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Jim Aird

Teaching Online & Face-to-Face Classes Require Different Skills - 0 views

  • teachers must encourage students to express themselves in writing as much as possible so teachers can sense whether everyone is on the same page.
  • Students can create screencasts, record their voices, and share the videos with the teacher and the other students.
  • Teachers, who used technology, claimed  that it facilitated the teaching and learning process for their students, but it was time consuming.
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  • I have created many online courses for teachers to engage them, firstly, as learners and secondly, as teachers, so they can practice both roles.
Kim Jaxon

MIT Press Digital Media Series - 1 views

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    Texts related to digital learning from MIT Press. From their site: "The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning examines the effect of digital media tools on how people learn, network, communicate, and play, and how growing up with these tools may affect peoples sense of self, how they express themselves, and their ability to learn, exercise judgment, and think systematically."
Kim Jaxon

A Portal to Media Literacy - 3 views

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    Mike Wesch, professor at Kansas State, on teaching with technology and 21st C Learning.
Kim Jaxon

Digital Is | NWP Digital Is - 2 views

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    Resource for teachers related to teaching with digital tools platforms
Kim Jaxon

How Technology Makes Us Better Social Beings - 2 views

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    "Keith Hampton, a sociologist at the University of Pennsylvania, is starting to poke holes in this theory that technology has weakened our relationships. Partnered with the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project, he turned his gaze, most recently, to users of social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn."
Kim Jaxon

TCRecord: Article - 0 views

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    Background/Context: New information technologies make information available just-in-time and on demand and are reshaping how we interact with information, but schools remain in a print-based culture, and a growing number of students are disaffiliating from traditional school. New methods of instruction are needed that are suited to the digital age.
Kim Jaxon

How One Instructor Teaches 2,670 Students - The Digital Campus - The Chronicle of Highe... - 1 views

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    In October, Myanmar's pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, got a quirky request on YouTube. A hyperactive instructor in a plaid jacket posted a video inviting her to do a Skype interview with his "World Regions" geography class at Virginia Tech.
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