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Barbara Lindsey

The Way We'll Be - 0 views

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distance learning survey education

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  • a prominent pollster, John Zogby, says in a book being released on Tuesday that it won’t be long before American society takes to distance education as warmly as it has embraced game-changing innovations like microbrewed beers, Flexcars, and “the simple miracle of Netflix.”
  • The factor that will close that “enthusiasm gap” is the growing use of distance education by well-respected universities, Mr. Zogby predicts in the book, The Way We’ll Be: The Zogby Report on the Transformation of the American Dream (Random House).
  • Mr. Zogby says polls detect signs of society’s emerging resistance to big institutions, and its de-emphasis on things and places. “We’re redefining geography and space,” he says — and a widening acceptance of online education is part of that trend.
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  • “There’s a sense that those who define the standard haven’t caught on yet,” he said.
  • His polling also points to other challenges that colleges will face as they race to serve a worldwise generation of 18-to-29-year-olds that Mr. Zogby calls “First Globals.”
  • Only 27 percent of respondents agreed that “online universities and colleges provide the same quality of education” as traditional institutions. Among those 18 to 24 years old, only 23 percent agreed.
  • An even greater proportion of those polled said it was their perception that employers and academic professionals thought more highly of traditional institutions than online ones.
  • Yet in another national poll in December 2007, conducted for Excelsior College, 45 percent of the 1,004 adults surveyed believed “an online class carries the same value as a traditional-classroom class,” and 43 percent of 1,545 chief executives and small-business owners agreed that a degree earned by distance learning “is as credible” as one from a traditional campus-based program.
  • As with changing perceptions about other cultural phenomena, “these paradigm shifts really are moving at lightning speed.”
  • Mr. Zogby also highlights the emerging influence of the First Globals, whom his book calls “the most outward-looking and accepting generation in American history.” First Globals, he says, are more socially tolerant and internationally aware.
  • First Globals, he writes, who are shaping what he says is nothing short of a “fundamental reorientation of the American character away from wanton consumption and toward a new global citizenry in an age of limited resources.”
Barbara Lindsey

Weblogg-ed - 0 views

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weblogg paperless cloud_computing

shared by Barbara Lindsey on 13 Nov 08 - Cached
  • “What do we do now?” by saying “Well, first off, it’s a shame that the collective experience of the people in this room is about to walk off in two hundred different directions without any way to share and reflect on the thinking they’ve been doing all day. Next year, no paper.”
    • Barbara Lindsey
      Barbara Lindsey on 13 Nov 08
       
      Hard habit to break.
  • but I continue to find myself more and more eschewing paper of just about any kind in my life. My newspaper/magazine intake is down to nearly zero, every note I take is stored somewhere in the cloud via my computer or iPhone, I rarely write checks, pay paper bills or even carry cash money any longer, and I swear I could live without a printer except for the times when someone demands a signed copy of something or other.
  • On preservice preparation for new teachers: “Universities a at the core of the problem; there’s nothing more conservative than schools of education.”
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  • Scott Leslie, whose post “planning to share versus just sharing”
  • So here is the money question: What two things (and only two) would you tell educational leaders are the most important steps they can take to lead change today? I got that one from a professor at Oakland University last week, and after pausing for what seemed like an excruciatingly long time, I answered “build a learning network online, and make your learning as transparent as possible for those around you.” And while I really think the first part of that answer would make sense to most leaders out there, I think the second would have them running for the hills.
Barbara Lindsey

Open Thinking Wiki - 1 views

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social networking education pln

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  • Barbara Lindsey on 12 Jan 10
     
    Harnessing the Power of Social Networks in Teaching and Learning
Barbara Lindsey

Classroom 2.0 LIVE-Resources for 12-12-09-Cell Phones as Classroom Learning T... - 0 views

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cellphones Kolb learning

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  • Barbara Lindsey on 12 Dec 09
     
    Resources for Liz Kolb's Classroom 2.0 Live presentation on December 12, 2009.
Barbara Lindsey

The Tech Curve: RSU #19 Google Apps for Education Plan - 0 views

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googleapps education gmail

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  • Barbara Lindsey on 18 Dec 09
     
    Great description of how one school district is using Google Apps for lifelong learning and teaching. Terrific embedded video on advantages to migrating over to Google Email for educational institutions.
Barbara Lindsey

Digital Natives - 0 views

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digital natives cybersafety fryer media

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  • Barbara Lindsey on 02 Jan 10
     
    A collaborative space supported by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School and the Research Center for Information Law at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland. The project's goal is to better understand young people's experiences with digital media, including Internet, cell phones and related technologies. By gaining insight into how digital natives make sense of their interactions in this digital lanscape, we may address the issues their practices raise, learn how to harness the opportunities their digital fluency presents, and shape our regulatory and educational frameworks in a way that advances the public interest. Thx to Wes Fryer for this find!
Barbara Lindsey

Travis Allen's Blog - 0 views

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mobiles iphones college student blog

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  • Barbara Lindsey on 02 Jan 10
     
    Colllege student who founded a non-profit initiative to bring tech solutions to classroom learning. Here he talks about how he only uses an iPhone in college. Might be a good person to talk to our students in BWCT!
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Jon D Pennington | - 0 views

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pennington skype blog googledocs twitter student-centered

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  • Barbara Lindsey on 20 Dec 09
     
