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Google Currents - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 1 views

chronicle.com/...37694 Lincoln Mullen Google currents reading elearning Education 2.0
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  • Keith Hamon on 16 Dec 11
     
    Google Currents is an application for Apple's iOS and Google's Android [that] lets you add content that you might want to read from a variety of sources. Google offers a list of featured content that is predictable: Forbes, CNET, ReadWriteWeb, and the like. Google has some other subject-specific lists of content too. The real strength of the app, as far as I am concerned, is the ability to add any RSS feed including those in your Google Reader account.
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Warning: Flipping Your Classroom May Lead to Increased Student Understanding | Teaching... - 1 views

www.teachscienceandmath.com/...ncreased-student-understanding David R. Wetzel flipped classroom math science elearning Education 2.0
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  • Keith Hamon on 19 Dec 11
     
    Flipping a classroom is not a teaching technique, it is more in line with a philosophy or way of teaching. It involves using technology as a tool, not the main focus, for helping students increase their understanding of science or math concepts.
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For Teachers - Gapminder.org - 1 views

www.gapminder.org/for-teachers 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.
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What I've Learned from Teaching with iPads - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Educa... - 1 views

chronicle.com/...37877 Doug Ward ipad
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  • Keith Hamon on 11 Jan 12
     
    I had high hopes when I handed out iPads to students in my graduate seminar this semester. I wanted to explore the possibilities of tablet computing and see firsthand how tablets might be used in higher education. … For the most part, students ended the semester with a collective shrug. They simply weren't all that impressed with tablet computing as it now exists.
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Luke's e-Learning Blog: Assessing Collaborative Efforts - 1 views

lukebilger.blogspot.com/...ing-collaborative-efforts.html Luke Bilger assessment collaboration groups social networking
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  • Keith Hamon on 16 Jan 12
     
    So the question becomes, according to Seimens (Laureate, 2008), "How do we change an assessment model based on individual learning to a model based on collaborative learning?"
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Critical Thinking: What It Is And Why It Counts - Ground Up Strength - 1 views

www.gustrength.com/critcialthinking:facione1 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?
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Critical thinking - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 1 views

en.wikipedia.org/...Critical_thinking Wikipedia critical thinking
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  • Keith Hamon on 07 Sep 10
     
    Critical thinking can occur whenever one judges, decides, or solves a problem; in general, whenever one must figure out what to believe or what to do, and do so in a reasonable and reflective way. Reading, writing, speaking, and listening can all be done critically or uncritically. Critical thinking is crucial to becoming a close reader and a substantive writer. Expressed most generally, critical thinking is "a way of taking up the problems of life."
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http://www.insightassessment.com/pdf_files/PBLTiwariME06abstact.pdf - 1 views

www.insightassessment.com/...PBLTiwariME06abstact.pdf Agnes Tiwari Patrick Lai Mike So Kwan Yuen critical thinking problem-based learning lecture
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  • Keith Hamon on 07 Sep 10
     
    This study found that problem-based learning was significantly better than lecture at enhancing students' critical thinking.
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Planning a Class with Backward Design - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 1 views

chronicle.com/...33625 Mark Sample Grant Wiggins Jay McTighe instructional design Education 2.0
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  • For example, they offer a three-stage diagram of the backward design process that looks deceptively simple: Identify desired results Determine Acceptable Evidence Plan Learning Experiences
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 01 Jun 11
       
      Starting with the results is often a fine way to achieve those results.
  • Keith Hamon on 01 Jun 11
     
    In their excellent book Understanding by Design, Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe call the process of designing courses around learning goals "the backward design process."
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Connectivism and 'Ah-Ha' moments « Jenny Connected - 1 views

jennymackness.wordpress.com/...connectivism-and-ah-ha-moments Jenny Mackness connectivism PLN rhizome social networking
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  • Keith Hamon on 12 Nov 11
     
    thinking about [learning] in connectivism terms is not about changing what I do or how I teach, but changing what I believe is happening and how it is happening.
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Language and Your Brain [INFOGRAPHIC] | Voxy Blog - 1 views

voxy.com/...age-and-your-brain-infographic language infographic
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  • Keith Hamon on 14 Nov 11
     
