Small Brainstorming Group

Hello All!

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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