learners

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• Interviewing Successful Thai Language Learners: Hardie Karges

  
  Women Learning Thai... and some men too ;-) — Authority: 120
  Interviewing Successful Thai Language Learners… Name: Hardie Karges Nationality: American Age range: 50-60 Sex: Male Location: Traveling currently Profession: Business, writing Website/blog: Thailand to Timbuktu to La Paz: world music, film, and travel Hardiek’s Traveler Profile – TravelPod ...
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• Some thoughts on U.S. News & World Reports 100 best public high schools

  
  Dangerously Irrelevant — Authority: 575
  My father-in-law gave me the January 2010 issue of U.S. News & World Report . It features a number of articles on P-12 education and includes detailed tables of its ‘ 100 best public high schools ’ in the United States. I’ve been playing around with the data a bit… 1. Nationally, it helps to be rich ...
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• State policy an obstacle to charter school serving English learners

  
  GothamSchools Newsroom — Authority: 611
  A charter school that hoped to focus on students who don’t speak English is changing tactics after being told by the state that it cannot give admissions preference to the students it wants to attract. Though New York City’s charter schools admit relatively few English Language Learners in comparison to district ...
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• The Builder- Designing The Future of Educational Leadership

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 119
  If we are to create "tomorrows" educationalorganization and model, are the leaders of "yesterdays" model theleaders we will need to build "tomorrows" model? If education is to be transformed, should we not transformits leaders? If we are to create a new educational organization, then does itfollow, we would need a ...
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• Multi-tasking vs focusing: which is best?

  
  Tony Bates — Authority: 476
  And the answer is: it all depends! As usual with human behaviour, it depends on the context. Ophir, E., Nass, C., and Wagner, A. (2009) Cognitive control in media multitaskers Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America , Vol. 106, No. 37 I don’t want to oversimplify the ...
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• Kids who learn to read at age five unlikely to be better readers

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 723
  Wellington, December 21 (ANI): Children who learn to read at age seven may be as good as children who learn to read at five, an expert claims.Sebastian Suggate did the study for his doctorate in psychology at Otago University.He conducted one international and two New Zealand studies, as part of the programme.After ...
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• Learning Styles Re-evaluated

  
  Psych Central News — Authority: 579
  A long-standing educational philosophy is under attack as a new research report downplays the importance of different learning styles. Study authors believe prior investigations have failed to use credible research designs resulting in low scientific validity. For decades, educators have harped on the necessity of ...
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• The DSA Assessor’s Guide to Feeware and Open Source Applications

  
  RSC NewsFeed — Authority: 430
  The aim of this guide is to promote awareness of open source and freeware Windows applications that can be used to support learners with additional needs. The overall collection of more than 50 programs is called AccessApps. In many cases, the programs on AccessApps are very similar in functionality to well-known ...
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• How Good Is Your Educational Sales Force and Their Products?

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 119
  I have been read and enjoyed a great book called Death To All Sacred Cows by David Bernstein , Beau Fraser , and Bill Schwab of The Gate Worldwide . It has nothing to do with education, so, of course, I was instantly attracted to it.   In their chapter titled The Sales Force Makes The Sale, they write about ...
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• Oakland middle school to get a plug on the “Today” show tomorrow

  
  The Education Report — Authority: 422
  Urban Promise Academy, a small middle school in East Oakland’s Fruitvale neighborhood, will be one of three schools in the nation to be featured tomorrow morning on NBC’s “Today” show  for a segment on innovative schools in low-income communities. Because the show will be filming live from UPA for its ...
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• Graveyard welding classes

  
  Tony Bates — Authority: 476
  Moltz, D. (2009) In the midnight hour Inside Higher Education , December 9 This article describes midnight courses for welders at an Oregon community college. Although not strictly about e-learning, the article reflects capacity problems in colleges due to the recession, which is driving unemployed workers into ...
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• Finding Classroom Balance During the Holidays

  
  Creating Lifelong Learners — Authority: 109
  I write this post at the risk of being nicknamed Scrooge.  Let me preface this by saying that in my classroom, I have always bought the kids presents which they unwrap after lunch on the last day of school before the winter break.  Every year there is one student who tells me something like the art supplies I gave ...
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• Learn our lessons well...

  
  Durff's Blog — Authority: 115
  This image was part of a VoiceThread sent to the 1st grade class by the 1st grade class at Shanghai American School. You can see both VoiceThreads here --> Clever Learners I was reading an article that Bob Compton, author of Two Million Minutes , wrote during his recent visit to Korea. In this article, which ...
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• ISTE conference keynote - Final totals (by category and overall)

  
  Dangerously Irrelevant — Authority: 575
  Here is the final leaderboard for the ISTE conference keynote crowdsourcing project . Category winners are Chris Lehmann, Alan November, David Pogue, David Rose, and Karl Fisch. If votes from all categories were totaled, this would be the leaderboard: The top five - Chris Lehmann, Jeff Piontek, Gary Stager, ...
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• Blending Education and Design

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 119
  Allow me to dream and muse for a moment. Allow me to dream of a blending, a fusion of education and design. Allow me to imagine, just for a moment, a new design all together different from what we know. A Design that enhances learning. A Design that creates a learning environment. An environment that makes learning ...
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• Interviewing Successful Thai Language Learners: Peter Montalbano

  
  Women Learning Thai... and some men too ;-) — Authority: 120
  Interviewing Successful Thai Language Learners… Name: Peter Montalbano Nationality: World citizen with a U.S. passport Age range: 60+ Sex: Male Location: Bangkok, Thailand Profession: Musician/writer Website/blog: montalbano.org/peter (out of date!) What is your Thai level? I have problems with ...
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• Unperceived changes followed by dislocating explosions

  
  Dangerously Irrelevant — Authority: 575
  Hal Abelson, Ken Ledeen, & Harry Lewis say… Exponential growth of anything can suddenly make the world look utterly different than it had been. When that threshold is passed, changes that are “just” quantitative can look qualitative. Another way of looking at the apprent abruptness of exponential ...
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• Education Innovation: Nominated For The 2009 Edublog Awards

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 119
  There are thousands of excellent blogs about education and I enjoyreading many of them. That is why it is so humbling for me to have thisblog, Education Innovation nominated for the 2009 Edublog Awards in the   Best Individual Edublog category . It is an honor to be included amongthe other nominees, many of ...
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• HELP WANTED: Looking for some assistance with my next survey of the edublogosphere

  
  Dangerously Irrelevant — Authority: 575
  I’m looking for a few folks who might be interested in helping me with my next survey of the edublogosphere. I’d love to have some assistance devising questions, analyzing and presenting the results, publicizing the survey, etc. I’ve done two of these in the past: 2008 -  2008 Education Blogosphere Survey ...
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• 12-14 ISTE conference keynote update - David Rose takes over category lead

  
  Dangerously Irrelevant — Authority: 575
  Here is the current leaderboard for the ISTE conference keynote crowdsourcing project . Not much voting activity. Chris Lehmann still holds his lead over Jeff Piontek. David Rose has taken the lead in the Universal design for learning category. I’ll post one more update tomorrow, which is the last day of ...
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