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in title, tags, annotations or urlAn Interview with Michael Wesch - Part 1 of 3 | November Learning - 0 views
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This episode is the first of a three part conversation between Alan November and Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Digital Ethnography at Kansas State University. In this segment, the two discuss the need for teaching social responsibility to students and what important basic skills students and teachers need to know. Additionally, the two discuss whether students are having a loss or gain of identity by working online.
'Augmented Reality' on Smartphones Brings Teaching Down to Earth - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 1 views
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Arguments for Augmentation The researchers and educators in this small, emerging field see clear advantages to using real-world sites as the backdrop for educational games. A major goal of Mentira is to motivate students "to get their heads out of the textbook" by showing them that language has a vibrant local context, Ms. Sykes says. By setting the story in a nearby neighborhood, she and Mr. Holden took advantage of its historic sites and folklore to integrate learning about its history and culture into the game
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Mr. Gagnon is the lead developer of a software tool called ARIS, or Augmented Reality and Interactive Storytelling. ARIS lets designers link text, images, video, or audio to a physical location, making the real world into a map of virtual characters and objects that people can navigate with iPhones, iPads, or iPod Touches.
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The open-source tool,
Medieval Multitasking: Did We Ever Focus? | Culture | Religion Dispatches - 0 views
Open Culture - 0 views
Do You Speak "Academia"? » Edurati Review - 0 views
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the opening main clause, “Education is an all-encompassing institution,” makes little sense, and the rest of the sentence fails to clarify its meaning. The use of “each and every” is redundant; if each continent and culture, then, by default, it is every continent and culture. After the semicolon, good verbs become weak adjectives: functional and organizational. The entire paragraph could be restructured as an easily understood sentence: In every society, schools organize, function, and operate similarly.
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Why pick on paragraphs pulled from their contexts? If you read (or try to read) educational journals, you’ll find that these examples are not isolated. They illustrate the “academic style” characterizing such periodicals. These periodicals, their supporters argue, provide the link between research and classroom practice. But the poor communication—the academic writing—requires the reader to add steps to the usually efficient cognition of comprehension. The reader is forced to pause and ask, “What does that mean in plain English?” It’s not that different from reading text in a second language, one in which the reader may be knowledgeable but not proficient.
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This same gap often exists between students and their textbooks.
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Education - One Day On Earth - 0 views
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Across the planet, documentary filmmakers, students, and inspired citizens will record the human experience over a 24-hour period. By participating in this historic event, you will help capture the diversity of life and culture on this planet. Together we will create a document that is a gift to the world.
The Souls of the Machine: Clay Shirky's Internet Revolution - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views
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He argues that as Web sites become more social, they will threaten the existence of all kinds of businesses and organizations, which might find themselves unnecessary once people can organize on their own with free online tools. Who needs an academic association, for instance, if a Facebook page, blog, and Internet mailing list can enable professionals to stay connected without paying dues? Who needs a record label, when musicians can distribute songs and reach out to fans on their own?
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"More people can communicate more things to more people than has ever been possible in the past, and the size and speed of this increase, from under one million participants to over one billion in a generation, makes the change unprecedented."
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in his latest book, Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age, scheduled to appear from Penguin Press this month. In it, he urges companies and consumers to stop clinging to old models and embrace what he characterizes as "As Much Chaos as We Can Stand" in adopting new Web technologies. He presses programmers and entrepreneurs to throw out old assumptions and try as many crazy, interactive Web toys as they can—to see what works, just as the students here do.
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Living Epic: Video Games in the Ancient World: Operation LAPIS is ĪTE! - 0 views
The Cape Town Open Education Declaration - 0 views
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The Internet provides a platform for collaborative learning and knowledge creation across long distances, which is central to the long term promise of open education. It also offers a channel for the creation and distribution of knowledge from a diversity of places and cultures around the world, and not just from major publishing centres like New York, London, and Paris.
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we believe that open education and open educational resources are very much compatible with the business of commercial publishing. The Declaration clearly states that the open education movement should "...engage entrepreneurs and publishers who are developing innovative business models that are both open and financially sustainable."
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here is likely to be some upheaval in formal educational systems as teachers and students engage in the new pedagogies that are enabled by openness. There might also be concerns that some of the deeper goals of the open education movement could backfire. For example, instead of enhancing locally relevant educational practices and rewarding those with regional expertise, it is possible that a flood of foreign-produced open educational resources will actually undermine the capacity for regional expertise to form or thrive.
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Innovate - Backwards into the Future: Seven Principles for Educating the Ne(x)t Generation - 0 views
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In contrast to traditional English courses, which are mostly paper-based, our reading materials can all be found on the Web, and the students present their work in the form of interactive Web pages that are accessible to everyone in the class, thereby forging a virtual learning community to parallel the physical community of the classroom.
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Teaching to the future, we contend, involves forging pathways for our students that we do not necessarily intend to travel ourselves.
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With each new iteration of Poetry off the Page, our students' expertise has driven the course design, rather than vice versa.
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Beyond Campus Boundaries ePortfolio Transforms into 'Cultural Application' -- Campus Technology - 1 views
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The point is that people will be using ePortfolios for their own purposes.
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student ownership is an important point about ePortfolios
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The more engaged, the more time on task, the more that a person puts into something, the more they learn—this g'es along with all the data I’ve seen over the years. The challenge has always been, how do you engage students?
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Spanish Language & Culture | Home - 0 views
Free Culture, Copyright and Open Video « in the wind - 0 views
The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education -- Publications -- Center for Social Media at American University - 0 views
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PRINCIPLES
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EMPLOYING COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL IN MEDIA LITERACY LESSONS
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Common instructional activities include comparison-contrast analysis, deconstruction (close analysis) of the form and content of a message, illustration of key points, and examination of the historical, economic, political, or social contexts in which a particular message was produced and is received.
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