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Kevin Stranack

Are universities teaching the skills needed in a knowledge-based economy? - 14 views

www.tonybates.ca/...d-in-a-knowledge-based-economy

module2 higher education knowledge skills

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  • Kevin Stranack on 29 Jun 14
     
    Provides a list of important skills and how those skills are embedded within the curriculum.
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  • Raúl Marcó del Pont on 09 Sep 14
     
    Encontré un post relacionado con las Alfabetizaciones digitales y competencias fundamentales en http://futurosdellibro.com/alfabetizaciones-digitales-y-competencias-fundamentales/ Tal vez interese: El pasado 5 de marzo los expertos de UNESCO dedicados a la alfabetización mediática y digital, en reunión preparatoria de la siguiente World Summit of Information Societies, rubricaron lo que es una evidencia ya incontrovertible: que la alfabetización mediática e informacional (MIL. Media and information literacy) ocupa un lugar central en el mapa escolar de competencias del siglo XXI. Esto no es nada esencialmente nuevo: Viviane Reding, la hoy Vicepresidenta de la Comisión Europea y ex-comisaria de Información entre los años 2004-2009, declaraba en el año 2006: "Hoy, la alfabetización mediática es tan central para el desarrollo de una ciudadanía plena y activa como la alfabetización tradicional lo fue al inicio del siglo XIX". Y añadía: "también es fundamental para entrar en el nuevo mundo de la banda ancha de contenidos, disponibles en todas partes y en cualquier momento". De acuerdo con el European Charter for Media Literacy podríamos distinguir siete áreas de competencias que, de una u otra forma, deberían pasar a formar parte de todo currículum orientado a su adquisición: Usar adecuadamente las tecnologías mediáticas para acceder, conservar, recuperar y compartir contenidos que satisfagan las necesidades e intereses individuales y colectivos. Tener competencias de acceso e información de la gran diversidad de alternativas respecto a los tipos de medios que existen, así como a los contenidos provenientes de distintas fuentes culturales e institucionales. Comprender cómo y porqué se producen los contenidos mediáticos. Analizar de forma crítica las técnicas, lenguajes y códigos empleados por los medios y los mensajes que transmiten. Usar los medios creativamente para expresar y comunicar ideas, información
  • Ad Huikeshoven on 09 Sep 14
     
    Thank you Kevin Stranack for sharing. Tony Bates ends with five questions: 1. Have I covered the main skills needed in a knowledge-based society? What have I missed? 2. Do you agree that these are important skills? If so, should universities explicitly try to develop them? 3. What are you or your university doing (if anything) to ensure such skills are taught, and taught well? 4. What roles if any do you think technology, and in particular online learning, can play in helping to develop such skills? 5. Any other comments on this topic - My answers: 1. Frustration tolerance and keeping a balance between work and private life is a necessary skill 2, The skill set mentioned is important, but more likely trained in college than in university 3. I do have a personal coach and a counseler, and I'm enrolled in #OKMOOC 4. The activities required in every module of #OKMOOC ask to reach out, connect, build relationships, Have you answered the feedback questions?
  • hreodbeorht on 13 Oct 14
     
    This question is really the elephant in the room in a lot of university programs, especially in the humanities. I myself was a doctoral student in the humanities before leaving because, as I eventually learned, there were essentially no employment opportunities and my skillset in today's economy was sorely lacking. But the old mantra that "we teach critical thinking" is become a worn excuse. Do we really need four years to teach people the skills to survive "out there"? How much of our specialized knowledge will really be useful outside of the academy? These are questions we just don't have the answer to, and I'm not sure there are many people willing to ask them. But more to the point, I didn't see anything in this link about the changing ways that millennials (I promise that I hate the term as much as anyone, but it's a useful one) are engaging with information, and how that is changing how they actually think. There have been arguments made that digital natives (again, a pretty terrible term) think about and process information in very different ways that have serious implications for contextualization and long-term research. I'm not saying that universities don't teach these things in their own ways, but it's an important issue that needs addressing. I know that the link talks about the important of knowledge management, but there's a huge difference between simply knowing how and when to access information and quite another to properly contextualize its place in a larger hierarchy (or web) of knowledge. I would argue *that* skill is the one that universities are best poised to provide, and maybe why we keep hearing talk about how undergraduate degrees are the new highschool diplomas.
larssl

