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Irene Watts-Politza

Social media - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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socialmedia social bookmarking

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  • The honeycomb framework defines how social media services focus on some or all of seven functional building blocks (identity, conversations, sharing, presence, relationships, reputation, and groups).
  • By applying a set of theories in the field of media research (social presence, media richness) and social processes (self-presentation, self-disclosure) Kaplan and Haenlein created a classification scheme for different social media types in their Business Horizons article published in 2010. According to Kaplan and Haenlein there are six different types of social media: collaborative projects (e.g., Wikipedia), blogs and microblogs (e.g., Twitter), content communities (e.g., YouTube), social networking sites (e.g., Facebook), virtual game worlds (e.g., World of Warcraft), and virtual social worlds (e.g. Second Life). Technologies include: blogs, picture-sharing, vlogs, wall-postings, email, instant messaging, music-sharing, crowdsourcing and voice over IP, to name a few. Many of these social media services can be integrated via social network aggregation platforms. Social media network websites include sites like Facebook, Twitter, Bebo and MySpace.
  • he authors explain that each of the seven functional building blocks has important implications for how firms should engage with social media. By analyzing identity, conversations, sharing, presence, relationships, reputation, and groups, firms can monitor and understand how social media activities vary in terms of their function and impact, so as to develop a congruent social media strategy based on the appropriate balance of building blocks for their community.[2]
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  • one of the foundational concepts in social media has become that you cannot completely control your message through social media but rather you can simply begin to participate in the "conversation" expecting that you can achieve a significant influence in that conversation.[7]
  • Several colleges have even introduced classes on best social media practices, preparing students for potential careers as digital strategists.[
  • Out of this anarchy, it suddenly became clear that what was governing the infinite monkeys now inputting away on the Internet was the law of digital Darwinism, the survival of the loudest and most opinionated. Under these rules, the only way to intellectually prevail is by infinite filibustering."[34]
  • social media in the form of public diplomacy creates a patina of inclusiveness that covers traditional economic interests that are structured to ensure that wealth is pumped up to the top of the economic pyramid, perpetuating the digital divide and post Marxian class conflict.
  • He also speculates on the emergence of "anti-social media" used as "instruments of pure control".[36]
  • Social networking now accounts for 22% of all time spent online in the US.[15] A total of 234 million people age 13 and older in the U.S. used mobile devices in December 2009.[16] Twitter processed more than one billion tweets in December 2009 and averages almost 40 million tweets per day.[16] Over 25% of U.S. internet page views occurred at one of the top social networking sites in December 2009, up from 13.8% a year before.[16] Australia has some of the highest social media usage in the world. In usage of Facebook, Australia ranks highest, with over 9 million users spending almost 9 hours per month on the site.[17][18] The number of social media users age 65 and older grew 100 percent throughout 2010, so that one in four people in that age group are now part of a social networking site.[19] As of June 2011[update] Facebook has 750 Million users.[20] Facebook tops Google for weekly traffic in the U.S.[21] Social Media has overtaken pornography as the No. 1 activity on the web.[21] iPhone applications hit 1 billion in 9 months, and Facebook added 100 million users in less than 9 months.[21] If Facebook were a country it would be the world's 3rd largest in terms of population, that's above the US. U.S. Department of Education study revealed that online students out performed those receiving face-to-face instruction.[21] YouTube is the 2nd largest search engine in the world.[21] In four minutes and 26 seconds 100+ hours of video will be uploaded to YouTube.[21] 1 out of 8 couples married in the U.S. last year met via social media.[21] 1 in 6 higher education students are enrolled in online curriculum.[21]
    • Irene Watts-Politza
      Irene Watts-Politza on 23 Jun 12
       
      These are stats in "Did You Know?"
  • Irene Watts-Politza on 21 Jun 12
     
    An impressive listing of social media sites with links
alexandra m. pickett

Dobler's Online Learning | One teacher's adventures into online teaching - 3 views

