#qskills – How can we help students to use words from the Academic Word List?
Interesting topic.
Today’s question for the Q: Skills for Success authors: How can we help students remember and be able to use words from the Academic Word List?
Cheryl Zimmerman responds.
We are no longer taking questions. Thank you to everyone who contacted us!
Look out for more responses by the Q authors in the coming weeks, or check out the answers that we’ve posted already in our Questions for Q authors playlist.
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Ten Ways to Say Yes to Saying No
Thank you for sharing.
Reblogged from http://leadershipfreak.wordpress.com/2014/03/28/ten-ways-to-say-yes-to-saying-no/
Great list to consider, useful today
Yale’s former president to Coursera
The recent president of Yale University has
moved to lead
a major MOOC platform.
Richard “Rick” Levin
will
become
the new CEO of
Coursera
.
Anya Kamenetz asked for my thoughts, and I had two. First, that Levin would be a fine fundraiser. After all, that’s a primary function for university presidents, and Levin has a great track record of this at Yale.
Second, “He’s also a consulting economist, so he’s probably going to try and solve the xMOOC economic sustainability problem.” Anya responded:
The money problem is a big one. Coursera’s growth so far has been funded by investment. They have been experimenting with different ways to attract revenue. Advertising, the most obvious choice, would likely be off-putting to students and university partners. At the end of 2012, Coursera announced a recruitment service, where employers would pay for access to users. But this didn’t get much traction.
Let’s see…
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‘Thinking, Fast and Slow’ and What it Means for Education
‘Thinking, Fast and Slow’
Macmillan Publishers
I recently finished Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize winner in Economics. Kahneman received the distinguished prize for his “Integrated economic analysis with fundamental insights from cognitive psychology, in particular regarding behavior under uncertainty, thereby laying the foundation for a new field of research.”
Kahneman writes extensively in Thinking, Fast and Slow about his research conducted over a period of several years with his late friend and research partner Amos Tversky. Though heavy in theory, the book is an engaging and frequently challenging read. It provides a unique perspective on the decision-making process which Kahneman demonstrates via his thesis—how we think with two systems, fast and slow. His supporting research reveals just how fallible we are. Kahneman describes the fast and slow thinking, as two systems→system one which is quick, spontaneous and often inaccurate, and system two, that is…
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Teaching Ethics in the Age of Technology
I like this.
Each year, the John J. Reilly Center puts out List of Emerging Ethical Dilemmas and Policy Issues in Science and Technology.
Ethical decision-making should be included as a 21st century skill (overused term but don’t know of an alternative). Some would profess that ethical decision-making has always been a needed skill. But we are living in the most complex era of human history. Information access and abundance, and emerging technologies are advancing, and being developed and disseminated at rates that the human mind often cannot comprehend. Now more than ever ethics should be integrated into young people’s educations.
Society is a dynamic system. It must, by nature, evolve in order to survive. As we develop the new definitions of appropriate behavior in the online environment it is imperative that many members of society be engaged in this ongoing dialogue. An informed community and active discussion of ethical issues will enable society to determine civil and just manners to deal with the nuances of technological advancement (Rezmierski, 1992). By opening this dialogue…
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What Women Leaders Bring to the Table
Thank you for sharing.
Reflecting on what women contribute based on their history
Halina's Thoughts 