Nevertheless, we warn institutions against making dramatic leaps into the digital learning space without understanding how students will respond or how technology complements, instead of merely replaces, teaching.
8 highly useful apps for reading and writing on the iPad - Computerworld - 0 views
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some good reader tools for ipad.
BusinessWorld Online: The role of technology in education - 0 views
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I like the idea of online learning's rite of passage
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Online learning’s rite of passage Email, social media, and even the telephone all faced resistance when they were introduced to the market; but convenience and necessity soon trumped concerns around security and the detriment of human interactivity. Online learning faces similar arguments. We expect that opposition will subside in the near future as learning evolves with student demand, not through mandates from budget-minded administrators.
Law.com - Minimizing the Legal Risks of Using Online Social Networks - 0 views
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This is interesting given we have been discussing copyrights and Common works.
Obstacles to the Development of Media Education in the United States - 1 views
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Here is a research article that examines some of the obstacles to the development of media education in the U.S. I think it is interesting being that we discussed how in other countries, they really utilize technology in the classrooms.
Skills & Strategies for Media Education - 1 views
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This is a handout that teaches what to tell kids and adults what to look for when utilizing social media.
Reflections on Teaching with Social Media - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views
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This is an interesting read about a professor's experiment with social media in her classrooms. Good read.
Tweeting and Friending in the Graduate Classroom: Can Social Media Tools Work? - 2 views
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This is an article/study for those interested in social media on the graduate level.
The Social Media Classroom | DMLcentral - 0 views
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I had assumed that all the laptop-staring, smartphone-glancing students were like my daughter (a college student when I started teaching) and all her friends and the other digital natives I had heard so much about. So I put together an online survey and discovered a wide disparity in my students' web skills. Just because they Facebook, text, or participate in online games doesn't mean that all young people understand rhetorics of blogging or collaborative uses of wikis or building personal learning networks with Twitter.
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We have to be careful not to assume that all "social media engaged" individuals understand all social tools. I made that assumption about myself in CI593 because I used a few tools I thought everything else would be easy. That was far from reality.
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Social Media Doesn't Help in the Classroom | Psych Central News | Diigo - 0 views
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Interesting article being that we are learning how to integrate these tools.
Teachers Embracing Social Media in the Classroom | TechNewsDaily - 0 views
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But, Lehmann cautions, the use of social media in school can't be left to chance; it needs to be mediated. "It's very much a part of our curriculum," he said. "The kids take a semester-long technology class at the beginning of the ninth grade. It teaches the kids to use the tools in the context of their academic classrooms." Social media does not replace the existing curriculum, Lehmann said – it's a transformation of it.
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This the most important statement made here.
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"Schools need to think how powerful it could be as a learning tool to bring that engagement outside the classroom into the classroom," he said.
Social media breeds new field of 'experts' - 0 views
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This article states how it is becoming important for individuals to become familiar with the various social networking tools because they will be necessary in the workforce.
Facebook, Twitter, social media can leave us lonely and lacking, UA study says - Rynski... - 0 views
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This blogger speaks about social media and how it can lead people to think they have real relationships with people when they don't. It also can lead to poor social skills. Interesting because I recently was watching a reality dating show where a contestant was offended that people did not read his blogs. I'll call that a false sense of "celebrity", lol.
Class Polling (via cell phone) - 2 views
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Interesting way of adhoc polling (without clickers). Its effective and easy (some of my faculty are using it), however I see some privacy concerns (mostly perception) that if I txt a response it is coming from my mobile number which is generally seen as identifiable (Even if its blocked in the poll.
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im not sure.. to be honest... would be fun to try it! Too bad I dont get coverage in n061 :/
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I really like this idea, but I do share some of your same concerns Ken.
How Great Leaders Inspire Action - 0 views
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A great TED presentation I posted in my diffusion of innovation class, but the topic came up in our discussion on selling social media in class today. The presenter talks about getting people (teachers) to buy into your ideas.
GC Blog and tech Plan - 0 views
YouTube- ASB Student Voices : 1:1 Program - 0 views
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High school students at the American School of Bombay talk about their experiences in a 1:1 laptop program and recommendations for schools looking to technology and 1:1 programs.
YouTube- ASB Student Voices : Technology Distractions - 0 views
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High school students at the American School of Bombay talk about their experiences in a 1:1 laptop program and how they deal with technology distractions.
YouTube- ASB student Voices : Launching a Program - 0 views
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High school students at the American School of Bombay talk about their experiences in launching a 1:1 laptop program.
