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Keith Hamon

Academics, in New Move, Begin to Work With Wikipedia - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of ... - 0 views

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Josh Fischman wikipedia writing elearning social networking Web 2.0 Education 2.0 PLN

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    Academics have held the online, user-written reference work in some disdain, said Mahzarin R. Banaji, a psychology professor at Harvard University, "but now I'm hearing nothing but enthusiasm, and I really think this is going to work." Ms. Banaji, the association's president, has put the prestige of a leading scholarly group-and her own name-behind the project, which involves a new interface custom-designed to make encyclopedia entries easier to write and edit, a nascent social network that links scholars who share interests, and tutorials for professors on ways to make writing for Wikipedia part of course assignments.
Keith Hamon

Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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Marc Parry elearning social networking Education 2.0 Web 2.0 PLN

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  • Keith Hamon on 01 Sep 11
     
    While the next online model remains unclear, Southern New Hampshire's president, Paul J. LeBlanc, has sketched out one possible blueprint. … The vision is that students could sign up for self-paced online programs with no conventional instructors. They could work at their own speeds through engaging online content that offers built-in assessments, allowing them to determine when they are ready to move on. They could get help through networks of peers who are working on the same courses; online discussions could be monitored by subject experts. When they're ready, students could complete a proctored assessment, perhaps at a local high school, or perhaps online. The university's staff could then grade the assessment and assign credit. … The whole model hinges on excellent assessment.
Keith Hamon

Connectivism and Personal Learning - 1 views

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Stephen Downes connectivism elearning social networking Web 2.0 Education 2.0

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  • Keith Hamon on 20 Oct 11
     
    Connectivism as a pedagogical theory is typically thought of in terms of networks, but the major practical implication of connectivism occurs in the organization of learning eventes and resources. Unlike traditional educatioinal modalities, in which people work collaboratively, in a connectivist model, people work cooperatively.
Thomas Clancy

Open Online Courses: Higher Education of the Future? - The Network: Cisco's Technology ... - 1 views

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  • Thomas Clancy on 05 Oct 12
     
    Sounds like MOOCs have a bright future and are here to stay!!
Keith Hamon

Stages of PLN adoption - 0 views

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Jeff Utecht connectivism PLN

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  • Try and find that balance between learning and living. Understanding that you can not know it all, and begin to understand that you can rely on your network to learn and store knowledge for you.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 27 Sep 10
       
      Here is a key justification for Connectivism: we simply cannot contain all the information we need in our one little head. We must rely on our networks to collect, store, and critical think about information for us.
  • Keith Hamon on 27 Sep 10
     
    I have noticed an emerging trend of what one goes through when adopting a PLN for the first time. I myself continue to look at the stages I am going through in adopting this new way of learning, interacting, and teaching in a collaborative, connected world.
Stephanie Cooper

Top 5 Social Media Trends| The Committed Sardine - 1 views

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connectivism social networking Web 2.0 economics

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  • Stephanie Cooper on 03 Sep 10
     
    This looks like something the Economic & Business professors may want to follow. How will this new social networking affect businesses?
Keith Hamon

NCTE Inbox Blog: Building Community in 15 Minutes a Day - 0 views

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Traci Gardner elearning social networking PLN writing connectivism

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  • you can easily adapt the project for any students and class.
  • Be sure that the writing prompt you choose require a personal response.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 07 Sep 10
       
      QEP seeks to connect new knowledge to what the student already knows, which is key to connective knowledge.
  • Remember that writers have more authority when they can choose a topic that they are comfortable with.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 07 Sep 10
       
      Building a sense of authority is key to good writing. Real writers always try to write from a position of relative authority. If they can't, then they ask good questions or keep quiet.
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  • Invite students to do whatever kind of writing they want to. The important thing is to write. Exactly how they write is less important.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 07 Sep 10
       
      In QEP, we seek first to encourage student writing, build participation, regardless of the kind or quality of the writing. Those issues emerge ONLY after people are writing in a group.
  • Once students do their writing, it's time to use their texts to build community.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 07 Sep 10
       
      This is a key: we must find ways to pull student ideas into the classroom. This invests the students in their own learning and connects them to the class, the content, and to each other.
  • Using Anderson's project as a model, you can jump start community building in the classroom this fall. The first days of school can be very scary. As teachers, we need to make students feel comfortable with each other as quickly as possible. Writing is the answer. Welcome students as writers, give them advice and encouragement, and watch discussions about writing blossom as students build connections and encourage one another to write. And you can do it all in about 15 minutes a day!
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 07 Sep 10
       
      This is why our QEP focuses so much on writing in social networks.
  • Keith Hamon on 07 Sep 10
     
