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Transliteracies » Blog Archive » RoSE (Research-oriented Social Environment) - 0 views

transliteracies.english.ucsb.edu/...rose

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  • RoSE’s answer is that people seeking knowledge do not necessarily want to go to either a document (a “document-centric” approach) or a person (a “social- network” approach) as their first point of access—though they will take either.  More ideal is an online environment that allows them to seek out documents and people in the context of relationships between the two (e.g., of authorship, reception, affiliation, recommendation, sponsorship, commentary, rebuttal, etc.).
    • Paul Allison
      Paul Allison on 10 Jan 10
       
      I'm liking this definition, and having two different questions push their way in: 1) How will RoSE deal with the walled-garden aspect of much of academic resources? 2) Can game theory be blended with such a social environment? (crazy thought)
Paul Allison

Why playing in the virtual world has an awful lot to teach children | Technology | The ... - 0 views

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  • If we are to understand the 21st century and the generation who will inherit it, it's crucial that we learn to describe the dynamics of this gaming life: a place that's not so much about escaping the commitments and interactions that make friendships "real" as about a sophisticated set of satisfactions with their own increasingly urgent reality and challenges.
    • Paul Allison
      Paul Allison on 10 Jan 10
       
      This is pretty easy to say, and I'm helping to create a NYC Writing Project group to look experiment with games and to study how to bring them into our curriculum. So much of it is theory! And sometimes it feels like another pressure point urging us to do this or do that in the classroom.
Paul Allison

Random Words Writing Prompts - 0 views

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shared by Paul Allison on 30 Dec 09 - Cached
  • Paul Allison on 30 Dec 09
     
    Why do people assume that it is so easy to "write for at least thirty minutes" from a prompt like this?
Paul Allison

http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/12/how-to-find-anything-online-become-an-internet-... - 0 views

ow.ly/QsO9

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  • Paul Allison on 28 Dec 09
     
    This is a pretty cool article. I wonder what my version -- and my co-teachers versions of this article would be.
Paul Allison

Social bookmarking - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

en.wikipedia.org/...Social_bookmarking

shared by Paul Allison on 09 Dec 09 - Cached
  • In 2006, Ma.gnolia, Blue Dot (later renamed to Faves), and Diigo entered the bookmarking field, and Connectbeam included a social bookmarking and tagging service aimed at businesses and enterprises. In 2007, IBM released its Lotus Connections product.
    • Paul Allison
      Paul Allison on 09 Dec 09
       
      I'm doing some last-minute thinking about this whole field, preparing for a conversation in just a bit on Teachers Teaching Teachers with a couple of self-proclaimed evangelists for Zotero and the developers of another similar site/service, Memcatch. I wonder what it means that there are so many choices out there. Do they all do the same thing? Do they all lack something? Why isn't there more coherence with this work?
  • done by human beings
    • Paul Allison
      Paul Allison on 09 Dec 09
       
      This is an important point. There are, of course, advantages and disadvantages to human labor.
Paul Allison

Insomnia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 1 views

en.wikipedia.org/Insomnia

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  • Insomnia is typically followed by functional impairment while awake.
    • Paul Allison
      Paul Allison on 09 Dec 09
       
      So this is saying that when you don't sleep at night you often get hurt the next day.
Paul Allison

Global Voices Online » Egypt's First Adult Graphic Novel Officially Banned - 1 views

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  • Paul Allison on 25 Nov 09
     
    I want to show this to Omar.
Paul Allison

Mapping Main Street » A Collaborative Documentary Media Project - 2 views

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  • Paul Allison on 12 Nov 09
     
    These girls seemed to enjoy themselves!
Paul Allison

Digitally Speaking / Social Bookmarking and Annotating - 0 views

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reading skimming opposing viewpoints Diigo socialbookmarking

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  • social bookmarking applications take advantage of the wisdom of millions of users to identify resources worth exploring
  • if you find someone whose thinking stimulates yours, you can "see" what it is that is leaving them jazzed on any given day
    • Paul Allison
      Paul Allison on 09 Dec 09
       
      I'm testing how to make this work.
  • It's an instant "starting point" for researching.
  • ...3 more annotations...
  • he fundamental nature of reading is changing as we sprint towards a digital future, and many believe that the changes aren't good
  • Imagine the collective power of an army of readers engaged in ongoing conversation about provocative ideas, challenging one another's thought, publicly debating, and polishing personal beliefs.
  • a group research tool, consider introducing the following six roles:  
  • Paul Allison on 11 Nov 09
     
    I've been thinking about how some of the Diigo tools can help students to become a more thoughtful, slower, more considered process. "Carr goes on to argue that reading online---the most prominent form of reading for many---has devolved into nothing more than "power browsing," a horizontal trip through text characterized by skimming in search of content that is immediately engaging and accessible. Concentration is irrelevant to the online reader, as new pathways are only a quick click away. "Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words," writes Carr, "Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski." " I agree that students tend to skim and perhaps look for nuggets they can use in their own writing when they read online. Changing this is what I want to use Diigo for.
Paul Allison

Alfie Kohn News and Comments - 0 views

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  • If we lived in a country where a real thinker like Ted Sizer, rather than clueless managerial types and cliché-spouting politicians, got to be the Secretary of Education, maybe we wouldn’t need his wisdom so badly.
    • Paul Allison
      Paul Allison on 24 Oct 09
       
