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Peter Beens

The Canadian Press: Students failing because of Twitter, texting and no grammar teaching - 25 views

www.google.com/...M5iO2uYbAZSE3AovHS__sJEnz407ww

social-networking twitter Failure literacy issues

shared by Peter Beens on 01 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Almost a third of those students are failing.
  • For years there's been a flood of anecdotal complaints from professors about what they say is the wretched state of English grammar coming from some of their students.
  • the failure rate has jumped five percentage points in the past few years, up to 30 per cent from 25 per cent.
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  • Some students in public schools are no longer being taught grammar, she believes.
  • Emoticons, happy faces, sad faces, cuz, are just some of the writing horrors being handed in, say professors and administrators at Simon Fraser."Little happy faces ... or a sad face ... little abbreviations," show up even in letters of academic appeal, says Khan Hemani.
  • The Internet norm of ignoring punctuation and capitalization as well as using emoticons may be acceptable in an email to friends and family, but it can have a deadly effect on one's career if used at work.
  • "These folks are going to short-change themselves, and right or wrong, they're looked down upon in traditional corporations," notes Postman.
Florence Dujardin

Burns - 37 views

www.aldinhe.ac.uk/...index.php

genre note-taking HE meaning-making

shared by Florence Dujardin on 24 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Florence Dujardin on 24 Mar 10
     
    This paper explores the role that notemaking strategies can play as part of an emancipatory pedagogy designed to empower students. We will argue that being taught active notemaking is fundamental in enabling students to use information with confidence and thus that notemaking allows students to gain a voice (Bowl, 2005; Burns et al., 2006) within their own education. Rather than taking a psychological approach to notemaking, we suggest that notemaking allows students to take ownership of ideas and concepts in powerful ways (Gibbs, 1994 cited Burns and Sinfield, 2004), ways that reinforce understanding and build knowledge. These processes and practices can essentially help students to learn what they want to learn - and, pragmatically, to write essays that are adequately researched and correctly referenced (Burns and Sinfield, 2004). The final focus will be on the collaborative development of noteMaker, a Reusable Learning Object (RLO) designed for use across the university - and across the sector.
Katie Bradley

Dear America - Prac SAC conferencing - 23 views

vcedearamericasacconferences.blogspot.com

shared by Katie Bradley on 20 May 10 - Cached
    • Katie Bradley
      Katie Bradley on 20 May 10
       
      Click on the little blue d icon to access the Diigolet toolbar. You can then use it to apply floating sticky notes to the page, highlight portions of text, leave comments about those portions of text and bookmark comments. Remember, conferencing comments you make need to be constructive.
  • letters
  • letters
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  • letters
  • lette
  • different people respond
Suzanne Nelson

Stay Organized on the Internet with Diigo: Access Your Bookmarks, Notes & Info. Anywhere - Associated Content from Yahoo! - associatedcontent.com - 84 views

www.associatedcontent.com/...ized_on_the_internet_with.html

shared by Suzanne Nelson on 12 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • The internet is host to a ton of great information. The challenging part is keeping all the information you need organized and accessible wherever you go. This is where Diigo comes in.
  • Suzanne Nelson on 12 Jan 11
     
    Great Overview on What Diigo Is and Best Diigo Tools
sha towers

Free Online Course Materials | MIT OpenCourseWare - 86 views

ocw.mit.edu/index.htm

education mit learning OpenCourseWare E-Learning Courses resources

shared by sha towers on 06 Jan 11 - Cached
  • trisha_poole on 06 Jan 11
     
    Free lecture notes, exams, and videos from MIT. No registration required.
  • sha towers on 13 Apr 11
     
    MIT's opencourseware feels like the logical outgrowth of Illich's "learning webs" (from Deschooling essay) 
anonymous

Education Podcasts @ education.podcast.com - 80 views

education.podcast.com

podcast educator educationpodcast

shared by anonymous on 07 Jan 11 - Cached
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 07 Jan 11
       
      Note
  • Even some of the littlest ones in k-12 schools are podcasting
April Johnson

Springpad: a free app that helps you remember - 167 views

springpadit.com/...55AA1CC94A1C46A3BC8.SPAD_NODE5

springpad app notes free

shared by April Johnson on 04 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • April Johnson on 11 Feb 11
     
    The Spring Pad is for your phone or computer, and it helps save ideas, organize links, share, set reminders, etc! Even better it is FREE!
Stan Golanka

Reading and the Web - Texts Without Context - NYTimes.com - 49 views

www.nytimes.com/...21mash.html

shared by Stan Golanka on 08 Feb 11 - Cached
  • It’s also a question, as Mr. Lanier, 49, astutely points out in his new book, “You Are Not a Gadget,” of how online collectivism, social networking and popular software designs are changing the way people think and process information, a question of what becomes of originality and imagination in a world that prizes “metaness” and regards the mash-up as “more important than the sources who were mashed.”
    • Stan Golanka
      Stan Golanka on 08 Feb 11
       
