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alexandra m. pickett

The Metaconstitutional Manifesto: A Bourgeois Vision of the Classless Society - 3 views

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manifesto vision society Module 4 assignment. Module 4 assignment.

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  • ccording to the author, "In the following pages I am going to argue that, mixed in with all the nonsense in his ideas, Marx did get two things right: First: To achieve an ideal society we must indeed move beyond capitalism. (Historical experience since Marx wrote, and a principled, systematic analysis of his ideas, however, indicate that the direction in which he proposed to move away from capitalism was profoundly incorrect.) Second: An ideal society will indeed be a classless one. (However it will not be achieved by liquidating the bourgeoisie by a revolutionary process, as Marx thought. Instead, it will be reached by elevating the proletariat into the bourgeoisie by a process of reform.)"
    • Michael Lucatorto
      Michael Lucatorto on 22 Jul 11
       
      I would like to use Ch. 5 to highlight the issues that occur with majority rule for minority groups
    • alexandra m. pickett
      alexandra m. pickett on 22 Jul 11
       
      perfect!!!!
  • Michael Lucatorto on 18 Jul 11
     
    Module 4 Assignment
  • alexandra m. pickett on 22 Jul 11
     
    ok... now how will you use this in your online course?
  • alexandra m. pickett on 22 Jul 11
     
    Module 4 Assignment
Alicia Fernandez

From Pedagogy to Andragogy and Heutagogy: Thinking Distance Education and Self-Directed... - 4 views

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andragogy heutagogy self-directed learning active learning

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  • Alicia Fernandez on 06 Jun 14
     
    Education has historically been a core concept in societies. Over the years we have seen founders of educational thought compromise with dated economic and social trends. Locke, Dewey, Piaget, Montessori are only some of the 'contemporary' contributors in the field. It is very difficult for the educational paradigm of the industrial age to serve the so called 'Universal Electronic Campus' of the 'digital age' as there is a movement from campus based learning to web-based distance education.
  • Alicia Fernandez on 07 Jun 14
     
    Education has historically been a core concept in societies. Over the years we have seen founders of educational thought compromise with dated economic and social trends. Locke, Dewey, Piaget, Montessori are only some of the 'contemporary' contributors in the field. It is very difficult for the educational paradigm of the industrial age to serve the so called 'Universal Electronic Campus' of the 'digital age' as there is a movement from campus based learning to web-based distance education.
Maria Guadron

AP Central - Integrating Skills: Authentic Teaching Best Prepares Students for an Authe... - 0 views

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assessment authentic learning teaching integrating skills

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  • teaching authentically, without abandoning the precepts of grammar and the fundamentals of the language. By integrating skills and through authentic instruction, we will prepare students not only for the examination but also for the practical use of the language in our current, diverse society.
  • Maria Guadron on 23 Jun 12
     
    "By integrating skills and through authentic instruction, we will prepare students not only for the examination but also for the practical use of the language in our current, diverse society."
Tina Bianchi

Asia Society - 0 views

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education

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  • Tina Bianchi on 30 May 12
     
    Asia Society is the leading educational organization dedicated to promoting mutual understanding and strengthening partnerships among peoples, leaders and institutions of Asia and the United States in a global context. Across the fields of arts, business, culture, education, and policy, the Society provides insight, generates ideas, and promotes collaboration to address present challenges and create a shared future.
Lauren D

John Dewey's Theories of Education - 0 views

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education learning Andragogy pedagogy dewey philosophers theories of education

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  • Dewey sought to supply that unifying pattern by applying the principles and practices of democracy, as he interpreted them, consistently throughout the educational system. First, the schools would be freely available to all from kindergarten to college. Second, the children would themselves carry on the educational process, aided and guided by the teacher. Third, they would be trained to behave cooperatively, sharing with and caring for one another. Then these creative, well-adjusted equalitarians would make over American society in their own image.
  • “The actual interests of the child must be discovered if the significance and worth of his life is to be taken into account and full development achieved. Each subject must fulfill present needs of growing children . . . The business of education is not, for the presumable usefulness of his future, to rob the child of the intrinsic joy of childhood involved in living each single day,”
  • The child learns best through direct personal experience. In the primary stage of education these experiences should revolve around games and occupations analogous to the activities through which mankind satisfies its basic material needs for food, clothing, shelter and protection. The city child is far removed from the processes of production: food comes from the store in cans and packages, clothing is made in distant factories, water comes from the faucet.
  • Lauren D on 11 Jun 12
     
