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Economic Reasons Found for College Dropouts - NYTimes.com
"Most dropouts leave college because they have trouble going to school while working to support themselves ...."
Well, duh ... I guess this is news to some folks, but not to me. It sounds like my students.
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.
Cracks in the Future - Bob Herbert - NYTimes.com
The death of higher education in California ... and across the nation.
Knowing Yourself & Your Courses
Good exercise for MUSE students
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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The real promise of online education, experts say, is providing learning experiences that are more tailored to individual students than is possible in classrooms. That enables more “learning by doing,” which many students find more engaging and useful.
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The analysis for the Department of Education found that, on average, students doing some or all of the course online would rank in the 59th percentile in tested performance, compared with the average classroom student scoring in the 50th percentile. That is a modest but statistically meaningful difference.
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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.
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."
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.
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.
Mixbook | Education Program - Free Digital Storytelling Software for Educators
Potential for class use: Online "posters"? Online portfolio?
End the University as We Know It - Op-Ed Mark C. Taylor - NYTimes.com
This guy is totally on target. But short of sending our universities into bankruptcy, like GM, I don't see it happening ... unless a few smart institutions start, and force the rest to follow suit or die (kind of like the web and newspapers).
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GRADUATE education is the Detroit of higher learning. Most graduate programs in American universities produce a product for which there is no market (candidates for teaching positions that do not exist) and develop skills for which there is diminishing demand
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The dirty secret of higher education is that without underpaid graduate students to help in laboratories and with teaching, universities couldn’t conduct research or even instruct their growing undergraduate populations. That’s one of the main reasons we still encourage people to enroll in doctoral programs.
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Are J-Schools Today Taking the Wrong Approach?
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many journalism schools seem to be missing the point of the digital revolution and, as a result, are short-changing their students.
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while the recent recession has not been kind to print media, Web news organizations haven't fared much better
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journalism / 25 / 03 / 2009 / News / Home - Inside Higher Ed
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officials at the school hope to substantively change this "bread-and-butter" program by better integrating new media and business skills within its traditional reporting curriculum
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"multimedia storytelling is integrated through all reporting classes, and quantitative skills and ethics are woven throughout the curriculum."
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