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Feds Call on Universities for Ideas for 'Experimental Sites,' New Learning Technologies... - 32 views

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shared by Jim Aird on 15 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • Education, particularly K-12 education, remains relatively untouched by advances in our understanding of how people learn, how to design instruction that incorporates those insights, and the explosion in information technologies such as low-cost smartphones and tablets, cloud computing, broadband networks, speech recognition and speech synthesis, predictive analytics, data mining, machine learning, intelligent tutors, simulations, games, computer-[supported] collaborative work, and many other technologies.
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Don't Judge a Book by its Cover: Tech-Savvy Teens Remain Fans of Print Books - 32 views

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shared by Matt Renwick on 21 Dec 14 - No Cached
  • teens' penchant for borrowing and sharing books rather than purchasing them
  • The biggest single source of influence for teen readers is enjoying an author’s previous books.
  • their paths to discovery are more dependent on word of mouth—and for today's connected teens, this often means social media.
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  • U.S. consumers over the age of 18 buy nearly 80% of young adult books, both print and digital.
  • Matt Renwick on 21 Dec 14
     
    mattrenwick.com 
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21 Rules for Social Media Engagement| The Committed Sardine - 30 views

www.committedsardine.com/blogpost.cfm socialnetworking
shared by anonymous on 29 Jun 10 - Cached
  • It’s the devices we employ, the intentions that motivate engagement, and the value we offer that dictate the significance of the brand-specific social graphs we weave. It’s a simple investment in either visibility or presence. In social media, just like in the real world, presence is felt.
  • Embody the attributes you wish to portray and instill. Operate by a code of conduct.
  • Become a true participant in each community you wish to activate.
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  • Introduce value, insight and direction with each engagement.
  • Consistently create, contribute, and reinforce service and value.
  • Establish and nurture beneficial relationships online and in the real world as long as doing so is important to your business.
  • keep you connected to day-to-day engagement.
  • becoming a resource to your communities.
  • Give back, reciprocate, and recognize notable contributions from participants in your communities.
  • anonymous on 29 Jun 10
     
    These "rules" are aimed at business but many are true for education too.
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CyberSmart! Toolbar - 80 views

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shared by Nancy White on 25 Aug 10 - Cached
  • Nancy White on 25 Aug 10
     
    Web 2.0 Tools organized and annotated in handy toolbar with dropdown menu.
  • Lefty Prof on 26 Aug 10
     
    Hi, and thanks for posting! Do you know if it is only for K-12 educators? Seems like it, but was wondering if you might have some insight on that...?
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Stephen Downes: Things You Really Need To Learn - 88 views

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shared by BTerres on 03 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • to educators, I ask, if you are not teaching these things in your classes, why are you not?
  • 1. How to predict consequences
  • The prediction of consequences is part science, part mathematics, and part visualization. It is essentially the ability to create a mental model imaging the sequence of events that would follow, "what would likely happen if...?"
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  • 2. How to read
  • how to look at some text and to understand, in a deep way, what is being asserted (this also applies to audio and video, but grounding yourself in text will transfer relatively easily, if incompletely, to other domains).
  • 3. How to distinguish truth from fiction
  • Do not simply accept what you are told. Always ask, how can you know that this is true? What evidence would lead you to believe that it is false?
  • 4. How to empathize
  • this will allow other people to become a surprising source of new knowledge and insight.
  • 5. How to be creative
  • Sometimes people think that creative ideas spring out of nothing (like the proverbial 'blank page' staring back at the writer) but creativity is in fact the result of using and manipulating your knowledge in certain ways.
  • creativity involves a transfer of knowledge from one domain to another domain, and sometimes a manipulation of that knowledge.
  • pattern recognition can be learned
  • 6. How to communicate clearly
  • 7. How to Learn
  • Learning to learn is the same as learning anything else. It takes practice.
  • 8. How to stay healthy
  • 9. How to value yourself
  • You can have all the knowledge and skills in the world, but they are meaningless if you do not feel personally empowered to use them; it's like owning a Lamborghini and not having a driver's license.
  • 10. How to live meaningfully
  • When you realize you have the power to choose what you are doing, you realize you have the power to choose the consequences. Which means that consequences -- even bad consequences -- are for the most part a matter of choice
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Paperless Tiger « buckenglish - 0 views

