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Randy Ziegenfuss

Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0 (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUC... - 0 views

  • virtually any place on earth can be connected to markets anywhere else on earth and can become globally competitive.
  • continuous learning and for the ongoing creation of new ideas and skills.
  • f access to higher education is a necessary element in expanding economic prosperity and improving the quality of life,
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  • much of what we will need to know will not be what we learned in school decades earlier
  • It is unlikely that sufficient resources will be available to build enough new campuses to meet the growing global demand for higher education—at least not the sort of campuses that we have traditionally built for colleges and universities.
  • created a series of building blocks that could provide the means for transforming the ways in which we provide education and support learning.
  • Open Educational Resources (OER) movement,
  • support and expand the various aspects of social learning.
  • based on the premise that our understanding of content is socially constructed through conversations about that content and through grounded interactions, especially with others, around problems or actions. The focus is not so much on what we are learning but on how we are learning.5
  • Light discovered that one of the strongest determinants of students’ success in higher education—more important than the details of their instructors’ teaching styles—was their ability to form or participate in small study groups.
  • The Cartesian perspective assumes that knowledge is a kind of substance and that pedagogy concerns the best way to transfer this substance from teachers to students.
  • Mastering a field of knowledge involves not only “learning about” the subject matter but also “learning to be” a full participant in the field.
  • networked communities of practice
  • its principles have been adopted by communities dedicated to the creation of other, more widely accessible types of resources
  • In a traditional Cartesian educational system, students may spend years learning about a subject; only after amassing sufficient (explicit) knowledge are they expected to start acquiring the (tacit) knowledge or practice of how to be an active practitioner/professional in a field.
  • change the game in education
  • using technology to enhance social learning within formal education, it also seems likely that a great deal of informal learning is taking place both on and off campus via the online social networks that have attracted millions of young people.
  • By enabling students to collaborate with working scientists, this movement provides a platform for the “learning to be” aspect of social learning.
  • what happened when his students were required to share their coursework publicly
  • As more of learning becomes Internet-based, a similar pattern seems to be occurring. Whereas traditional schools offer a finite number of courses of study, the “catalog” of subjects that can be learned online is almost unlimited. There are already several thousand sets of course materials and modules online, and more are being added regularly. Furthermore, for any topic that a student is passionate about, there is likely to be an online niche community of practice of others who share that passion.
  • We need to construct shared, distributed, reflective practicums in which experiences are collected, vetted, clustered, commented on, and tried out in new contexts.
  • We now need a new approach to learning—one characterized by a demand-pull rather than the traditional supply-push mode of building up an inventory of knowledge in students’ heads.
  • embedded in a community of practice
  • emergence of new kinds of open participatory learning ecosystems
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    The most profound impact of the Internet, an impact that has yet to be fully realized, is its ability to support and expand the various aspects of social learning. What do we mean by "social learning"? Perhaps the simplest way to explain this concept is to note that social learning is based on the premise that our understanding of content is socially constructed through conversations about that content and through grounded interactions, especially with others, around problems or actions. The focus is not so much on what we are learning but on how we are learning….
Randy Ziegenfuss

The Wired Campus - How Students, Professors, and Colleges Are, and Should Be, Using Soc... - 0 views

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    The Chronicle spoke with S. Craig Watkins, an associate professor of radio, TV, and film at the University of Texas at Austin, about the new age of social networking and media, and what it means for the classroom of the future. His soon-to-be-published book, The Young and the Digital: What the Migration to Social Network Sites, Games, and Anytime, Anywhere Media Means for Our Future, touches on those ideas.
Randy Ziegenfuss

socialmediaguidelines / FrontPage - 0 views

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    This is a collaborative project to generate Social Media Guidelines for school districts. The goal of this guideline is to provide instructional employees, staff, students, administartors, parents and the school district community direction when using social media applications both inside and outside the classroom.
Randy Ziegenfuss

Thanks for the Add. Now Help Me with My Homework - News Features & Releases - 0 views

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    A new study by alum Christine Greenhow finds social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook have more educational potential than you might think.
Randy Ziegenfuss

