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Jose Antonio da Silva

SocialLearn - 0 views

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ple secondlife sl

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  • Jose Antonio da Silva on 17 Jul 08
     
    Social learn is an application aiming to move beyond web-feed based interoperability. They will use SL-aware apps communicating via API..
Carla Arena

Is Google Making Us Stupid? - 0 views

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shared by Carla Arena on 10 Jul 08 - Cached
  • hyperlinks don’t merely point to related works; they propel you toward them.)
  • They supply the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought. And what the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation. My mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles. Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.
  • “power browse” horizontally through titles, contents pages and abstracts going for quick wins
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  • We are not only what we read
  • We are how we read
  • Wolf worries that the style of reading promoted by the Net, a style that puts “efficiency” and “immediacy” above all else, may be weakening our capacity for the kind of deep reading that emerged when an earlier technology, the printing press, made long and complex works of prose commonplace
  • Our ability to interpret text, to make the rich mental connections that form when we read deeply and without distraction, remains largely disengaged.
    • Carla Arena
      Carla Arena on 10 Jul 08
       
      So, how can we still use "power browsing" and teach our students to interpret, analyze, think.
  • The human brain is almost infinitely malleable. People used to think that our mental meshwork, the dense connections formed among the 100 billion or so neurons inside our skulls, was largely fixed by the time we reached adulthood. But brain researchers have discovered that that’s not the case
    • Carla Arena
      Carla Arena on 10 Jul 08
       
      That's what a student of mine, who is a neurologist, calls neuroplasticity.
  • Still, their easy assumption that we’d all “be better off” if our brains were supplemented, or even replaced, by an artificial intelligence is unsettling. It suggests a belief that intelligence is the output of a mechanical process, a series of discrete steps that can be isolated, measured, and optimized. In Google’s world, the world we enter when we go online, there’s little place for the fuzziness of contemplation. Ambiguity is not an opening for insight but a bug to be fixed. The human brain is just an outdated computer that needs a faster processor and a bigger hard drive.
    • Carla Arena
      Carla Arena on 10 Jul 08
       
      Scary...
  • It’s in their economic interest to drive us to distraction.
    • Carla Arena
      Carla Arena on 10 Jul 08
       
      more hyperlinking, more possibilites for ads, more commercial value to others...
  • The kind of deep reading that a sequence of printed pages promotes is valuable not just for the knowledge we acquire from the author’s words but for the intellectual vibrations those words set off within our own minds. In the quiet spaces opened up by the sustained, undistracted reading of a book, or by any other act of contemplation, for that matter, we make our own associations, draw our own inferences and analogies, foster our own ideas. Deep reading, as Maryanne Wolf argues, is indistinguishable from deep thinking.
    • Carla Arena
      Carla Arena on 10 Jul 08
       
      we really need those quiet spaces, the white spaces on a page to breathe and see what's really out there.
    • Carla Arena
      Carla Arena on 10 Jul 08
       
      we really need those quiet spaces, the white spaces on a page to breathe and see what's really out there.
    • Carla Arena
      Carla Arena on 10 Jul 08
       
      we really need those quiet spaces, the white spaces on a page to breathe and see what's really out there.
  • If we lose those quiet spaces, or fill them up with “content,” we will sacrifice something important not only in our selves but in our culture.
  • I come from a tradition of Western culture, in which the ideal (my ideal) was the complex, dense and “cathedral-like” structure of the highly educated and articulate personality—a man or woman who carried inside themselves a personally constructed and unique version of the entire heritage of the West. [But now] I see within us all (myself included) the replacement of complex inner density with a new kind of self—evolving under the pressure of information overload and the technology of the “instantly available.”
  • As we are drained of our “inner repertory of dense cultural inheritance,” Foreman concluded, we risk turning into “‘pancake people’—spread wide and thin as we connect with that vast network of information accessed by the mere touch of a button.”
  • Carla Arena on 10 Jul 08
     
    I bought the Atlantic just because of this article and just loved it. It has an interesting analysis of what is happening to our reading, questions what might be happening to our brains, and it inquires on the future of our relationship with technology. Are we just going to become "pancake people"? Would love to hear what you think.
Carla Arena

Top 100 Tools for Learning: Analysis - 0 views

c4lpt.co.uk/...analysis.html

learningwithcomputers professionaldevelopment

shared by Carla Arena on 07 Jul 08 - Cached
  • For workplace learning For formal education PowerPoint Audacity Articulate Moodle Snagit Captivate Slideshare Word Flash Camtasia YouTube flickr PowerPoint Wikispaces Slideshare Voicethread Audacity Moodle Ning Jing.
    • Holly Dilatush
      Holly Dilatush on 07 Jul 08
       
      (bummer! I had typed a fairly long note on this, and then clicked to a different tab and lost it? apologies if this is a duplicate) Try again: Interesting list -- which do you use? PowerPoint, Audacity, Moodle and SlideShare made both lists. Does this spur your thinking/reflecting about attitudinal differences commonly recurring between workplace and higher ed/adult ed? In light of the likely funnelling of (USA) adult ed funding from K-12 and toward workforce (Workforce Investment Act), is there something to be learned here? More research would be interesting. Why would certain delivery solutions be preferred/selected by one group over another? thoughts? comments? reactions?
    • Carla Arena
      Carla Arena on 09 Jul 08
       
