Myths About Learning

Will Rogers once said, “It isn’t what people don’t know that hurts them. It’s what they do know that just ain’t so.” All of us – teachers, parents, and students – retain outdated ideas about learning that are based largely on our previous experiences in school. Modern brain science has helped steer us in the right direction.

The schools of the Independent Curriculum Group put students at the center of the education process. We are part of a growing movement of leading college preparatory schools that emphasize site-based, teacher-generated curriculum for advanced courses.

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Gardner says basic values remain precious in a cyber age

What’s the Most Important Lesson You Learned from a Teacher?

Arbeitsgruppe Multimedia and Security

Leiterin der Arbeitsgruppe:

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jana Dittmann

Fakultät für Informatik
Advanced Multimedia and Security
Institut für Technische und Betriebliche Informationssysteme
Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg

avantgame: full design details of how one teacher is gamifying the entire school year. I LOVE IT. this is smart, intrinsic design bit.ly/oM7cEJ

Codecademy is the easiest way to learn how to code. It's interactive, fun, and you can do it with your friends.

On Teaching Online is an ongoing project designed to collect the best resources and ideas together to support online teaching. Instructional resources, workshops and examples of methods, research and practical tips will all be shared with members.

On Teaching Online is a website and community, a research project and book all wrapped up together. It began several years ago at Purdue University Calumet where we were teaching and doing faculty development in educational technology.

Teaching & Learning Mathematics with Technology using Numerical Methods,
Computer Algebra Systems & Linux Clusters!

The P2PU Course Design Handbook is the creation of previous course organizers and course design experts. It is continually improved by the P2PU community. All advice within is based on past experience and best practices, but is in no way the law. Experimentation with course design is always encouraged at P2PU!

I have written an introductory CS textbook using Python. It is published by Franklin, Beedle & Associates. If you are interested in reviewing or adopting this textbook, contact Jim Leisy at FBA. Intructor resources including problem solutions and exam questions are available from the publisher. Click an edition below to access edition-specific public resources.

Teaching students with new tools, enthusiasm, and belief that teaching is a noble calling.

This course will cover basic concepts of Javascript programming and the DOM (document object model)

Edu-sig, through its mailing list, provides an informal venue for comparing notes and discussing future possibilities for Python in education. Its origins trace to Guido van Rossum's pioneering Computer Programming for Everybody (CP4E)

PyLighter is a program that simply highlights the lines of Python source files as they are used by running code, in real time and at full speed. PyLighter is a tool for beginning programmers to experiment with the relationship between static code and dynamic program behavior. It's also a useful tool for project demonstrations to help non-programmers understand that programs have this dual static-dynamic nature.

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Solutions Manual
A solutions manual is available to instructors. Please contact us to obtain a copy.

Teaching Material
This book originated as a set of notes for a third-year signal processing class at EPFL, and was refined over several years of teaching; its contents have been tuned to fit a schedule of about 25 2-hour classes. We are working on a set of PowerPoint slides displaying the fundamental concepts and the key figures in the book which can be used as classroom teaching material. Please contact us if you are interested in obtaining a copy.

A computing device for every teacher and student so they can access the Internet at school or at home? That, along with an embrace of cloud computing, Creative Commons, and open-source technologies is part of a new set of recommendations from the U.S. Department of Education

What makes a great teacher great? Who are the professors students remember long after graduation? This book, the conclusion of a fifteen-year study of nearly one hundred college teachers in a wide variety of fields and universities, offers valuable answers for all educators.

The short answer is--it's not what teachers do, it's what they understand. Lesson plans and lecture notes matter less than the special way teachers comprehend the subject and value human learning. Whether historians or physicists, in El Paso or St. Paul, the best teachers know their subjects inside and out--but they also know how to engage and challenge students and to provoke impassioned responses. Most of all, they believe two things fervently: that teaching matters and that students can learn.

According to the New York Times Bits blog, a recent study funded by the US Department of Education (PDF) found that on the whole, online learning environments actually led to higher tested performance than face-to-face learning environments. “On average, students in online learning conditions performed better than those receiving face-to-face instruction,” concluded the report’s authors in their key findings.

Costanza asked Sussman why MIT had switched away from Scheme for their introductory programming course, 6.001.

Opera has created the Web Standards Curriculum (WSC) in association with the Yahoo! Developer Network. This tutorial course takes students from complete beginner to having a solid grounding in standards-based Web design, including HTML, CSS, and JavaScript development. The course is supported by top companies and organizations such as the Web Standards Project (WaSP) and Yahoo!.