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Views: A Defense of the Lecture - Inside Higher Ed on 2009-11-20
- At the same time, it seems to me that such discussions are pretty rare, even among professional academics (note how often people will express surprise that a conference session had good discussion).
- A big part of that has to be getting them to a point where they are good readers.
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- - Lectures can play a significant role in getting students to that next level if they’re used not primarily to transmit information, but to guide students in their reading and in certain modes of thinking.
  - ability to check in periodically to make sure students are still “on board”
  - I have learned this lesson from hard experience after trying an “inductive” pedagogical approach and finding that the texts only began to make sense to them after I gave up on leading questions and directly told them what themes they should have found
  - Hence even the much-derided process of studying for a “regurgitation”-style test has its role — and it also meets the students at the level of learning they are likely bringing with them from high school.
Blog U.: Challenges and Opportunities of the Small Screen - Technology and Learning - Inside Higher Ed on 2009-11-20
- It seems to me that libraries have made a mistake in trying to have physical e-reading devices available for checkout, rather then having the digital file available that students (and faculty and staff) can check-out to the mobile devices that they already own.
- Students are amongst the busiest people on earth. Perhaps they will be more likely to read an assigned chapter if they can grab some snippets during those "in-between" times on their mobile device. Later they can crawl up for extended times with the paper book, or on an e-reader, the point is to offer choice.
Teaching Experiment Decodes a Discipline - Teaching - The Chronicle of Higher Education on 2009-11-18
- Every area of study, the Indiana scholars say, has its own distinctive bottleneck—concepts or tasks that many students never quite grasp. Biology students, for example, have trouble developing accurate mental images of molecules. Many professors are so familiar with these bottleneck concepts that they find them difficult to explain.
- As those conversations proceeded, the professors realized that they expected their students to perform a variety of complex interpretive tasks, but that they rarely modeled those tasks in the classroom
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- - In advance of many classes, the students perform online assignments that highlight particular steps in the analysis of historical evidence.
  - The online assignments are helpful because they help you learn how to use the material. So when it comes time to write the long essays, you know how to draw on facts and make an argument."
  - This year, Ms. Díaz is making bigger changes in her instructional design, including more in-class group exercises like the ones Mr. Pace employs.
  - In 2004 Ms. Middendorf and Mr. Pace edited a special issue of the journal New Directions for Teaching and Learning that was dedicated to the notion of decoding the disciplines.
Geeky Mom: The Future of Educational/Instructional Technology on 2009-11-17
- Most of the uses I've seen have come from the faculty themselves, who increasingly are using these tools in their own work, so it becomes natural to them to try to use them in their teaching. No extra staff needed. And usually, no cost for the tools themselves.
- After all, sometimes, the IT people (ed tech people included) get wowed by the technology and jump in head first without thinking about whether or not it will actually get used. Even if the cost is only in time, that's still a cost that some can ill afford.
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- - I feel like the model we have--ed tech people as a separate entity--just isn't working and isn't creating the change in education that we need. And I see that change happening more and more though individual faculty who are "just doing it."
http://learningmatters.tv/blog/uncategorized/new-media-literacy-an-interview-with-hillary-kolos/3327/ on 2009-11-16
Perspectives: Technology Leadership in the Liberal Arts » Book Futures – Michael Spalti, Willamette University on 2009-10-28
- Our library of fifteen years hence would contain language and multimedia labs, group work spaces, quiet places for study, data analysis and geo-spatial mapping, live and recorded video feeds from around the world, professional staff and faculty offices, academic centers, a state-of-the-art classroom and, of course, a coffee shop on the first floor.
- academic books to be distributed and used primarily in digital form
  - Rebecca Davis on 2009-10-28
    
    we are seeing this ebooks, kindles, etc. and also see the new BookServer
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- - In The Future of the Book, the historian James J. O’Donnell
  - something
Views: The Kids Are All Right - Inside Higher Ed on 2009-10-28
- We must remember that when we compare students past and present, we may be using an unfair comparison group.
  We run the risk of using our own past experience as the default comparison group.
- Thus, we should be careful to avoid portraying our personal academic experiences and motivations as the benchmark for comparisons.
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- - Although there may be generation differences in the available technology, students and teachers of yesterday and today share the same desire to learn useful information, to be financially secure, to lead a happy life, and to be efficient, and to avoid wasting time engaging in seemingly meaningless activities.
  - It is unlikely that an entire generation, student body, or even your early morning class will see the light, rebel against their nature, and suddenly enter your classroom as the dedicated scholars you think they should be
Techne » Help Students Read the Web Critically on 2009-10-28
- It’s like everything I do when I read on paper
- The clear antecedent for website annotation in paper-based research practices makes it an easy sell for me and those older than me, especially those in academia.
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- - Simply put, it’s work–critical reading and analysis, one of the core skills of a liberal education.
Techne » Virtual Programming Addresses Technology for Teaching Global Cultures on 2009-10-27
News: E-Learning's 'Third Phase' - Inside Higher Ed on 2009-10-27
- “The first phase was faculty saying, ‘How do I get this stuff on the Web if I don’t know HTML?’ ” Green said. The second phase involved adding features that let students interact with their professors and each other in that space. The third phase, he explained, will involve figuring out how to extract value from all those transactions.
- Green said being able to refer to these real-time profiles of student engagement could allow colleges to administer “targeted and thoughtful interventions” in cases where engagement was less than it could be -- either at an individual or systematic level.

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