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Theron DesRosier

Educational advocate speaks at UMass - News - 0 views

media.www.dailycollegian.com/....Speaks.At.Umass-1624548.shtml

Kozol weighing the lamb

shared by Theron DesRosier on 16 Jan 09 - Cached
  • Kozol came to Amherst to promote his latest book, "Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America," which discusses "re-segregation" of public schools and the difficulties facing schools with a high minority population.
  • Kozol explained the failing of such testing, saying, "You don't fatten your lambs by weighing them. Our lambs are getting thinner yet we're weighing them more often."
  • Theron DesRosier on 16 Jan 09
     
    Kozol came to Amherst to promote his latest book, "Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America," which discusses "re-segregation" of public schools and the difficulties facing schools with a high minority population.
Nils Peterson

The 22 Step Social Media Marketing Plan - 0 views

mashable.com/...social-media-marketing-plan

web 2.0 marketing

shared by Nils Peterson on 07 Nov 08 - Cached
  • Nils Peterson on 07 Nov 08
     
    tools for web 2.0 marketing. while he's focused on business, it seems that it would apply to any organization building brand. take a look at Obama Everywhere on /www.barackobama.com the campaign site.
Theron DesRosier

Gartner Identifies the Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2009 - 0 views

www.gartner.com/...page.jsp

gartner 2009 technology

shared by Theron DesRosier on 10 Feb 09 - Cached
  • Theron DesRosier on 10 Feb 09
     
    Social Software and Social Networking. Social software includes a broad range of technologies, such as social networking, social collaboration, social media and social validation. Organizations should consider adding a social dimension to a conventional Web site or application and should adopt a social platform sooner, rather than later, because the greatest risk lies in failure to engage and thereby, being left mute in a dialogue where your voice must be heard.
Peggy Collins

Is the Enterprise Ready for Microblogging Tools Like Twitter? - 0 views

mashable.com/...enterprise-microblogging

twitter microblogging

shared by Peggy Collins on 04 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Peggy Collins on 04 Mar 09
     
    Although experts in the social media space have been talking about how businesses might adopt microblogging tools like Twitter and Plurk, only recently have we started to see a series of new vendors cropping up in the enterprise microblogging space. This has been due in part to businesses needing to figure out how Twitter can benefit the enterprise.
Joshua Yeidel

ACM Ubiquity - An Interview with Michael Schrage - 0 views

www.acm.org/...v9i42_schrage.html

shared by Joshua Yeidel on 20 Nov 08 - Cached
  • I learn about the organization's innovation culture as follows: I say that, when someone comes up with an idea you think is a good one and people say, "We can't do that because..." then whatever follows the words "we can't do that because... " is your innovation culture.
  • UBIQUITY: What turns people into such dolts? SCHRAGE:         Internal imperatives.
  • Joshua Yeidel on 20 Nov 08
     
    An MIT Media Lab expert on innovation says it's about outcomes, not ideas.
Nils Peterson

Howard Rheingold on essential media literacies | Socialmedia.biz - 1 views

www.socialmedia.biz/...-on-essential-media-literacies

shared by Nils Peterson on 28 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Howard hit on one major take­away that I had from our week in the UK. “Increas­ingly I think the dig­i­tal divide is less about access to tech­nol­ogy and more about the dif­fer­ence between those who know how and those who don’t know how,” he said. He’s con­vinced that what’s most impor­tant is not access to the Inter­net — we have more than a bil­lion peo­ple on the Inter­net now and there are 4 bil­lion phones out there — but access to knowl­edge and lit­era­cies for the dig­i­tal age. “The abil­ity to know has sud­denly become the abil­ity to search and the abil­ity to sift” and dis­cern. “Skill plus social” is the key.
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 28 Feb 10
       
      Howard Rhiengold on his idea about the digital divide
Lorena O'English

Connecting Assessment | Remote Access - 3 views

www.evenfromhere.org/?p=1352

rubrics socialmedia

shared by Lorena O'English on 24 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Lorena O'English on 24 Mar 10
     
    This is directed to K-12, but of interest - he discusses his rubric for social media interaction (note the link to a rubric for blogging in the first paragraph as well).
Joshua Yeidel

THINK Global School Blog - 3 views

blog.thinkglobalschool.com

social learning rubrics elgg

shared by Joshua Yeidel on 16 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Joshua Yeidel on 16 Apr 10
     
    "A recent experiment we did asked the question: What happens if you combine lessons from web 2.0 and social media to the process of developing a rubric? The result? We've built what we call "Social Rubrics". Essentially this tool facilitates the process of building a rubric for teachers (and students) in a much more open and collaborative way." A plug-in for Elgg.
Joshua Yeidel

