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1) the ways they currently implement Twitter in their teaching and learning, 2) ideas for future development of Twitter-based assignments and pedagogical practices, and 3) issues concerning the integration of Twitter and other digital media into both traditional and non-traditional pedagogies. Collaborators should feel free to add material to these pages, to comment on existing material, and to share links to relevant external readings and resources. It may be helpful to tag your contributions with your Twitter handle. Collaborators are asked to please respect this space as a forum for open and respectful dialogue and networking. Let's fill up the pages below with great ideas!  Share the ways you currently implement Twitter in your teaching and learning: Students in my course New Information Technologies do an "Internet Censorship" project, focused on a specific country. I ask them to follow a journalist who tweets on that country as part of their research to understand the state of Internet freedom in the country they select. -- Lora Since shortly after Twitter was launched, I've experimented with various iterations of "The Twitter Essay," an assignment that has students considering the nature of the "essay" as a medium and how they might do that work within the space of 140 characters. -- Jesse (@Jessifer) In my fully online classes, I've started using Twitter to replace the discussion forum as the central location for student interaction. -- Jesse (@Jessifer) Show Tweets that have gotten people arrested and prompt discussion on whether it is fair that anyone be arrested for any Tweet in the US, who is likely to be arrested for their Tweets, what kinds of Tweets are likely to prompt arrest, etc. Students in my First Year Seminar course "The Irish Imagination: Yeats to Bono" developed a platform for digital annotation of Irish literature. Embedded in their platform was a twitter feed of relevant individuals/groups, m

1) the ways they currently implement Twitter in their teaching and learning, 2) ideas for future development of Twitter-based assignments and pedagogical practices, and 3) issues concerning the integration of Twitter and other digital media into both traditional and non-traditional pedagogies. Collaborators should feel free to add material to these pages, to comment on existing material, and to share links to relevant external readings and resources. It may be helpful to tag your contributions with your Twitter handle. Collaborators are asked to please respect this space as a forum for open and respectful dialogue and networking. Let's fill up the pages below with great ideas!  Share the ways you currently implement Twitter in your teaching and learning: Students in my course New Information Technologies do an "Internet Censorship" project, focused on a specific country. I ask them to follow a journalist who tweets on that country as part of their research to understand the state of Internet freedom in the country they select. -- Lora Since shortly after Twitter was launched, I've experimented with various iterations of "The Twitter Essay," an assignment that has students considering the nature of the "essay" as a medium and how they might do that work within the space of 140 characters. -- Jesse (@Jessifer) In my fully online classes, I've started using Twitter to replace the discussion forum as the central location for student interaction. -- Jesse (@Jessifer) Show Tweets that have gotten people arrested and prompt discussion on whether it is fair that anyone be arrested for any Tweet in the US, who is likely to be arrested for their Tweets, what kinds of Tweets are likely to prompt arrest, etc. Students in my First Year Seminar course "The Irish Imagination: Yeats to Bono" developed a platform for digital annotation of Irish literature. Embedded in their platform was a twitter feed of relevant individuals/groups, m

Co·her·ent  (k-hîrnt, -hr-) means

1. Sticking together; cohering.
2. Marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts: a coherent essay.
3. Physics Of, relating to, or having waves with similar direction, amplitude, and phase that are capable of exhibiting

"... Reclaiming pedagogy as a form of educated and militant hope begins with the crucial recognition that education is not solely about job training and the production of ethically challenged entrepreneurial subjects and that artistic production does not only have to serve market interests, but are also about matters of civic engagement and literacy, critical thinking, and the capacity for democratic agency, action, and change. It is also inextricably connected to the related issues of power, inclusion, and social responsibility.[2] If young people, artists, and other cultural workers are to develop a deep respect for others, a keen sense of the common good, as well as an informed notion of community engagement, pedagogy must be viewed as a cultural, political, and moral force that provides the knowledge, values, and social relations to make such democratic practices possible. In this instance, pedagogy needs to be rigorous, self-reflective, and committed not to the dead zone of instrumental rationality but to the practice of freedom and liberation for the most vulnerable and oppressed, to a critical sensibility capable of advancing the parameters of knowledge, addressing crucial social issues, and connecting private troubles into public issues. Any viable notion of critical pedagogy must overcome the image of education as purely instrumental, as dead zones of the imagination, and sites of oppressive discipline and imposed conformity. ..."

