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'Badges' Earned Online Pose Challenge to Traditional College Diplomas - College 2.0 - T... - 3 views

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      Courtney Blackhurst on 12 Jul 13
       
      Aren't these just "minors" essentially?  You can major in something completely different but pick up skills in another topic. With enough skill level, you get a minor, or a badge on your diploma.
  • might display dozens or even hundreds of merit badges on their online résumés detailing what they studied.
    • Courtney Blackhurst
      Courtney Blackhurst on 12 Jul 13
       
      Isn't this what your transcript review is for?  I don't mind the idea of badges... however, you can display what you've learned at a credited institution by presenting... wait for it.... GRADES... on your transcript. 
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  • Mr. Wiley is an outspoken advocate of so-called open education, and he imagines a future where screenfuls of badges from free or low-cost institutions, perhaps mixed with a course or two from a traditional college, replace the need for setting foot on a campus.
    • Courtney Blackhurst
      Courtney Blackhurst on 12 Jul 13
       
      But then who sets the standard here? Who makes the stipulations for what qualifies?
  • Winning recognition for underappreciated educational activities drives many of the college officials who are experimenting with badges.
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      Courtney Blackhurst on 12 Jul 13
       
      Recognition for time spent doesn't equal mastery though... lots of kids spend hours and hours of their lives playing video games never to save the princess at the end. Do they deserve a "badge" for not completing the set task? 
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A Seismic Shift in Epistemology (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE.edu - 12 views

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      Courtney Blackhurst on 26 Jun 13
       
      Knowledge is an agreement. We need to create it together and remember that bias is always engrained within it.
  • Expertise involves understanding disputes in detail and proposing syntheses that are widely accepted by the community. Possible warrants for expertise are wide-ranging and may draw on education, experience, rhetorical fluency, reputation, or perceived spiritual authority in articulating beliefs, values, and precepts.
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      Courtney Blackhurst on 26 Jun 13
       
      Let us focus on making our students EXPERTS on disputing "factual" information! How successful could they be at that point?
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  • In a representative democracy, a small group of people selected by the entire population makes decisions.
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      Courtney Blackhurst on 26 Jun 13
       
      This is the type of knowledge that we should also aspire to create. Democratic knowledge... no there's a thought!
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elearnspace. Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age - 17 views

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      Courtney Blackhurst on 26 Jun 13
       
      All of these push knowledge construction by the student through experiences. 
  • Even social constructivist views, which hold that learning is a socially enacted process, promotes the principality of the individual (and her/his physical presence – i.e. brain-based) in learning.
  • Objectivism (similar to behaviorism) states that reality is external and is objective, and knowledge is gained through experiences. Pragmatism (similar to cognitivism) states that reality is interpreted, and knowledge is negotiated through experience and thinking. Interpretivism (similar to constructivism) states that reality is internal, and knowledge is constructed.
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Why Teachers Shouldn't Blog….And Why I Do | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the ... - 5 views

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      Courtney Blackhurst on 09 Jun 13
       
      This is the reason for my response in Week 5 of our ELT class! This was the first thing that came to my mind. It's like the comment, "Never reply to an email the day you write the response. Reread it the next day and make corrections. Never reply in the heat of the moment." I'm so afraid that I would blog something that I would regret later and we all know that somethings online NEVER GO AWAY!
  • offers me additional writing opportunities on issues I have a particular passion about.
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      Courtney Blackhurst on 09 Jun 13
       
      For a lot of teachers, getting published is a career aspiration. Blogs open teachers to the published world.  This can be a great way to get yourself out there.
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John Seely Brown: Learning, Working & Playing in the Digital Age - 18 views

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      Courtney Blackhurst on 18 May 13
       
      We need to challenge students to think outside the box and using multiple levels of intelligence.  they are multi-processors and we must continue to challenge them to do so - 1. to keep them from being bored and 2. so they continue to use this ability that they have.
  • If we don't know how to use some appliance, software or game, etc., then we tend to reach for a manual, ask for a training course or ask to be shown how to do it by an expert. Believe me, hand a manual to a 15-year-old or suggest going to a training course and he thinks you are a dinosaur. "A manual? Give me a break! Let me get in there and muck around and try various things and see what works." More generally, today's kids tend to get on the Web and link, lurk and watch how other people are doing things and then try something themselves.
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      Courtney Blackhurst on 18 May 13
       
      We need to challenge our students to see what is being done in the world, because they have that ability at their fingertips, and exceed it!
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Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0 (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUC... - 22 views

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      Courtney Blackhurst on 17 May 13
       
      If this is true, our world is in for a rude awakening. I'm teaching of the reasons for social class stratification right now in my sociology course. Uneducated population will simply add to this strain.
  • In this system, students work together in a common space and peripherally participate in each other’s design process; hence they can benefit from their instructors’ comments on and critiques of other students’ projects and not just from comments on their own work.
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      Courtney Blackhurst on 17 May 13
       
      I like this idea. I would really enjoy being able to see the comments on others work - it helps me when I create my own projects.
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  • Light discovered that one of the strongest determinants of students’ success in higher education—more important than the details of their instructors’ teaching styles—was their ability to form or participate in small study groups.
    • Courtney Blackhurst
      Courtney Blackhurst on 18 May 13
       
      This contradicts most of what research as shown for a while.  I'll be interested to see where this pans out.
  • The demand-pull approach is based on providing students with access to rich (sometimes virtual) learning communities built around a practice. It is passion-based learning, motivated by the student either wanting to become a member of a particular community of practice or just wanting to learn about, make, or perform something.
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      Courtney Blackhurst on 18 May 13
       
      Knowledge is expected in todays world.  Because of the amount of information at our fingertips, literally, we are expected for find answers before new problems arise.  Students need to be taught in this manner to live in a web-based society.
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