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Keith Hamon

Langwitches Blog » Taking Student Blogging to the Next Level? - 0 views

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blogging writing Silvia Tolisano elearning social networking PLN Education 2.0 Web 2.0 critical thinking

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  • Keith Hamon on 22 Sep 10
     
    Many benefits of blogging seem to become apparent over time. That has happened in my own learning journey as a blogger as well.  It is the reflective nature and the timeline of a blog, as well as the growing connections with readers that will reveal growth as a writer, the benefits of being a member of a network and a contributor to a global community.
Keith Hamon

Alternative approaches to assessing student engagement rates. Chapman, Elaine - 0 views

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Elaine Chapman engagement writing elearning social networking PLN Web 2.0 Education 2.0 connectivism

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  • Keith Hamon on 17 Sep 10
     
    Overview of definitions of student engagement & methods of assessing engagement: self-report measures, checklists & rating scales, direct observations, work sample analyses, & focused case studies.
Keith Hamon

For Teachers - Gapminder.org - 1 views

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Hans Rosling data analysis data mining visual data visualization writing Web 2.0

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  • Keith Hamon on 03 Sep 10
     
    This section is for educators who want to use Gapminder in their education. You'll find shortcuts to tools and guides for Gapminder in a classroom.
Keith Hamon

http://www.insightassessment.com/pdf_files/J_Infrml_Ppr%20_2000%20-%20Disp%20&%20Skls.PDF - 1 views

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writing critical thinking Peter A. Facione Kathleen C. Facione Carol A. Giancarlo

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  • Keith Hamon on 03 Sep 10
     
    Empirical studies suggest that efforts to teach critical thinking must include "strategies for building intellectual character rather than relying exclusively on strengthening cognitive skills."
Keith Hamon

http://www.insightassessment.com/pdf_files/Giancarlo&Facione_JGE%202001.pdf - 0 views

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Peter A. Facione Carol Ann Giancarlo critical thinking writing

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  • Keith Hamon on 07 Sep 10
     
    An examination of college students' dispositions toward critical thinking.
Keith Hamon

What's the Trick to Building Community in the Classroom? | p e d a b l o g i c a l - 0 views

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Traci Gardner elearning social networking writing PLN rhizome connectivism Web 2.0 Education 2.0

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  • the key to a successful community is “connecting a group of people online and making them feel a part of something special.” Students aren’t going to launch into discussion just because we throw them together. We have to give them reasons to connect.
  • Give students time to bond and make connections.
  • the class needs to do things together.
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  • community challenges can also be effective.
  • Consider community participation projects as well.
  • do all you can to encourage authentic conversation. Allow students to discuss topics freely and without fear of criticism.
  • Keith Hamon on 07 Sep 10
     
    Online or off, getting students to talk to each other is a tricky task. … The FeverBee Primer About Successful Online Communities can help. While meant more for corporate and public community building, the lessons apply to the classroom just as well.
Keith Hamon

Lines on Plagiarism Blur for Students in the Digital Age - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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Trip Gabriel plagiarism writing connectivism Web 2.0

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  • Keith Hamon on 07 Sep 10
     
    concepts of intellectual property, copyright and originality are under assault in the unbridled exchange of online information, say educators who study plagiarism. Digital technology makes copying and pasting easy, of course. But that is the least of it. The Internet may also be redefining how students - who came of age with music file-sharing, Wikipedia and Web-linking - understand the concept of authorship and the singularity of any text or image.
Keith Hamon

A Primer About Successful Online Communities - FeverBee - The Online Community Guide - 0 views

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Richard Millington social networking writing PLN connectivism

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  • identifying something people believe in and inviting them to talk to each other. You don’t create the interest, you create the platform
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 07 Sep 10
       
       Are most college profs reluctant to tackle the issue of student interest in the profs' classes? Why? And is it worth addressing in a class?
  • The better you get to know and like your fellow members, and the more you care about their opinion of you, the more you participate and thus work towards a successful goal.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 07 Sep 10
       
