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Vanessa Vaile

Opinion: Internet and Education -- Back to the Future - AOL News - 0 views

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shared by Vanessa Vaile on 24 Feb 10 - Cached
  • The education industry, like so many others, is busy being transformed by the Internet.
  • he best possible system of education actually existed thousands of years ago. And what the Internet can help us do is go back to it, with one important modern twist: scale.
  • individual relationship between an enlightened tutor and an eager student
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  • there simply aren't enough expert teachers with enough time to bring every child along
  • If the 21th century is to be a time of progress, education must continue to expand. This makes it even more difficult to provide individual instruction for all the world's students.
  • That's the promise of the Internet, which excels above all else at scale: scale of information, social interactions, geographic reach.
  • The acid test I apply to every new initiative is: to what extent does it bring us closer to the old system of individualized, personal, expert instruction, except with scale?
  • Online tutoring is an example of a promising Internet-driven innovation. Companies like TutorVista and Smarthinking let hundreds of thousands of students get on-demand personal help in their homes at a reasonable cost.
  • online systems that can "diagnose" individual students' strengths and weaknesses and dynamically generate a tailored curriculum.
  • Other innovations lie somewhere in between the two
  • It's important to remember that many of the most important education innovations lie outside the Internet.
  • But the Internet will also disrupt. Textbooks, for example, can't continue in their present form
  • two principles: first, invest in Internet innovations that bring us closer to the vision of universal, personalized instruction; and second, champion those designed to complement, rather than replace, traditional academic institutions.
Vanessa Vaile

Join the Digital Debate Here - 0 views

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shared by Vanessa Vaile on 31 Jan 10 - Cached
  • We've heard lots of talk about the revolutionary nature of Web 2.0, the conversion of whole populations from passive receivers of information (and propaganda) into active citizens and critical consumers and content-creators. Skeptics don't buy it, at least not all of it.
  • "The Future of Education: Charting the Course of Teaching and Learning in a Networked World."
  • orum hosted by Steve Hargadon
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  • various discussions and controversies over the Digital Age
  • Host and guest can see the feedback unfold and respond during the chat. Then, Hargadon opens the discussion to everybody,
  • The project is an excellent specimen of the best kind of intellectual engagement, which wouldn't be possible without digital technology.
  • Vanessa Vaile on 31 Jan 10
     
    Mark Bauerlein, Brainstorm column- The Chronicle of Higher Education
Vanessa Vaile

"Digital Nation": What has the Internet done to us? - 0 views

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shared by Vanessa Vaile on 31 Jan 10 - Cached
  • My bosses at Suck.com, meanwhile, accurately predicted that the Web would soon become something between a gigantic mall catering to the lowest common denominator and an infinite tabloid echo chamber. Their mantra: Sell out early and often. Why? Because those of us musing about murderous robot showdowns (or scratching out angry cartoons under a pseudonym, for that matter) would all go back to grabbing ankle for The Man sooner than we thought. What they didn't know, and never could've predicted, was that the Web would also transform itself into an enormous, never-ending high school reunion (See also: hell).
  • My bosses at Suck.com, meanwhile, accurately predicted that the Web would soon become something between a gigantic mall catering to the lowest common denominator and an infinite tabloid echo chamber. Their mantra: Sell out early and often.
  • What they didn't know, and never could've predicted, was that the Web would also transform itself into an enormous, never-ending high school reunion (See also: hell)
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  • finally safe to proclaim, together, that the information age has officially arrived.
  • futuristic "Blade Runner"-esque digital dystopia
  • Douglas Rushkoff is currently reconsidering his unconditional love for new media in Frontline's "Digital Nation" (premieres 9 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 2, on PBS, check local listings), an in-depth investigation into the possibilities and side effects of our digital immersion.
  • how are we changing what it means to be a human being by using all this stuff?"
  • Dilbert-meets-Derrida perspective
  • "Most multitaskers think that they're brilliant at multitasking," says Stanford professor Clifford Nass. But "it turns out that multitaskers are terrible at nearly every aspect of multitasking."
  • IBM uses "Second Life" to hold virtual meetings between people who live thousands of miles from each other. Each person at the meeting is embodied by a different avatar, and the participants end up feeling like they've met in person,
  • Can we hold our Salon meetings this way, and can my avatar be an enormous roach that occasionally hits other people over the head with a crowbar?)
  • Vanessa Vaile on 31 Jan 10
     
    from I Like to Watch - Salon.com: internet criticism + review of PBS series on internet use
  • Vanessa Vaile on 31 Jan 10
     
    sharing this Luddite moment w/ Webheads... can you smell the irony in the air
Beatriz Lupiano

LearningTimes Green Room » Blog Archive » LTGR Ep. #74 - "Nancy White on Comm... - 1 views

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shared by Beatriz Lupiano on 27 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Beatriz Lupiano on 27 Mar 10
     
    Special edition podcast previous to their conference in mid-March 2010. Nancy White explains her views on e-communities and f2f communities around the central theme of whether communities for learning are possible and if so, how.
Vanessa Vaile

#cck11: Connectivism and Social Constructivism - what's the difference? | Life through ... - 0 views

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  • what distinguishes a connectivist perspective from social constructivism
  • similar principles
  • complexity
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  • technology
  • ‘complex’ phenomena as different from ‘complicated’ phenomena
  • Connectivism acknowledges the complexity of knowledge and learning in a way that social constructivism cannot. A central tenet of social constructivism is the definition of knowledge as the result of consensus. The connectivist perspective allows for a greater diversity of opinions, and acceptance of transience and unpredictability of knowledge.
  • dependence on a large number of ‘weak ties’ in knowledge networks
  • connectivist notion of knowledge and learning existing outside the individual human brain
  • web of nodes and connections
  • Bonkers.
  • transient content
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