Writing Across the Curriculum

I have noticed an emerging trend of what one goes through when adopting a PLN for the first time. I myself continue to look at the stages I am going through in adopting this new way of learning, interacting, and teaching in a collaborative, connected world.

Many benefits of blogging seem to become apparent over time. That has happened in my own learning journey as a blogger as well.  It is the reflective nature and the timeline of a blog, as well as the growing connections with readers that will reveal growth as a writer, the benefits of being a member of a network and a contributor to a global community.

Blended, or hybrid, learning has caught the eye of many looking into the potential of online learning, especially after the release of a meta-analysis and review of online-learning research by the U.S. Department of Education in May 2009. The authors found that "instruction combining online and face-to-face elements had a larger advantage" than either purely online or entirely face-to-face instruction.

the team has found that most young people are devoid of ethical thinking or consideration for others when using the web.

"A Gift Circle can be autocatalytic."

What's shocking is how incredibly well Torrance's creativity index predicted those kids' creative accomplishments as adults. Those who came up with more good ideas on Torrance's tasks grew up to be entrepreneurs, inventors, college presidents, authors, doctors, diplomats, and software developers. Jonathan Plucker of Indiana University recently reanalyzed Torrance's data. The correlation to lifetime creative accomplishment was more than three times stronger for childhood creativity than childhood IQ.

Over time, I'd like my students to become purveyors of their own work more and more.  The idea (and I'm sure it's not mine) is for the students to be able to critically analyze what each other written work to improve their own writing.

Educators have long cautioned students about posting damaging information online, but now it's also becoming important to build a positive digital footprint. When should students start building their online persona? The earlier, the better.

The Foundation and Center for Critical Thinking aim to improve education in colleges, universities and primary through secondary schools. We present publications, conferences, workshops and professional development programs, emphasizing instructional strategies, Socratic questioning, critical reading and writing, higher order thinking, assessment, research, quality enhancement, and competency standards.

New Vocabulary! "Lecture Capture"

Anything mentioning Mark Taylor, even in a note, is worthwhile. I am 100% for letting more dynamic, not to mention knowledgeable and "professional" speakers, take that role from me, as well as from other college teachers, or supplement what I bring to my classes.

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Shows how the wave is surging in the younger education forums today. Good reading for some how-to steps.

Proceedings of a 2006 symposium in New Zealand about student engagement.

An overview of a handful of surveys to measure student engagement.

Overview of definitions of student engagement & methods of assessing engagement: self-report measures, checklists & rating scales, direct observations, work sample analyses, & focused case studies.

Children love to learn, but at some point they lose that and become adults that don't like formal learning. Let's explore why "play" has gotten such a bad rap and figure out how to get it back in education.

Members want 3 things from any online community. These three things shape your actions in the following ways:

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.

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.