July 2012
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What if You Flipped Your Faculty Meetings? →
My bet is that teachers will enjoy your faculty meetings WAY more when the keys to the conversation are turned over to them. More importantly, my bet is that teachers will be WAY less intimidated by the notion of flipping the classroom when they see that even their curmudgeonly old bossman can pull it off.
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“Report card = Promise of potential while E Portfolio = proven accomplishment”
– @tomwhitby on today’s #edchat topic: Are digital portfolios a realistic alternative to grades for kids? What are the advantages & disadvantages? Join us!
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UW study finds no link between Facebook use and... →
A University of Wisconsin-Madison study may provide evidence to refute a supposed link between depression and the amount of time spent on Facebook and other social-media sites.
The UW School of Medicine and Public Health study suggests that “it may be unnecessarily alarming” to advise patients and parents on the risk of “Facebook Depression” based solely on the amount of...
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No it's not, Newsweek. The internet is not like... →
jtotheizzoe corrects:
newsweek:
“The computer is like electronic cocaine.”
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Peter Whybrow, director of the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA, argues the Internet is like “electronic cocaine,” fueling cycles of mania followed by depressive stretches, in our cover story on the Web making us crazy.
Newsweek has a cover story up today entitled “Is the Web Driving Us...
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“The computer is like electronic cocaine.”
– Peter Whybrow, director of the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA, argues the Internet is like “electronic cocaine,” fueling cycles of mania followed by depressive stretches, in our cover story on the Web making us crazy. (via newsweek)
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