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Keith Hamon

Nik's Learning Technology Blog: Free Downloads - 1 views

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    A collection of tech resources, tutorials, and guides, especially for teaching English. You can download all of these documents free of charge or read them online.
Keith Hamon

How Do You Teach Networking? - Do Your Job Better - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 1 views

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    If business happens through networking, then what should I be doing to help my students understand both why, and how, to network? Do I have an obligation to teach the importance of networking to students in my English courses, or can I safely leave that lesson to my colleagues in the business department?
Thomas Clancy

Math learning software and other technology are hurting education. - Slate Magazine - 0 views

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    Now I KNOW this article is about MATH and not writing, but please skim/read it over and apply what is being said here to what we know about the teaching of English -- grammar and writing -- and how we have our favored "old" way of learning and teaching and how that often contrasts with new and "improved" methods that we see.
Stephanie Cooper

Twitter Fiction. Really! - 1 views

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    An interesting way to use Twitter in an English class...
Keith Hamon

Mapping Novels with Google Earth - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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    The use of models and other abstract forms in literary study has recently seen a revival in a digital age that puts data and sophisticated data management systems in the hands of the literary scholar, teacher, and student. Pedagogical applications of these abstract models are rich with possibility for the literary classroom, and offer exciting opportunities for engaging non-English majors and non-traditional learners in the advanced study of literature, as well as challenging students to verbally articulate visual and spatial knowledge.
Keith Hamon

Princeton Professor Gains Cult Status With 3,200 Essays on Facebook - Wired Campus - Th... - 1 views

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    This Princeton English professor has written more than 3,200 short essays on Facebook and shared them with his students.
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Keith Hamon

Reflections on open courses « Connectivism - 0 views

  • MOOCs reduce barriers to information access and to the dialogue that permits individuals (and society) to grow knowledge.
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      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.
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      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.
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      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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      This suggests some of the new kinds of value that teachers can bring to their local classes.
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    Siemens' thoughts about the impact of open courses on learning and the Academy.
Stephanie Cooper

About 1 in 5 Students Need Remedial Help in College - TheApple.com - 1 views

  • Just 18% of last year’s high school graduates in Michigan were prepared for college-level English, writing, reading, mathematics and science, according to the ACT’s Profile Report for the Class of 2009.
  • Nationwide, it has been estimated that one in five students at universities enroll in a remedial class. At community colleges, which do the heavy lifting in remedial work, it has been estimated that 60% of first-time students need at least one remedial course. Many of those students, certainly, are returning adults who left high school years ago. Others are students who have mild developmental disabilities. But what bothers educators and policy-makers is this: Many are also recent graduates who have left the high school stage with a diploma, only to find out a few months later that they’re not ready for even basic college work.
Keith Hamon

50 Free Resources That Will Improve Your Writing Skills - Smashing Magazine - 2 views

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    "Without solid skills writers cannot move ahead. These skills don't come overnight, and they require patience and determination"
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    Lots of great resources that cover most any aspect of writing.
Keith Hamon

Purdue OWL: Writing Across the Curriculum: An Introduction - 0 views

  • This pedagogical approach values writing as a method of learning.
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      Writing to learn content is a valuable academic skill, but it overlooks the importance of social networking.
  • This approach recognizes that each discipline has its own unique language conventions, format, and structure. In other words, the style, organization, and format that is acceptable in one discipline may not be at all acceptable in another.
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      This gets a bit closer to social networking, but it implies an awkward approach to learning a group's language conventions. Most people learn a new group's language conventions by (1) wanting to belong to the group, (2) listening to learn the conversation, and (3) engaging in the group's conversation. How many of our students want to join our groups and learn our language conventions?
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    a pedagogical movement that began in the 1980s. Generally, writing across the curriculum programs share the philosophy that writing instruction should happen across the academic community and throughout a student's undergraduate education. Writing across the curriculum programs also value writing as a method of learning. Finally, writing across the curriculum acknowledges the differences in writing conventions across the disciplines, and believes that students can best learn to write in their areas by practicing those discipline-specific writing conventions.
Mary Ann Scott

Materials for Faculty: Methods: Syllabus and Assignment Design - 0 views

  • Are your goals for the course significantly content-directed?
  • Is one of the goals of your course to introduce students to the important research and writing conventions of your particular discipline?
  • Is the primary purpose of your course to improve your students' critical thinking skills?
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  • Professors who don't use writing prompts argue that an important part of scholarship is learning to raise questions that will yield a good academic argument
  • Whatever you decide, do note that a prompt-less writing assignment needs a good infrastructure in order to succeed
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      a "good infrastructure" is essential in any assignment, not just English/Composition assignments.
  • Consider what you want the assignment to do, in terms of the larger thematic goals of your course.
  • Consider what kinds of thinking you want students to do
  • your prompt should address the importance of context and suggest things that you want students to consider as they write
  • Provide context
  • Break the assignment down into specific tasks
  • Break the assignment down into specific questions
  • Craft each sentence carefully
  • Be clear about what you don't want
  • Be clear about the paper requirements
  • Try to write (or at least to outline) the assignment yourself
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      While this can't be done for all assignments, choosing a few pivotal moments to model for your students will have a significant impact on how they learn overall.
  • Discuss the assignment with the class
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    Some excellent questions for building an assignment. Look beyond the writing assignment pedagogy to the general aspects of any assignment.
Keith Hamon

The Ubiquitous Librarian - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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    Are we seeing a shift from text to video as a primary form of expression? Perhaps in pop culture this has already happened with television, movies, youtube, and the web-but what if it stretches into academia? In fact, we're already seeing this with math.
Stephanie Cooper

Flipped Classroom: Beyond the Videos | Catlin Tucker, Honors English Teacher - 1 views

  • Ramsey Musallam, defines “flip teaching” as “leveraging technology to appropriately pair the learning activity with the learning environment.” This flexibility is why technology has the potential to be so transformative in education.
  • The goal of the flipped classroom should be to shift lessons from “consumables” to “produceables.”
  • Blake-Plock makes a strong point when he says we learn by “doing.”
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  • In my presentations on the flipped classroom, I’ve advocated for 3 things that I think would make this model more appealing to most of educators:
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    This author presents a practical view of implementing the Flipped Classroom model.  
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