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Author David Thornburg explores the importance of a balanced learning environment. An article by The Atlantic sums up his main ideology. http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2013/11/lectures-didnt-work-in-1350-and-they-still-dont-work-today/281514/

Deirdre DeAngelis began a detailed investigation into why, ultimately, New Dorp's students were failing. By 2008, she and her faculty had come to a singular answer: bad writing. Students' inability to translate thoughts into coherent, well-argued sentences, paragraphs, and essays was severely impeding intellectual growth in many subjects. Consistently, one of the largest differences between failing and successful students was that only the latter could express their thoughts on the page.

This is not so much a counter-response to the Flipped Classroom model, but instead a reminder that using what works from both models--Flipped or Traditional-- should be the teacher's goal.

To be read with "From the Campfire to the Holodeck: Creating Engaging and Powerful 21st Century Learning Environments"

An article discussing the ways lectures are still beneficial to the classroom and the elements that a good lecture should consist of.

The title says it all

This article is about 5 steps you can take, as a writing teacher, to digitize your writing workshop. There are many more, though, so "stay tuned" for future articles!

"A Gift Circle can be autocatalytic."

This course, with 36 undergraduates, was one of twenty-five new interdisciplinary courses approved by my institution to address "new problems" facing society and to experiment with new teaching and learning strategies. The goals of the class are to use and evaluate various social media in the contexts of information production, sharing, consumption, teaching, and learning. Since the course is open to all majors, one of my goals as a journalism professor is to tap a diverse group of students to gain a better understanding of how digital information and social media are utilized in different disciplines. This "hybrid" course combines class meetings with the use of more than ten different social media tools during the 12-week semester. Some tools take the place of more traditional teaching methods such as papers and written exams.

We've found two main ways of setting out wave as a a project management tool. In the picture below each white box is a wavelett, and each grey box is a blip (reply). Each style has its advantage, and I've found that the main factor influencing which style we choose, is the size of the project we're taking on.

Teachers are starting to explore the potential of blogs, media-sharing services and other social software - which, although not designed specifically for e-learning, can be used to empower students and create exciting new learning opportunities.

If [x] is going to change teaching practice at scale, then [x] needs to be easy, fun, and free for both the teacher and her students. [x] needs to be all three of those things at the same time.

Explores 2 questions about connectivism.

Kelli Marshall's blog is a candid and detailed post on using Twitter as a discussion tool in some of the film courses Marshall has taught. She explains that while some students have resisted using the site, they have generally produced great comments about the course's content and have participated in thoughtful conversations, even beyond the classroom.