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Why Parents Need to Let Their Children Fail
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions A new study explores what happens to students who aren’t allowed to suffer through setbacks. Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: Loving struggle and the benefits of fortitude come from the encounter of person to person… Continue reading
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#ETMOOC
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions A MOOC about educational technology & media – Coming January 2013 Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: And now the etMOOC (educational technology MOOC) to go along with the original cMOOCs and the more broadly hyped… Continue reading
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Originally posted on All MOOCs, All The Time: My research and scholarship revolves around how learning technology (specifically recent explosions in distance and online learning technologies such as Khan Academy, cMOOCs and xMOOCs) affects the teaching profession. There is great… Continue reading
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Indus civilization food: How scientists are figuring out what curry was like 4,500 years ago. – Slate Magazine
Working with other Indian and American archaeologists, the two applied new methods for pinpointing the elusive remains of spices that don’t show up in flotation tanks. Instead of analyzing dirt from Indus kitchens, they collected cooking pots from the… Continue reading
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Mothers of Jews who like bacon: Where Facebook meets identity politics | csid
Super interesting. Tom Scott did something extraordinary last week: he typed in searches on Facebook’s new Graph Search feature and posted images of the results on his tumblr, called ActualFacebookGraphSearches. … which sounds quite un-extraordinary. Except that Scott – something… Continue reading