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Keith Hamon

Nomadic Thinking | Critical Legal Thinking - 0 views

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    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.
Keith Hamon

450 Free Audio Books: Download Great Books for Free | Open Culture - 4 views

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    Download hundreds of free audio books, mostly classics, to your MP3 player or computer. Below, you'll find great works of fiction, non-fiction and poetry.
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    Keith, this is amazing, astounding, and literally science-fiction come to life for us oldsters -- throws the concept of "home schooling" into an entirely new light, not to mention expanding the conventional classroom. In just poking around a little at the site, I also found "gutenberg.org" and "librivox.org" mentioned as sources of more and more treasures. Thanks for this gift!
Keith Hamon

Teachers Guide on The Use of Wikis in Education - 1 views

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    According to Leuf and Cunningham, a wiki is "a free expandable collection of interlinked webpages, a hypertext system for storing and modifyinh information, a data base, where each page is easily edited by any user." A Wiki can be thought of as a combination of a web site and a Word document. At its simplest, it can be read just like any other web site, with no access privileges necessary, but its real power lies in the fact that groups can collaboratively work on the content of the site using nothing but a standard web browser. The Wiki is gaining  traction in education as an ideal tool for collaborative work.
Thomas Clancy

Math learning software and other technology are hurting education. - Slate Magazine - 0 views

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    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.
Thomas Clancy

Educanto Marches On - Paul Greenberg - [page] - 1 views

  • It's a firm rule in educanto: The vaguer the idea, the wordier its description.
  • the educantists' inflated language is a sure sign of their insecurity, which they try to mask by ever more convoluted language. Pretension remains the first symptom of a profession unsure of itself.
  • American society's in this postmodern, robotic, deconstructed age. We confuse data with information, information with knowledge and knowledge with wisdom.
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  • if a quality can't be quantified -- like intuition, say, or poetry or faith or insight -- it doesn't exist. At least not to the well-trained mind. With each such "reform" in basic education, the basics grow dimmer. We seem bent on learning more and more about less and less till we finally succeed in knowing everything about nothing.
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    I'm not familiar with this term "Educanto," but the article hits a concept that is close to us--assessment. If "grades" don't reflect a grasp of "basics," then what is it that we want to measure?
asinha123

SMART - Science, Mathematics & Research for Transformation - Part of the National Defen... - 0 views

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Stephanie Cooper

Web 2.0 Teaching Tools: Twitter Tweets for Higher Education - 0 views

  • I think Twitter could be ideal for reminding students about homework, trips and such things, especially as they can enter their mobile phone number to be alerted when one of their ‘friends’ updates their account. The advantage is that you don’t need to know the phone numbers of students to get messages onto their device: they are the ones who authorize their mobile phone from the website and they subscribe to your Twitter feed.
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      This is a great quote!
Thomas Clancy

What Can We Learn From Diagramming Sentences? - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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    A return to heaven . . . or to hell??
Stephanie Cooper

Learning through Reflection - 1 views

  • Strategies for Fostering Reflection Hatton and Smith (1995) reported four activites that in in the process of reflection: Action Research Projects Case and cultural studies Practical experiences Structured curriculum tasks: Reading fiction and non-fiction Oral interviews Writing tasks such as narratives, biographies, reflective essays, and keeping journals. However, although these strategies have the potential to encourage reflection, there is little research evidence to show that this is actually being achieved. Obviously "fact" questions do not promote reflection (e.g., What are the functional areas of an air base?). But posing hypothetical situations produced similarly disappointing results (e.g., Assume you have inherited a significant sum of money and wish to buy land in an environmentally sensitive area on which to build. What factors will go into your decision and why?). In contrast, the most successful probe asked learners to write a one page letter to a parent, sibling or other significant person in their lives.
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      These are great ideas for creating opportunities for reflective practices into discussion questions and outside research.
  • Extending evaluative feedback might have even more powerful effects. Providing probes may cause the learner to continue to think about the topic, such as: "Have you thought about how a skilled operator might do this?" "But how much does safety really get compromised when you don't use safety shoes?" Pointing out other possibilities may also result in additional thinking about relationships among factors not previously considered, such as:  "Another factor you might consider is how many different tools will be required if you use different size bolts in the design?" "But what if the rate of water flow is doubled?" Although such feedback may be provided via written comments, they are probably most powerful when used interactively in interpersonal dialogue. Carrying on a dialogue with one or more learners about the work they have submitted is probably the ultimate in promoting reflection via feedback. But the logistics of doing so and having discussion leaders who are skilled in the content and possess good interpersonal skills may be beyond the capacity of the system to provide; unless it is computer mediated in some way. Other hints for encouraging reflection include: Seek alternatives. View from various perspectives. Seek the framework, theoretical basis, underlying rationale (of behaviors, methods, techniques, programs). Compare and contrast. Put into different/varied contexts. Ask "what if. . . ?" Consider consequences.
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    This may be  useful for the Reflective Practices literacy workshop.
Thomas Clancy

