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Would You Hire Your Own Kids? 7 Skills Schools Should Be Teaching Them| The Committed S... - 1 views

www.21stcenturyfluency.com/blogpost.cfm
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  • "First and foremost, I look for someone who asks good questions," Parker responded. "Our business is changing, and so the skills our engineers need change rapidly, as well. We can teach them the technical stuff. But for employees to solve problems or to learn new things, they have to know what questions to ask. And we can't teach them how to ask good questions - how to think. The ability to ask the right questions is the single most important skill."
    • Stephanie Cooper
      Stephanie Cooper on 25 Jan 11
       
      This is an example of the need for critical thinkers in the real world!!
  • "All of our work is done in teams. You have to know how to work well with others. But you also have to know how to engage the customer -- to find out what his needs are. If you can't engage others, then you won't learn what you need to know."
    • Stephanie Cooper
      Stephanie Cooper on 25 Jan 11
       
      Connectivism at work!
  • Where in the 20th century, rigor meant mastering more -- and more complex -- academic content, 21st century rigor is about creating new knowledge and applying what you know to new problems and situations.
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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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What is the unique idea in Connectivism? « Connectivism - 0 views

www.connectivism.ca/?p=116 George Siemens connectivism elearning social networking PLN Education 2.0
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  • Keith Hamon on 19 Jan 11
     
    a critical question: what is the unique idea in connectivism?
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Half an Hour: What Connectivism Is - 0 views

halfanhour.blogspot.com/...what-connectivism-is.html Stephen Downes connectivism social networking PLN education
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  • Keith Hamon on 19 Jan 11
     
    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.
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Pearson Social Media Survey 2010 - 1 views

www.slideshare.net/...pearson-socialmediasurvey2010 Hester Tinti-Kane Jeff Seaman Justin Levy elearning social networking PLN Web 2.0 Education 2.0
shared by Keith Hamon on 18 Jan 11 - Cached
  • Keith Hamon on 18 Jan 11
     
    A survey of 1,000 educators to learn their awareness of and use of social media.
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How the Flipped Classroom Is Radically Transforming Learning - THE DAILY RIFF - Be Smar... - 1 views

www.thedailyriff.com/...-transforming-learning-536.php Jonathan Bergmann Aaron Sams flip teaching technology elearning social networking PLN Education 2.0 Web 2.0 connectivism JiTT
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  • One of the greatest benefits of flipping is that overall interaction increases: Teacher to student and student to student.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 18 Jan 11
       
      This interaction across the network of a classroom is key to QEP's approach to education.
  • Keith Hamon on 18 Jan 11
     
    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.
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Teachers "Doing The Flip" To Help Students Become Learners - THE DAILY RIFF - Be Smarte... - 0 views

www.thedailyriff.com/...udents-become-learners-531.php flip teaching elearning Education 2.0
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  • Keith Hamon on 18 Jan 11
     
    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.
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Revisualizing Composition: Mapping the Writing Lives of First-Year College Students :: ... - 1 views

www.diigo.com/...u.edu%2Fspecial%2Fwritinglives writing social networking PLN Web 2.0 Education 2.0
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  • Keith Hamon on 16 Jan 11
     
    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.
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Powerful Learning: Studies Show Deep Understanding Derives from Collaborative Methods |... - 1 views

www.edutopia.org/uiry-project-learning-research Brigid Barron Linda Darling-Hammond collaboration elearning social networking PLN Inquiry project based learning
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  • Keith Hamon on 11 Jan 11
     
    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.
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21 Resources About Personal Learning Networks (PLNs)- Shelly Terrell - 1 views

openzine.com/...ReadMore.aspx Shelly Terrell PLN elearning social networking Web 2.0 Education 2.0 connectivism
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  • Keith Hamon on 11 Jan 11
     
    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.
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Portfolio - 1 views

sites.helenbarrett.net/...Home Helen Barrett eportfolio writing elearning social networking PLN connectivism Web 2.0 Education 2.0
shared by Keith Hamon on 08 Jan 11 - Cached
  • 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
      Keith Hamon on 08 Jan 11
       
      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.
  • Keith Hamon on 08 Jan 11
     
    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.
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"The Future of Privacy: How Privacy Norms Can Inform Regulation" - 1 views

www.danah.org/...PrivacyGenerations.html 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.
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Top Web 2.0 Tools for Learning for the New School Year - 1 views

learningonlineinfo.org/...tools-learning-new-school-year Roger Elmore elearning Web 2.0 Education 2.0 edtech
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  • Keith Hamon on 05 Jan 11
     
    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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Connectivism - PhD Wiki - 1 views

sites.google.com/...connectivism Andy Coverdale George Siemens Stephen Downes connectivism
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  • Keith Hamon on 05 Jan 11
     
    Maintaining that learning theories should be reflective of underlying social environments, Siemens (2004) describes the limitations of behaviorism, cognitivism, and constructivism (and the epistemological traditions which underpin them - objectivism, pragmatism and interpetivism - and their representations of what is reality and knowledge) to introduce connectivism as 'a learning theory for the digital age.'
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Critique of Connectivism - PhD Wiki - 0 views

sites.google.com/...critique-of-connectivism Andy Coverdale George Siemens Stephen Downes Rita Kop connectivism
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  • Keith Hamon on 05 Jan 11
     
    An ongoing debate has ensued around the status of George Siemens' (2004) connectivism theory and Stephen Downes' (2006) connected knowledge theory as learning theories for the network age (Kop & Hill, 2008).
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YouTube - Working with blogs in Moodle - 0 views

www.youtube.com/watch blogging students moodle
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  • Stephanie Cooper on 04 Jan 11
     
    How to set up a Blogging Block in Moodle
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