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Keith Hamon

How Technology Wires the Learning Brain | MindShift - 0 views

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    according to Dr. Gary Small, a neuroscientist & professor at UCLA, who spoke at the Learning & the Brain Conference, "The technology train has left. You have to deal with it, understand it, and get some perspective."
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Collaborative Learning in Asynchronous Learning Networks: Building Learning Communities. - 0 views

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    This paper presents evidence that collaborative learning strategies, which require relatively small classes or groups actively mentored by an instructor, are necessary in order for World Wide Web-based courses to be as effective as traditional classroom courses.
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ScienceDirect - The Internet and Higher Education : Blended learning: Uncovering its tr... - 0 views

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    The purpose of this paper is to provide a discussion of the transformative potential of blended learning in the context of the challenges facing higher education.
Keith Hamon

"Fresh Thinking" in General Education | Reacting to the Past - 0 views

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    This project seeks to explore how "Reacting" might be employed as an alternative approach to fulfill the broader objectives of a liberal arts education.  The success of the "Reacting" pedagogy in engaging undergraduate students has been confirmed by faculty reports, student evaluations and formal double-blind assessment studies (Stroessner, 2009).  The latter studies show that "Reacting" students, when compared with those enrolled in other general education courses, improved in certain salient categories associated with learning, including the development of an appreciation of multiple points of view on controversial topics and a belief in the malleability of human characteristics over time and across contexts.  Speaking skills also improved substantially.
Keith Hamon

Mobile Perspectives: On teaching Mobile Literacy (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE - 0 views

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    We are already at the moment in which the ability to use social media, and particularly social media as amplified through the power of the mobile web, has become a key literacy.
Keith Hamon

Cool Cat Teacher Blog: 12 Reasons to Blog with Your Students - 1 views

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    I'm more convinced than ever that blogging and doing it with other students from around the world is essential to helping students connect with themselves and a larger world.
Keith Hamon

Interactive teaching methods engage students, study finds - 0 views

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    Students learned more than twice as much in the new "interactive" classes than they did in the lectures by the tenured prof with more than 30 years of experience, according to a report on the experiment to be published in the journal Science on Friday.
Keith Hamon

Wikipedia And The Death Of The Expert | The Awl - 0 views

  • If the printing press empowered the individual, the digital world empowers collaboration.
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      Collaboration is one of the key principles of connectivism: we must connect to collaborate, and we must collaborate to connect.
  • McLuhan drew from many, many sources in order to develop these ideas; the work of Canadian political economist and media theorist Harold Innis was instrumental for him. Innis's technique, like McLuhan's, forswears the building up of a convincing argument, or any attempt at "proof," instead gathering in a ton of disparate ideas from different disciplines that might seem irreconcilable at first; yet considering them together results in a shifted perspective, and a cascade of new insights.
  • Wikipedia is like a laboratory for this new way of public reasoning for the purpose of understanding, an extended polylogue embracing every reader in an ever-larger, never-ending dialectic. Rather than being handed an "authoritative" decision, you're given the means for rolling your own.
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      Again, we are forced to consider the implications of collaborative thinking in "an extended polylogue" on our traditional notions of critical thinking and reflective practices.
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  • The threat to Britannica from Wikipedia is not a matter of dueling methods of providing information. Wikipedia, if it works better than Britannica, threatens not only its authority as a source of information, but also the theory of knowledge on which Britannica is founded. On Wikipedia "the author" is distributed, and this fact is indigestible to current models of thinking. "Wikipedia is forcing people to accept the stone-cold bummer that knowledge is produced and constructed by argument rather than by divine inspiration.
    • Keith Hamon
       
