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Lisa M Lane

Towards More Effective Online Reading | edfoc.us - 0 views

shared by Lisa M Lane on 15 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Educators should give the act of online reading equal importance.  Why not?  If teachers want students to “slow read” digital texts, then shouldn’t we employ some of the same reading methodologies that work with physical books and printed words?  Should we just say, “Forget it, our students are just going to read online material in the same manner that they read chat scripts and text messages?”  Explicit teaching is the answer IMHO.  Explicitly teaching the act of online reading using tools that support effective, proven techniques.
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    Educators should give the act of online reading equal importance. Why not? If teachers want students to "slow read" digital texts, then shouldn't we employ some of the same reading methodologies that work with physical books and printed words? Should we just say, "Forget it, our students are just going to read online material in the same manner that they read chat scripts and text messages?" Explicit teaching is the answer IMHO. Explicitly teaching the act of online reading using tools that support effective, proven techniques.
Ed Webb

EtherPad: Realtime Collaborative Text Editing - 0 views

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    Etherpad rocks. I showed it to a couple of non-techies at work last week and they just loved it and are going to use it in a forum this Friday for 150 people. Will let you know how it goes, but the ease of use is just awesome. Export functions are great too - PDF, WORD, OpenOffice, Text.
Lisa M Lane

digress.it - 0 views

shared by Lisa M Lane on 05 Sep 09 - Cached
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    Digress.it is a plugin for WordPress that supports discussion at a far finer level than is traditionally available on most blogs. Rather than limiting conversations to a single field at the bottom of a post, digress.it "lets you comment paragraph by paragraph in the margins of a text." -- Mike Bogle, TechTicker
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    I'm continually looking for a way to use this but so far haven't found one. For personal blogs with fairly short posts it's a bit of overkill I think, but I could easily see it used for longer pieces - especially where you're meticulously analysing or interpreting things.
Ed Webb

The Transducer » Blog Archive » Brain Behavior and Behaving like Brains - 2 views

  • boundaries are inserted where the brain experiences what Zacks calls “prediction error” — when things break a pattern of repetition and thus signal to the brain a boundary that is used to construct the temporal model for the event — its typical sequence. 
  • the response of the audience — comprised mainly of educational experts — and of Zacks himself is that one practical lesson from his research is that creators of narrative content, such as film, should make an effort to provide more obvious segmentation in their products.  Clearly, if this is how the brain works, we should work this way too. I think this is a major fallacy that pervades the reception of brain science research.  People tend to assume that if the brain works a certain way, then so should we.
  • the lesson is to get good at perceiving and creating event boundaries, which requires not pre-segmented media, but the opposite — hard to grasp art, stuff that violates expectations and rewards the perciever with a different perspective.   In fact, giving students media with well defined boundaries may cause their capacity to construct boundaries to atrophy, much as caffeine causes our adrenal glands to shrink. (I know, it’s a good reason to stop drinking coffee.)
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  • So, what is the pedagogical and media design lesson here?  Learning Teaching is not about making content easy to ingest, it’s about creating environments where students can play this game of meaning formation, which isn’t always stress-free.  Marketers may disagree, but they are in the business of indoctrination, not teaching.
Ed Webb

Filtering Reality - The Atlantic (November 2009) - 1 views

  • Nearly every communication method we invent eventually conveys unwanted commercial messages. AR systems will be used for spam too, whether via graffiti-like tags, ads that pop up when you look too long at a shop, or even abstract symbols stuck to a wall or worn on a shirt that, when viewed through an AR system, turn into 3-D animations. Fortunately, just as Web browsers have pop-up blockers, AR systems will filter spam. Moreover, they’ll likely be able to filter out physical ads, too, such as billboards—a capability that many opponents of visual clutter will find deliriously attractive.
  • Conceivably, users could set AR spam filters to block any kind of unpalatable visual information, from political campaign signs to book covers. Parents might want to block sexual or violent images from their kids’ AR systems, and political activists and religious leaders might provide ideologically correct filters for their communities. The bad images get replaced by a red STOP, or perhaps by signs and pictures that reinforce the desired worldview.
  • It won’t take a majority of people using these filters to poison public discourse; imagine this summer’s town-hall screamers on constant alert, wherever they go. Yet this world will be the unintended consequence of otherwise desirable developments—spam filters, facial recognition, augmented reality—that many of us will find useful.
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  • The harder answer, but ultimately the correct one, would be to strengthen our society’s ability to tolerate diverse viewpoints—to encourage not muddy centrism, but a basic ability to hear out, and to see, fellow citizens with a measure of respect.
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