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Confessions of an Aca/Fan: Archives: Learning in a Participatory Culture: A Conversatio... - 0 views

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  • it isn't about the technology
  • It is about the informational affordances and cultural practices which have taken shape around the computer and other interactive technologies.
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  • Yochai Benkler, author of The Wealth of Networks, tells us we respond to the culture differently when we see it through the eyes of a participant rather than a consumer
  • And it is this participatory culture which has been facilitated by the new digital media in a way that stretches far beyond the imagination of previous generations.
  • When we are talking about the internet, we are talking about all of the activities we perform through this new information infrastructure and the mindset which emerges through our ongoing engagement and participation in the great public conversation that emerges through it.
  • Beyond the individual medium there is a media ecology -- all of the different kinds of communications systems which surround us and through which we live our everyday lives
  • and they have opened up a space where all of us can be welcomed as potential participants
  • All of the research shows that the communities of practice which grow up around this participatory culture are powerful sites of pedagogy, fueled by passion and curiosity and by a desire to share what we learn and think with others.
  • Pierre Levy tells us that in a networked society, nobody knows everything
  • everybody knows something
  • and what any given member of the community knows is available to the group as a whole as needed.
  • We are evolving towards this much more robust information system where groups working together can solve problems that are far more complex than can be confronted by individuals
  • Right now, schools are often using group work but not in ways which encourage real collaboration or shared expertise -- in part because they still assume a world where every student knows everything rather than one where different kinds of knowledge come together towards shared ends.
  • You wouldn't consider someone literate if they could read but not write text and we shouldn't consider someone literate if they can consume but not produce media
  • ian august on 10 Jun 11
     
    henry jenkins
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The Art of Writing Clear Instructions (or How to Tell People What to Do) - Content Mast... - 0 views

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shared by Diane Gusa on 16 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • A common format for blog posts and articles is to present a topic and then include some actionable steps at the end to help your reader apply their learning. Here are a few ways you might do this: Reflection: Ask your readers to ponder or consider the new idea or perspective you shared with them, and how they might integrate it into their lives. Journaling: Ask your readers to write about the topic. You can provide specific questions for them to answer, or invite them to ask and answer their own questions. Rehearsal: Ask your readers to practice a new behavior, habit, thought pattern or language. Suggest how many times per day or week they should do it, and in which specific situation(s). Action: Ask your readers to take a specific action or actions. Suggest how many times per day or week they should do it, and in which specific situation(s). Documenting: Ask your readers to keep track of their progress; give them a checklist to mark off their actions or ask them to record it in a journal. You may also ask them to keep track of their results, feelings or thoughts during this process. Reporting: Ask your readers to share their results with you, your community or an  accountability partner.
    • Diane Gusa
      Diane Gusa on 16 Jun 11
       
      I plan on using this for my blogs. What do you think?
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What Do Pit Bulls & Cockroaches Have To Do With Learning & Teaching? - 0 views

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  • Diane Gusa on 15 Jun 11
     
    I emphasize the phrase actively learning because I think some teachers might be relentless, too, but might use the word working instead.-food for thought are our activities more about work?
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Ten Steps to Better Student Engagement | Edutopia - 0 views

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  • A teacher in one of my workshops said, "When my students and I are in the flow, then I don't feel like I have to work as hard." I heartily agree.
  • Create an Emotionally Safe Classroom
  • Create an Intellectually Safe Classroom
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  • Practice Journal or Blog Writing to Communicate with Students
  • Create a Culture of Explanation Instead of a Culture of the Right Answer
  • Teach Self-Awareness About Knowledge
  • Use Questioning Strategies That Make All Students Think and Answer
  • Include peer evaluation as part of the feedback they receive.
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Why have learning communities - 0 views

www.evergreen.edu/...lcfaq.htm learning_environments module 2 e-learning learningcommunity
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  • learning communities have been shown to increase student retention and academic achievement, increase student involvement and motivation, improve students� time to degree completion, and enhance student intellectual development.
  • Students involved in learning communities become more intellectually mature and responsible for their own learning and develop the capacity to care about the learning of their peers.
    • Diane Gusa
      Diane Gusa on 17 Jun 11
       
