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Can Hackers Be Heroes? | Off Book | PBS - YouTube - 0 views

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  • Blair Peterson on 29 Mar 13
     
    The true definition of Hackers. Good video explaining the evolution of hacking. 
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  • But we realized within the first day how much more important it was to just get them working on their individual projects. It’s ironic because as a teacher, we end up teaching the same thing separately to all the mini-groups, and we want to teach it at once; we naturally desire the simplicity of that. However, when a team gets stuck on something and can’t proceed because they are lacking a piece of knowledge, that is when the iron is hot to strike. It seems that that is really the most effective way to teach (even if as a teacher it takes five times as much work!), because, as usual, emotional motivation trumps rationality.
  • Blair Peterson on 01 Mar 11
     
    This is a blog post from a teacher at Nu Vu studios in NYC. The teacher was teaching Do it Yourself Hacking. Interesting reflection on motivation and how the traditional full class instruction strategy isn't always the best.
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Siphoning the Fumes of Teen Culture: How to Co-opt Students' Favorite Social Media Tool... - 0 views

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  • By forbidding the use of social media sites in 52% of our nation’s classrooms, schools are suppressing a learning revolution that is characterized by several truths: 1) facility with social media tools is critical to learning and working in the 21st century; 2) 75% of online adolescents are already social networking outside of school; 3) many students hack through Internet filters during class; and 4) exploration of social media sites is part of the adolescent identity.
  • Workshop reports that, on average, kids can actually stuff eight hours of media exposure into five hours of non-school time by media multitasking—phone texting while participating in seven separate Facebook chats and posting to Tumblr.
  • Dr. Howard Rheingold, on his final exam, asked his Stanford students to demonstrate their understanding of the literacies that accompany new media by creating, rather than writing, an essay. B
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  • Twitter and Youtube empower anyone with access to a computer, phone, or library to publish media. Television celebrates authority. Twitter dismantles authority, as witnessed by its use in Tunisia. Television celebrates the expert. Twitter fosters dialogue among amateurs.
  • "It’s slow and clunky. The design is bad. To talk to your friend, you can’t just go to their page and shoot them a message. The search box is worthless; I couldn’t find my friend, Tim, even when I know he’s in there. Every time you want to post to a particular class—every time—you have to select that class,
  • When social media supplements and transforms curriculum, students should experience this like play.
  • Don’t require students to write "correctly" in discussion forums. These spaces should encourage teens to advance tentative theories and experiment with different perspectives. You
  • Great online discussions thrive when students and instructors trust the community.
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