Digication e-Portfolios: Highered - Assessment - 0 views

www.digication.com/...assessment

portfolio assessment program

shared by Joshua Yeidel on 27 Apr 10 - No Cached
  • Joshua Yeidel on 27 Apr 10
     
    "Our web-based assessment solution for tracking, comparing, and reporting on student progress and performance gives faculty and administrators the tools they need to assess a class, department, or institution based on your standards, goals, or objectives. The Digication AMS integrates tightly with our award winning e-Portfolio system, enabling students to record and showcase learning outcomes within customizable, media friendly templates."
  • Joshua Yeidel on 27 Apr 10
     
    Could this start out as with program portfolios, and bgrow to include student work?
Nils Peterson

The Social Media Bubble - Umair Haque - Harvard Business Review - 1 views

blogs.hbr.org/...the_social_media_bubble.html

shared by Nils Peterson on 10 May 10 - Cached
  • Call it relationship inflation. Nominally, you have a lot more relationships — but in reality, few, if any, are actually valuable. Just as currency inflation debases money, so social inflation debases relationships.
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 10 May 10
       
      is this the case for dropping some of my social site accounts, eg FB, LinkedIn, etc?
  • On the demand side, relationship inflation creates beauty contest effects, where, just as every judge votes for the contestant they think the others will like the best, people transmit what they think others want. On the supply side, relationship inflation creates popularity contest effects, where people (and artists) strive for immediate, visceral attention-grabs — instead of making awesome stuff.
  • The social isn't about beauty contests and popularity contests. They're a distortion, a caricature of the real thing. It's about trust, connection, and community. That's what there's too little of in today's mediascape, despite all the hoopla surrounding social tools. The promise of the Internet wasn't merely to inflate relationships, without adding depth, resonance, and meaning. It was to fundamentally rewire people, communities, civil society, business, and the state — through thicker, stronger, more meaningful relationships. That's where the future of media lies.
Nils Peterson

War News Radio | Academic Commons - 0 views

www.academiccommons.org/...war-news-radio

shared by Nils Peterson on 24 Sep 09 - Cached
  • War News Radio (WNR) is an award winning, student-run radio show produced by Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. It is carried by over thirty-seven radio stations across the United States, Canada and Italy, and podcasts are available through our Web site. It attempts to fill the gaps in the media's coverage of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan by providing balanced and in-depth reporting, historical perspective, and personal stories.
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 24 Sep 09
       
      Intersting piece about students working on an authentic problem within the College, but outside its credit awarding structure
  • Robert Fisk, one of the best journalists covering conflicts in the Middle East, described this as a kind of "hotel journalism." "More and more Western reporters in Baghdad" he writes in a survey of media coverage in Iraq, "are reporting from their hotels rather than the streets of Iraq's towns and cities."1 If the journalist in Iraq could prepare his or her reports by relying on phone interviews, Swarthmore students could do that as well.
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 24 Sep 09
       
      Theron brought this work to my attention a couple years ago. They end up using Skype as one of their tools
  • Initially college administrators and faculty explored the idea of incorporating War News Radio into the college curriculum, where students involved in the program could receive credit for their broadcast work. Students took courses through the film and media studies department and completed required readings on the Middle East. However, it was hard to do both things at the same time and the college stopped giving credit, which made the show more focused on reporting. And then it became clear that an experienced journalist was needed to guide the students.
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 24 Sep 09
       
      A couple threads connect here. One is Daniel Pink's Autonomy, Mastery and Purpose (intrinsic rewards) being more important in a creative endevor than extrinsic rewards (course grades). The other idea is a mentor from the Community of Practice rather than from inside the university
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  • students were becoming better reporters and the show became more professional as it moved to a weekly format. Stations throughout the U.S. began to take interest in what WNR was covering as the shows were uploaded to Public Radio Exchange (PRX), a Web-based platform for digital distribution, review, and licensing of radio programs. Students' reports were now being heard by thousands of people in the U.S. and abroad. With this publicity, students felt increasingly responsible for meeting weekly deadlines and producing a high quality program. Currently staff members contribute more than twenty hours of work into every show
  • In addition to placing Swarthmore on the map, it has boosted the number of applicants. WNR is “one of two or three things that have influenced applicants to the college, so that people who want to come to Swarthmore and have to write the essay: "Why Swarthmore?" one of the most frequently cited things in the last few years has been War News Radio,”
Theron DesRosier

