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Immune to Reform by Marcus A. Winters - City Journal - 5 views

  • It is a factor outside of education that Moe believes is the real game-changer: the rapid expansion of information technology. Moe believes, as he and John Chubb argued recently in their 2009 book, Liberating Learning, that technology has the power to weaken the unions by fundamentally changing the way that schools operate. Schools are heavily dependent on human capital—that is, teachers. Technology is beginning to enter classrooms and perform some, though not all, of the tasks for which teachers have always been required. Interactive software can not only supplement, but eventually replace, a portion of teacher-based instruction. Over time, technology could make it so that schools require fewer teachers and thus fewer union members. Moe makes a bold prediction that someday soon, this is going to happen.
    • Thomas Ho
       
      Another reformer who believes in information technology as a means to education reform!
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TESL-EJ June 2007 -- Pedagogical affordances of syndication, aggregation, and mash-up o... - 4 views

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    look at date of this post!
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Meaningful, Engaged Learning - 0 views

  • They are also energized by their learning; their joy of learning leads to a lifelong passion for solving problems, understanding, and taking the next step in their thinking
    • Thomas Ho
       
      I'm like this, BUT my students often are NOT!
  • Collaboration around authentic tasks often takes place with peers and mentors within school as well as with family members and others in the real world outside of school.
    • Thomas Ho
       
      This sounds tailor-made for social networking, doesn't it?
  • artifacts to assess what they actually know and can do.
    • Thomas Ho
       
      a learning STREAM is an artifact created as a "natural" byproduct of the learning process as documented by social media
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  • Instruction encourages the learner to construct and produce knowledge in meaningful ways.
  • Truly collaborative classrooms, schools, and communities encourage students to
  • lead conversations
  • work-related conversations
  • Flexible grouping, which allows teachers to reconfigure small groups according to the purposes of instruction
  • facilitator, guide, and learner
  • they become producers of knowledge, capable of making significant contributions to the world's knowledge
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Hand Book : Educating the Net Generation : The University of Melbourne - 0 views

  • The publication Educating the Net Generation: A Handbook of Findings for Practice and Policy is now available to download. The Handbook is the main outcome of the Educating the Net Generation project. It provides a set of practice and policy guidelines developed from the project findings.
    • Thomas Ho
       
      this could be very useful, but one has to make time to work their way through so much of it!
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Overview : Educating the Net Generation : The University of Melbourne - 0 views

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    this one applies to post-secondary students
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The New Media Skills | Learn at All Levels | Fast Company - 0 views

  • online we're creating a permanent public record of ourselves
    • Thomas Ho
       
      This is SO TRUE!
  • Collective intelligence
    • Thomas Ho
       
      This is where Web 2.0 "shines"
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Beyond Social Networking: Building Toward Learning Communities -- THE Journal - 0 views

  • Collective intelligence
    • Thomas Ho
       
      This is where I am concentrating my current efforts.
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Beyond Social Networking: Building Toward Learning Communities -- THE Journal - 0 views

  • Continue to engage students: Stay aware of all your students--how each one learns and how each one needs your coaching
    • Thomas Ho
       
      this is really HARD WORK!
  • the challenge was with the students becoming "learning community participants
    • Thomas Ho
       
      This is also my greatest "frustration" with my college students.
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Beyond Social Networking: Building Toward Learning Communities -- THE Journal - 0 views

  • intentionally and is where the instructor is very much a necessary support to the process
    • Thomas Ho
       
      this observation is borne out by my experience documented in http://blog.cit499.info
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    I am currently writing a paper about my experiences with http://cit499.info & I will be using this paper as a reference

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