studentoffortune.com: Why study? Just steal the course! - Keka - Open Salon - 0 views

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    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!
Keith Hamon

Google+ Your Business - Google+ - 0 views

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

New study on advantages for black graduates of black colleges | Inside Higher Ed - 1 views

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    This article does not touch on writing "per se," but we here at Albany State in Georgia are an HBCU school, so I wanted to share this mildly optimistic news with our faculty.
Thomas Clancy

Half of Fla. high school students fail FCAT test - Florida Wires - MiamiHerald.com - 0 views

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    A look across the not-too-distant border from us here in Albany, GA. One has to ask what the country-wide figures might be. And how soon will these 14-15-yr.-olds be in college, and what literate skills will they develop before then, or not at all?
Stephanie Cooper

- e-Literate - 0 views

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

Students Should Check Their Sense of Entitlement at the Door - Commentary - The Chronic... - 2 views

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    Every college teacher I know is bemoaning the same kind of thing. Whether it's rude behavior, lack of intellectual rigor, or both, we are all struggling with the same frightening decline in student performance and academic standards at institutions of higher learning. A sense of entitlement now pervades the academy, excellence be damned.
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    This is from March of 2011??? Keith, did you post it because it resonates with what you're seeing in Florida now? I don't think this rudeness describes Albany State U, just the obvious unpreparedness of the students. Our writing lab specialists do encounter demanding students sometimes, but I think it's fairly rare, and I haven't heard of extended bad feelings.
Keith Hamon

Why Flip The Classroom When We Can Make It Do Cartwheels? | Co.Exist: World changing id... - 4 views

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    In some ways, the flipped model is an improvement. Research shows that tailored tutoring is more effective than lectures for understanding, mastery, and retention. But the flipped classroom doesn't come close to preparing students for the challenges of today's world and workforce. As progressive educational activist Alfie Kohn notes, great teaching isn't just about content but motivation and empowerment: Real learning gives you the mental habits, practice, and confidence to know that, in a crisis, you can count on yourself to learn something new. That's crucial in a world where, according to the U.S. Department of Labor Statistics, adults change careers (not just jobs) four to six times or where, as an Australian study predicts, 65% of today's teens will end up in careers that haven't even been invented yet. We don't need to flip the classroom. We need to make it do cartwheels.
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    I find this paragraph particularly telling: "The cartwheeled classroom not only connects text books and classrooms to the real world, but it also inspires, uplifts, and offers the joy of accomplishment. Transformative, connected knowledge isn't a thing--it's an action, an accomplishment, a connection that spins your world upside down, then sets you squarely on your feet, eager to whirl again. It's a paradigm shift." Imagine what this could mean for our ASU QEP, for example, if we told our twelve 2012-2013 teachers that each of their QEP courses was going to be taught within the larger context of being meaningful to the population of a Haitian, African, Muslim, or Afghan village or community. The difference for the students in their real-world learning would be immeasurable.
Thomas Clancy

Metawriting by Deanna Mascle - 2 views

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    A very interesting and useful blog writer whom I found through Dave Cormier (Connectivism advocate). I would like to explore "contract grading" as a concept to share with our QEP faculty at Albany State.
Thomas Clancy

Next Time, Fail Better - Commentary - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 2 views

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    Maybe "failure" is too strong a term. Maybe "almost there," "nearly there," "just about there" and other mid-way steps should be incorporated in the Humanities.
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