- Crackdowns on monasteries as popular in 9th century China as early modern Europe. http://amzn.com/k/OPHBJ28S1CGD #Kindle #
- @InnovativeEdu Thanks. Just something I wrote today inspired by your tweet about uncollege. in reply to InnovativeEdu #
- Ian Morris talks about his thesis of geography driven #history (and more). http://ow.ly/4Jdpl A good summary of his book http://j.mp/jVDXLx #
- @InnovativeEdu @willrich45 My take on 'uncredentials' for 'unschooling' and 'uncollege' http://j.mp/lS88bR #edchat #edreform #ptchat in reply to InnovativeEdu #
- Princess frenzy finally reaches my cul-de-sac http://ow.ly/i/aSQB #
- "The New Old Way of Learning Languages: An article by Ernest Blum" – cute, clueless and clever in equal measure. http://ow.ly/4J8vc #ellchat #
- @DonaldClark That was my point. Teachers are included among professions out of political convenience. (Not pro-teacher btw, just pro-fair.) in reply to DonaldClark #
- The special nature of Chinese poetry… http://amzn.com/k/2BQY0CHQ95Q6B #Kindle #
- Had no idea of 751AD battle between Arab and Chinese Empires. How narrow is our history education. http://amzn.com/k/1KP0R1ASJ6N9W #Kindle #
- @DonaldClark I was applying the narrow meaning of the term "profession". Few of these http://j.mp/iDhGGu have less or are as numerous. in reply to DonaldClark #
- A popular emperor as rare in China as elsewhere… http://amzn.com/k/CZHQQWX1D6HL #Kindle #
- @DonaldClark What other "profession" has average salary of £32,000pa? Seems teachers are professionals only when they're being criticised. in reply to DonaldClark #
- New on Researchity: Towards a system of uncredentials for uneducation http://j.mp/lcOGgN #
- Private virtue in conflict with the needs of governance in Sui China as today… http://amzn.com/k/2QILZM24VDBZ4 #Kindle #
- Daoism and religion in China not straightforward analogs to Western concepts http://amzn.com/k/319LQOJJXEQ9V #Kindle #
- @InnovativeEdu Haven't used TimetoKnow-their samples look fine. But skeptical of learning programs in general unless learner has SpLD. in reply to InnovativeEdu #
- @InnovativeEdu In language development, buzz-word compliant learning programs matter less than motivation, opportunity and time. #engchat in reply to InnovativeEdu #
- "[IQ while useful] should not be viewed as a pristine measure of something innate and immutable about a person." http://ow.ly/4IlwJ #edchat #
- RT @InnovativeEdu: Social media doesn’t “cause” unprofessional or inappropriate behavior. It “catches” it. http://nblo.gs/h9faz #edchat #
- @birklearns There are just too many ways students can be clients. Some good, some bad. Have had students ask for better grades as clients! in reply to birklearns #
- @birklearns Not inevitably. But often enough. See here for examples of consequences of market metaphor in education: http://j.mp/apqcO3 in reply to birklearns #
- I knew #AdnrewMarr used licence fee money to gag the press. Just not that he had £600,000/yr! Last shred of sympathy gone http://j.mp/e7Ub2M #
- @birklearns Casting students in the position of clients leads down dangerous paths. Makes easy to treat teachers like McDo workers. #edchat #
- @findingDulcinea @MeganLearner Of course, asking for a lack of politics is in itself a political act. These are not easy issues. #edchat in reply to findingDulcinea #
- I highly recommend: "Understanding the Principalship: Metaphorical Themes" http://j.mp/fa0GqR to #edchat Shows a complex mix of expectations #
- A good school administrator will put the welfare of teachers and students first. Educational ideology second. #edchat #
- What is Confucianism… http://amzn.com/k/2C67YY9O0MTC1 #Kindle #
- Ditto RT @sciencegoddess: Why I didn't know @improbresearch had a youtube channel until today is beyond me. Subscribed. http://bit.ly/fliqJB #
- RT @lorddavinator: #andrewmarr shouldnt be embrassed about the affair you should be embrassed you allowed the #dailymail to have to story #
- What was #AndrewMarr thinking on #StartTheWeek y-day while pontificating on the evils of anonymity on the Internet? @BBC find new presenter! #
- @crazywizdom He took out a super injunction to cover his affair! Don't care about affair. Care about his hypocrisy. in reply to crazywizdom #