    Laurie Halse Anderson… invites readers to spend 15 minutes writing every day during the month. She provides writing prompts, advice, and encouragement. All readers have to do is set aside 15 uninterrupted minutes and write.
Keith Hamon

Building an Online Presence More Important Than Ever - 0 views

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Colleen Brondou social networking writing PLN Education 2.0 Web 2.0 critical thinking connectivism elearning

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  • For older students, Silvia Tolisano, a technology and 21st-century learning specialist, offers a comprehensive blog post on helping students take their blog skills to the next level. She focuses on the ability of blogs to help students become better writers, and be part of a network and contribute to a larger community.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 21 Sep 10
       
      This is close to the heart of what we are doing in ASU's QEP.
  • Keith Hamon on 21 Sep 10
     
    Educators have long cautioned students about posting damaging information online, but now it's also becoming important to build a positive digital footprint. When should students start building their online persona? The earlier, the better.
Keith Hamon

"Teen Socialization Practices in Networked Publics" - 1 views

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  • Keith Hamon on 23 Feb 10
     
    I want to talk about why most American teenagers are hanging out with their friends on MySpace and Facebook.
Keith Hamon

12 Expert Twitter Tips for the Classroom: Social Networking Classroom Activities That E... - 1 views

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critical thinking David R. Wetzel Twitter Education 2.0 social networking

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  • Keith Hamon on 31 Mar 10
     
    Using twitter in the classroom is becoming mainstream in many schools around the country and world. The challenge with any use of online education technology tool is the appropriate engagement of students in a meaningful manner.
Keith Hamon

Introducing the Collaboration Curve - John Hagel III, John Seely Brown, and Lang Daviso... - 1 views

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  • the more participants--and interactions between those participants--you add to a carefully designed and nurtured environment, the more the rate of performance improvement goes up.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 01 Apr 10
       
      This implies for QEP that the more our students write to more people, then the more their rate of improvement will go up. Is this the case? Is writing in someway like playing WoW?
  • we're seeing the emergence of a new kind of learning curve as we scale connectivity and learning through pull, rather than scaling efficiency through push. We call it the "collaboration curve."
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 01 Apr 10
       
      A new kind of learning curve is what QEP is after, and it seems that connective, collaborative social networks are the way to achieve them.
  • The evidence for the collaboration curve is, as yet, mostly anecdotal.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 01 Apr 10
       
      Here's a great opportunity for QEP-based research.
  • Keith Hamon on 01 Apr 10
     
    the more participants--and interactions between those participants--you add to a carefully designed and nurtured environment, the more the rate of performance improvement goes up.
Keith Hamon

Critique of Connectivism - PhD Wiki - 0 views

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Andy Coverdale George Siemens Stephen Downes Rita Kop connectivism

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  • Keith Hamon on 05 Jan 11
     
    An ongoing debate has ensued around the status of George Siemens' (2004) connectivism theory and Stephen Downes' (2006) connected knowledge theory as learning theories for the network age (Kop & Hill, 2008).
Keith Hamon

21 Resources About Personal Learning Networks (PLNs)- Shelly Terrell - 1 views

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Shelly Terrell PLN elearning social networking Web 2.0 Education 2.0 connectivism

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    I am passionate about PLNs. My PLN helps me be a better educator and prepare my students daily. They feed me experience, knowledge, and support 24 hours a day/ 7 days a week. Therefore, I hope you take time to bookmark these various resources, share them with other educators through workshops and presentations, and spread the message of PLNs.
Keith Hamon

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

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  • This pedagogical approach values writing as a method of learning.
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      Keith Hamon on 22 Mar 11
       
      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.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 22 Mar 11
       
      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?
  • Keith Hamon on 22 Mar 11
     
    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.
Keith Hamon

MyPortfolio Schools - 1 views

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eportfolio writing elearning social networking Education 2.0 Web 2.0 PLN

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  • They have the potential to provide a central, linking role between the more rigid, institution-led learning management system and the learners’ social online spaces.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 07 Jun 11
       
      This is a marvelous place to position the eportfolio: the link or bridge between the hierarchy of school and the rhizomatic network of society.
  • Keith Hamon on 07 Jun 11
     
    In short, [an eportfolio] is an online space from which to manage your life, learning and goals.
Keith Hamon

DSpace at Open Universiteit: Stimulating reflection through engagement in social relati... - 0 views

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Kamakshi Rajagopal Steven Verjans Jan Van Bruggen Peter Sloep reflection writing social

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    Reflection on one's own behaviour and practice is an important aspect of lifelong learning. However, such practice and the underlying assumed principles are often hidden from the learner's vision, and are therefore difficult to evaluate. Social interactions with others stimulate the learner to re-asses and reflect on the nature of the learner's own behaviour and practice, such as in professional networking contexts and intercultural encounters. This paper describes the prerequisites of learning from these interactions and the possibilities of technological support. It presents one approach to providing support for developing the required skills, with the example of the CEFcult tool, which supports intercultural communicative competence building.
Keith Hamon

