101 Important Questions To Ask Yourself by Celes on Oct 30, 2010 | ShareThis Email This Post “The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions.” – John Simone What questions do you ask yourself every day? Believe it or not, the kind of questions you ask determine the kind of life you lead. That’s because your questions trigger its own set of answers, which lead to certain emotions, which then lead to certain actions (or inactions), followed by results. Some people like to ask questions like “Why am I so unlucky?” If you’re someone who normally doesn’t self-reflect, you might be stumped by questions. Today, I believe questions are a key to self-awareness and personal growth. It doesn’t matter if you get stumped in the beginning, or if you don’t know the answers to the questions at first. I’ve come up with a set of important questions for your self-reflection. Remember, there is no one final answer. Here they are: Who are you? Image ©Who is/are the most important person(s) to you in the world?
ELLI_in_HE_and_DTS_Posters School Improvement – The Dave Brailsford Model Today there is a great article on the BBC website about the inexorable progress of the Sky cycling team under the expert stewardship of Dave Brailsford – see here. The ‘aggregation of marginal gains approach‘ is now well known and can be easily summarised as identifying those small performance factors that, when aggregated together, can have a significant cumulative impact. This can apply to teachers tweaking their pedagogy to transform their practice; students breaking down their tasks to focus on the constituent parts to improve; or school leaders aligning their school priorities. The article takes the process a step forward by focusing on the key developments for moving from good to outstanding as a team. The first quote from the article that immediately stood out was the following: “You’ll get more from a £900,000 rider with a coach than you would from a £1m rider without one.” This seamlessly applies to a school context. Hone in on the important data: You get what you pay for:
High Tech High projects and books Project Based Learning at HTH High Tech High: buy the book These projects are examples of the work that is done at all of the High Tech High Schools. It is our record of what we have done and how to get there. Teachers can utilize this to show off what they have done with their students, and get ideas from others teachers. Contrary to what you may have heard on Oprah, not only do High Tech High students read books, but they actually produce books too. Humans have always had an innate desire to explore past the boundaries of Earth to the Moon and beyond. This senior math project was the third and final project for the "Computational Thinking" class. During this 2 week intersession course, students learned about the physics of surfboard design, and created handplanes in the woodshop, which we then used for bodysurfing. Second graders took on the role of scientists to investigate the role of bees in our ecosystem, and the various ways bees are being threatened. A community is a system.
Platforms The Aalto University Platforms are designed to initiate and coordinate multi- and interdisciplinary research and teaching in some thematic area. The Platforms bring together Aalto's competences in the area, and increase Aalto's external visibility. Primary purposes of the Platforms are to facilitate and strengthen the industry-academia collaboration, and to increase the internal cooperation within the University. The Platforms and their agendas are born through a bottom-up process, and aim at concrete benefits for the participating actors.
Life Secrets and Tips | Life Secrets and Tips | 50 Life Secrets and Tips | Life Secrets | Secrets For A Natural Life Life Secrets and Tips Life Secrets and Tips, 50 Life Secrets and Tips, Life Secrets, Secrets For A Natural Life: Memorize something everyday. Not only will this leave your brain sharp and your memory functioning, you will also have a huge library. * Don’t take life so seriously! : Learn to laugh at the little things and this whole “existence” thing will be a whole lot easier. * Develop an endless curiosity about this world.: Become an explorer and view the world as your jungle. * Learn to focus only on the present. * Smile more often. * Memorize something everyday. * Constantly try to reduce your attachment to possessions. * Remember people’s names so that they feel appreciated and for your own future benefit when you want something from that person. * Even more specifically, live in THIS moment. * Drink water.
The Home of Building Learning Power How to move your lessons from good to outstanding | Teacher Network | Guardian Professional Where would I be without Twitter? I have decided to elaborate on this AfL strategy, following this tweet from my @TeacherToolkit account on #ukedchat 3.11.11. My tweet said "#ukedchat Missed out tonight, look forward to reading ideas. My favourite T&L strategy at the moment is "Pose, Pause...Pounce, Bounce" #AfL". Firstly, this concept is not mine. So it is at this point, where I will be honourable and credit a colleague who I think has a money-spinning idea here. The fabulous Mrs Pam Fearnley delivered the session. What is it? It is a simple, yet sophisticated, AfL (Assessment for Learning) questioning technique to help teachers move from good-to-outstanding. Why is it useful? For many reasons. The strategy encouraged teachers to take risks and tease out the "learning" in class. How does it work? I have listed the four-part approach below with additional information that I hope explains the method. • Give the context of your approach to the class. This is the hard part. Explore! 1. 2. 3.
UnBoxed: online issue 3, spring 2009 Brandon Davidson, Biology, High Tech High Media Arts Randy Scherer, Humanities, High Tech High Media Arts download pdf (1.7mb) Is it safe to go in the water? This question began an exploration of San Diego’s beaches and bays, and of the biological, ecological, political and cultural factors that affect the overall health of local coastal ecosystems. In biology, students analyzed indicator bacteria levels at six popular coastal locations, as well as the health and diversity of microscopic life in local plankton populations. In humanities, students generated original research questions and pursued these as journalists. Teacher Reflection The critical factor was that we started with questions that truly made all of us curious. —Randy Scherer Student Reflection My video explained the dangers of surfing in polluted water. —Stephanie Luna, 11th grade
Video Magnification banner slider Many seemingly static scenes contain subtle changes that are invisible to the naked human eye. However, it is possible to pull out these small changes from videos through the use of algorithms we have developed. We give a way to visualize these small changes by amplifying them and we present algorithms to pull out interesting signals from these videos, such as the human pulse, sound from vibrating objects and the motion of hot air. Videos Software and Code Eulerian Video Magnification code Matlab code and executables implementing Eulerian video processing for amplifying color and motion changes. Phase Based Video Motion Processing code Matlab code for implementing the new and improved phase-based motion magnification pipeline. Videoscope Web interface for motion and color magnification. Publications (Magnifying Motion and Color Changes) Publications (Analysis of Small Motions) People Faculty: Students, Postdocs and Affiliates: Collaborators: Edward H. Talks
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The Nature of Learning: Using Research to Inspire Practice Key messages || Executive summary || Table of contents || How to obtain this publication || Other Information Executive summary Why such interest in learning? Over recent years, learning has moved increasingly centre stage for a range of powerful reasons that resonate politically as well as educationally across many countries, as outlined by Dumont and Istance (Chapter 1). OECD societies and economies have experienced a profound transformation from reliance on an industrial to a knowledge base. Similar factors help to explain the strong focus on measuring learning outcomes (including the Programme for International Student Assessment [PISA ]) over the past couple of decades, which in turn generates still greater attention on learning. The rapid development and ubiquity of ICT are re-setting the boundaries of educational possibilities. Complete executive summary Table of contents ForewordExecutive summaryChapter 1. How to obtain this publication Government officials can go on OLIS.
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