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Keith Hamon

Education Week: Schools Blend Virtual and Face-to-Face Teaching - 0 views

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  • Keith Hamon on 22 Sep 10
     
    Blended, or hybrid, learning has caught the eye of many looking into the potential of online learning, especially after the release of a meta-analysis and review of online-learning research by the U.S. Department of Education in May 2009. The authors found that "instruction combining online and face-to-face elements had a larger advantage" than either purely online or entirely face-to-face instruction.
Keith Hamon

Many Eyes - 1 views

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  • Keith Hamon on 11 Oct 11
     
    A data visualization tool from IBM.
Stephanie Cooper

May, 1998, From Now On - 1 views

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  • it is reckless and irresponsible to continue requiring topical "go find out about" research projects in this new electronic context. To do so extends an invitation (perhaps even a demand) to "binge" on information.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 28 Jun 10
       
      I agree that too many research assignments encourage plagiarism. Stopping plagiarism begins with crafting better research assignments.
    • Stephanie Cooper
      Stephanie Cooper on 28 Jun 10
       
      True. This definitely needs to be addressed at the beginning of our workshop as a "what not to do."
  • Little thinking is required. This is information gathering at its crudest and simplest level.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 28 Jun 10
       
      An assignment that requires little thinking will encourage plagiarism.
  • Students become producers of insight and ideas rather than mere consumers.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 28 Jun 10
       
      This is the key to avoiding plagiarism: providing students with a real situation (writer's role, reader's need, real-world problem) that demands the student be a producer of information rather than a repackager and redistributor of information.
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  • questions worth asking
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 28 Jun 10
       
      Questions are never automatically worth asking; rather, they are always worth asking for someone specifically. Questions should be have value for the students.
  • While some claim that "There are no new ideas under the sun," our students must learn how to apply some extra color or tone it down. They must learn to see the underlying structure and then construct or deconstruct the original until it shimmers with originality.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 28 Jun 10
       
      Even if there are no new ideas to express, there are new ideas to express to a given audience. Our research assignments too often leave out audience-always to the detriment.
  • We show students how to take notes with a database program.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 28 Jun 10
       
      Evernote is a useful online note-taking tool.
  • we keep an eye on the note-taking and idea development as they evolve.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 28 Jun 10
       
      Too many teachers ignore this phase because of the administrative overhead suggested; however, it is much easier & less burdensome to do this online than on paper.
  • We build our programs around what I called The Prime Questions in the October, 1997 issue of From Now On, "The Question is the Answer:" http://fno.org/oct97/question.html Why How Which is best? We transform topical research into projects which demand that students move past mere gathering of information to the construction of new meanings and insight. Example: Instead of asking why events turned out particular ways in our past (a question fraught with plagiaristic opportunities since historians have probably already offered answers), we might ask students to hypothesize why various outcomes did not occur. Example: Instead of asking how we might protect an endangered species whose chances have already been improved (the bald eagle), we might focus on one which no one has managed to protect (various Australian marsupials, for example). Example: Instead of asking students to study a single country or city, we might ask them to decide which is best for various purposes (the Winter Olympics, a university degree, the building of a theme park, etc.).
  • Keith Hamon on 28 Jun 10
     
    Under the old system of "go find out about" topical research, it took students a huge amount of time to move words from the encyclopedia pages onto white index cards. The New Plagiarism requires little effort and is geometrically more powerful.
  • Stephanie Cooper on 28 Jun 10
     
    Under the old system of "go find out about" topical research, it took students a huge amount of time to move words from the encyclopedia pages onto white index cards. The New Plagiarism requires little effort and is geometrically more powerful.
Keith Hamon

Reflections on open courses « Connectivism - 0 views

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  • MOOCs reduce barriers to information access and to the dialogue that permits individuals (and society) to grow knowledge.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 26 Aug 10
       
      We have yet to truly explore this reduction of barriers to information access, but it is emerging before our eyes. When lectures by Nobel-prize physicists and writers are online for free, then what do we local physics and English teachers have to offer our classrooms? We need to think through that.
  • Knowledge is a mashup. Many people contribute. Many different forums are used. Multiple media permit varied and nuanced expressions of knowledge. And, because the information base (which is required for knowledge formation) changes so rapidly, being properly connected to the right people and information is vitally important.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 26 Aug 10
       
      This captures nicely the shift from learning as a solitary activity within the individual mind to learning as a networked, interconnected activity within a personal learning network.
  • MOOCs share the process of knowledge work – facilitators model and display sensemaking and wayfinding in their discipline. They respond to critics, to challenges from participants in the course. Instead of sharing only their knowledge (as is done in a university course) they share their sensemaking habits and their thinking processes with participants. Epistemology is augmented with ontology.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 26 Aug 10
       
      Online, our knowledge-making becomes explicit, and we shift from traditional teaching methods back to older apprenticeship methods. We let our students see us struggle to create new knowledge out of data and experience.
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    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 26 Aug 10
       