"Si quieres hacer una actividad relacionada con este artículo con tus alumnos te remito a la entrada titulada 10 Excusas que como docente has oído alguna vez de tus alumnos. ¡Te va a encantar! Una recomendación. Si quieres saber más sobre cómo gestionar conflictos en el aula, te recomiendo encarecidamente la lectura del libro de Joan Vaello titulado Cómo dar clase a los que no quieren. Joan Vaello propone actividades muy parecidas a las de esta entrada que tienen como máxima la eficacia basada en la determinación, la sencillez y la cooperación. Porque leer nos hace mejores… ¿Eres docente? ¡Ya somos más de 20.000 suscriptores! Correo electrónico PrintFriendly and PDFImprimir Related Posts Problemática compartida. ¿Cómo se soluciona un problema? Problemática compartida. ¿Cómo se soluciona un problema? El bazar de las emociones. Propuesta de actividad El bazar de las emociones. Propuesta de actividad Cómo enseñar a tus alumnos los tipos de acoso escolar. Propuesta de actividad Cómo enseñar a tus alumnos los tipos de acoso escolar. Propuesta de actividad 12 Pautas para elaborar un examen de refuerzo. Ejemplo 12 Pautas para elaborar un examen de refuerzo. Ejemplo The Empathy Toy, el juguete para fomentar la empatía entre tus alumnos The Empathy Toy, el juguete para fomentar la empatía entre tus alumnos Un truco para enseñar a tus alumnos a responder preguntas Un truco para enseñar a tus alumnos a responder preguntas Tweet 0 Share 958 Pin Archivada en: Resolución de conflictos, Educación emocional Etiquetada con: problemas, soluciones Comentarios Esteban De Las Heras García dice 12/11/2014 at 10:36 pm Se nota la mano de Joan Vaello. Los es que forman parte de una conducta reactiva, mientras que los podría forman parte de una conducta proactiva. Siempre aportando cosas interesantes. ¡Podrías seguir! :) Un saludo S

"Si quieres hacer una actividad relacionada con este artículo con tus alumnos te remito a la entrada titulada 10 Excusas que como docente has oído alguna vez de tus alumnos. ¡Te va a encantar! Una recomendación. Si quieres saber más sobre cómo gestionar conflictos en el aula, te recomiendo encarecidamente la lectura del libro de Joan Vaello titulado Cómo dar clase a los que no quieren. Joan Vaello propone actividades muy parecidas a las de esta entrada que tienen como máxima la eficacia basada en la determinación, la sencillez y la cooperación. Porque leer nos hace mejores… ¿Eres docente? ¡Ya somos más de 20.000 suscriptores! Correo electrónico PrintFriendly and PDFImprimir Related Posts Problemática compartida. ¿Cómo se soluciona un problema? Problemática compartida. ¿Cómo se soluciona un problema? El bazar de las emociones. Propuesta de actividad El bazar de las emociones. Propuesta de actividad Cómo enseñar a tus alumnos los tipos de acoso escolar. Propuesta de actividad Cómo enseñar a tus alumnos los tipos de acoso escolar. Propuesta de actividad 12 Pautas para elaborar un examen de refuerzo. Ejemplo 12 Pautas para elaborar un examen de refuerzo. Ejemplo The Empathy Toy, el juguete para fomentar la empatía entre tus alumnos The Empathy Toy, el juguete para fomentar la empatía entre tus alumnos Un truco para enseñar a tus alumnos a responder preguntas Un truco para enseñar a tus alumnos a responder preguntas Tweet 0 Share 958 Pin Archivada en: Resolución de conflictos, Educación emocional Etiquetada con: problemas, soluciones Comentarios Esteban De Las Heras García dice 12/11/2014 at 10:36 pm Se nota la mano de Joan Vaello. Los es que forman parte de una conducta reactiva, mientras que los podría forman parte de una conducta proactiva. Siempre aportando cosas interesantes. ¡Podrías seguir! :) Un saludo S

"Burden of Poverty Lacking money or time can lead one to make poorer decisions, possibly because poverty imposes a cognitive load that saps attention and reduces effort. Mani et al. (p. 976; see the Perspective by Vohs) gathered evidence from shoppers in a New Jersey mall and from farmers in Tamil Nadu, India. They found that considering a projected financial decision, such as how to pay for a car repair, affects people's performance on unrelated spatial and reasoning tasks. Lower-income individuals performed poorly if the repairs were expensive but did fine if the cost was low, whereas higher-income individuals performed well in both conditions, as if the projected financial burden imposed no cognitive pressure. Similarly, the sugarcane farmers from Tamil Nadu performed these tasks better after harvest than before. Abstract The poor often behave in less capable ways, which can further perpetuate poverty. We hypothesize that poverty directly impedes cognitive function and present two studies that test this hypothesis. First, we experimentally induced thoughts about finances and found that this reduces cognitive performance among poor but not in well-off participants. Second, we examined the cognitive function of farmers over the planting cycle. We found that the same farmer shows diminished cognitive performance before harvest, when poor, as compared with after harvest, when rich. This cannot be explained by differences in time available, nutrition, or work effort. Nor can it be explained with stress: Although farmers do show more stress before harvest, that does not account for diminished cognitive performance. Instead, it appears that poverty itself reduces cognitive capacity. We suggest that this is because poverty-related concerns consume mental resources, leaving less for other tasks. These data provide a previously unexamined perspective and help explain a spectrum of behaviors among the poor. We discuss some implications for poverty policy."