    Dewey sought to supply that unifying pattern by applying the principles and practices of democracy, as he interpreted them, consistently throughout the educational system. First, the schools would be freely available to all from kindergarten to college. Second, the children would themselves carry on the educational process, aided and guided by the teacher. Third, they would be trained to behave cooperatively, sharing with and caring for one another. Then these creative, well-adjusted equalitarians would make over American society in their own image.
Jeanne Cousineau

"Guns, Germs and Steel": Jared Diamond on Geography as Power - 0 views

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  • The physical locations where different cultures have taken root, he claims, have directly affected the ability of those societies to develop key institutions, like agriculture and animal domestication, or to acquire important traits, like immunity to disease.
    • Jeanne Cousineau
      Jeanne Cousineau on 27 May 09
       
      Again, this point is central to Diamond's theory.
  • Jeanne Cousineau on 27 May 09
     
    In the new National Geographic Special based on his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, geographer Jared Diamond argues that geography shaped the fates of human societies.
b malczyk

Benefits of Diversity in Education - 0 views

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  • students in classrooms and in the broad campus environment will be more motivated and better able to participate in a heterogeneous and complex society
  • Cognitive growth is fostered when individuals encounter experiences and demands that they cannot completely understand or meet, and thus must work to comprehend and master the new
  • more frequently expressed democratic sentiment
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  • greater motivation to take the perspective of others
  • less often evaluated the University’s emphasis on diversity as producing divisiveness between groups
  • enjoyed learning about the experiences and perspectives of other groups more than the control students
  • participants were more interested in politics and also had participated more frequently in campus political activities.
  • The discrepancy that racial and ethnic diversity on college campuses offers students for personal development and preparation for citizenship in an increasingly multicultural society depends on actual experience that students have with diverse peers.
  • b malczyk on 01 Jun 12
     
    This article describes some of the potential benefits of diversity in education. In my post I suggest that online education provides a unique means of increasing diversity which comes with the benefits described in this article.
Gary Bedenharn

Social Media Revolution 3 (4:15 version via Erik Qualman) - YouTube - 0 views

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global Technology online web social

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    • Amy M
      Amy M on 06 Jun 12
       
      shift to under 30's socia media! email is passé (+1) advertising through SM
  • Gary Bedenharn on 09 Jun 12
     
    Video shows how influence society is to become more social online than in their own physical world.
Irene Watts-Politza

ISTE | NETS for Teachers - 0 views

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iste nets standards Technology teaching resources

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  • Irene Watts-Politza on 13 Jun 12
     
    International Society for Technology in Education website
Irene Watts-Politza

ISTE | NETS Standards - 0 views

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ISTE NETS elearning technology standards

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  • Irene Watts-Politza on 23 Jun 12
     
    International Society for Technology Education National Educational Technology Standards
Daniel Hacker

EBSCOhost: Ditch the calculators - 0 views

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  • Daniel Hacker on 18 Aug 13
     
    Many teachers as well as students insist, ``Why shouldn't we use calculators? They'll always be around, and we'll never do long division in real life.'' This may be true. It's also true of most math. Not many of us need to figure the circumference of a circle or factor a quadratic equation for any practical reason. But that's not the sole purpose of teaching math. We teach it for thinking and discipline, both of which expand the mind and increase the student's ability to function as a contributing individual in society: the ultimate goals of education.
Alicia Fernandez

The Instructional Conversation: Teaching and Learning in Social Activity [eScholarship] - 0 views

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teaching curriculum educational programs teaching methods learning student evaluations student teacher relationship

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  • Alicia Fernandez on 19 Jun 14
     