Joining the docs - Us Now - 0 views

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    How the fundamental idea of social dynamics, the sense of communal glue which appeared to be in its final death throws in the late 20th century, has suddenly been reborn thanks to the Internet. And with it, a shocking sense of what's possible when we stop being political sheep, and start being grass-root shepards. Click on the FREE CONTENT button, register and then click on it again. You can then watch this one hour film.
Randy Ziegenfuss

Us Now : Home - 0 views

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    New technologies and a closely related culture of collaboration present radical new models of social organisation. This project brings together leading practitioners and thinkers in this field and asks them to determine the opportunity for government.
Randy Ziegenfuss

YouTube - Social Media Revolution - 0 views

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    Is social media a fad? Or is it the biggest shift since the Industrial Revolution? Welcome to the World of Socialnomics
Randy Ziegenfuss

21stcenturylibrarians - home - 0 views

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    Can a media specialist do their job now if they are not also a social media specialist? Excellent collection of resources from a discussion about 21st century librarians.
Randy Ziegenfuss

KnowledgeWorks Foundation - Institute for Creative Collaboration - 0 views

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    "KnowledgeWorks' Institute for Creative Collaboration builds the capacity of organizations and groups to think bigger, learn together and work smarter.
Maria Ding

022 Pa. Code § 4.12. Academic standards. - 0 views

  • (3)  Social studies.      (i)   History. Study of the record of human experience including important events; interactions of culture, race and ideas; the nature of prejudice; change and continuity in political systems; effects of technology; importance of global-international perspectives; and the integration of geography, economics and civics studies on major developments in the history of the Commonwealth, the United States and the world.      (ii)   Geography. Study of relationships among people, places and environments, of geographic tools and methods, characteristics of place, concept of region and physical processes.      (iii)   Civics and government. Study of United States constitutional democracy, its values and principles, study of the Constitution of the Commonwealth and government including the study of principles, operations and documents of government, the rights and responsibilities of citizenship, how governments work and international relations.      (iv)   Economics. Study of how individuals and societies choose to use resources to produce, distribute and consume goods and services. Knowledge of how economies work, economic reasoning and basic economic concepts, economic decision making, economic systems, the Commonwealth and the United States economy and international trade.
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    Basic PA academic standards for hsitorical studies.
Angela Eckhart

Groups divided over graduation tests -- themorningcall.com - 0 views

  • Local business leaders accused school districts of graduating students who are unqualified and unprepared for the work force while educators argued that more testing won't improve student achievement during a special public hearing of the state board of education Thursday at Parkland High School.
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      And here I thought that businesses looked for students with more problem-solving skills and creativity!
  • ''You cannot make the assumption that scoring less than proficient is failure
  • Adams told the board that many of her students have a learning disability or simply don't test well, but are diligent workers and eager to learn. They are now college students, skilled workers, or serve in the armed forces. But they might not have been able to graduate if they were required to pass a test. Some would have eventually passed, but others would have dropped out, she said.
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  • Gates said he worried that students in other countries will soon get the best jobs in business and technology.
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      And THIS is why we need to integrate more technology in the classrooms...without losing the social aspect of the classroom.
Randy Ziegenfuss

Facebook - Privacy settings recommended by Sophos - 0 views

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    Sophos recommended privacy settings for Facebook
Randy Ziegenfuss

AllFacebook - 0 views

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    This is a blog that covers all news related to Facebook. It is not in any way affiliated with the actual Facebook site.
Randy Ziegenfuss

interactive media resources | Social Media CoLab - 0 views

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    Collaborative multimedia presentations enable small groups like teaching teams to work together to: * present knowledge in different and (if you do it right) compelling ways * engage active participation by the entire class instead of broadcasting to it like a passive audience
Randy Ziegenfuss

GroupTweet - 0 views

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    GroupTweet allows members to send messages via Twitter that are instantly broadcasted privately to only the team members.
Randy Ziegenfuss

Collection: Library of Congress Flickr pilot - 0 views

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    The Library of Congress invites you to explore history visually by looking at interesting photos from our collections.
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