Over the last year, high school learners (in the K-12 MOOCs I've designed) have identified that credit, content, and marks are not the only ways to learn. Instead, a networked, collaborative community that emphasizes learner choice and digital identity is essential to high school student engagement. The experiences of participants demonstrates that the pedagogy and the learning architecture is key in promoting open learning.
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Friending cats and following eggs: On social networks you ARE your photo - 3 views
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The photo you choose to represent you says a great deal about who you are as an individual.
Connected Learning Principles | Connected Learning - 4 views
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Fortunately, we are also able to harness the same technologies and social processes that have powered these transformations in order to provide the next generation with learning experiences that open doors to academic achievement, economic opportunity, and civic engagement.
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we now have the capability to reimagine where, when, and how learning takes place
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Connected learning is not, however, distinguished by a particular technology or platform, but is inspired by an initial set of three educational values, three learning principles, and three design principles.
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Lesson | Who Are You Online? Considering Issues of Web Identity - NYTimes.com - 8 views
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"NY Times writers collaborated with the Common Sense Media writer Kelly Schryver to focus on the increasingly important and nuanced question "Who Are You Online?" Times and Learning Network content as well as offerings from Common Sense Media's K-12 Digital Literacy and Citizenship curriculum for teaching and learning about this complex issue." Lots of avenues to take this material in working with students.
Monitoring your kids on Facebook? That's so 2009. - 3 views
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much cooler after-party.
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What sex education used to be — it's now the 'technology talk'
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But as with anything online, each of these apps comes with serious caveats.
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How Twitter Changed Everything | The Learning Principal - 4 views
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Good piece on the importance of Twitter on ProD for admin
Was It Rational to Watch the Oscars? from The New Yorker - 0 views
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"Rational ritual" and shared knowledge in the age of online social networks. Public ritual is about transmission of meaning and the co-creation of a common knowledge. Does common knowledge = literacy?
Reading the dictionary - Joi Ito's Web - 2 views
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"Shouldn't we be looking at the Internet as an amazing network enabling "The Power of Pull" and be empowering kids to learn through building things together rather than assessing their ability to complete courses and produce the right "answers"?
Bang With Friends: The Beginning Of A Sexual Revolution On Facebook? | Co.Design: business + innovation + design - 2 views
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App could raise interesting questions for middle and high school students.
#etmooc (Written June 2012): Why Networks Matter | Penny Bentley - 3 views
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Great rationale for why networks matter. Peggy Bentlley does a marvelous job of using Tweets to support the points she makes in her blog post. Must read!
Learning in the Open: Networked Student Identities | theory.cribchronicles.com - 2 views
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Presentation notes from @bonstewart
COOL FISh… - 1 views
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We are experimenting with an alternative learning design to engage learners who are perhaps not networked learners yet. We would like to utilise their curiosity to learn through creating opportunities for contextualised collaborative enquiries.
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So well said ! "We are experimenting with an alternative learning design to engage learners who are perhaps not networked learners yet. We would like to utilise their curiosity to learn through creating opportunities for contextualised collaborative enquiries. "
Connected Learning, Thanks to My Neighbors | Dare to Care - 0 views
http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/erm0350.pdf - 0 views
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Pretty old (2003) but interesting nontheless
