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."
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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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What’s true of time on task, then, is true of practice — which isn’t surprising given how closely the two concepts are related.
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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."
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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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the ideas exchanged by participants, and the relationships created, are as important as the learning that takes place.
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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.
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I found one under the topic of "How Can We Reduce Costs and Still Get the Care We Need?"
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A valuable tool. Here is a quick response: https://farm1.staticflickr.com/741/23114808664_5298e18c36_b.jpg
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They could be learning many new skills and habits (see article about passionate employee).
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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?
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This process could engage youth in thousands of locations, focusing on many complex problems, not just health care or poverty.
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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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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. "
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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? "
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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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we must stare critically at the belief systems that are embedded in these tools.
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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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The latter should give us pause
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challenge it
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little thought about the Terms of Service,
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I do read the terms of service, and I know that Google wants me to share, so gives me my ownership. Yes, collecting data. Advertising. So how do we as those sharing, work with Google, etc. to to make a better world? What is a "better world" ? Aren't there Google aspects reaching out to help identify environmental and social problems? Is everything here bad? I don't want it to be.
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control over our access to knowledge.
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“Do not fold, spindle, or mutilate.”
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you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you’re free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!
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ISTE is the perfect place to question what the hell we’re doing in ed-tech in part because this has become a conference and an organization dominated by exhibitors. Ed-tech — in product and policy — is similarly dominated by brands. 60% of ISTE’s revenue comes from the conference exhibitors and corporate relations; touting itself as a membership organization, just 12% of its revenue comes from members. Take one step into that massive shit-show called the Expo Hall and it’s hard not to agree: “Yes, it is time to give up on computers in schools.”
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The stakes are high here in part because all this highlights Google’s thirst for data — our data. The stakes are high here because we have convinced ourselves that we can trust Google with its mission: “To organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.”
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Games align with the spirit of the CLMOOC
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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?
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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!
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love to see how you level up or progress through your game. What actions can you take to move forward?
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invite you to think about how you can also use your new game design skills to translate, analyze and change a complex issue.
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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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"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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emotional blackmail and silencing tactic?
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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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There is not one community. There are multiple communities. These multiple communities are not fixed (much).
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I don't do belonging very well.
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I am a man for example. (of this I AM SURE).
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I am a human tangle embodied.
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So I suppose I could say that the varied and fluctuating communities in and around rhizo14 have varied and fluctuating curricula.
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Rhizomatic Learning, it would seem to me that this is as far as we can take it.
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no 'cool web' or 'hot web'
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Keith Hamon has written a great (IMHO) post about complexity ethics.
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Assertive Humility.
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Oxymorons point to the paradox of language, the Babel-ical inadequacy of words. How helpful are they except to make us sit bold upright and pay heed to how entangled and embodied our knowing (and not knowing) are.
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Of course, in all humility, I am being totally derivative in this annotated response. Nothing original although I am repeatedly striking my flint to your rock.
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There are moments when I am moved to formal academic research.
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I prefer to be inclusive.
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Thank you for your part in my tangle.
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I am in good company.
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That in itself gives me some cause for hope.
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There is a light side and there is a dark side.
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I am in a bit (?) of a tangle.
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I am not at all sure whether drawing a line is appropriate.