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Mathieu Plourde

Online students and teachers are no different from the rest of academia - 0 views

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    "I'm not a radical, or anti-establishment - I've loved and respected working at every university I've joined. I just happen to have moved into a different learning delivery model because I knew it would give me greater flexibility to continue with my academic interests and spend more time with my family. It's a model that fits around my life. That's something I share in common with my students. They aren't unusual either. They just choose to study online because the flexibility suits them. Online higher education means students can combine education with employment - often fast-tracking their careers as a result - or fit study around family commitments."
Mathieu Plourde

Can Twitter open up a new space for learning, teaching and thinking? - 0 views

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    "Fluidity, flexibility and responsiveness seem like important skills for students to develop as part of their learning. Apart from anything else, it's a great way to bring some additional life into lectures and encourage students to think about their online presence; something they inevitably will have, but which is usually separate from their learning."
Mathieu Plourde

6 Tips for Successful Mobile Video Assignments in the Classroom - 0 views

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    in the three years I've been teaching mobile video in a course titled "Information 3.0," even those students who initially say they are very familiar with video later admit that they learned a lot from repeated practice and application of video production skills. In other words, shooting and uploading video to YouTube alone does not a videographer make, at least not in my class of sixty undergraduates who come from any major on campus.
Mathieu Plourde

All Around ELI | Newark business reviews by and for English Language Institute students - 0 views

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    Great example of how to combine writing and culture in an open setting.
Mathieu Plourde

(RE)VITALIZE VISUALS » The Community Mural at Educon 2.5 - 0 views

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    I have somewhere around 25-30 pages of visual notes, which I will share in the next few days. For now, I wanted to share our community mural and the little video we created to introduce it to the world.
Mathieu Plourde

EduCon 2.5: Creating the Conditions for Structured Inquiry - 0 views

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    So my Sunday morning session at EduCon was entitled Beyond Googling: Building the Conditions for Structured Inquiry. The slide-deck is at the bottom of post. It was an evolution of a workshop I've done before, but my whole goal was to really think about the session on both the real and the meta-session level.
Mathieu Plourde

What's Missing From These Quotes? QR Codes Hide the Answers! - 0 views

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    "I made a series of posters that I often hang around the room when I facilitate workshops. It's fun for participants to get up and scan them at break time. Each poster features a quote about education or technology. Part of the quote or its author is missing and has been replaced with a QR code."
Mathieu Plourde

Georgia Tech and Coursera Try to Recover From MOOC Stumble - 4 views

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    Ms. Wirth had tried to use Google Docs to help the course's 40,000 enrolled students to organize themselves into groups. But that method soon became derailed when various authors began editing the documents. Things continued downhill from there; some students also had problems downloading certain course materials that had been added to the syllabus at the last minute. When the confusion continued, Georgia Tech decided to call a timeout.
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    This is an interesting article about the potential pitfalls, but no where did I see anything about the spirit of experimentation. When moving forward there are bound to be hiccups.
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    I really liked Ms Wirth - I was enjoying the lectures. The other students were so enthusiastic and eager to get started in the discussion groups. I guess it needed a different format? Maybe we need a course on how to design a MOOC. When the number of students start getting in the tens of thousands...small discussion groups are a little more complicated...It will be interesting to see how this moves forward.
Mathieu Plourde

Report from Educon 2.5: Empathy, Relationships and Entrepreneurship - 0 views

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    One could say that the entire Educon conference is centered around Empathy, just in the way it is structured as a conversation instead of a sit-and-get conference.
Mathieu Plourde

The Challenge of Technology - 0 views

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    In the end, skeptics like me have to admit that many technological breakthroughs are actually improvements over the old ways of doing things. Even if we're not particularly savvy ourselves, we must acknowledge that some of our colleagues use technology with great success, and that their efforts do much to further our collective enterprise. We must educate ourselves about the advantages of various technologies and have the courage to adopt what seems beneficial. Who knows? We might even get ourselves a smartphone for Christmas.
Mathieu Plourde

My Online PLN - 0 views

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    A person's PLN is an organizational system that absorbs multitudinous sources to aggregate content to aid facility and expedience. Yet, considering the PLN as a container for diverse information modules makes me think of the compartmentalization requisite for the human brain to process new learning. Might this be why PLNs have proven themselves to be so useful and seemingly congruent with our learning styles?
Mathieu Plourde

Five Presentation Mistakes Everyone Makes - 0 views

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    "We all know what it's like to sit through a bad presentation. We can easily spot the flaws - too long, too boring, indecipherable, what have you - when we watch others speak. The thing is, when we take the stage ourselves, many of us fall into the same traps."
Mathieu Plourde

If students designed their own school… it would look like this - 2 views

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    ""It's crazy that in a system that is meant to teach and help the youth there is no voice from the youth at all." That's the opening line in a video called "If students designed their own schools," about The Independent Project, a high school semester designed and implemented entirely by students."
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    This is a really remarkable project, all student driven and Deweyan in its roots.
Mathieu Plourde

Will the New Online Standardized Tests Be Different? - 1 views

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    "New high-tech standardized tests are coming soon to schools across the country, but will these new tests really revolutionize how we measure whether children are learning? The designers of the new tests, which a majority of states plan to adopt in two years, are allowing a sneak peek at sample questions."
Pat Sine

What Can 135 Million Video Gamers Add to Our Collective IQ? | MindShift - 2 views

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    "An estimated 135 million people play video games, spending three billion hours a week glued to a screen. But that's not necessarily bad news. In fact, playing video games may be part of an evolutionary leap forward, according to Howard Rheingold, educator and author of the book Net Smart: How to Thrive Online. Rather than characterizing them as hapless drones wasting time, Rheingold's book contends that this massive population of gamers is part of a growing group of "supercollaborators," as described by Jane McGonigal, director of game research and development at the Institute for the Future, who's interviewed in the book."
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    This is true for digital natives...my grandson is always on- line playing games with people he has never seen in person. I am not quite there yet! I still like to make eye contact -:)
Mathieu Plourde

How the presence of an uninformative photo makes a statement more believable - 0 views

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    When we're making a snap judgement about a fact, the mere presence of an accompanying photograph makes us more likely to think it's true, even when the photo doesn't provide any evidence one way or the other. In the words of Eryn Newman and her colleagues, uninformative photographs "inflate truthiness".
Pat Sine

Flat World Knowledge to Drop Free Access to Textbooks - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of... - 1 views

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    "Sometimes free costs too much. As of January 1, 2013, Flat World Knowledge, which used to describe itself as the world's largest publisher of free and open textbooks online, will no longer offer content at no charge."
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    There is no such thing as a "Free Lunch"
Mathieu Plourde

Students Cast Their Vote for President - 0 views

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    "Last week, we launched Edmodo Votes as a way for your students to participate in this year's election. We asked Edmodo educators to poll their students, in advance of election day, on who they think should be our next president. Today, the results are in! Votes have been tallied and the following shows the breakdown of how students would vote in this year's election*:"
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