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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

"The Kaua Moho was the last species of it's entire genus and it was the last genus in it's family. This male was not just the last of his kind, he was the last being on his entire branch of the evolutionary tree, there was nothing left on the planet that was even close to being like him. That kind of loneliness is unimaginable. No other avian family has had every single species within it go completely extinct in modern times. Different species of Moho lived on each island of Hawaii and their evolutionary cousins the kioea birds lived alongside them, but starting in 1800 (about the time Europeans started arriving to the islands in significant numbers and also about the time the native human population of Hawaii also got decimated by diseases) one by one they died out due to the introduction of foreign avian diseases and parasites, habitat loss, and hunting for their plumage. 2 hurricanes within 10 years of each other finished them off. They are all gone and that song or any song like it will never be heard again save for in recordings. The hurricanes dealt the final blow, but 95% of it was humanity's fault. This has become common in Hawaii due to having so many species that only exist there. A LOT of those species are gone now because the arrival of Europeans brought disease, invasive species, and people straight up killed them or destroyed their habitats. It is a similar situation on every isolated island or area in the world as humans have expanded and explored every nook and cranny on the planet, no matter how hard it is to get to or how little business we have there we feel the need to interfere in even the most delicate and tiny ecosystem. Even the large, continent sized ecosystems are suffering. It doesn't matter if there are millions or even billions of an animal or plant, we will find some way to kill them all. It is only in the last few decades that serious steps have finally been taken to preserve the few areas on this world that we have not destroyed, but

"... 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. ..."

"No son pocas las definiciones que se han dado acerca de lo que se entiende por competencia. De las que he leído hay una que me ha gustado especialmente y es la que quiero darte a conocer en este artículo. Esta definición sobre competencia reza así: Una competencia es la capacidad de movilizar adecuadamente el conjunto de conocimientos, capacidades, habilidades y actitudes necesarias para realizar actividades diversas con un cierto nivel de calidad y eficacia (Bizquerra R. y Pérez N.) Características de una competencia. Afecta tanto a personas como a grupos. Implica saber (conocimientos), saber hacer (habilidades), saber estar y saber hacer (conducta). Implica aprendizaje y experiencia. Supone una actuación. Se inscribe en un contexto determinado. Tipos de competencia. Muchas son las opiniones acerca de los tipos de competencia que pueden darse en un individuo, pero a grandes rasgos se pueden clasificar en dos grandes grupos: Competencia socio-personal. Competencia que tiene como finalidad obtener resultados favorables dentro de un entorno social y siempre respetando los derechos y las opciones de las personas que forman dicho entorno. Dentro de esta competencia entraría la competencia emocional. Competencia técnico-profesional. Competencia que tiene como finalidad el dominio de las tareas y destrezas así como conocimientos técnicos necesarios para desempeñar una profesión. Las 17 competencias emocionales para enseñar a tus alumnos. Competencia 1 Infografía realizada con Easel.ly 1. Tomar de conciencia de los sentimientos. Competencia que tiene como objeto percibir los propios sentimientos y saberles poner un nombre. 2. Manejar los sentimientos. Competencia centrada en la propia regulación y autocontrol de los sentimientos. 3. Respetar la perspectiva. Competencia en la que la persona debe ser capaz de entender y respetar los puntos de vista de los demás. 4

"No son pocas las definiciones que se han dado acerca de lo que se entiende por competencia. De las que he leído hay una que me ha gustado especialmente y es la que quiero darte a conocer en este artículo. Esta definición sobre competencia reza así: Una competencia es la capacidad de movilizar adecuadamente el conjunto de conocimientos, capacidades, habilidades y actitudes necesarias para realizar actividades diversas con un cierto nivel de calidad y eficacia (Bizquerra R. y Pérez N.) Características de una competencia. Afecta tanto a personas como a grupos. Implica saber (conocimientos), saber hacer (habilidades), saber estar y saber hacer (conducta). Implica aprendizaje y experiencia. Supone una actuación. Se inscribe en un contexto determinado. Tipos de competencia. Muchas son las opiniones acerca de los tipos de competencia que pueden darse en un individuo, pero a grandes rasgos se pueden clasificar en dos grandes grupos: Competencia socio-personal. Competencia que tiene como finalidad obtener resultados favorables dentro de un entorno social y siempre respetando los derechos y las opciones de las personas que forman dicho entorno. Dentro de esta competencia entraría la competencia emocional. Competencia técnico-profesional. Competencia que tiene como finalidad el dominio de las tareas y destrezas así como conocimientos técnicos necesarios para desempeñar una profesión. Las 17 competencias emocionales para enseñar a tus alumnos. Competencia 1 Infografía realizada con Easel.ly 1. Tomar de conciencia de los sentimientos. Competencia que tiene como objeto percibir los propios sentimientos y saberles poner un nombre. 2. Manejar los sentimientos. Competencia centrada en la propia regulación y autocontrol de los sentimientos. 3. Respetar la perspectiva. Competencia en la que la persona debe ser capaz de entender y respetar los puntos de vista de los demás. 4