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23 mars 2015

A Brief History of Calculators in the Classroom

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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...

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23 mars 2015

Pearson, PARCC, Privacy, Surveillance, & Trust

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...

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23 mars 2015

SRA Cards: A History of Programmed Instruction and Personalization

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.
Don Parker described his development in 1950 of what became the ubiquitous SRA cards like this (PDF). More...

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23 mars 2015

Doxxing to Defend Student Privacy

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...

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23 mars 2015

Hack Education Weekly - 13 Mar 2015

By Audrey Watters. MOOCs and UnMOOCs
“Accredible Partners with Udacity to Provide Context to Nanodegrees”
“EdX and Microsoft Launch IT Development MOOCs”
“Cut Through the Hype, and MOOCs Still Have Had a Lasting Impact,” insists The Chronicle of Higher Education, which is loathe to find something else to write about, I reckon, as long as we can squeeze out a few more stories on the topic. More...

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23 mars 2015

Hack Education Weekly - 20 Mar 2015

By Audrey Watters. MOOCs and UnMOOCs
This press release boasts that “MOOCs revenue to reach $1.5 billion in 2015.” cough bullshit cough.
Interesting research by Justin Reich and John Hansen on socioeconomic status and MOOC enrollees. tl;dr: “Overall, HarvardX registrants tend to reside in more affluent neighborhoods.” I’m kidding:Read the whole thing.
“Yale’s First Online Degree Gets Complaints From Alumni, Cheers From Investors,” reports Buzzfeed’s Molly Hensley-Clancy. More...

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23 mars 2015

QS University Rankings: BRICS 2014

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...

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23 mars 2015

How to Gain Writing Experience While Studying

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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23 mars 2015

5 Essential Business Skills for Work in Startups

By Ben Clayton. Startup companies are among the most exciting, dynamic, and potentially rewarding places to work. Whether you have an innovative business idea you want to see blossom, or you just want to experience working life within a ‘startup culture’, this sector is the place for you. A business degree will serve you well whether you wish to work in an established firm or a young startup, but if you’re committed to finding work in startups then you should definitely consider looking for a degree that can help you develop the following business skills. More...

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23 mars 2015

7 Reasons to Participate in an Erasmus Exchange Program

By Volina Serban. Erasmus has to be the most popular exchange program for students in Europe. The program was launched in 1987 and since then it has existed to grant European students the opportunity to experience student life in one of the 33 program countries. The majority of European universities (90% to be more precise) are involved in this scheme, which offers students a broad spectrum of courses and study programs to choose from. More...

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