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Students Who Are Tested in a Context Differing Significantly from their Instructional Environment Do Worse

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Slashdot is running a story about a highly questionable research study: The less pupils use computers at school and at home, the better they do in international tests of literacy and maths, the largest study of its kind says today…. Indeed, the more pupils used computers, the worse they performed, said Thomas Fuchs and Ludger … Read more

OpenContent Update

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So we’ve been updating all sorts of things lately. OpenContent.org has been laying more or less unproductive for a while, so it seemed like time to update it as well. OpenContent.org is now a mini-portal into several collections of open educational resources and the discussion forums around those. Have a look around, and if you … Read more

Which Die Are You?

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Take the quiz at dicepool.com Absolutely hysterical. Best quiz I’ve taken forever. From the excellent explanations at the end of the quiz: This survey is completely scientific. Despite the mind-boggling complexity of mankind, the billions of distinctly different personalities found on Earth can easily be divided into seven simple categories that correspond to the five … Read more