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Bradford Saron

The Innovative Educator: Advice for Choosing Pages, Groups or Profiles When Using Faceb... - 1 views

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    Great advice for the boots on the ground perspective of facebook in the classroom. 
Bradford Saron

Facebook, Friends, and Online Schooling | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Pr... - 0 views

  • Facebook promises something it cannot deliver just as many promoters promise that online instruction will transform schooling as we know it. Both are over-hyped social media.
  • time invested in a relationship determines its quality, having more than five best friends is impossible when we interact face to face, one person at a time. Put simply …. The emotional and psychological investments that a close relationship requires are considerable, and the emotional capital we have is limited.
  • personal contact sustained over ten months of a K-12 school year in the hands of skilled, knowledgable, and caring teachers, researchers have shown again and again (PDF: Rockoff on Teachers), makes a difference in students’ lives. Even the best online instructional software that create “virtual learning environments” fail to come close to what students do daily as they interact with each other and their teachers.
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    The devil's advocate. 
Bradford Saron

Every Teacher's Must-Have Guide To Facebook - Edudemic - 0 views

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    A guide for the rest of us. 
Bradford Saron

The Edjurist - Information on School and Educational Law - Blog - Education T... - 0 views

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    The Blog "The EDjurist" is also somewhat affiliated with McLeod, and it covers much of what we worry about, in terms of AUP, how we deal with student pictures on websites, Facebook issues, etc. Here, the author gives the inclusive notes from his pre-conference session, including his powerpoint. 
Curt Rees

Donald Clark Plan B - 0 views

  • My suspicion is that they know far more about this than we adults.
  • Never have the young shared so much, so often in so many different ways.
  • Teaching and lecturing are largely lone wolf activities in classrooms. Schools, colleges and Universities share little. Educational professionals are deeply suspicious of anything produced outside of their classroom or their institution.
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  • Beware of big, abstract nouns.
  • When it comes to creativity, my own view is that the music, drama and other creative skills my own offspring have gained, have mostly been acquired outside of school.
  • Universities were failing badly on the three skills they studied; critical thinking, complex reasoning and communications
  • Across the Arab world young people have collaborated on Blogs, Twitter, Facebook and Youtube to bring down entire regimes. Not one of them has been on a digital literacy course.
  • Pushing rounded, sophisticated, informal skills into a square, subject-defined environment is not the answer.
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    This is very thought-provoking, especially the section on collaboration. 
Bradford Saron

What Does Technoratis State of the Blogosphere Report Mean for Education Bloggers? - Th... - 1 views

  • Almost half of all content consumers surveyed by Technorati trust traditional media sources less than they did five years ago
  • Equally interesting is the fact that almost 50% of content consumers surveyed by Technorati trust the content that they’re finding on blogs—a number that rivals the 60% of content consumers who trust the content they find in print newspapers, television broadcasts and radio programming.
  • 60% of all bloggers surveyed spend between 1 and 3 hours per week working on their blogs—and the average blogger posts new content to their site 2-3 times per week.
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  • mobile blogging is becoming more and more popular. 
  • If those kinds of trends continue—or start to find their way into the edusphere—that can only mean two things: Blog content will continue to play an important role in driving conversations in all fields. My own content could be drowned out, lost in the sea of posts being published by writers who are investing more time than I am in their blogs.
  • The lines are blurring between the blogosphere and social media spaces like Facebook and Twitter:
  • Bloggers spend more time interacting in social media spaces than the average American.
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    Technorati is an Internet search engine for searching blogs. The article blends well with Clay Shirky's analysis of the death of print. This is why. 
Bradford Saron

The Digital Disruption | Foreign Affairs - 1 views

  • A similar phenomenon is occurring today in places such as Iran and Syria, where government officials seeking unvarnished news of the world beyond their borders use so-called proxy servers and circumvention technology to access their own Facebook or e-mail accounts -- platforms their governments regularly block.
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      This eerily sounds like what we do in schools, which is too bad. It sort of sounds like we are running a small communist nation.
  • comparing the uncertain dial tone of the fax machine with the speed of today's handheld devices is like comparing a ship's compass to the power of global positioning systems.
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      This paragraph could be an update to Clay Shirky's book, Cognitive Surplus. 
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      Like Google.
  • "partially connected"
  • breaking down traditional barriers of age, gender, and socioeconomic status
  • cell phones
  • cell-phone
  • cell phones
  • nature of civil society
  • more costs than benefits
  • connecting nations" -- places where technological development is still nascent and where both governments and citizens are testing out tools and their potential impact
  • "open by default"
  • the so-called failed states
  • Efforts by democratic governments to foster freedom and opportunity will be far stronger if they recognize the vital role technology can play in enabling their citizens to promote these values -- and that technology is overwhelmingly provided by the private sector.
  • interconnected estate
  • interconnected estate
  • to shape government and corporate behavior
  • by promoting freedom of expression and by protecting citizens from threatening governments.
  • join together in new alliances to multiply their impact.
  • offer a new way to exercise the duty to protect citizens around the world who are abused by their governments or barred from voicing their opinions
  • citizens' use of technology can be an effective vehicle to promote the values of freedom, equality, and human rights globally
  • shared power
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      Shared power. It's odd that the core problem of connection through technology may be shared power. Must our core thesis be (then) how to participate in an environment of shared power or of decentralization of information or of disaggregation of opportunity to participate? Hmmmm. 
Bradford Saron

