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Education
This page gather important theoretical work and tools related to education.
Key works - Pedagogy - Education websites - e-Learning tools
Early Age - Research tools - Personal view - Reward Mechanisms - See also
See also Studying - Dedicate time and energy, be enthusiastic, read the chapter objectives and learn the answers to them, and explain what you read or The Bittersweet Art of Cutting Up Books, Dark Roasted Blend 2008
Key works
- Le maître ignorant, Jacques Rancière, 10-18 2004
- La méthode Jacotot in french Wikipédia article on Joseph Jacotot
- The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation, Jacques Rancière Translated, with an Introduction, by Kristin Ross, SUP 1991
- study of Ignorant Schoolmaster on the Studyplace wiki
- Jacques Rancière on BlogSpot, Focusing on the work of Jacques Rancière
- Inculture 2 - Une autre histoire de l'éducation, Franck Le Page, 2009
- Maria Montessori: una vita per i bambini, Gianluca Maria Tavarelli, 2007
- dedicated Wikipedia page in Italian
- Distributed Constructionism by Mitchel Resnick, Proceedings of the International Conference on the Learning Sciences 1996
- see also Supersizing the Mind by Andy Clark on distributed cognition and other models and TurtlesTermitesAndTrafficJams also by Mitchel Resnick
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Pedagogy
- Theory and Research in Education SAGE Publications
- Journal of Research in International Education Sage Ltd.
- Contemporary Educational Psychology Wikibook
- add a reference to the evolution of pedagogy/education with the "key improvements"
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Education websites
- OpenCourseWare Consortium free and open digital publication of high quality educational materials, organized as courses.
- Opencast collaboration of individuals, higher education institutions and organizations working together to explore, develop, define and document best practices and technologies for management of audiovisual content in academia.
- video learning
- aggregators
- ResearchChannel, Academic Earth, SciVee, YouTube EDU, lecturefox.com, ...
- Wayfaring Map Stingy Scholar's University Podcasts, Webcasts & OCWs
- specific institutions
- PIRSA - Perimeter Institute Recorded Seminar Archive permanent, free, searchable, and citable archive of recorded seminars from relevant bodies in physics.
- CERN Summer Student Lecture Programme
- USA
- universities and schools : Harvard, MIT World/MIT TechTV, Yale, Berkeley, Stanford, Caltech, Tufts, UCSD, WSU, GMU, NYU, ...
- institutions : Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), Santa Fe Institute (SFI), ...
- non acedemic institutions : Singularity University with its SU Lectures
- France
- others
- McGill in Canada, CERN in Switzerland, London Business School in UK, ...
- publishers on video sharing websites
- ScienceDirect, Scopus, Nature, ...
- see also the VLearn folder of my RSS feeds
- aggregators
- projects from the Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikiversity devoted to learning resources, learning projects, and research
- Wikibooks community for creating a free library of educational textbooks
- Wikipedia:Books books (user-generated collection of Wikipedia articles) created by the community.
- Grad community websites
- AskAPhD.org Forum Troubleshoot your studies
- ParisTech "Graduate School"
- GradShare - Where graduate students help each other succeed.
- Your Brain At Work by The Dana Foundation
- Scitable Learn Science at Nature, free science library and personal learning tool
- Classroom Ideas at Google For Educators - Geo Education
- JoVE: Journal of Visualized Experiments Biological Experiments and Protocols on Video, started in 2006
- WikiEducator turning the digital divide into digital dividends using free content and open networks.
- Wikimini Wikimini est une encyclopédie en ligne écrite par des enfants et des adolescents.
- Moodle.org "Course Management System (CMS), also known as a Learning Management System (LMS) or a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE)."
- Algodoo - Barrier Breaker in Science Education Umeå university
- 100 Incredible Lectures from the World’s Top Scientists by Sarah Russel, Best Colleges Online June 2009
- World Digital Library (WDL) by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
- Open Culture started by Dan Colman, Director & Associate Dean of Stanford’s Continuing Studies Program
- Khan Academy videos are licensed under a Creative Commons 3.0 License
- Stanford Center for Professional Development
- Udemy Academy of You
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e-Learning tools
- search on e-learning on Canal-U (french)
- tag e-learning Apprentissage à distance on the french PLUME project
- Learning management system (LMS) is software for delivering, tracking and managing training/education.
- Taking Notes Beyond the Classroom by Ben Eisen, Inside Higher Ed 2009
- Moodle.org open-source community-based tools for learning
- Course Management System (CMS), also known as a Learning Management System (LMS) or a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE).
