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9 avril 2018

Universal Design for Learning Is About Access

Universal Design for Learning Is About Access
Leonardo Tissot, Thomas Tobin, e-learn, 2018/03/28
When I was reading this article I clicked on the option to make the text size larger. It's a simple thing, but for a person with poor eyesight it's significant. This is the idea of Universal Design for Learning (UDL); it "allows many people never to have to say, 'please treat me differently.'" There's a funny little digression in the middle of the article where the author also addresses learning styles - after all, UDL allows differentiation, which learning style sceptics say you should never do. But UDL points to the obvious: some people need to be accommodated, sometimes permanently, sometimes just for the moment. More...

9 avril 2018

Creative Know How: Competencies for Student Success in a World of Change

Creative Know How: Competencies for Student Success in a World of Change
Grace Belfiore, Dave Lash, EDUCAUSE Review, 2018/03/28
The five competencies discussed in this article show up briefly in the middle of the piece, but otherwise the bulk of the material promotes the MyWays framework as a whole. The five competencies, for the record, are: critical thinking & problem solving; creativity & entrepreneurship; communication & collaboration; information, media & technology skills; and practical life skills. More...

9 avril 2018

Microsoft Education and Open Up Resources announce partnership to deliver top rated math curriculum

Microsoft Education and Open Up Resources announce partnership to deliver top rated math curriculum
Microsoft Education Blog, 2018/03/28
I don't whether the the curriculum is actually "top rated" or whether that's just marketing bile (I suspect the latter) but what's important here is that Microsoft is integrating "full-course OER curricula, standards-aligned, and provided for free to promote instructional equity" into its OneNote application. More...

9 avril 2018

The Mind-Expanding Ideas of Andy Clark

The Mind-Expanding Ideas of Andy Clark
Larissa MacFarquhar, The New Yorker, 2018/03/30
This is a really good article, cogent and clear, describing Andy Clark's philosophy and theory of cognition. It also takes us through some side-trips involving David Chalmers and Karl Friston. But the focus is on Clark and his theories concerning the extended mind - the idea that the mind isn't just what's in our head but also incorporates the conceptual and physical world around us. More...

9 avril 2018

Collaboration and the creation of a new journalism commons

Collaboration and the creation of a new journalism commons
Carlos Martínez de la Serna, Columbia Journalism Review, 2018/03/30

I think that a case could be made that a similar cooperation is beginning to develop in education (albeit at a slower pace). More...

9 avril 2018

6 creative ways to solve problems with Linux containers and Docker

6 creative ways to solve problems with Linux containers and Docker
Sean Kane, O'Reilly, 2018/03/30
I've mentioned things like Docker and virtualization from time to time but haven't exactly addressed why these things would be interesting. More...

9 avril 2018

Critical Thinking for Educators

Critical Thinking for Educators
Stephen Downes, Half an Hour, 2018/03/30
Educators, of course, are told a lot about critical thinking. Sometimes, if they are lucky, they take a critical thinking course in university and learn first-hand about the practice. Or they may be given a demonstration at an educational conference. Sometimes they are informed about critical thinking during discussions of pedagogy and policy. Or sometimes they simply read about it in magazines and journals. More...

9 avril 2018

Unlocking the Science of How Kids Think

Unlocking the Science of How Kids Think
Daniel Willingham, Education Next, 2018/03/29
Now with the correct link. I thought this was a pretty good article. I don't think that we've yet "unlocked the science of how kids think" but the way the article is set up allows us to set the overstatement aside and focus on how we think about some principles of learning in our day-to-day work. The context is set by looking at how we approach teacher training. More...

9 avril 2018

Apple’s Strongest Case to Reclaim the Education Market Is Not the New iPad

Apple’s Strongest Case to Reclaim the Education Market Is Not the New iPad
Jin-Soo Huh, EdSurge, 2018/03/29
Apple chose to launch its new education-specific iPad at an exclusive private school, Lane Tech College Prep in Chicago. That should tell you all you need to know about its approach to education. The pitch is that students can be more creative with a iPad than with (say) a Chromebook. At three times the price (plus a $90 pen) I'm not surprised. More...

9 avril 2018

Why schools should not teach general critical-thinking skills

Why schools should not teach general critical-thinking skills
Carl Hendrick, Aeon, 2018/03/29
Carl Hendrick restates the tired and wrong argument that critical thinking cannot be taught as a general skill. But from where I sit, if a person says critical thinking cannot be detached from context, then this tells me that the person does not understand what critical thinking is. Critical thinking is not factual recall or provision of implicit premises. More...

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