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" The right to be teachers In an online environment, teachers no longer need to be sole authority figures but instead should share responsibility with learners at almost every turn. Students can participate and shape one another's learning through peer interaction, new content, enhancement of learning materials and by forming virtual and real-world networks. Students have the right to engaged participation in the construction of their own learning. Students are makers, doers, thinkers, contributors, not just passive recipients of someone else's lecture notes or methods. They are critical contributors to their disciplines, fields, and to the larger enterprise of education."

This is a great question, and while I don't think you can just students' understanding one way or another simply with test results, I think the question still has to be asked: do videos support new learning, or simply reinforce incorrect learning. Derek Muller discusses his doctoral thesis: "It is a common view that 'if only someone could break this down and explain it clearly enough, more students would understand.'... they do not engage with the media on a deep enough level to realize that what was is presented differs from their prior knowledge." The answer isn't a simple yes-no, of course: if misconceptions are presented and then refuted (a la Mythbusters) then students can learn from videos. -- Downes OLDaily march 20

Why students need to fail Moira MacDonald, University Affairs, December 4, 2013 Interesting article on the design of a course that has students act as instructors, drawing their presentations from dense and difficult texts, in an environment that is challenging and often results in failure. The course, taught by Concrodia University professor Vivek Venkatesh, "was really about thinking on your feet," says Tieja Thomas, a PhD candidate who took the course. "You had to come prepared . . . It really was a deeper form of learning."

Pink speaks of powerful ideas like how to teach problem-finding, how to create individual pathways to learning, how to put students in the drivers' seats so they learn what drives them, how they can be successful in learning and how assessing themselves can help.

Brookfield's book includes theory and practical activities for engaging students in critical thinking.

some nerve

How might this effect creativity?

Plagiarism?

research by DS106 student for final paper to graduate (thesis?)

first Daily Create by a ECI 509 student -- Congrats to Preference. You rock!

potentially helpful for grad students

Create your own eReader for your students. Do remember that copyright laws must still be observed.

Glogster prez mode

The Dark Side vs Disney -- interesting social research project

""Thinking is an action. For all aspiring intellectuals, thoughts are the laboratory where one goes to pose questions and find answers, and the place where visions of theory and praxis come together. The heartbeat of critical thinking is the longing to know - to understand how life works" (hooks, "

After writing all of this I realize that I am not leaving my profession, in truth, it has left me.

Exciting opportunities