https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewchannel.php?catid=94880 2025-07-02T06:33:18Z https://www.snipit.org/images/scissors.gif https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewchannel.php?catid=94880 Snip!t channel - Alan Dix: Channels > education There are valid concerns about the abuse and overuse of large language models (LLMs) in education. But if you want to understand why so many students are turning to AI, you need to understand what brought us to this point – and the educat... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1663806 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/29/students-ai-critics-chatgpt-covid-education-system 2025-07-02T06:33:18Z The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson aired on May 20th, 1977. Carl Sagan says something very important, a strong message that didn't lose any validity since then. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1662788 https://bsky.app/profile/sagan.bsky.social/post/3lnzuplijpc2s 2025-05-01T06:08:27Z Examining the relationship between parental income and that of their offspring in their mid-30s, the study confirms the obvious: richer parents beget richer kids. More interesting is how economic outcomes of those from low-, middle- and top... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1660135 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/29/wealthy-parents-greatest-asset-is-the-assets-they-will-pass-on 2024-12-29T08:36:43Z Is it possible there are modes of attention that a younger generation is developing that might be difficult for those of us who are older to value, but which bring new types of benefit? What of the rapid, quick-fire, written exchanges of in... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1660134 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/26/young-people-attention-spans-online-world 2024-12-29T08:21:41Z Reading frequency is also at a historic low, with 20.5% of eight- to 18-year-olds reporting reading daily in their free time, compared with 28% last year. The gender gap in reading enjoyment has widened, with 28.2% of boys aged eight to 18 ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1659149 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/nov/05/report-fall-in-children-reading-for-pleasure-national-literacy-trust 2024-11-08T16:49:17Z The other striking story from this year’s results is the huge and growing popularity of maths, which becomes the first A-level to exceed 100,000 entries, while 17,000 pupils took further maths, making it the subject with the biggest year-... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1657941 https://www.theguardian.com/education/article/2024/aug/15/top-a-level-grades-are-up-but-worrying-regional-disparities-remain 2024-08-15T14:24:58Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1657674 https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/apr/09/senior-labour-figures-call-for-life-transforming-sure-start-policy 2024-04-09T06:44:35Z the rate of learning among students doesn’t actually differ all that much. Instead, what differs mostly between students is their prior knowledge.[1] https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1657497 https://scotthyoung.medium.com/new-study-reveals-the-single-most-important-factor-for-learning-rate-acc9042c00c6 2024-02-20T10:25:59Z Students are Astonishingly Similar in Learning Rate. Whereas initial knowledge varies substantially across students, we found learning rate to be astonishingly similar across students. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1657496 https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2221311120 2024-02-20T10:24:14Z Seine-Port, in the Seine-et-Marne area south of Paris, with a population of fewer than 2,000 people, last weekend voted yes in a referendum to restrict smartphone use in public, https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1657484 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/10/fighting-the-smartphone-invasion-the-french-village-that-voted-to-ban-scrolling-in-public 2024-02-10T07:41:22Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1627037 https://code.likeagirl.io/code-like-a-weaver-64e699d9a022 2017-12-15T08:41:27Z Stanford has decided to move away from Java in their int... Surprisingly, they have decided to move to JavaScript. Â... that most top CS departments are moving to Python.  The... article linked below doesn’t address any other languag... The SIGCSE- https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1625588 https://computinged.wordpress.com/2017/04/21/cs-department-updates-introductory-courses-java-is-gone/?utm_content=buffer63d85&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer 2017-12-11T14:05:24Z “A lot of the designers and coders who were in their 2... creating these things didn’t have kids. Now they have ... “And they see what’s going on, and they say, ‘Wait... they start to rethink their design decisions.” And it’s not just tha https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1613583 https://www.fastcodesign.com/90132364/nest-founder-i-wake-up-in-cold-sweats-thinking-what-did-we-bring-to-the-world 2017-07-12T10:23:49Z Nine- and 10-year-old children in England who participat... class once a week over the course of a year significantl... math and literacy skills, with disadvantaged students sh... significant gains https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1606483 https://qz.com/635002/teaching-kids-philosophy-makes-them-smarter-in-math-and-english/?utm_source=atlfb 2017-06-15T21:18:07Z Anxious about the widespread consumption and spread of p... news during this year’s election cycle, many progressi... an increased commitment to media literacy programs. Othe... for solutions that focus on expert fact-checking and lab... these appro https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1606482 https://points.datasociety.net/did-media-literacy-backfire-7418c084d88d 2017-06-15T21:17:17Z Author discusses new book on the relationship between th... and the erosion of faculty rights. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1587337 https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/09/21/author-discusses-new-book-uberfication-university 2016-12-06T14:35:42Z You will find many resources promoting learning styles a... element of teaching and learning. For example, they are ... (standard 4) and by ISTE (NETS-T). Review the resources ... set of slides. You can find more. Do not accept learning... because it https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1580183 http://www.slideshare.net/hodgesc/learning-styles-18939517 2016-09-29T14:44:54Z Frontiers for Young Minds provides a collection of freel... scientific articles by distinguished scientists that are... audiences by the input of their own young peers. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1577744 http://kids.frontiersin.org/ 2016-09-07T09:15:20Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1561790 http://www.contextfreeart.org/mediawiki/index.php/Context_Free_Art:About 2016-04-18T12:53:27Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1556016 http://chronicle.com/article/The-Benefits-of-No-Tech-Note/228089/ 2016-02-02T10:21:01Z Wendell’s science fair project consists solely of a tr... display board covered by a white sheet that displays cur... options. Patrons can view the display board for 15 minut... $39.95 one-time fee, or they can purchase a subscription... Tommy says https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1540772 http://pnis.co/scinews/vol2_24.html 2016-01-02T12:00:33Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1524939 http://digest.bps.org.uk/2015/10/the-surprising-truth-about-which.html#.VjKKPPx7jO4.twitter 2015-10-29T22:11:07Z Britons in particular have an attitude problem to address as well. "People easily say, 'I'm terrible at maths,' or 'I'm awful at numbers.' If you said that kind of thing in India people would look at you funny," she said. "It's like saying, 'Oh, I can't https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1520820 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-34359936 2015-10-13T14:35:13Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1479211 http://thelongandshort.org/issues/season-four/head-teachers-using-neuroscience-for-education.html 2015-06-15T12:24:04Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1478997 https://www2.ed.gov/pubs/EdReformStudies/EdTech/effectsstudents.html 2015-06-13T08:02:56Z Modern classrooms aren’t working for kids, according t... Remu, the director of Partners in Learning at Microsoft ... schools are like jails--brick walls, colorless, not very... exciting,” she tells the Georgia Straight, days before... This grim d https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1478996 http://www.popsci.com/pens-and-paper-are-holding-your-kids-back-according-microsoft-official 2015-06-13T08:01:49Z In the 1960s, Sister Keller studied at the University of... also studied at Purdue, the University of Michigan, and ... Dartmouth relaxed the rule barring women from its comput... allowed Keller to help develop the computer language BAS... Keller’s https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1473530 http://mentalfloss.com/article/53178/first-woman-earn-phd-computer-science-was-nun 2015-05-10T12:21:05Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1473102 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-32624101 2015-05-07T18:30:14Z In universities around the world, semesters end with stu... similar surveys about their experience in the class and ... teacher. Student ratings are high-stakes. They come up when facul ... Recently, a number of faculty members have been publishi ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1470906 http://www.npr.org/blogs/ed/2014/09/26/345515451/student-course-evaluations-get-an-f 2015-04-23T09:44:09Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1470264 http://www.rvc.ac.uk/Review/ocular_reflexes/ 2015-04-18T12:44:11Z Stanford’s first interdisciplinary computer science an... has left both students and teachers hungry for more. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1462569 http://www.stanforddaily.com/2015/01/20/stanfords-first-interdisciplinary-humanities-and-cs-class-met-with-success/ 2015-03-23T10:29:00Z Research shows that our intuition is wrong. We can focus... that we can’t may not be a phantom. Paying attention r... ability but desire. Technology may snuff out our desire ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1452732 http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/21/opinion/smartphones-dont-make-us-dumb.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0 2015-01-22T18:20:39Z You need to teach people to know themselves and how to m... integrity of themselves on all levels, you need to teach... about thinking, how to collect, filter, collate, process... massive knowledge resources that they will have given to... and how to https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1443970 http://singularityhub.com/2014/12/28/future-of-work-part-ii-why-teaching-everyone-to-code-is-delusional/ 2014-12-30T10:29:25Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1373854 http://uk-universities.timeshighereducation.co.uk/#main 2014-06-14T12:34:04Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1372854 http://www.openculture.com/faq 2014-06-09T20:12:39Z Technology has a plethora of uses and has long been a u... students of today are adept at using technology so utili... education is beneficial. This infographic examines how t... useful tool and can be a useful aid in the learning process. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1349558 http://visual.ly/technology-and-learning 2014-03-27T07:30:16Z Mission: Encourage life-long learning, promote alternat... environments and equip young people with 21st Century sk... skills for life, not for more school. Vision: Elastic Po... = alternative learning environments 21st century edutain... culture. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1349557 http://visual.ly/pop-learning-space 2014-03-27T07:29:41Z But while anecdotal accounts multiply, mental health iss... little-researched and hard data is thin on the ground. However, a study published in 2013 by the University and ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1346014 http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/2014/mar/06/mental-health-academics-growing-problem-pressure-university 2014-03-08T14:05:07Z Why do academics work so much? https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1345493 http://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2014/03/03/essay-why-faculty-members-work-so-much#ixzz2v2dzVgUk 2014-03-06T07:34:03Z I've seen PhD students with depression, sleep issues, ea... thoughts of suicide. Mental health in academia is an iss... addressed https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1345490 http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/blog/2014/mar/01/mental-health-issue-phd-research-university 2014-03-06T07:30:43Z But last week brought word of a very different kind of a... outcome, one that arguably challenges parts of that meme... Education and Training Council gave its stamp of approva... the People, a five-year-old global, online institution t... The univers https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1341547 http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/02/17/u-people-earns-accreditation-challenging-view-agencies-stifle-innovation 2014-02-17T10:13:36Z Two years after a Stanford professor drew 160,000 studen... globe to a free online course on artificial intelligence... widely viewed as a revolution in higher education, early... large-scale courses are disappointing, forcing a rethink... instruction https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1296935 http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/11/us/after-setbacks-online-courses-are-rethought.html?_r=1& 2014-01-10T16:48:48Z As much as we try to fight it, most people have a very s... come to mind when they think of coders and software entr... unshaven, twenty-something males. Lyndsey Scott is none of those things. Though passionate ... Despite her success on the runway, Lyn https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1286873 http://www.businessinsider.com/lyndsey-scott-model-and-coder-2014-1 2014-01-04T18:06:46Z An example of a Quadratic Equation: Quadratic Equation Quadratic equations pop up in many real world situations! https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1267908 http://www.mathsisfun.com/algebra/quadratic-equation-real-world.html 2013-12-23T10:41:37Z Paul Buckland refused to pass students who didn't unders... archaeology - and he's just one of many academics under ... the marks of undeserving students. So will Buckland's le... the destruction of standards in some universities, asks ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1264432 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/7332452/The-university-professor-who-stood-up-against-dumbing-down-of-degrees.html 2013-12-20T19:23:55Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1252716 http://www.naace.co.uk/resources/1068 2013-12-10T15:03:28Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1252715 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/primaryeducation/3659564/Children-to-be-taught-to-use-internet-at-school.html 2013-12-10T15:02:37Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1252714 http://thenextweb.com/uk/2013/07/08/uk-gov-prioritizes-coding-skills-and-3d-printers-new-school-curriculum-proposals/#!pxvOA 2013-12-10T15:01:25Z The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 201... Thomson Reuters are the only global university performan... world class universities across all of their core missio... research, knowledge transfer and international outlook. ... universitie https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1023610 http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/2012-13/world-ranking 2013-03-11T08:56:05Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1023251 http://gerryco23.wordpress.com/2013/03/09/public-libraries-150-years-of-advance-is-being-destroyed/ 2013-03-10T12:29:27Z The European Commission has launched a "grand coalition"... region's IT skills shortages. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1022981 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21668166 2013-03-09T16:47:04Z So this article is my attempt to summarise what I have d... use of humour in teaching. There is rather more written ... students, so I have unashamedly drawn upon the sociology... literature. However, there are similarities between soci... psychology https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1020714 http://www.thepsychologist.org.uk/archive/archive_home.cfm?volumeID=22&editionID=173&ArticleID=1481 2013-03-06T00:42:37Z Welcome to the real legacy of the coalition's fee rises:... mere consumers of an educational product, paying to rece... in a subject that the government is gambling on to provi... our job market will demand in years to come. Meanwhile u... into soulle https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1007459 http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/mortarboard/2013/feb/12/dont-scare-students-off-philosophy 2013-02-12T08:47:55Z Very early in my doctoral journey, I was fortunate to ex... moment when you know the decision you have made was the ... with the realisation that I was being paid, not very muc... nonetheless funded, to sit down every day, to read, thin... My future c https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1006444 http://www.guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/blog/2013/feb/08/early-career-researchers-phd-academia 2013-02-10T06:37:43Z Librarian questions quality of a publishing house. Libra... criticizes said press on his personal blog. Two years la... current employer get sued for libel and damages in exces... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1006217 http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/02/08/academic-press-sues-librarian-raising-issues-academic-freedom#ixzz2KK7Plv15 2013-02-09T14:02:46Z A few weeks ago I discontinued (temporarily, I hope) my ... consultations, particularly those related to the fraught... whether or not to leave academia. I discontinued these ... dealing with a health issue that, while thankfully not s... In any case https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1006212 http://theprofessorisin.com/2013/01/21/the-decision-to-leave-academia-a-dialogue-with-chris-humphreys-of-jobs-on-toast/ 2013-02-09T13:56:19Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1004744 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-21357311 2013-02-07T09:18:14Z Computer science is going to become part of the English ... of the measures used in school league tables in England. It will be included as one of the science options that c ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=999454 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-21261442 2013-01-30T12:52:39Z Today's provosts are a skeptical lot. That may come with... they must constantly prioritize some ideas (and some peo... others -- tasks that are never easy and have been made m... the economic downturn. But the 2013 Inside Higher Ed Survey of College a https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=994035 http://www.insidehighered.com/news/survey/skepticism-about-tenure-moocs-and-presidency-survey-provosts 2013-01-23T08:56:24Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=906303 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/12/the_secret_history_of_liberator_the_first_british_laptop_part_one/ 2012-11-17T08:08:54Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=899085 http://informatics-europe.org/services/reports.html 2012-11-09T17:33:39Z The Welsh Government is taking a global lead on promotin... children’s play and for the first time, legislating to... local authorities to assess the sufficiency of play and ... opportunities for children in their areas. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=896143 http://wales.gov.uk/newsroom/healthandsocialcare/2012/6739013/;jsessionid=8DEDF89C91F0408C5A9748F0894C4824?lang=en 2012-11-07T09:17:16Z I don’t think my talk was particularly good. But then ... onto the stage, and soon was typing raw Mathematica code... everyone—with me now safely off on the side (where I s... picture): Christopher Wolfram on stage at Maker Faire https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=861078 http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2012/10/kids-arduinos-and-quadricopters/ 2012-10-05T07:26:38Z Anti-parabola propoganda, plus musing on math class, car... dots, envelopes of lines, even a bit of origami. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=858305 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-pyuaThp-c&feature=relmfu 2012-10-02T09:24:56Z Anti-parabola propoganda, plus musing on math class, car... dots, envelopes of lines, even a bit of origami. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=858305 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-pyuaThp-c&feature=relmfu 2012-10-02T09:24:56Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=858304 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4x5FZyzLyQ&feature=related 2012-10-02T09:15:51Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=858304 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4x5FZyzLyQ&feature=related 2012-10-02T09:15:51Z Vittra, the Swedish Free School Organization, has opened... school -- one without classrooms. The school's designers... open environment that encourages exploration and intelle... allowing students to learn in themed learning environmen... Digital med https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=853213 http://www.academicearth.org/blog/academics/in-sweden-a-school-with-no-classrooms?&utm_campaign=blog&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social 2012-09-21T08:09:18Z More than 200 schools are using CCTV cameras in toilets ... figures showed today. A total of 825 cameras were located in the toilets or ch ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=848761 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/cctv-used-in-more-than-200-school-toilets-8129979.html 2012-09-12T22:55:04Z After a report last week about plagiarism incidences on ... offers free online courses, the startup has added honor ... help keep students honest. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=835131 http://gigaom.com/2012/08/22/amid-plagiarism-reports-coursera-adds-honor-code-reminders/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OmMalik+%28GigaOM%3A+Tech%29 2012-08-23T11:43:10Z Lectures are often the least educational aspect of colle... taught college seniors and witnessed how little students... four years in higher education. So, while it’s noble t... are opening their otherwise exclusive lecture content to... A revolutio https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=831324 http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/09/move-over-harvard-and-mit-stanford-has-the-real-revolution-in-education/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29 2012-08-19T21:29:25Z Our MOOC model emphasizes creation, creativity, autonomy... networked learning. The Coursera model emphasizes a more... learning approach through video presentations and short ... testing. Put another way, cMOOCs focus on knowledge crea... whereas xMO https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=829887 http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/2012/07/25/moocs-are-really-a-platform/ 2012-08-16T07:14:29Z This image problem starts at school, according to one te... "Girls don't see IT as creative. It is that image of the ... Gender differences become apparent during IT lessons, ev ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=829885 http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18687247#?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter 2012-08-16T07:13:45Z I’d like to suggest a great MOOC that has been around ... “massive” (nearly a half million members), it is ope... (anyone can join without cost), it is open–as in share... copyright: all content by all contributors is in the pub... online (www https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=829873 http://pmasson.wordpress.com/2012/08/01/ive-been-in-this-really-good-mooc-for-the-past-20-years-it-called-the-internet/ 2012-08-16T07:07:57Z Daphne Koller is enticing top universities to put their ... courses online for free -- not just as a service, but as... how people learn. Each keystroke, comprehension quiz, pe... discussion and self-graded assignment builds an unpreced... on how know https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=829871 http://www.ted.com/talks/daphne_koller_what_we_re_learning_from_online_education.html?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_2012-08-02&utm_campaign=newsletter_weekly&utm_medium=email 2012-08-16T07:07:17Z Education is what survives when what has been learned ha... B. F. Skinner https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=827568 https://twitter.com/Zen_Moments/status/233803538235539456 2012-08-10T11:42:33Z SocialLearn is an experimental online learning space on ... The latest evolution in virtual learning, SocialLearn co... networking, Open University and wider web resources and ... Developed in response to feedback about the need for inf ... The platfor https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=825077 http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/sociallearn/ 2012-08-06T11:53:48Z Online courses are experiencing sky-high dropout rates, ... a good thing. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=825073 http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/07/overblown-claims-of-failure-watch-how-not-to-gauge-the-success-of-online-courses/260159/ 2012-08-06T11:51:46Z Khan Academy has created a generic framework for buildin... framework, together with the exercises themselves, can b... The framework exists in two components: An HTML markup for specifying exercises. A jQuery plugin for generating a usable, int https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=825068 https://github.com/Khan/khan-exercises 2012-08-06T11:45:20Z Too many of Britain's top sportsmen and women were educa... country's Olympic chief has said. Lord Moynihan said it was wholly unacceptable that more ... He described it as one of the "worst statistics in Briti ... He said it meant half of Great Britain https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=824403 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-19109724 2012-08-04T12:15:57Z Universities contributed £3.3bn to the UK economy in th... And analysis by England's higher education funding body ... This is less than half the £56m US price-tag for simila ... The report added that the value of UK knowledge exchange ... Analysis by https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=823488 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-19014531 2012-08-02T22:23:55Z What can athletes with ADHD teach us about the condition? Michael Phelps, hailed as the greatest Olympian ever, ha ... Share 134 Email ... cs offer a positive legacy for people suffering from it? https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=823415 http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/aug/01/athletes-with-adhd 2012-08-02T12:57:22Z Video Comment 0 inShare3 ... h of its e-book titles to the iPhone and the iPod Touch. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=822445 http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/31/inkling-iphone-ipod-touch-3-0/ 2012-07-31T15:21:10Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=822257 http://chronicle.com/article/Were-Muddying-the-Message-on/133211/ 2012-07-31T08:19:29Z Like it or loathe it, web-enabled remote learning is inc... its way into colleges and universities around the world.... a survey from the Pew Internet and American Life Project... In a report released today, Pew and Elon University said ... The researc https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=821529 http://gigaom.com/2012/07/27/memo-to-higher-ed-get-ready-for-remote-learning-to-rock-your-world/ 2012-07-29T17:15:29Z But because MOOCs are so new, and so limited before yest... first-hand discussion of what it's like to teach one has... current MOOC moment began less than a year ago, when Sta... free, chunked artificial intelligence course online, and... signed up. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=820227 http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/07/what-its-like-to-teach-a-mooc-and-what-the-hecks-a-mooc/260000/ 2012-07-26T18:12:30Z This autumn more than a million students are going to ta... experiment that could re-invent the landscape of higher ... Some of the biggest powerhouses in US higher education a ... Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ha ... Sounding li https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=820223 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18191589 2012-07-26T18:11:18Z I’ve now finished the Coursera Human Computer Interact... await my final grade, I reflect on my experience, on the... student numbers, and on how the platform can develop. It’s been a wonderfully wide-ranging course, spanning ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=820221 http://reflectionsandcontemplations.wordpress.com/2012/07/14/review-of-the-coursera-human-computer-interaction-course/ 2012-07-26T18:07:23Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=820220 http://www.theage.com.au/photogallery/digital-life/digital-life-news/university-memes-20120717-2277p.html?selectedImage=4 2012-07-26T18:06:46Z Innovating Pedagogy Posted on June 22, 2012 by admin The series of reports explores new forms of teaching, le ... The first report proposes ten innovations that are alrea ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=819924 http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/innovating/ 2012-07-26T09:34:52Z In his recent JISC blog, David Kernohan asks: ‘Why bot... fees to attend university? …What if you could get it a... online?’ Of course, it is tongue in cheek, because as ... suggests, you don’t get something for nothing. And that brings me to o https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=819269 http://www.jisc.ac.uk/blog/no-such-thing-as-a-free-mooc/ 2012-07-25T10:18:58Z As almost everybody knows at this point, I have resigned... University of New Mexico. Effective this July, I am wor... their Cambridge (MA) offices. Countless people, from my friends to my (former) dean ha ... Honestly, the reasons are myriad and compl https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=819265 http://cs.unm.edu/~terran/academic_blog/?p=113&utm_source=buffer&buffer_share=8c80f 2012-07-25T10:15:41Z In the same vein, programmers who pay attention to how t... written language also tend to pay a lot more attention t... You see, at its core, code is prose. Great programmers a... code monkeys; according to Stanford programming legend D... And just li https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=819240 http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2012/07/i_wont_hire_people_who_use_poo.html 2012-07-25T09:51:51Z Academic staff are going to be fired at Queen Mary Unive... (QMUL). It’s possible that universities may have to co... hard times, so what’s wrong? What’s wrong is that the victims are being selected in ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=818188 http://www.dcscience.net/?p=5388#follow 2012-07-23T11:45:06Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=815381 http://business.time.com/2012/07/12/the-glorious-end-of-higher-educations-monopoly-on-credibility/ 2012-07-17T17:54:14Z Edinburgh University is to be the first UK institution t... influential US-based online university project. Edinburgh is part of a major expansion in the Coursera p ... The online platform was set up this year with content fr ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=815377 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-18857999 2012-07-17T17:48:53Z Over a four-year period, Boaler followed the progress of... students through their high school careers at three high... the three was "Railside High". Not its real name, this s... urban setting, close by a railway line. She first visite... A number of https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=794164 http://www.maa.org/devlin/devlin_06_10.html 2012-06-08T16:47:16Z Asked to picture a computer programmer, most of us descr... computer geek, a brilliant but socially-awkward male. We... largely noctural creature, passing sleepless nights writ... According to workplace researchers, this stereotype of t... It may be s https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=791668 http://gender.stanford.edu/news/2011/researcher-reveals-how-%E2%80%9Ccomputer-geeks%E2%80%9D-replaced-%E2%80%9Ccomputergirls%E2%80%9D 2012-06-05T19:53:05Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=791663 http://www.educationnews.org/education-policy-and-politics/barry-garelick-math-education-being-outwitted-by-stupidity/ 2012-06-05T19:31:12Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=791662 http://www.educationnews.org/parenting/number-of-homeschoolers-growing-nationwide/ 2012-06-05T19:27:45Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=790232 http://www.dailydooh.com/archives/63978 2012-06-03T13:34:01Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=787258 http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/joylabs/makey-makey-an-invention-kit-for-everyone 2012-05-29T23:39:12Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=787238 