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Collaborative Learning for the Digital Age - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Hi... - 1 views

  • On the Internet, everything links to everything, and all of it is available all the time.
  • Unfortunately, current practices of our educational institutions—and workplaces—are a mismatch between the age we live in and the institutions we have built over the last 100-plus years.
  • "Participatory learning" is one term used to describe how we can learn together from one another's skills. "Cognitive surplus" is another used in the digital world for that "more than the sum of the parts" form of collaborative thinking that happens when groups think together online.
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  • "collaboration by difference." Collaboration by difference is an antidote to attention blindness
  • Research indicates that, at every age level, people take their writing more seriously when it will be evaluated by peers than when it is to be judged by teachers.
  • 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.
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    On the Internet, everything links to everything, and all of it is available all the time.
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Better Googling - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 2 views

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The Group Rumbler - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

  • The GRumbler allows you to define up to five variables in addition to gender that can be used to map conflicts in sorting students into groups.
  • t then calculates the best ways to sort the students according to number desired in each group; whether you want gender to be balanced, clustered, or random; and the additional variables you’ve defined
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ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

  • get students used to the idea that they should turn to the information technology services office on campus for help rather than to me
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    Easy First Tasks for Students 
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New Social Software Tries to Make Studying Feel Like Facebook - Technology - The Chroni... - 0 views

  • Students live on Facebook. So study tools that act like social networks should be student magnets—and maybe even have an academic benefit.
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Using Google Docs Forms to Run a Peer-Review Writing Workshop - ProfHacker - The Chroni... - 1 views

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    Today in my literary theory and writing course I found yet another great use for Google Docs, one of our favorite subjects here at ProfHacker. Specifically, I used Google Docs Forms to structure an in-class peer review workshop.
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Scrible: A New Tool for Web Annotation - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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    A New Tool for Web Annotation
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