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Capturing the Visible Evidence of Invisible Learning | Academic Commons

teachers must think deeper into the nature of education and our aims and outcomes and how technology can be used to better reach these outcomes. i.e., clickers in class, real question is the nature of questions in the class.

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- Lynne Adrian (University of Alabama) started off investigating the role of personal response systems (“clickers”) in a large enrollment Humanities course to see if the use of concept questions would increase student engagement, but was soon led to reflect much more interestingly on the purpose of questions in class and the very nature of the questions she had been asking for more than twenty years. Similarly, Joe Ugoretz (Borough of Manhattan Community College), in an early inquiry, hoped to study the benefits of a free-form discussion space in an online literature course, but got frustrated because the students would frequently digress and stray off topic; finally it occurred to him that the really interesting inquiry lay in learning more about the nature of digressions themselves, considering which were productive and which were not.
New Media Technologies and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: A Brief Introduction to this Issue of Academic Commons | Academic Commons

Overview of jan Academic Commons issue on tech/ed.

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- We
  need, in short, to merge a culture of inquiry into teaching and
  learning with a culture of experimentation around new media technologies
- Our ability to make the best use of any technologies to improve education
  hinges ultimately on the reciprocal capacities to bring our powers of
  inquiry to bear on educational technologies, as well as to bring the
  power of new technologies to bear on our methods of inquiry and our
  representation of knowledge about teaching practice.
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- - the continuity
    of learning issues from Web 1.0 to 2.0 technologies, from online discussion
    tools, hypertext and multimedia authoring to emergent forms of electronic
    portfolios, blogs, social networking tools, and virtual reality environments.
    We take these up in the context of a dual challenge: to understand better
    the changing nature of learning in new media environments and the potential
    of new media environments to make learning--and faculty insights into teaching--visible and usable.
  - Nothing good will come of these technologies
    if we do not first confront the crisis of significance and bring relevance
    back into education. In some ways these technologies act as magnifiers. If we fail to address the crisis of significance, the technologies will
    only magnify the problem by allowing students to tune out more easily
    and completely.”
  - Cathy
    Davidson’s interview about “participatory learning and the new humanities,”
    where her celebration of the potential for “Humanities 2.0” is counter
    balanced by entrenched reluctance to rethink basic practices in our
    fields, especially around the ways we recognize expertise, collaboration,
    and creativity.
  - guess part of me just
    doesn’t understand why this isn’t the most exciting time for all
    of us in our profession and why we aren’t figuring out ways that we
    can use this to bolster our mission in the world, our methods in the
    world, our reach in the world, our understanding of what we do and what
    we have to offer our students in the world? It just feels like we’re
    in an age where we educators should be the thought leaders and so many
    of us are futzing around the edges, and I don’t get it.
  - n this environment
    it is especially important to flank classroom-based inquiry with
    institutional learning, where we can put into practice wide-scale
    views of learning outcomes as textured as those of faculty who look
    at learning in their own classrooms.

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