http://csunplugged.org/ 2012-05-29T18:43:42Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=787175 http://appsforgood.org/course/ 2012-05-29T17:09:04Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=787174 http://thenextweb.com/uk/2011/12/12/app-for-good-youngsters-to-showcase-their-facebook-development-skills/?awesm=tnw.to_1CCdp 2012-05-29T17:09:00Z Is tech saturation good or bad for the modern teenager? Arguments can be made either way, but there’s no debat ... People aged 18-34 have an average of 319 online connecti ... Pew also recently reported that 63% of teenagers text me ... ... to help or https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=771926 http://mashable.com/2012/05/03/teenager-infographi/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Mashable+%28Mashable%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher 2012-05-03T16:38:04Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=751276 http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/apr/08/eric-schmidt-improve-computer-education?INTCMP=SRCH 2012-04-10T11:26:45Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=751264 http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2012/04/undergrad-computer-science-enrollments-rise-for-fourth-straight-year-cra-taulbee-report/ 2012-04-10T11:16:12Z In a parallel universe where the space race never ended,... In 1988, a brand new deep sleep cell was released, compa ... It's now the year 281 474 976 712 644 AD, and the first ... Game Features ... re programatically advanced of you can get a head star https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=745610 http://0x10c.com/ 2012-04-04T13:48:28Z In a parallel universe where the space race never ended,... In 1988, a brand new deep sleep cell was released, compa ... It's now the year 281 474 976 712 644 AD, and the first ... Game Features ... re programatically advanced of you can get a head star https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=745610 http://0x10c.com/ 2012-04-04T13:48:28Z A TimeMap is an interactive graphic showing change over ... is linked to descriptions of the change being shown. The TimeMap of World History covers human history at dif ... We also have a growing range of Topic TimeMaps which tak ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=745327 http://www.timemaps.com/tour 2012-04-04T10:32:33Z Two interesting things happened last week and neither ha... with social networking or privacy. First, a web server f... new in that, you say; happens all the time. Yes, but thi... web server: it was the machine that hosts the Raspberry ... The second https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=743176 http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/mar/04/raspberry-pi-schools-computer-science?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487 2012-04-01T14:25:19Z Young coders: ideas for change Seven teenagers talk about how they got into coding and ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=743174 http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/mar/31/young-coders-ideas-for-change?intcmp=239 2012-04-01T14:21:24Z The Computing at School Working Group (CAS) aims to prom... Computing at school. CAS was born out of our excitement ... discipline, combined with a serious concern that many st... “turned off” computing by a combination of factors t... to make the https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=682991 http://www.computingatschool.org.uk/index.php?id=about-us 2012-01-12T14:16:02Z Programming isn’t only for programmers. But as we move... where technology controls more and more of our lives, it... that’s virtually guaranteed to help you get a job. A g... Forbes a few weeks ago referred to the new world of Deve... world in wh https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=682827 http://www.fastcoexist.com/1679107/mike-bloomberg-is-a-smart-businessman-thats-why-hes-learning-to-code 2012-01-12T10:35:08Z Raspberry Pi device will 'reboot computing in schools' A tiny computer called Raspberry Pi and costing £20 is ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=682300 http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/jan/09/raspberry-pi-computer-revolutionise-computing-schools 2012-01-11T16:49:55Z Leading companies interviewed for a new Guardian series ... staff at a senior level to be computer literate, combini... with the ability to lead a team. But they face delays in... staff, or have to give new employees extensive training ... Ian Wright, https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=682299 http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/jan/09/computer-science-courses-digital-skills 2012-01-11T16:49:09Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=662187 http://youngrewiredstate.org/ 2011-12-19T16:19:35Z Do you believe that: In the (near) future, students will access their dig ... That mobile apps should not try to duplicate the bro ... So far, the mobilization of learning has been more h ... It is with these questions in mind that I've been p https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=662186 http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/first-look-canvas-ios-mobile-app 2011-12-19T16:18:55Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=662169 http://univ-sf.org/EN/Objectives.htm 2011-12-19T16:07:30Z Programming should take pride of place in our schools If we don't change the way ICT is thought about and taug ... reddit this John Naughton ... owerPoint presentations will look like Dead Sea scrolls. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=634798 http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/dec/04/ict-national-curriculum-john-naughton?CMP=twt_gu 2011-12-04T13:51:29Z The Learning Resource Metadata Initiative (LRMI) is a pr... common vocabulary for describing educational content. Wh... benefits to such a project, the main goal of the initiat... end-user search and discovery of learning resources. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=611638 http://www.lrmi.net/about 2011-11-22T13:24:27Z In higher education, it's not how much time you spend wi... what you do with it that should count What is a contact hour? How does a lecture with 70 other ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=513277 http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=417089#.TkksAcsraIM.twitter 2011-08-15T17:15:51Z The right to read is a battle being fought today. Althou... years for our present way of life to fade into obscurity... specific laws and practices described above have already... many have been enacted into law in the US and elsewhere.... 1998 Digita https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=442519 http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html 2011-05-21T09:13:49Z Open Culture brings together high-quality cultural & edu... the worldwide lifelong learning community. Web 2.0 has g... amounts of intelligent audio and video. It’s all free.... enriching. But it’s also scattered across the web, and... Our whole m https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=439261 http://www.openculture.com/faq 2011-05-16T17:44:22Z The Atlantic Home Thursday, May 12, 2011 Follow the Atlantic » Twitter Facebook RSS iPhone ... w up, with a little common sense and a lot of curiosity. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=436653 http://www.theatlantic.com/life/archive/2011/05/let-kids-play-with-fire-and-other-rules-for-good-parenting/238601/ 2011-05-12T09:53:02Z Young inventors prompt colleges to revamp rules (AP) – 2 days ago COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Tony Brown didn't set out to over ... The University of Missouri student came up with an idea ... But the invention also raised a perplexing question when ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=314804 http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ilfjD3zn6ImYtcZIVjuam7MztG8A?docId=1e12e21030c044938bb0f2d37e7c6130 2011-01-27T08:24:56Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=301271 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12126700 2011-01-06T20:44:20Z The British universities, Oxford and Cambridge included,... from a system of state control that is undermining the o... which their worldwide reputation depends: the caliber of... scholarship. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=300906 http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/jan/13/grim-threat-british-universities/ 2011-01-06T13:12:33Z Background Real science has the potential to not only am... transform the way one thinks of the world and oneself. T... process of science is little different from the deeply r... processes of play. Play enables humans (and other mammal... Principal f https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=286734 http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2010/12/18/rsbl.2010.1056.full 2010-12-27T10:36:09Z Molly is a framework for the rapid development of inform... portals targeted at mobile internet devices. The framewo... “batteries included” philosophy, featuring a wide va... applications and connectors to common and standards-base... including t https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=232059 http://mollyproject.sourceforge.net/ 2010-10-28T11:30:30Z I interviewed a lot of people recently, and ... This was a "proper" programming job with a back-end data ... We asked some *basic* questions about databases (stuff l ... Most of the graduates didn't have a clue - this is basic ... ... By fjfish on 3 Jul 2 https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=177080 http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/education/359164/unemployment-rate-of-computer-grads-baffles-bcs 2010-07-04T15:23:25Z Universities in the UK are worth £59bn for the economy,... the economic impact of higher education. The report, based on figures for 2007-8, highlights the ... Universities created, directly or indirectly, over 668,5 ... The figures follow the launch o https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=123848 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/8340552.stm 2009-11-07T09:44:20Z I am going to create my own Ph.D. program via open educa... courseware. My degree will be in Educational Technology... in (what else?) Open Education as the Great Equalizer. ... my blog states: it will be all the learning, with none o... “doc”-u https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=120189 http://openphd.wordpress.com/2009/09/17/the-open-phd-what-a-concept/ 2009-10-17T15:22:10Z The disclosure comes as a poll showed half of students i... According to a survey of 1,026 students, published by th ... Students are choosing universities where they can live a ... Close to a third (27%) of poorer students choose univers ... The survey https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=94881 http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2009/apr/27/tuition-fees-oxford-university 2009-04-28T11:33:42Z If the world raised £11bn, every child could go to scho... seem all that much when the UK government manages to rai... billions to rescue its banking sector? https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=94879 http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2009/apr/28/imf-loans-education 2009-04-28T11:31:14Z