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Corinna Lo

Anon-a-blog: Students Settle with TurnItIn - 0 views

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    I believe it's a case of the students wanting to challenge the whole notion of "We want to stop you from doing something wrong, and so we're going to (do something wrong ourselves, and ...) steal your work and the work of others to build a hugely profitable business acting as the plagiarism police."
Nils Peterson

Marty Linsky and Alexander Grashow: Obama is Reset -- Are You? - 0 views

  • Will you hunker down until the storm blows over and then try to restore? Or will you adapt and Reset now, and start from a new beginning?
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      Josh made this same observation about the choice facing WSU and higher ed. He said relative to the Newspapers and Universities piece he Diigoed that he worries WSU 'sails under' in this process. Gary calls it never letting a good crisis go wasted
Joshua Yeidel

Educating the Net Generation : The University of Melbourne - 0 views

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    Educating the Net Generation is a collaborative project involving the University of Melbourne, the University of Wollongong, and Charles Sturt University. The project, funded by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council, began in June 2006. It involved an investigation into students' and teachers' use of new technologies and the development of eight case studies in which emerging technologies were implemented in learning settings across the three participating universities.
Joshua Yeidel

Edge-Serpentine Gallery: FORMULAE FOR THE 21ST CENTURY - 0 views

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    If you recognize any of these names, you will expect some gems of thought, some of them challenging, some incomprehensible, many that will stretch and bend you -- and you won't be disappointed. Click on any image, then use the "next" and "previous" links.
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    WHAT IS YOUR FORMULA? YOUR EQUATION? YOUR ALGORITHM? Alun Anderson, Scott Atran, Mahzarin R. Banaji, Simon Baron-Cohen, Samuel Barondes, Gregory Benford, Susan Blackmore, Paul Bloom, Stewart Brand, John Brockman, Rodney A. Brooks, Sean Carroll, George Church, M.Csikszentmihalyi, Leda Cosmides, Paul Davies, Richard Dawkins, David Deutsch, Keith Devlin, Chris DiBona, Freeman Dyson, George Dyson, Drew Endy, Brian Eno, Dan Everett, J. Doyne Farmer, Richard Foreman, Howard Gardner, David Gelernter, Steve Giddings, Daniel Gilbert, Marcelo Gleiser, Alison Gopnik, Joshua Greene, John Gottman, Jonathan Haidt, Judith Rich Harris, Marc D. Hauser, Donald D. Hoffman, Gerald Holton, John Horgan, Nicholas Humphrey, Marcy Kahan, Danny Kahneman, Dean Kamen, Kevin Kelly, Rem Koolhaas, Bart Kosko, Kai Krause, Ray Kurzweil, Lawrence M. Krauss, Janna Levin, Seth Lloyd, Benoit Mandelbrot, Geoffrey Miller, Marvin Minsky, Oliver Morton, David Myers, PZ Myers, Tor Nørretranders, Mark Pagel, Irene Pepperberg, Steven Pinker, Jordan Pollack, Ernst Pöppel, William Poundstone, Eduardo Punset, Martin Rees, Lisa Randall, Matt Ridley, Carlo Rovelli, Rudy Rucker, Doug Rushkoff, Dimitar D. Sasselov, Gino Segre, Michael Shermer, Neil Shubin, George Smoot, Dan Sperber, Maria Spiropulu, Linda Stone, Leonard Susskind, Nassim Taleb, Timothy Taylor, John Tooby, Max Tegmark, Craig Venter, Alexander Vilenkin, Shing-Tung Yau, Anton Zeilinger
Joshua Yeidel

SimplyBox - Think Inside the Box - 0 views

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    Social Bookmarking on steroids -- not just links, but clips from pages you can put in a box.
Nils Peterson

The Huffington Post Allows Top Commenters To Become Bloggers - Publishing 2.0 - 0 views

