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Maggie Verster

The effect of Twitter on college student engagement and grades - 0 views

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  • Maggie Verster on 23 Mar 11
     
    "Despite the widespread use of social media by students and its increased use by instructors, very little empirical evidence is available concerning the impact of social media use on student learning and engagement. This paper describes our semester-long experimental study to determine if using Twitter - the microblogging and social networking platform most amenable to ongoing, public dialogue - for educationally relevant purposes can impact college student engagement and grades. A total of 125 students taking a first year seminar course for pre-health professional majors participated in this study (70 in the experimental group and 55 in the control group). With the experimental group, Twitter was used for various types of academic and co-curricular discussions. Engagement was quantified by using a 19-item scale based on the National Survey of Student Engagement. To assess differences in engagement and grades, we used mixed effects analysis of variance (ANOVA) models, with class sections nested within treatment groups. We also conducted content analyses of samples of Twitter exchanges. The ANOVA results showed that the experimental group had a significantly greater increase in engagement than the control group, as well as higher semester grade point averages. Analyses of Twitter communications showed that students and faculty were both highly engaged in the learning process in ways that transcended traditional classroom activities. This study provides experimental evidence that Twitter can be used as an educational tool to help engage students and to mobilize faculty into a more active and participatory role."
Ed Webb

Study Shows Students Are Addicted to Social Media | News | Communications of the ACM - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 27 Apr 10 - Cached
  • most college students are not just unwilling, but functionally unable to be without their media links to the world. "I clearly am addicted and the dependency is sickening," says one person in the study. "I feel like most people these days are in a similar situation, for between having a Blackberry, a laptop, a television, and an iPod, people have become unable to shed their media skin."
  • what they wrote at length about was how they hated losing their personal connections. Going without media meant, in their world, going without their friends and family
  • they couldn't connect with friends who lived close by, much less those far away
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  • "Texting and IM-ing my friends gives me a constant feeling of comfort," wrote one student. "When I did not have those two luxuries, I felt quite alone and secluded from my life. Although I go to a school with thousands of students, the fact that I was not able to communicate with anyone via technology was almost unbearable."
  • students' lives are wired together in such ways that opting out of that communication pattern would be tantamount to renouncing a social life
  • "Students expressed tremendous anxiety about being cut-off from information,"
  • How did they get the information? In a disaggregated way, and not typically from the news outlet that broke or committed resources to a story.
  • the young adults in this study appeared to be generally oblivious to branded news and information
  • an undifferentiated wave to them via social media
  • 43.3 percent of the students reported that they had a "smart phone"
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Maggie Verster

Ed/ITLib Digital Library → IJEL 9:1 Table of Contents - 1 views

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shared by Maggie Verster on 04 Dec 09 - Cached
  • Maggie Verster on 04 Dec 09
     
    -Mentoring Professors: A Model for Developing Quality Online Instructors and Courses in Higher Education -Web-Based vs. Paper-Based Homework to Evaluate Students' Performance in Introductory Physics Courses and Students' Perceptions: Two Years Experience -E-Learning in Undergraduate Humanities Classes: Unpacking the Variables -Student Participation Patterns in Online Discussion: Incorporating Constructivist Discussion into Online Courses -Elements of Problem-Based Learning: Suggestions for Implementation in the Asynchronous Environment -Creating an Innovative Learning Organization -Assessment in Online Programs: Use in Strategic Planning for Faculty/Adjunct Development and Course Instruction to Improve Faculty and Student Engagement
anonymous

British universities need urgent reform - 1 views

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shared by anonymous on 27 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • British universities are undergoing an identity crisis
  • They no longer relate comfortably to schools, parents, students, would-be students, the examination system, the education marketplace, the British government – or each other.
  • As we report today, as many as one in five universities is staging its own entrance exam because it no longer trusts the state's A-levels to distinguish between averagely bright and very bright pupils: teenagers from both these groups routinely arrive on their doorsteps with grades worthy of a Nobel prize winner.
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  • Clearly, they are here to stay – unless the Government summons up the nerve to reform education far more radically than it is already doing.
  • Tuition fees reflect fast-changing circumstances that will force good universities to raise the academic as well as the financial bar in order to compete internationally. As they do so, they will increasingly question the arguments for remaining shackled to a British state that not only genuflects in front of the altar of egalitarianism (albeit a bit less piously than before) but also, as we are reminded again today, cannot even devise a proper set of exams for sixth-formers.
  • anonymous on 27 Dec 10
     
    Telegraph View: British universities no longer know exactly what they are and what they are for. - British universities are undergoing an identity crisis. They no longer know exactly what they are and what they are for, now that social engineering has stretched the definition of "university" to breaking point. They no longer relate comfortably to schools, parents, students, would-be students, the examination system, the education marketplace, the British government - or each other. Every week brings fresh evidence of the weakening of these bonds, even in the middle of the Christmas holidays. - As we report today, as many as one in five universities is staging its own entrance exam because it no longer trusts the state's A-levels to distinguish between averagely bright and very bright pupils: teenagers from both these groups routinely arrive on their doorsteps with grades worthy of a Nobel prize winner...
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Ed Webb

