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gary chinn

Will a Harvard Professor's New Technology Make College Lectures a Thing of the Past? - Education - GOOD - 3 views

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flip psutlt lecture

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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.
Cole Camplese

Rands In Repose: Hacking is Important - 2 views

www.randsinrepose.com/...hacking_is_important.html

hacking thinking organizations teams

shared by Cole Camplese on 15 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • “We’re barbarians, not bureaucrats!”
  • Hackers are allergic to process not because they don’t understand the value; they’re allergic to it because it violates their core values. These values are well documented in Zuckerberg’s letter: “Done is better than perfect”, “Code wins arguments”, and that “Hacker culture is extremely open and meritocratic”.
  • Reasonable people are often scared by the new. This is because reasonable people are not Barbarians and they are not hackers. They appreciate the predictable, profitable, and knowable world that comes with a well-defined process, and I would like to thank each and everyone of them because these people keep the trains running and on time. No one likes Barbarians because the Barbarian strategy is one at odds with civilization.
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  • Having never sat with one of these projects, I can only infer how they work, but when you see the results, you know for certain - these guys and gals are hacking. Their projects are the definition of ambition, you’ve never heard their names, they are small and fast-moving, and they are outsiders in their own company. Sound familiar?
  • Yes, there is internal jealously about the teams performing the wizardry that resulted in products like the iPad, the iPhone, and AppleTV. There are people wondering, Why wasn’t I invited to the hacking? Yes, this did create some elitism, but, for better or worse, the secrecy kept this discussion out of the mainstream.
  • Don’t for a moment think I don’t value these people, because I happen to be one of them, but I am also intimately aware that the people who grow the company are not same people who found it.
  • someone outside the company will invade, because they know what you forgot: hacking is important.
bkozlek

Chatbox - Project collaboration inside Dropbox - 1 views

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dropbox collaboration project

shared by bkozlek on 18 May 11 - No Cached
  • bkozlek on 18 May 11
     
    fruits of a weekend project from a team of developers. Cool idea and execution.
Cole Camplese

2010 Letter to Shareholders - 2 views

www.sec.gov/...dex991.htm

social amazon

shared by Cole Camplese on 29 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Invention is in our DNA and technology is the fundamental tool we wield to evolve and improve every aspect of the experience we provide our customers. We still have a lot to learn, and I expect and hope we’ll continue to have so much fun learning it. I take great pride in being part of this team.
  • nvention is in our DNA and technology is the fundamental tool we wield to evolve and improve every aspect of the experience we provide our customers. We still have a lot to learn, and I expect and hope we’ll continue to have so much fun learning it. I take great pride in being part of this team.
  • Cole Camplese on 29 Apr 11
     
    I like that statement quite a bit.  Would love to think about that as a starting point for the way we think about TLT.
  • bkozlek on 29 Apr 11
     
    Amazon had to invent its own technology to power its sales business. If you want to chart a new course for the ways things are done, you have to be willing to invent your own technology.
Allan Gyorke

Penn State Live - Garden of delights: The Arboretum at Penn State - 1 views

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mobility mobile learning ipad ipod college of education

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  • Chris Millet on 22 Jun 11
     
    A project out of College of Ed that ETS collaborated on.  This group created some augmented reality apps for the iPod and iPad to help young students (I believe 3rd or 4th grade) learn about their natural environment, in particular how to identify trees.  Pretty cool stuff.
  • Allan Gyorke on 28 Jun 11
     
    "During the event, faculty and staff led children through a variety of hands-on learning stations. For example, Zimmerman, along with Associate Professor of Education Susan Land and a team of six education graduate students, led a station titled, "Tree Investigators," in which they used iPads and iPods (provided by Penn State's Educational Technology Services) to give the kids an in-depth lesson on how to identify trees. "We used iPads to figure out what type of tree we were planting," said Collin Wayne, a student from Park Forest Elementary School, who attended the event. "We were in groups and we used a tree-finder app. You take a picture of a symbol and it tells you about the tree.""
  • Allan Gyorke on 28 Jun 11
     
    Penn State Live article about a College of Education project. Elementary school students used iPads and iPod Touches to interact with data about trees in the arboretum. We talked with Susan Land and Heather Zimmerman about the project and helped out by loaning them some equipment. Future partnerships with them are in the works.
Cole Camplese

