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Greg McVerry

@Spacekatgal This is why I fear the big push around competency based education or saying #highered needs to focus more on employable skills. Want your

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@Spacekatgal This is why I fear the big push around competency based education or saying #highered needs to focus more on employable skills. Want your kid to be a great coder some day? Start by teaching them children's literature, play chess, weave bracelets. The patterns of people Learning to enter data is easy. learning how to draw conclusions from data ta

Greg McVerry

I am currently running mine through @withknown http://quickthoughts.jgregorymcverry.com but I have also tested and run it through my Wordpress site. I

I am currently running mine through @withknown http://quickthoughts.jgregorymcverry.com but I have also tested and run it through my Wordpress site. I haven't set it up or tested it on micro.blog. Created an account but haven't decided if I am going to use it or stick with what I have. Not building a web app for that but scoping out one for my teaching workf

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@JennBinis Yes but the feds holding back on purse strings or dangling massive carrots during an economic crisis can quickly nationalize what were once

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@JennBinis Yes but the feds holding back on purse strings or dangling massive carrots during an economic crisis can quickly nationalize what were once federated standards. ....and while I have never hated ccss I have always found folks rewriting history to make the drafting and approval sound way more inclusive and open to the public than what realluy happen

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@altmetric I am currently thinking about microformats and my online classes. I am trying to encourage #highered peers (since we all teach the same cla

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@altmetric I am currently thinking about microformats and my online classes. I am trying to encourage #highered peers (since we all teach the same classes) to apply #indieweb technologies to a #GoOpen philosophy and share and remix our courses. Trying to be forward thinking about how we could track the metrics of remixes of learning materials using micorform

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@NotThatMelB Wow. Sounds amazing. I am actually running a GIS grant right now for New Haven Public School elementary and middle school teachers. Perso

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@NotThatMelB Wow. Sounds amazing. I am actually running a GIS grant right now for New Haven Public School elementary and middle school teachers. Personally I am exploring if a recent gypsy moth infestation (three year cycles) overlaps with power outage maps from last round of late blizzards. Due too curriculum most elementary teachers playing with CT maps. M

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@rpondiscio Agree. The role of background knowledge is probably the most stable variable in the entire history of comprehension research when explaini

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@rpondiscio Agree. The role of background knowledge is probably the most stable variable in the entire history of comprehension research when explaining variance in scores. And as you notes attempt to erase background knowledge from assessments lead to stupid assessments. Though I am also getting intrigued by exploration into disciplinary literacies and the

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This looks like an interesting approach I could take to try and finalize the #indieweb migration of my courses. But I want to try and do it on my own.

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This looks like an interesting approach I could take to try and finalize the #indieweb migration of my courses. But I want to try and do it on my own. I should be able to mark up the html of a learning html and then use the classes to render it differently on my syllabus website and class website.

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