Practical Advice for Teaching with Twitter - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Educa... - 1 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 27 Aug 10 - Cached
  • In my own classes I've been deliberately vague about what students should tweet about. I didn’t want overly prescriptive guidelines to constrain what might be possible. Instead, I wanted our integration of Twitter to evolve organically. Given this open-ended invitation, I’ve found students tend to use Twitter for class in three ways: to post news and share resources relevant to the class; to ask questions and respond with clarifications about the readings; and to write sarcastic, irreverent comments about the readings or my teaching. The first two behaviors add to the community spirit of the class and help to sustain student interest across the days and weeks of the semester. The third behavior, when I first noticed it, was an utterly unexpected finding. (And as I've argued elsewhere, it was a good, powerful surprise that legitimated my use of Twitter in and outside of the classroom. I saw students take an oppositional stance in their writing—a welcome reprieve from the majority of student writing, which avoids taking any stance at all.)
  • I strongly recommend creating a permanent Twitter archive. A free service such as TwapperKeeper will track a specified hashtag, collecting the tweets 24/7, and you simply return to TwapperKeeper any time to download the archive. It's so easy to use that I've begun creating TwapperKeeper archives for any hashtag there's even the slightest chance I'll be interested in revisiting later. Another useful archiving tool is called, appropriately enough, The Archivist.
Ed Webb

The Wired Campus - Do Students Cheat More in Online Classes? Maybe not. - The Chronicle... - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 16 Sep 09 - Cached
  • You can’t make any sweeping generalizations based on the results
  • older students tend to cheat less frequently than younger students
  • If you are interested in this topic, look for the interesting edited book called Student Plagiarism in an Online World: http://www.igi-global.com/reference/details.asp?ID=7031&v=tableOfContentsI wrote a chapter called, "Expect Originality! Using Taxonomies to Structure Assignments that Support Original Work." In it I discuss the complexities of plagiarism in the context of a digital culture of sharing and suggest that it is rarely black and white. I propose a continuum with intentional academic dishonesty on one end and original work on the other, with gradations in between. Based on my own research and teaching experience, I believe the instructional design and style of teaching can either make it easy-- or very difficult-- to cheat.
Maggie Verster

ICT Mindtools -a collection of tech tools that engage users in higher order thinking. - 0 views

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shared by Maggie Verster on 31 May 09 - Cached
  • Maggie Verster on 31 May 09
     
    By ICT Mindtools I refer to ICT tools that necessarily engage users in higher order thinking. Students cannot use Mindtools without thinking deeply about the task at hand. Mindtools require students to be creative and to think and make connections for themselves.
Katie Riley

10 Awesome Twitter Analytics and Visualization Tools | Twitter Tools and Tips for Twitt... - 5 views

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shared by Katie Riley on 15 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Katie Riley on 15 Oct 11
     
    Wow, what a great way to think critically about Twitter.  This reminds me of David Buckingham's book, Media Education.  In his book he offers suggestions for how to teach different media and how to think critically about the constructs of that media in society effect the students.  All of these Twitter tools would be a great way for students to consider how they use words in every day life!  This would help to create a very sophisticated analysis.  
Barbara Lindsey

A Self-Appointed Teacher Runs a One-Man 'Academy' on YouTube - Technology - The Chronic... - 3 views

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shared by Barbara Lindsey on 07 Jun 10 - Cached
  • Watching his videos highlights how little the Web has changed higher education. Many online courses at traditional colleges simply replicate the in-person model—often in ways that are not as effective. And what happens in most classrooms varies little from 50 years ago (or more). Which is why Mr. Khan's videos come as a surprise, with their informal style, bite-sized units, and simple but effective use of multimedia.
  • Mr. Khan has a vision of turning his Web site into a kind of charter school for middle- and high-school students, by adding self-paced quizzes and ways for the site to certify that students have watched certain videos and passed related tests. "This could be the DNA for a physical school where students spend 20 percent of their day watching videos and doing self-paced exercises and the rest of the day building robots or painting pictures or composing music or whatever," he said.
  • Barbara Lindsey on 07 Jun 10
     
    "Watching his videos highlights how little the Web has changed higher education. Many online courses at traditional colleges simply replicate the in-person model-often in ways that are not as effective. And what happens in most classrooms varies little from 50 years ago (or more). Which is why Mr. Khan's videos come as a surprise, with their informal style, bite-sized units, and simple but effective use of multimedia."
Ed Webb

ED announces student video contest - 1 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 28 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Ed Webb on 28 Sep 09
     
    To get students invested in their education, President Barack Obama and Education Secretary Arne Duncan have announced a new video contest
Barbara Lindsey

Pleased to Tweet You: Making a case for Twitter in the classroom - 12/1/2009 - School L... - 2 views

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  • Barbara Lindsey on 05 Jan 10
     
