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Shameful Illinois prosecutors go after student investigators | Salon
What happens when those in power get mad.
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The prosecutors are uncomfortable with the idea of shielding journalists who investigate and publicize "inadequacies" in the criminal justice system. But having an additional "check" on the government is one of the strongest justifications for vigorously protecting the work of journalists.
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The outcome of this matter could turn on whether a judge treats the students as "journalists" under Illinois law. If the students are journalists, their work is protected from disclosure.
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Getting It Wrong: Surprising Tips on How to Learn: Scientific American
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By challenging ourselves to retrieve or generate answers we can improve our recall.
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Trying and failing to retrieve the answer is actually helpful to learning.
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Igniting the Growth of Jobs - Columnist Bob Herbert - NYTimes.com
"Incredibly, some 40,000 teachers have lost their jobs over the past year, according to the Center for Economic and Policy Research."
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The latest unemployment rate for California is a knee-buckling 12.2 percent, the highest since World War II.
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Incredibly, some 40,000 teachers have lost their jobs over the past year, according to the Center for Economic and Policy Research.
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The Uneducated American - Paul Krugman - NYTimes.com
The decline of American education ... and America.
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laid-off teachers are only part of the story. Even more important is the way that we’re shutting off opportunities.
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Cracks in the Future - Bob Herbert - NYTimes.com
The death of higher education in California ... and across the nation.
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Study Finds That Online Education Beats the Classroom - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
“On average, students in online learning conditions performed better than those receiving face-to-face instruction.”
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Mr. Regier sees things evolving fairly rapidly, accelerated by the increasing use of social networking technology. More and more, students will help and teach each other, he said.
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But Mr. Regier also thinks online education will continue to make further inroads in transforming college campuses as well.
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As Classrooms Go Digital, Textbooks May Become History - NYTimes.com
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Textbooks have not gone the way of the scroll yet, but many educators say that it will not be long before they are replaced by digital versions — or supplanted altogether by lessons assembled from the wealth of free courseware, educational games, videos and projects on the Web.
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“Teachers need digital resources to find those documents, those blogs, those wikis that get them beyond the plain vanilla curriculum in the textbooks.”
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Diigo: Beyond Bookmarking…WAY Beyond | Clif's Notes
Use this to demo Diigo to students during the first week of class.
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DigiTales - Evaluating Digital Stories
Assessment rubrics
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In group workshops or home viewings, storytellers are often asked to give informal reflection comments about their making-a-digital-story experience.
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items in the scoring guide might be used as a self-reflecting checklist by authors as they design their story.
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Twitter Goes to College - US News and World Report
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"One thing that has changed about higher education is the idea that people come and sit in a dorm and after class, they share ideas," says Parry. "A lot of that is gone now, because students work two jobs, they don't live in dorms.... But Twitter is making up for it, in a way."
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He explains to his digital journalism students how to use the site to establish a network of sources and, using tweets, how to entice those sources to follow them in return. In his social media course, he has his students employ Twitter for what he describes as "student-to-teacher-to-student ambient office hours."
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Detecting Bull: How to Identify Bias and Junk Journalism in Print, Broadcast and on the Wild Web
The chapter on objectivity sounds interesting.
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The author, a former journalist and professor, rejects objectivity as impossible for humans and undesirable for journalists. In its place, the book provides a set of rules for judging journalism based on a more accurate, honest and rigorous standard -- empiricism -- the logical assembly of reliable evidence.
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Classroom idea: Twitter note-taking: SteveOuting.com
Experimenting with Twitter in the classroom
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- Pick a day when your class has a guest speaker.
- Ask all the students to take notes by posting to Twitter (laptop or cell phone).
here’s an experiment we devised using Twitter:
- Pick a day when your class has a guest speaker.
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With all the students taking Twitter notes, the resulting stream of tweets (in my example, http://twitter.com/#123notes) will document more of the speaker’s ideas and thoughts than any one student could record on his/her own.
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Teaching Online Journalism » Multimedia journalism teaching: 10 things I learned
So we're not the only J-school with IT problems that get in the way of teaching.
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Students enrolled in the regular 3-credit reporting course could take an additional 1-credit course in multimedia reporting.
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Students enrolled in the regular 3-credit reporting course could take an additional 1-credit course in multimedia reporting.
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The Maneater – J school to require iPod touch or iPhone
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All incoming freshman journalism majors will be required to have either an iPod touch or an iPhone upon entering the School of Journalism this fall.
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Some lectures, such as those for the Career Explorations in Journalism class, will be recorded. Students will then be able to download the recorded lectures to their iPods or iPhones.
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