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POPSTeresian Association Trivia about the Teresian Association which is an international lay association founded in 1911 by Blessed Pedro Poveda in Spain to share the evangelizing mission of the Church in the field of Education and Culture.
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POPSThe "seven habits of highly effective teachers" I think this is actually a pretty good summary of some important traits for teachers to cultivate. It's based on observations of a small group of award-winning primary teachers, but it has broad applicability, I think. Sure, it's a little vague, and it's kind of predictable, but sometimes bullet-pointed lists can be handy things anyhow. The source has more quotations and more detail.
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POPSRethinking Terrestrial Pedagogy: Nature, Cultures, and Ethics In this article, I offer a clarification of the ambiguities surrounding the pivotal concepts that have shaped and will continue to shape environmental education movement in the United States and beyond: nature, conservation, sustainable development, and environmental justice. I point out that dualistic frameworks not only polarize environmental educators' ethical, political, and pedagogical values but also oversimplify complicated ecological issues. It is critical to generate inclusive and collective pedagogical efforts that recognize the interactions between the natural and the cultural, the possibility of integrating ecocentric and technocentric conservation education movements, and the need to foster humility for ongoing dialogues concerning sustainable development and environmental justice.
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POPSConnecting Informal and Formal Learning Experiences in the Age of Participatory Media The renaissance stimulated by the World Wide Web is generating multiple formats and channels of communication and creativity. These include blogs, wikis, instant messaging, and texting in the realm of writing, podcasting in audio, countless sites such as Flickr for distribution and sharing of images, and video shared via YouTube and other sites. The Pew Internet and American Life project reports that the majority of all teens are now engaged in active creation of online content. The rise of social media reflects new opportunities and outlets for creativity.
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POPSteachers A total fabrication; Pedagogy is an art that is taken up voluntarily. All are scaled from poor to masterful. Bottom Line.
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POPSWriting in the Digital Age This is a guest post by Alex Reid for the On the Horizon series on distributed learning environments. Alex is an Associate Professor of English and Professional Writing at the State University of New York, College at Cortland. His research focuses on issues of rhetoric, composition, and pedagogy in media networks and emerging media technologies. His recent book, The Two Virtuals: New Media and Composition (Parlor Press, 2007), received honorable mention for the W. Ross Winterowd Award for best book in composition theory in 2007.
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POPSProblem-based learning (PBL) in a biochemistry course Hal White of the University of Delaware (a major center for developing PBL strategies) gives an informal introduction to his style of using current and classic research to develop the "problems" that his students will tackle in the classroom.
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POPSTreading Dangerous Ground
"Or does the religious left have to mobilize much as the religious right has? On the one hand, I feel that these efforts are vital to counter a noxious breed of conservatism that is trying to change the face of American liberty. On the other, I worry that by emphasizing the faith based nature of our morality, the religious left is effectively doing exactly the same thing we are opposed to the religious right doing -- that is we are trying to impose a morality based on religious precepts. Does the fact that the morality is more open, more tolerant, more permissive, and more accepting of other's rights to freedom of conscience excuse the fact that it is, in fact, imposing our morality on others? In the long run, I'd rather see that than the imposition of the religious right's morality. Clearly, the imposition of a progressive or liberal religious morality is a lesser evil than sitting back and allowing the religious right to go unopposed. Another issue I worry about is that the curren
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POPSJISC eLearning More a handy aide memoire for me than a share, I suppose, but someone else might find it useful