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1) the ways they currently implement Twitter in their teaching and learning, 2) ideas for future development of Twitter-based assignments and pedagogical practices, and 3) issues concerning the integration of Twitter and other digital media into both traditional and non-traditional pedagogies. Collaborators should feel free to add material to these pages, to comment on existing material, and to share links to relevant external readings and resources. It may be helpful to tag your contributions with your Twitter handle. Collaborators are asked to please respect this space as a forum for open and respectful dialogue and networking. Let's fill up the pages below with great ideas!  Share the ways you currently implement Twitter in your teaching and learning: Students in my course New Information Technologies do an "Internet Censorship" project, focused on a specific country. I ask them to follow a journalist who tweets on that country as part of their research to understand the state of Internet freedom in the country they select. -- Lora Since shortly after Twitter was launched, I've experimented with various iterations of "The Twitter Essay," an assignment that has students considering the nature of the "essay" as a medium and how they might do that work within the space of 140 characters. -- Jesse (@Jessifer) In my fully online classes, I've started using Twitter to replace the discussion forum as the central location for student interaction. -- Jesse (@Jessifer) Show Tweets that have gotten people arrested and prompt discussion on whether it is fair that anyone be arrested for any Tweet in the US, who is likely to be arrested for their Tweets, what kinds of Tweets are likely to prompt arrest, etc. Students in my First Year Seminar course "The Irish Imagination: Yeats to Bono" developed a platform for digital annotation of Irish literature. Embedded in their platform was a twitter feed of relevant individuals/groups, makin

"By "NLRBE," I mean core resource-based economy ("RBE") concepts, as fleshed out and expanded by Peter Joseph and his organization, "The Zeitgeist Movement" ("TZM"). *Important Reminder* Please remember that, by using this site, you agree to leave no confidential information in blog post comments or elsewhere on the site, or to rely upon anything in this post, or on this site generally, without qualified, independent, confirming research (per this site's Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, which you agreed to by accessing this site). Why? Unfortunately, on this website and in my blog posts, I can and do offer nothing more than expressions of opinion and general information, which could be inadequately researched, inapplicable to your situation, out-of-date, and/or mistaken. Thus, no statement on my website or blog posts is intended to guarantee any particular outcome for you, or to constitute any kind of advice, legal or otherwise. Qualified "advice" is customized to your particular circumstances, current, accurate, and offered in direct relationship with a qualified professional. And qualified advice is critical to obtain before you take action. I do offer qualified legal advice and assurances of confidentiality, but only within the context of attorney-client relationships, which are formed exclusively via written attorney-client fee agreements, not through blog posts, blog post comments, website pages or communications, or any other means whatsoever (however, please visit my Services page to see whether or not I am currently accepting new clients). By "RBE," I mean the original economic model, as presented by Jacque Fresco and his "Venus Project" ("TVP"). My take on his RBE model is more fully explained in my last blog post, "What Do I Mean by 'Resource-Based Economy' (or 'RBE')?" Given what I heard in a recent talk by Joseph, I am now sorely tempted to begin using the term "NLRBE," rather than "RBE," to refer

"It seems only fitting to explore the role of questions in education by asking questions about the process of doing so. I propose that we start with the customary way of framing this topic and then proceed to questions that are deeper and potentially more subversive of traditional schooling. 1. WHICH QUESTIONS? To begin, let's consider what we might ask our students. The least interesting questions are those with straightforward factual answers. That's why a number of writers have encouraged the use of questions described variously as "true" (Wolf, 1987), "essential" (Simon, 2002), "generative" (Perkins, 1992; Perrone, 1998), "guiding" (Traver, 1998), or "fertile" (Harpaz & Lefstein, 2000). What the best of these share is that they're open-ended. Sometimes, in fact, no definitive right answer can be found at all. And even when there is one - or at least when there is reason to prefer some responses to others - the answer isn't obvious and can't be summarized in a sentence. Why is it so hard to find a cure for cancer? Do numbers ever end? Why do people lie? Why did we invade Vietnam? Grappling with meaty questions like these (which were among those generated by a class in Plainview, NY) is a real project . . . literally. A question-based approach to teaching tends to shade into learning that is problem- (Delisle, 1997) and project-based (Kilpatrick, 1918; Blumenfeld et al., 1991; Wolk, 1998). Intellectual proficiency is strengthened as students figure out how to do justice to a rich question. As they investigate and come to understand important ideas more fully, new questions arise along with better ways of asking them, and the learning spirals upwards. Guiding students through this process is not a technique that can be stapled onto our existing pedagogy, nor is it something that teachers can be trained to master during an in-service day. What's required is a continual focus on creating a classroom that is about thinking rather

"CoRubrics, an add-on for Google Sheets helps teachers in the assessment process. It is used to assess students (or groups of students) with a rubric designed by the teacher and also allows students to assess other students (coevaluation). CoRubrics automates the entire process. First, teachers design the rubric they want to use in Google Sheets, then they add the students' names and their email address. (These can be imported from Google Classroom). Once this is done, the add-on will: Create a Google Form with the contents of the rubric. Send the form to the students by email or simply provide the link to the teacher. Process the data once the form is filled out (by the students or by the teacher). Finally, send the results to the students (each student receives only their results) with a personalized comment. In addition, CoRubrics allows: Insert comments when answered. Allow Co-evaluation, self-assessment and teacher assessment with one link."

