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Joyce Kincannon

Why Apple is Good at Design | DMLcentral - 0 views

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design distributed cognition technology tools

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  • Joyce Kincannon on 17 Mar 15
     
    "Distributed cognition is a theory of mind that argues that cognition does not occur exclusively in individual brains but is distributed across an environment - an interlocking system consisting of tools, persons, and specific knowledge and tasks. One of the insights of this approach was to recognize that the deep interconnections of these cognitive ecologies have a profound impact on how people use and understand tools. As Edwin Hutchins puts it, a tool that is "easy to use" is simply a tool that fits into a particular cognitive ecology."
Jonathan Becker

"I want to break free." | More or Less Bunk - 0 views

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rees onlinelearning learning online LMS freedom

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  • Jonathan Becker on 14 Nov 14
     
    "I'm blaming the people who've decided that the lack of a single online system is a problem that somehow needs to be fixed - as if having a hundred professors teaching the same subject a hundred different ways was a problem that they ever would have thought of fixing during the pre-Internet age. Well, I want to break free, and I think that it's best for education if as many other faculty members as possible break free with me. "
Tom Woodward

Techniques for Unleashing Student Work from Learning Management Systems | MindShift - 1 views

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macguffin downes connected weekly

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  • Tom Woodward on 15 Feb 15
     
    "Stephen Downes, a co-creator of the first Connectivist learning environments, offers an even more radical framing: he argues that the content is a MacGuffin, the plot device in a Hitchcock movie that starts the story but ultimately proves unimportant. "
habuchanan

Innovation in US Medical Schools - 0 views

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  • habuchanan on 18 Feb 15
     
    A wave of change aims to produce young doctors who are better prepared to meet the demands of the nation's changing health-care system - using team based learning, more interactive and hands-on learning opportunities, etc. Great quote from the article: "We've replaced 'the sage on the stage' with 'the guide on the side,' "
sanamuah

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inline comments wordpress

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  • sanamuah on 26 Jan 16
     
    "Inline Comments adds your comment system to the side of paragraphs and other sections (like headlines and images) of your post. It performs native with WordPress comments."
Jonathan Becker

Meaningful, Moral, and Manageable? The Grading Holy Grail - Rice University Center for ... - 1 views

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Grading specifications rice cte grades

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  • Jonathan Becker on 19 Feb 16
     
    "When I first began teaching, I assumed my anxiety in each of these domains would eventually dissipate. I was certain that there had to be an approach to grading that was simultaneously meaningful, moral, and manageable, and that, with enough time and experimentation, I would eventually discover it. Yet the more I tried to get a handle on anxiety in one domain, the more I seemed to increase my anxiety in another. [1] I came to believe that the system was stacked against us. It had trapped us into a corner where, at best, we could maximize two goals at the expense of the third. Mirroring the "fast, good, cheap" meme that designers love so much, my pessimistic grading meme might look something like this:"
sanamuah

How To Make the Most of a Video Introduction for an Online Course -- Campus Technology - 4 views

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vcualtlab

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  • sanamuah on 18 Jun 15
     
    focuses on Moodle but has some interesting points on the general effect of course introduction videos on online student engagement/participation "Studies point to an introductory course video from the instructor welcoming students as being able to cause shifts in course evaluations and discussion postings. For that reason, instructors should consider creating short videos greeting the students"
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  • Jody Symula on 19 Jun 15
     
    Does anyone have experience using a platform such as Moodle which is mentioned in this article? I'm assuming there's a cost, but would be interested in the benefits (and downfalls of it).
  • Meriah Crawford on 20 Jun 15
     
    Jody, I've used Moodle as a student. It's free and open source. You'd just need a place to host it. Not sure if AltLab does that--but they should! I liked it, but didn't do a ton with it. This might be useful: http://elearning.guru/which-learning-management-system-comparing-blackboard-canvas-moodle-part-1-course-content/
  • Jody Symula on 24 Jun 15
     
    AH! Thank you, this is tremendous!
Yin Wah Kreher

Federated Education: New Directions in Digital Collaboration | Hapgood - 2 views

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VCU

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  • And my sense is that this sort of thing happens almost every day — someone somewhere has the information or insight you need but you don’t have access to it. Ten years from now you’ll solve the problem you’re working on and tell me about the solution and I’ll tell you — Geez, I could have told you that 10 years ago. How does this happen? Why does communication break? One answer to that is right in front of us. This is a letter, addressed to one person who might find it interesting. Clarke couldn’t have addressed it to the folks at APL because he didn’t know they would be interested.
  • Carol Goman calls this phenomenon “Unconscious Competence”. You don’t know the value of what you know. It’s not just that Clarke didn’t send his letter to the right people. It’s that Clarke didn’t think there was that much of interest to tell. He sent out that letter, but for the ten years before that that he had had that idea, he didn’t send letters to anyone.
  • There’s a broad feeling that social media has solved this problem. I think it’s solved a lot of it. But as I think we’ll see, there’s a lot left to improve.
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  • The first problem is that social media tends to get only a certain kind of idea down.
  • These platforms are conversational which makes us overly concerned with publishing interesting stuff.
  • But here’s the problem — I’m embedded within a pretty advanced group of people in educational technology. Ideas that we think are common might be revolutionary for others. But we’ll never produce posts or tweets about them because everyone in our clan already knows them.
  • And the stuff that we do produce assumes you share our background, so it’s not always readable outside our clan.
  • But for a nontrivial set of things if information is going to useful to the circles it moves to it is going to need to be recontextualized and reframed.
  • different technologies excel at different stages.
  • federated wiki which allows the sort of communal wiki experience, but also supports those earlier stages of the knowledge life cycle.
  • You’re looking for a system that produces what Polanyi called “spontaneous order”.
  • Minority voices are squelched, flame wars abound. We spend hours at a time as rats hitting the Skinner-esque levers of Twitter and Tumblr, hoping for new treats — and this might be OK if we actually then built off these things, but we don’t. We’re stuck in an attention economy feedback loop that doesn’t allow us silent spaces to reflect on issues without news pegs, and in which many of our areas of collaboration have become toxic, or worse, a toxic bureaucracy. We’re stuck in an attention economy feedback loop where we react to the reactions of reactions (while fearing further reactions), and then we wonder why we’re stuck with groupthink and ideological gridlock.
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