    PLNs for our students
Maggie Verster

School Board Bans Facebook, Twitter For Teachers - 0 views

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  • Maggie Verster on 10 Aug 09
     
    Read below for one teacher's dismayed reaction, and weigh in with your thoughts. Does this seem like a legitimate restriction for safety or other reasons, or an over-reaction that will hinder teacher-student communications?
  • Maggie Verster on 10 Aug 09
     
    Read one teacher's dismayed reaction, and weigh in with your thoughts. Does this seem like a legitimate restriction for safety or other reasons, or an over-reaction that will hinder teacher-student communications?
Ed Webb

How to Wake Up Slumbering Minds - WSJ.com - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 27 Jul 09 - Cached
  • what school requires students to do -- think abstractly -- is in fact not something our brains are designed to be good at or to enjoy
  • it is critical that the task be just difficult enough to hold our interest but not so difficult that we give up in frustration. When this balance is struck, it is actually pleasurable to focus the mind for long periods of time
  • Students are ready to understand knowledge but not create it. For most, that is enough. Attempting a great leap forward is likely to fail.
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  • students cannot apply generic "critical thinking skills" (another voguish concept) to new material unless they first understand that material
  • Trying to use "reading strategies" -- like searching for the main idea in a passage -- will be futile if you don't know enough facts to fill in what the author has left unsaid.
  • what is being taught in most of the curriculum -- at all levels of schooling -- is information about meaning, and meaning is independent of form
  • At some point, no amount of dancing will help you learn more algebra
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      Ed Webb on 27 Jul 09
       
      But if you learn dancing AND algebra, you may be better at both, or at least approach each in a more interesting way.
Maggie Verster

Teachers using Twitter, social media sites to engage students - 0 views

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  • Maggie Verster on 20 Nov 09
     
    "Teachers are getting lesson plan ideas from far-flung colleagues via Twitter. Skype conversations are being hosted in classrooms. And students are being introduced to social media and being schooled on how it can benefit them professionally."
Daniel Bernsen

kulturcrash - 0 views

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  • Daniel Bernsen on 06 Oct 10
     
    German history project with high school students using twitter for historical reenactment of the conquista
Maggie Verster

Twitter Increases Student Engagement [STUDY] - 2 views

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  • Maggie Verster on 05 Nov 10
     
    I told you sooo :-)
Ed Webb

Toughest college test: No cell phone, no Facebook | StarTribune.com - 1 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 15 Mar 10 - Cached
  • This story really sums up what it is to be a student right now in this century. I am actually a student of Professor LaMarre's and in this very class. My generation really does not know what it is like to be outside of this instant communication with friends and other people which has really deteriorated the true relationships people used to and were forced to build with one another. The ability to escape from everyone is impossible. I went to Mexico for 3 weeks over winter break to study and was not able to escape my parents need for me to be in contact through email or text... interesting to think about what it has done to parent/child relationships and especially our interpersonal relationships with significant others.
  • I moved to U.S. 2 decades ago. I came from a 3rd world country (it was at that time). But I had learned how to use the abacus, and do simple mulitiplication in my head. I'm sorry to say this but Americans are FAR behind on REAL education. While you guys play party games in schools and pass that as education. It is quite pathetic what America pass as an education in the public system. By the time I had caught up with English in my 2nd year in American school, I had realized how stupid American pubilc schools are and how inept they are. By 1st and 2nd grade I was memorizing simple mulitplication and division in my third world country. In U.S. kids don't even know what division is until 3rd grade. We didn't have Stadiums, auditoriums, computer labs, track and field track, swimming pool. We didn't even have central heat or air! We got our excercise out on a dirt field with some swings, bats and balls. What's the next generation going to do for a learning experience? "Walking to the mailbox" ??? Because in a few decades, America will be so fat and obese that it will be a revelation to all the fat americans, what it was like to actually walk to the mailbox.
  • Ed Webb on 15 Mar 10
     
    Reader comments enlightening.
Roger Zuidema

Education Week: Twitter Lessons in 140 Characters or Less - 2 views

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  • Roger Zuidema on 22 Oct 09
     
    Some teachers are experimenting with the popular microblogging tool as an effective way of distributing assignments and engaging students in content and collaborative lessons.
Ed Webb

Clive Thompson on the New Literacy - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 26 Aug 09 - Cached
  • The fact that students today almost always write for an audience (something virtually no one in my generation did) gives them a different sense of what constitutes good writing. In interviews, they defined good prose as something that had an effect on the world. For them, writing is about persuading and organizing and debating, even if it's over something as quotidian as what movie to go see. The Stanford students were almost always less enthusiastic about their in-class writing because it had no audience but the professor: It didn't serve any purpose other than to get them a grade.
  • The brevity of texting and status updating teaches young people to deploy haiku-like concision.
Caroline Jouneau-Sion

article : twitter in philosophy courses - 0 views

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  • Caroline Jouneau-Sion on 09 May 09
     
    A french philosophy teacher use twitter with his students
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