      This suggests some of the new kinds of value that teachers can bring to their local classes.
  • Keith Hamon on 26 Aug 10
     
    Siemens' thoughts about the impact of open courses on learning and the Academy.
Keith Hamon

Personal Learning Network - 2 views

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  • An important part of learning is to build your own personal learning network -- a group of people who can guide your learning, point you to learning opportunities, answer your questions, and give you the benefit of their own knowledge and experience.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 23 Jul 10
       
      Okay, so PLNs as an educational concept have been around for a while, at least since 1998. And not just in education, but in the "real world." The significant change today is that we cannot speak of PLNs without talking about online networks.
  • we are all inundated with data (Stage 1) -- all those manuals, brochures, memos, letters, reports, and other printed material that cross our field of vision every day, not to mention all that we receive electronically
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 23 Jul 10
       
      Data overload has simply been complicated and exacerbated by the Internet. We have WAY more data than we can possibly deal with. We have moved from an age of information scarcity to information glut.
  • when you take data and give it relevance and purpose, you create information. Information (Stage 2) is the minimum we should be seeking for all of our learning activities.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 23 Jul 10
       
      This is a key component of QEP: to find ways to make the class data relevant and purposeful information-purposeful beyond simply making a good grade. We suspect that most students never move beyond memorizing the class data so that they can repeat it on the test and then forget it. They never turn the data into useful and purposeful information, much less turn the data into knowledge or wisdom.
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  • Even when we have information, we must use that information by applying it to our work before we can say we "know it." Until we use it, it remains information. Knowledge (Stage 3) comes from applying information to our work. This is the stage at which most company training programs fail -- too often the content of company training programs never gets applied to the employee's work. To me, this means that the investment in that training is totally wasted.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 23 Jul 10
       
      Applying information to our work is the tricky part for students: as most of them do not yet sense that they have any real work. QEP is looking for ways to turn their data processing into knowledge management.
  • Wisdom (Stage 4), that most precious possession, comes from adding intuition and experience to knowledge.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 23 Jul 10
       
      I think that many believe wisdom is beyond the reach of most classrooms, but I'm not willing to give up on it. However, it means that we must provide real, relevant experiences in class through which the student can develop wisdom.
  • This is why having a personal learning network is so important -- to provide us not only with pointers to sources of information, but to answer questions, to coach us, to reinforce our learning when we try to apply it to our work.
  • First, we must sort through all of the available data to find only that information that is relevant to our learning needs and for which we have a purpose.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 23 Jul 10
       
      Too often missing from our classes, which too seldom address a common question among students: how will I use this in the future?
  • Once we have gathered and learned the needed information, we need to apply it to our work in order to transform it into our personal knowledge.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 23 Jul 10
       
      Applying new data to our own work to transform it into personal knowledge. This is as fine a statement of the aims of QEP as I can think of: we use online writing to help students create PLNs as engines for churning the data they are exposed to in their classes into personal knowledge.
  • Who should be in your personal learning network? The members of your network do not need to be people with whom you work directly. In fact, you do not even need to know the people personally. The members of your network should be people, both inside and outside of your work group and your company, who have the knowledge that you are trying to master and who are willing to share their knowledge and experience with you.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 23 Jul 10
       
      A student's PLN should, of course, include fellow class students and the teacher, but also students, teachers, experts, friends, and others outside the class. We do that online.
  • To establish a learning network, you can ask other people in your group, or with whom you have gone through a training program, to participate in periodic discussions as you all try to implement a new way of working, to support each other and share experiences with each other. Most people are happy to help -- people generally like to talk about their own work and are honored to be asked to share their knowledge and wisdom.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 23 Jul 10
       
      This is a key to social networks: most people LIKE getting together, talking about common interests, and sharing what they know. We need to connect our students to such networks-connectivity, connectivism.
  • the value of knowledge increases when you share it with others.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 23 Jul 10
       
      We need to explore when knowledge is best considered a cooperative, connect-and-collaborate property and when it is best considered a competitive, command-and-control property. When should knowledge be part of the Commons and when should it be proprietary? What about on a test? What about in an essay or research document?
  • Building a personal learning network is requires that you not only seek to learn from others, but also that you also help others in the network learn.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 23 Jul 10
       
      The principle of reciprocity is a key element in building PLNs, and one that most students never learn in grade school, where they are kept in their seats, eyes on their own work, hands to themselves, and forbidden to talk to their colleagues. Who could possibly run a real organization with those rules? It's a model of behavior for an assembly line worker, but not a knowledge worker. Why do our schools have this mismatch?
  • A personal learning network can be your most powerful learning tool no matter what the subject.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 23 Jul 10
       
      This one sentence should be in all correspondence, advertisements, and discussions about QEP.
  • Keith Hamon on 23 Jul 10
     
    An important part of learning is to build your own personal learning network -- a group of people who can guide your learning, point you to learning opportunities, answer your questions, and give you the benefit of their own knowledge and experience.
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