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

www.insightassessment.com/...ancarlo&Facione_JGE%202001.pdf 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.
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http://www.insightassessment.com/pdf_files/Thirty-ways-1991-renewed.pdf - 0 views

www.insightassessment.com/...Thirty-ways-1991-renewed.pdf Peter A. Facione critical thinking assessment
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  • Keith Hamon on 07 Sep 10
     
    Tips for assessing critical thinking.
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Community Building- Powerful Learning Indeed « 21st Century Collaborative - 0 views

www.21stcenturycollaborative.com/...lding-powerful-learning-indeed Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach elearning social networking PLN connectivism Web 2.0 Education 2.0
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  • Keith Hamon on 13 Sep 10
     
    You need a plan. Just because you build doesn't mean in online communities they will come. Rather you need to understand who your audience is and why you are together. You also need to have a common language about what a community is and what it isn't.
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U.S. Plans Major Changes in How Students Are Tested - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...03testing.html elearning critical thinking
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  • Thomas Clancy on 13 Sep 10
     
    New testing rationale -- in line with QEP.
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10 Tips for Successful Online Research in Adult Education - 0 views

www.suite101.com/...rch-in-adult-education-a284619 David R. Wetzel research elearning writing
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  • Keith Hamon on 13 Sep 10
     
    The online world is vast, often making such research a time consuming drain on valuable study time. So what do you do? The following top 10 tips for successful online research below will help make time dedicated for research more efficient.
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Why Online Education Needs to Get Social - 0 views

mashable.com/...online-education-social Marco Masoni elearning socialnetworking Education 2.0 Web 2.0
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  • Keith Hamon on 13 Sep 10
     
    Education is the second largest industry in America behind health care, and it too is experiencing a similar shift as it struggles to adapt traditional design and delivery models to the demands of modern audiences who are accustomed to digital interactivity. The challenge to transition successfully is especially pressing for online higher education. The Sloan Consortium reports that two-thirds of post-secondary educational institutions are seeing an increase in online courses and programs, so it's a market that education providers simply cannot afford to ignore.
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tengrrl v2.0 | p e d a b l o g i c a l - 0 views

www.tengrrl.com/blog Traci Gardner elearning social networking writing PLN connectivism rhizome education constructivism
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  • Begin by establishing reasons for students to connect.
  • In the writing classroom, personal stories can be the best way to build quick connections
  • ask students to talk about their work as writers—their best work, their pet peeves, and their biggest challenges.
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  • Tend the fledgling connections writers make with activities that talk explicitly about community.
  • Keith Hamon on 07 Sep 10
     
    How do you take a group of individual, unrelated people and connect them in a supportive community quickly? … Here are some answers.
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What's the Trick to Building Community in the Classroom? | p e d a b l o g i c a l - 0 views

www.tengrrl.com/...ing-community-in-the-classroom 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.
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Reflections on open courses « Connectivism - 0 views

www.connectivism.ca/?p=267 connectivism collaboration open education elearning social networking PLN Education 2.0
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  • MOOCs reduce barriers to information access and to the dialogue that permits individuals (and society) to grow knowledge.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 26 Aug 10
       
      We have yet to truly explore this reduction of barriers to information access, but it is emerging before our eyes. When lectures by Nobel-prize physicists and writers are online for free, then what do we local physics and English teachers have to offer our classrooms? We need to think through that.
  • Knowledge is a mashup. Many people contribute. Many different forums are used. Multiple media permit varied and nuanced expressions of knowledge. And, because the information base (which is required for knowledge formation) changes so rapidly, being properly connected to the right people and information is vitally important.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 26 Aug 10
       
      This captures nicely the shift from learning as a solitary activity within the individual mind to learning as a networked, interconnected activity within a personal learning network.
  • MOOCs share the process of knowledge work – facilitators model and display sensemaking and wayfinding in their discipline. They respond to critics, to challenges from participants in the course. Instead of sharing only their knowledge (as is done in a university course) they share their sensemaking habits and their thinking processes with participants. Epistemology is augmented with ontology.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 26 Aug 10
       
      Online, our knowledge-making becomes explicit, and we shift from traditional teaching methods back to older apprenticeship methods. We let our students see us struggle to create new knowledge out of data and experience.
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    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 26 Aug 10
       
      This suggests some of the new kinds of value that teachers can bring to their local classes.
  • Keith Hamon on 26 Aug 10
     
    Siemens' thoughts about the impact of open courses on learning and the Academy.
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OCW Consortium - TIME Magazine selects MIT OpenCourseWare as one of the 50 Be... - 0 views

www.ocwconsortium.org/...f-the-50-best-websites-of-2010 OpenCourseWare
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  • Thomas Clancy on 02 Sep 10
     