      This makes me think that online learning communities will lead to retention in course, engagement, motivation, and increase learning
  • Diane Gusa on 17 Jun 11
     
    F2F learning communities findings in one college
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The Ed Techie: Using learning environments as a metaphor for educational change - 0 views

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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.
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Students Becoming Curators of Information? | Langwitches Blog - 0 views

langwitches.org/...coming-curators-of-information collaboration e-learning socialmedia WEB2.0 education students 21stcenturylearning curators
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  • Digital Curation is defined in Wikipedia as: the selection, preservation, maintenance, collection and archiving of digital assets. Digital curation is generally referred to the process of establishing and developing long term repositories of digital assets for current and future reference by researchers, scientists, historians, and scholars
  • Curators are people or organizations that do the hard work of sifting through the content within a particular topic area or “meme” and pulling out the things that seem to make most sense. This effort involves significantly more than finding and regurgitating link
  • How can this concept of “curation” of information be brought into the “classroom” (
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  • be great curators for their own network
  • find and connect to great curators
  • Quality” curation takes higher level thinking skills.
  • Curation requires the ability to organize, categorize, tag and know how to make the content available to others and to be able to format and disseminate it via various platforms.
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Why Parents Hate Parenting -- New York Magazine - 0 views

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  • Before urbanization, children were viewed as economic assets to their parents. If you had a farm, they toiled alongside you to maintain its upkeep; if you had a family business, the kids helped mind the store. But all of this dramatically changed with the moral and technological revolutions of modernity. As we gained in prosperity, childhood came increasingly to be viewed as a protected, privileged time, and once college degrees became essential to getting ahead, children became not only a great expense but subjects to be sculpted, stimulated, instructed, groomed. (The Princeton sociologist Viviana Zelizer describes this transformation of a child’s value in five ruthless words: “Economically worthless but emotionally priceless.”) Kids, in short, went from being our staffs to being our bosses. “Did you see Babies?” asks Lois Nachamie, a couples counselor who for years has run parenting workshops and support groups on the Upper West Side. She’s referring to the recent documentary that compares the lives of four newborns—one in Japan, one in Namibia, one in Mongolia, and one in the United States (San Francisco). “I don’t mean to idealize the lives of the Namibian women,” she says. “But it was hard not to notice how calm they were. They were beading their children’s ankles and decorating them with sienna, clearly enjoying just sitting and playing with them, and we’re here often thinking of all of this stuff as labor.”
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My teacher . . . the computer? « InterACT - 0 views

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  • A group blog from Accomplished California Teachers: Classroom expertise for better education policy. Home About ACT ACT Publications Blogger Bios My teacher . . . the computer?
  •  “One of [a successful student's] key skills in school is his ability to bond with teachers. We’ve spent a generation trying to reorganize schools to make them better, but the truth is that people learn from the people they love.”
  • computers and technology cannot replace the ability of skillful teachers to develop a young student’s ability to think critically, be innovative, and believe in the potential that he or she possess.  A computer will never be able to provide a safe environment for a child seeking stability and support.
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  • students who face incredible challenges and confront tremendous obstacles. 
  • providing guidance, a passion for learning, an understanding of what is necessary to move a student to the next level of inquiry and excellence, and an unwavering belief in each student’s potential – that will continue to make the ultimate difference.
  • Diane Gusa on 11 Aug 11
     
    Wonderful blog about the power of f2f/
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The Whole Child - ABCs of Child Development - 1 views

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  • Physical Development Social & Emotional Development Thinking Skills Communication Skills
    • Nicole Arduini-Van Hoose
      Nicole Arduini-Van Hoose on 13 Jul 11
       
      Broad overview of area of child psychology
  • Nicole Arduini-Van Hoose on 13 Jul 11
     
    A resource for students for quick reference to some topics discussed in the course, and a starting point for further research. this site may also be helpful in completing some of the assignments for the course.
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Definition of Archetype - 0 views

en.wikipedia.org/Archetype Archetype
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  • Kristen Della on 17 Jul 11
     
