6 Examples of Using Twitter in the Classroom | Emerging Internet Technologies for Educa... - 0 views
educational-origami - home - 0 views
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"Educational Origami is a blog and a wiki, about 21st Century Teaching and Learning. "This wiki is not just about the integration of technology into the classroom, though this is certainly a critical area, it is about shifting our educational paradigm. The world is not as simple as saying teachers are digital immigrants and students digital natives. In fact, we know that exposure to technology changes the brains of those exposed to it. The longer and stronger the exposure and the more intense the emotions the use of the technology or its content evokes, the more profound the change. This technology is increasingly ubiquitous. We have to change how we teach, how we assess, what we teach, when we teach it, where we are teaching it, and with what." A most interesting site that tells us what the learner needs to know. [Thanks to Bee Dieu.]
An Epic Mashup of Science and Hip Hop | MindShift - 1 views
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The Science Genius project is demonstrated through an energetic classroom teacher. The project aims to use students' local culture, in this case rap/hip-hop, to engage students' attention and draw them into science concepts actively. Great video demonstration by Dr. Chris Emdin, including several examples of students' creative projects. The approach also worked with students who hadn't ever written rap music before.Follow the series.
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100 Video Sites Every Educator Should Bookmark | AccreditedOnlineColleges.org - 3 views
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"By Alvina Lopez It doesn't matter if you're a veteran teacher or a newbie just now taking college courses - finding new ways to get students engaged in the classroom is always a great thing. One way many teachers are reaching out is with the multitude of material found on the web, allowing them to turn everyday lessons into a multimedia experience. You can find a great amount of helpful material on these sites, including videos to augment your lessons, lectures to inspire students, documentaries to show them how things work, and loads of additional videos to help you become a better, smarter teacher."
Development - Breaking down the walls of the classroom | Delta Publishing - English Lan... - 0 views
The Ning Thing.docx - 0 views
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good source for information on Ning: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ning_(website)
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Ning was a free-form platform for the development and hosting of open-source social applications
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Ning pricing structure is three-tiered, as explained here: http://blog.ning.com/2010/05/introducing-ning-pro-ning-plus-and-ning-mini.html
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Whither the Wikis? - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views
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higher education’s relationship with wikis — Web sites that allow users to collectively create and edit content — has been somewhat hot-and-cold
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tolerance, even appreciation, of Wikipedia as a useful starting point for research
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using wikis to pool human knowledge of various topics into single, authoritative accounts falls into the “not” category
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Multiliteracies at newlearningonline.com - 1 views
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The term ‘Multiliteracies’ refers to two major aspects of language use today.
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The first is the variability of meaning making in different cultural, social or domain-specific contexts.
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the business of communication and representation of meaning today increasingly requires that learners are able figure out differences in patterns of meaning from one context to another.
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Schoology - Your Digital Classroom - 2 views
Education and the social Web: Connective learning and the commercial imperative - 0 views
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I argue that commercial social networks are much less about circulating knowledge than they are about connecting users (“eyeballs”) with advertisers
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not the autonomous individual learner, but collective corporate interests that occupy the centre of these network
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business model restricts their information design in ways that detract from learner control and educational use
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In recent years, new sociallyoriented Web technologies have been portrayed as placing the learner at the centre of networks of knowledge and expertise, potentially leading to new forms of learning and education. In this paper, I argue that commercial social networks are much less about circulating knowledge than they are about connecting users ("eyeballs") with advertisers; it is not the autonomous individual learner, but collective corporate interests that occupy the centre of these networks. Looking first at Facebook, Twitter, Digg and similar services, I argue their business model restricts their information design in ways that detract from learner control and educational use. I also argue more generally that the predominant "culture" and corresponding types of content on services like those provided Google similarly privileges advertising interests at the expense of users. Just as commercialism has rendered television beyond the reach of education, commercial pressures threaten to seriously limit the potential of the social Web for education and learning.