    For more than a century, American schooling has ben conducted in much the same way: The teacher assigns a text for the students to master and then assesses their learning. Known as the "recitation script," this repeated cycle of assign-assess is far from the natural kind of teaching by which societies have been instructing their young since the dawn of time. Contemporary educational reform is now emphasizing the fundamental, natural method of teaching, which is the assisting of learners through the instructional conversation. Newly understood through the principles of socio-historical theory, real teaching is understood as assisting the learner to perform just beyond his or her current capacity. This assistance in the "zone of proximal development" awakens and rouses into life the mental capacities of learners of all ages. This assistance is best provided through the instructional conversation, a dialogue between teacher and learners in which the teacher listens carefully to grasp the students' communicative intent, and tailors the dialogue to meet the emerging understanding of the learners. This pattern of relationship should be characteristic of the communication of the entire school, in which the teachers assist and converse with one another, administrators assist and converse with teachers, and administration provides activity settings in which these instructional conversations can occur. Such a school becomes a true community of learners, in which school reliably assists the performance of all.
Joan Erickson

Amusing Ourselves to Death - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • where people medicate themselves into bliss
  • Postman asserts the presentation of television news is a form of entertainment programming; arguing inclusion of theme music, the interruption of commercials, and "talking hairdos" bear witness that televised news cannot readily be taken seriously
  • Joan Erickson on 07 Aug 10
     
    who is Neil Postman---what did he write about modern day's media functions in society
Anne de la Chapelle

A Definition and Discussion of Intentional Community - 0 views

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intentional community

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  • Anne de la Chapelle on 12 Jul 09
     
    A definition of intentional community and an account of its importance in contemporary society, with an index to additional resources.
Diane Gusa

The Ed Techie: Using learning environments as a metaphor for educational change - 0 views

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module 2 21stcenturylearning e-learning WEB2.0 education learning_environments

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  • It has often been noted that when a new technology arrives we tend to use it in old ways (eg Twigg 2001), before we begin to understand what it really offers
  • t has often been noted that when a new technology arrives we tend to use it in old ways (eg Twigg 2001), before we begin to understand what it really offers
  • t has often been noted that when a new technology arrives we tend to use it in old ways (eg Twigg 2001), before we begin to understand what it really offers
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  • It has often been noted that when a new technology arrives we tend to use it in old ways (eg Twigg 2001), before we begin to understand what it really offers. So, for example the television was initially treated as ‘radio with pictures’
  • In an attempt to move towards the possibilities offered by a completely digital, online world, they have started with the education model we are familiar with. They are, in effect, a virtual classroom, or course, with content (which map onto lectures) laid out in a linear sequence with discussion forums linked to this (mapping onto tutorials). In one LMS (the open source Bodington system, http://bodington.org) they even went as far as to make this mapping explicit by making the interface a building which you had to navigate to your lecture room.
  • Heppell (2001) argues that “we continually make the error of subjugating technology to our present practice rather than allowing it to free us from the tyranny of past mistakes.
  • Daniel (1996) has argued that elearning is the only way to cope with expanding global demand for higher education, claiming that “a major university needs to be created each week” to meet the proposed demand.
  • f we view our online learning environments not as analogies of how we currently teach, but rather as a metaphor for how we engage with changes required for a digital society, then this provides us with some insight in to how to tackle the issues above (and others).
  • Siemens (2008) argues that “Learning theories, such as constructivism, social constructivism, and more recently, connectivism, form the theoretical shift from instructor or institution controlled teaching to one of greater control by the learner.”
  • To learn is to acquire information Information is scare and hard to find Trust authority for good information Authorized information is beyond discussion Obey the authority Follow along
  • lecture hall ‘said’ about learning,
  • Why would we seek to recreate the sort of learning affordances Wesch highlights in a virtual environment, when we are free to construct it however we wish?
  • Arguably then there has never been a better alignment of current thinking in terms of good pedagogy – i.e. emphasising the social and situated nature of learning, rather than a focus on knowledge recall with current practices in the use of technologies – i.e. user-generated content, user-added value and aggregated network effects. Despite this, the impact of Web 2.0 on education has been less dramatic than its impact on other spheres of society – use for social purposes, supporting niche communities, collective political action, amateur journalism and social commentary.”
  • "Tools such as blogs, wikis, social networks, tagging systems, mashups, and content-sharing sites are examples of a new user-centric information infrastructure that emphasizes participation (e.g., creating, re-mixing) over presentation, that encourages focused conversation and short briefs
    • Diane Gusa
      Diane Gusa on 16 Jun 11
       
