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I started using podcasting with children who were lacking confidence in their writing. I would ask them to record their ideas and then play it back to themselves so that they could sound out slowly and replay their ideas to make sure they got all their ideas on paper before the nerves of the blank page kicked in.
Like the distinction between living technologies vs learning technologies underscores the need for educators to teach how to use technologies for learning, not living. Also pokes holes in digital native crud.
Google adding semantic layer to search results to return structured data
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Google resources to help teach search strategies. With the materials on this site, you can help your students become skilled searchers- whether they're just starting out with search, or ready for more advanced training.
Example of Dave Cormier's learning contract for assessment
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"Our research shows that the argument that there is a generational break between today's generation of young people who are immersed in new technologies and older generations who are less familiar with technology is flawed," says Dr Jones. "The diverse ways that young people use technology today shows the argument is too simplistic and that a new single generation, often called the 'net generation', with high skill levels in technology does not exist."
Article from Martin Weller of OU on blogging. Also nods to filtering 7 curating
A Step-by-Step Guide for Designing & Cultivating Communities of Practice in Higher Education (PDF)
From the outset, education via the internet presented universities with three significant advances any one of which was sufficient to alter the way education was conducted but when combined as they soon were, sowed the seeds of the revolution that is now upon us.
First, the internet provided educators with the ability to extend their reach globally.
Second, it provided access to what is now a vast ocean of the very latest information.
And third, with the advent of Web 2 technologies around the turn of the century the internet began to provide a medium, and for many now the preferred medium for interacting with friends and others with whom they share interests.
With copy of letter from Dr. Richard Stanwich, head of CRD Health, saying that, based on current inforamtion, wifi does not pose a health concern.
Students are looking other resources to supplement their learning, beyond what is being offered by their faculty. Seems to counteracts other research I have read that says students turn to assigned course content first.
Coursera is another one of the MOOC-ish startups that seem to be popping up like dandelions these days. They have put some thought and research into their pedagogical model, which is refreshing to see from an EdTech startup as so many of these sites/services are VC funded looking to ride the EdTech hype wave that seems to be happening in Silicon Valley right now.
Importance of community in online courses. P2PU is profiled & MOOC's hilighted.