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Charmian LORD

9 Powerful Android Apps to Boost Your Teaching Productivity ~ Educational Technology an... - 0 views

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apps teaching

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  • Charmian LORD on 26 Oct 15
     
    Had to share this. Not just because some of these may be helpful but also because of the final app. So many teachers and schools are insisting that students keep their phones off or silent and well away from them during class. This app works best if the student has it with them. What do you think Bec?
djplaner

The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority - Medium - 1 views

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complexity

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  • The interactions matter more than the nature of the units.
    • djplaner
      djplaner on 15 Aug 16
       
      Interactions == connections. What are the interactions in a NGL situation? Who interacts with what? How? To what end?
  • This is called an “emergent” property of the whole, by which parts and whole differ because what matters is the interactions between such parts.
  • The rule we discuss in this chapter is the minority rule
    • djplaner
      djplaner on 15 Aug 16
       
      What are other rules that apply? Can these be usefully applied to NGL? The minority rule can be a negative influence, does it exist in NGL?
djplaner

Ethics of teaching with social media - 0 views

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ngl ethics socialmedia

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  • djplaner on 06 Oct 14
     
    PDF of paper presented at ACEC 2014 which appears to be of relevance to some of you. Abstract follows. This paper goes beyond the commonly held concerns of Internet safety, such as cyberbullying. Instead, it explores the ethical dilemmas we face as teachers when using social media, in particular social networks, in the classroom. We believe old ideas of respect and culture of care for children and young people need to be reconstructed around new media. This paper draws on the authors' experience in teaching with, and researching students' use of, social media in the classroom. In this paper we explore the ethical issues of consent, traceability, and public/private boundaries. We tackle the complex issue of the rights around virtual identities of the students followed by a discussion on the ethics of engaging students in public performance of curriculum and their lives. Finally we discuss the ethical dilemma involved in recognising and responding to illicit activity. While we reflect on our own response to these dilemmas and propose a dialogic process as the way forward, we also return to the argument that these ethical choices are dilemmas in which most, if not all, options are unpalatable or impracticable
laurac75

Guest Post : It's Not About Technology! The Digital Challenge is Institutiona... - 3 views

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  • laurac75 on 13 Sep 14
     
    Interesting reflections on the challenges of digital technology within higher education.
djplaner

The Most Dangerous Word in Education - 0 views

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samr rat transform

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  • djplaner on 23 Aug 15
     
    Short post focusing on the problem of "integrating" as the most dangerous word in education. Links to the S & A from SAMR and the R & A from the RAT framework
  • djplaner on 23 Aug 15
     
    What this means from a network perspective is at least two-fold. 1) Take all these neat new netgl stuff and integrate it into current educational practice. Which is probably not going to be a great outcome. It's more about what you can fundamentally change. 2) From a network perspective you have to connect new knowledge into your current knowledge (current network). Isn't that a form of integration? If learning is network construction, can you do anything but integrate? Or does integrate suggest a form of network construction where you haven't really leveraged the new knowledge & your existing knowledge to produce something really unique?
djplaner

Watch The Next Web's Vine, "There's an app for that... 1980's vs. 2015 [created by Harv... - 1 views

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history future

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  • djplaner on 24 Aug 15
     
    A Vine that illustrates the evolution of technology on a office desk from 1980 to 2015. Two questions. What would a similar Vine of a classroom look like? This Vine shows an evolution over the last 25 years, what would a 2040 Vine look like? What would it would look like for your classroom.
thaleia66

Groups Vs Networks: The Class Struggle Continues ~ Stephen's Web - 0 views

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      thaleia66 on 26 Aug 15
       
      Group - melting pot; Network - salad bowl. Put in a food metaphor, and suddenly I get it!
  • Groups require coordination. They require a leadership or a leader which is why we get all of this stuff on leadership.
  • Networks, by contrast, require autonomy. That is to say each individual in a network operates independently.
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  • a radical concept. Students can learn autonomously. Who would have believed?
djplaner

