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Sheri Edwards

The Introspection of a Pedagogue: Gamification: Good or bad? I say good! - 0 views

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  • In my social studies classes I am a fan of games that go beyond the simple answer a question get a point and instead cause students to debate within and without their table group, think critically, and make a decision.  Games are not some aberration that teaches students to think life is a game, but instead is creating an environment that allows for difficult concepts to be acted out in a safe environment.
  • even if the game doesn’t come out great the teacher tried to be creative instead of hiding behind what “works". 
  •  I also think that at times to much has been pushed onto the “best practices” and has slowed creative thought.  The best practices have a place and they work very well when used properly, but when do we stop saying what teachers are doing is wrong because they don’t look like the person next door?  Are we all supposed to be clones teaching in the same way all the time?  I think not.  But I suppose that is a different topic to tackle on different post. 
  • Sheri Edwards on 05 Jul 14
     
    "We are not just handing out badges, but implementing creative ways to engage students to help them try on concepts for size.  We are not sugarcoating anything and in some ways are able to engage the students in debates that they could not have without the simulation.  In short, we are building the future senators, doctors, lawyers, etc of the world that learned skills from the game and will apply them to their adult life. "
Terry Elliott

Cultivating Social Resources on Social Network Sites: Facebook Relationship Maintenance... - 0 views

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shared by Terry Elliott on 02 Jul 14 - No Cached
  • hese findings highlight the importance of actively managing, grooming, and maintaining one's network, suggesting that social capital is not generated simply by the existence of connections on a SNS, but rather is developed through small but meaningful effort on the part of users as they engage in relationship maintenance behaviors such as responding to questions, congratulating or sympathizing with others, and noting the passing of a meaningful day. This work contributes to our understanding of relationship maintenance activities in social networks and suggests that the true benefit of social network sites may not just be the technical connections they make possible, but by creating an environment in which meaningful communicative exchanges, and the potential social capital benefits they embody, can flow.
  • Terry Elliott on 02 Jul 14
     
    "these findings highlight the importance of actively managing, grooming, and maintaining one's network, suggesting that social capital is not generated simply by the existence of connections on a SNS, but rather is developed through small but meaningful effort on the part of users as they engage in relationship maintenance behaviors such as responding to questions, congratulating or sympathizing with others, and noting the passing of a meaningful day. This work contributes to our understanding of relationship maintenance activities in social networks and suggests that the true benefit of social network sites may not just be the technical connections they make possible, but by creating an environment in which meaningful communicative exchanges, and the potential social capital benefits they embody, can flow."
  • Terry Elliott on 02 Jul 14
     
    One of the advantages of Diigo is that you can crowdsource annotation.
Sheri Edwards

Actually, practice doesn't always make perfect - new study - The Washington Post - 0 views

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  • They found that how interested the students were in the passage was thirty times more important than how “readable” the passage was.
  • Maybe the right question to ask is: Why do some people decide to practice a lot in the first place? Could it be because their first efforts proved mostly successful?   (That’s a useful reminder to avoid romanticizing the benefits of failure.) Or, again, do they keep at it because they get a kick out of what they’re doing? If that’s true, then practice, at least to some extent, may be just a marker for motivation. Of course, natural ability probably plays a role in fostering both interest and success, and those two variables also affect each other.
  • By contrast, when the hours were logged, and the estimates presumably more reliable, the impact of practice was much diminished. How much? It accounted for a scant 5 percent of the variance in performance. The better the study, in other words, the less of a difference practice made.[1]
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  • What’s true of time on task, then, is true of practice — which isn’t surprising given how closely the two concepts are related.
  • Sheri Edwards on 06 Aug 14
     
    "The question now is what else matters." And there are many possible answers. One is how early in life you were introduced to the activity - which, as the researchers explain, appears to have effects that go beyond how many years of practice you booked. Others include how open you are to collaborating and learning from others, and how much you enjoy the activity."
Sheri Edwards

Gamification in the Classroom: The Right or Wrong Way to Motivate Students? | NEA Today - 0 views

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  • Kathy Sierra, a popular technology blogger, author and game developer, believes that incentivizing learning-related behaviors poses risks. Sierra says rewards should be left at the classroom door. She is critical of the way gamification is practiced in the classroom, and believes well-intentioned educators may be missing the mark.
  • “A well-designed game only deploys certain mechanics to support an intrinsically rewarding experience,” Sierra explains. “When you remove that experience but keep the mechanics, you are now working from an entirely different psychology than actual games, and it is one that, in essence, uses mechanics to drive mechanical behaviors.”
  • Matthew Farber is not keen on the term “gamification”
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  • instrinsic game elements like narrative, creativity and collaboration, rather than just badges.
  • What’s missing, Farber says, is a narrative structure that places the student on a “journey,” similar to what the best games do.
  • “The journey is to build mastery,” Farber says. “The better way to gamify is to put students in an inquiry-based or project-based learning experience. Or give them a task in a narrative frame.”
  • create the right balance of challenge and skill, deeper knowledge and high-quality feedback.
  • Try to find what is inherently interesting in a subject and exploit that. It doesn’t matter if students roll their eyes. A good teacher can capture their attention and engage them before they even have a chance to think they aren’t interested
  • Sheri Edwards on 05 Jul 14
     
    "using instrinsic game elements like narrative, creativity and collaboration, rather than just badges."
Terry Elliott