"Burden of Poverty Lacking money or time can lead one to make poorer decisions, possibly because poverty imposes a cognitive load that saps attention and reduces effort. Mani et al. (p. 976; see the Perspective by Vohs) gathered evidence from shoppers in a New Jersey mall and from farmers in Tamil Nadu, India. They found that considering a projected financial decision, such as how to pay for a car repair, affects people's performance on unrelated spatial and reasoning tasks. Lower-income individuals performed poorly if the repairs were expensive but did fine if the cost was low, whereas higher-income individuals performed well in both conditions, as if the projected financial burden imposed no cognitive pressure. Similarly, the sugarcane farmers from Tamil Nadu performed these tasks better after harvest than before. Abstract The poor often behave in less capable ways, which can further perpetuate poverty. We hypothesize that poverty directly impedes cognitive function and present two studies that test this hypothesis. First, we experimentally induced thoughts about finances and found that this reduces cognitive performance among poor but not in well-off participants. Second, we examined the cognitive function of farmers over the planting cycle. We found that the same farmer shows diminished cognitive performance before harvest, when poor, as compared with after harvest, when rich. This cannot be explained by differences in time available, nutrition, or work effort. Nor can it be explained with stress: Although farmers do show more stress before harvest, that does not account for diminished cognitive performance. Instead, it appears that poverty itself reduces cognitive capacity. We suggest that this is because poverty-related concerns consume mental resources, leaving less for other tasks. These data provide a previously unexamined perspective and help explain a spectrum of behaviors among the poor. We discuss some implications for poverty policy."

"Close Reading and Argument Writing - Authentically Across the Curriculum 7/16/2015 0 Comments Close reading of informational texts and non-fiction articles is not - and should not be - reserved for language arts classes. Every content area would be immensely enhanced if science teachers, social studies teachers, physical education teachers, welding teachers, woodworking teachers (in other words, "all technical subjects," as Common Core states) would not push aside the textbook, but instead embrace it, along with content area and trade articles. Students would then simultaneously learn how to dissect the readings while gaining knowledge in these content areas. What often happens is that teachers feel that students can't handle the text books or can't read the articles independently - and often that is true. However, when teachers instead go into a survival mode, of sorts, and read aloud the whole chapter or article or summarize it with a slideshow, it ends up doing a disservice to students - students are not learning HOW to read these complex texts. They are not learning how to acquire the information on their own. They are not being given the skills to read the sometimes intricate information within a particular content area or even within their possible future trade. They are not being given the opportunity to read, understand, articulate, and discuss or even debate topics within their area of study. Teachers sometimes feel that they can't do these things with students because they are not language arts teachers, or because they don't have time, or simply because they don't know how. Alternatively, a simple solution is to let go of the control and let students do…..with the guidance called close reading. Close reading is a guided reading approach. It is guided because 1) the close reading strategy is reserved for complex texts that are often too high for students to be left with independently and 2) students don't use close reading strateg

"This book YOUNG & CREATIVE - Digital Technologies Empowering Children in Everyday Life aims to catch different examples where children and youth have been active and creative by their own initiative, driven by intrinsic motivation, personal interests and peer relations. We want to show the opportunities of digital technologies for creative processes of children and young people. The access to digital technology and its growing convergence has allowed young people to experiment active roles as cultural producers. Participation becomes a keyword when "consumers take media into their own hands". Digital technologies offer the potential of different forms of participatory media culture, and finally creative practices. YOUNG and CREATIVE is a mix of research articles, interviews and case studies. The target audience of this book is students, professionals and researchers working in the field of education, communication, children and youth studies, new literacy studies and media and information literacy."

