{"id":2973,"date":"2015-05-21T05:07:53","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T05:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?p=2973"},"modified":"2016-06-09T21:29:34","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T21:29:34","slug":"life-in-links-2015-05-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/life-in-links-2015-05-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Life in Links 2015-05-21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"sub_0010 by John Johnston, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/troutcolor\/17094415894\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/c2.staticflickr.com\/8\/7781\/17094415894_c0cbf725f0_z.jpg\" alt=\"sub_0010\" width=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul class=\"linklist\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hybridpedagogy.com\/journal\/homework-is-a-social-justice-issue\/\">Homework is a Social Justice Issue &#8211; Hybrid Pedagogy<\/a><br \/>\n<blockquote><p>While schools can provide low-income students with warmth, food, supplies, and a knowledgeable teacher, asking students to bring essential work home with them may remove those pillars of support from their educational process. Further, making in-class work dependent on progress made at home invites that stress into the classroom and diminishes the positive effect of those support structures that the school has put in place.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Powerful post especially as closing the gap is in the news today. Interesting criticism of flipped learning too.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ouseful.info\/2015\/05\/19\/things-i-take-for-granted-287-grabbing-stuff-from-web-form-drop-down-lists\">Things I Take for Granted #287 \u2013 Grabbing Stuff from Web Form Drop Down Lists<\/a> a really nice geeky post.<br \/>\nI\u2019ve often done similar with a combination of find &amp; replace and multi line editing but this is so much neater (and geekier). Apart from anything else this feeds I need a computer with \u2018proper\u2019 apps as opposed to a phone\/tablet sometimes. (This post is however pulled together multi app style on an iPad, pinbook and drafts). Read with the last link in this post. I\u2019ve subscribed to Tony Hirst\u2019s blog for years, much flies over my head. But I am ready, or nearly in the zone (ZPD) for this one.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/news\/archive\/2015-05\/15\/raspberry-pi-price-drop\">Raspberry Pi Model B+ gets price cut to \u00a316 (Wired UK)<\/a> I am currently dipping. My toes back in the raspberry pi water tempted to buy a couple just in case.<\/li>\n<li>speaking of raspberry pis I\u2019ve just set up a Twitter bot on mine <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DailyCreateBot\">DailyCreateBot (@DailyCreateBot)<\/a> which has been fun. I&#8217;ll be blogging more about this.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/blogs\/wiredcampus\/want-to-make-your-course-gameful-a-michigan-professors-tool-could-help\/56649?cid=wc\">Want to Make Your Course \u2018Gameful\u2019? A Michigan Professor\u2019s Tool Could Help \u2013 Wired Campus &#8211; Blogs &#8211; The Chronicle of Higher Education<\/a><br \/>\n<blockquote><p>The system lets students choose their own path through a course, selecting the assignments that interest and challenge them. At its heart is\u00a0a tool, called the \u201cgrade predictor,\u201d that helps to \u201cmanage some of the chaos\u201d of such a personalized system. The grade predictor also helps students figure out what they need to do to reach the classroom goals they set for themselves.<\/p>\n<p>GradeCraft also aims to give students the ability to fail without detrimental consequences. There are many assignments to choose from, so any students who do poorly on one can find plenty of other tasks to redeem themselves. Instructors, meanwhile, can allow students to revise their work.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Echoes of <a href=\"http:\/\/ds106.us\">DS106<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/hotmilkydrink.typepad.com\/my_weblog\/2013\/04\/how-computer-games-can-help-us-learn-why-kids-dont-fail.html\">Derek Robertson on failure<\/a> here.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.evenfromhere.org\/2015\/05\/13\/an-eye-opening-discussion\/\">An Eye Opening Discussion<\/a><br \/>\n<blockquote><p>I don\u2019t live in a box. I know that teens and adults use different devices for different purposes. But I was still surprised by how unbalanced their responses were compared to what mine (and I suspect most other adults) would be.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Some nice pupil produced diagrams about the devices they use. I wonder if we will miss the sort of skills pointed to in the second link in this post.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Homework is a Social Justice Issue &#8211; Hybrid Pedagogy While schools can provide low-income students with warmth, food, supplies, and a knowledgeable teacher, asking students to bring essential work home with them may remove those pillars of support from their educational process. 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