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shared by alexandra m. pickett on 09 Jul 14 - No Cached
  • I hope that this is the correct approach to the assignment.
  • The research certainly says it will! According to Ice, Swan, Kupczynski, and Richardson, research has shown that other students find audio feedback more effective than written feedback.
  • At first, I wondered why the checklist was not given while I was developing the course.
    • alexandra m. pickett
      alexandra m. pickett on 10 Aug 14
       
      interesting. I always think of the checklists as formative. You have access to them in the manual. hmmm. need to think about this more. becuase in my mind you do have access to them as you design your cousre. But i also like your reflection. need to think.
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  • I plan to continue blogging as I work to incorporate what I have learned into my class this year.
  • “If instructors gave as much thought to the construction of their on-campus courses as they do their online courses, all education would be better”.
  • I hope that my learning about online teaching really does have positive impacts on my face-to-face teaching.
sherrilattimer

Is Broadband Internet Access a Public Utility? | TIME.com - 0 views

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broadband internet access

shared by sherrilattimer on 02 Jun 14 - No Cached
  • State and local laws that make it difficult — if not impossible — for new competition to emerge in broadband markets should be reformed, according to Crawford. For example, many states make it very difficult for municipalities to create public wireless networks, thanks to decades of state-level lobbying by the industry giants. In order to help local governments upgrade their communications grids, Crawford is calling for an infrastructure bank to help cities obtain affordable financing to help build high-speed fiber networks for their citizens. Finally, U.S. regulators should apply real oversight to the broadband industry to ensure that these market behemoths abide by open Internet principles and don’t price gouge consumers. Should broadband Internet service be considered a public utility like water and electricity? “We treated the telephone industry like a utility and people don’t seem to be surprised by that,” says Crawford. “High-speed Internet access plays the same role in American life. It’s just that these guys have succeeded in making us think that it’s a luxury.”
  • According to Crawford, the interests of cable and telecom giants like Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Verizon, and AT&T, are not aligned with the interests of the public. Those corporate giants are concerned first and foremost with maximizing the profits of their shareholders. And all too often, profit maximization — especially in a market that lacks robust competition — is not consistent with providing the best possible service at reasonable prices.
  • “You let a little bit of competition exist so you can point to it and say ‘Ha, we’re competing!’ But otherwise it’s mostly controlled by one company.”
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  • One of the main themes in the book is the “digital divide,” which refers to the fact that millions of people in the U.S., mostly in the poorest and most rural communities, don’t have access to affordable broadband service, including 2.2 million people in New York City, according to Crawford. “We’re depriving people of basic communications access,” she says. Still, broadband and wireless services have become so important to our business and personal lives that most people are willing to pay up, even in the face of high prices driven in part by a lack of competition in the broadband and wireless markets.
  • Crawford, who has been a visiting professor at Harvard, Yale and Michigan, spent a year on the National Economic Council as a top telecommunications advisor to President Obama. In her book, she directs much of the blame for the sorry state of the U.S. broadband market at the federal government. “Instead of ensuring that everyone in America can compete in a global economy,” she writes, “instead of narrowing the divide between rich and poor, instead of supporting competitive free markets for American inventions that use information — instead, that is, of ensuring that America will lead the world in the information age — U.S. politicians have chosen to keep Comcast and its fellow giants happy.”
  • “Truly high-speed wired Internet access is as basic to innovation, economic growth, social communication, and the country’s competitiveness as electricity was a century ago,” Crawford writes, “but a limited number of Americans have access to it, many can’t afford it, and the country has handed control of it over to Comcast and a few other companies.”
  • Crawford argues that the Internet has replaced traditional phone service as the most essential communications utility in the country, and is now as important as electricity was 100 years ago.
Melissa Pietricola

http://www.uncp.edu/home/dente/online.htm - 0 views

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hybrid teaching technology

shared by Melissa Pietricola on 16 Jun 10 - Cached
  • Such discussion places many learners at a disadvantage - those who are introverted, those for whom English is not their first language, those who don't like to interrupt, those who like to think more before they speak, and many others
    • Melissa Pietricola
      Melissa Pietricola on 16 Jun 10
       
      I think this-giving everyone the opportunity to speak is the most significant benefit for my students in having the course by a hybrid
  • only 20% of the students do 80% of the discussing. Online, 65% of the students do 80% of the discussing.
  • Consequently, online students do more work and cover more subject matter.
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  • This constant interaction with the subject matter greatly increases learning retention.
  • Students are more active and self-directed in their learning.
  • discussion is richer because it is recorded
  • class discussions easily cross week boundaries. It is very common for a discussion which began in the first week of the course to resurface in the fourth week when new learnings shine a fresh perspective on it. This type of dialogue feels much more natural than the fragmented discussions I experienced in the classroom.
  • My experience with teaching online is that it is a different thing. I encourage us all to experiment in both our face-to-face and virtual learning encounters and to share what seems to work and not work.
  • Joan Erickson on 16 Jun 10
     
