Writing Across the Curriculum

The Stanford University professor who taught an online artificial intelligence course to more than 160,000 students has abandoned his tenured position to aim for an even bigger audience.

The ePI study is exploring large-scale implementations of e-portfolio use in Higher and Further Education and professional organisations in the UK . It is JISC funded and led by the University of  Nottingham.

Students across the world are using the Twitter hashtag #tweetyourthesis to shrink their academic thesis work down to single 140-character posts.

Educational transformation is coming not because of the increasing ineffectiveness of schools in meeting society's needs - though that is certainly a good reason - but due to their growing unaffordability. We now see student-teacher ratios in some urban settings climbing to unworkable levels of 40 plus, even 60 pupils per class (Dolan, 2011; Dillon, 2011). This is not a temporary financial dislocation due to an economic downturn, but a permanent sea-change that has already happened in every other service sector of our economy.

By popular request, here are all our "how to" guides for using Google+ effectively, whether for business or personal use, in one convenient listing.

This really focuses more on Diigo than wikis.  I might use this as an intro to using Diigo for class assignments.  

This is the one that talks about Diigo.

The nomadic thinker is one who traces the con­tours of the free space of think­ing and whose sub­jectiv­ity is, for neces­sary struc­tural reas­ons, in a state of war-​​like struggle. This struggle is not a purely intel­lec­tual exer­cise where one engages in  cri­tique with noth­ing more at stake than, say, a purely formal vis­ion of the greater good.  Instead, one could say, in a man­ner faintly remin­is­cent of Carl Schmitt, that what is at stake is the nomadic thinker's very life, that is to say, the ethos, integ­rity and cre­ativ­ity of the free space of thinking.

Now I KNOW this article is about MATH and not writing, but please skim/read it over and apply what is being said here to what we know about the teaching of English -- grammar and writing -- and how we have our favored "old" way of learning and teaching and how that often contrasts with new and "improved" methods that we see.

This blog might be too long for use in classes, but I would seriously consider shortening it and distributing at least part of it to students. Maybe we will make some version of it available in our labs and on our Web site. Thanks for reading and commenting!

tips on how you can make your posts more Google-y and have more authentic, personal, and intimate conversations.

Will Google ever replace traditional LMSs like Moodle?  I hope so!!

"Sadly, though web searches have become and integral part of the academic research landscape, the art of the Google search is an increasingly lost one. A recent study at Illinois Wesleyan University found that fewer than 25% of students could perform a "reasonably well-executed search.""

America faces a crisis in higher learning. Too many college graduates are not prepared to think critically and creatively, speak and write cogently and clearly, solve problems, comprehend complex issues, accept responsibility and accountability, take the perspective of others, or meet the expectations of employers. 

Med kharbach

When we conceive of learner as knowmad, the traditional roles assigned to teacher and student become less relevant, necessary, and linear.  The knowmad is mobile and learns with anybody, anywhere, anytime.  As such, the place we now know as school may be too small and perhaps unable to contain the range of learning engagements necessary for those with nomadic tendencies.  Rather, think of the extended community--one that is physical, virtual, and blended-- as potential learning spaces that our knowmadic traveler composes, accesses, participates in, abandons, and changes.