MediaShift . Learning in a Digital Age: Teaching a Different Kind of Literacy | PBS - 0 views

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Aran Levasseur 21st century skills writing elearning literacy Education 2.0 Web 2.0

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  • we shouldn't consider someone literate if they can consume but not produce media.
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      Keith Hamon on 05 Oct 11
       
      This is why information technology is one of the twin pillars, along with writing, of the QEP. And why visual constructs & technological applications are considered writing literacies. I think the language is a bit confused, but I understand the implications for developing literacy in the 21st Century.
  • The literacy of the future rests on the ability to decode and construct meaning from one's constantly evolving environment -- whether it's coded orally, in text, images, simulations, or the biosphere itself. Therefore we must be adaptive to our social, economic and political landscape. Those of us living in this digital age are required to learn, unlearn and learn again and again.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 05 Oct 11
       
      This could be the heart of ASU's QEP. What happens when the environment itself is coded with information that we need to acquire? Isn't it already so coded?
  • Keith Hamon on 05 Oct 11
     
    A new kind of technological literacy is emerging. While a certain amount of technical skills are important, the real goal should be in cultivating digital or new media literacies that are arising around this evolving digital nerve center. These skills allow working collaboratively within social networks, pooling knowledge collectively, navigating and negotiating across diverse communities, and critically analyzing and reconciling conflicting bits of information to form a clear and comprehensive view of the world.
Stephanie Cooper

Six Trends That Will Change Workplace Learning Forever - 2010 - ASTD - 1 views

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  • “Historically, the learning community has stayed away from informal learning and social learning, and that is where most of the learning is taking place,” ASTD CEO Tony Bingham said during an interview promoting his new book, The New Social Learning, with co-author Marcia Conner. “We now have the tools, and the catalysts, to engage [employees] with that kind of learning. I think that is going to help the learning community take it to the next level.”  
  • An ASTD and Institute for Corporate Productivity study made a strong business case for using social media to enhance productivity. Millennials found social media tools more helpful in terms of learning and getting work done than Generation X workers or Baby Boomers. More organizations dabbled in social media during 2010, using shared workspaces, social networks, and wikis to deliver learning and development.   “The next generation of workers coming into organizations will demand the ability to work in ways they’ve already found to enable success,” wrote Jeanne Meister and Karie Willyerd in a July 2010 T+D article. “If the learning function does not step up to the task, some other department in the organization will, and the learning function will become irrelevant.”
  • As Daniel Pink wrote in The New Social Learning foreword, social learning will not replace training and employee development, “but it can accomplish what traditional approaches often cannot … [It] can supplement instruction with collaboration and co-creation, and in doing so, blur the boundary between the instructor and the instructed. … It can bring far-flung employees together into new communities in which they can not only learn from one another, but also fashion new offerings for customers. In short, social media can change the way your company works.”  
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  • The greatest technology growth of 2010 came with mobile devices, and thus, one of the biggest changes in workplace learning came via smartphones. Mobile phones have become an extension of the workplace and have made the world of work a 24/7 reality, but how have they changed learning?  
  • An IBM study, published in the January 2010 issue of T+D, highlighted two main purposes for mobile phone use: in-field performance support and access to current, just-in-time information that is relevant to a specific project or task. But an even more important reason to venture into the world of mobile learning is that newer workers in the workforce, the Millennials, are demanding it.  
  • The need to make social media and mobile learning a part of the workplace to attract, engage, and retain the younger generations is forcing learning professionals to explore new and innovative ways to deliver learning on these inexpensive devices, anytime and anywhere.  
    • Stephanie Cooper
      Stephanie Cooper on 25 Apr 11
       
      This also applies to professors.  Since mobile learning is becoming a reality in the workplace, students need to be prepared for it.  
  • Morgan Stanley estimates that by 2015, more users will connect to the Internet via mobile devices than by desktop PC. “Our world,” Jeanne Meister and Karie Willyerd wrote in a July T+D article, “will turn into three-minute learning vignettes.” GPS sensitivity, according to Meister and Willyerd, will help new hires find checkpoints so they can learn the company and its history, and could alert us when we are near an expert in a topic of our choice. “Perhaps the future role of learning is to find, organize, and enable the experts,” Meister and Willyerd wrote.   Learning is trending toward the user and the moment of need. Workplace learning and performance professionals need to redefine the role that mobile learning will play in their learning initiatives because if they don’t, they risk being left behind in this new workplace paradigm.  
Keith Hamon

Free Social Teaching and Learning Network focused solely on education - 0 views

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  • Keith Hamon on 11 Jul 11
     
    A social learning community.
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