    it is a short, easy read, and yet stresses important points we educators all experience
  • Melissa Pietricola on 16 Jun 10
     
    benefits of online learning
Mark Prelewicz

The Authority in Online Education - 0 views

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shared by Mark Prelewicz on 01 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • As school districts across the country have faced budget gaps, they’ve been forced to cut back. Schools are eliminating programs and cutting teaching jobs and salaries – it’s clear that the U.S. public education system is facing problems. But Wozniak thinks that school systems have not “adapted to children’s needs,” and that computers could help to fill these gaps. Additionally, they could help schools save money. “If you had 30 teachers in a class with 30 students, they’d all get individual attention and be moving at their own paces,” Wozniak said. “So I think someday a computer could possibly be a teacher.”
  • “School in itself is pretty much a restrictive force on creativity,” he said. “When you come to class, you do the exact same pages in the book, the same hours as everyone else in the class. You don’t go off in your own little directions. This is not the way of the future.”
  • New technologies are beginning to mimic the capabilities of humans more than ever before. While technology and education experts agree that teachers won’t be replaced by robots anytime soon, computers have helped schools to make strides in student progress and achievement over the past few years. Tools like interactive online education platforms and online courses have demonstrated success, while also helping school districts save money. But to pinpoint successful educational technology, interactivity is key.
alexandra m. pickett

ETAP640amp2012: are you prepared to change the way you teach? - 1 views

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shared by alexandra m. pickett on 03 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • We are consistently engaged in critical thought, Alex’s expectations are clear and supported with models, and we receive feedback that is not only timely, but it is also specific to our particular needs. Although we use a good amount of technology, it does seem to enhance our purpose and was chosen with objectives in mind. The technology—blogs, discussion forums, diigo, etc. serve to enhance our learning experiences and make our learning visible to one another (haven’t we heard that before!?!)
    • alexandra m. pickett
      alexandra m. pickett on 03 Jul 12
       
      Double EUREKA!!!! : )
  • three essential times in relation to the delivery of a course that are instrumental for our success: in the design, before students enter the picture; in the implementation, while we are teaching the course; and in the reflection, as we use student feedback in considering improvements to the course.  
Luke Fellows

The Facebook phenomenon: online self-disclosure and uncertainty reduction. - Free Onlin... - 0 views

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  • Facebook has begun to transform the way in which individuals perceive relationship development and interpersonal reactions, namely through self-disclosure.
  • A self-disclosure is any message or interaction between individuals that communicates information about oneself to others
  • Uncertainty reduction is the exchange of information between individuals that allows one to form impressions of others and make sense of social situations
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  • The process of uncertainty reduction thus enables individuals to predict another individual's actions, attitudes and behaviors, which can ease anxiety in initial social encounters
  • Facebook ranks higher than any other form of communication technology, including phone and email, and has become the number one choice of communication for university students
  • Self-disclosure is the process of revealing personal information about one's self through verbal communication (Sheldon, 2009). Traditional theories of self-disclosure pertain to face-to-face communication encounters, which suggest that self-disclosure allows others to know more about him or herself
Joan Erickson

Gender Differences in Online Learning - 0 views

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gender online stuart young mae mcsporran

shared by Joan Erickson on 09 Jun 10 - Cached
  • Many women who for cultural reasons may feel shy or restrained in the classroom are able to flourish in an environment of greater anonymity that lacks face-to-face interaction
    • Joan Erickson
      Joan Erickson on 09 Jun 10
       
      Francisca: Could this be one of the reasons?
  • men are less likely to read their instruction
    • Joan Erickson
      Joan Erickson on 09 Jun 10
       
      although supported by a research paper, is this a fair generalization of young male learners?
  • include differences in performance, motivations, perceptions
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  • skills related to self-regulation
  • ability to manage time
  • organize material, rehearse their lessons
  • men tend to leave parts of their online assignments incomplete and to be tardy in turning them
Joan Erickson