buckenglish.wordpress.com/...paperless-tiger paperless classroom pedagogy teaching technology collaboration connectivism
shared by Ed Webb on 10 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Does this jettisoning of time-honored titles mean that the paperless classroom is also lacking a creator, controller and grader?  Is the paperless classroom also a teacherless paradigm?  The answer is in some regards, yes.  I have removed myself from center stage.  I have relinquished the need to control every class.  I have stopped seeing work as stagnant…completed and submitted by students and then graded by me.  I have let go of my need to pre-plan months at a time, in favor of following the path that unfolds as we learn together.  My classes are not, however, teacherless, just less about the teaching and more about the learning.  The students know that I am ready and willing to be student to their insights, that they can teach, create, control and even evaluate their own learning.
  • In the absence of my control, the students have many choices to make
  • Teachers often say that modern students are lazy.  I have long felt that as the shifting winds of technology began to gain force, we teachers were the ones who were unwilling to do the work of rethinking our roles and meeting the students were they were learning already.  Rethinking paper as the primary tool of class is a step in the right direction because it forces a rethinking of the how and why of teaching and learning.
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Online Education - Introducing the Microlecture Format - Open Education - 4 views

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shared by Marsh Feldman on 10 Mar 09 - Cached
  • in online education “tiny bursts can teach just as well as traditional lectures when paired with assignments and discussions.” The microlecture format begins with a podcast that introduces a few key terms or a critical concept, then immediately turns the learning environment over to the students.
  • “It’s a framework for knowledge excavation,” Penrose tells Shieh. “We’re going to show you where to dig, we’re going to tell you what you need to be looking for, and we’re going to oversee that process.”
  • It clearly will not work for a course that is designed to feature sustained classroom discussions. And while the concept will work well when an instructor wants to introduce smaller chunks of information, it will likely not work very well when the information is more complex.
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  • the microlecture format similarly requires teachers to get the key elements across in a very short amount of time. Most importantly, it forces educators to think in a new way.
  • 1. List the key concepts you are trying to convey in the 60-minute lecture. That series of phrases will form the core of your microlecture. 2. Write a 15 to 30-second introduction and conclusion. They will provide context for your key concepts. 3. Record these three elements using a microphone and Web camera. (The college information-technology department can provide advice and facilities.) If you want to produce an audio-only lecture, no Webcam is necessary. The finished product should be 60 seconds to three minutes long. 4. Design an assignment to follow the lecture that will direct students to readings or activities that allow them to explore the key concepts. Combined with a written assignment, that should allow students to learn the material. 5. Upload the video and assignment to your course-management software.
    • Marsh Feldman
      Marsh Feldman on 11 Mar 09
       
      Good luck! Some of my (upper-division college) students don't even read the handouts I give them about assignments. Instead, they come during office hours and ask me to tell them how to do the assignment. When they do read things, like a textbook commonly used in 100-level courses, they misinterpret concepts through their own preconceptions. For example, the textbook says, "In this field there are these eight schools of thought: ...." So one student writes, "All eight schools are good ways to understand. There's no right way." (Even though each school is highly critical of the others.) The rest of the class comments, with things like "Good insight, Oscar." The textbook is about the field, so it doesn't go into any detail about the schools' criticisms ot the others. I can either tell the students or give them additional reading they probably won't do. Unless you can anticipate every student misunderstanding and have time for microlectures on every one of them, I think you'll need to do things the old fashioned way. At least this way you can make a valiant attempt at helping them understand the material correctly.
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English Teachers Find an Online Friend: the English Companion Ning - National Writing P... - 0 views

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shared by Rachel Ernst on 06 Apr 09 - Cached
  •  "The first semester I was groping my way along, trying to not completely implode," said Rachel E., who is teaching high school students in El Cajon, California, for the first time. "But second semester something amazing happened. I found this Ning. And it has literally changed the way I teach. I feel like I have insight from some of the best teachers out there. I can listen in to conversations that would never happen in my staff room."
    • Rachel Ernst
      Rachel Ernst on 06 Apr 09
       
      Hey that's me! If you haven't joined the Ning, you really should. It has helped my teaching immensely!
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American Solar Energy Society: The Solar Nonprofit Advancing Education, Research, Advoc... - 0 views

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shared by Lara Kessler on 08 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Lara Kessler on 08 Aug 09
     
    Information from the American Solar Energy Society
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Author: 'iGeneration' requires a different approach to instruction | eSchoolNews.com - 62 views

www.eschoolnews.com/...ferent-approach-to-instruction 'igeneration' instruction technology education eschoolnews
shared by Barbara Moose on 12 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Kathy Malsbenden on 12 Apr 10
     
