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Teaching in Social and Technological Networks « Connectivism - 10 views

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  • A teacher/instructor/professor obviously plays numerous roles in a traditional classroom: role model, encourager, supporter, guide, synthesizer.
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      dmwentroble on 02 Jun 14
       
      and in the elementary classroom, a nurse, guidance counselor, referee, and cheerleader!
  • Selecting a textbook, determining and sequencing lecture topics, and planning learning activities, are all undertaken to offer coherence of a subject area. Instructional (or learning) design is a structured method of coherence provision.
  • The largely unitary voice of the traditional teacher is fragmented by the limitless conversation opportunities available in networks. When learners have control of the tools of conversation, they also control the conversations in which they choose to engage.
    • dmwentroble
      dmwentroble on 02 Jun 14
       
      I agree with this statement...however, someone has to teach these students how to go out and find this information. This is what is wrong with today's technology being incorporated into the classrooms. The teachers are not trained first!
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  • This cozy comfortable world of outcomes-instruction-assessment alignment exists only in education. In all other areas of life, ambiguity, uncertainty, and unkowns reign.
    • dmwentroble
      dmwentroble on 02 Jun 14
       
      This is so true! Education as a whole is an entirely different entity then other professions when it comes to goals.
  • clear outcomes are still needed.
    • dmwentroble
      dmwentroble on 02 Jun 14
       
      Agree
  • How can we achieve learning targets when the educator is no longer able to control the actions of learners?
    • dmwentroble
      dmwentroble on 02 Jun 14
       
      How do we meet our objectives?? With the new evaluations that we are required to submit, we still need objectives and outcomes. This needs to be addressed.
  • Thoughts, ideas, or messages that the teacher amplifies will generally have a greater probability of being seen by course participants.
  • While “curator” carries the stigma of dusty museums, the metaphor is appropriate for teaching and learning. T
  • How do individuals make sense of complex information? How do they find their way through a confusing and contradictory range of ideas?
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      dmwentroble on 02 Jun 14
       
      We make our way through the complex information by exploring. Unfortunately, most teachers do not have the time to explore how to access the technology available.
  • Today’s social web is no different – we find our way through active exploration
  • Instead of being the sole or dominant filter of information, he now shares this task with other methods and individuals.
    • dmwentroble
      dmwentroble on 02 Jun 14
       
      Which can be a very daunting task to many of the "senior" teachers!
  • Having recently relocated to Alberta, I used Google to gain a sense of my children’s teachers, the social media network in Edmonton, colleagues at work, meetups, democamps, etc.
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      dmwentroble on 02 Jun 14
       
      I find this interesting because up until this year, our school website did not have pictures of faculty nor did it have updated information. This was an issue that our union fought to correct.
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elearnspace. Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age - 17 views

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  • Behaviorism, cognitivism, and constructivism are the three broad learning theories most often utilized in the creation of instructional environments. These theories, however, were developed in a time when learning was not impacted through technology.
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      dmwentroble on 28 May 14
       
      These theories have been around a very long time regarding education. I wonder what "new" theories will be in place years from now with reference to technology? Will future students be looking back at the new theories and deciding how they impact education?
  • Learners as little as forty years ago would complete the required schooling and enter a career that would often last a lifetime.
    • dmwentroble
      dmwentroble on 28 May 14
       
      This is very true. I graduated in 1981. Most of my peers left high school and went straight into the work force. Many of them are still in those same careers.
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  • Many learners will move into a variety of different, possibly unrelated fields over the course of their lifetime
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      dmwentroble on 28 May 14
       
      Is this a good thing? Can this be a detriment to the person if they find a job they love and for unforeseen circumstances they can no work? Will their portfolios give the indication that they cannot focus?
  • Learning and work related activities are no longer separate. In many situations, they are the same.
  • How can we continue to stay current in a rapidly evolving information ecology?
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      dmwentroble on 28 May 14
       
      It is an ever changing world with regards to technology. Staying current can be as easy as downloading a daily news feed.
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John Seely Brown: Learning, Working & Playing in the Digital Age - 18 views

