OLDaily Text Edition ~ Mar 22, 2017

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OLDaily - Text Edition by Stephen Downes Mar 22, 2017
Scholars Behind Bars
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Summary and discussion of two books about teaching college
classes in prison. "Just as a poor education transports
people into prison, a rich one can transform them beyond
it." It's focused especially on the Bard Prison
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interesting discussion of the value of an arts-focused
education as compared to business or trades.
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Linked Data Notifications
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Linked data Notifications (LDN) is a little standard with
big potential. It's very simple: you send a message to a
server. I receive a notification. I access the server and
retrieve the message. That's it. It sounds a lot like
email, but it isn't email. In many ways it's better than
email. It can be used to announce publications
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It can be used to build a decentralized social network
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could help a MOOC communicate with a PLE.
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A Continuum on Personalized Learning: First Draft
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Larry Cuban describes a continuum between "teacher-centered
lessons within the traditional age-graded school....
switching back and forth between phrases on
'competency-based education' and 'personalization'" and
'student-centered classrooms, programs, and schools often
departing from the traditional age-graded school model'.
The latter is what I have been calling "personal learning"
and while Cuban stresses he will place "no value for either
end (or the middle) of the personalized learning continuum"
I've been pretty clear in my support for personal learning
(though this hasn't earned me many friends).
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Do Healthy Lunches Improve Student Test Scores?
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While cautioning that test scores are a partial and often
biased indication of learning, it has nonetheless been
shown on numerous occasions that proper nutrition aids
learning. This is a report on another study making the same
point. "Students at schools that contract with a healthier
school-lunch vendor perform somewhat better on state
tests." I would add that the time to make this work is
during pregnancy and in early childhood, but as a policy
providing support to mothers and infants is required it is
more difficult to find political support for this.
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