Best Websites for Teaching & Learning 2014 | American Association of School Librarians ... - 14 views

www.ala.org/...2014

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  • larssl on 08 Sep 14
     
    "The 2014 Best Websites for Teaching & Learning foster the qualities of innovation, creativity, active participation, and collaboration. They are free, Web-based sites that are user friendly and encourage a community of learners to explore and discover. "
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  • larssl on 08 Sep 14
     
    This as teachers place to go - Standards for the 21st-Century Learner.
  • daniellew31 on 09 Sep 14
     
    Terrific resource. I know just who to share it with.
  • nadiameyer on 10 Sep 14
     
    Excelente sitio, con buenos recursos! muchas gracias :)
  • fraup74 on 10 Sep 14
     
    This is fantastic! I just shared this on twitter, and will forward the link to teacher colleagues. Teachers are always looking for ways to make learning fun and different, and they also like those resources to be free!
  • begalu02 on 10 Sep 14
     
    Awesome! This site definitely will help teachers to have different and productive classes.
mbishon

Free ebook: Teaching Crowds: Learning and Social Media by John Dron and Terry Anderson - 4 views

docs.google.com/viewer

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  • mbishon on 25 Oct 14
     
    "This book is about learning online with other people. It's title, Teaching Crowds, is deliberately ambiguous: the book is about how to teach crowds, but it is also about how crowds teach.
orlandopaesfilho

The future of learning - 5 views

www.youtube.com/watch

module2 knowledge

shared by orlandopaesfilho on 16 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • orlandopaesfilho on 16 Sep 14
     
    Interesting video with ideas about Education.
  • mbittman on 16 Sep 14
     
    Education is due for a change, beginning with training teachers to teach in new ways. Learning needs also vary, making it important for a teacher to be able to teach in a variety of ways to get knowledge across, e.g., math solutions may be achieved in several ways - one student may get it the first time while another may need a different explanation. Young people need to be encouraged to learn and know that learning will get them somewhere. Finding a teaching model that works for the majority is definitely a challenge - perhaps more than one or a combination of models?
Megan H

Four Skills to Teach Students In the First Five Days of School - 6 views

blogs.kqed.org/...e-days-of-school-alan-november

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shared by Megan H on 09 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • Megan H on 09 Sep 14
     
    As I participate in, and contribute to, the MOOC for Changing the Global Course for Learning, I will inevitably tie the readings / work / ideas back to education at the K12 level. As noted, "Before the internet there were two important things to teach: content and skills, like writing," November said. "Now there's a third skill which is to build out your network to the world."
kenlitt

Phoning It In: My Year of Teaching Via Skype - 2 views

chroniclevitae.com/...-my-year-of-teaching-via-skype

knowledge open skype telepedagogy classroom

shared by kenlitt on 19 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • kenlitt on 19 Sep 14
     
    This piece is related to the idea of open knowledge in that it deals with one professor's year-long experiment with synchronous teaching over a Skype connection. While the professor felt that it worked better and more seamlessly than anyone could have imagined, he remains unsure as to whether telepedagogy has a place in our traditional academic settings. While a bit different in scope, idea and execution than a mooc, it is another example of new ways in which traditional learning is giving way to 21st technology. Video conferencing is now an every day part of most businesses, and here is an entire semester's class being "phoned in" via Skype. As the article points out, its usefulness in a traditional setting is up in the air. Yet there would seem to be an obvious utility in bringing this give and take classroom setting to remote locations that might have internet access but not easy access to schools or specific professors. Yet another way to make knowledge or the access to knowledge more open.
  • dilrukshi on 29 Sep 14
     
    Great post .. Well I think it may take time for people to adapt into the digital situations.. And in developing counties situation is even worst than that.. not only with skype , online at all would not work because people think and so use to the didactic pedagogy. All the things are centered with in the teachers presence..
Matt Tibble

The corridor of uncertainty: Open educational practice stimulates less used languages - 0 views

acreelman.blogspot.com.au/...ional-practice-stimulates.html

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  • Matt Tibble on 23 Sep 14
     
    How can open educational practices empower less used and minority languages? - Webinar series (part of the European project LangOER) that aims at enhancing the teaching and learning of less used languages through open educational resources and practices
  • Matt Tibble on 23 Sep 14
     
