Par Charles Centofanti. Alors que le nombre de candidats aux concours de professeurs est en hausse pour la session 2015, quatre étudiants en première année d’Ecoles supérieures du professorat et de l'éducation (ESPE) expliquent leur choix… et leurs doutes. Voir l'article...
By Audrey Watters. Late last year, I gave a similarly titled talk – “Men Explain Technology to Me” – at the University of Mary Washington. (I should note here that the slides for that talk were based on a couple of blog posts that I found particularly funny, “Women Listening to Men in Art” and “Art History: Women Ignoring Men.” I wanted to do something similar with my slides today: find historical photos of men explaining computers to women. More...By Audrey Watters. Certainly some classrooms long ago sanctioned the use of a different sort of calculating instrument, the slide rule. But the calculator seems to evoke all sorts of fears that students’ computational abilities would be ruined, that students would become too reliant upon machines, that they wouldn’t learn how to estimate, that they wouldn’t learn from their errors. More...By Audrey Watters. Last Friday, former Star-Ledger education reporter Bob Braun posted a screenshot on his blog of an email by a New Jersey superintendent detailing a “Priority 1 Alert” issued by Pearson and the state department of education, alleging that a student had tweeted about a test question on the PARCC, causing a security breach. More...By Audrey Watters. I still shudder at the thought of having to choose a reading assignment from among the multi-colored tabs in the big box of reading assignments at the back of my elementary school classroom.By Audrey Watters. News broke late last week, thanks to Bob Braun’s Ledger, that Pearson is engaged in social media monitoring of those involved in the PARCC exams. (News flash: lots of schools, lots of corporations, lots of testing orgs are.) I’ve written at length already about the implications of surveillance of students online – for free speech, privacy, identity formation, equity, justice. More...
By Audrey Watters. MOOCs and UnMOOCsBy Audrey Watters. MOOCs and UnMOOCs
Welcome to the QS University Rankings: BRICS, a dedicated ranking of the top 200 universities in the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa). Find out which universities are the top performers in these key emerging economies, based on eight major performance indicators.
It draws on two huge global surveys of academics and employers, combined with data on faculty/student ratio, research paper publications and citations, proportion of staff with a PhD, and percentages of international faculty and students. More...
By Ruth Hartnoll. Whether you’re studying a creative writing or journalism course, or you want to get some credit to your name in a specialist area, gaining writing experience as you study is a great way to build your CV and boost your employability. It shows desirable professional skills such as entrepreneurship, communication, research and being able to work to a deadline – all things listed in graduate job specs. Not only that, but it means you’re building up a tangible library of your work. A writing portfolio is your evidence – so why not get ahead of the pack and start showcasing your skills? Here are some of the best ways to gain writing experience while studying. More...
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