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Nancy Prentice

» Building and Sharing (When You're Supposed to be Teaching) Journal of Digit... - 0 views

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Blog Literacy

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  • The heart of the digital humanities is not the production of knowledge. It’s the reproduction of knowledge.
  • The promise of the digital is not in the way it allows us to ask new questions because of digital tools or because of new methodologies made possible by those tools. The promise is in the way the digital reshapes the representation, sharing, and discussion of knowledge.
  • Classrooms were made for sharing
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  • a short essay by Peter Stallybrass that appeared in the PMLA in 2007. Stallybrass’s article has the provocative title “Against Thinking,” and in it, he argues that we think too much and don’t work enough.
  • Thinking is boring, repetitious, and “indolent” (1583). On the other hand, working is “easy, exciting,” and “a process of discovery” (1583). Working is challenging.
  • a key insight that students and scholars alike need to be reminded of: tortured and laborious thinking does not automatically translate into anything of importance
  • collaborative construction, I mean a collective effort to build something new, in which each student’s contribution works in dialogue with every other student’s contribution
  • They are making it for each other, and, in the best scenarios, for the outside world
  • Creative analysis is the practice of discovering knowledge through the act of creation—through the making of something new
  • I ask the students to do something they find severely discomfiting: creating something new for which no models exist.
  • If I were to say what unites these various forms of building in my classroom, I might use the term “deformance
  • A combination of “performance” and “deform,” deformance is an interpretative concept premised upon deliberately misreading a text
  • As my students build—both collaboratively and creatively—they are also reshaping, and that very reshaping is an interpretative process. It is not writing, or at least not only writing. And it is certainly not only thinking. It is work, it has an audience, and it is something my students never expected.
Nancy Prentice

Confronting the Myth of the 'Digital Native' - The Digital Campus 2014 - The Chronicle ... - 0 views

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Digital Footprint digital_native

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    "It is problematic that there are so many assumptions about how just because a young person grew up with digital media, which in fact many have, that they are automatically savvy," Ms. Hargittai says. "That is simply not the case. There are increasing amounts of empirical evidence to suggest the contrary."
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shared by Nancy Prentice on 02 May 12 - No Cached
  • the distribution of technology in our classrooms remains radically uneven
  • about 48 percent of low-income families have a home computer compared with 91 percent of higher-income families, according to a recent report by Common Sense Media, an independent group that advocates for kids.
  • even students who don’t have home computers or Internet access are increasingly likely to own a cell phone. “Teens, Smartphones, & Texting,” a March 2012 study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, has found that 77 percent of young adults ages 12 to 17 own a cell phone, and 31 percent of those ages 14 to 17 have a smartphone
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  • the costs of hardware, software, and networking can add up, and during budget crises—particularly when schools are cutting staff—the introduction, maintenance, and upgrade of technology can be a political challenge as well as a financial one
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  • Hardware obsolescence is one of the things that schools have always had to consider
  • the flood of devices currently available (including netbooks, tablets, ereaders, and handhelds) and those that are “hotly anticipated” make the decision of which computer to buy incredibly complicated
  • are student data and projects interoperable—that is, can you easily move files from one type of computer to another (say, from a Windows-based operating system to an Apple-based one or from a mobile device to a laptop)? These types of questions are particularly important if schools house a number of different kinds of devices
  • Schools also need to consider the impact of potentially hundreds of devices on their WiFi networks.
  • Schools must also ask if students will be able to access their schoolwork from home
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digital line video

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    this is website to help students handle digital problems
Nancy Prentice

Exploring Curation as a core competency in digital and media literacy education | Mihai... - 0 views

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curation InformationLiteracy

shared by Nancy Prentice on 06 May 13 - No Cached
  • A 2010 Kaiser Family Foundation study found that 'Eight- to eighteen-year-olds spend more time with media than in any other activity besides (maybe) sleeping-an average of more than 7½ hours a day, 7 days a week.'
  • the concept of curation as a pedagogical tool to embolden critical inquiry and engagement
  • Jenkins highlights the type of online activities that participatory spaces enable-archive, annotate, appropriate and recirculate-which occur in real time and in the context of abundant information flow
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  • To curate, historically, has meant to take charge of or organize, to pull together, sift through, select for presentation, to heal and to preserve
  • The preservation and organization of content online is now largely the responsibility of the individual in highly personalized information spaces
  • Across all levels of education today, students enter the classroom with a certain level of familiarity with digital tools and platforms (Prensky, 2001; Ofcom, 2010; Rosen, 2010). The notion that this familiarity translates to a heightened level of technological competence has been contested at all levels of education
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11 Note-Taking Tips For The Digital Classroom - Edudemic - 1 views

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notetaking

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    Most can recall only about 10% of a lecture, but if you take notes, that figure comes closer to about 80% Only about 65.5% of students take notes in class
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LearningCommons

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  • Libraries are reinventing themselves as content becomes more accessible online and their role becomes less about housing tomes and more about connecting learners and constructing knowledge.
  • Libraries are reinventing themselves as content becomes more accessible online and their role becomes less about housing tomes and more about connecting learners and constructing knowledge
  • Printed books still play a critical role in supporting learners, but digital technologies offer additional pathways to learning and content acquisition. Students and teachers no longer need a library simply for access. Instead, they require a place that encourages participatory learning and allows for co-construction of understanding from a variety of sources.
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  • a flexible space with moveable chairs, desks, and even bookshelves. Small rooms can be opened up to allow for group projects, and the circulation desk as well as the sides of the stacks are writeable with dry-erase markers to encourage the collaboration and sharing that the previous space had discouraged.
  • the space does include paper books and physical artifacts, as well as flexible furniture and an open environment, digital content encourages students to explore, play, and delve deeper into subjects they may not otherwise experience
  • interact with the content, the technology, the space, and each other in order to gain context and increase their knowledge.
  • the role of the coffeehouse in the birth of the Enlightenment -- it provided "a space where people would get together from different backgrounds, different fields of expertise, and share."
  • Students and teachers no longer need a library simply for access. Instead, they require a place that encourages participatory learning and allows for co-construction of understanding from a variety of sources.
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