Critical Information Studies For a Participatory Culture (Part Two) - 0 views

henryjenkins.org/...nt_wrong_with_web_20_cr_1.html

socialmedia Jenkins

shared by Theron DesRosier on 13 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Theron DesRosier on 13 Apr 09
     
    April 10: Henry Jenkins post contains a good reading list on media policy and participatory culture.
Theron DesRosier

Google and WPP Marketing Research Awards - 0 views

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google research grants

shared by Theron DesRosier on 07 Apr 09 - No Cached
  • Theron DesRosier on 07 Apr 09
     
    "Google and the WPP Group have teamed up to create a new research program to improve understanding and practices in online marketing, and to better understand the relationship between online and offline media. The Google and WPP Marketing Research Awards Program expects to support up to 12 awards in the range from $50,000 to $70,000. Awards will be in the form of unrestricted gifts to academic institutions, under the names of the researchers who submitted the proposal. Award recipients will be invited to participate in a meeting highlighting work in this area and will be encouraged to make their results available online and in professional publications."
Nils Peterson

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media: Connected Futures: Connected futures:... - 0 views

beth.typepad.com/...r-communities-of-practice.html

tagging social_Network

shared by Nils Peterson on 15 Apr 09 - Cached
  • opportunity to reflect with colleagues and peers on the challenges and learnings from leading a tagging community.
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 15 Apr 09
       
      'leading a tagging community' is an interesting pharse
  • Action Notebook which summarizes dozens of practical steps that you need work through if you are stewarding a community of practice
  • We know that successful social media strategy isn't as effective when it is siloed with one person in the organization - the intern in the corner or a part of a web staff person's job.  The organization has to own it.  I'm also looking at this role in the context of working wikily.   
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 15 Apr 09
       
      needs to be distributed in the organization
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  • I am participating in this year's "Connected Futures: New Social Strategies adn Tools for Communities of Practice" a five week online workshop for community managers, designers and conveners to explore social strategies and tools to support their work.   The workshop begins on April 20th
  • Nils Peterson on 15 Apr 09
     
    lots to explore linked from this post that I found linked from Downes
S Spaeth

MIT Press Journals - International Journal of Learning and Media - Full Text - 0 views

www.mitpressjournals.org/...ijlm.2009.0005

pbj ALT assessment co-development

shared by S Spaeth on 22 May 09 - Cached
  • Howard GardnerHobbs Professor of Cognition and Education, Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education
  • As shown in table 1, we will be cognizant throughout of who the learners are, where they learn, how they learn, what are the principal curricula, and how competences are purveyed via the media of the time. The grid itself contains generalizations about the past and present, and speculation about the future, thus providing a broad portrait of changes over time. While we do not discuss each entry in the grid, we hope that it aids in thinking about learning in formal and informal settings.
  • Uniform schooling reflects both fairness and efficiency. It appears fair to treat all children in the same way; and it is also efficient, given classes of 20, 30, or even 60 charges in one room, sometimes arrayed by age, sometimes decidedly heterogeneous in composition.
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  • It would be an exaggeration to claim that formal education takes place without attention to what has been learned about the processes of successful learning, such as insights into student motivation, study habits, strategies, metacognition, and other approaches obtained from experience, or, more recently and systematically, from the psychological and cognitive sciences. But it would probably be accurate to say that such accumulated knowledge is used only spottily and sporadically in most parts of the world. Education—teaching and learning—changes very slowly.
  • Yet, nowhere are these ideas dominant. Indeed, until today, one might say that the European classroom models of the 19th century continue to hold sway: Teachers give out information, students are expected to master it with little help, and the awards of the culture during the years of school go to those who can crack the various literate and disciplinary codes.
  • One strategy might involve formal education playing a role in informal learning spaces (perhaps on the analogy of teaching hospitals), and learners' out-of-school passions finding a validating place in formal educational arenas.
  • NDM's vast resources, including the provision of many activities in which the user assumes a formative role, can complement constructivist approaches to education. As noted above, a motivated learner can investigate a wide variety of personal interests on his or her own.
  • At this point in time, deeply constructivist classrooms remain few and far between despite evidence that hands-on, problem-solving approaches in the classroom result in higher levels of student engagement, conceptual thinking, knowledge transfer, and retention (Scardamalia, Bereiter, and Lamon 1994; Bransford et al. 1999; Hmelo-Silver 2004; Meier 1995; Project Zero and Reggio Children 2001; Sizer 1984). But in an environment of “No Child Left Behind” and standardized tests linked to federal funding, the implementation of constructivist principles in the classroom can be considered a risky enterprise for public schools.
  • A web-based project at MIT, for instance, paired French language students with peers in France learning to speak English, and provided students an authentic opportunity to practice their language skills, learn online communication skills, and negotiate the implicit guidelines of a different culture (Cultura 2007).
  • S Spaeth on 22 May 09
     
