Critical thinking, the old mainstay of higher education, is no longer enough to prepare our youth for this world. We must create learning environments that inspire a way of being-in-the-world in which they can harness and leverage this new media environment as well as recognize and actively examine, question and even re-create the (increasingly digital) structures that shape our world.
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What is the value of social media for your professional learning? : KQED Education | KQ... - 0 views
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" Critical thinking, the old mainstay of higher education, is no longer enough to prepare our youth for this world. We must create learning environments that inspire a way of being-in-the-world in which they can harness and leverage this new media environment as well as recognize and actively examine, question and even re-create the (increasingly digital) structures that shape our world."
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.
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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.
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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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"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."
Cultivating Social Resources on Social Network Sites: Facebook Relationship Maintenance... - 0 views
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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.
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"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."
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Career Ladder - Helping Inner City Youth Through School to Careers by Daniel F. Bassill
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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.
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"What Will it Take to Assure that all Youth Born or Living in High Poverty are Starting Jobs and Careers by Age 25?"
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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.
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the ideas exchanged by participants, and the relationships created, are as important as the learning that takes place.
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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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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.
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even if the game doesn’t come out great the teacher tried to be creative instead of hiding behind what “works".
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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.
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"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. "
Just Another Writing Hack | Create. Communicate. Connect. - 0 views
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"How do you represent the rhythm of a poem through images and layout? How do you represent the stanzas of a poem through images and layout? How can narrating a poem through images encourage the reader to think on a greater or smaller sense of scale and meaning? How does adding moving images (video) to a poem affect the rhythm and structure of the poem as a whole? How can adding moving images contribute to the intended tone? What about words that defy image, are they really necessary to convey additional meaning? If I think I've successfully figured out a way to visually represent a comma, but my reader doesn't understand that subtle visual as a comma, was my interpretation of a comma unsuccessful? Will anyone realize that the yellow star is a link to a .gif? What is lost if they don't? Is it okay if that is lost? "
Is It Time to Give Up on Computers in Schools? - Hybrid Pedagogy - 0 views
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The sorts of hardware and software that were purchased had to meet those needs — the needs and the desire of the administration, not the needs and the desires of innovative educators, and certainly not the needs and desires of students.
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And the needs of the IT -- not teachers and students
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we must stare critically at the belief systems that are embedded in these tools.
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identity -- what identity must education take?
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The mainframe never went away. And now, virtualized, we call it “the cloud.” Computers and mainframes and networks are a point of control. Computers are a tool of surveillance. Databases and data are how we are disciplined and punished. Quite to the contrary of Seymour’s hopes that computers will liberate learners, this will be how all of us will increasingly be monitored and managed.
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I hope she suggests a solution. #clmooc would be leaders. How to share this perversion of possibilities. The "adjacent possible" of the good became the priority instead of adjacent.
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Make Cycle #3: Level Up Your Game Design! - CLMOOC 2015 - 0 views
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Games align with the spirit of the CLMOOC
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How do games align with connected learning principles and values.
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start with thinking about your favorite game
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reconstructing it using one or more different media
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touches of sense...: In a tangle. - 0 views
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"We might cool down the conversation with explicit norms, clarifying our objectives and assumptions,offer facilitation and other support in an attempt to achieve real dialogue. Over time the constraints could be loosened."
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Howsabout we use something besides abstract nouns, words that remove us from feeling and touch? Cool, hell this is downright cold.
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emotional blackmail and silencing tactic?
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Oh, yes, Simon. You are effectively self-silencing. The best kind of kink in the communication hose, n'est ce pas?
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"Who is in? Who is out?" and when and where and who decides?
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I am always an outsider, by termperament and by design. Iconoclast is the word I use to describe myself. I actually get a bit sick when I feel I am on the IN. I love the OUT. And I don't need a fucking box cutter to get out. Something goofy, hilarious, and irritating about the video. A classic out-y as far as I can tell. Not so much a prophet as someone who says, "Fuck you. Now what are you going to do about it." I live in a part of Kentucky where that attitude has been raised to an art form. It's called cutting off your nose to spite your face. I am a practitioner.
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