      Studies show that student success in a class depends on the level of engagement with fellow students, teacher, and content. Too many teachers assume that engagement is a given in their classes and refuse to cultivate it. Too many don't know how to cultivate engagement.
  • designing your community that reflects both the common interest and the individual contributions as equals.
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  • Bonding a community means doing things together.
  • This self-disclosure is important. If you’re not continuously asking members to share their thoughts and experiences, members will never truly bond as a group. No bonds means low engagement and participation rate. More importantly, it means no community spirit (the something special we mentioned at the beginning).
  • as your community grows you need to begin decentralizing responsibility. Give popular members their own forums/groups to moderate.
  • Keith Hamon on 07 Sep 10
     
    Successful online community building is connecting a group of people online and making them feel a part of something special. This 'something special' element is the overlooked bit.
Keith Hamon

Critical Thinking: What It Is And Why It Counts - Ground Up Strength - 1 views

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Peter A. Facione critical thinking writing

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  • Keith Hamon on 07 Sep 10
     
    At one level we all know what "critical thinking" means - it means good thinking, almost the opposite of illogical, irrational, thinking. But when we test our understanding further, we run into questions. For example, is critical thinking the same as creative thinking, are they different, or is one part of the other? How do critical thinking and native intelligence or scholastic aptitude relate? Does critical thinking focus on the subject matter or content that you know or on the process you use when you reason about that content?
Keith Hamon

When Teaching the Right Answers Is the Wrong Direction | Edutopia - 0 views

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  • Step off the soapbox, tone down that direct teaching, and become wondrous and inquisitive right along side your students. Take a break from what you are expert at and delve into unknown territory with new content, activities, or a concept. Here are ways to get started:
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 07 Sep 10
       
      In QEP terms, this means ceasing to be THE content deliverer and become a co-content explorer and generator with your students.
  • Begin and end a lesson, unit, or project with an essential question or two. These are overarching questions that do not have a definitive answer
  • Take every opportunity to express to your students that you have no idea about an answer, even if you have to fake it a little.
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  • Dwindle down those teacher sentences that start with "This means" and replace them with, "I wonder," "What if," and "How might?"
  • Give students plenty of think time. When you stop rushing, students may seem a bit shocked and may even believe it to be some sort of trick or hidden tactic.
  • Be mindful of your tone. Try replacing a flat, authoritative, expert-sounding one with -- and this might sound corny -- a singsong intonation, the one we use when we are whimsically curious.
  • Make your classroom a place of wonderment.
  • Keith Hamon on 07 Sep 10
     
    Students are all too often on a quest for the Correct Answers, which has little to do with critical-thinking development. Our schools are about competition, merits, awards, and how to earn the Golden Ticket -- giving the right answers. And this focus often starts as early as kindergarten.  … Studies show that getting answers wrong actually helps students learn.
Keith Hamon

Usual Visual Thinking in the Classroom - Derek Bruff - 0 views

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Derek Bruff visual data visualization elearning writing Education 2.0 Web 2.0

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  • Keith Hamon on 07 Sep 10
     
    I recently put together a workshop on using visual thinking techniques in the classroom for a group of graduate students at my teaching center.
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

The Creativity Crisis - Newsweek - 0 views

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Po Bronson Ashley Merryman creativity education learning innovation writing problem-based learning

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  • The correlation to lifetime creative accomplishment was more than three times stronger for childhood creativity than childhood IQ.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 21 Sep 10
       
      Creativity is key to success in 21st Century, but are we creating opportunities for creativity in our classrooms?
  • The European Union designated 2009 as the European Year of Creativity and Innovation, holding conferences on the neuroscience of creativity, financing teacher training, and instituting problem-based learning programs—curricula driven by real-world inquiry—for both children and adults. In China there has been widespread education reform to extinguish the drill-and-kill teaching style. Instead, Chinese schools are also adopting a problem-based learning approach.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 21 Sep 10
       