    In this article we argue that, after millennia of considering education (learning and teaching) chiefly in one way, we may well have reached a set of tipping points: Going forward, learning may be far more individualized, far more in the hands (and the minds) of the learner, and far more interactive than ever before. This constitutes a paradox: As the digital era progresses, learning may be at once more individual (contoured to a person's own style, proclivities, and interests) yet more social (involving networking, group work, the wisdom of crowds, etc.). How these seemingly contradictory directions are addressed impacts the future complexion of learning.
Lorena O'English

Effective Assessment in a Digital Age: A guide to technology-enhanced assessment and fe... - 1 views

www.jisc.ac.uk/...digiassass_eada.pdf

shared by Lorena O'English on 07 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Lorena O'English on 07 Sep 10
     
    from JISC (pdf)
Gary Brown

Let's Make Rankings That Matter - Commentary - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 3 views

chronicle.com/...124802

rankings

shared by Gary Brown on 04 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • By outsourcing evaluation of our doctoral programs to an external agency, we allow ourselves to play the double game of insulating ourselves from the criticisms they may raise by questioning their accuracy, while embracing the praise they bestow.
  • The solution to the problem is obvious: Universities should provide relevant information to potential students and faculty members themselves, instead of relying on an outside body to do it for them, years too late. How? By carrying out yearly audits of their doctoral programs.
  • The ubiquitous rise of social networking and open access to information via electronic media facilitate this approach to self-evaluation of academic departments. There is no need to depend on an obsolete system that irregularly publishes rankings when all of the necessary tools—e-mail, databases, Web sites—are available at all institutions of higher learning.
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  • A great paradox of modern academe is that our institutions take pride in being on the cutting edge of new ideas and innovations, yet remain resistant and even hostile to the openness made possible by technology
  • We should not hide our departments' deficiencies in debatable rankings, but rather be honest about those limitations in order to aggressively pursue solutions that will strengthen doctoral programs and the institutions in which they play a vital role.
Gary Brown

71 Presidents Pledge to Improve Their Colleges' Teaching and Learning - Faculty - The C... - 0 views

chronicle.com/...125285

accountability

shared by Gary Brown on 05 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • In a venture known as the Presidents' Alliance for Excellence in Student Learning and Accountability, they have promised to take specific steps to gather more evidence about student learning, to use that evidence to improve instruction, and to give the public more information about the quality of learning on their campuses.
  • The 71 pledges, officially announced on Friday, are essentially a dare to accreditors, parents, and the news media: Come visit in two years, and if we haven't done these things, you can zing us.
  • deepen an ethic of professional stewardship and self-regulation among college leaders
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  • Beginning in 2011, all first-year students at Westminster will be required to create electronic portfolios that reflect their progress in terms of five campuswide learning goals. And the college will expand the number of seniors who take the Collegiate Learning Assessment, so that the test can be used to help measure the strength of each academic major.
  • "The crucial thing is that all of our learning assessments have been designed and driven by the faculty," says Pamela G. Menke, Miami Dade's associate provost for academic affairs. "The way transformation of learning truly occurs is when faculty members ask the questions, and when they're willing to use what they've found out to make change.
  • Other assessment models might point some things out, but they won't be useful if faculty members don't believe in them."
  • "In the long term, as more people join, I hope that the Web site will provide a resource for the kinds of innovations that seem to be successful," he says. "That process might be difficult. Teaching is an art, not a science. But there is still probably a lot that we can learn from each other."
Joshua Yeidel

Evaluating Teachers: The Important Role of Value-Added [pdf] - 1 views

www.brookings.edu/...1117_evaluating_teachers.pdf

education assessment value-added

shared by Joshua Yeidel on 11 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • Joshua Yeidel on 11 Dec 10
     
    "We conclude that value-added data has an important role to play in teacher evaluation systems, but that there is much to be learned about how best to use value-added information in human resource decisions." No mention of the role of assessment in improvement.
Nils Peterson

Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable « Clay Shirky - 0 views

www.shirky.com/...s-and-thinking-the-unthinkable

newspapers shirky media future

shared by Nils Peterson on 17 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Nils Peterson on 17 Mar 09
     
    Good read on the day the Seattle P-I ceases print publication
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