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| UX Myths
| | “Build your website based on evidence, not false beliefs!” This website documents UX myths along with research findings. Nice reference point to bring out in client discussions and to include in documentation. (via ColumnTwo). Here are some good ones:
All pages should be accessible in 3 clicks
People don’t scroll
| 2010-08-30 01:00pm | |
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| Some of our work
| | Glad to have worked with some very talented illustrators and animators. Here is a sample of our work at PebbleRoad.
| 2010-08-30 01:00pm | |
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| Computers at Home: Educational Hope vs. Teenage Reality
| | NY times reports that there is no evidence of improved educational performance with having computers at home.
“Economists are trying to measure a home computer’s educational impact on schoolchildren in low-income households. Taking widely varying routes, they are arriving at similar conclusions: little or no educational benefit is found. Worse, computers seem to have further separated children in low-income households, whose test scores often decline after the machine arrives, from their more privileged counterparts.”
| 2010-08-30 01:00pm | |
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| On education
| | Dennis Littky writes about a new approach to education in the lastest issue of Interactions magazine. (Subscription required).
“The school was broken down into advisories, with a teacher and a group of students who spent four years together. Each adviser, parent, and student developed an individual learning plan. The school had broad goals of reading, writing, applying math, empirical reasoning, communication, and personal qualities. Every student would have his or her own way of reaching those goals with high standards. The teacher—also acting as adviser—would help the student identify his or her interests and then find a mentor and workplace to help make the learning real.”
Sounds like “Gurukul” to me.
| 2010-08-30 01:00pm | |
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| ‘Can I?’ is better than ‘I can’
| | Interesting study suggests that interrogative self-talk is actually more motivating than declarative gumption that business leaders profess.
“Why is interrogative self-talk more effective? Subsequent experiments by the scientists suggested that the power of the “Will I?” condition resides in its ability to elicit intrinsic motivation. (We are intrinsically motivated when we are doing an activity for ourselves, because we enjoy it. In contrast, extrinsic motivation occurs when we’re doing something for a paycheck or any “extrinsic” reward.) By interrogating ourselves, we set up a well-defined challenge that we can master. And it is this desire for personal fulfillment - being able to tell ourselves that we solved the anagrams - that actually motivates us to keep on trying.”
| 2010-08-30 01:00pm | |
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| The State of Distance Education in Saudi Arabia
| | In this exclusive report, Hend Suliman Al-Khalifa of King Saud University, Riyadh, explains how Saudi Arabia has begun adopting distance education as part of its educational and development strategies. Saudi Arabia has been slower than many nations to move into distance education. Bachelor degree programs have only been offered through traditional universities' distance education programs for about a decade, and policies for single-mode, distance, and virtual tertiary institutions are still under development for approval by the Ministry of Higher Education. Some public universities, such as King Abdulaziz University and Al-Imam Mohammad ibn Saud Islamic University, are dual-mode, while single-mode distance education is offered by the Arab Open University. Distance education is primarily applied where gender segregation is required in tertiary education, where male lecturers are only authorized to teach female students by means of closed-circuit television, one-way video and two-way aud | 2010-08-30 12:00pm | |
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| 21st Century Skills
| | If you've been following public discourse in education over the last couple of years, you have likely witnessed the emergence of a new, ubiquitous catch phrase: "21st century skills." What is still lacking in the landscape of 21st century education, however, are examples of 21st century student work.
| 2010-08-30 12:00pm | |
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| K12 STEM Competition opens 20th year | | Applications for the Toshiba/National Science Teachers Association ExploraVision Awards Program competition will be available online starting August 30 | 2010-08-30 12:00pm | |
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| Emerging Technologies in Academic Libraries (emtacl10)
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Andrew Walsh reports on a new international conference on emerging technologies within academic libraries organised by the library of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and held in Trondheim, Norway in April 2010.
| 2010-08-30 12:00pm | |
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