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RCampus is a collaborative learning environment that utilizes our popular Open Education Management System.
At RCampus, you can do all your school-related work from building personal and group websites to managing your courses, eportfolios, academic communities, and much more. RCampus is free to individual faculty and students.
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Why I Ban Laptops in My Classroom
David Cole – October 23rd, 2008 – (Brave New Classroom 2.0)“Could you repeat the question?” That is still the most common response from my law students at Georgetown University. It is inevitably asked while the student glances up from the laptop screen that otherwise occupies his or her field of vision. After I repeat the question, the student’s gaze, as often as not, returns to the computer screen, as if the answer might appear there. Who knows? With instant messaging, maybe it will.
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Students at every level, from grade school to grad school, face dramatic changes in the institutions they attend thanks to new digital technologies. PCs, the Internet, whiteboards, presentation software, and other high-tech devices, once considered educational aides for the library, the media lab, and the home, are increasingly a central part of the classroom curriculum itself, with results that have yet to be fully understood.
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Recently our institution has been spending a considerable amount of time exploring Charlotte Danielson’s Framework for Teaching which is best explained directly on the her website:
“The Framework for Teaching is a research-based set of components of instruction, aligned to the INTASC standards, and grounded in a constructivist view of learning and teaching.”
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A scholarly, peer-reviewed, international journal that supports emerging scholars and the development of evidence-based practice and that publishes research and scholarship about teaching and learning in formal, semi-formal and informal educational settings and sites
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