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Chris Long

Philosophical Reflections on Blogging in the Classroom (Cody Yashinsky) - 0 views

  • Before you knew it, I was addicted to the blog, checking it multiple times a day and posting more and more, either with comments or my own posts. This blogging element works: it turned a cynic like me into a true believer, and I even started to enjoy reading platonic texts. And the reason for this road to Damascus conversion was that the blog is a 21st century equivalent of what Socrates was doing over two thousand years ago: organic dialectic. The very nature of the course encourages this online, expanding the class outside of the one hour and fifteen minutes classes twice a week. It's impossible to have this sort of conversation without the blog.
  • This format can be quite disconcerting for students at first - in fact it probably alienated a minority of the class - but the overwhelming majority of students found it engaging, and those intimidated at first eventually came to embrace it. It takes students out of their comfort zone, a necessity to truly participate in the dialectic. My own views were challenged and I even changed my mind, most notably my dislike for philosophy classes. And this was achieved through a blogging cooperative community, one that went beyond online and into real life.
Chris Long

Transforming Education - (Carol McQuiggan) - 1 views

  • One faculty member learned more about her students' thinking and learning through online discussion forums, and stopped pre-planning for every minute of classtime - giving more control to her students. Another faculty member used to think that students had to be in class to learn, but learned that they were able to learn just as well online. Another walked away from the PPT slides and used more student participation.
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    Teachers as learners.
Chris Long

Hacking Pedagogy Blog (Cole Camplese & Christopher Long) - 0 views

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    The Official Blog of the Hacking Pedagogy Project.
Chris Long

Engaged Learning with Technology (Christopher P. Long) - 0 views

  • The model is based on two insights:Learning is social and so it is most effectively pursued in communities of education in which teachers and students are actively engaged together.Social media technologies are transforming education because they are able to open dynamic communities of learning between teachers and students.The power of new social media technologies for education lies not in the information they deliver, but the communities they can create.
Chris Long

Education as a two-way street (Pam Dorian) - 2 views

  • He never presented himself as a guy who has all the answers (though I suspect he has a better grasp on them than we do). Instead, he encouraged us to work TOGETHER -- teacher and student -- to discover the truth. In fact, he took it a step further and actually let us AUTHOR our own textbook -- that is, he trusted us enough to let us control the blog. As a student, this sort of trust motivates you to live up to expectations. It's actually a lot of pressure ("he expects us to partially direct the class ourselves? Well jeez we better make this interesting...")
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    Teacher as learner.
Cole Camplese

Wrestling the Books (Jordan Sanford) - 0 views

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    "But the professor isn't some noble, sitting up in the stands and looking on impassively, they are just as stuck in our struggle as we are. While beneficial to the professor (as has already been explained in recent comments), this is similarly beneficial to the students. By seeing the professor struggle with the material, attempting to come to grips with it by the student's guiding, the students learn ways to approach unforeseen problems. Instead of copying the motions of the master and getting by on technical knowledge of very specific occurrences, they learn where those techniques came from, and can carry that ability with them when a new instance is faced. "
Chris Long

Participation and Collaboration « requiem for certainty - 0 views

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    This is an interesting discussion in which I defend the vocabulary of "cooperative" education more fully.
Cole Camplese

Peer Review Process - English 202C: Technical Writing - 0 views

  • Below is the process we will follow for peer review in this class. This post will take you through the following steps: 1.) Emailing your draft to your peer reviewer 2.) Opening your peer's draft in iAnnotate and adding your comments 3.) Emailing your comments to your peer, and 4.) Turning in your commented draft.
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