- “Jetpack for Learning” Design Challenge Winners Announced at SXSW, Mozilla Labs Blog March 2010
- Startl Identifying talent and advancing products for the future of learning.
- Telepresence Education for a Smarter World by Giulio Prisco and J. Simone Riccardi, IEET May 2010
- teleXLR8 telepresence community for cultural acceleration.
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Early Age
- MIT Media Lab Lifelong Kindergarten
- Scratch imagine, program, share
- Wikimini L’encyclopédie pour enfants écrite par les enfants
- Vikidia L’encyclopédie des 8-13 ans que chacun peut améliorer
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Research tools
- 10 Excellent Science Search Engines, AltSearchEngines July 2009
- Mendeley Academic software for research papers
- Zotero collect, manage, and cite your research sources.
- SciVal Unlock the promise by Elsevier
- Comparison of reference management software on Wikipedia
- See also the To Do section of my bibliography page
- Academia.edu Who's researching what
- eScholarship provides open access, scholarly publishing services to the University of California and delivers a dynamics research platform to scholars worldwide
- FindAPhD Postgraduate, PhD and Doctoral Studentships (The World's Largest Database of PhD Opportunities)
- ePosters.net The Online Journal of Scientific Posters by Technology Networks
- OpenThesis free repository of theses, dissertations, and other academic documents, coupled with powerful search, organization, and collaboration tools.
- ArnetMiner Academic Researcher Social Network Search
- scientific social networks
- ResearchGATE leading professional network for scientists.
- VIVO enabling national networking of scientists
- SciSurfer The most up-to-date service for scientific information
- DigitalResearchTools (DiRT) tools and resources that can help scholars (particularly in the humanities and social sciences) conduct research more efficiently or creatively.
- World Association of Young Scientists (WAYS) Science, Remixed.
- CiteSeerX, Pennsylvania State University
- ChemxSeer Project by Keywords/Formulae/Name
Regarding data gathering or "hands-on experiment" (rather than document research) see Experiments Tools section organized around Elegant Solutions
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If you get tired, just print your degree ;)
Personal view
- efficiency
- autonomous praxis > guided praxis > reading > viewing
- cost
- viewing < reading < guided praxis < autonomous praxis
- consequently
- the involvment, or investment of cognitive resources (including attention), in the learning process might be directly correlated with its efficiency
Precisions on the different learning processes discussed
- autonomous praxis
- trial and error with the autonomous decision to learn this
- guided praxis
- trial and error initiated and managed by another individual
- reading
- assimilating what is to be learnt by actively moving accross the key notions
- viewing
- assimilating what is to be learnt by passively moving accross the key notions
Praxis directly confronts the knowledge gained by the individual to it's application and thus forces corrections, as opposed to other theoretical forms that provide no "direct resistance".
Also, education or passing on what has been learnt is a very efficient way to learn yet it can probably be integrated to a sub-part of autonomous praxis.
Note
It was a great pleasure to attend Gabriele Veneziano : Particules élémentaires, gravitation et cosmologie at the College de France in early March 2010, not for the content which was beyond my reach at that time, but to see a room filled with enthusiasts who were 2 or even 3 times my age.
“Those who stop learning find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists”. - Eric Hoffer
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Reward mechanisms
- How the Brain Encodes Reward by Okihide Hikosaka, MIT World May 2009
- Monitoring Dopamine Release During Reward Learning by Paul E. M. Phillips, MIT World May 2009
- Paul E. M. Phillips, University of Washington
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See also
- Cognitive Archeology links in History Idea Management for Seedea
- my notes on SC01 Seminar on Mind, Language and Cognitive Science
- my related projects
- generate daily exercises feed in Cookbook.Cognition
- Wiki as a learning tool
- the PIM wiki
- My Personal Cognitive Scaffolding
- Open Access Science
- Language Pot
- CAST Computer Assisted Self-Teaching
- analysis on Scale Free Punctuated Learning
- Feeling Complexity pedagogical value of a little device to make one "feel" complexity
- my delicious links tagged with "education"
- my personal research on computer assisted evolutionary epistemology (CAEE)
- Voyages Through Time by the SETI Institute
- Learn More, Study Less by Scott Young
- describing "Holistic Learning" and including several techniques (memorization, linking, ...)
- Programming Is the New Literacy by Marc Prensky, Edutopia 2008
- "Rote learning can be destructive not because repetition is unnecessary [...] but because it teaches a person to use one mindless response.", Ellen J. Langer - A Scholar of the Absent Mind, NYTimes.com 1997
- CourseRank streamlining the process of choosing the right courses
- Jürgen Schmidhuber papers on surprise, novelty, artificial creativity and curiosity
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