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Cathy N. Davidson collaboration Pedagogy writing elearning Education 2.0 social networking Web 2.0 PLN education
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I had the students each contribute a new entry or amend an existing entry on Wikipedia, or find another public forum where they could contribute to public discourse.
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Keith Hamon on 02 Sep 11This could be a key type of writing assignment in any class, and it can be done individually or in collaborative groups.
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What if "research paper" is a category that invites, even requires, linguistic and syntactic gobbledygook?
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Research indicates that, at every age level, people take their writing more seriously when it will be evaluated by peers than when it is to be judged by teachers.
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Lunsford surprised everyone with her findings that students were becoming more literate, rhetorically dexterous, and fluent—not less, as many feared. The Internet, she discovered, had allowed them to develop their writing.
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Everything, that is, except the grading.
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Current practices of our educational institutions-and workplaces-are a mismatch between the age we live in and the institutions we have built over the last 100-plus years. The 20th century taught us that completing one task before starting another one was the route to success. Everything about 20th-century education, like the 20th-century workplace, has been designed to reinforce our attention to regular, systematic tasks that we take to completion. Attention to task is at the heart of industrial labor management, from the assembly line to the modern office, and of educational philosophy, from grade school to graduate school.