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esponsibility to not only educate the minds, but also the hearts of my students
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I want my students to look at knowledge in a connected and ethical way
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personal self-understanding on an intellectual and emotional level
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higher level thinking skills
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encourage students to attain greater self-understanding
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The Multiliteracy Project is a national Canadian study exploring pedagogies or teaching practices that prepare children for the literacy challenges of our globalized, networked, culturally diverse world. Increasingly, we encounter knowledge in multiple forms - in print, in images, in video, in combinations of forms in digital contexts - and are asked to represent our knowledge in an equally complex manner.
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ighlight two related aspects of the increasing complexity of texts
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(a) the proliferation of multimodal ways of making meaning where the written word is increasingly part and parcel of visual, audio, and spatial patterns; (b) the increasing salience of cultural and linguistic diversity characterized by local diversity and global connectedness .
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network coding.
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Most networks right now are built roughly along the same principles as a transportation network, or any other network that’s trying to deliver tangible goods,
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With network coding, however, a router doesn’t just hand off the packets it receives; it mathematically combines them into new, hybrid packets. If the combination is done cleverly enough, this makes the whole network more efficient.
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But if, instead of forwarding our messages, the router combines them and broadcasts the combination, there are only three total transmissions. Since you have a copy of the message you sent me, you can subtract it from the combination, and I can do the same with the message I sent you. If our laptops and the router do a little extra processing, they reduce the system’s bandwidth consumption by 25 percent.
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proved a counterintuitive result: in many cases, the best way to combine data at a router is to do it randomly.
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Random coding yields the biggest gains in networks where connections are spotty, but where there are several possible routes between sender and receiver.
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the most modern communication tools — blogs, podcasts, YouTube — are actually returning us to an ancient form of media, one in which everyone participates on almost equal footing.
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fundamental human urge to tell our own stories
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Before mass media, before the written word — for all of human history — story-telling was a shared privilege.
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Mass media succeeded in creating a common culture, but did nothing to foster the communities that naturally emerge when people tell their stories to each other.
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Now, finally, there is a counter-trend.
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Howard Rheingold framed it beautifully, when he wrote The Virtual Community, nearly 15 years ago: "Perhaps cyberspace is one of those informal public places, where people can rebuild the aspects of community that were lost when the malt shop became a mall."
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newest digital technologies are returning us to the most ancient form of media — one in which a natural order is restored; our individual stories take center stage
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