    How can open educational practices empower less used and minority languages? - Webinar series (part of the European project LangOER) that aims at enhancing the teaching and learning of less used languages through open educational resources and practices
hednhart

Teaching Students to Become Curators of Ideas: The Curation Project - 4 views

academic.stedwards.edu/...f-ideas-the-curation-project-3

curation teaching curating weisgerber PLN

shared by hednhart on 10 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • hednhart on 10 Sep 14
     
    A great resource on curating ideas created by Corinne Wiesgerber, a professor at St. Edwards University, for her communications class. Includes a slide-share with helpful definition of curation. You can follow Corinne on Twitter: @corinnew.
  • Kevin Stranack on 10 Sep 14
     
    Thanks for sharing this! I particularly like the emphasis on using social search in addition to a standard google search. Thoughtful curation is a critical part of effect learning networks.
caseworkers

Teaching - Quora - 0 views

quora.com/Teaching

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  • caseworkers on 07 Sep 14
     
    I find many of the questions, and the perspectives of the answers, to be useful in thinking about teaching and learning.
Alexandra Finch

From Distraction to Engagement: Wireless Devices in the Classroom - 0 views

www.educause.edu/...ent-wireless-devices-classroom

crap detection module10 information literacy

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  • Alexandra Finch on 28 Nov 14
     
    a. Finding a balance between technology and teaching has proved challenging in the traditional classroom. Some institutions, such as University of Chicago Law School, have altogether banned internet access in the classroom, claiming that it imposes on the integrity of the education. Although the authors draw attention to research demonstrating the rampant frequency of distractions with laptop and mobile technology amongst students, they beg the question of whose fault it really is - and begs educators to reflect on their own teaching, and the educational institution as a whole. Fang describes possible solutions for the distraction dilemma for educators to apply to the modern classroom. Filtering applications can help to create a temporary filter on computer applications to ensure a singular task, or set of permitted tasks, are accessed. Network switching allows faculty and network administrators to determine which, if any, applications can use a network at a given time. Social solutions can also be effective; by educating the student on the issue of technology-related distraction in classrooms, and assessing teaching styles, class formats and institutional practices. In the modern classroom, the professor and technology should coexist peacefully; yet it will take social and technical finesse in order to find the right balance for the maximum benefit of the student.
kristin_k

The Open Educational Resources Research Hub - 2 views

oerresearchhub.org

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  • Greg Walker on 13 Sep 14
     
    I chose the Open Educational Resources Research Hub (OER Research Hub) for a focus for research, designed to give answers to the overall question 'What is the impact of OER on learning and teaching practices?' and identify the particular influence of openness. As open education now reaches a stage of maturity we need evidence about what works, what doesn't and why in order that lessons learned can be shared. Filling the gap in the evidence base and sharing data and methods widely is the intention of OER Research Hub. The project combines: A targeted collaboration program with existing OER projects An international fellowship program Networking to make connections A hub for research data and OER excellence in practice
  • kristin_k on 30 Nov 14
     
    The Open Educational Resources Research Hub (OER Research Hub) provides a focus for research, designed to give answers to the overall question 'What is the impact of OER on learning and teaching practices?' and identify the particular influence of openness.
rafopen

Hacking the Academy: New Approaches to Scholarship and Teaching from Digital Humanities - 0 views

www.digitalculture.org/...aching-from-digital-humanities

higher education hacking scholarship Module 11

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  • rafopen on 15 Nov 14
     
    There are two versions (at least) of this text. One earlier version is a first draft of sorts "A BOOK CROWDSOURCED IN ONE WEEK MAY 21-28, 2010" http://hackingtheacademy.org/ The url supplied above (http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?cc=dh;c=dh;idno=12172434.0001.001;rgn=full%20text;view=toc;xc=1;g=dculture) gives you access to the slicker version. Both can be read online. The text professes to a hacker ethos: "1 The world is full of fascinating problems waiting to be solved. 2 No problem should ever have to be solved twice. 3 Boredom and drudgery are evil. 4 Freedom is good. 5 Attitude is no substitute for competence." One of the opening chapters encourages academics to "get out of the business." "Burn the boats/books" focuses on the need to move away from "librocentrism." Something I hadn't thought of: "A PDF document is not a web-based document. It is a print-based document distributed on the web." This is to make the point that online materials should be interactive, which a pdf is not. The focus is hacking scholarship, teaching, and institutions. Seems worth dipping into here and there .
mbittman