  • they took a middle path, opening up an opportunity for ANYONE who actively comments on Huffington Post to become a blogger — but with one caveat…they have to EARN it. Or put another way — they are leveraging the power of the network, while still creating boundaries to channel value.
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      How to become a HuffPost blogger. Gives insight into assessment scales
  • Since launching in May 2005, we’ve received more than 2.7 million comments, posted by over 115,000 commenters.
  • Our decision will be based on how many fans a commenter has, how often their comment is selected as a Favorite, and our moderators’ preferences. Every comment now has an “I’m A Fan Of” link and a “Favorite” link, so start voting for the comments and commenters you like best.
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  • By using a “groupsourcing” method to highlight well-received commenters — from whom we’ll be able to choose new bloggers — we’re leveraging the power of the HuffPost community to serve as a filter, highlighting strong writers who have something to add to our group blog mix.
    • Nils Peterson
       
      So this is the crux of the issue for Cathy Davidson. Her syllabus proposes using a single criteria "satisfactory" and it appears that it might work if the volume of voters is large and their demographics sufficiently distributed. Also note that its voting for a cream of the crop, not just satisfactory. In a smaller setting, a scale with more than two values and comments like CTLT proposes gives more chance for discrimination and value in the feedback
Corinna Lo

Powering Personal Choice for Global Impact (PEIR) - 0 views

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    PEIR, the Personal Environmental Impact Report, is a new kind of online tool that allows you to use your mobile phone to explore and share how you impact the environment and how the environment impacts you.
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    They use the term "participatory sensing" but the example in the youtube video is something more like "participatory research". Great link Corinna, thanks.
Theron DesRosier

Assessment 2.0 - 0 views

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    This is a critique of 1.0 assessment with few suggestions for remedy. Modernising assessment in the age of Web 2.0
Matthew Tedder

Eye Candy IS A Critical Business Requirement - 0 views

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    The relevance and importance of visual design. I've long suggested that all service design (including software) begin with a walk through of what the customer/user comes to and sees in succession.
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    A good explanation of how services are best designed with aesthetics as the means to functionality. I always remember from the military that building an effective fighting position required "walking the perimeter"--having one guy in the fighting position taking notes while another approaches systematically from every possible direction. Most importantly, what will the enemy (or customer) see step by step and what steps will he/she take in turn. Always center on the customer's experience (this is rarely done).
Corinna Lo

Google I/O - Sessions - 0 views

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    Google I/O offered 80+ sessions featuring technical content on Google Wave, Android, App Engine, Chrome, Google Web Toolkit, AJAX APIs, and many more. The session videos are now posted online.
Joshua Yeidel

SharePoint vs. File Shares - Windows Live - 0 views

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    A simpler version of the "what doesn't work in SharePoint" blog post. We will need to attend to these issues one way or another.
Theron DesRosier

An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything - 0 views

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    Garrett Lisi's paper is the most downloaded article on the arXiv. When you go to this page check out the blog links on the right-hand side of the page. This is an example of an open scientific network of practice.
Peggy Collins

Classroom2.0: Twitter, del.icio.us and participatory learning at melanie mcbride online - 0 views

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    Classroom2.0: Twitter, del.icio.us and participatory learning diigo it ShareThis Published at February 10, 2008 in Education and Technology. Print This Post Email This Post twitpost.jpg I do not use a textbook. It is not that I dislike textbooks. It is that my textbook is the web. My textbook is YOU and ME and NOW. Instead of a book, I add all relevant readings, videos or examples to my course delicious bookmarks. That's my virtual, live, textbook - licensed under Creative Commons. And students don't have to blow 60 bucks on it either. And they can subscribe to this textbook using their favourite feed reader. And unlike textbooks, social bookmarking tools enable and activate inquiry, curiosity and ownership of knowledge acquisition. Right now v. back then As I explained to my class, the most important stuff to know about the web is what's happening RIGHT NOW. I may share a video or article in a couple of weeks that has yet to be written. Course readings are not mandatory - because I share most of the stuff in-class but secondary. If students are confused or if they want to dig deeper, they've got Youtube tutorials, how to's and hundreds of articles and research supporting everything I'm talking about in the course.
Nils Peterson

Face to Face: Alan Kay Still Waiting for the Revolution | Scholastic.com - 0 views