Education in the information age: is technology making us stupid? - 2 views

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issues dumbingeffect stupid

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  • A recent study suggests that our modern lifestyles are making us “less intelligent” than our ancestors, at least at a genetic level.
  • When it takes a mere few seconds to find information about almost any topic, the value of knowledge and expertise is being devalued as information becomes cheaper and more accessible.
  • Our relationship with and understanding of knowledge and expertise has struggled to keep pace with the rapid democratisation of information.
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  • Although there is little conclusive evidence to support some of the more outrageous claims being made, there is at least a distinct possibility that while information is everywhere, knowledge is declining and technology is to blame.
  • So perhaps what is more important is not whether technology is making us stupid but if educational systems need to shift from teaching us what to think, to showing us how to think
  • In terms of what this means for education, psychologist Robert Bjork and his team at UCLA have been investigating what they call “desirable difficulties”. A desirable difficulty is a feature of a learning situation that is deliberately made more challenging to enhance learning.
  • Kahneman’s research on dual process theory suggests we mostly rely on what he calls “system one” thinking. That is thinking that is fast, efficient, mostly automated, and very good at detecting patterns, relying on short cuts or heuristics wherever possible. “System two”, on the other hand, requires slow, deliberate thought and is much more taxing of cognitive resources. System two is where the heavy lifting is done.
    • paul_size
      paul_size on 30 Aug 14
       
      Dual process theory...interesting way of viewing thinking processes.
djplaner

How Twitter Users Can Generate Better Ideas - 1 views

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diversity networks innovation

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  • Jobs instructed the architect of Pixar’s new headquarters to design physical space that encouraged staff to get out of their offices and mingle, particularly with those with whom they normally wouldn’t interact. Jobs believed that serendipitous exchanges fueled innovation
  • The more diverse a person’s social network, the more likely that person is to be innovative.
    • djplaner
      djplaner on 30 Aug 15
       
      When it comes to teachers engaging with e-learning, how diverse are their networks?
  • Just exposing oneself to diverse fields, opinions and beliefs on Twitter by itself is not sufficient to enhance innovativeness. Additional capabilities are needed to ensure that the ideas triggered via Twitter can be transformed into actual innovative outcomes
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  • In particular, two activities emerged as being significantly correlated with increasing individual absorptive capacity and personal innovation: “idea scouting” and “idea connecting.” In an earlier paper that two of us coauthored, we defined an idea scout as an employee who looks outside the organization to bring in new ideas. An idea connector, meanwhile, is someone who can assimilate the external ideas and find opportunities within the organization to implement these new concepts.5
  • djplaner on 29 Aug 15
     
    Description of research exploring the impact of network participation and diversity on the quality of ideas/innovation.
Charmian LORD

Why It's Too Easy To Dismiss Technology Critics: Or, The Fallacies Leading A Reviewer T... - 0 views

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technology critics

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  • One recurring strategy to invalidate a technology critic’s observations is to frame an issue in terms of overly simplistic comparisons. Then, all you need to do is allege the critic is blind to obvious advantages and makes a mountain out of a molehill by dramatizing small problems.
  • If you’re not taking deep pause to consider what’s lost if drones create material conditions that lead to moral hazards, whether sufficient oversight will ensure robotic cars can make appropriate moral decisions, and if banging the security drum too loudly unfairly stacks the deck against privacy, then you’re looking past significant issues.
thaleia66

The Global Search for Education: Can Tech Help Students Learn? | C. M. Rubin - 0 views

