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Deanya Lattimore

Enhancing the agency of the listener: introducing reception theory in a lecture - Journ... - 0 views

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shared by Deanya Lattimore on 15 May 09 - Cached
  • Deanya Lattimore on 15 May 09
     
    Enhancing the agency of the listener: introducing reception theory in a lecture Author: Karen Elaine Smyth a Affiliation: a School of Literature and Creative Writing, University of East Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk, UK DOI: 10.1080/03098770902856660 Publication Frequency: 4 issues per year Published in: journal Journal of Further and Higher Education, Volume 33, Issue 2 May 2009 , pages 131 - 140 Subject: Higher Education; Abstract This article explores a teaching approach that aims to engage learners more fully in the deep learning process that is characterised by the development of critical thinking skills. The concept of critical thinking skills is reconsidered in the context of the need to shift focus away from teaching teachers about learning to teaching students about learning. A cross-disciplinary approach is used, with the educational theory of interactional learning being placed alongside the literary theory of reception study. The result of placing these hitherto unconnected theories side by side is to open up a debate concerning the rhetoric we use when discussing the value of learning, by introducing a new discourse concerning 'dialogue strategies'. This case study of the potentials in using dialogue strategies during a lecture illustrates how students' conceptual sophistication in cognitive thinking is achieved by asking them to scrutinise their own involvement in the learning experience. Keywords: lecturing; cognitive; interactional; reception theory; active; learning
  • Deanya Lattimore on 15 May 09
     
    Article could be used to more substantially position projected Twitter or live blogging in a classroom environment. Enhancing the agency of the listener: introducing reception theory in a lecture Author: Karen Elaine Smyth a Affiliation: a School of Literature and Creative Writing, University of East Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk, UK DOI: 10.1080/03098770902856660 Publication Frequency: 4 issues per year Published in: journal Journal of Further and Higher Education, Volume 33, Issue 2 May 2009 , pages 131 - 140 Subject: Higher Education; Abstract This article explores a teaching approach that aims to engage learners more fully in the deep learning process that is characterised by the development of critical thinking skills. The concept of critical thinking skills is reconsidered in the context of the need to shift focus away from teaching teachers about learning to teaching students about learning. A cross-disciplinary approach is used, with the educational theory of interactional learning being placed alongside the literary theory of reception study. The result of placing these hitherto unconnected theories side by side is to open up a debate concerning the rhetoric we use when discussing the value of learning, by introducing a new discourse concerning 'dialogue strategies'. This case study of the potentials in using dialogue strategies during a lecture illustrates how students' conceptual sophistication in cognitive thinking is achieved by asking them to scrutinise their own involvement in the learning experience. Keywords: lecturing; cognitive; interactional; reception theory; active; learning
Deanya Lattimore

Children, Youth, and Environments 19(1) 2009 - 0 views

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  • Deanya Lattimore on 22 Jun 09
     
    Children, Youth and Environments Vol. 19, No.1 (2009) > The Fast-Paced Change of Children's Technological Environments > Nathan G. Freier and Peter H. Kahn, Jr. > > Environments Expanded: Interactive Humanoid Robots and Androids in Children's Lives > Takayuki Kanda, Shuichi Nishio, Hiroshi Ishiguro and Norihiro Hagita > > Cultural Environments: From New Zealand to Mongolia: Co-Designing and Deploying a Digital Library for the World's Children > Allison Druin, Benjamin B. Bederson, Anne Rose and Ann Weeks > ________________________________________ >Teaching with Hidden Capital: Agency in Children's Computational Explorations of Cornrow Hairstyles > Ron Eglash and Audrey Bennett > > Natural Environments: An Ethnographic Comparison of Real and Virtual Reality Field Trips to Trillium Trail: The Salamander Find as a Salient Event > Maria C.R. Harrington > > Youth Day in Los Angeles: Evaluating the Role of Technology in Children's Nature Activities > Deborah J. Chavez > > Underwater Explorers: Using Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs) to Engage Youth with Underwater Environments > Laurlyn K. Harmon and Mark Gleason > > The Developing Child: Accounting for the Child in the Design of Technological Environments: A Review of Constructivist Theory > Nathan G. Freier > > Do Stereotypic Images in Video Games Affect Attitudes and Behavior? Adolescent Perspectives > Alexandra Henning, Alaina Brenick, Melanie Killen, Alexander O'Connor and Michael J. Collins > > Cookie Monsters: Seeing Young People's Hacking as Creative Practice > Gregory T. Donovan and Cindi Katz > > The Sirens' Song of Multiplayer Online Games > Nicholas A. Holt and Douglas A. Kleiber > > Learning in Technological Environments: Neomillennial Learning Styles and River City > Edward Dieterle > > Cultural Historical Activity Theory as a Tool for Informing and Evaluating Technology in Education > Kim Rybacki > > Video Games as Learning Environments for Students with Learning Disabilities > Elizabeth S. Simpson > > Lea
Daisy PhD