      This is so true. I wonder what we can do to move toward creating a culture, a country or a school district where a practical visionary like Ted Sizer would have been allowed to be a political leader.
Paul Allison

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center Document - 1 views

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opposing viewpoints school uniforms EWSIS

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  • Paul Allison on 17 Oct 09
     
    I like the way school uniforms are put into a larger context, that of freedom and rights.
Paul Allison

Op-Ed Contributor - Big Food vs. Big Insurance - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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diabetes diets heart disease prevention nytimes.com nytimes

shared by Paul Allison on 14 Oct 09 - Cached
  • TO listen to President Obama’s speech on Wednesday night, or to just about anyone else in the health care debate, you would think that the biggest problem with health care in America is the system itself — perverse incentives, inefficiencies, unnecessary tests and procedures, lack of competition, and greed.
  • Paul Allison on 14 Oct 09
     
    I'm learning more about diseases like diabetes and heart disease now, and in particular what I'm wondering about is: Is is diet or genetics that determines if you get these diseases or not. I searched in the New York Times for "fast food and cancer" and I found this op-ed piece to be interesting because of how it connects personal issues out to big societal ones. "According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, three-quarters of health care spending now goes to treat "preventable chronic diseases." Not all of these diseases are linked to diet - there's smoking, for instance - but many, if not most, of them are." Seventy-five percent of health care spending goes to things like heart disease and diabetes, which are preventable if we just had better diets!
Paul Allison

EBSCOhost: Result List: Asian-American Women and Suicide - 0 views

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Asian-Americans

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  • Paul Allison on 27 Sep 09
     
    EBSCOhost (ebscohost.com) serves thousands of libraries and other institutions with premium content in every subject area. Free LISTA: LibraryResearch.com
Paul Allison

EBSCOhost: Young, Asian and Feminist - 0 views

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  • I am a feminist.
    • Paul Allison
      Paul Allison on 27 Sep 09
       
      I wonder how many of our students would say the same thing about themselves.
Paul Allison

Developing Skills through Photographic Storytelling at the Yellin Center - 1 views

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shared by Paul Allison on 19 Sep 09 - Cached
  • write, shoot, write; and then begin again. Kids are encouraged to retain their natural sense of play to build upon their strengths so that they can share their lives with others through words (narrative) and images (point of view).
    • Paul Allison
      Paul Allison on 19 Sep 09
       
      Simple, and right-on. A curriculum is about simple habits that get repeated, with students building on their strengths that become evident when they share with their peers.
  • Myself, My Family, My Community, My Dreams
    • Paul Allison
      Paul Allison on 19 Sep 09
       
      I like these concentric circles for organizing a curriculum.
Paul Allison

Inanimate Alice - 0 views

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digital stories literature images

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  • Paul Allison on 13 Sep 09
     
    Inanimate Alice - interactive multimedia stories
Paul Allison

Stanford Study of Writing - Research - Overview - 0 views

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Crossing to College writing

shared by Paul Allison on 30 Aug 09 - Cached
  • The Study has several major goals: to provide an overview of student writing at Stanford; to trace student development in writing across a five-year period; and to use findings to inform the work of the Program in Writing and Rhetoric, the Stanford Writing Center, and, if appropriate, our Writing in the Majors courses.
    • Paul Allison
      Paul Allison on 30 Aug 09
       
      This feels like a good resource, but I'm not sure yet, exactly where the actual skills or products are described in this "overview of student writing at Stanford." Will this overview really help my Seniors to understand what habits of mind, heart and practice they need to develop for college writing?
Paul Allison

Clive Thompson on the New Literacy - 0 views

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Crossing to College writing

shared by Paul Allison on 30 Aug 09 - Cached
  • The fact that students today almost always write for an audience (something virtually no one in my generation did) gives them a different sense of what constitutes good writing. In interviews, they defined good prose as something that had an effect on the world. For them, writing is about persuading and organizing and debating, even if it's over something as quotidian as what movie to go see. The Stanford students were almost always less enthusiastic about their in-class writing because it had no audience but the professor: It didn't serve any purpose other than to get them a grade.
    • Paul Allison
      Paul Allison on 30 Aug 09
       
      I'm excited to find this study, the Stanford Study of Writing. And I'm wondering how to involve my seniors in an inquiry into what sort of writing they will need to be able to do.
Paul Allison

New School Rules on Bias Bullying - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...04bully.html

bullying race sexual orientation differences

shared by Paul Allison on 29 Aug 09 - Cached
  • “Simply put, there is just no place for prejudice or hate or bullying in our schools,” said Mr. Bloomberg, who was joined by Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein as he announced the rules.The policy is intended to deter intimidation and harassment based on ethnicity, national origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation or disability.Every principal will be required to designate a staff member to whom students can report bullying, and schools will be required to report complaints to the Department of Education within 24 hours.The schools will have to investigate the complaints and contact the families of students accused of bias-based harassment.
    • Paul Allison
      Paul Allison on 29 Aug 09
       
      This makes me wonder how much bullying has -- at it heart -- the kinds of harassment and intimidation that they are trying to address in this policy. Is it about "ethnicity, national origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or disability?" If so than it appreciation of these differences that we need to work on if we want to deal with bullying, cyber or face-to-face.
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