      Holly, Very interesting questions for reflection. I don't know why one was chosen over the other in different spheres, but my guess is that in the workplace, it seems to have more of paid softwares like captivate, camtasia, etc, whereas in the formal educaton environment, some read/write web tools with free versions. Also, at the workplace the tools seem to be more of delivery of content, while in formal education, they're more related to social software with possibilities of social construction of knowledge. What do you think?
  • Paul Beaufait on 09 Jul 08
     
    I think Carla might be on to something where she surmises workplace content delivery (or training), in contrast to education, as well as the attractiveness of free and open source tools to educators. The Top 100 Tools...: Analysis page cross-links to a CLPT programme on free tools (http://c4lpt.co.uk/25Tools/Tools/about.html), which in turn links to a Ning group, whose intro. pairs education with training instead of learning. Perhaps learning is too broad a term for the Top 100 Tools proposed for workplaces. It is also interesting to note that the top ten for neither workplaces nor formal educational settings include web browsers. It is hard to imagine using either Moodle or Slideshare without a browser, isn't it?
Joao Alves

How do you envision using the Webslides f... | Diigo - 0 views

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webslides

shared by Joao Alves on 07 Jul 08 - Cached
  • let´s imagine I wanted to my students to explore some listening sites, like I have done before, the webslides would have been much more interesting than the list of links I provided them.
    • Joao Alves
      Joao Alves on 07 Jul 08
       
      Webslides are a cool feature of Diigo. Thinking if there is another handy use we could use with the students.
  • http://michelemartin.typepad.com/thebambooprojectblog//2008/06/using-delicious.html
    • Joao Alves
      Joao Alves on 07 Jul 08
       
      This link is not working. Maybe it's a momentary problem.
    • Joao Alves
      Joao Alves on 07 Jul 08
       
      It was a momentary problem. Now I can open the page.
  • As we had started testing Diigo, I decided to start my portfolio here just by deciding on a unique tag, digifolio_carlaarena. Then, I created a list called "digifolio" and started adding the pages that represented my work, projects, thoughts, ideas, collections.
    • Joao Alves
      Joao Alves on 07 Jul 08
       
      What a brilliant idea. Since Portuguese teaching are going to be subjected to a very detailed evaluation process that includes a personal portfolio, this might be a good idea.
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  • http://slides.diigo.com/list/carlaarena/digifolio
    • Joao Alves
      Joao Alves on 07 Jul 08
       
      Looks great. What a an astonishing learning path. Congratulations!
Paul Beaufait

LearningTimes Network - "LearningTimes.org" - 0 views

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education learningtimes mentoring online resources

shared by Paul Beaufait on 02 Jul 08 - Cached
  • Paul Beaufait on 02 Jul 08
     
    a Learning Times Network inquiry: Looking for eMentoring resources; Posted: Jun 2, 2008 10:30 PM
  • Paul Beaufait on 02 Jul 08
     
    I bookmarked this Learning Times discussion as an initial find for a list that I'd just created in another browser Firefox browser window. However, the Add to a List interface didn't appear when I returned to the orignal window, and actually did the bookmarking. I'm wondering whether the bookmarking pop-up window will look any different when I go to the rest of tabs open to related sites, and ready for adding to the missing list.
Paul Beaufait

Connectivism & Connective Knowledge - 0 views

ltc.umanitoba.ca/connectivism

connectivism continuing education education instructional design online

shared by Paul Beaufait on 29 Jun 08 - Cached
  • Paul Beaufait on 29 Jun 08
     
    Thanks to Joao for pointing out Readings page for this course (LwC Group @ Diigo.com, 2008-06-28 06:03:47).
  • Paul Beaufait on 29 Jun 08
     
    home page for an open course beginning September 2008
Jose Antonio da Silva

Connectivism & Connective Knowledge » More is different… - 0 views

ltc.umanitoba.ca/connectivism

connectivism e-learning education georgesiemens

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  • Jose Antonio da Silva on 26 Jun 08
     
    More is different. Online classrooms, large open courses, ease of access, and abundance of information all suggest that something is different when scale and complexity change. A course with 250 learners is not simply a course with 10 x's the learners of one with 25. It is something entirely different.
Illya Arnet

Lunch over IP: ESE (Evil Search Engine) movies: a scenario - 0 views

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internet reading story

shared by Illya Arnet on 21 Jun 08 - Cached
  • Illya Arnet on 21 Jun 08
     
    The second story was published in a Swiss magazine. I find it more interesting than the first as it opens up to all sorts of questions about what happens with all the data we put on the net. It makes one think, though I wouldn't stop just because of the negative possibilites. I have nothing to hide and the profit I (we) gain is greater in my opinion
Learning with Computers group

Real English - 0 views

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conversation lessons listening podcasts speaking videos

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  • Learning with Computers group on 10 Jun 08
     
    Free English lessons to help you learn English vocabulary, idioms, slang, grammar, and more! To have fun learning conversational English at Better @ English
Learning with Computers group

Podcast Library - 0 views

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exercises listening podcasts topics

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  • Learning with Computers group on 10 Jun 08
     
    Open Culture offers podcasts in many different languages and at different levels. Not just languages,it's got all kind of podcasts from art to science. You can try it in a crosscurricular activity
Learning with Computers group

Aspell - 0 views

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spelling

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  • Learning with Computers group on 10 Jun 08
     
    a Free and Open Source spell checker designed to eventually replace Ispell
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