      Shirkey is often insightful.
  • If my point of view needn't immediately eradicate yours—if we are having not a contest but an ongoing comparison, whether in politics, art or literary criticism, if "knowledge" is and will remain provisional (and we could put a huge shout-out to Rorty here, if we had the space and the breath) what would this mean to the quality of our discourse, or to the subsequent character and quality of "understanding"?
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      This is a nice summary of Morin's concept of the dialogic, the fact of knowledge as always the tension between chaos and order, truth and lie.
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    Wikipedia is forcing us to confront the paradox inherent in the idea of learners as "doers, not recipients." If learners are indeed doers and not recipients, from whom are they learning? From one another, it appears; same as it ever was.
Keith Hamon

EchucaELearning - Digital Portfolios - 0 views

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    This wiki is a collaborative learning space. If you want to contribute to this e-portfolio or digital portfolio page, please join the wiki and then add your thoughts, your notes or describe how you created digital portfolios for your students.
Keith Hamon

Association for Authentic, Experiential and Evidence-Based Learning (AAEEBL) - Home for... - 0 views

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    Established in 2009, the Association for Authentic, Experiential and Evidence-Based Learning (AAEEBL, pronounced "able") is a membership organization for the world e-portfolio community that now has established affiliations and collaborations with nearly all world-wide portfolio initiatives, projects and organizations.
Keith Hamon

Course: Creating Student e-Portfolios with Google Sites - 0 views

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    A course hosted in Moodle exploring how to create ePortfolios in Google Sites.
Keith Hamon

Using Google Docs Forms to Run a Peer-Review Writing Workshop - ProfHacker - The Chroni... - 1 views

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    I used Google Docs Forms to structure an in-class peer review workshop.
Keith Hamon

How Thumbs Can Facilitate Discussion in the Classroom - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of H... - 0 views

  • “Okay, show me with your thumbs what your opinion is of the draft in front of you. Thumbs up? Thumbs down?”
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      This is similar to Facebook or Amazon ratings of items, crowd-sourcing assessment.
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    A simple thumbs-up/down technique for peer assessment.
Keith Hamon

Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 1 views

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    The researchers were surprised by how ubiquitous the Internet has become for young people, said Mr. Smith. Nearly 100 percent of college students and 92 percent of nonstudents in the 18-24 age range were Internet users. By comparison, only 75 percent of adults nationally report using the Internet.
Keith Hamon

Introduction to Edcamp: A New Conference Model Built on Collaboration | Edutopia - 1 views

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    One of the organizers of Edcamp Philly, a free education "unconference" that took place in Philadelphia last May. The event attracted the attention of educators from around the world--not only for the excellent content and collaborative spirit, but also for the unconference model itself -- one that costs next to nothing to produce by facilitating ad-hoc community participation.
Keith Hamon

Free and Unlimited Web Conferencing | Free Video Conferencing | Online Web Meeting | Mu... - 1 views

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    A virtual round table for meetings & events, with free, unlimited web conferences.
Keith Hamon

Collaborative Learning for the Digital Age - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Hi... - 0 views

  • 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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      This could be a key type of writing assignment in any class, and it can be done individually or in collaborative groups. 
  • What if "research paper" is a category that invites, even requires, linguistic and syntactic gobbledygook?
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      I think the traditional research paper does invite gobbledygook, that's why we get so much gobbledygook from it.
  • 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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      Here is a key to why QEP encourages public writing within discourse communities and is moving away from traditional classroom writing aimed solely at a grading teacher.
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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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      Imagine that! Our students are becoming MORE literate, not less. This is a core belief of QEP: that the Internet is encouraging more written communications among more people than at any other time in history. We wonder why the Academy is ignoring this wonderful, rich energy.
  • Everything, that is, except the grading.
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      Assessment is perhaps the single most intractable aspect of traditional education. In some ways, crowdsourcing grades actually violates legal regulations about student privacy. This is a serious issue, but I am confident that we will resolve it.
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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.
Keith Hamon

New Wine in Old Skins: Why the CV needs hacking - 0 views

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    So, I say we need, and can build, a new CV, or whatever you want to call it. But what does this new CV look like? Here are at least some of the criteria a new vision for the professional identity document should meet
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