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Teaching in Social and Technological Networks « Connectivism - 10 views

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  • social and technological networks subvert the classroom-based role of the teacher.
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      Zach Lonsinger on 12 Jun 14
       
      This is a powerful opinion. I disagree. But I guess it all depends on perspective. I feel as if social and technological networks would add to the classroom-based role of the teacher by allowing the teacher to bring in the experts and be able to direct the students in the right direction. Again this may come back to being able to "know where to look" for information in an age of digital literacy.
  • In the future, however, the role of the teacher, the educator, will be dramatically different from the current norm.
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      Zach Lonsinger on 12 Jun 14
       
      I see this happening now, especially with my class last semester (spring 2014 Design Studio). The professor knew what he was doing, but the class was more less about him teaching us, and more about us teaching each other and ourselves. We simple went to class to discuss what we have been doing, new exciting technology discoveries, and to ask questions on projects or any edtech related issue really.
  • The Knotted Ball of Education
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      Zach Lonsinger on 12 Jun 14
       
      Interesting analogy. I never heard this before, but now that I have heard it, it makes total sense.
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  • I’d like a learning system that functions along the lines of RescueTime – actively monitoring what I’m doing – but then offers suggestions of what I should (or could) be doing additionally. Or a system that is aware of my email exchanges over the last several years and can provide relevant information based on the development of my thinking and work.
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      Zach Lonsinger on 12 Jun 14
       
      This sounds a lot like facebook advertisement, or Google's intense tracking algorithms, or Amazon's tracking system to what you buy. They all provide custom ads or new products or sites to buy, visit, share, etc. All very scary in today's world, tons of privacy concerns here.
  • “To teach is to model and to demonstrate. To learn is to practice and to reflect.”
    • Zach Lonsinger
      Zach Lonsinger on 12 Jun 14
       
      Great quote. I will be "borrowing" this!
  • An educator needs a point of existence online – a place to express herself and be discovered: a blog, profile in a social networking service, Twitter, or (likely) a combination of multiple services. What do you do when you meet someone? Most likely, you search for them in Google.
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      Zach Lonsinger on 12 Jun 14
       
      And now LinkedIn. I know I always look up my professors on LinkedIn, RateMyProffessor, twitter. I like to know who they are and how they teach. I also do this with job applicants and job hire-ers as well. We are in an age where privacy is far and few between. Pretty soon we will be able to facially recognize someone through a devie like Google Glass, and immediately bring up their information. Scary.
  • Persistent presence in the learning network is needed for the teacher to amplify, curate, aggregate, and filter content and to model critical thinking and cognitive attributes that reflect the needs of a discipline.
    • Zach Lonsinger
      Zach Lonsinger on 12 Jun 14
       
      The personal learning network in a nutshell.
  • I’m often surprised when I hear a declaration of web company’s birthday – Facebook at six years, Youtube at five years. It seems like these tools have been around much longer.
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      Zach Lonsinger on 12 Jun 14
       
      This always blows my mind. I remember graduating high school in 2008 and going to college. This was when I learned that YouTube was only 3 years old at the time. I thought YouTube was around litearlly forever, being a young teenager, I had no idea. The first video ever on YouTube still cracks me up! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw
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elearnspace. Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age - 17 views

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  • Half of what is known today was not known 10 years ago. The amount of knowledge in the world has doubled in the past 10 years and is doubling every 18 months according to the American Society of Training and Documentation (ASTD).
    • Zach Lonsinger
      Zach Lonsinger on 04 Jun 14
       
      This is a mind-numbing statistic. It's almost impossible for me to wrap my head around this number. That is a lot of knowledge that my parents and my past and current teachers did not know when going through school.
  • Technology is altering (rewiring) our brains. The tools we use define and shape our thinking.
    • Zach Lonsinger
      Zach Lonsinger on 04 Jun 14
       
      This is a neat, yet scary idea. I immediately took it in the literal sense, that technology is literally rewiring us (or brainwashing/controlling us). I know this is not the case, but our society and technology is not far away from people being able to "hijack" another person and control them via nanotechnoloy or tiny, microscopic swalloable bluetooth pills. But anyways, back to the article - this is very true. It is allowing us to become highly efficient multi-taskers that are able to complete more work in a shorter amount of time.
  • that is, we need to act by drawing information outside of our primary knowledge.
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      Zach Lonsinger on 04 Jun 14
       
