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  • R.I.P.: Lectures, Notes, and Tests (Scrapping the Old Ways) | Britannica Blog

    Howard Rheingold outlines the structure for his class and rational. It's based on collaborative inquiry with a significant emphasis on using technology such as blogging and wikis to help facilitate the process and increase connection and communication. His arguments revolves around using inquiry and collaboration as a means for good learning, and that technology can help these practices succeed with ease in record keeping, research, and communication. He does note that he must "manage' the class, making mandatory expectations for blogging, collaboration, and presentation, and that only specific students at specific times may open their laptops in class for specific duties.

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    on 2009-04-12 and saved by 26 people

    • the power of every desktop computer or smart phone to function as a worldwide printing press, broadcasting station, market, community center, political organizing tool. Students will develop skills that are directly relevant to their personal development and their place in the world after graduation, but the price for learning to use the Social Media Collaboratory for collaborative inquiry is a serious committment of time and attention by every member of the learning group.

  • Participatory Media Literacy: Why it matters

    Mike Wesch Blog

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    on 2009-04-12

    • If print culture shaped the environment in which the Enlightenment blossomed and set the scene for the Industrial Revolution, participatory media might similarly shape the cognitive and social environments in which twenty first century life will take place (a shift in the way our culture operates). For this reason, participatory media literacy is not another subject to be shoehorned into the curriculum as job training for knowledge workers.

  • OER

    Open Educational Resources is a movement expanding the available information and resources for students and teachers alike. Having a commonwealth of knowledge has it's obvious benefits but what about intellectual property and the problems with economics and maintaining an infrastructure?

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    on 2009-04-12

    • Students everywhere, enrolled or not, have free access to content and interactive instruction, as well as to networks of people with similar interests, enabling them to collaborate in the construction of knowledge and to learn at their own pace.
    • Open high-quality content and instruction can set standards of practice and, because of their quality, transparency, and availability, help improve the practice of teaching and learning throughout the world.
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