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Education Needs a Digital-Age Upgrade - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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Simply put, we can’t keep preparing students for a world that doesn’t exist.
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we are blinding ourselves to the world as it is. And then we’re punishing students for our blindness.
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Teachers and professors regularly ask students to write papers. Semester after semester, year after year, “papers” are styled as the highest form of writing. And semester after semester, teachers and professors are freshly appalled when they turn up terrible.
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SXSW 2011: The internet is over | Technology | The Guardian - 0 views
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Rather – and this is a technological point, but also a philosophical one – they herald the final disappearance of the boundary between "life online" and "real life", between the physical and the virtual.
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days of "the internet" as an identifiably separate thing may be behind us.
The Digital Revolution and Higher Education | Pew Social & Demographic Trends - 0 views
Social media savvy: the universities and academics leading the way | Higher Education N... - 0 views
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David White makes the distinction between people who choose to integrate online activity into their working life to a high degree (digital residents), and people who choose to use technology for selective, short-term activities and then log off (digital visitors).
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digital technologies can enhance three core areas of academic practice: accessing, searching and sifting information; communicating with others; and building peer-to-peer networks.
Technology and Teaching Writing | Inside Higher Ed - 1 views
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online writing environments do not magically produce better student writing — or better teaching practices — but can allow for practice with different composing and teaching skills, which can lead to better writing, teaching, and administering depending on the form (for example awareness of audio, visual, and design considerations).
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One of the biggest pedagogical effects this approach has had on my teaching is to allow my classroom to become, more than ever, a real artistic writing studio
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But this is where the ubiquitous collaborative pedagogy espoused and practiced by writing teachers everywhere helps. Since so much of what we do in my writing classes involves students helping students — as well as themselves — take more responsibility for each other’s writing processes,
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