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Wolfram Launches PDF Killer - 0 views

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shared by Emily Rimland on 27 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • Emily Rimland on 27 Jul 11
     
    "Created by Wolfram Research, makers of the Wolfram Alpha computational search engine, the Computable Document Format (CDF) enables users to interact with online documents, input their own data, and generate results, live." Wonder if these will be usable on e-readers?
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Will a Harvard Professor's New Technology Make College Lectures a Thing of the Past? - ... - 3 views

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shared by gary chinn on 03 Aug 11 - No Cached
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  • Mazur sold attendees at the recent Building Learning Communities conference on this new approach by first asking them to identify something they're good at, and then having them explain how they mastered it. After the crowd shared, Mazur pointed out that no one said they'd learned by listening to lectures. Similarly, Mazur said, college students don't learn by taking notes during a lecture and then regurgitating information. They need to be able to discuss concepts, apply them to problems and get real-time feedback. Mazur says Learning Catalytics enables this process to take place.
  • gary chinn on 03 Aug 11
     
    anyone familiar with Learning Catalytics? sounds like it's invite-only, but might be worth a look.
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  • Allan Gyorke on 04 Aug 11
     
    I saw something else along these lines at ELI this year (I'll have to look up the notes). It was mostly about organizing students into discussion groups and assigning them a topic, role, position on the issue, etc... I could see us doing a hot team on several of these technologies. But about the flipping the classroom part of this article, we'll probably open a "Flip the Classroom" engagement initiative this fall to explore multiple approaches to creating the class preparation materials and in-class activities. Some of this is related to the Kahn Academy discussions we've been having. Some touch the lecture capture software that faculty could run in their offices to create personal captures going over material or key points. Anyway, I'd like to open this up to the creativity across Penn State and see what approaches people propose.
  • Angela Dick on 04 Aug 11
     
    Awesome article! This is very similar to the way we are designing the modules for our NIH project. Allan, I would love to be part of "Flip the Classroom" engagement initiative this fall. If there is anything I can do please let me know.
  • gary chinn on 04 Aug 11
     
    an engagement initiative seems like a good idea. many of the approaches are implementations of active learning strategies, and I think having faculty from multiple disciplines exploring and sharing is a good way to test the effectiveness of various approaches. we just met with faculty from architectural engineering who've been flipping since 2008. one observation they made was that they flipped to allow student teams to work on group projects during class time. I had always thought that was a good idea for logistical purposes (especially in a team-heavy college like engineering), but they made a point I had not thought of: using classroom flip in that manner also allowed for the teams to have access to faculty advice and guidance while they were meeting to work on their projects. that seems like it may have huge benefits, especially at key points in a group assignment. all a long way of saying, there's much to learn. the blended learning initiative was essentially a 'classroom flip' approach as well, so some of the ways faculty adapted instruction for those courses might be relevant here too.
  • Allan Gyorke on 04 Aug 11
     
    Angela: Let's talk about it. Gary: Tapping into first-hand experience would be great. I know a bit from the National Conference on Academic Transformation conference. The example that comes to mind is a flip where students learn about math through some short (5 minute) video tutorials and then attend "class" in a lab environment to work in teams and get access to the GA and faculty. It taps into a lot of the features of "student engagement" as measured by the National Survey on Student Engagement with factors such as increased student-student work, collaborative problem solving, immediate feedback, and increased student-faculty contact. Overall, an excellent design.
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"Narrate, Curate, Share:" How Blogging Can Catalyze Learning -- Campus Technology - 1 views

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shared by Cole Camplese on 10 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • "Narrate, Curate, Share" is the framework in place for the upcoming fall semester as the Virginia Tech Center for Innovation in Learning partners with Tech's new Honors Residential College to bring 21st-century innovation to the tradition of residential learning with a program-wide blogging initiative.
  • bkozlek on 10 Aug 11
     
    well thought out and beautifully communicated vision for an educational blogging platform. Blogs@psu has had the motto, "create, reflect, connect". If I could take the liberty to translate Campbell's phrase into the lingo bandied about at PSU, it would be "reflect, meta-reflect, connect".
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Social Media's Slow Slog Into the Ivory Towers of Academia - 2 views

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  • John Dolan on 02 Sep 11
     
    Underpinning a disdain for social media in higher education is the assumption that incoming students have an inherent aptitude for new technologies "If you took a soldier from a thousand years ago and put them on a battlefield, they'd be dead," Howard Rheingold, a professor teaching virtual community and social media at Stanford University, told me one morning via Skype.
  • John Dolan on 02 Sep 11
     
