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Keith Hamon

Pearson Social Media Survey 2010 - 1 views

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Hester Tinti-Kane Jeff Seaman Justin Levy elearning social networking PLN Web 2.0 Education 2.0

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  • Keith Hamon on 18 Jan 11
     
    A survey of 1,000 educators to learn their awareness of and use of social media.
Keith Hamon

Plagiarism Advice - Plagiarism Advice - 1 views

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plagiarism writing Education 2.0

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  • Keith Hamon on 18 Mar 11
     
    This section contains information on the onsite and online training provided by PlagiarismAdvice.org along with details of some of the commissioned advice projects we have been involved in.
Keith Hamon

http://ms.echalksd.com/www/pd_ms/site/hosting/blog_and_writing.pdf - 1 views

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Shelbie Witte writing blogging elearning social networking PLN connectivism

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  • Keith Hamon on 02 Dec 10
     
    By combining writing with online technology, teachers can provide opportunities for students and future educators to develop their digital fluency while also strengthening their traditional literacy skills.
Keith Hamon

http://family.lskc.edu.hk/files/dwn/LearningWithWeblogs.pdf - 1 views

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Helen S Du Christian Wagner blogging Web 2.0 writing social networking PLN connectivism constructivism

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  • Keith Hamon on 02 Dec 10
     
    Study of blogging in higher ed information systems course suggests that blogging is a significant predictor for learning outcomes while traditional coursework is not, that blogging has the highest predictive power for high & low students but much less for medium performers, and that blogging has a positive learning effect.
Stephanie Cooper

Why I Will Not Teach to the Test| The Committed Sardine - 1 views

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writing critical thinking

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  • Any teacher worth his or her salt knows that if you really want to measure the level of student thinking, you have to have students write. Answers to multiple-choice questions can often be faked; answers to essay questions cannot.
  • I also find it odd that while many states have raised their test scores over the past few years, we as a country continue to fall in international comparisons of academic achievement. How can this be? If we are getting “better,” why are we declining internationally? In an attempt to answer these questions, Linda Darling-Hammond of Stanford University studied high-achieving countries from around the world. Her findings? School systems in high-achieving countries value higher-order thinking. They parse their standards to make them lean. They use very little, if any, multiple-choice assessments to monitor student progress. They require students to research, to inquire, to write—to think critically. They give students time to reflect upon their learning. They emphasize the skills graduates will need to be college- or career-ready in a globally competitive marketplace. They surround their students with interesting books. Because their assessments demand critical thinking, their students are moving ahead. Because our assessments demand shallow thinking, our students are falling behind.
Thomas Clancy

4,100 Massachusetts Students Prove Small Isn't Always Better - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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writing across curriculum

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  • Thomas Clancy on 11 Oct 10
     
    This article has a positive message for our QEP strategy. Include real reading and real writing in every class, and communication skills and learning cannot help but improve.
Keith Hamon

Can We Teach Creative and Critical Thinking? - Education - GOOD - 1 views

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Zoe Burgess critical thinking writing

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  • Critical thinking is, among many things, the ability to understand and apply the abstract, the ability to infer and to meaningfully investigate. It’s the skills needed to see parallels, comprehend intersections, identify problems, and develop sustainable solutions.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 05 Oct 10
       
      We have not adequately accounted for abstraction in our discussions of CT or investigation. I wonder if CT is such a large, amorphous category as to be almost meaningless? Perhaps not, but it is clear to me that almost every discussion of CT must begin with a clear delineation of just what we mean when we say critical thinking.
  • sound critical thinking is imperative to social progress.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 05 Oct 10
       
      This social imperative is somewhat troubling to me. Is not good critical thinking its own reward?
  • Cultivating critical thinking may be accomplished with modeling
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 05 Oct 10
       
      Modeling is a promising technique, but how often do teachers expose their own thinking processes to students? Don't we usually let them see only the polished final product of our thought, and not the messy critical thinking we went through prior to our polished position?
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  • School trips, service learning requirements, and various other kinds of hands-on situations allow students to make connections at their own pace
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 05 Oct 10
       
      Nice methods that change the complexion of the typical classroom from one of content-delivery to content application.
  • teachers suggest, and insist, that students investigate further, making—but more importantly, justifying—inferences and conclusions.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 05 Oct 10
       
      Is it not obvious how the focus on the "right answer" undermines this willingness to explore? Why would most students expend any energy on an issue when they already have the answer that will be on the test, the "correct answer"?
  • It’s hard to design test questions that effectively measure a child’s ability think creatively.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 05 Oct 10
       
      Note the writer's confusion of critical thinking and creative thinking. Are they usually confused? Should they be? Is there any advantage to distinguishing between them?
  • At the heart of teaching critical and creative thought is the ability to ask the right questions to students. In turn, they need to be able answer in a way that demonstrates their ability to see the parallels and intersections;
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 05 Oct 10
       
      This kind of open-ended discussion and work in class is key to the QEP classroom.
  • Keith Hamon on 05 Oct 10
     
    But how is creative or critical thought defined and taught? And by what assessment can we measure it, if at all?
Keith Hamon

How to Create Nonreaders - 1 views

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Alfie Kohn reading motivation Education writing

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  • have kids read (and write) mostly on their own -- if your goal were to cause them to lose interest in what they’re doing.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 01 Oct 10
       
      The point of a PLN is to encourage our students to write to other people (teachers too seldom qualify as other people in the minds of students).
  • every single study that has examined grades and intrinsic motivation has found that the former has a negative effect on the latter.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 01 Oct 10
       