      Mashups are web pages or applications that combine data or presentation from two or more sources -WIKIpedia
    • Diane Gusa
      Diane Gusa on 16 Jun 11
       
      Mashups?
  • connectivism (Siemens 2005) places decentralisation at the heart of learning:"Learning is a process that occurs within nebulous environments of shifting core elements – not entirely under the control of the individual. Learning (defined as actionable knowledge) can reside outside of ourselves (within an organization or a database), is focused on connecting specialized information sets, and the connections that enable us to learn more are more important than our current state of knowing"
  • Wikipedia succeeds by decentralising the authoring process, YouTube succeeds by both decentralising the broadcasting production process, but also by allowing embeds within blogs and other sites, thus decentralising the distribution process
    • Diane Gusa
      Diane Gusa on 16 Jun 11
       
      Two good examples
  • Knowing how to link to and locate resources in databases and search engines is a skill for a decentralised information world. The result is that online references are forced into an existing scheme, which has an inherent preference for physical resources. The traditional reference is often provided in papers, when it is the online one that has actually been used because the referencing system is biased towards the paper version.
    • Diane Gusa
      Diane Gusa on 16 Jun 11
       
      I wonder what Alex's PLE would look like. I also wonder what our PLE will look like in 8 more weeks, next year?
  • ‘eduglu’
    • Diane Gusa
      Diane Gusa on 16 Jun 11
  • SocialLearn has been conceived as a deliberate attempt to discover how learners behave in this sphere, how to develop the appropriate technology and support structures, what pedagogies are required and what are the business models for education in a disaggregated educational market.
Heather Kurto

http://website.education.wisc.edu/kdsquire/tenure-files/manuscripts/26-innovate.pdf - 0 views

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education games

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    • Heather Kurto
      Heather Kurto on 01 Jul 13
       
      While educators wonder if it is possible to create good online learning communities, game  designers create virtual societies with their own cultures, languages, political systems, and  economies (Kolbert 2001; Steinkuehler, forthcoming)
    • Heather Kurto
      Heather Kurto on 01 Jul 13
       
      In short, while e-learning has a reputation for being dull and ineffective, games  have developed a reputation for being fun, engaging, and immersive, requiring deep thinking and  complex problem solving (Gee 2003)
    • Heather Kurto
      Heather Kurto on 01 Jul 13
       
      Given emerging research on how video games and associated pedagogies work in designed  settings (Shaffer 2005), it seems the important question is not whether educators can use games  to support learning, but how we can use games most effectively as educational tools
Catherine Strattner