    As humans, we are all so different, yet so much alike. It is interesting to think that all people can possibly be characterized into 7 or 8 archetypes.
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ETAP640amp2011: How am I doing it in this course? And how are you doing it? - 0 views

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    • Diane Gusa
      Diane Gusa on 16 Jul 11
       
      Hi Ian, I want to respond to this post (about informative posts); however I am waiting for a book to arrive so I can first learn what I want to say "backed" by research. Look for it next Monday (somehow I will fit it into something :) )
    • ian august
      ian august on 17 Jul 11
       
      ok
    • Diane Gusa
      Diane Gusa on 16 Jul 11
       
      I so agree Kimberly. I do wonder will you plan on helping your students to know how to find. My process was developed over my years working on my dissertation. My students only know Wiki. I think one of my first assignments is sending them to our college librarian for guidance, but then she will be doing the telling, and we all know how much you learn when you are told :)
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Using the Internet affects your memory, study says - 0 views

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  • Columbia University psychologist Betsy Sparrow and her co-researchers demonstrated that people are more likely to remember things when they think they won’t be able to find them using a computer and vice versa.
  • The researchers also showed that people are even better at remembering where facts are stored than they are at remembering the fact itself.
  • Nicole Arduini-Van Hoose on 15 Jul 11
     
    People remember less when they know it is available online
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Humor, Analogy, and Metaphor: H.A.M. it up in Teaching - 0 views

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    • Diane Gusa
      Diane Gusa on 09 Jul 11
       
      Very strong statement!
    • Diane Gusa
      Diane Gusa on 09 Jul 11
       
      I am a metaphoric person...when I want to remember or learn deeply a metaphor helps me.
  • The proper use of humor, analogy, and metaphor appropriate to the topic can provide benefits in the college classroom.
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  • Better comprehension,
  • increased retention of material,
  • more comfortable learning environment
  • effective use of these strategies.
  • Humor has been defined as “the mental faculty of discovering, expressing or appreciating something that is comical, amusing, or absurdly incongruous” (Merriam-Webster, 2001, p.564)
  • The use of humor as a pedagogical tool has been shown to reduce classroom anxiety, create a more positive atmosphere, as well as facilitate the learning process (Berk, 1996, 1998; Garner, 2003, in press; Glenn, 2002; Hill, 1988; Pollio & Humphreys, 1996).
  • Garner (in press) found that participants who were exposed to a series of lectures containing course-specific humor demonstrated increased retention of the course-content information as compared to those who received the same material without the infusion of humor.
  • According to Glenn (2002), humor may physiologically help to connect left-brain activities with the right-brained creative side
  • teaching philosophies of highly-rated teachers finds the use of humor as an important component of their teaching strategies. Humor can increase (Civikly, 1986) and sustain (Dodge & Rossett, 1982) student interest in learning and provides a means to engage in divergent thinking. Instructors’ use of effective humor in the classroom can foster mutual respect (Kher, Molstad, & Donahue, 1999), provide commonalities and connections between the instructor and students (Pollio & Humphreys, 1996) and even increase class attendance (Devadoss & Foltz, 1996; Romer, 1993; White, 1992). According to Bergen (1992), “teachers who use strategies that promote the connection between humor and learning usually provide students with their best school experiences” (p.106).
  • Metaphor and analogy have historically been used as an effective teaching tool. Greek myths, religious texts, and fairytales all use metaphor, analogy, and parables to teach and help us learn expected conduct (Gorden, 1978). The use of metaphor and analogy is pervasive in society in both language and communication
  • According to the National Research Council (2000) the effective use of metaphors and analogies is an important educational strategy.
  • . In teaching, using either analogy or metaphor allows the instructor to relate a potentially unfamiliar idea with that which is familiar.
  • Pedagogical use of analogy and metaphor can enhance learning and retention, but they must have a high degree of resonance for the listene
  • be most effective, an analogy or metaphor must transfer ideas from a familiar concept to one that is less familiar or unknown. According to Bowers (1993) the metaphorical relationship must be clear and accurate—possessing face validity.
  • Williams (1986) suggests that vivid metaphors have the capability to teach in a way that is not always available with the use of words alone.
  • Diane Gusa on 09 Jul 11
     
