Experience and Educationis the best concise statement on education ever published by John Dewey, the man acknowledged to be the pre-eminent educational theorist of the twentieth century. Written more than two decades after Democracy and Education(Dewey's most comprehensive statement of his position in educational philosophy), this book demonstrates how Dewey reformulated his ideas as a result of his intervening experience with the progressive schools and in the light of the criticisms his theories had received. Analysing both "traditional" and "progressive" education, Dr. Dewey here insists that neither the old nor the new education is adequate and that each is miseducative because neither of them applies the principles of a carefully developed philosophy of experience. Many pages of this volume illustrate Dr. Dewey's ideas for a philosophy of experience and its relation to education. He particularly urges that all teachers and educators looking for a new movement in education should think in terms of the deeped and larger issues of education rather than in terms of some divisive "ism" about education, even such an "ism" as "progressivism." His philosophy, here expressed in its most essential, most readable form, predicates an American educational system that respects all sources of experience, on that offers a true learning situation that is both historical and social, both orderly and dynamic.

经验与教育 = Experience and education

NUDGE: IMPROVING DECISIONS ABOUT HEALTH, WEALTH, AND HAPPINESS by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein Penguin Books, 2009, 312 pp, ISBN 978-0-14-311526-7This book is best described formally as a general explanation of and advocacy for libertarian paternalism, a term coined by the authors in earlier publications. Informally, it is about how leaders, systems, organizations, and governments can nudge people to do the things the nudgers want and need done for the betterment of the nudgees, or of society. It is paternalism in the sense that "it is legitimate for choice architects to try to influence people's behavior in order to make their lives longer, healthier, and better", (p. 5) It is libertarian in that "people should be free to do what they like - and to opt out of undesirable arrangements if they want to do so", (p. 5) The built-in possibility of opting out or making a different choice preserves freedom of choice even though people's behavior has been influenced by the nature of the presentation of the information or by the structure of the decisionmaking system. I had never heard of libertarian paternalism before reading this book, and I now find it fascinating.Written for a general audience, this book contains mostly social and behavioral science theory and models, but there is considerable discussion of structure and process that has roots in mathematical and quantitative modeling. One of the main applications of this social system is economic choice in investing, selecting and purchasing products and services, systems of taxes, banking (mortgages, borrowing, savings), and retirement systems. Other quantitative social choice systems discussed include environmental effects, health care plans, gambling, and organ donations. Softer issues that are also subject to a nudge-based approach are marriage, education, eating, drinking, smoking, influence, spread of information, and politics. There is something in this book for everyone.The basis for this libertarian paternalism concept is in the social theory called "science of choice", the study of the design and implementation of influence systems on various kinds of people. The terms Econs and Humans, are used to refer to people with either considerable or little rational decision-making talent, respectively. The various libertarian paternalism concepts and systems presented are tested and compared in light of these two types of people. Two foundational issues that this book has in common with another book, Network of Echoes: Imitation, Innovation and Invisible Leaders, that was also reviewed for this issue of the Journal are that 1 ) there are two modes of thinking (or components of the brain) - an automatic (intuitive) process and a reflective (rational) process and 2) the need for conformity and the desire for imitation are powerful forces in human behavior. …

Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness

How to ... be a reflective practitioner.

Self-Directed Learning, A Guide for Learners and Teachers

Flip your classroom: Reach every student in every class every day

In this paper, we introduce the knowledge appropriation model as an analytical framework to study co-creation processes in School-University Partnerships. The model explains transformative learning processes in the context of innovation adoption in organizations, communities, groups and individuals and how they are interconnected. We demonstrate the suitability of the model by describing several cases of Educational Living Labs currently being developed for introducing innovative teaching practices in STEM subjects in secondary schools. We derive a research model that relates co-creation in Living Labs to the eventual adoption of learning innovation in schools.

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Analyzing Co-Creation in Educational Living Labs using the Knowledge Appropriation Model.

To tackle the challenges of the 21st century, future scientists and engineers have to understand the interplay between societal challenges and technical solutions as early as possible in their education. They also have to develop the communication and the teamwork skills required to be effective professionals. To address this issue, the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) introduced a new Global Issues program to all 1800 first year engineering students. In this paper, we present this novel program and reflect on our experience. Our results suggest that student who showed positive attitude towards teamwork, benefited the most from the course and increase their perspectives on societal issues as measured by their moral reasoning after the course.

Increasing the Perspectives of Engineering Undergraduates on Societal Issues through an Interdisciplinary Program

Peer assessment is seen as a powerful supporting tool to achieve scalability in the evaluation of complex assignments in large courses, possibly virtual ones, as in the context of massive open online courses (MOOCs). However, the adoption of peer assessment is slow due in part to the lack of ready-to-use systems. Furthermore, the validity of peer assessment is still under discussion. In this paper, in order to tackle some of these issues, we present a dataset containing assessment of student submissions by peer students and by instructors during our Social Media course with 60 master's level university students. The dataset allows to train and test algorithms predicting grades of instructors based on grades of peer students.

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Peer Assessment Dataset

Experiments in Remote Collective Robotics. New Pedagogical Scenarios

In less than a decade, smartphones and mobile applications spread like wildfire and dramatically improved aspects of our professional and private lives, from efficiency to safety. However, these applications are still in their infancy and mostly provide mobile versions of online Internet services or arcade games. With the exception of simple location-based query applications, context-awareness is largely ignored. However, it is not hard to imagine advanced mobile social networking applications -- SNAPPs for short -- that could proactively assist users in everyday tasks, improving their quality of life. Such services would require massive data collection, processing and communication between mobile devices. Unfortunately, the current centralised communication paradigm represents a major barrier to such intense networking. In this paper, we claim that a fundamental paradigm shift in communication is required to allow such application to see the light of day. The paper claims that such a shift is possible and that it resides in moving towards decentralised communication by taking advantage of the largely untapped network, storage and processing power capabilities offered by idle mobile devices. The paper presents and discusses a number of research questions that must be addressed in order to achieve this paradigm shift.

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Denis Gillet

Papers

Analyzing Co-Creation in Educational Living Labs using the Knowledge Appropriation Model.

Increasing the Perspectives of Engineering Undergraduates on Societal Issues through an Interdisciplinary Program

Peer Assessment Dataset

Experiments in Remote Collective Robotics. New Pedagogical Scenarios

Reinventing Mobile Community Computing and Communication