      I think the internet has made this extremely easy today, especially Google. I recently just watched the Apple keynote streamed live from the WWDC 2014 conference on Monday (June 2nd). Their new opearting system is expaning on their search functionality. Now on a Mac computer a user will be able to simply click the maginifying glass on the desktop and type in what you want to fine. This will then search the computer for stored files or software AND it will also now search the inernet via Bing and provide "smart" search options.
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  • “Experience has long been considered the best teacher of knowledge. Since we cannot experience everything, other people’s experiences, and hence other people, become the surrogate for knowledge.
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      Zach Lonsinger on 04 Jun 14
       
      This is an interesting idea and it reminds me of the Reddit (www.reddit.com) community. I am actively engaged in many subreddits and there is a subreddit for just about everything you could possibly want. And being able to freely navigate and comment on any subreddit allows you to tap into other people's experiences and knowledge in fields in which you may not know anything about.
  • “be informationally open, that is, for it to be able to classify its own interaction with an environment, it must be able to change its structure…”
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      Zach Lonsinger on 04 Jun 14
       
      This reminds me of John Seely Brown's analogy of white water kayaing to learning in his Entrepreneurial Learner video. Being able to adapt to change on the go is essential to utitilizing technology to its maximum potential in today's world.
  • serendipity
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      Zach Lonsinger on 04 Jun 14
       
      I love serendipity so much that it may be my favorite word. And from reading that word, it made a "weak tie" in my brain to an article I read a while back on LinkedIn. Here it is if anyone is intereted in the "notion that you could intentionally design your life to encounter surprises." https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140430125746-10842349-why-you-should-plan-for-serendipity?midToken=AQFCebI-qgsCUg&fromEmail=fromEmail&trk=eml-ced-b-art-M-3-7959820741678275557&ut=3eQ04cw4gPNmc1
  • New information is continually being acquired. The ability to draw distinctions between important and unimportant information is vital.
    • Zach Lonsinger
      Zach Lonsinger on 04 Jun 14
       
      This is extremely important in today's culture, especially for the young person. I am 23, and I occasionally find myself with information overload from my facebook and twitter timeline. It is insane how much information is continually being pushed out from people on an hourly basis.
  • The pipe is more important than the content within the pipe.
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      Zach Lonsinger on 04 Jun 14
       
      I love this sentence. It really puts into perspective education and learning. Yes, the content (oil) is important, but without the ability to learn (the pipe), we will never get the oil. This reminds me of a quote I read the other day from Bob Goff. He said, "Spend a lot more time picking hte track you'll take than the train you'll ride to get there."
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John Seely Brown: Learning, Working & Playing in the Digital Age - 18 views

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  • Comcast offered about 50 billion dollars for Media One
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      Zach Lonsinger on 21 May 14
       
      And to think this was 15 years ago. I wonder how much 50 billion is worth today. And people made a big deal with Facebook bought Instagram for 1 billion, and then more recently WhatsApp for 19 billion, and then a few month ago, Oculus Rift for 2 billion---and yet all of this still does not equal 50 billion.
  • Recently, I was with a young researcher, albeit one that was a bit unusual, that had actually wired a Web browser into his eyeglasses.
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      Zach Lonsinger on 21 May 14
       
      Does this guy work for Google now? Perhaps had a part in designing Google Glass? I got to experiement with Google Glass in February. Woah, was that cool. It was very unique in being able to watch a video in your glasses or wink and be able to take a picture. I can definitely see Google Glass, or a future model being implemented in education.
  • and to be able to pick up and feel comfortable with these new rapidly evolving multiple media genres
    • Zach Lonsinger
      Zach Lonsinger on 21 May 14
       
      I think this is evident in children today. You see kids everywhere with smartphones, tablets, iPads. And these kids are better users of these than some of their parents.
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  • and may even become a prominent form of entertainment for the digital kid.
    • Zach Lonsinger
      Zach Lonsinger on 21 May 14
       
      Well that was a dead-on prediction.
  • The catch, however, is that if you are going to become a successful bricoleur of the 21st century, a bricoleur of the virtual rather than of the physical, than as you borrow things you have to be able to decide whether or not to believe or trust those things.
    • Zach Lonsinger
      Zach Lonsinger on 21 May 14
       
      I think this can get into the touchy subject of plagiarism. There's a famous saying that goes, "stealing from one source is plagiarism, but stealing from many sources is research". I also read a book titled, "Steal Like an Artist" by Austin Kleon. One of the famous sayings used was from Picasso, "Good artists copy, great artists steal."
  • So we now have navigation being coupled to, basically, discovery and discovery being coupled to bricolage but you don't dare build on whatever you discover unless you can make a judgment concerning its quality or trustworthiness.
    • Zach Lonsinger
      Zach Lonsinger on 21 May 14
       