      Core discussion topic? From this, I see a few discussion issues: 1. Do we prize "mash-ups" more than original work? Who is "we" in this? 2. If the answer to #1 is "yes," then the next question is: is this good or bad? 3. Finally, if the answer is "bad" to #2, what place do "mash-ups" have, and how do we help our students see the value in original work?
  • Web 2.0 is creating a “digital forest of mediocrity” and substituting ill-informed speculation for genuine expertise;
    • Stan Golanka
      Stan Golanka on 08 Feb 11
       
      How do teachers help students rise above this "digital forest of mediocrity"?
  • Mr. Johnson added that the book’s migration to the digital realm will turn the solitary act of reading — “a direct exchange between author and reader” — into something far more social and suggested that as online chatter about books grows, “the unity of the book will disperse into a multitude of pages and paragraphs vying for Google’s attention.”
    • Stan Golanka
      Stan Golanka on 08 Feb 11
       
      If Johnson's predictions are true, is this necessarily bad? How much of this concern is "nostalgia"? What would be lost from an academic p.o.v, and what migh be gained?
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  • Instead of reading an entire news article, watching an entire television show or listening to an entire speech, growing numbers of people are happy to jump to the summary, the video clip, the sound bite — never mind if context and nuance are lost in the process; never mind if it’s our emotions, more than our sense of reason, that are engaged; never mind if statements haven’t been properly vetted and sourced.
    • Stan Golanka
      Stan Golanka on 08 Feb 11
       
      Should teachers "fight" this, or embrace it? Can summaries/sound bites ever be appropriate for academic discussions?
  • And online research enables scholars to power-search for nuggets of information that might support their theses, saving them the time of wading through stacks of material that might prove marginal but that might have also prompted them to reconsider or refine their original thinking.
  • Digital insiders like Mr. Lanier and Paulina Borsook, the author of the book “Cyberselfish,” have noted the easily distracted, adolescent quality of much of cyberculture. Ms. Borsook describes tech-heads as having “an angry adolescent view of all authority as the Pig Parent,” writing that even older digerati want to think of themselves as “having an Inner Bike Messenger.”
    • Stan Golanka
      Stan Golanka on 08 Feb 11
       
      Can teachers moderate this attitude? Does our (adults) use/non-use of technology help breed this attitude?
  • authors “will increasingly tailor their work to a milieu that the writer Caleb Crain describes as ‘groupiness,’ where people read mainly ‘for the sake of a feeling of belonging’ rather than for personal enlightenment or amusement. As social concerns override literary ones, writers seem fated to eschew virtuosity and experimentation in favor of a bland but immediately accessible style.
    • Stan Golanka
      Stan Golanka on 08 Feb 11
       
      Does this ring true to educators? Are social concerns and literary conerns opposites? How does web publishing affect "literary" publishing, as opposed to "non-literary" publishing?
  • However impossible it is to think of “Jon & Kate Plus Eight” or “Jersey Shore” as art, reality shows have taken over wide swaths of television,
Ryan Folmer

The New York Times Kind of Misinterprets a Study About Tests and Learning - 64 views

www.good.is/...study-about-tests-and-learning

news

shared by Ryan Folmer on 23 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • Ryan Folmer on 23 Jan 11
     
    But, before the multiple choice, standardized testing crowd starts thumping their chests, it's important to note the kind of test the researchers administered. After reading the passage, students "wrote what they remembered in a free-form essay for 10 minutes. Then they reread the passage and took another retrieval practice test." So, to decipher the wonkitude, the students read a passage, wrote a reflection essay, reread the passage a second time, and then wrote another reflection essay.That's a far cry from bubbling in the letter "C" on a scantron form.
  • Ryan Folmer on 23 Jan 11
     
    A new study claims testing helps kids get smarter-except, the tests that make a difference aren't the ones you think.
Björn Hedin

Princeton University - Kindle pilot results highlight possibilities for paper reduction - 20 views