Comparing Piaget and Vygotsky - 0 views

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shared by Joan Erickson on 26 Jun 10 - Cached
  • A child in the preoperational stage could not be taught to understand the liquid volume experiment; she does not possess the mental structure of a child in concrete operations.
  • acquisition of meta-cognition (thinking about thinking
  • assimilation
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  • assimilation
  • assimilation
  • Sociocultural Theory of Development
  • human activities take place in cultural settings and cannot be understood apart from these settings
  • Through these social interactions, we move toward more individualized thinking.
  • Private speech is considered to be self-directed regulation and communication with the self, and becomes internalized after about nine years
  • zone of proximal development.
  • Vygotsky believed that given proper help and assistance, children could perform a problem that Piaget would consider to be out of the child's mental capabilities.
  • Vygotsky's theory stressed the importance of culture and language on one's cognitive development
  • Piaget proposed that children progress through the stages of cognitive development through maturation, discovery methods, and some social transmissions through assimilation and accommodation
  • think abstractly
  • Assimilation is information we already know. Accommodation involves adapting one's existing knowledge to what is perceived
  • provide short instruction and concrete examples
  • opportunities to organize groups of objects on "increasingly complex levels"
  • Joan Erickson on 26 Jun 10
     
    Piaget Vs Vygotsky This is an easy read. The article is written by a teacher. It makes you poner what kind of teacher you are, or want to be
Melissa Pietricola

Mini-multitaskers: For young people, a tendency to multitask may impoverish learning, p... - 0 views

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multitaskers

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  • 81 percent of young people report "media multitasking" at least some of the time.
  • esearch suggests that it slows children's productivity, changes the way they learn and may even render social relationships more superficial
  • People who multitask actually take longer to get things done.
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  • Plus switching itself takes a toll: As you're switching, says Meyer, you're not concentrating on either task. And you need a mental warm-up to resume the suspended task.
  • igital media play an important role in the social development of the 800 young people she and her team interviewed. T
  • "The entire culture is starting to look like what you see in attention deficit disorder, where there's a difficulty in focusing and distractibility,"
  • working short times on many different things at one time."
  • In particular, people with divided attention may not deeply integrate new information and may have trouble applying it later as a resul
  • e could lose qualities like empathy that are probably stimulated by face-to-face interaction."
  • Melissa Pietricola on 09 Aug 10
     
    multi-tasking leads to superficiality of relationships and learning
Diane Gusa

Rubrics - 1 views

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rubrics assessment learning teaching

shared by Diane Gusa on 13 Jul 11 - Cached
  • A rubric is an authentic assessment tool used to measure students' work. It is a scoring guide that seeks to evaluate a student's performance based on the sum of a full range of criteria rather than a single numerical score.
  • It is a formative type of assessment because it becomes an ongoing part of the whole teaching and learning process.
  • use a range to rate performance.
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  • focus on measuring a stated objective
  • contain specific performance characteristics arranged in levels indicating the degree to which a standard has been met (Pickett and Dodge).
  • improve students' end products
  • provide the scaffolding necessary to improve the quality of their work and increase their knowledge.
  • help students become better judges of the quality of their own work.
  • allow assessment to be more objective and consistent.
  • force the teacher to clarify his/her criteria in specific terms.
  • provide students with more informative feedback about their strengths and areas in need of improvement.
Diane Gusa

Learning to know - 0 views

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learning know teaching module 3

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  • acquisition of structured knowledge
  • a means and an end of human existence.
  • since knowledge is multifarious and capable of virtually infinite development, any attempt to know everything becomes more and more pointless
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  • icate with other people. Regarded as an end, it is underpinned by the pleasure that can be derived from understanding, knowledge and discovery. That aspect of learning is typically enjoyed by researchers, but good teaching can help everyone to enjoy it. Even if study for its own sake is a dying pursuit with so much emphasis
  • giving students the tools, ideas and reference methods which are the product of leading-edge science and the contemporary paradigms.
  • Learning to know implies learning how to learn by developing one's concentration, memory skills and ability to think
William Meredith

Getting Started Teaching Online | The Sloan Consortium - 0 views

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  • Online enrollments continue to increase substantially (Allen & Seaman, 2010, p. 2), as nearly one third (30%) of higher education students take at least one online course (Allen & Seaman, 2010, p. 2).
  • These data revealed that online learning has been adopted in the mainstream of higher education with trends indicating continued growth. Unfortunately, however, institutions often require instructors to design/develop online courses and/or transition into teaching in the online learning environment sans an understanding of the fundamental pedagogical/andragogical differences among face-to-face (f2f), blended/hybrid, and online learning environments.
  • William Meredith on 28 Jun 12
     
    preparing to teach online
Amy M

Using Synchronous Tools to Build Community in the Asynchronous Online Classroom - Facul... - 0 views

