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  1. Nov 2016
    1. Without dress code also they should inculcate discipline within themselves.

      With great power comes great responsibility, which adults entering society are going to have to learn to handle.

    2. Civil dressing also emphasizes upon the family background of a person other than how the students individuality.

      would the uniforms be required just in class or all the time.

  2. Oct 2016
    1. Although some are hobbled by their problems with procrastination and disorganization, these same students clearly have potential.

      I am very unorganized when it comes to classes but I always did my work to my ability and it worked for me.

    2. While thrivers dreamed about contributing to society or helping others, divers were more likely to cite wealth or success in business as their goals.

      The goals that you strive for tell a lot about you as a person.

    3. hints at financial stress as a complicating circumstance in their lives.

      College is a stressful place that makes you add to your plate so your not in debt forever.

    4. Other personality traits, such as agreeableness (being kind and empathetic toward others), openness to new ideas (being imaginative and curious) or emotional stability (not being anxious or easily upset), did not appear to matter much in determining whether people were thrivers or divers.

      Yet in the working world these traits get you pretty far.

    5. which college students would outperform their high school transcripts

      Sometimes students set an unachievable bar in high school that they can't measure up to in college.

    6. character traits such as grit, perseverance and conscientiousness play a role.

      Characteristics that people involved in the community tend to possess... such as athletes.

    7. students’ high school GPAs explain only about 20 percent of the differences between students’ college GPAs.

      I would expect that depending on what high school you went to you would prepare you for college differently

    1. In other words, students are empowered to learn what they need/want to learn, and the journey of learning is often more important than any predefined learning outcomes.

      To get students truly engaged and excited about learning is a rare and beautiful thing

    2. publisher then requires exclusive legal rights to control the reproduction and distribution of the researcher's work's results

      so the publisher has the rights now not the author?

    3. Every taxpayer has a reasonable expectation of access to educational materials and research products whose creation tax dollars supported.

      this is a great idea to allow everyone to further their education.

    4. students who used open textbooks and students who used traditional, proprietary textbooks.4

      Students who are truly driven will use whatever they need need to, to achieve their goals.

    5. Open educational resources allow the full technical power of the Internet to be brought to bear on education.

      Would this result in many companies loosing money in the text book industry.

    6. Many struggle to understand why there are those who would take the time and effort to craft educational materials only to give them away without capturing any monetary value from their work.

      This would help whole departments in schools to teach the exact same material

    1. I perceive that according to this article connected learning means to use technology to further education in every means of life, whether your in school or just learning for yourself by following your own educational path.

      I feel the same way!

    1. It makes learning relevant to all populations, to real life and real work, and to the realities of the digital age, where the demand for learning never stops.

      SO it helps to further society as a whole.

    1. seek out mentors and experts, investigate procedures, experiment with possibilities, and de-velop competencies.

      What if mentors and experts don't want to help everyone?

    2. Learning opportunities are emerging not just from colleges and univer-sities but also in the workplace, communities, and from do-it-yourself learning providers.

      People may be better equipped for a job without a degree from college just because of their knowledge.

    3. The key aspect of this phase of education is moving beyond the familiar notion of information technology simply as the means to deliver content and e-learning.

      Can this lead us to the conclusion that in the future alt more classes will be held on line?

    1. The seminar should not be left at the margins of institutional life, its ideastreated as add-ons to the “real business” of the college.

      So maybe not the classes that are about disney or ghosts.

    2. students learn best when they areprovided frequent feedback about their learning as they are trying to learn.

      That's why students learn more after taking a test because they can see what they did wrong and apply these corrections later in the classroom.

    3. Some students do not like learning with others and somefaculty find collaborating with other faculty and staff difficult.

      Not everyone learns the same way or at the same rate of speed.

    4. learning together both inside and outside theclass.

      Making study groups to help certain people gain concepts that others have learned, while helping those people gain the gainn concepts that they struggled at

    5. Learning community students spend more time together out of class than dostudents in traditional, unrelated stand-alone classes and they do so in ways which students seeas supportive.

      Field trips are a great way to get people to feel a part of a group because they are usually fun activities, that can be based on your class.

