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Education Needs a Digital-Age Upgrade - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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education digital literacy digital pedagogy

shared by anonymous on 08 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • Simply put, we can’t keep preparing students for a world that doesn’t exist.
  • we are blinding ourselves to the world as it is. And then we’re punishing students for our blindness.
  • 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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      anonymous on 09 Aug 11
       
      Echoes a thought I had recently: What if the reason student writing seems so problematic isn't that we don't ask them to write enough, but that we ask them to write too much?
  • Ms. Davidson herself was appalled not long ago when her students at Duke, who produced witty and incisive blogs for their peers, turned in disgraceful, unpublishable term papers. But instead of simply carping about students with colleagues in the great faculty-lounge tradition, Ms. Davidson questioned the whole form of the research paper. “What if bad writing is a product of the form of writing required in school — the term paper — and not necessarily intrinsic to a student’s natural writing style or thought process?” She adds: “What if ‘research paper’ is a category that invites, even requires, linguistic and syntactic gobbledygook?”
  • “Online blogs directed at peers exhibit fewer typographical and factual errors, less plagiarism, and generally better, more elegant and persuasive prose than classroom assignments by the same writers.”
  • Even academically reticent students publish work prolifically, subject it to critique and improve it on the Internet.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 09 Aug 11
       
      For an example, look up the fan fiction movement.
  • A classroom suited to today’s students should deemphasize solitary piecework. It should facilitate the kind of collaboration that helps individuals compensate for their blindnesses, instead of cultivating them.
  • The new classroom should teach the huge array of complex skills that come under the heading of digital literacy. And it should make students accountable on the Web
anonymous

Should We Really ABOLISH the Term Paper? A Response to the NY Times | HASTAC - 0 views

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digital literacy digital pedagogy digital writing blogging teaching learning composition teaching writing

shared by anonymous on 29 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • I want my students to feel the power of writing, the power of their writing. Writing is communication.  It deserves an audience.  And that's the bottom line:  I don't want my students to see me as their audience.  I want them to leave my classes seeing the world as their potential audience.   
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Blogs Instead of Blackboard - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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shared by anonymous on 15 May 11 - Cached
  • anonymous on 15 May 11
     
    Good explanation of the benefits of using Wordpress for course management, instead of the institutional CMS.
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