Summit explores uses of technology in the classroom - The Daily Collegian Online - 1 views

www.collegian.psu.edu/...chnology_in_the_classroom.aspx

psutlt psuets liberalarts

shared by Cole Camplese on 16 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • The College of the Liberal Arts teamed up with Educational Technology Services and University Libraries to offer LASTS, a day of panels and peer-to-peer discussions centered on incorporating technology with both teaching and research.
gary chinn

How Big Can E-Learning Get? At Southern New Hampshire U., Very Big - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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E-Learning online

shared by gary chinn on 30 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • In a former textile mill in downtown Manchester, the university's president, Paul J. ­LeBlanc, has installed a team of for-profit veterans who help run a highly autonomous online outfit that caters to older students, with classes taught mostly by low-paid adjuncts. Their online operation is the institution's economic engine, subsidizing its money-losing undergraduate campus, known as University College, whose 2,350 students enjoy a new dining hall, Olympic-size pool, and small classes taught largely by full-time professors. "The traditional campus, in some ways, now has the resources to be even more traditional," Mr. LeBlanc says in his office on the suburban main campus, four miles from the online college. "And the nontraditional, with this split, has the ability to be even more nontraditional."
  • "It doesn't seem to me to be the 'disruptive innovation' that's going to transform things," says Richard Arum, a professor of sociology and education at New York University and one of the authors of Academically Adrift, a harsh critique of undergraduate learning. "It seems to me like just business as usual.
  • A lucrative one, too. With 7,000 online students, up from 1,700 four years ago, the College of Online and Continuing Education is on track to generate $73-million in revenues this year and more than $100-million next year. It posted a 41-percent "profit" margin in the 2011 fiscal year. The university plows the surplus into new buildings, employee salaries, financial aid at the traditional campus, and improvements in the online program.
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  • But can a mainstream organization harness a disruptive innovation? "With few exceptions," he writes in The Innovator's Dilemma, that approach has succeeded only when managers "set up an autonomous organization charged with building a new and independent business around the disruptive technology."
  • Ms. Cohen, the math professor, has felt that some online courses failed to match those offered face to face. She is in a unique position to judge, as a full-time professor who teaches both in classrooms and online, and who also serves on the Web college's curriculum committee. Visiting online classes in past years, she found personal interaction with students lacking. Online faculty were teaching without any tests, only assignments and discussion. "That's not teaching a math course," she says.
  • Nationally, undergraduates complement their educations with online classes, but little evidence exists that students under 23 are actively pursuing all or the majority of their study online, says Mr. Garrett, of Eduventures
  • gary chinn on 30 Aug 11
     
    very interesting article from the chronicle, touching on online teaching, innovation, instructional quality, faculty roles, and the needs of different student populations.
gary chinn

Reverse Instruction: Dan Pink and Karl's "Fisch Flip" | Connected Principals - 4 views

www.connectedprincipals.com/...1534

reverseinstruction flip Teaching

shared by gary chinn on 25 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • If kids can get the lectures, can get the content delivery and skill modeling as well (or often better) by computer lecture than in person, why do we have use precious class-time for this purpose?  Why do we, in the status quo,  replicate in person in our classrooms what is easily available elsewhere, the content delivery/skill modeling, and then have kids apply their learning to difficult problems at home, without us there to help? Increasingly,  education’s value-add is and will be in the coaching and troubleshooting when students are applying their learning, and in challenging students to apply their thinking to hands-on learning by doing and teaming:  so let’s have them do these things in class, not sit and listen.   We know that collaboration is a critical skill set which can’t be developed easily either on-line or at home alone– let’s have students learn it with us in our classrooms.   Let every classroom be a collaborative problem solving laboratory or studio.
  • gary chinn on 25 Apr 11
     
    not a new article, but I just found it. I think these kinds of strategies are good to have in mind when thinking through implications of lecture capture. "classroom flip" is one example, and a different spin on one that the Blended Learning Initiative at PSU explored; in this case, instruction would be delivered via video instead of text/graphics web pages, but the goal of freeing classroom time is the same.
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  • Allan Gyorke on 26 Apr 11
     