      Problem-based learning matches QEP's emphasis on moving content-delivery out of the classroom to replace it with classroom activities that apply the content to problem solving and critical thinking.
  • The creative problem-solving program has the highest success in increasing children’s creativity
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 21 Sep 10
       
      Creative problem-solving? Is creativity a part of critical thinking? What's the benefit in separating them?
  • Keith Hamon on 21 Sep 10
     
    What's shocking is how incredibly well Torrance's creativity index predicted those kids' creative accomplishments as adults. Those who came up with more good ideas on Torrance's tasks grew up to be entrepreneurs, inventors, college presidents, authors, doctors, diplomats, and software developers. Jonathan Plucker of Indiana University recently reanalyzed Torrance's data. The correlation to lifetime creative accomplishment was more than three times stronger for childhood creativity than childhood IQ.
Keith Hamon

YouTube - Scott Moore : Using Technology and Collaboration to Engage Students (Part 1) - 1 views

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Scott Moore PLN collaboration writing critical thinking elearning Web 2.0

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  • Keith Hamon on 01 Oct 10
     
    Nice video that explores many of the techniques we use in QEP to promote student connectivity, PLNs, and collaboration.
Keith Hamon

The 3 Things Members Want From Your Online Community - FeverBee - The Online Community ... - 0 views

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Richard Millington social networking elearning writing PLN Education 2.0 Web 2.0 connectivism

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  • Keith Hamon on 13 Sep 10
     
    Members want 3 things from any online community. These three things shape your actions in the following ways:
Stephanie Cooper

Flickr: Tell a story in 5 frames (Visual story telling) - 1 views

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DigitalStorytelling visualization photography web2.0

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  • Stephanie Cooper on 28 Sep 10
     
    This would be a great class assignment! It uses critical thinking skills, imagination, technology, and a touch of writing (posting comments, etc.)
Keith Hamon

Can We Teach Creative and Critical Thinking? - Education - GOOD - 1 views

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Zoe Burgess critical thinking writing

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  • Critical thinking is, among many things, the ability to understand and apply the abstract, the ability to infer and to meaningfully investigate. It’s the skills needed to see parallels, comprehend intersections, identify problems, and develop sustainable solutions.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 05 Oct 10
       
      We have not adequately accounted for abstraction in our discussions of CT or investigation. I wonder if CT is such a large, amorphous category as to be almost meaningless? Perhaps not, but it is clear to me that almost every discussion of CT must begin with a clear delineation of just what we mean when we say critical thinking.
  • sound critical thinking is imperative to social progress.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 05 Oct 10
       
      This social imperative is somewhat troubling to me. Is not good critical thinking its own reward?
  • Cultivating critical thinking may be accomplished with modeling
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 05 Oct 10
       
      Modeling is a promising technique, but how often do teachers expose their own thinking processes to students? Don't we usually let them see only the polished final product of our thought, and not the messy critical thinking we went through prior to our polished position?
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  • School trips, service learning requirements, and various other kinds of hands-on situations allow students to make connections at their own pace
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 05 Oct 10
       
      Nice methods that change the complexion of the typical classroom from one of content-delivery to content application.
  • teachers suggest, and insist, that students investigate further, making—but more importantly, justifying—inferences and conclusions.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 05 Oct 10
       
      Is it not obvious how the focus on the "right answer" undermines this willingness to explore? Why would most students expend any energy on an issue when they already have the answer that will be on the test, the "correct answer"?
  • It’s hard to design test questions that effectively measure a child’s ability think creatively.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 05 Oct 10
       
      Note the writer's confusion of critical thinking and creative thinking. Are they usually confused? Should they be? Is there any advantage to distinguishing between them?
  • At the heart of teaching critical and creative thought is the ability to ask the right questions to students. In turn, they need to be able answer in a way that demonstrates their ability to see the parallels and intersections;
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 05 Oct 10
       
      This kind of open-ended discussion and work in class is key to the QEP classroom.
  • Keith Hamon on 05 Oct 10
     
    But how is creative or critical thought defined and taught? And by what assessment can we measure it, if at all?
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