LA Learning Success Examiner: Facebook does not cause lower GPAs - 0 views

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shared by Daisy PhD on 19 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Don’t folks love these studies that make them hang on to their seats! It’s a research murder mystery turned cliff hanger! The reality is no one knows who “dunnit”! People can guess all they want. Parents can play it safe and deactivate accounts without any real basis, but it might make them feel better. The truth is we won’t know unless further study is completed some day in the future after more data is collected and described. Then and only then can some patterns be looked at and then perhaps a study looking at causation could be undertaken. And that will be a long time from now.So what are parents to do? If parents have been vigilant about how much time children spend on technology whether computer, television, video games, or the internet, keep up the good work. If parents have not been monitoring time spent with technology, then maybe some consideration is needed. But parents should do so not because they are fearful of lower grades. Instead, parents should monitor social networking because, done in excess, it keeps teens from doing other activities that are probably better for them in the long run in achieving a balanced life and true learning success. 
  • Daisy PhD on 19 Apr 09
     
    great counterargument to the Ohio State report that got everyone talking last week
Rebecca Davis

"Living and Learning with Social Media" - 0 views

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shared by Rebecca Davis on 05 May 09 - Cached
  • Today's teens are still more interested in their friends than their lessons. They're still resistant to power and authority at variable levels. They still gossip, bully, flirt, joke around, and hang out. The underlying dynamics are fairly consistent. That said, technology is inflecting these practices in unique ways. And my goal here today is to talk about these inflection points.
  • They use these sites to connect to people that they already know from school, church, activities, summer camp, etc.
  • One of the most problematic mistakes adults make when trying to make sense of social network sites is to presume that kids interact on these sites just like they do
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  • Teens are using this space as a social hangout with their pre-existing network.
  • Profiles
  • Think of the profile as a digital body
  • This is about showing off to known individuals
  • self-expression for friends
  • Friends
  • it's socially rude not to
  • Friends is as intended audience
  • Comments
  • process of social grooming
  • Teens know how to have deeper conversations - this just isn't where those necessarily happen.
  • New Feed
  • according to Pew, the median age of the Twitterverse is 31
  • social pressure to be where your friends are
  • How are these environments similar or different to other public spaces?
  • Persistence
  • What you say sticks around
  • Replicability
  • crux of rumor-spreading
  • bullying
  • Searchability
  • when trying to avoid those who hold power over you, it may be less than ideal
  • Scalability
  • spiral out of control
  • (de)locatability
  • simultaneously more and less connected to physical space
  • implications have to do with the ways in which they alter social dynamics
  • Invisible Audiences
  • lurkers
  • we are having to present ourselves and communicate without fully understanding the potential or actual audience
  • Collapsed Contexts
  • Social media brings all of these contexts crashing into one another and it's often difficult to figure out what's appropriate, let alone what can be understood.
  • Blurring of Public and Private.
  • youth see privacy in terms of control - control of space, control of information, control of trust
  • reproduction of socio-economic status and class divisions in digital worlds.
  • Teens who use MySpace can't communicate with those on Facebook and vice-versa. So if you don't participate, you're written out of the story. This means that divisions are re-inforced. Forget all of the rhetoric about how the Internet is the great equalizer - it's the great reproducer of inequality.
  • For all of the attention paid to "digital natives" it's important to realize that most teens are engaging with social media without any deep understanding of the underlying dynamics or structure. Just because they understand how to use the technology doesn't mean that they understand the information ecology that surrounds it. Most teens don't have the scaffolding for thinking about their information practices.
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