    That's one of the problems that we're having with the "lecture capture" term. In some of the scenarios that Chris Millet is putting together, faculty would be using the personal capture features to prepare learning materials for students (short bursts) and then use classroom time for discussion/debate/problems/group work. So then the question becomes how we design classrooms (or learning spaces or studios, labs, etc...) to support that kind of activity.
  • gary chinn on 26 Apr 11
     
    has great potential for mid-week short example problems or "muddiest point" videos as well. it seems like an important part of the roll-out would be communicating the possibilities beyond the straight lecture capture, many of which we've probably not thought of yet.
  • Allan Gyorke on 26 Apr 11
     
    Agreed there. I don't think we should even label it "lecture capture" if we can avoid that term. By the way, we are always looking for good Symposium speakers. If you happen to see someone who you think would be good to bring to a Penn State audience, the planning group would like to hear about it. Most of the ones we've had in the past few years have had a nice blend of an academic background, innovative thinking, understanding of cultural trends, have written popular books, and have excellent speaking skills. Dan Pink may be two into the workplace motivation side of things, but maybe not.
  • gary chinn on 27 Apr 11
     
    I think pink's an interesting guy & good writer. we actually emailed his reps when we were planning an innovation & engineering workshop because his book "drive" talks a good deal about mastery and that was a topic we were interested in. but the quote we received was ~$45k, which was over 3 times our speaker budget. who knows, though, he might have an ed discount. :) I always found esther hargittai's work to be very interesting, though she is perhaps too 'academic' for the purposes of the symposium.
  • Allan Gyorke on 27 Apr 11
     
    Yeah - no - that's a bit high. I'm not sure that he's the best choice anyway. Maybe we just buy some copies of his book instead.
  • gary chinn on 28 Apr 11
     
    I certainly don't envy the symposium planning group; it's a diverse audience, so finding a speaker who resonates with most attendees seems like a daunting task. as for the book, a few friends have told me that pink's 20 minute ted talk has pretty much everything that's in the book, save some examples. very interesting topic, though. would be good fodder for a 'book club' discussion. the other book that might be good for a group read is digital habitats: http://www.amazon.com/Digital-Habitats-stewarding-technology-communities/dp/0982503601/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1304001207&sr=1-1 there's info in there about communities of practice & technology stewardship that I really liked. who knows, perhaps Etienne Wenger could be an intriguing potential speaker? FYI, I have an extra copy of the book in my cube if anyone wants to borrow it.
bartmon

Built-in video editor for Team Fortress 2 - 0 views

www.teamfortress.com/replayupdate

games video

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  • bartmon on 06 May 11
     
    Kind of wild...TF2 now has the ability to not only record your in-game footage, but now edit it as well with some custom tech. Even more interesting, you can toggle the camera from FPS view, to 3rd person view, to a 'free roam' view, allowing you to get different angles out of replay. Figures they also have direct links to YouTube, tied the video making/editing to achievements, as well as offering special in-game items if youtube vids hit certain view thresholds.
Emily Rimland

Choosing a Citation Manager - 2 views

www.libraries.psu.edu/...choose_citation_mgr.html

citation zotero endnote mendeley refworks

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.
Cole Camplese

How one newspaper rebooted its workflow with Google Docs and WordPress - O'Reilly Radar - 3 views

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wordpress googleapps workflow

shared by Cole Camplese on 04 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • Cole Camplese on 04 Jul 11
     
    This could be altered to create a heck of an eLearning design workflow.
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  • Allan Gyorke on 05 Jul 11
     
    Very interesting. The screencast is helpful in understanding how they automated the connection between Google Docs and WordPress. I'm going to send this to Matt to make sure he sees it.
  • Matt Meyer on 05 Jul 11
     
    They definitely take it to the next level with the API from Gdocs into WordPress. Could be an interesting 'meth lab' experiment. The other big piece to such a system would be the media management integration element. Very cool stuff.
  • bkozlek on 05 Jul 11
     
    From the technical side, this is music to my ears given the bad place we are with some other of our other CMSes: "WordPress has a great API and it's very extendable - we've been able to easily change pretty much any part of the CMS without hacking the core, which allows us to maintain the integrity of the system."
  • bkozlek on 05 Jul 11
     
    how to stop worrying and embrace the google docs......
  • Allan Gyorke on 05 Jul 11
     
    Brad and Matt: can the two of you talk? When Matt and I discussed this, I suggested that we could give something like this a try with our Hot Team white papers as a test to see how the pieces would fit together.
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