      If we tie writing and critical thinking to grades, we will undermine both.
  • What matters is not what we teach; it’s what they learn,[14] and the probability of real learning is far higher when the students have a lot to say about both the content and the process.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 01 Oct 10
       
      The point is not to cover content, but to spark knowledge in students.
  • Keith Hamon on 01 Oct 10
     
    I'd like to begin my contribution to an issue of this journal whose theme is "Motivating Students" by suggesting that it is impossible to motivate students. … What a teacher can do - all a teacher can do - is work with students to create a classroom culture, a climate, a curriculum that will nourish and sustain the fundamental inclinations that everyone starts out with:  to make sense of oneself and the world, to become increasingly competent at tasks that are regarded as consequential, to connect with (and express oneself to) other people.
Stephanie Cooper

A Rubric for Evaluating Student Blogs - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 1 views

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rubric blogging student blogs education

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  • I developed a simple 5-point scale, which rates each post according to the level of critical thinking and engagement displayed in the post. The rubric is quick and easy and in roughly 1–2 minutes I know what to rate any given blog post:
    • Stephanie Cooper
      Stephanie Cooper on 30 Sep 10
       
      This is a good example of a rubric for evaluating posts. Notice that the prof is placing emphasis on critical thinking and engagement - 2 of our QEP priorities!
  • gideonburton - September 27, 2010 at 12:13 pm
    • Stephanie Cooper
      Stephanie Cooper on 30 Sep 10
       
      I also like the way this prof evaluates the blog as a whole.
Keith Hamon

Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning | Sex and Word Clouds: Crafting Effectiv... - 1 views

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Bill Watson Wordle data visualization data mining data analysis writing

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  • Keith Hamon on 04 May 11
     
    Several of the most prominent words are included in the title for this blog post. While the word cloud did not write the title for me, it helped me identify important elements from my post and served as an ideal starting point for creating an interesting and informative title for potential readers.
Stephanie Cooper

Flickr: Tell a story in 5 frames (Visual story telling) - 1 views

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DigitalStorytelling visualization photography web2.0

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  • Stephanie Cooper on 28 Sep 10
     
    This would be a great class assignment! It uses critical thinking skills, imagination, technology, and a touch of writing (posting comments, etc.)
Keith Hamon

Free and Unlimited Web Conferencing | Free Video Conferencing | Online Web Meeting | Mu... - 1 views

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collaboration Web 2.0 webinars online conference elearning social networking

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    A virtual round table for meetings & events, with free, unlimited web conferences.
Keith Hamon

ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 1 views

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writing reflection public discourse Ryan Cordell

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  • Writing in class gives students direct access to me as they think through their ideas.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 11 Oct 11
       
      This is a key benefit of flipping the classroom.
  • Keith Hamon on 07 Oct 11
     
    I suspect that many of us ask students to do some kind of writing in class: whether reflecting on the day's topic, responding to a brief prompt, or outlining their ideas. I include those kinds of writing-to-learn activities in my classes as well.
Keith Hamon

Many Eyes - 1 views

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data analysis data visualization graphics IBM Many Eyes writing elearning

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    A data visualization tool from IBM.
Keith Hamon

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iPad

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  • Keith Hamon on 18 Oct 11
     
    "This is the second year of the GFW High School One-to-One iPad Initiative where every GFW High School student has access to an iPad tablet to use in their classes. Students can use their iPad: -as an organizational tool to track assignments, homework and class projects. -to access the internet to research information needed for class projects. -to create on-line presentations -to word process class papers and projects -to run a variety of applications to enhance their learning experience in class -to read electronic books, tests, newspapers and magazines"
Keith Hamon

Networked learning, CoPs and connectivism « Jenny Connected - 1 views

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Jenny Mackness connectivism PLN social networking Web 2.0 Education 2.0

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    "The first Networked Learning Conference Hotseat with Peter Goodyear has attracted a lot of interesting discussion. Most of the discussion has centred on what is meant by networked learning and there seem to be as many definitions as there are people in the forum."
Keith Hamon

Connectivism and Personal Learning - 1 views

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Stephen Downes connectivism elearning social networking Web 2.0 Education 2.0

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  • Keith Hamon on 20 Oct 11
     
    Connectivism as a pedagogical theory is typically thought of in terms of networks, but the major practical implication of connectivism occurs in the organization of learning eventes and resources. Unlike traditional educatioinal modalities, in which people work collaboratively, in a connectivist model, people work cooperatively.
Keith Hamon

10 Awesome Free Tools To Make Infographics - 1 views

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Angela Alcorn data visualization infographics

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  • Keith Hamon on 13 Oct 10
     
    Information graphics, visual representations of data known as infographics, keep the web going these days. Web users, with their diminishing attention spans, are inexorably drawn to these shiny, brightly coloured messages with small, relevant, clearly-displayed nuggets of information. They're straight to the point, usually factually interesting and often give you a wake-up call as to what those statistics really mean.
Keith Hamon

Princeton Professor Gains Cult Status With 3,200 Essays on Facebook - Wired Campus - Th... - 1 views

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Jeff Nunokawa writing social networking Education 2.0 Web 2.0

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  • Keith Hamon on 28 Mar 11
     
    This Princeton English professor has written more than 3,200 short essays on Facebook and shared them with his students.
Keith Hamon

Don't Teach Them Facts - Let Student Discover Patterns - Copy / Paste by Peter Pappas - 1 views

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Peter Pappas critical thinking problem-based learning patterns rhizome cartography decalcomania

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  • Keith Hamon on 20 Jun 11
     
    Educators - it's time to stop all the modeling. Get rid of all the canned graphic organizers. Have the courage to be less helpful. Be patient and let students recognize their own patterns. It's messy work, but its where the learning will take place.
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