Make Cycle #3: Level Up Your Game Design! - CLMOOC 2015 - 0 views

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  • Games align with the spirit of the CLMOOC
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 07 Jul 15
       
      How do games align with connected learning principles and values.
  • start with thinking about your favorite game
  • reconstructing it using one or more different media
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  • answering these questions: What are the rules of the game? What are the actions (or verbs) you are allowed to take in the game? Is there a “win” state? If so, how do you achieve it?
  • You can start with a drawing, create a flip book, and move to video. You can also take household items and turn them into playing pieces, transforming your kitchen table (or house!) into a game board!
  • love to see how you level up or progress through your game. What actions can you take to move forward?
  • Don’t forget
  • invite you to think about how you can also use your new game design skills to translate, analyze and change a complex issue.
  • hope that you will be inspired to explore a new medium, and create new understanding about what it means to analyze (and change!) a system.
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Terry Elliott

Make Cycle #4: Hack Your Writing - #clmooc - 0 views

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  • broader use of this term and a more open sense of its possibilities.
  • playful exploration
  • innovative customizations
  • computer enthusiasts
  • undermine authoritative systems
  • civic or collective action.
  • what it means to write
  • a culture of remix and exploration
  • tinker with some writing to make something new
  • So Many Ways to Hack
  • revisit something you wrote before and “dress it up” anew
  • revisiting an old writing moment and breathing new life into
  • create a collage or compilation
  • Go for it!
  • seeing something new in the everyday texts of your life.
  • grocery lists
  • Re-discover the words around you, refashion them, re-order them
  • What new composing practices might emerge from this hack? And what new meaning and understanding might we gain as writers or as readers?
  • analog writing and bring it into a digitized universe.
  • a traditional poem and layer a multi-modal interpretation via hypertext links.
  • Use the Scratch program to explore new ways of writing and composing (just press the remix button to reinvent or animate texts)
  • “Concept in 60” digital writing
  • lead us to more civically engaged work
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Terry Elliott

Chapter Two of Participatory Culture in a Networked Era - Impedagogy - 0 views

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  • Youth Culture, Youth Practices
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 28 Dec 15
       
      Focus on those on "perceived" margins of power.  
  • If we are going to make meaningful interventions here, we have to go well beyond the myth of the digital native, which tends to flatten diversity and mask inequality. We need to engage more closely with the very different ways that young people encounter new media in the contexts of lives that are defined around different kinds of expectations and norms, different resources and constraints, from those encountered by youth raised under more privileged circumstances.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 28 Dec 15
       
      Need more play like this:  
  • Coming of Age
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  • “boy culture,” the process of peer-based masculine socialization, used to take place outside of the home and was structured around boys escaping the control and supervision of their mothers
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      Terry Elliott on 28 Dec 15
       
Terry Elliott

Tutor Mentor Institute, LLC - 0 views

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  •    Career Ladder - Helping Inner City Youth Through School to Careers by Daniel F. Bassill
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 13 Dec 15
       
      I am reading Henry Jenkins, et al's latest book, Participatory Culture.  Everything I see here fits what I have read so far.  And also asks the question: how do we get youth to participate in this particular culture--the one that moves them through poverty and into careers.   I will have to make this one of the core questions as I read Participatory Culture.
  • "What Will it Take to Assure that all Youth Born or Living in High Poverty are Starting Jobs and Careers by Age 25?"
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 13 Dec 15
       
      Trying to imagine what this meant to me in my life.  I don't think it was the skills so much that my parents gave me as the attitude to keep on.  
  • the ideas exchanged by participants, and the relationships created, are as important as the learning that takes place.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 13 Dec 15
       
      the "c" in cMOOC stands for 'connectivism', a learning philosophy that argues that connection is the secret sauce the element in the play that makes learning inevitable.  Part of that connection is exchange (what I call reciprocation) and relationship (the fruit of reciprocation).
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  • Last night the hangout focused on a platform called Youth Voices, where youth from around the country are connecting and sharing ideas and reflections. 
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 13 Dec 15
       
      I feel badly that I have not made a better attempt to connect/facilitate between others. That's why I tried to get Daniel and Simon together in a Hangout.  
  • encourage him to use concept mapping tools like Kumu
  • I found one under the topic of "How Can We Reduce Costs and Still Get the Care We Need?"  
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 14 Dec 15
       
      A valuable tool.  Here is a quick response: https://farm1.staticflickr.com/741/23114808664_5298e18c36_b.jpg
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      Terry Elliott on 14 Dec 15
       
  • They could be learning many new skills and habits (see article about passionate employee). 
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 14 Dec 15
       
      This has always been an issue in education--where is the best leverage for improving learning? where the best place to use any resource to get the most value?   Is this too narrow a way of looking at the problem?  too bottom line?  Seems to value "cost" efficiency over all other values?   So...do we need to be putting our magic into tutors/mentors and teachers or into learner/employees?
  • This process could engage youth in thousands of locations, focusing on many complex problems, not just health care or poverty.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 14 Dec 15
       
      I have always been for the idea that learners need to be more responsible for their own learning.  They should begin to be responsible for the problems they generate in their own lives and the ones they see generated around them.  It is the distribution of these problems and the relative inequity of this distribution that is most troubling.  Those who have the greatest opportunity to face the most difficulty problems are also those who are given the least resources to deal with them.  How fair is it to ask children to deal with the large issues of safety, health care, and poverty around them?  
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