      This is a loaded sentence and I love it. It's a great point and I think it describes the complexity of today's world, Web 2.0 tools, and how to be an effective digital bricoleur.
  • digital bricoleur.
  • So troubleshooting is really story construction, not abstract logical reasoning.
    • Zach Lonsinger
      Zach Lonsinger on 21 May 14
       
      I love this. Stories are everywhere, from birth to death, and have always been apart of the human nature. I do believe stories are vital to education and how every child learns best. Not always just storybooks, but stories from parents, classmates, friends, and from their teachers.
  • Learning was happening in a fantastic way in terms of telling and listening to stories.
    • Zach Lonsinger
      Zach Lonsinger on 21 May 14
       
      This is a fantastic, yet incredibly simple concept of learning--storytelling. This has been going on for generations, yet we still always manage to miss the basic fundamentals. I think this is why gamification is catching on so fast, becasue most games tell a story that catches your attention.
  • The real expert was not a person but was the community mind, the mind of the community-of-practice.
    • Zach Lonsinger
      Zach Lonsinger on 21 May 14
       
      Interesting concept. I totally agree that not one person can ever be a true expert in one area, but a group of professionals create the expert community mind. Very cool way to word that, I might bricolage that.
  • The twist, though, was that once they received the video, the engineers would replay them in their own small study group, but replay them in a very special way. Every three minutes or so they would stop the video and talk about what they had just seen, and ask each other if there were any questions or any ambiguities that needed to be resolved.
    • Zach Lonsinger
      Zach Lonsinger on 21 May 14
       
      This is a great way to learn that I think a lot of professors on campus overlook. The engineers basically were experiencing what we call today a "flipped classroom". I think this is a great way to learn, especially with a small group of people where you can bounce ideas off and pause the lecture or re-watch it. Sometimes during a lecture or in a class, people need that time to pause, and think over the material. Some students do this, and then miss what the instructor continued to talk about.
  • The next system is an experimental system in use at Cornell University and designed by Dan Huttenlocher. Here they use dual video cameras, one on the lecturer and one that zooms in on any student asking a question. The video stream can then be automaticallly segmented, identifying exactly when a student asked a question or the lecturer changed a slide, etc. Once a slide is identified its image is passed to an optical character recognizer whose output is used to help create an index of the video stream content.
    • Zach Lonsinger
      Zach Lonsinger on 21 May 14
       
      This is an interesting concept. I'm surprised we haven't seen this technology revamped and recreated today, unless I missed it. But I haven't seen this technology used really anywhere.
  • The traditional producers of knowledge (e.g., faculty) are also becoming consumers of the knowledge that their traditional consumers (e.g., grad students, firms in the region) produce.
    • Zach Lonsinger
      Zach Lonsinger on 21 May 14
       
      I think this is a rather important concept, that the teacher also learns from the students. This creates an environment of learning where students can take the reign of teacher and be able to teach. This creates a two-way conversation that can foster deeper and more meaninful learning.
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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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  • A current example of an attempt to harness the power of study groups in a virtual environment is the Terra Incognita project of the University of Southern Queensland (Australia), which has built a classroom in Second Life, the online virtual world that has attracted millions of users.
    • Zach Lonsinger
      Zach Lonsinger on 21 May 14
       
      Last semester in Design Studio, we experimented with having a "virtual class" in Second Life. It was rather interesting. We all created avatars and met in a building. There was a screen in the building that could be used as a web browser, or to play videos or PowerPoints.This way, students could attend Design Studio in person in a real classroom (and join the virtual classroom) and students from a distance could join the virtual classroom and everyone could be in the same classroom. Having avatars gave a sense of personality to a person, which created a different online learning experience.
  • Although about 40,000 students are enrolled in classes on the university’s campus in Ann Arbor, King believes that the actual number of students being reached by the school today is closer to 250,000.
    • Zach Lonsinger
      Zach Lonsinger on 21 May 14
       
      Another great example of this at Penn State is World in Conversation. World in Conversation has classes and projects set up where students on campus sit in a room with a television and video conference students at another university on the other side of the world and have a discussion, usually about controversial topics such as race and poverty.
  • Tools such as blogs, wikis, social networks, tagging systems, mashups, and content-sharing sites
    • Zach Lonsinger
      Zach Lonsinger on 21 May 14
       
      Another great tool not mentioned here is Twitter and the use of hash-tag conversations. I've participated in a number of these and have also found that I discovered other hash tag conversations and weighed in, not knowing the full context. This is a very cool concept because anyone who has a twitter account, which is a lot of people, can find your conversation and join by using the specified hash tag.
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