The Blurred Lines - 0 views

  • What really is happening is the line between our work life and our social life is becoming blurred more and more every day
  • This hyper-connected, always-on, world we now live in is making it so our social life and work life are always intermixing. It’s your bosses ability to call you on the cell at 9pm to talk work, or the idea that you’ll read and answer e-mails via your BlackBerry after you leave the office. The employers are taking advantage of this hyper-connected world as well….why do you think they bought you a company cell phone? They still only pay you to work 8 hours a day.
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    Jeff Utecht always has interesting questions. This one is very thought provoking. 
Bradford Saron

Six Social Media Trends for 2011 - David Armano - The Conversation - Harvard Business R... - 0 views

  • It's The Integration Economy, Stupid.
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      Don Tapscott calls this Wikinomics. 
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      I find all of this fascinating and at the same time wonder what it means for those who are not connected. The conversation about social media seems like a white, middle-class one to me. Yet our society is becoming increasingly diverse and, at least in Wisconsin, poorer. What are the consequences of all of this interconnectivity on those who are not able to participate?
  • Tablet & Mobile Wars Create Ubiquitous Social Computing.
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      We've been talking about this for years, the anywhere, any time, all the time type of approach, which now is better facilitated by easy interface access. 
  • Facebook Interrupts Location-Based Networking.
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      I would argue that it transforms our conception of "local." Now, local isn't physically limited, it's digitally liberated. 
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  • Average Participants Experience Social Media Schizophrenia
  • Google Doesn't Beat Them, They Join Them.
  • Social Functionality Makes Websites Fashionable Again
Bradford Saron

Confessions of an Aca/Fan: Archives: Introduction to Communications Technologies - 0 views

  • Henry Jenkins COMM 202 Introduction to Communications Technology This course is intended as an introduction to the ways new and emerging communications technologies impact our culture. While the primary focus will be on digital and mobile technologies and practices (contemporary new media), the course will also consider a range of older media when they were new - including print culture, cinema, television, recorded sound, photography, and the telephone. The course is divided into three broad units: Understanding Technological Change is intended to offer broad conceptual frameworks for thinking about the relations between technology and culture. Reinventing... takes as its starting point the ways that the emergence of digital, networked, and mobile communications technology has impacted pre-existing media forms. Rethinking... examines a range of institutions and practices as they are re-imagined in response to the introduction of new communications technologies. Taken as a whole, this class will introduce students to: Core issues concerning the study of communications technologies The process of media in transition The ways that new media impact existing media and institutions Core digital platforms (YouTube, Facebook, Wikipedia, Twitter, eBay, Flickr, Second Life, etc.) and the ways they are reshaping our everyday lives.
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    Here is Henry Jenkins' (a leader in the edtech think-tank style publications) new class on technology.
Bradford Saron

A Theory of Everything (Sort Of) - NYTimes.com - 1 views

  • It starts with the fact that globalization and the information technology revolution have gone to a whole new level. Thanks to cloud computing, robotics, 3G wireless connectivity, Skype, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Twitter, the iPad, and cheap Internet-enabled smartphones, the world has gone from connected to hyper-connected. This is the single most important trend in the world today. And it is a critical reason why, to get into the middle class now, you have to study harder, work smarter and adapt quicker than ever before. All this technology and globalization are eliminating more and more “routine” work — the sort of work that once sustained a lot of middle-class lifestyles.
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    Must read!
Bradford Saron

Social Media + Learning is more than Social Learning - by Jane Hart | E-Learning Council - 1 views

  • There are two key areas where this is happening and where it is having an impact on organisational learning.Extensive use of public social media sites like YouTube, Scribd, Slideshare, Blogger, Wordpress, Wikipedia, and so on, that support the creation, sharing and commenting of content, as well as the co-creation of content, means that workers are now using similar approaches in their organisations to co-create and share their own content within their own work teams.Extensive use of social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc where individuals have built a personal network of trusted friends, means that they are using similar approaches to build networks of trusted colleagues (both internally and externally), as well as power team workspaces and internal communities of practice.
  • This new approach will embrace both the use of external social media tools as well as internal tools, but what is clear these tools will need to support - as well as power - far wider approaches to learning, than has hitherto been the case. In fact as learning and working become much more closely integrated, “learning” will not be seen as a separate activity requiring separate, dedicated learning systems or platforms, but will need to be supported and enabled within the normal workflow collaboration systems.
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    Must read. 
Bradford Saron

A Principal's Reflections: Communicating and Connecting With Social Media (An Excerpt) - 0 views

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    Great start to a what appears to be developing into a useful guide for twitter. What do you think? Helpful? 
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