Sir Ken Robinson

Steal this Presentation

STEAL THIS PRESENTATION! from Jesse Desjardins - @jessedee
 

For those of us who need all the help we can get.

http://techcomic.wordpress.com/2011/11/03/alphabet-taught-to-kids-nowadays/

                                        e-portfolios

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zI1BYteU3UI

@CUTVadvisory - Metro Buskers: Greg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJHLoa47e5k

Educational Philosophies

This was too funny.

Small Brainstorming Group

Hello All!

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2114/2701347277_8cdd4eba1f_o.jpg

After class yesterday, Susan, Duha, Qin Yi and I stayed behind to discuss our papers and general problems or questions we had about the drafting of the final assignment. I find that groups can be more helpful than simple solitary work. For this reason I'd like to organize a small group and explain our papers to each other, give feedback and possibly try to smooth out any lingering problems we might have (APA, for example!!!).

Is anyone interested in doing this?


Robyn

ESTU675: Coming to Terms with Prior Learning Assessment

ESTU675: Coming to Terms with Prior Learning Assessment: This week’s topic is PLAR – prior learning assessment and recognition, as it is now commonly referred to in Canada. Peruniak and Powell (200...

"Teacher to the World"

Hi everyone!
Check this website http://www.khanacademy.org/
What do you think? Is it the "future of education?"
Here is also a critique http://www.tonybates.ca/2012/03/14/a-short-critique-of-the-khan-academy/comment-page-1/#comment-200852

http://www.csectioncomics.com/2010/11/iphone-vs-android-vs-blackberry.html 

My Blackberry is not Working!

Philosophical research in education

Dear all,

I decided to add some facts and definitions component to my last week's presentation. So here I attach an article which is directly related to the positivist and post- positivist views of science and also an example of a philosophicalstudy. I also post the entire PowerPoint presentation made by LindaOvering.( I do not see any reason to reproduce it myself!)

You can find these onthe course main blog as well.

Can there be a feminist science?

Strike?

http://www.montrealgazette.com/business/Concordia+students+join+growing+tuition+hike+protest/6255781/story.html

Okay, so a lot of us have been side-stepping this issue, and I don't want to start a debate and have it get too ugly, but I want to know people's opinion of the strike that was voted YES on Tuesday, March 06 by the Graduate Students of Education at Concordia. I know that some of us are for it, some of us are against it, and some are still undecided (or are against the fee hikes but against missing class).

I would like to know what people think about the demonstration that is being done within our own school walls, how the strike might play out, and what we think it means to us as students and possible future educators. Is the strike the best way to get the government to give us what we want? What else can we do as students possibly instead of, or in addition to the student strike?

Here is a particular nay-sayer from the Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/tag/concordia-student-strike
(Even if you're against the strike, this small exerpt is pretty offensive.)

What are your thoughts on this contraversial issue?

Stomp!

The Corporation

Here is the full version of the documentary, The Corporation. It's enlightening and witty.

Changing Education Paradigms

OK Go - This Too Shall Pass

Insurance companies!

We were talking about insurance companies in class, I thought I'd share an anecdote. So my boyfriend is insured with Standard Life through work. He was injured in July, and had been receiving checks from the insurance company. In January his work decided that they were changing insurance providers. So, without paying any premiums, he continued to receive checks from Standard Life. However, they decided that they needed a specialist to "help to better assess his condition". So he sees a specialist who does not even examine his injury but asks personal questions about the nature of the pain and his personal life. He promptly receives notice from the insurance that he is fine, and that they will be ceasing payment, and that he must return to work at full time, 40 hours a week including all physical work necessary. He has 2 GPs, 2 physiotherapists, one osteopath, and a physiatrist telling him he is nowhere near ready, but the insurance has closed his file. Even if he were healed enough to to begin working again, starting de nouveau at full force can hurt anyone.

If that want insulting enough,.my father had been on CSST for a year for his back, and the specialist put that in the report, accusing both of them of insurance fraud.

This isn't right! Is it?
Robyn

Hello All!

Today Angela came up with the idea to keep posting on the blog despite the fact that the class is over. So, I created this side-blog for people who have issues, questions, etc. to pose in tandem with the ESTU 675 blog. This is a forum to post comments, questions, tidbits of information, questions or general help about the subject matter, or anything you find interesting.

Enjoy!