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  • teachers who are more inclined and better prepared for what are known as student-oriented teaching practices, such as group work, individualized learning, and project work, are more likely to use digital resources. But in many cases, teachers were not adequately prepared to use the kind of teaching methods that make the most of technology
  • Overall, the most successful plans were incremental and built on lessons learned from previous plans.
  • There is increasing recognition of the important role of teachers in education. But we need to go beyond the idea that teaching is an art that requires exceptional talent. There are exceptional teachers, but we need to support the professional development of all teachers, and we can do so if we invest in the scientific base of the teaching profession and empower those very exceptional teachers to become leaders who inspire other teachers.Technology offers great tools in this respect. I'm thinking of platforms for collaboration in knowledge creation, where teachers can share and enrich teaching materials; of the amount of data that can be collected to measure students' learning; or of the increasing use of blended learning models in teachers' training, in which online lectures are combined with individualized expert support and feedback from peers. Because they enable feedback loops between theory and everyday classroom practice and are supported by a network of like-minded peers, these models have been found to be much more effective than the traditional model of courses, workshops, conferences and seminars
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  • Integrating technology successfully in education is not so much a matter of choosing the right device, the right amount of time to spend with it, the best software or the right digital textbook. The key elements for success are the teachers, school leaders and other decision makers who have the vision, and the ability, to make the connection between students, computers and learning.I would encourage all educators to invest in their professional knowledge about how technology can improve their work practices.
thaleia66

Choosing to Leave Private School for a Self-Directed Journey | GenDIY - 3 views

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self-directed learning

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  • Nick initiated this experiment to convince others at his school that students need space to drive their own learning as part of their education
  • "By explaining something to a peer, synthesizing and concretizing vague concepts, it strengthens my confidence in the mastery of a topic."
  • We can go much farther, and get there far more efficiently, with self-paced study.... We can often reach more ambitious goals if we are given the latitude to set those goals for ourselves.
thaleia66

Sugata Mitra | School in the Cloud | TED.com - 2 views

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  • The "Hole in the Wall" project demonstrates that, even in the absence of any direct input from a teacher, an environment that stimulates curiosity can cause learning through self-instruction and peer-shared knowledge.
  • thaleia66 on 06 Aug 15
     
    I wonder if 'ask Mr YouTube' comes under the category of peer-shared knowledge? I think the gaming community might think it does if the industry of 'let's play' videos is any indication. I wonder then if this industry might also come under the category of student-generated learning?
laurac75

Week 3 Reflection on Me as a student | Learning to learn with NGL - 1 views

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spta; student;

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  • digital natives and digital immigrants as defined by Prensky (2001).
    • laurac75
      laurac75 on 05 Sep 14
       
      Using ideas and principles from other sources
  • The answer is that I have been exploring where I fit both as a student and as a teacher.
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    • laurac75
      laurac75 on 05 Sep 14
       
      Reflecting on my own practice
  • In my last post, I introduced Helsper and Enyon’s (2009) idea that exposure to, and experience using, various digital technologies can have more of an influence that generation age on determining whether a person has the characteristics of a digital immigrant or a digital native. Of course, nothing is ever so clear cut. In his blog, Wesley Fryer discusses this, and expands the immigrant vs native classification into four categories, as shown below.
  • Personally, I think even this is a simplification, and that a person’s classification may vary depending on the technology referred to. For example, until recently I was a digital refugee with regards to smart phones and associated apps – and yet reading news report on-line is an integral component of my daily routine. I would probably class as a Voyeur with regards to Twitter and Flickr in that I am aware of them, and will use them to gain information but I do not follow anyone, or actively participate myself. Thus there are multiple shades of grey.
  • Goodyear, Carvalho and Dohn (2014, p 140) state that networked learning “ is no longer exotic”, however, I would argue that this very much depends on on one’s own perspective, which in turn would be shaped by personal experience and knowledge (aka the whole digital landscape debate).
  • (see Koutropoulis, 2011) Prensky’s division
  • I would generally agree that as a student, I tend to be quite focused, like an ordered approach, and work better as an individual than as part of a community. The concepts of ‘shared learning’ is quite alien to me – as is the concept of allowing the “mess” to be apparent. It is quite contradictory to my scientific researcher – the data is analysed, the results and interpretation finalised, and the presentation polished before the work is released to the world at large (typically via a published paper or article). Only those directly collaborating on the work see the mess, being asked to share this process on-line is really quite intimidating to me, and conflicts with my view of professionalism (as well as my tendency towards perfectionism).
  • So, as a student, I think I challenges on several fronts, not just learning the technology, and associated pedagogy, but also challenges to how I perceive and present myself to the world, and what that means to me as a person, and as a collaborator.
    • laurac75
      laurac75 on 05 Sep 14
       