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  • Using Synchronous Tools to Build Community in the Asynchronous Online Classroom
  • Synchronous tools can help humanize the classroom.
  • Setting up open office hours
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  • Many synchronous tools allow us to use video or face-to-face chat,
  • Amy M on 21 Jun 12
     
    THe best of both worlds: asynchronous and synchronous tools
Joan Erickson

ETAP687amp2010: What is one question you have about effective online course design? - 2 views

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shared by Joan Erickson on 16 Jun 10 - Cached
  • all poor people have access only to online courses and schools, and only rich people have access to a Harvard face to face professor and education?
    • Joan Erickson
      Joan Erickson on 16 Jun 10
       
      I want to add my 2 cents to this question
  • take home and potentially collaborative
  • handbook
    • Joan Erickson
      Joan Erickson on 21 Jun 10
       
      Manual?
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  • online assessment techniques (OATs)
Michael Lucatorto

She's Gotta Have It: Cell Phone - 0 views

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cell phone

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  • "Next time a teenager says, 'Mom if I don't have a phone,' or 'Dad, if I don't have a phone, I'm going to be a nobody,' they are being serious," said Robbie Blinkoff, Context's principal anthropologist. Blinkoff and his colleagues studied the behavior of 144 cell-phone users between the ages of 16 and 40 from several countries and found that teenagers were so immersed in the technology that they often saw little difference between meeting face to face and talking on the phone. A common scene they observed was a group of teenagers sitting together -- all with ears glued to cell phones -- talking with faraway friends rather than to each other.
  • While saying he didn't think the cell-phone-toting teens were intentionally acting rude, he said he suspects that a new kind of "digital divide" has been created, similar to the gap among PC haves and have-nots.
abeukema

JOLT - Journal of Online Learning and Teaching, Vol. 2, No. 4: Mandernach - 0 views

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shared by abeukema on 30 Jun 09 - Cached
  • Online instructors need to be “seen” in order to be perceived by their students as present in the course just as do face-to-face course instructors.
  • online instructors must actively participate in the course to avoid the perception of being invisible or absent (Picciano, 2002).
  • teaching presence, instructor immediacy, and social presence.  
  • abeukema on 17 Jun 14
     
    "tone"
Sue Rappazzo

Situated Cognition - 0 views

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learning

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  • Miller and Gildea's (1987) work on vocabulary teaching has shown how the assumption that knowing and doing can be separated leads to a teaching method that ignores the way situations structure cognition. Their work has described how children are taught words from dictionary definitions and a few exemplary sentences, and they have compared this method with the way vocabulary is normally learned outside school. People generally learn words in the context of ordinary communication. This process is startlingly fast and successful. Miller and Gildea note that by listening, talking, and reading, the average 17-year-old has learned vocabulary at a rate of 5,000 words per year (13 per day) for over 16 years. By contrast, learning words from abstract definitions and sentences taken out of the context of normal use, the way vocabulary has often been taught, is slow and generally unsuccessful. There is barely enough classroom time to teach more than 100 to 200 words per year. Moreover, much of what is taught turns out to be almost useless in practice. They give the following examples of students' uses of vocabulary acquired this way:
  • Sue Rappazzo on 29 May 10
     
    Situated cognition-learning language/vocabulary
alexandra m. pickett

ActionGeekBlog: Frazzing - 0 views

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actiongeekblog frazzing

shared by alexandra m. pickett on 29 Jul 09 - Cached
  • alexandra m. pickett on 29 Jul 09
     
    Frazzing, short for frantic multitasking, refers to a form of mental channel switching caused by all the distractions we face today: cell phones, Blackberry coms, e-mails, pages, I-Ms, and good old, in-person interruptions. The Stickler never wants to say "I told you so," but it is what it is.
Michael Lucatorto

Designing Online Courses to Meet the Needs of a Diverse Student Population | Faculty Focus - 1 views

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presence teaching elearning effectiveness

shared by Michael Lucatorto on 17 Jun 11 - Cached
  • Building discussion board assignments into your online course allows shy students to share their thoughts and ideas from within their own comfort zone, and participate more fully than they would ever do in a traditional face-to-face class.
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