Defining Critical Thinking - 0 views

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  • Critical thinking is the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action. In its exemplary form, it is based on universal intellectual values that transcend subject matter divisions: clarity, accuracy, precision, consistency, relevance, sound evidence, good reasons, depth, breadth, and fairness.
  • Critical thinking can be seen as having two components: 1) a set of information and belief generating and processing skills, and 2) the habit, based on intellectual commitment, of using those skills to guide behavior. It is thus to be contrasted with: 1) the mere acquisition and retention of information alone, because it involves a particular way in which information is sought and treated; 2) the mere possession of a set of skills, because it involves the continual use of them; and 3) the mere use of those skills ("as an exercise") without acceptance of their results.
  • Critical thinking of any kind is never universal in any individual; everyone is subject to episodes of undisciplined or irrational thought. Its quality is therefore typically a matter of degree and dependent on, among other things, the quality and depth of experience in a given domain of thinking or with respect to a particular class of questions. No one is a critical thinker through-and-through, but only to such-and-such a degree, with such-and-such insights and blind spots, subject to such-and-such tendencies towards self-delusion. For this reason, the development of critical thinking skills and dispositions is a life-long endeavor.
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  • Critical thinking is self-guided, self-disciplined thinking which attempts to reason at the highest level of quality in a fair-minded way.  People who think critically consistently attempt to live rationally, reasonably, empathically.   They are keenly aware of the inherently flawed nature of human thinking when left unchecked.  They strive to diminish the power of their egocentric and sociocentric tendencies.  They use the intellectual tools that critical thinking offers – concepts and principles that enable them to analyze, assess, and improve thinking.  They work diligently to develop the intellectual virtues of intellectual integrity, intellectual humility, intellectual civility, intellectual empathy, intellectual sense of justice and confidence in reason.  They realize that no matter how skilled they are as thinkers, they can always improve their reasoning abilities and they will at times fall prey to mistakes in reasoning, human irrationality, prejudices, biases, distortions, uncritically accepted social rules and taboos, self-interest, and vested interest.  They strive to improve the world in whatever ways they can and contribute to a more rational, civilized society.   At the same time, they recognize the complexities often inherent in doing so.  They avoid thinking simplistically about complicated issues and strive to appropriately consider the rights and needs of relevant others.  They recognize the complexities in developing as thinkers, and commit themselves to life-long practice toward self-improvement.  They embody the Socratic principle:  The unexamined life is not worth living, because they realize that many unexamined lives together result in an uncritical, unjust, dangerous world. ~ Linda Elder, September, 2007
  • Catherine Strattner on 29 Jun 12
     
    Different ways to conceptualize a definition for critical thinking.
Catherine Strattner

Amazon.com: The Axemaker's Gift (9780874778564): Robert Ornstein, James Burke: Books - 1 views

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The Axemaker's Gift technology change

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  • Technology began as soon as humans determined to use tools. Burke and Ornstein call these people the axemakers. The axemakers' talents offered us a bargain, and we took it, despite its multifarious effects. "In our ancient past, the all-powerful axemaker talent for performing the precise, sequential process that shaped axes would later give rise to the precise, sequential thought that would eventually generate language and logic and rules, which would formalize and discipline thinking itself" (p. xii). Accordingly, with every invention and modification of technology, humans learned to adapt to the effects of that change. The authors of this book argue that for the first time in human progress, "we can consciously take our development in our own hands and use it to generate talents that will suit the world of tomorrow" Easy reading--interesting -- consistent message. The authors may bend the historical discussions to maintain the metaphor, and how well its double edge works. Language, a primary gift, diminished the elders' responsibility to teach, but offered the opportunity to learn from many sources, past and present. For today's leaders, a warning remains clear: Evaluate what is new and its consequences before rushing to embrace it. The Axemaker continues to hone a double edge of hope and hurt. Burke and Ornstein call upon us to take care -- to avoid the "cut and control" concepts that separate people, ideas, scientific thought, emotional well-being, and society. Technology can work for us if we seek the wholeness of life.
  • Catherine Strattner on 15 Aug 12
     
    Incredible book on the way technology has changed us and our world over time.
b malczyk

Online-Education Trend Will Leave Many Students Behind | TIME Ideas | TIME.com - 0 views

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  • could actually widen the learning ga
  • “give everyone access to the world-class education that has so far been available only to a select few
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  • democratize learning
  • although the content is free now, it’s unlikely that it will remain that way for long.
  • schools plan to make a profit
  • omputer-aided instruction will actually widen the gap between the financially and educationally privileged and everyone else, instead of close it.
  •  only 35% of households earning less than $25,000 have broadband access to the Internet, compared with 94% of households with income in excess of $100,000. 
  • only half of black and Latino homes have Internet connections at all, compared with almost 65% of white households.
  • , many blacks and Latinos primarily use their cell phones to access the Internet, a much more expensive and less-than-ideal method for taking part in online education.
  • If we really want to democratize education, finding creative ways to realistically open up colleges to different communities will do more to help than a model that, despite its stated intentions, is more beneficial for students who are already wealthy, academically prepared and highly motivated.
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