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Yin Wah Kreher

Why I teach 'in the wild' | Teaching in the wild - 3 views

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Readings

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  • Teaching in the wild has not only allowed me to create my ‘own signature’, but it has empowered my students to learn about social media through using social media, and to leverage the web to create their own professional digital footprint.
  • Yin Wah Kreher on 21 Nov 14
     
    This #ccourses post Why I teach in the wild is about someone who uses the web to #TeachTheWeb (and everything else): http://t.co/c8szkMmExP - Laura Hilliger (@epilepticrabbit) November 17, 2014
Yin Wah Kreher

Harvard & MIT Sued for Lack of Online Video Captioning - 1 views

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online learning accessibility

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  • Yin Wah Kreher on 15 Feb 15
     
    the NAD laments that much of the universities' online media is published on platforms like YouTube, whose auto-captioning function is woefully insufficient for the hard of hearing. Food for thought.
anonymous

A New Pedagogy is Emerging... and Online Learning is a Key Contributing Factor | Contac... - 4 views

www.contactnorth.ca/...line-learning-key-contributing

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  • continuing development of new knowledge, making it difficult to compress all that learners need to know within the limited time span of a post-secondary course or program.
  • ncreased emphasis on skills or applying knowledge to meet the demands of 21st century society, skills such as critical thinking, independent learning, knowing how to use relevant information technology, software, and data within a field of discipline, and entrepreneurialism.
  • developing students with the skills to manage their own learning throughout life
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  • Today’s students have grown up in a world where technology is a natural part of their environment. Their expectation is that technology will be used where appropriate to help them learn, develop essential information and technology literacy skills, and master the technology fluency necessary in their specific subject domain.
  • Recent developments in digital technologies, especially web 2.0 tools such as blogs, wikis and social media, and mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets, have given the end user, the learner, much more control over access to and the creation and sharing of knowledge.
  • anonymous on 10 Feb 14
     
    Via Stephen Downes's recent post; a nice accessible summary discussion for non-techies about how technology is changing teaching. Good teaching resource, I think.
Tom Woodward

7 Science-Based Reasons to Use Emoticons - 2 views

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emoticon ole research

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  • Tom Woodward on 31 May 15
     
    look at these studies more deeply for possible OLE inclusion around community/conversation
Tom Woodward

@AcademicsSay: The Story Behind a Social-Media Experiment - Faculty - The Chronicle of ... - 0 views

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socialmedia twitter higher education chronicle

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  • Tom Woodward on 01 Jul 15
     
    "Over the past six months, @AcademicsSay has allowed me to recruit over 6,800 faculty and graduate students from over 60 countries to participate in three online studies on topics ranging from procrastination and impostor syndrome to work-life balance and burnout, resulting in one of the most comprehensive and international investigations of psychological well-being in academia to date. So beyond the account making my academic life maybe a bit less boring, perhaps the most important part of this experience for me has been the sobering realization of how deeply and widely these psychological challenges resonate with other academics and that I am in a unique position do something about it."
Joyce Kincannon

Jeffrey M. Keefer, Ph.D. ~ Organizational Learning & Social Media Strategy - Research &... - 1 views

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research teaching methods

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  • Joyce Kincannon on 04 Feb 15
     
    Tools and Instruments
Yin Wah Kreher

Can Students Have Too Much Tech? - NYTimes.com - 3 views

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technology_integration VCU Readings

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  • “Students who gain access to a home computer between the 5th and 8th grades tend to witness a persistent decline in reading and math scores,” the economists wrote, adding that license to surf the Internet was also linked to lower grades in younger children.In fact, the students’ academic scores dropped and remained depressed for as long as the researchers kept tabs on them. What’s worse, the weaker students (boys, African-Americans) were more adversely affected than the rest. When their computers arrived, their reading scores fell off a cliff.
  • We don’t know why this is, but we can speculate. With no adults to supervise them, many kids used their networked devices not for schoolwork, but to play games, troll social media and download entertainment. (And why not? Given their druthers, most adults would do the same.)
  • Babies born to low-income parents spend at least 40 percent of their waking hours in front of a screen — more than twice the time spent by middle-class babies. They also get far less cuddling and bantering over family meals than do more privileged children. The give-and-take of these interactions is what predicts robust vocabularies and school success. Apps and videos don’t.
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  • One Laptop Per Child
  • But the program didn’t live up to the ballyhoo.
  • it is worth the investment only when it’s perfectly suited to the task, in science simulations, for example, or to teach students with learning disabilities.
  • technology can work only when it is deployed as a tool by a terrific, highly trained teacher.
  • Yin Wah Kreher on 02 Feb 15
     
    link to ECAR findings
Tom Woodward

Reddit and suicide intervention: How social media is changing the cry for help, and the... - 0 views

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reddit socialmedia suicide depression culture weekly

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  • Tom Woodward on 04 Mar 15
     
    "Now, nearly 35,000 people are subscribed to SuicideWatch. Related subreddit, or sub, StopSelfHarm has 4,500 members; MakeMeFeelBetter has 15,000; the depression sub, which shares some moderators with SuicideWatch, has more than 100,000 subscribers. "
Joyce Kincannon

Daring Conversations: Searching for a Shared Language - Hybrid Pedagogy - 0 views

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design shared language pedagogy conversations research onlinelearning

shared by Joyce Kincannon on 21 Nov 14 - No Cached
  • Besides the blossoming and potentially chaotic dialogue amongst disciplines, our passionately specialized discourse must also consider the actual everyday world of our students. No matter how young students may be, they bring their own life histories, personalities, interests, and wishes to the classroom. They bring their own, unique perspective of the world, shaped in ways that — as we faculty members grow older — may become potentially elusive to us. Fifteen or so years ago, the elephant in the room was the internet. Then it was technology in the classroom (remember them blogs and clickers?). Today, the buzz words are “social media” and “apps.” Tomorrow, who knows?
  • Joyce Kincannon on 21 Nov 14
     
    "Research and its potentially competitive nature also pose a challenge, in that it fosters an individualistic and protective attitude during the gestation of ideas. In contrast, for Borges, originality is a vain illusion: being original is simply impossible. Rather, instead of becoming obsessed about developing a unique voice, the writer should pay homage to his precursors, lose himself by imitating the writers he admires, seek and enjoy the connections between seemingly old and new ideas, reveal or interpret their transformation. In short, the writer should first be a passionate, insightful reader. Along the same lines, American composer George Perle, coined the expression "the listening composer," alluding precisely to the mandatory connection between the timeless continuum and the individual creative spirit, each nurturing the other. "
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