    For centuries, researchers have studied the brain to find exactly where mechanisms for producing and interpreting language reside. Theories abound on how humans acquire new languages and how our developing brains learn to process languages. We take a look at the mysteries of language and the brain in the infographic below.
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The Wild World of Massively Open Online Courses « Unlimited Magazine - 1 views

www.unlimitedmagazine.com/...-massively-open-online-courses Emily Senger elearning social networking PLN Education 2.0 Web 2.0 connectivism rhizome
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  • “There’s this notion that technology is networked and social. It does alter the power relationship between the educator and the learner, a learner has more autonomy, they have more control. The expectation that you wait on the teacher to create everything for you and to tell you what to do is false.”
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 02 Sep 10
       
      This is perhaps the practical heart of Connectivism: that the world is networked and that the learner is at the center of their own personal learning network.
  • “At the beginning, we had quite a number of students feeling quite overwhelmed because you would get 200 or 300 posts going into a discussion forum per day and that’s just about impossible to follow,” Siemens says.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 02 Sep 10
       
      PLNs must have filters and aggregators to help us manage the massive flow of information in MOOCs.
  • Even if students in massively open online courses master the technology and overcome their virtual stage fright, a third problem remains: how to recognize the value of a learning experience that isn’t for credit.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 02 Sep 10
       
      Validation remains a very sticky issue for online learning and for PLNs. However, I'm not sure the resolution will be to find a method for online validation, redefinition of validation, or a mixture of both.
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  • It’s a question that proponents of online education continue to grapple with. Even if a student in an open course gains from their experience, there is no guarantee that the boss, or a potential employer, will recognize their learning without a certificate or other official, institution-approved record to prove it.
  • Keith Hamon on 02 Sep 10
     
    With advancing online tools innovative educators are examining new ways to break out of this one-to-many model of education, through a concept called massively open online courses. The idea is to use open-source learning tools to make courses transparent and open to all, harnessing the knowledge of anyone who is interested in a topic.
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Part One: Teacher Tips for Wiki Projects - The Tempered Radical - 1 views

teacherleaders.typepad.com/...er-tips-for-wiki-projects.html
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  • Creating a classroom encyclopedia covering the content you are studying in class or a comprehensive collection of solutions to one common problem will be a motivating and productive task for your students. Groups can be assigned particular topics to tackle or charged with detailing the strengths and weaknesses of one potential solution, creating pages mirroring the format of Wikipedia entries. Conceptually, using Wikipedia as a model for your classroom wiki project will make your expectations approachable—and give students samples to refer to while completing their final products.
    • Stephanie Cooper
      Stephanie Cooper on 03 Sep 10
       
      This is a great idea! I could see this replacing the old fashioned report on a subject.
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On Facebook, Librarian Brings 2 Students From the Early 1900s to Life - Wired Campus - ... - 1 views

chronicle.com/...34845 Nick DeSantis writing Facebook history elearning
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  • Keith Hamon on 09 Jan 12
     
    Donnelyn Curtis, the director of research collections and services at the University of Nevada at Reno, created Facebook profiles for Mr. McDonald and his wife, Leola Lewis, to give students a glimpse of university life during the couple's college days. Ms. Lewis graduated in 1913, and Mr. McDonald earned his degree in mechanical engineering two years later.
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Learning community - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 1 views

en.wikipedia.org/...Learning_community learning communities writing education critical thinking
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  • share common emotions, values and beliefs,
    • pajenkins1
      pajenkins1 on 16 Feb 11
       
      What role do emotions play in education?
  • pajenkins1 on 16 Feb 11
     
    General introduction to learning communities
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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
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  • 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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Don't show, don't tell? - MIT News Office - 1 views

web.mit.edu/...teaching-children-0630.html Pedagogy Emily Finn education critical thinking
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  • Keith Hamon on 05 Jul 11
     
    Explicit instruction makes children less likely to engage in spontaneous exploration and discovery. A study by MIT researchers and colleagues compared the behavior of children given a novel toy under four different conditions, finding that children expressly taught one of its functions played with the toy for less time and discovered fewer things to do with it than children in the other three scenarios.
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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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