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Ted Curran

Personal Learning Networks - WikiPODia - 0 views

  • The term "personal learning network" (PLN) frequently refers to a changing set of people and tools one uses to engage in continuing, informal professional development.
Ted Curran

The Net Generation's Informal and Educational Use of New Technologies | in education - 0 views

  • undergraduates in this group are high users of new technologies in their daily lives
  • the 18-24 year olds in this group were consumers, not producers of content using new technologies – few had created blogs (47%), wikis (16%) and podcasts (8%).
  • it is also important that students be critical consumers of online content, are able to assess the value of content, and are able to put it to good use in their academic endeavors
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  • The research reviewed reported that 18-24 year olds do not transfer their expertise with technologies to academic contexts
  • students in this group use Instant Messenger when completing assignments, and Google Docs for archiving and group work, even if their professors are unfamiliar with Google Docs
  • The findings of this pilot survey, along with the research reviewed, indicate that undergraduates’ application of new technologies for academic purposes can be likened to the five stages of technology adoption – Awareness, Adoption, Adaption, Appropriation, and Invention - reported in the Apple Classrooms of Tomorrow research
  • undergraduates’ creation of online content for educational purposes was low in both this and prior research
  • a small sample of 26 undergraduates of education at an urban private university in 2008, and can therefore not be generalized to all other contexts
Ted Curran

Prof. Jones's wiki / Class Notes Assignment - 0 views

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    An "out of the box" assignment for having students create class notes wiki-style.
Ted Curran

BarnRaising - Wiki Patterns - 0 views

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    "Barn Raising" is a technique you can use to jump-start the use of a wiki in your community. You get the community together and collaboratively build the site together, increasing buy-in and filling the wiki with useful material up front.
Ted Curran

Exam Questions: Outsourcing vs. Crowdsourcing - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Ed... - 0 views

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    This outlines how (and why) to let students create the final exam questions using wikis as a constructivist learning activity.
Ted Curran

Wiki-style finals - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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    Let the students write the test, wiki-style. A great discussion of this constructivist learning activity. 
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