    Great description how Jon integrates the use of skype, twitter, blog and google docs to create student-centered language learning opportunities
Barbara Lindsey

Interesting Ways | edte.ch - 0 views

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Barrett education presentation interestingways classroom technology

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  • Barbara Lindsey on 04 Dec 09
     
    Great set of presentations showcasing how to use tech tools for classroom learning by Tom Barrett and colleagues around the world. Wonderful example of crowdsourcing.
Barbara Lindsey

twtpoll :: What do you want to talk about during this weeks (12/8) #edchat? (via @web20... - 0 views

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poll survey twitter

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  • Barbara Lindsey on 07 Dec 09
     
    Great use of twtpoll for ongoing, online, collaborative professional development. Could also use with students as comprehension check, way for students to have more voice in their learning, etc.
Barbara Lindsey

Student challenges prof, wins right to post source code he wrote for course - Boing Boing - 0 views

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student student-created

shared by Barbara Lindsey on 29 Dec 09 - Cached
  • Kyle's a student at San Jose State University who was threatened with a failing grade for posting the code he wrote for the course -- he wanted to make it available in the spirit of academic knowledge-sharing, and as code for potential future employers to review -- and when he refused, his prof flew into a fury and promised that in future, he would make a prohibition on posting your work (even after the course was finished) a condition of taking his course.
  • The most important lesson from it for me is that students want to produce meaningful output from their course-assignments, things that have intrinsic value apart from their usefulness for assessing their progress in the course. Profs -- including me, at times -- fall into the lazy trap of wanting to assign rotework that can be endlessly recycled as work for new students, a model that fails when the students treat their work as useful in and of itself and therefore worthy of making public for their peers and other interested parties who find them through search results, links, etc.
  • And in this case, it's especially poignant, since Kyle's workflow actually matches the practices of real-world programmers and academic computer scientists: coders look at one anothers' examples, use reference implementations, publish their code for review by peers. If you hired a programmer who insisted that none of her co-workers could see her work, you'd immediately fire her -- that's just not how software is written. Kyle's prof's idea of how computer programmers work is exactly what's meant by the pejorative sense of "academic" -- unrealistic, hidebound, and out-of-touch with reality. Bravo to Kyle for standing his ground!
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  • I love learning by making my own mistakes - and that is certainly part of learning to be a decent programmer
  • Or are we to allow that "this is a solved problem, that is a solved problem (read about it here if it helps) but here is a real-world problem that needs research done on it..."
  • Wouldn't it be great if universities once again became places where new knowledge grew and spread from, rather than where it went to be locked up and die?
  • The model of "Trust no-one and write all your code yourself" is outdated. The model of "Trust your fellow humans and write your code with their help" is the future.
  • Barbara Lindsey on 29 Dec 09
     
    Thx to Russel Tarr
Barbara Lindsey

The 21st Century Learning Initiative : The History of Education 2000 and the Explanatio... - 0 views

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education Britian reform

shared by Barbara Lindsey on 07 Jan 10 - Cached
  • The application of "market principles" quickly destroyed the concept of a community of learners that extended beyond the school and effectively turned each school against its "rival"; a preoccupation with the assessment of pupils as a way of monitoring teachers led to even more "teaching for the test," and the relegation of information technology to that of a vocational skill.
    • Barbara Lindsey
      Barbara Lindsey on 07 Jan 10
       
      Are there similarities with the US system? Is this change of perspective necessarily bad?
  • Barbara Lindsey on 07 Jan 10
     
    "By 1988, with increasing pressure with every subsequent year, Education 2000 became evermore isolated by a whole series of legislative proposals made by a Government whose educational policy was increasingly to become prescriptive, centralized, and based on assumptions that originated in the 1950s. Teacher education courses were reorganized to focus far more heavily on subject content and classroom practice, at the cost of a hefty reduction in all aspects of the course dealing with educational theory, purpose and philosophy. Her Majesty's Inspectorate was abolished as being too much on "the side of the teachers," and replaced by a more rigorous assessment and evaluation system. "There is no such subject as education," said Margaret Thatcher, "only subjects to be taught.""
Barbara Lindsey

AACE Global U - Social Media Seminar Series - 0 views

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aace live seminars free social media

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  • Barbara Lindsey on 22 Jan 10
     
    "AACE Global U is pleased to announce and organize "Social Media: Trends and Implications for Learning," a monthly online seminar series. The seminar series, led by George Siemens and David Cormier, is without fee and will include live interactive sessions, in addition to discussions with guest speakers and participants. All sessions are co-sponsored by and will be archived in the Education & Information Technology Library (EdITLib)."
Barbara Lindsey

More Changes in Store for the Traditional Textbook Model? : April 2009 : THE Journal - 0 views

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textbooks texas online

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  • Create a commissioner's list of electronic textbooks and instructional materials that would bypass the Texas State Board of Education, a notorious gauntlet fraught with politics; and Require that school districts purchase a classroom set of textbooks adopted by the State Board of Education for each subject and grade level in the state curriculum.
  • Barbara Lindsey on 22 Apr 09
     
    "Their culture is different, and so is their mode of communication. Rather than have us force kids to the old way, we need use their way of learning and communicating. That's why I co-authored this bill."
  • Barbara Lindsey on 22 Apr 09
     
    Your thoughts on cultural difference and 'new modes' of communication?
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