The data suggest that 80% of professors, with little variance by age, have at least one account with either Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Skype, LinkedIn, MySpace, Flickr, Slideshare or Google Wave. Nearly 60% kept accounts with more than one, and a quarter used at least four. A majority, 52%, said they used at least one of them as a teaching tool.
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History.com - History Made Every Day - American & World History.URL - 3 views
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The history channel online, Darkbird18 have gotten very good infromation on ancient aliens and Illuminati secert societies.
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The history channel online, Darkbird18 have gotten very good infromation on ancient aliens and Illuminati secert societies.
University World News - US: Professors and social media - 7 views
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This brief blog post on social media usage among educators links out to the more detailed report. Highlight: 80% of professors have at least one account on a social networking platform.
A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change by DOUGLAS THOMAS and JOHN SEELY BROWN - 13 views
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From a tweet by Will Richardson
Clive Thompson on the New Literacy - 0 views
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The fact that students today almost always write for an audience (something virtually no one in my generation did) gives them a different sense of what constitutes good writing. In interviews, they defined good prose as something that had an effect on the world. For them, writing is about persuading and organizing and debating, even if it's over something as quotidian as what movie to go see. The Stanford students were almost always less enthusiastic about their in-class writing because it had no audience but the professor: It didn't serve any purpose other than to get them a grade.
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The brevity of texting and status updating teaches young people to deploy haiku-like concision.
Sophia Founder to Showcase Free Online Social Teaching and Learning Platform at Education... -- MINNEAPOLIS, March 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- - 0 views
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"Sophia connects people who want to learn with those willing to teach so that anyone, anywhere can create academically credible content and share it with the world."
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social teaching and learning application that makes free, credible academic content available to anyone at anytime. It is a mission-driven organization that aims to break traditional cost and access barriers to post-secondary degree attainment. For more information, go to www.sophia.org.
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This press release tells more about Sophia. "Sophia is a social teaching and learning application that makes free, credible academic content available to anyone at anytime. It is a mission-driven organization that aims to break traditional cost and access barriers to post-secondary degree attainment. For more information, go to www.sophia.org."
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