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      dmwentroble on 19 May 14
       
      I find this statement interesting. As I get older and see younger people using the technology afforded to them, I realize that like it or not...education is changing. This was probably the sentiment years ago about electricity :)
    • dmwentroble
      dmwentroble on 19 May 14
       
      I agree, it worries me that I am missing the boat on my goals!
  • A second example: Hewlett-Packard and the Web. In this example, engineers at Hewlett-Packard use the Web to act as cognitive apprentices, or mentors, for kids wanting extra help on scientific, engineering or mathematical type problems. Again, the small efforts of the many—the engineers—complement the large efforts of the few—the teachers. Both of these examples barely scratch the surface of what could result from interlacing the small efforts of the many with the large efforts of the few.
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      dmwentroble on 19 May 14
       
      Interesting fact: My neighbor is one of the engineers with Hewlett Packard that trains perspective clients to help interns/students learn the ropes via the internet.
  • internet and the Web as a medium is that it enables us to leverage the small efforts of the many along with the large efforts of the few. Two very simple examples: consider a project called Pueblo that is happening in the Longview School in Phoenix, Arizona, in conjunction with some researchers from Phoenix College, a part of the Maricopa Community College System. These researchers have found a way to use a closed internet to connect a set of senior citizens acting as mentors with kids in the school systems. The result was that the small efforts of the many—the senior citizens
  • Many of us tend to think that kids who are multi-processing can't be concentrating. This may not be true. Notice that the attention span of most top managers range somewhere between 30 seconds to five minutes, which seems to be about the right span for most kids that I know
    • dmwentroble
      dmwentroble on 19 May 14
       
      I love the idea of the digital age...however, not every job is going to be digital. These "kids" need to understand that they need to focus longer than 5 minutes if they are to succeed in life!
  • So in some interesting sense the need for making judgments is greater than ever. After all, who would necessarily believe something just because it was on the Web? If you found it in the Wall Street Journal you might have some reason to believe it, the National Enquirer, perhaps not.
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      dmwentroble on 19 May 14
       
      I just had this discussion with my second graders. Just because something is on the web does not make it a fact. It could just be an opinion. Great way to teach FACT vs. OPINION!
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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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      dmwentroble on 17 May 14
       
      While the internet has provided us with a wealth of information, the internet is not always correct. Let us remember that anyone can enter information on the internet whether they are qualified or not.
  • If King is right, it makes sense for colleges and universities to consider how they can leverage these new connections through the variety of social software platforms that are being established for other reasons.
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  • If King is right, it makes sense for colleges and universities to consider how they can leverage these new connections through the variety of social software platforms that are being established for other reasons.
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      dmwentroble on 17 May 14
       
      While it makes sense for colleges and universities to use social media and social software platforms, it makes me wonder how this can be incorporated into the elementary setting. Young students can also benefit from social learning but the cost of the technology is often the sticking point for most districts.
  • By enabling students to collaborate with working scientists, this movement provides a platform for the “learning to be” aspect of social learning. For example, the Faulkes Telescope Project, sponsored by the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network, provides students in the United Kingdom with free access to two high-powered robotic telescopes, one in Hawaii and the other in Australia, which the students are able to use remotely to carry out their own scientific investigations (http://faulkes-telescope.com/).
    • dmwentroble
      dmwentroble on 17 May 14
       
      I love the fact that students are able to see and connect with the real world through social technology. This gives a student who is pondering their future a chance to see various paths they can take to have a successful career.
  • online social networks that have attracted millions of young people
    • dmwentroble
      dmwentroble on 17 May 14
       
      I find this interesting. I work with very young children...8 years old and they are already using the social networking devices to talk to their friends. I set up a kidsblog in my classroom and I found them using it daily to discuss their homework, etc. with one another. Start early and the future will be brighter.
  • This perspective shifts the focus of our attention from the content of a subject to the learning activities and human interactions around which that content is situated. This perspective also helps to explain the effectiveness of study groups
    • dmwentroble
      dmwentroble on 19 May 14
       
      This is the same as running centers in an elementary classroom. The students interact and learn from each other.
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