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Wednesday, March 23, 2005 |
Students Who Are Tested in a Context
Differing Significantly from their Instructional
Environment Do Worse. David Wiley hits on another news article
describing that Woessmann-Fuchs study that suggests
computers do not support learning and makes a good point
about methodology: "Why would we be shocked or
surprised to find that kids who spend more time with paper
and pencil outperform their high tech peers on paper and
pencil tests??? If the tests had been administered on
computers, which group would have been the top
performer?" The news
report itself merely repeats without criticism
the claims made by Woessmann-Fuchs and the editing is
sloppy enough to leave some factual errors in the story.
By David Wiley, Iterating Toward Openness, March 21, 2005
[Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily]
7:20:06 AM  Google It!.
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CCL Calls for Expressions of
Interest. The Canadian Council on Learning, introduced
here last week, has issued a call for expressions of
interest to create the five knowledge centres described in
its project plan: Adult Learning in Atlantic Canada; Early
Childhood Learning in Quebec; Work and Learning in Ontario;
Aboriginal Learning in the Prairies, Northwest Territories
and Nunavut; Health and Learning in British Columbia and
Yukon.
By Press Release, Canadian Council on Learning, March 21,
2005
[Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily]
7:18:39 AM Google It!.
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One Of Us Is Smarter Than All Of
Us. Why I talk so frequently about autonomy and
diversity: "The wisdom of crowds comes not from the
consensus decision of the group, but from the aggregation
of the ideas/thoughts/decisions of each individual in the
group." In other words, "Paradoxically, the best
way for a group to be smart is for each person in it to
think and act as independently as possible." Via elearnspace.
By Kathy Sierra, Creating Passionate Users, March 21, 2005
[Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily]
7:17:20 AM Google It!.
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Stephen's Web Themes. So anyhow, after working on the OurMedia site I
was feeling pretty comfortable with CSS, so I decided to
redo the website. But I am also very lazy and have tired of
rotating my theme every few months. So I set up a system
that lets me easily create new themes, and which handles
theme selection and rotation automatically. Click on the
link to visit my website; you'll be greeted with a random
theme. Click on the [Theme] link to rotate themes, or on
[View Themes] to select from the list (the link is under
the picture on the right). Not the neat
thing about this is that you can use my
random themes too - check out the sample here
(notice it's a completely different site). Here's
a template you can use on your website. This is
all experimental, so please let me know if you have
problems with it. By Stephen Downes, Stephen's Web, March
22, 2005
[Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily]
7:15:45 AM Google It!.
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U.S. Probes Sale of GM Corn.
A major agrochemical firm says it accidentally distributed an
experimental strain of genetically modified corn seed. The mishap went
unnoticed for four years. By Amit Asaravala. [Wired News]
6:57:39 AM Google It!.
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