- #AndrewMarr "Uneasy"?! Are you kidding?! This is a #NixonMoment Should resign from journalism immediately to keep shreds of credibility. #
- Great annotation of Cognitive Linguistics by Prof Vyv Evans http://ow.ly/4F7Or #linguistics #
- There's nothing natural about the North being synonymous with up… http://amzn.com/k/47QB0P94MJM3 #Kindle #
- @KristianStill IMHO Repurposing #Moodle for what it wasn't designed for (class-based teaching) probably not a good idea. Other tools better! in reply to KristianStill #
- Only a week left for early bird registrations for Dyslexia Guild Summer Conference 2011 – 30 June http://ow.ly/4gF3P #dyslexia #edchatuk #
- http://sophia.org is an interesting take on the repository of learning/teaching objects via @lmalita #edtech #edchat #
- Thx @lmalita for the links to research on student assessments of information credibility http://bit.ly/eGnSBt & http://bit.ly/ijXKBf #edchat #
- My #mootuk11 in Tweets: Day 1: http://j.mp/hyuzjf and Day 2: http://j.mp/hbGhXB. Brings back memories and all the important links. #
- How about measuring fairness and equality instead? "Archbishop of Canterbury hails plan to measure happiness" http://ow.ly/1sFlMF #
- Looking forward to reading more: RT @ianaddison: children made websites about the village, now we're putting QR codes up around the place… #
- Essential #Easter entertainment: "Household Items that Make Great Cat Toys" http://ow.ly/1sEsQe #
- "How cn we learn from someone else when we’re absorbed in conversations tht only confirm our already-held biases" http://ow.ly/4FJA3 #edchat #
- "percentiles are good for communicating test scores of individuals but bad for doing statistical analyses of group data" http://ow.ly/4FxIo #
- ShowMe does look like an interesting idea for teachers: http://www.showmeapp.com/6a4q #edtech #
- Contest of the worst ever powerpoint slide: http://ow.ly/1sDqww #
- @claire7179 True. But sometimes problems are more easily solved in person – it's much easier to finetune the problem through synchronous Q&A in reply to claire7179 #
- @claire7179 Moodle Surgery: session where experts answer user questions about particular topics and users answer each others' questions. in reply to claire7179 #
- Well put: "[Scholars] try to plug gaps but often first must create the gaps by cutting holes in the existing scholarship" http://ow.ly/4FkHq #
- Essential: "Scholarship only *sounds* polite on paper, but under that jargon is fangs and claws. It’s a clever code." http://ow.ly/4FkCG #
- Things I'd like to see at #mootuk12 built-in unconference, #Moodle surgeries, schedule till 6pm, more Open Source exhibitors… #mootuk11 #
- "When I need to know something I learn it. I do not think back 8,10,20 years to a boring class…in high school." http://ow.ly/4F0ss #edchat #
- "We linguists know that the results of armchair reflection about one's own language are not always empirically reliable." http://ow.ly/4EZYL #
- I wish I was half as smart as Mark Liberman of @languagelog and could produce similar analyses of complex issues: http://ow.ly/4EZPg #
- @mjrobbins The real tip: Give the subjunctive a miss! See http://j.mp/f0LxFE #engchat in reply to mjrobbins #
- Excellent summary of strengths and weaknesses of #Moodle as a learning platform: http://ow.ly/4EYGo +assessment, monitoring -collaboration #
- @schoolsict I enjoyed #mootuk11 enormously but I'm not sure if I could justify it if I was self-funding. Would have liked more hard content. in reply to schoolsict #
- RT @melgarrish: RT @BobToms100: Google Apps meets Moodle (integration): http://bit.ly/iRorZ #mootuk11 #GTASYD #edchat #ukedchat #
- Wonderful #Moodle 2 in verse by @james_ulcc: "The Judges’ Tale (Sharing Files in Moodle 2.0)" http://ow.ly/4EXMi #
- Thanks @pcspecialist for a great service and a great custom-built computer. #
- #Want to read the research (very amusing tweet): RT @giorgia_riboni: working on person #deixis in #Twitter conversations #
- I must say I prefer the Ubuntu Unity environment to Win7 or MacOS. What's more, I'm sure my mother would too. #linux #edtech #
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