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Keith Hamon

Rewriting research / Special report: Social academia / Special Reports / Home - Broker - 0 views

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    as academics embrace the opportunities offered by web 2.0 applications for social networking, especially blogs and wikis, are they about to shake up this traditional system?
Keith Hamon

Educational Blogging (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE - 0 views

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    A blog, therefore, is and has always been more than the online equivalent of a personal journal. Though consisting of regular updates, the blog adds to the form of the diary by incorporating the best features of hypertext: the capacity to link to new and useful resources. But a blog is also characterized by its reflection of a personal style, and this style may be reflected in either the writing or the selection of links passed along to readers. Blogs are, in their purest form, the core of what has come to be called personal publishing.
Keith Hamon

Why Teach? | DMLcentral - 0 views

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    There are as many reasons to teach as there are reasons to learn.  One reason item-response testing (the twentieth-century's dominant method of testing) is so deficient is that it tends to reduce what we teach to content (especially in the human, social, and natural sciences) or calculation (in the computational sciences).  Think of the myriad ways of knowing, making, playing, imagining, and thinking that are not encompassed by content or calculation.  This semester, I've moved over to highly experimental, collaborative, peer-led methods in my two undergraduate classes
Keith Hamon

Group Intelligence, Enhancement, and Extended Minds - 0 views

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    Virtually all talk of cognitive enhancement focuses exclusively on the enhancement of individual intelligence. In a fascinating paper published in Science entitled "Evidence for a Collective Intelligence Factor in the Performance of Human Groups" (2010), Dr. Anita Williams Woolley and her colleagues find that there is such a thing as collective intelligence: the analogue of general intelligence, or IQ, except it exists at the level of the group rather than the individual.
Keith Hamon

http://it.coe.uga.edu/itforum/paper92/paper92.html - 0 views

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    The purpose of this paper is to outline some of the thinking behind new e-learning technology, including e-portfolios and personal learning environments. Part of this thinking is centered around the theory of connectivism, which asserts that knowledge - and therefore the learning of knowledge - is distributive, that is, not located in any given place (and therefore not 'transferred' or 'transacted' per se) but rather consists of the network of connections formed from experience and interactions with a knowing community. And another part of this thinking is centered around the new, and the newly empowered, learner, the member of the net generation, who is thinking and interacting in new ways. These trends combine to form what is sometimes called 'e-learning 2.0'-an approach to learning that is based on conversation and interaction, on sharing, creation and participation, on learning not as a separate activity, but rather, as embedded in meaningful activities such as games or workflows.
Keith Hamon

Using Diigo in the Classroom - Student Learning with Diigo - 1 views

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    Diigo is a powerful information capturing, storing, recalling and sharing tool. Here are just a few of the possibilities with Diigo: Save important websites and access them on any computer. Categorize websites by titles, notes, keyword tags, lists and groups. Search through bookmarks to quickly find desired information. Save a screenshot of a website and see how it has changed over time. Annotate websites with highlighting or virtual "sticky notes." View any annotations made by others on any website visited. Share websites with groups or the entire Diigo social network. Comment on the bookmarks of others or solicit comments to your shared bookmarks. To learn more about how Diigo can be used as as information management tool, visit these pages:
Keith Hamon

100 Google Search Tricks for the Savviest of Students | Online College Courses - 1 views

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    Tips for better Google searches.
Keith Hamon

Teaching Internet Research Skills: Introduction - 1 views

  • This workshop examines what constitutes searching for information and what comprises research.
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      This is a very good point.
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      This is my comment about this point.
Keith Hamon

What is the unique idea in Connectivism? « Connectivism - 0 views

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    a critical question: what is the unique idea in connectivism?
Keith Hamon

Half an Hour: What Connectivism Is - 0 views

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    At its heart, connectivism is the thesis that knowledge is distributed across a network of connections, and therefore that learning consists of the ability to construct and traverse those networks.
Keith Hamon

Pearson Social Media Survey 2010 - 1 views

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    A survey of 1,000 educators to learn their awareness of and use of social media.
Keith Hamon

How the Flipped Classroom Is Radically Transforming Learning - THE DAILY RIFF - Be Smar... - 1 views

  • One of the greatest benefits of flipping is that overall interaction increases: Teacher to student and student to student.
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      This interaction across the network of a classroom is key to QEP's approach to education.
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    Flipping the classroom has transformed our teaching practice.  We no longer stand in front of our students and talk at them for thirty to sixty minutes at a time.  This radical change has allowed us to take on a different role with our students.
Keith Hamon

Teachers "Doing The Flip" To Help Students Become Learners - THE DAILY RIFF - Be Smarte... - 0 views

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    The days of the teacher as "sage on the stage" are numbered.  Instead, the teacher becomes the "guide on the side" where students are using the class/school experience as a fully interactive experience WITH the teacher  - - instead of the teacher being the one-way traditional talking head.
Keith Hamon

Revisualizing Composition: Mapping the Writing Lives of First-Year College Students :: ... - 1 views

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    The primary aim of this study is to generate a large and uniform data set that leads to a better understanding of the writing behaviors of students across a variety of institutions and locations. Working from the assumption that students lead complex writing lives, this study is interested in a broad range of writing practices and values both for the classroom and beyond it, as well as the technologies, collaborators, spaces, and audiences they draw upon in writing.
Keith Hamon

Powerful Learning: Studies Show Deep Understanding Derives from Collaborative Methods |... - 1 views

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    Today's students will enter a job market that values skills and abilities far different from the traditional workplace talents that so ably served their parents and grandparents. They must be able to crisply collect, synthesize, and analyze information, then conduct targeted research and work with others to employ that newfound knowledge. In essence, students must learn how to learn, while responding to endlessly changing technologies and social, economic, and global conditions.
Keith Hamon

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

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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

Portfolio - 1 views

  • Of all the systems that I have tried, this Google Site as my presentation portfolio, with my own domain name, with my Blogger blog as my reflective journal, is my favorite example, and the one that I will continue to update.
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      Helen Barrett is a recognized expert in the portfolio movement, and her endorsement of Google Site & Blogger as primary eportfolio tools is convincing to me.
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    Welcome to the Google Sites version of my e-portfolio. I am exploring the capabilities of using this system to maintain electronic portfolios as part of my research on implementation of online electronic portfolio systems. Of all the systems that I have tried, this Google Site as my presentation portfolio, with my own domain name, with my Blogger blog as my reflective journal, is my favorite example, and the one that I will continue to update.
Keith Hamon

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

  • 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.
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      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.
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    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

Top Web 2.0 Tools for Learning for the New School Year - 1 views

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    Here are a few suggestions both for the bigger picture and for the apps you can use that can help you ensure a school year that's both academically satisfying and technologically savvy.
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