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Keith Hamon

"The Future of Privacy: How Privacy Norms Can Inform Regulation" - 1 views

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Danah Boyd privacy

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  • privacy in an era of social media is complicated. It’s not simply about individual data.  It's about managing visibility, negotiating networks, and facing an ever-increasing flow of information.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 05 Jan 11
       
      Social networks have highlighted the complexity of privacy, which is no longer a personal, individual issue (an issue of protecting personal data); rather, privacy is now an issue of the appropriate, value-added interplay between an individual and her environment. I think privacy has always been the negotiation of this interplay, but social networks have made it obvious.
  • Privacy is fundamentally about both context and networks.
  • People may not like having their privacy violated or being in situations where they're being surveilled, but they will always choose social status and community over privacy.  They would rather be vulnerable to more people and deal with institutions than to feel disconnected from their peers and loved ones.
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  • Participation in Facebook is not as much of an individual choice as people think.  Even if you opt out, people can still write about you, can still create groups about you, can still reference you in updates.  You become part of the network regardless of your personal choices.
  • Keith Hamon on 05 Jan 11
     
    I'm completely baffled by the persistent assumption that social norms around privacy have radically changed because of social media. This rhetoric is pervasive and is often used to justify privacy invasions.  There is little doubt that the Internet is restructuring social interactions, but there is no radical shift in social norms because of social media.  Teenagers care _deeply_ about privacy.  But they also want to participate in public life and they're trying to find ways to have both.  Privacy is far from dead but it is definitely in a state of flux.
Keith Hamon

Framework for Success in Postsecondary Writing - 0 views

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  • Keith Hamon on 28 Mar 11
     
    describes the rhetorical and 21st century skills as well as habits of mind and experiences that are critical for college success.
zhoujianchuan

TeachPaperless: Why Teachers Should Blog - 10 views

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blogging education teachers web2.0

shared by zhoujianchuan on 18 Mar 11 - Cached
  • Because to blog is to teach yourself what you think.
    • Stephanie Cooper
      Stephanie Cooper on 18 Mar 11
       
      This is what Keith and Tom have been preaching! LOL  I like  the way this guy discusses the pros of blogging and refers to the students who "don't get it."  
    • pajenkins1
      pajenkins1 on 30 Mar 11
       
      It's interesting that there are no cons about blogging.
    • ypypenn67
      ypypenn67 on 31 Mar 11
       
      Blogging provides the opportunity for a teacher to express his or her ideas, too. (A teacher sometimes requires his or her students to blog, so the teacher should gain experience as well.) As a blogger, I want to restrict my comments; I do not want everyone to have access to my thoughts.
    • zhoujianchuan
      zhoujianchuan on 31 Mar 11
       
      Yeah, there are no cons, except what economists would call "opportunity cost." That is, every one of us only has so much (or so little) time. My colleagues and I are doing the annual faculty evaluation this week. I looked at the evaluation formular and could not find how blogging can add points for me and help me get tenure. Everything said in this article is right, and I agree. But everyone knows where his or her priority is, right?
  • Because to face one's ill conclusions, self-congratulations, petty foibles, and impolite rhetoric among peers in the public square of the blogosphere is to begin to learn to grow.
    • pajenkins1
      pajenkins1 on 30 Mar 11
       
      I do understand a need to grow as professionals, but I'd like to keep some 'growth spurts' personal.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 30 Mar 11
       
      Yes, but no blogger automatically posts everything that comes to mind. One aspect of reflection is to think carefully about what you are writing and the wisdom of sharing it. For instance, I think it's worthwhile to post this.
  • I think both are achieved through the crucial practice of critical thinking and earnest self-analysis. And no where, if sincerely met with daily conviction, can both be better employed than in the practice of blogging.
    • malikravindra007
      malikravindra007 on 31 Mar 11
       
      I agree that self analysis and critical thinking go together, though it may come only after lots of practice and perseverance. I am still not convinced that blogging is the only way, could be one of the ways, not for me. Nevertheless blogging opens any one to a larger group of people which may help in sharing your thoughts, opinions etc..
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 31 Mar 11
       
      Blogging is just one mechanism. There are many tools for reflection.
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  • This is real maturity
Keith Hamon

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

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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.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 02 Sep 11
       
      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?
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 02 Sep 11
       
      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.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 02 Sep 11
       
      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.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 02 Sep 11
       
      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.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 02 Sep 11
       
      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.
  • Keith Hamon on 02 Sep 11
     
    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.
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