    Shows the trend that Keith mentioned in our workshops this week. Over 2,000 "free" M.I.T. courses on the Web.
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Use Diigo To Help Write Your Next College Essay or Term Paper - 0 views

www.makeuseof.com/...write-college-essay-term-paper diigo research writing bookmarking elearning Web 2.0 PLN
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  • since most research papers are based on quotes used from various sources, Diigo provides a way to not only bookmark your sources, but also to manage and access your quotes, notes, and analysis.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 24 Jan 11
       
      This post assumes that most college research papers are based on secondary sources easily found on the Internet.
  • The best way to do research is know what your thesis is for a given topic.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 24 Jan 11
       
      I'm not sure I agree. Many students start with a subject, such as gun control, but don't develop a thesis until after they have done some reading and investigation.
  • Having a thesis in mind can help you narrow research, even if you change your thesis during the process.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 24 Jan 11
       
      I do believe that students should be taught to do research after they know what they are looking for. 
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  • create a list for your topic. This list will be used to manage all your bookmarks and highlights.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 24 Jan 11
       
      Any item can be added to many lists, or more precisely, can be tagged with many items.
  • install the Diigo bookmarklet, or diigolet, in your favorite web browser
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 24 Jan 11
       
      This is an essential tool for using Diigo. You can bookmark without the Diigo tool, but it is much more cumbersome to do so.
  • You might consider color coding your highlights, e.g., yellow for quotes that support your thesis, and green for quotes that are against your thesis.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 24 Jan 11
       
      Visual cues work for some people.
  • If you’re working on a group research project, Diigo can be used for the same purpose. Simply create a group for which everyone can bookmark sources to.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 24 Jan 11
       
      Diigo is a great tool for collaborative writing.
  • Keith Hamon on 02 Sep 10
     
    Diigo can be a very useful tool for helping you to write a college essay or research paper.
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Digital Citizen - Acceptable Use Agreement | The Committed Sardine - 0 views

www.committedsardine.com/blogpost.cfm elearning citizen digital citizen acceptable use agreement
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  • Stephanie Cooper on 25 May 10
     
    May use as a guideline in the web2.0 classroom
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Podcasts of CliffsNotes Literature Notes - CliffsNotes - 0 views

www.cliffsnotes.com/...cramcasts.html literature notes podcast
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  • Thomas Clancy on 07 Sep 10
     
    Each CramCast is a three- to four-minute overview of a classic work of literature and gives you background on the author, a brief summary of the book or play, and ends with the top three things you should know about the work.
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http://www.ncte.org/library/NCTEFiles/Press/WritingbetweentheLinesFinal.pdf - 0 views

www.ncte.org/...ritingbetweentheLinesFinal.pdf ncte writing 21stcenturyskills education
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    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 07 Sep 10
       
      These fit nicely into the ASU QEP.
  • Keith Hamon on 07 Sep 10
     
    Recent studies show that literacy practices "are changing so rapidly that educators, students, and parents are unsure about how school literacy learning experiences and out-of-school literacy practices connect." However, "a majority of more than 900 educator-respondents to the NCTE poll indicate that … out-of-school literacy practices are as critical to students' development as what occurs in the classroom."
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Teaching Carnival 4.1 - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

chronicle.com/...26625 Billie Hara Teaching Carnival education blogging writing social networking connectivism Education 2.0 Web 2.0 PLN
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  • Keith Hamon on 07 Sep 10
     
    In that spirit of collaboration, the Teaching Carnival is back. … Each month, a new writer will collect and sort teaching-related links and will post them here. (If you are interested in writing one of these posts or contributing links to the roundup, see the info at the bottom of this page.) This is a great source for connecting to college profs who are writing about teaching in college.
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Students Equate Google Search Rank With Accurate Info | Hack Education - 0 views

www.hackeducation.com/...search-rank-with-accurate-info Audrey Watters research writing
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  • Keith Hamon on 07 Sep 10
     
    students are apt to just click that top link when searching for information online, with minimal assessment of the quality of information they're going to find there.
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Usual Visual Thinking in the Classroom - Derek Bruff - 0 views

derekbruff.com/...sual-thinking-in-the-classroom 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.
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When Teaching the Right Answers Is the Wrong Direction | Edutopia - 0 views

www.edutopia.org/sson-planning-inquiry-modeling Rebecca Alber critical thinking Inquiry writing education edutopia constructivism connectivism
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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.
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The 3 Things Members Want From Your Online Community - FeverBee - The Online Community ... - 0 views

www.feverbee.com/...rom-your-online-community.html 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:
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Alternative approaches to assessing student engagement rates. Chapman, Elaine - 0 views

pareonline.net/getvn.asp 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.
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