www.princeton.edu/...index.xml

ubiquitous_acces_to_learning_content kindle ebooks mlearning

shared by Björn Hedin on 31 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • However, e-readers must be significantly improved to have the same value in a teaching environment as traditional paper texts, participants said.
  • but they also said the ability to highlight directly on traditional text, to take notes and flip pages for ease in navigation suffers in the e-reader.
  • With hopes of assisting industry with the refinement of e-readers, and providing useful information to other academic institutions considering the devices, information and data from the one-time pilot have been compiled on an Office of Information Technology (OIT) website.
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  • About 65 percent of the participants in the pilot said they would not buy another e-reader now if theirs was broken. Almost all the participants said they were interested in following the technology to its next stages, because they think a device that works well in academia would be worth having.
  • "I found the device difficult to use and not conducive to academic purposes," he said, and added, "But I can see how it can be used for pleasure reading."
  • What they liked best about the devices was: the battery life, the wireless connection and the portability of the e-reader; the fact that all the course reading was on one device; the ability to search for content; and the legibility of the screen, including the fact it could be read in full sunlight. The top five suggestions students had for improving e-readers were: improving the ability to highlight and annotate PDF files; improving the annotation tools; providing a folder structure to keep similar readings together; improving the highlighting function; and improving the navigation within and between documents on the reader (including having more than one document open at the same time for comparison).
  • "The Kindle would be better for an academic setting if the PDF format worked more effectively,"
  • "There would be a greater benefit realized if the devices could develop a better way to deliver the ubiquitous PDF document, which is used by many journals and libraries to deliver documents, and is the common format in which dissertations and theses are published and read by faculty," Temos said. "Some students said they spent a considerable amount of time printing PDF documents during the semester, and hardly ever referred back to them once the semester was over. I don't expect that is unusual."
Melinda Christianson

Purdue OWL: Paraphrase Exercises - 196 views

owl.english.purdue.edu/...01

paraphrasing theme4 writing tutorial

shared by Melinda Christianson on 23 Feb 11 - Cached
Kate Pok liked it
  • Paraphrase: Write it in Your Own Words
    • Mr. Hubbard
      Mr. Hubbard on 23 Feb 11
       
      Note the paraphrasing exercises off to the left hand side
    • Melinda Christianson
      Melinda Christianson on 03 Jan 12
       
      Thank you!
Holly Barlaam

Summarizing Strategies - 5 views

meade.k12.sd.us/...SummarizingStrategies.pdf

summarizing note taking

shared by Holly Barlaam on 22 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Holly Barlaam on 22 Mar 11
     
    a collection of summarizing strategies--lots of different ideas here that could work for many different levels of learners
Kalin Wilburn

Diigo - Web Highlighter and Sticky Notes, Online Bookmarking and Annotation, Personal Learning Network. - 14 views

www.diigo.com

diigo bookmarking social

shared by Kalin Wilburn on 19 May 11 - Cached
    • Kalin Wilburn
      Kalin Wilburn on 19 May 11
       
      This social bookmarking site is easy to use and also provides you with an iPad app, android app, and a Diigolet bookmarking tool. You no longer need to save in your favorites just bookmark all of your favorite sites into Diigo and share them with friends, organize them in lists, or present them with their webslide creator.
    • Kalin Wilburn
      Kalin Wilburn on 19 May 11
       
      They even offer a Teacher console where you can create groups for your classroom. This allows you to have student accounts, without the need for an email address, and then your students can work in the same list, create individual lists, and share everything with only others in their group or publicy (if you choose).
    • Sunny Jackson
      Sunny Jackson on 15 Jun 12
       
      If people are able to read this, doesn't that mean they already use Diigo?
Theresa Allen

Guide to Using Free Tools to Create an Online Portfolio for Work or School - 257 views

www.google.com/...BDRouSgoQ8Y2P240j

online portfolio eportfolio guide

shared by Theresa Allen on 22 May 11 - Cached
  • Carolyn Ponce on 23 May 11
     
    This is a great resource. Just a note, Google Page Creator was replaced by Google Sites in 2008. Sites is great for creating a class website as well.
Martin Burrett

Quotepad - text notepad for the internet - 63 views

quotepad.info

notes download bookmarking notepad text websites

shared by Martin Burrett on 25 Jul 11 - Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 25 Jul 11
     
    A nice little downloadable tool that remembers which webpage you copied text from on the internet. Entries are timestamped and you can set reminders to view the site again. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+&+Web+Tools
Ana Karina

wikispaces - 1 views

www.wikispaces.com

shared by Ana Karina on 10 Aug 11 - Cached
  • A wiki is a space on the Web where you can share work and ideas, pictures and links, videos and media — and anything else you can think of. Wikispaces is special because we give you a visual editor and a bunch of other tools to make sharing all kinds of content as easy for students as it is for their teachers.
  • A Wikispaces Private Label site is a secure, dedicated wiki environment — like a clone of Wikispaces.com, but with your organization’s DNA mixed in. You get unlimited wikis (and everything you need to manage them), plus tools to integrate the site with your other systems and support your users.
  • Martin Burrett on 10 Aug 11
     
    A superb wiki/web hosting site with lets you create web pages for your class or school or use it as a Wiki and let your pupils/colleagues create and build the page together. The basic account is free and if you sign up as an educator you can get extra storage space. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+&+Web+Tools
  • Ray Mitsch on 24 Sep 12
     
    Members please take note of this page!
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