    A shoutout to Chris Long for finding this first!
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7 Things You Should Know About the Modern Learning Commons | EDUCAUSE - 4 views

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shared by Cole Camplese on 26 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • The learning commons, sometimes called an “information commons,” has evolved from a combination library and computer lab into a full-service learning, research, and project space. As a place where students can meet, talk, study, and use “borrowed” equipment, the learning commons brings together the functions of libraries, labs, lounges, and seminar areas in a single community gathering place. The cost of a learning commons can be an obstacle, but for institutions that invest in a sophisticated learning commons, the new and expanded partnerships across disciplines facilitate and promote greater levels of collaboration. The commons invites students to devise their own approaches to their work and to transfer what they learn in one course to the work they do for another.
  • Cole Camplese on 26 Apr 11
     
    This is a critical discussion today and will be more important going forward. If TLT wants to create a vision related to creating the best learning spaces in higher education we need to better understand what is and isn't working.  My emerging goal is to establish a strategic direction that has us look at our spaces on a continuum from very informal to very formal in a consistent and systematic way.
  • Allan Gyorke on 26 Apr 11
     
    The writing process around this particular 7 Things paper was a lot of fun. I got a real sense that what we're doing with the Media Commons spaces, especially plans for the Knowledge Commons and Ritenour are in line with the kinds of spaces being developed at other universities. There was a lot of discussion around the political side of these spaces since the physical space, staffing, and resources don't fall into a neat hierarchy of organizational structure. Anyway, I'd really enjoy being part of a discussion about space design. There are a set of recommendations that the informal learning spaces group generated two years ago that haven't been acted upon. Not that those recommendations are still the right way to go, but it's a starting point for some of the discussion: http://tlt.its.psu.edu/about/reports/2009/Learning-Spaces-Vision.pdf/view
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Seth's Blog: What's high school for? - 4 views

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  • Cole Camplese on 06 May 11
     
    I read this and highlighted a few myself ... I really like the idea of teaching stronger and more persuasive communication skills. And that whole notion of being a stronger leader is a critical skill as well.
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Choosing a Citation Manager - 2 views

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shared by Emily Rimland on 21 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • Emily Rimland on 21 Jun 11
     
    The Libraries' Citation Tools team has created a new page to help the community choose a citation tool. There's also a comparison between Zotero, endnote, endnote web, mendeley & refworks
  • Cole Camplese on 21 Jun 11
     
    Thank you, Emily ... this is a great resource!
  • bartmon on 22 Jun 11
     
    Very nice! Emily, does Zotero now work with resources behind PSU authentication? I tried to use it a couple years ago with little luck. I typically use Google Scholar, then hit the "Get it from Penn State" link(s). Once I landed on a resource, Zotero had trouble saving it.
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News: 'Now You See It' - Inside Higher Ed - 2 views

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  • Q: What are some of the ways that you've applied ideas and research about attention and learning in your own classroom? A: I rarely lecture anymore. I structure my classes now with each unit led by two students, who are responsible for researching and assigning texts and writing assignments and who then are charged with grading those assignments. The next week, two other students become our peer leaders. Students learn the fine art of giving and receiving feedback and learning from one another. I structure midterms as collaborative “innovation challenges,” an incredibly difficult exercise which is also the best way of intellectually reviewing the course material I’ve ever come up with. In other words, more and more I insist on students’ taking responsibility for their learning and communicating their ideas to the general public using social media.
  • If you want to learn more, you can find syllabuses and blogs on both the HASTAC and the DMLCentral site. I posted about “This Is Your Brain on the Internet” and “Twenty-First Century Literacies.” I also led a forum on interactive pedagogy in large lecture classes.
  • gary chinn on 24 Jun 11
     
    haven't read the book, but it might have some good stuff...
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Facebook Introduces Video Chat in a Partnership With Skype - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • Allan Gyorke on 07 Jul 11
     
    "Hoping to give its users a more intimate way to stay in touch, Facebook on Wednesday introduced video chatting inside its online social network through a deal with Skype, the Internet calling service. "
  • Allan Gyorke on 07 Jul 11
     
    Interesting partnership between two communication giants. Much of the rest of the article discusses this as a counter-attack on Google+. Honestly, this must have been in the works for a while, but it's also okay if it is true. When companies feel the need to innovate to stay competitive, users win.
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