    I am comfortable using metaphors, but will need to work on the humor aspect. New goal for the Fall semester.
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ON COURSE: The One-Minute Paper - 0 views

www.oncourseworkshop.com/awareness012.htm One-Minute teach information map Active-learning.pdf
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  • : A “one-minute paper” may be defined as a very short, in-class writing activity (taking one-minute or less to complete) in response to an instructor-posed question, which prompts students to reflect on the day’s lesson and provides the instructor with useful feedback.
  • What was the most important concept you learned in class today? Or, “What was the ‘muddiest’ or most confusing concept covered in today’s class?
  • more as a student-centered reflection strategy designed to help students discover their own meaning in relation to concepts covered in class, and to build instructor-student rapport
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  • *For you, what interesting questions remain unanswered about today’s topic?
  • In your opinion, what was the most useful idea discussed in today’s class?
  • *What do you think was the most important point or central concept communicated during today’s presentation?  
  • *What relationship did you see between today’s topic and other topics previously covered in this course?
  • Minute papers can provide a “conceptual bridge” between successive class periods
  • Minute papers are a more efficient way to promote writing-across-the curriculum than the traditional term paper.
  • Minute papers can function as an ongoing learning log or learning journal for the course.
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Teachers as experts in . . . inquiry? « Fires in the Mind - 0 views

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  • Browse: Home / Featured Posts / Teachers as experts in . . . inquiry? Teachers as experts in . . . inquiry? A study just published in Science magazine sure makes one think twice about how we deliver “content knowledge” the classroom. The method by which a course is taught, it indicates, may be even more important than the instructor’s background. In a college physics class, listening to a lecture by a highly experienced and respected professor yielded fa
  • a control group performed more than twice as well when their teachers—a research associate and a graduate student—used discussions, active learning, and assignments in which students had to grapple with both new and old information.
  • “deliberate practice,
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  • These students had time to synthesize and incorporate new ideas from the lecture into their prior knowledge and experiences.
  • ombined in-class practice and frequent formative assessments (such as pretests) with an emphasis on real-world applications.
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White House considers new social media avenues - Nextgov - 0 views

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  • Social media primarily played an organizing role during the 2008 races, with campaign staffs largely in charge of their candidates' social media presence and interaction with supporters, said Mindy Finn, a new media adviser to Republican candidates. During the 2012 presidential campaign, Finn predicted, social media power will become more decentralized with supporters and oppo
  • nts forcing candidates to address issues they might otherwise avoid. "I don't think we're going to see the most interesting or impactful ideas coming out of the c
  • Something similar happened on an internal level while Phillips was an adviser to Obama's 2008 campaign, Phillips told the audience.
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  • After then-Sen. Obama abandoned his pledge to filibuster legislation that would give retroactive immunity to U.S. telecommunications providers that participated in the Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping of Americans, the largest group on his campaign organizing site, MyBarackObama.com, revolted and began castigating him on the site's comment boards. "Everyone was walking around the building saying, 'Holy cow. What's going on? This isn't what we want to talk about,' " Phillips said. "But it got to a point where we said, 'Let's just tell them where we stand.' " The campaign ended up putting then-campaign adviser and now deputy National Security Adviser Denis McDonough in the middle of the Web chats to explain Obama's position and respond to criticism.
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Digital Stories of Deep Learning - 0 views

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    • Diane Gusa
      Diane Gusa on 05 Jul 11
       
      This is a good philosophy for our blogs...
  • As the Stanford Learning Technologies group has evolved the technology to support its research project on "folio thinking," researcher Helen Chen reports that they are beginning to use blog or "wiki" software to support students' reflections. David Tosh and Ben Werdmuller of The University of Edinburgh have published a paper online (PDF) entitled, "ePortfolios and weblogs: one vision for ePortfolio development."
  • Janice McDrury and Maxine Alterio (2002), two educators from "down under" have written a book called Learning through Storytelling in Higher Educatio
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