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Keith Hamon

Concurrent Session: WAC 2.0: Rethinking Writing Across the Curriculum in the Age of the... - 0 views

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    WAC has become more timely and valuable within participatory Web 2.0 environments. This presentation highlightsinnovative teaching examples from UIUC that engage students within Web 2.0 by applying WAC principles:
Stephanie Cooper

Collaboration: The Lost Skill? | Dangerously Irrelevant - 2 views

  • I have seen tweets and blog posts recently about frustration that teachers are having getting their students to collaborate. These were mainly secondary teachers and library media specialists. It was even an #EdChat topic a few weeks ago: "How do we engage students who find participatory learning uncomfortable?" What do you find most difficult when getting students to collaborate? Criticism from their peers? A bad experience with a previous teacher? It seems like there's so many factors that can come into play.
  • How are we fostering this skill beyond kindergarten? What have you found that really is motivating for students to collaborate? What gives them true ownership of their learning? There's awesome digital tools that aid in collaboration, but those tools don't MAKE the collaboration. It's a skill that still has to be fine tuned. It's a skill we should all be modeling effectively if we want our students to do it effectively. If you're looking for some great suggestions on how to foster collaboration in your classroom, I would suggest reading Michelle Bourgeois' post titled:  The Collaborative Classroom: It’s a Juggling Act. In this post Michelle tells a story of teaching students how to juggle and says. "Just like the art of juggling, there are several skills that need to be balanced and constantly monitored in a collaborative classroom to make it all come together." Please be sure to check out Michelle's post on how to monitor and keep balance of some essentials in classroom collaboration.
  • We should be fostering this skill in our classrooms, not hindering it. How often are you allowing students to collaborate? Not to say that awesome things can't come out of individual thinking, but as I always like to say, "We're better together." Sure, one mind can do awesome things, but a collective could really rock someone's world.
Thomas Clancy

P2P Foundation » Blog Archive » The practice and theory of the gift circle in... - 0 views

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    "A Gift Circle can be autocatalytic."
Joel Garza

Sven Birkerts, "The Room and The Elephant" LA Review of Books - 4 views

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    Sven Birkerts (The Gutenberg Elegies) on one of the challenges in teaching writing across the curriculum now: "In the world according to 2.0, these are deemed to be some of the big changes of our moment. Expertise, authorship, individual creativity: out. Team collaborations, Wikipedia: in. Inevitably: "Knowledge is growing more broadly and immediately participatory and collaborative by the moment."
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