Learning in snippets - 1 views

www.youtube.com/...MatthewSantoro

Learning Publishing Education Module7

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  • mbittman on 19 Oct 14
     
    A successful author on YouTube, Matt Santoro, uses YouTube as a teaching tool, publishing a new video on some aspect of knowledge every Saturday.
  • mbittman on 19 Oct 14
     
    A successful author on YouTube, Matt Santoro, uses YouTube as a teaching tool, publishing a new video on some aspect of knowledge every Saturday.
Kevin Stranack

How Not to Encourage Open Sharing of Teaching Materials (UBC's Policy 81) | You're the ... - 6 views

blogs.ubc.ca/...how-not-open-sharing

module7 oer policy ubc

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  • Kevin Stranack on 15 Oct 14
     
    Detailed description and analysis of UBC's Policy 81: Use of Teaching Materials in UBC Credit Courses. Helpful in understanding the challenges of encouraging open education within institutions.
ilanab

Twitter, Teaching, and Impersonality - 2 views

chronicle.com/...31989

module2 Twitter Sensing

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  • ilanab on 14 Sep 14
     
    Similar to Twitter, a good way to reach "a common intellectual enagagement with material" can be achieved by bonding and sharing personal aspects of life with students without intimacy. There is an art to maintaining this balance.
ampaulin

Eric Mazur on new interactive teaching techniques | Harvard Magazine Mar-Apr 2012 - 4 views

harvardmagazine.com/...twilight-of-the-lecture

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shared by ampaulin on 12 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • ampaulin on 12 Sep 14
     
    In 1990, after seven years of teaching at Harvard, Eric Mazur, now Balkanski professor of physics and applied physics, was delivering clear, polished lectures and demonstrations and getting high student evaluations for his introductory Physics 11 course, populated mainly by premed and engineering students who were successfully solving complicated problems. Then he discovered that his success as a teacher "was a complete illusion, a house of cards."
  • brianmihov on 16 Sep 14
     
    The thing that I liked most about this article (and I really liked it!) was the mention of numerous research studies that have looked into the effects of active learning. Also how Mazur himself collects data on his students' results. The fact that interactive learning can be backed by empirical research only adds to its strength as an effective pedagogical method.
Kevin Stranack

Impact of Social Sciences - Using Twitter in university research, teaching, and impact ... - 11 views

blogs.lse.ac.uk/...twitter-guide

module2 twitter academic guide

shared by Kevin Stranack on 11 Sep 14 - No Cached
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  • Kevin Stranack on 11 Sep 14
     
    A short guide for using Twitter for academic purposes, aimed at beginners.
  • cvpido on 11 Sep 14
     
    thanks Kevin. Very useful. I'm new to twitter but i strongly believe in it as a "right" tool in research and teaching context
  • Ivonne Lujano on 11 Sep 14
     
    Thanks for sharing it! I'll tweet the post
ampaulin

Interactive learning prepares educators to embrace collaborative pedagogy and increase ... - 4 views

I am attaching the webpage of a very intresting article on Peer Instruction. Eric Mazur developed a very intresting teaching and learning method, based on interactive learning. I find this article...

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Ad Huikeshoven

A Handbook for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education - 5 views

biblioteca.ucv.cl/...0academic%20and%20Practice.pdf

module5 open education learning

shared by Ad Huikeshoven on 03 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • Ad Huikeshoven on 03 Oct 14
     
    While we are talking about (open) education, let us look for the handbook. Part I, Chapter 7: "E-learning - an introduction"
  • Dvora Marina Brodsky on 04 Oct 14
     
    It is an essential document for educators and librarians. The Handbook focuses on issues of knowledge and learning and teaching and leading its readers to a mode of considering education as revisiting learners' prior knowledge into the mode of thinking and understanding through the study of primary sources. After Biggs and Moore, the authors of the Handbook view students as individuals who actively construct their knowledge and learning as a process that involves a process of individual transformation. The document touches all the essential questions of education including motivation and deep approach to studying. curriculum design, the use of technologies in learning opportunities and other.
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