- Nov 2016
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www.literacyworldwide.org www.literacyworldwide.org
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When they tweet and blog, they have a public audience beyond our class. I ask students to tweet to other educators and learners (locally and internationally). They tweet about their burning questions and seek feedback on what they are working on for class. When working across cultures, we tackle questions of inequalities related to language use (English when my students aren’t native speakers but fluent) and infrastructure (the Internet is slower in Egypt).
I believe digital literacy is extremely important for students to learn without it we would be limited to only what we hear in the classrooms, using twitter and other social medias or internet sites allows students to discuss digitally what people across the world are learning and experiencing. FYS156
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- Oct 2016
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www.washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com
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Thrivers arrived at college ready to work hard.
Group: Incoming college freshmen go into college universities to receive the same grades they did in high school. High school grades and standardized test scores are suppose to be indicators of how students will perform when placed in a college environment, but are not always accurate. First year students are commonly categorized into two groups the “thrivers” and “divers”, thrivers are the students who were predicted to do not as well and proved those predictions wrong, while the divers were students predicted to do well and did worse. Student’s mindsets, cultural differences, and personality traits came into play when determining their grades. Our viewpoint is that the transition from high school to college is not easy and some students may succumb to pressure. In order to succeed here at CSUMB we must be able to grow based on feedback from our professors, utilize campus resources, and embrace that we are first generation college students of low income backgrounds with odds stacked against us. If we persevere, stay on top of our classes, and keep positive growth mindsets we will be thrivers.
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- Sep 2016
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www.historytoday.com www.historytoday.com
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Without the aid of such professional expertise social historians would lack access to all these activities which make up the totality of people's achievements. But even to read the relevant published work is a daunting task and this may well result in social historians taking refuge in ever-narrowing territorial and chronological confines.
Social historians read what Parliament had to say and retreated thoughts, my question is although they would have been limited, why not continue to propose ideas?
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www.insidehighered.com www.insidehighered.com
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The purpose of studying history or literature or chemistry is not to acquire generic skills. Instead, we care about skills such as critical thinking or analytical ability because they enable students to have better insights and ideas, and to gain more from the subjects they study.
Studying in areas of these courses does not just give knowledge in these specific areas, it also leads to questions and ideas of how these subjects affect others and so on.
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www.insidehighered.com www.insidehighered.com
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They are at best betas quickly planned and hurriedly implemented, which like all new initiatives demand significant rethinking, redesign and refinement. In the decades to come, today's tests will appear primitive by comparison to the assessment tools that replace them. Think of the earliest cell phones -- they needed development and refinement.
In the future the educational system will be different, but that will not be right away because it takes so much work to redesign such an intricate system that will actually prove to help, and continuously progress.
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- Aug 2016
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berkeleyjournal.org berkeleyjournal.org
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Participants and promoters of that episteme included most all other white sociologists, and Morris pulls no punches when pointing out how the Chicago School was at the center of sociologically racist thought. In riveting swaths of The Scholar Denied, we learn about Robert Park’s racist sociology, for example, a sociology that “portrayed African Americans” as “handicapped by a double heritage of biological and cultural inferiority.”
This stood out to me because it is extremely unfair. It may be a reason that the Chicago School is more often recognized for sociology, it is because they made African American sociologists seem like less, and unreliable due to their circumstances.
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