, I
said. It was a bit of a quip, to be sure. But wouldn't you
know, there's a book on teaching quantum mechanics to kids.
"You might think that it’s a tall order to convey the
weirdness of quantum correlations to kids, but
there’s an insightful way to do this without the
mathematical machinery of the theory by considering
simulation games."
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Some thoughts on the evidence behind Open Badges
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Doug Belshaw thinks aloud after Alan Levine's
post questioning
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The claim being made for badges is that "unlike LinkedIn
profiles or CV’s, they’re a bunch of evidence
rather than a bunch of claims." But what's evidence? The
evidence might be whatever's in the 'evidence' field
provided by the open badge issuer, or it might be something
we can show as evidence for the badge. But surely we need
more than that. "Being able to provide trusted evidence is
a gamechanger when it comes to credentialing," says
Belshaw. "If we find more useful metaphors for people that
‘certificates’ then we’re likely to
see different kinds of credentials — and
hopefully with many more pointing to evidence than we have
now!"
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Google Community - NRC01PL
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This is how a distributed course can reduce dependence
on technology. Yes, the Personal Learning
MOOC OpenEdX site Linkwas down this
week. But this Community page made in Google Plus works
just as well for many things! Kudos to Fredrik Graver
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How not to write about grade inflation, or education, for
that matter
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The main point Bryan Alexander makes here - and I agree
with him - has nothing to do with grade inflation (though
of course all but one of the comments addresses grade
inflation). It is this: that writers should not regard the
so-called elite universities as representative of education
in general. "I’ve blogged about it previously
http://bryanalexander.org/2015/07/07/how-not-to-write-about-college-students-a-lesson-from-slate/,"
writes Alexander. "As inequality among Americans increases
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and gaps between campuses widen
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increasingly important to bear that reality in mind, not
disappear it in parentheses."
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