    Today's middle and high school students learn much differently from students just a few years older-and that's mainly because they've never known a world without the internet or cell phones, says psychology professor and author Larry D. Rosen, whose research could give educators valuable insights into the needs of today's learners.
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Faculty and IT: Conversations and Collaboration (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE - 20 views

www.educause.edu/...202355 it collaboration faculty technology pedagogy
shared by Dimitris Tzouris on 21 Apr 10 - Cached
  • IT staff should participate in academic planning to develop course projects and institution-wide outcomes, and faculty should sit on technology committees to develop shared goals and values with IT staff.
  • Only with the insight this provides can IT staff propose systemic technological solutions that meet the specific needs, as well as the broader academic objectives, of faculty.
  • faculty need to know how students learn with technology and what students can create or do because of it.3
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  • the most effective collaborations come from a common sense of purpose and goals.
  • In the spirit of building relationships and sharing knowledge, IT staff could sit in classes to observe the teaching and learning process and to see how technology is — or could be — used. Faculty could attend academic technology conferences alongside IT staff. And when a technology solution is warranted, IT staff could provide faculty with a vetted set of instructional technology tools to explore and choose from. In return, faculty can invest in becoming tech-savvy enough to assess, and ultimately use, those tools. Faculty won't be blindly "window shopping" for technology tools, and IT staff won't be proposing solutions in a vacuum; instead, they will be sharing in goals and challenges.
  • faculty need technology that helps them to be better professors and that helps students become more sophisticated learners.
  • Faculty can start by identifying specific teaching and learning challenges they are trying to resolve, as individuals and as a faculty body, and can then challenge themselves and IT staff to find creative ways to solve them.
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Creating the 21st-century classroom | Educator Resource Centers | eSchoolNews.com - 55 views

www.eschoolnews.com/...g-the-21st-century-classroom-3 classroom education 21stcentury insight
shared by Dimitris Tzouris on 27 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Dimitris Tzouris on 27 Apr 10
     
    "Creating the 21st-century classroom"
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Diana Laufenberg: How to learn? From mistakes | Video on TED.com - 106 views

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shared by anonymous on 15 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 15 Jan 11
     
    "Diana Laufenberg shares 3 surprising things she has learned about teaching -- including a key insight about learning from mistakes."
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Contextual Analysis- Uganda (Sarita Vengal) | International Field Program Seminar-Sprin... - 11 views

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shared by Fabiola Berdiel on 04 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Food and grocery stores definitely plays an important role in this community. There were also an unexpected amount of African art and music stores. I think diaspora communities like this have a lot of meeting and community aid establishments to help immigrants navigate the American system of living.
    • Fabiola Berdiel
      Fabiola Berdiel on 04 Mar 11
       
      Very insightful contextual analysis
  • I honestly didn’t see too many advertisements outside of the West African diaspora context. The ads that I did see were not billboards or real advertisements. There were mostly posters or small signs showcasing the sales in each of the stores.
  • As a native New Yorker, who grew up in an Indian diaspora community, I felt like a lot of the sights resonated with my childhood.  And to make things even more familair, I lived in Niger for a few months and did feel a certain connection to the area.
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  • I also didn’t see that many women walking around, it was mostly men who were hanging around local hot spots. The women that I did see, were going somewhere specific and not really hanging out outside.
  • Contextual Analysis- Uganda (Sarita Vengal)
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Disrupting College - 3 views

www.americanprogress.org/...disrupting_college.html education ctl
shared by webExplorations on 25 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Using online learning in a new business model focused exclusively on teaching and learning, not research—and focused on highly structured programs targeted at preparation for careers—has meanwhile given several organizations a significant cost advantage and allowed them to grow rapidly.
  • Using online learning in a new business model focused exclusively on teaching and learning, not research—and focused on highly structured programs targeted at preparation for careers—has meanwhile given several organizations a significant cost advantage and allowed them to grow rapidly.
  • Using online learning in a new business model focused exclusively on teaching and learning, not research—and focused on highly structured programs targeted at preparation for careers—has meanwhile given several organizations a significant cost advantage and allowed them to grow rapidly.
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  • Recommendations for existing institutions of higher education also emerge from an understanding of disruptive innovation. These colleges and universities should: Apply the correct business model for the task. These institutions have conflated value propositions and business models, which creates significant, unsustainable overhead costs. Drive the disruptive innovation. Some institutions have this opportunity, but to do so, they need to set up an autonomous business model unencumbered by their existing processes and priorities. They can leverage their existing fixed resources in this autonomous model to give themselves a cost advantage over what to this point have been the low-cost disruptive innovators. Develop a strategy of focus. The historical strategy of trying to be great at everything and mimic institutions such as Harvard is not a viable strategy going forward. Frame online learning as a sustaining innovation. Institutions can use this new technology to disrupt the existing classroom model to extend convenience to many more students as well as provide a better learning experience.
  • webExplorations on 25 Mar 11
     