  • Virtually all learning difficulties that children face are caused by adults' inability to set up reasonable environments for them. The biggest barrier to improving education for children, with or without computers, is the completely impoverished imaginations of most adults.
  • the point of school is to teach all those things that are inventions and that are hard to learn because we're not explicitly wired for them. Like reading and writing.Virtually all learning difficulties that children face are caused by adults' inability to set up reasonable environments for them. The biggest barrier to improving education for children, with or without computers, is the completely impoverished imaginations of most adults.
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      Ouch. This hits hard
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    Alan Kay, developer of the mouse, still lamenting the failure of imagination of adults/educators.
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    Matthew spotted this a while back. Great read.
Peggy Collins

Write for Reuse (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox) - 0 views

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    Users often see online content out of context and read it with different goals than you envisioned. While you can't predict all such goals, you can plan for multiple uses of your text.
Nils Peterson

The End in Mind - 0 views

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  • A rapidly growing number of people are creating their own personal learning environments with tools freely available to them, without the benefit of a CMS. As Christensen would say, they have hired different technologies to do the job of a CMS for them. But the technologies they’re hiring are more flexible, accessible and learner-centered than today’s CMSs. This is not to say that CMSs are about to disappear. Students enrolled in institutions of higher learning will certainly continue to participate in CMS-delivered course sites, but since these do not generally persist over time, the really valuable learning technologies will increasily be in the cloud.
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      Jon Mott thinking about the Bb World, CMSes in general and Innovator's Dilemma.
  • Both administration and pedagogy are necessary in schools. They are also completely different in what infrastructure they require. This (in my opinion) has been the great failing of VLEs – they all try to squeeze the round pedagogy peg into the square administration hole. It hasn’t worked very well. Trying to coax collaboration in what is effectively an administrative environment, without the porous walls that social media thrives on, hasn’t worked. The ‘walled garden’ of the VLE is just not as fertile as the juicy jungle outside, and not enough seeds blow in on the wind.
Nils Peterson

Shifting Faculty Roles for New Learning Environments « Center for Teaching, L... - 0 views

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    This is the packet for AAC&U. Comments welcome, changes hard to implement at this late hour.
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    Materials for the AAC&U Conf April 2-4, 2009. The last link is to a new Theron-inspired JamyeJ graphic.
Nils Peterson

What Colleges Should Learn From Newspapers' Decline - Chronicle.com - 0 views

  • Peter Drucker said, "Thirty years from now, the big university campuses will be relics. ... Such totally uncontrollable expenditures, without any visible improvement in either the content or the quality of education, means that the system is rapidly becoming untenable."
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      Try the Harvesting Gradebook, our experiment in improving the content and quality by opening the problems and the assessment process to the community. http://wsuctlt.wordpress.com/2009/03/26/test-drive-the-harvesting-gradebook/
  • the institution is making a lot of money — which is then used to pay for faculty scholarship, graduate education, administrative salaries, the football coach, and other expensive things that cost more than they bring in.
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      There is other capital that the university could access -- Intellectual Capital and Social Capital. See thoughts on how learning in community could garner this http://www.nilspeterson.com/2009/03/29/extending-the-ripple-effect/
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    You may have heard me say that I fear that WSU might 'sail itself under the water' by not adapting to its changing environment. Here's a short but carefully-reasoned examination of parallels between universities and newspapers, which are doing just that.
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    Newspapers are dying. Are universities next? The parallels between them are closer than they appear.
Joshua Yeidel

Call for Papers - Open Education Conference - 0 views

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    For the first time in its six year history, the international Open Education Conference is moving! After five years at the historic Utah State University campus, this year's conference will be held in beautiful British Columbia, Canada, hosted by the University of British Columbia. The Call for Papers is now available!
Nils Peterson

Amazon.com: Data Flow: Visualising Information in Graphic Design: R. Klanten, N. Bourqu... - 0 views

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    Found this via a review in PBK which says "haut couture" of info graphics
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    Here you can preview some of the pages in the book. http://www.gestalten.com/books/detail?id=ceaea7651adf9ba0011b78b89b9d0295
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