"It has me thinking about what it would mean to improve online classes. A few ideas come to mind: Use multiple platforms. I'm not against using an LMS as a central hub. However, I think it's valuable to experiment with the types of productivity tools you will actually use outside of a classroom. Use Google Docs to share ideas, create surveys, and ask questions. Use Google Hangouts to meet as a group. Go project-based. I haven't figured this out entirely with my first class but my hope is that we can go fully project-based in the same way that my face-to-face class is. In fact, the asynchronous nature of online classes actually means there is a better potential of creating a project-based culture that mirrors the way people actually work on projects. Make something together. I use a collaboration grid with co-creating and communicating on separate spectrums (x-axis) and multimedia and text on another spectrum (y-axis). This has been an effective way to think through collaborative tools that allow students to co-create. Embrace a synchronous/asynchronous blend: I love using Voxer because students can speak back and forth in the moment. However, if they miss it, they can listen to it later. The same is true of using a Google Hangouts On Air. Make it more connective. We tend to treat online instruction as if it is a linear process and we don't do enough to link things back and forth and connect ideas, resources, discussions and content creation in a seamless, back-and-forth nature. Incorporate multimedia. It's a simple idea, but I create a short video at the beginning of each week and I encourage students to create video and audio as well. This has a way of making things more concrete. There's something deeply human about hearing an actual human voice. I know, crazy, right? Go mobile. I don't simply mean use a smart phone. I mean assign some things that allow students to get out in the world and create videos, snap pictures, or simpl

Interesante entrevista a Roberto H. Iglesias, criticando lo bueno y lo malo de Zamba y Paka Paka. Puntos de vista siempre buenos a no dejar de lado.

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Amplia y varia oferta educativa de herramientas que nos puede ayudar en nuestra práctica docente diaria ... #REDucación

Muy buena aportación, algunas de ellas las conozco y las usos, el resto me parecen interesante para probar. Gracias

"La asertividad consiste en encontrar el equilibrio entre la agresividad y la pasividad. La asertividad es una de las claves para alcanzar la felicidad, porque una persona asertiva evita la agresividad verbal o física a la hora de defender una idea y el sometimiento a la opinión de los demás por defecto. La persona asertiva presenta una mayor capacidad para ser feliz porque defiende sus ideas de tal manera que siempre sale reforzada en su autoestima. La asertividad es un rasgo que denota madurez, firmeza y convicción. Pero, ¿cómo se adquiere la asertividad? ¿Cómo puedes fomentar la asertividad entre tus alumnos para que mejoren su autoestima y su autoconcepto? Pues bien, en el artículo de hoy te daré 10 consejos muy sencillos para fomentar la asertividad entre tus alumnos. ¿Me acompañas? Asertividad Imagen extraída de Shutterstock 10 Consejos para trabajar la asertividad entre tus alumnos. 1. NO. Hay que aprender a decir que no. Hay que enseñar a los alumnos la importancia de poder decir no en determinados contextos o cuando crean que realmente deben negarse ante una acción u opinión, por ejemplo. Saber decir no es algo vital en la vida de cualquier persona y, por supuesto, en la vida de tus alumnos, porque tiene una gran función reparadora y hace aumentar su seguridad. 2. YO. La persona con asertividad, al tener mucha confianza en sí misma, es capaz de expresarse en todo momento con la primera persona del singular. Fíjate en la diferencia de estos dos mensajes con un mismo contenido pero dichos de manera muy diferente: Este trabajo es muy pesado. Estoy muy cansado. Necesito descansar un instante (frase asertiva en 1ª persona) 3. BREVEDAD. Cuando me refiero a frases breves, quiero que entiendas la importancia de ser conciso a la hora de manifestar una opinión o postura. Las persona asertiva suele ser directa y muy breve, porque no tiene la necesidad de dar grandes rodeos para decir lo que piensa o lo que quiere. La persona asertiva

"Diez reglas que debes seguir al dar feedback a tus alumnos SI No Sé muy claro acerca de lo que quieres que logren tus alumnos, lo que deben saber y saber hacer No interrumpas a un alumno cuando está tratando de resolver algo por sí mismo Centra tu feedback sobre lo que el alumno supo, hizo o logró No centres tu feedback en el propio alumno Coméntale solo unas pocas cosas No lo abrumes con demasiadas cosas de una sola vez Compara el trabajo del alumno con un estándar establecido que le muestre su progreso (o la falta de él) No compares a los alumnos con sus compañeros Dile al alumno hasta dónde llegó y dale pistas sobre cómo puede mejorar No le digas lo que estuvo mal en su rendimiento sin decirle cómo mejorarlo Comunícale tu convencimiento en que lo puede hacer mejor No le digas que un rendimiento pobre o mediocre es todo lo que esperabas Ofrece el feedback cuando el alumno todavía tienen tiempo para mejorar No ofrezcas feedback solo después de evaluaciones formales Cambia el modo en el que des el feedback para adaptarte al nivel de experiencia del alumno No limites el feedback a las notas y comentarios sumativos como: bueno, excelente, decepcionante Aprende de las reacciones de los alumnos a tu feedback No conviertas las reacciones de tus alumnos a tu feedback en "es su problema" Discute tu feedback con el alumno No des feedback sin permitir que tus alumnos puedan pedir aclaraciones"