"The time is now: the crisis resulting from climate change is huge, impossible to ignore, and demands an immediate response of an unprecedented magnitude in our history. Flavia Broffoni is the leader of Extinction Rebellion in Argentina, and tells us how civil disobedience is one of the ways for the world to remain our world and last for long. She is a political scientist specializing in international relations and environmental policy, but she defines herself as an "anti-extinction activist and regenerative practitioner." Among many works, she was Policy Coordinator of the Wildlife Foundation / WWF and Director of Environmental Strategies of the Environmental Protection Agency of the City of Buenos Aires. She is the founder of AI.Re, a regenerative intelligence accelerator and coordinates the non-violent civil disobedience movement "Extinction Rebellion" in Argentina. "

In the face of today's digital and networked world, arguably, the default response of most traditional universities and tertiary providers has been to 'tame' rather than 'exploit' the potential of new technology and related social media.

"¿Qué pensaría un estudiante adulto si sus profesores hablaran sobre él con nombre y apellido en las redes sociales, opinando desde lo personal, pero de manera anónima? ¿Qué sucede en términos de etiquetamiento y estigmatización, eso que tanto trabajamos en nuestra formación para que los futuros maestros puedan superarlo? ¿Es posible que todo lo que quede de una relación de enseñanza y aprendizaje sean juicios de valor mínimos muchas veces insultantes? ¿Por qué no pensar en evaluar conjuntamente la enseñanza en vez de tomarse el trabajo de reflejar tantos comentarios ofensivos? ¿Cómo es posible que los vínculos entre docentes y alumnos estén tan quebrados que no puedan plantearse espacios de comunicación que permitan mejorar las prácticas? ¿Qué implica para un futuro docente expresarse públicamente de esa manera acerca de sus formadores? ¿Esto que observamos es todo lo que la formación docente puede ofrecer? ¿Esto es lo que se lleva un estudiante que pasa más de 4 años formándose en una institución pública? ¿Qué es lo que lleva a pensar que juzgar a otros anónimamente puede resultar una referencia de valor para sus compañeros? ¿Por qué no se repara en el factor del "anonimato en Internet" como fenómeno que produce una suerte de "venganza" en términos bastante dudosos de los alumnos hacia sus profesores? ¿Qué uso hacen los futuros docentes de las redes sociales e Internet si no son capaces de distinguir aquello que atañe a lo público y a lo privado? ¿Cómo enseñarán luego a sus alumnos este tema cuando ellos mismos no puede discernir la diferencia? ¿Cuánto más debemos trabajar acerca de un uso responsable de Internet con los futuros maestros? ¿Puede alguien que alienta "la cultura del zafe" en al aprendizaje ponerse más adelante en el lugar de enseñar promoviendo otro tipo de aprendizajes? ¿Quiénes se están formando como docentes son capaces de identificar el valor que se le asigna a la enseñanza,

"¿Qué pensaría un estudiante adulto si sus profesores hablaran sobre él con nombre y apellido en las redes sociales, opinando desde lo personal, pero de manera anónima? ¿Qué sucede en términos de etiquetamiento y estigmatización, eso que tanto trabajamos en nuestra formación para que los futuros maestros puedan superarlo? ¿Es posible que todo lo que quede de una relación de enseñanza y aprendizaje sean juicios de valor mínimos muchas veces insultantes? ¿Por qué no pensar en evaluar conjuntamente la enseñanza en vez de tomarse el trabajo de reflejar tantos comentarios ofensivos? ¿Cómo es posible que los vínculos entre docentes y alumnos estén tan quebrados que no puedan plantearse espacios de comunicación que permitan mejorar las prácticas? ¿Qué implica para un futuro docente expresarse públicamente de esa manera acerca de sus formadores? ¿Esto que observamos es todo lo que la formación docente puede ofrecer? ¿Esto es lo que se lleva un estudiante que pasa más de 4 años formándose en una institución pública? ¿Qué es lo que lleva a pensar que juzgar a otros anónimamente puede resultar una referencia de valor para sus compañeros? ¿Por qué no se repara en el factor del "anonimato en Internet" como fenómeno que produce una suerte de "venganza" en términos bastante dudosos de los alumnos hacia sus profesores? ¿Qué uso hacen los futuros docentes de las redes sociales e Internet si no son capaces de distinguir aquello que atañe a lo público y a lo privado? ¿Cómo enseñarán luego a sus alumnos este tema cuando ellos mismos no puede discernir la diferencia? ¿Cuánto más debemos trabajar acerca de un uso responsable de Internet con los futuros maestros? ¿Puede alguien que alienta "la cultura del zafe" en al aprendizaje ponerse más adelante en el lugar de enseñar promoviendo otro tipo de aprendizajes? ¿Quiénes se están formando como docentes son capaces de identificar el valor que se le asigna a la enseñanza,