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Friday, October 10, 2003
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Thursday, October 09, 2003
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Latent inhibition and creativity
Gary points to a press release about the results of recent research on creativity.
Creative people appear to inhibit fewer stimuli. While the release
claims that the researchers have "identified one of the biological
bases of creativity", no details of a biological nature are provided.
Sadly the research was not published in an open-access journal, so I wasn't able to dig deeper.
The normal person classifies an
object, and then forgets about it, even though that object is
much more complex and interesting than he or she thinks. The creative
person, by contrast, is always open to new possibilities.[...]
"If you are open to new information,
new ideas, you better be able to intelligently and carefully edit
and choose. If you have 50 ideas, only two or three are likely
to be good. You have to be able to discriminate or you'll get
swamped."
 3:09:19 PM
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Hope this one's not overcopyrighted
The law arrests the man or woman
Who steals the goose from off the common;
But lets the greater villain loose
Who steals the common from the goose.
(found on Mishmash)
10:52:42 AM
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Wednesday, October 08, 2003
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Computerized assessment - just do it
Henk Ellerman reacts to Ed Felten's post on Computers As Graders,
pointing out that the measurement error introduced by the computer
might not be so large compared to other sources of bias. Interesting.
"The whole educational system itself has a huge factor X too that should be taken
into consideration. No misunderstanding here: the educational system is often as
stupid as the first computer. Cheating, kissing up, sleeping with eyes open, and
even not making your homework can be seen as ways for students to adapt to the
educational system without necessarily assimilating knowledge. I dare not
speculate about the many ways scholars can adapt the prevailing systems of
certifying scholarly output.
So, let's just do it! Give me the program, and I'll grade any paper here,
written by any author, student or otherwise."
5:52:13 PM
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Deploying weblogs in fifth and sixth grade - an experiment in Quebec
Should have blogged this long ago - better late than never... Clément, Mario and
the others have put passion in this work, and it shows. Better yet, as
far as I can tell, the initiative is working out beautifully! The
students are expressing themselves in weblogs. The project description
in Weblogging At the Institut St. Joseph is very well-written and to the point. Kudos!
The Institut St. Joseph, has launched an innovative program revolving around cyber-education and weblogs. From Mario Asselin, principal of the institute,
"CARRIERE,
is the name of our new study program, which primarily involves more
active participation by the children in the learning process, as well
as greater utilization of new technology and concrete experience".
Mario has included in a blog entry
several excellent links to press releases and documents, including many
written in English, which highlight and further explain this incredible
initiative. By reading the document Weblogging At the Institut St. Joseph,
that covers the summary, context , description, innovation, etc. of the
program, you can get a vision of how this program will have a major
impact on improving the pedagogy, the learning for students and school
reform.
"This
digital portfolio initiative is particularly in line with the school
reform process as it promotes authentic writing situations, reflective
analysis, the development of learning communities, and a high level of
independence among students in terms of new information and
communication technology."
"Quickly,
our experiment of the community of learning with our program will
improve all the development of the school pedagogy just like made the
experiment of the "pilot school" which we lived during those three past
years."
I'm
truly excited for Mario and I'm really looking forward to following
along with the development of this cutting edge initiative. [Edublog News]
5:43:57 PM
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Monday, October 06, 2003
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Linkblogging - the why, and the how
I hereby officially announce that the linkblogs are taking off [list via Peter]. I believe this is actually a significant development; it says something about
the growth in the amount quality content on the web that we've been
experiencing lately. While I wouldn't have started a linkblog a year
ago when I knew of only about a dozen weblogs that interested me, I'm
now seriously considering starting one myself (as is Richard, and no
doubt many others).
Paul Hammond provides a motivation for linkblogging that I hadn't thought about but makes sense to me:
Lately, I’ve realised that the real reason I keep my linkblog going is
the effect it has on my main weblog. By moving the links somewhere
else, my weblog becomes much less about what other people are saying,
and much more about what I am thinking and doing. This gives me more
motivation to actually get on with stuff, which gives me more to write
about.
So where do I start? Are there any tools out there that make it easy to perform drive-by linking? And what should a proper RSS feed look like for a linkblog? Would Phil's feed combiner (or a variant thereof) be the best way to incorporate my linkblog's contents into my sidebar?
5:19:51 PM
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