    6. same students in several classes so they get to know each other quickly

      All math majors are forced to take the same class as freshman no matter what math level class you are currently in so you get to know everyone.

    7. students are asked to share both thecurriculum and the learning of the curriculum

      In one of my math classes every other week we have homework due and you get assigned a problem to do on the board so you share your knowledge.

    8. Finally and most importantly, the research tells us that student learning isthe root of student persistence.

      This is also addressing the idea that college should find motivated student to enroll in their college. Not just the students who look good on paper.

    9. Frequency and quality ofcontact with faculty, staff, and students has repeatedly been shown to be an independentpredictor of student persistence.

      Is this why teachers are forced to have office hours?

    10. I assume that studentattributes are largely beyond institutional control

      Some factors can not be changed by the institution, its just the feeling of the individual student makes whether or not to return.

    11. What would it mean for an institution to take student retention seriously?

      In my mind to take retention seriously you dont need retention counselor, you need the input of the students, because in the end they are the ones deciding to leave or not.

    12. They have done little to change the way they organize their activities, done little toalter student experience, and therefore done little to address the deeper roots of studentattrition.

      Schools are just adding things to a process that is shown to not work, instead of rebuilding and improving the process.

    1. transferable skills and set students up for success by adapting many educational subsets to form a dynamic learning experience.

      Problem posing education would help to encourage people to think with an open mind and actually analyze situations.

    2. This teacher wanted the pupils to naively accept all assumptions that were presented and fill our minds with taken for granted information without any chance for critical assessment.

      Basically accept that whatever the teacher says is true when it isn't always

    3. This method of educating takes away the essential part of learning which is what makes us entirely human

      One of the greatest human characteristics is being able to think and make your own decisions on situations.

    4. action of leaning into only receiving, filing, and storing deposits.

      When you take notes on a subject then never look at them again just because your teacher tells you to take them word for word.

    5. Banking education is discussed as an act of depositing where the educator is the depositor and students are the depositories

      This makes me think way to much of the Hitler youth, it is honestly unsettling.

  3. Sep 2016
    1. The challenging situations doing an outdoor orientation provides helps freshman since college in a challenging situation in a new environment that no one is prepared for.

    2. only classified as a outdoor orientation if there is an overnight aspect. Overnight in the sense its no on campus grounds...Why don't we have this overnight option?

    1. The goal of using the wilderness as a tool for the orientation leaders is to allow the "campers" to grow spiritually. By leading them through physically and mentally tough situations.

    2. By getting students to go on active trips they are able to see the surrounding area as well as create strong bonds with the other people on that are in the same situation. These bonds create friendships with other students because of the length is 12-14 days long enough to befriend other students.

    3. Orientation programs were built off the concept that students needed to socially develop before they entered the college setting. That is why in orientation programs students were forced to interact with other students, interact with their new teachers and, even interact with their new campus.

    1. flexible orientation options such as yoga, organic cooking, and painting,

      Having these types of orientations allows people =to get to know the student community as well as the facilities and areas they are going to able to utilize in the near future.

    2. I've met way more students who didn't go on [August Wilderness] and wish they had than the other way around

      People always regret cool experiences, after they hear friends talk about how fun something was.

  4. Aug 2016
    1. Too often, students’ work in these systems gets deleted over the summer months as schools aren’t in the business of permanently storing student work.

      We were often encouraged to delete files we did not "need" to allow others space on the temp drive that was shared in our district.

    2. what students need to know in order to use technology “appropriately.

      When in high school we were only showed to do specific things on computers. Always what the teacher wanted, not allowing us to adventure and explore the technology for ourselves.

    3. in turn they begin to have an understanding of the technologies that underpin the Web, including how their work and their data circulate there.

      This allows a student to learn how to use the web and provide more input into what is associated to their name online.

    4. domain and all its content are the student’s to take with them. It is, after all, their education, their intellectual development, their work.

      Reminds me of a digital Portfolio that people can access and share with others as much as they want and whenever they want.

    5. fail to give students themselves a voice, let alone some assistance in deciding what to share online.

      Why wouldn't the students be given a voice if this argument is about them! It doesn't seem right to not let them express their opinion on the topic