      Using other resources; linking concepts and ideas
    • laurac75
      laurac75 on 05 Sep 14
       
      NGL principles in a brpader context; Using other sources
  • about herself in the capacity of being a student,
  • smiss this message
    • laurac75
      laurac75 on 05 Sep 14
       
      Use of other sources
    • laurac75
      laurac75 on 05 Sep 14
       
      Use of other sources
    • laurac75
      laurac75 on 05 Sep 14
       
      Personal reflection on NGL principles
  • So, as a student, I think I face challenges on several fronts, not just learning the technology, and associated pedagogy, but also challenges to how I perceive and present myself to the world, and what that means to me as a person, and as a collaborator
    • laurac75
      laurac75 on 05 Sep 14
       
      Reflection of future development
    • laurac75
      laurac75 on 05 Sep 14
       
      Personal reflection of involvement in NGL
  • laurac75 on 05 Sep 14
     
    An attempt to demonstrate how (if) I am meeting the assessment criteria for Assignment 1. I think the grading is rather oblique - how does one distinguish between acceptable and exemplary? Where does this post fit? Feedback or thoughts on this would be welcome.
  • laurac75 on 05 Sep 14
     
    An attempt to demonstrate how (if) I am meeting the assessment criteria for Assignment 1. I think the grading is rather oblique - how does one distinguish between acceptable and exemplary? Where does this post fit? Feedback or thoughts on this would be welcome.
ozangel4

The Pomodoro Technique® - Time Management Skills From MindTools.com - 1 views

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      ozangel4 on 10 Aug 15
       
      A very interesting technique picked up in my MOOC -Learning how to learn. Hopefully it may help us to learn and to understand as we teach our participants
djplaner

Obvious to you. Amazing to others. - by Derek Sivers - YouTube - 2 views

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sharing video

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  • djplaner on 21 Aug 14
     
    Reminded of this video while reading Kath's blog. Perhaps may help with sharing more on your blog etc.
  • Brendon Willocks on 21 Aug 14
     
    Really liked this clip!! It will be great to use with staff when they are reluctant to share their ideas. Would be a good prep video for a TeachMeet with staff. Interesting. Thanks for sharing.
djplaner

Rhizomatic Education : Community as Curriculum | Dave's Educational Blog - 0 views

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ltngl

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  • The increasingly transitory nature of what is lauded as current or accurate in new and developing fields, as well as the pace of change in Western culture more broadly, has made it difficult for society in general and education in particular to define what counts as knowledge
  • djplaner on 28 Aug 14
     
    A 2008 article introducing the idea of Rhizomatic Education
debliriges

Readers absorb less on Kindles than on paper, study finds | Books | The Guardian - 0 views

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readers paper read digitally students

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  • The researchers suggest that "the haptic and tactile feedback of a Kindle does not provide the same support for mental reconstruction of a story as a print pocket book does".
  • She and her fellow researchers found that "students who read texts in print scored significantly better on the reading comprehension test than students who read the texts digitally".
  • a new European research network doing empirical research on the effects of digitisation on text reading. The network says that "research shows that the amount of time spent reading long-form texts is in decline, and due to digitisation, reading is becoming more intermittent and fragmented", with "empirical evidence indicat[ing] that affordances of screen devices might negatively impact cognitive and emotional aspects of reading". They hope their work will improve scientific understanding of the implications of digitisation, thus helping to cope with its impact.
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  • "We need to provide research and evidence-based knowledge to publishers on what kind of devices (iPad, Kindle, print) should be used for what kind of content; what kinds of texts are likely to be less hampered by being read digitally, and which might require the support of paper,"
  • debliriges on 28 Aug 14
     
    Some interesting research to consider about students learning
laurac75

Checking Email Every Minute, The Plastic Brain, and Schooling | Larry Cuban on School R... - 0 views

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    • laurac75
      laurac75 on 04 Sep 14
       
      I couldn't agree more - when I am on-line, I am constantly checking emails. When I get emails, it just makes me check all the more frequently. Completely addictive!
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