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alexandra m. pickett

Reflections of a mooc unvirgin | E-Learning Provocateur - 0 views

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mooc-suggestions

shared by alexandra m. pickett on 12 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • alexandra m. pickett on 12 Mar 13
     
    "Suggestions for improvement To be fair, the cons that I have listed above are not unique to the EDCMOOC, nor to online learning in general. I remember similar problems from my uni days on campus. Nonetheless, they inform my following suggestions for improvement… Week 1 should be set aside as a social week to allow the happy greeters to get their social proclivities out of their systems. It may be tempting to set aside a pre-week for this purpose, but the truth is it will bleed into Week 1 anyway. The instructors need to be much more active in the discussions. I recommend they seed each week with a pinned discussion thread, which marks the official line of enquiry and discourages multiple (and confusing) threads emerging about the same concepts. More importantly, the instructors should actively prompt, prod, guide and challenge the participants to engage in critical analysis. Explication of the implications for e-learning must be the outcome. A moderator should delete the spam and ban the spammers. A support page and discussion thread should be dedicated to helping the lost souls, so that they don't pollute the rest of the course with their problems. All in all, I am glad to report my first mooc experience was a positive one. I won't rush out to do another one in a hurry, but that's simply because I know how demanding they are. But one thing's for sure, I will do another one at some stage. I look forward to it!"
Helen Lane

Visuwords™ online * Visual Dictionary, Visual Thesaurus - 0 views

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dictionary thesaurus visualization reference words english tools

shared by Helen Lane on 22 Oct 13 - Cached
  • Helen Lane on 22 Oct 13
     
    "Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Produce diagrams reminiscent of a neural net. Learn how words associate."
Jase Teoh

Cmaptools - 0 views

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concept map

shared by Jase Teoh on 19 Aug 14 - No Cached
  • Jase Teoh on 19 Aug 14
     
    Empowers users to construct, navigate, share and criticize knowledge models represented as concept maps
priyanshu1

Swiflearn - Benefits of Online Learning | Online Education | Online Tuition - 0 views

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  • priyanshu1 on 09 Sep 20
     
    Benefits of Online Learning. The concept of online learning and gaining knowledge through online tuition is on the rise from the last few years - Swiflearn.
alexandra m. pickett

New approaches to discussion boards aim for dynamic online learning experiences - 2 views

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shared by alexandra m. pickett on 15 Jul 19 - No Cached
  • Constructing a learning experience around collaboration as a means to deeper understanding.
  • initial post by Wednesday,
  • probing questions l
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  • cut in half
  • allows students to respond to discussion prompts with PowerPoint presentations, YouTube videos and concept maps in addition to written text.
  • “Compare your concept map to the rest of the class. What’s missing? What’s different?”
  • fewer
  • more in-depth,”
  • sking open-ended questions
  • goal
  • alking to each other
  • timely feedback
  • start their own threads
  • “advance the discussion.”
  • steering conversations
  • marks down
  • “cluster posting”
  • They’re not my
  • Voicethread
  • "single thread of conversation" that extends through the entire semester.
  • “a little pushback”
  • Discuss
alexandra m. pickett

Why Americans Are the Weirdest People in the World - 0 views

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shared by alexandra m. pickett on 03 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • In the end they titled their paper “The Weirdest People in the World?” (pdf) By “weird” they meant both unusual and Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic. It is not just our Western habits and cultural preferences that are different from the rest of the world, it appears. The very way we think about ourselves and others—and even the way we perceive reality—makes us distinct from other humans on the planet, not to mention from the vast majority of our ancestors. Among Westerners, the data showed that Americans were often the most unusual, leading the researchers to conclude that “American participants are exceptional even within the unusual population of Westerners—outliers among outliers.”
  • the “weird” Western mind is the most self-aggrandizing and egotistical on the planet: we are more likely to promote ourselves as individuals versus advancing as a group. WEIRD minds are also more analytic, possessing the tendency to telescope in on an object of interest rather than understanding that object in the context of what is around it. The WEIRD mind also appears to be unique in terms of how it comes to understand and interact with the natural world. Studies show that Western urban children grow up so closed off in man-made environments that their brains never form a deep or complex connection to the natural world.
  • metaphysical questions: Is my thinking so strange that I have little hope of understanding people from other cultures? Can I mold my own psyche or the psyches of my children to be less WEIRD and more able to think like the rest of the world? If I did, would I be happier?
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  • weird children develop their understanding of the natural world in a “culturally and experientially impoverished environment” and that they are in this way the equivalent of “malnourished children,” it’s difficult to see this as a good thing.
  • Cultures are not monolithic; they can be endlessly parsed. Ethnic backgrounds, religious beliefs, economic status, parenting styles, rural upbringing versus urban or suburban—there are hundreds of cultural differences that individually and in endless combinations influence our conceptions of fairness, how we categorize things, our method of judging and decision making, and our deeply held beliefs about the nature of the self, among other aspects of our psychological makeup.
  • If religion was necessary in the development of large-scale societies, can large-scale societies survive without religion?
  • research about fairness might first be applied to anyone working in international relations or development.
  • Those trying to use economic incentives to encourage sustainable land use will similarly need to understand local notions of fairness to have any chance of influencing behavior in predictable ways.
  • The historical missteps of Western researchers, in other words, have been the predictable consequences of the WEIRD mind doing the thinking.
alexandra m. pickett

A Neurologist Makes the Case for Teaching Teachers About the Brain | Edutopia - 0 views

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shared by alexandra m. pickett on 01 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • "Neuroscience should be required for all students [of education] . . . to familiarize them with the orienting concepts [of] the field, the culture of scientific inquiry, and the special demands of what qualifies as scientifically based education research." - Eisenhart & DeHaan, 2005
danfeinberg

National library of virtual manipulatives - 1 views

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Math manipulatives

shared by danfeinberg on 14 Jul 10 - Cached
  • danfeinberg on 14 Jul 10
     
    A library of interactive, web-based virtual manipulatives or concept tutorials, mostly in the form of Java applets, for mathematics instruction
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