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Rhonda Jessen

How to Teach Your Students to Think Before They Post | Common Sense Media - 0 views

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    Post from Common Sense Media about California's "Eraser Bill" with tools to teach K-12 students to think before they post
Brendan Murphy

Content Strategy In The Age Of Semantic Search - Presentation Software that Inspires | ... - 0 views

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    What companies do to get a better idea ofwhat their consumers are thinking.
Michael Walker

Exploring Curation as a core competency in digital and media literacy education | Mihai... - 0 views

  • Critical media literacy, in this context is utilized to combat the hegemonic power structures in society by training students to become critical thinkers, thereby transferring power from the hands of the distributers to the hands of the receivers.
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      Might be the most importatn point in the entire paper
  • shifting the educational framework from read, write and react, to create, curate, and contemplate.
  • defining sources and credibility becomes an ongoing and nuanced conversation.
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  • Curating content shifts the learning from passive to active
  • participatory spaces enable-archive, annotate, appropriate and recirculate
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  • core set of key skills
  • While traditional techniques remain relevant for students today, there is a need to explore pedagogical models that aim to empower critical thinking within the context of digital realities for youth today.
  • play, performance, simulation, appropriation, multitasking, distributed cognition, collective intelligence, judgment, transmedia navigation, networking, and negotiation
  • Organization is no longer simply for daily routines, pastimes or hobbies, but also for news and current affairs.
  • curation as value-added.
  • When the lists are public, the user becomes a de facto expert in showing the value placed on certain sources, organizations, and individuals over others. This type of curation "allows the people formerly known as the audience to create value for one another every day" (Shirky 2010, 17).
  • Curation is an act of problem solving.
  • task of the curator is to organize the information into a story
Brendan Murphy

The MOOC Heard Around the World | Innovation Insights | Wired.com - 0 views

  • Unless you are auto-didactic learner (think Abe Lincoln) who can take a piece of content, internalize it, and not only retain it but apply it, MOOCs are likely problematic for you.
  • 5-8% retention rates. Couple that with weak (aka unauthentic) assessments,
  • In MOOCs today there is almost zero student choice,
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  • Build your own (2nd GEN!) MOOC with purpose, solid learning design, and good pedagogical / andragogical models.
  • Let’s make it about quality and learning
Brendan Murphy

Digital Citizenship - 4 views

Digital citizenship, identity and footprint. How does our online activities affect our lives in general. What changes do we need to make in our thinking.

digital citizenship Digital Literacy footprint 21st Century Skills

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Brendan Murphy

The challenges to connectivist learning on open online networks: Learning experiences d... - 0 views

  • aggregation
  • relation
  • creation
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  • sharing
  • People learning on an informal network will choose the subject they want to learn about or the activity they want to engage in, but in a connectivist environment they have to make other choices as well.
  • For instance, they have to manage time, set their own learning goals, find resources, and try out new tools and make them work.
  • Research shows that the Internet and the Web are not value-free and do not act as non-hierarchical networks
  • These free agents do not have a responsibility or an obligation to provide a critical point of view.
  • need for critical literacies
  • level of presence.
  • critical literacies, such as collaboration, creativity, and a flexible mindset, that are prerequisites for active learning
  • Other benefits were seen in the form of the extension of personal networks and in new blogs and Twitter participants to follow. Participants highlighted the need for a sense of trust and feeling comfortable and confident to be able to participate, a sense of presence and community that some participants found on the PLENK Second Life site.
  • it is impossible to sustain the high level of reading, thinking, and engaging with materials and people that happened at the beginning of the course.
  • building identity and reputation is being developed over time
  • critical ability to not only use network resources, but also to look at them critically in order to “appropriate them and redesign them,
  • for networked learning to be successful, people need to have the ability to direct their own learning and to have a level of critical literacies that will ensure they are confident at negotiating the Web in order to engage, participate, and get involved with learning activities.
  • confident and competent in using the different tools in order to engage in meaningful interaction.
  • takes time for people to feel competent and comfortable
  • level of learner autonomy
  • four major types of activity:
Michael Walker

MOOCs: Too Much Hype, or Not Enough? | Innovation Insights | Wired.com - 0 views

  • The next generation MOOC (I’ll go ahead and coin ngMOOC now — you’re welcome) will have to employ more of a feedback loop to the student. Understanding the issues with social learning at scale, most progressive MOOC providers are finding ways to utilize graduate students, or simply more advanced students, like Seniors, who have already taken a course, to help push conversation and assessment. By seeding courses with large clusters of “more knowledgeable others” (as Vygotsky would call them), providers theorize they can get at the kind of learning communities desired to make a MOOC work at scale. So, essentially the next generation of MOOC combines the worlds of the xMOOC and the cMOOC, by using computers to do as much simulated instruction and assessment as possible, while making up for communication and community flaws through social construction. Wait, maybe the next generation MOOC should be an “xcMOOC” — you’re welcome again.
  • For instance, as I’ve noted before, a number of schools are working to crack the $10,000 Baccalaureate degree. To do so, it is likely that these schools and programs will need to employ the MOOC concept (whether their solutions need to include “massive” courses is yet to be determined). That means using reusable, self-paced, socially networked courses to free up typical administrative or teaching overhead. That means using more machine learning for grading, adaptivity, and personalization.
  • Are MOOCs over-hyped and dying? I don’t think so.
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  • We don’t need a new letter in front of a MOOC. Maybe we just need a new name for a MOOC. You know, something like: eCourse. Because at the end of the day, these massive courses may just be another way that any student can learn at any time.
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