    An article showing how online learning is a disruptive technology. Shining [the challenges of today's higher ed] through the lens of these theories on innovation will provide some insights into how we can move forward and a language that allows people to come together to frame these challenges in ways that will create a much higher chance of success. This report assumes that everyone is adept at online learning. This is not the case and students will have to be trained on how to be effective online learners. Courses will also have to address multiple learning styles and not just the read/write that most online courses currently are programmed for. Despite this missing piece, this is a very important article that focuses on some very key issues of our current higher ed system. The recommendations at the end of the article for policy makers are very apt. Highly recommended reading!
  • Jason Finley on 26 Mar 11
     
    Are high schools preparing students for success in college and careers when what we do is so very different from what they will experience when they leave our little boxes?
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Using Groups Effectively: 10 Principles « The Window - 172 views

blog.clerestorylearning.com/oups-effectively-10-principles
shared by Josh Flores on 28 May 11 - No Cached
  • Having students work in groups reaps a bounty of benefits, including boosting students’ social skills and upping the number of “happy campers” in the classroom.
  • As with every aspect of teaching, using groups effectively requires mindful planning and attention to more than who works with whom.
  • Putting people into groups isn’t a magical dust that makes everyone more creative. It has to be the right kind of group, and the group has to match the task
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    • Josh Flores
      Josh Flores on 02 Jun 11
       
      Really? This is something I'm guilty of. 
  • Do not appoint a group “leader.”
    • Josh Flores
      Josh Flores on 02 Jun 11
       
      Also guilty
  • small
  • Think threefold
    • Josh Flores
      Josh Flores on 02 Jun 11
       
      This is why I like starting with a free write
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 28 May 11
     
    "I recently attended a conference session featuring Keith .. an expert on the effectiveness of group efforts. His presentation focused on what has been and potentially can be accomplished through collaboration, but he hinted that just getting people into groups is not the answer. .. Though his focus is on creativity, I think Sawyer's insights apply to our use of groups to foster learning. Here are ten principles I've picked up:"
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Teachers give a gold star to a free-for-all education camp | Philadelphia Inquirer | 05... - 49 views

www.philly.com/...122814178.html edcamp
shared by Kevin Jarrett on 30 May 11 - No Cached
  • Kevin Jarrett on 30 May 11
     
    Terrific article about #edcamp philly 2011 with perspectives from several attendees and some of the organizing team. So proud to be part of this movement!
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  • Kevin Jarrett on 30 May 11
     
    woot!
  • Trish Emerson on 31 May 11
     
    How do we find out more about EdCamps to be offered in our area? I am a NJ teacher. Sorry I missed the Philly opportunity?
  • Kevin Jarrett on 31 May 11
     
    Hi Trish! Sorry we missed you. For more information about future edcamps, go here: http://edcamp.wikispaces.com/ - we will be back in 2012! There was a Teachmeet (similar style unconference) in March at Rutgers and probably will happen again next year too! You can always organize your own edcamp - if you want info on that, let me know! I'm kevin_jarrett@yahoo.com. Peace!
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Home-Schooling for the Techno-Literate - NYTimes.com - 101 views

www.nytimes.com/...19FOB-WWLN-Kelly-t.html education technology
shared by Susan High on 10 May 11 - No Cached
    • Casey Finnerty
      Casey Finnerty on 10 May 11
       
      I love this list of advice for technology
  • Before you can master a device, program or invention, it will be superseded; you will always be a beginner. Get good at it.
    • Susan High
      Susan High on 10 May 11
       
      I think this applies to most anything today, and it's a powerful lesson: The power is not in learning content, but in learning how to learn! Love the idea of "get good at being a beginner!" Thanks for the article!
  • “You have to teach the student — that’s me — not only to learn stuff but to learn how to learn.”
    • Casey Finnerty
      Casey Finnerty on 10 May 11
       
      What an insight!
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