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04 Dec 09

LRNT504 [LRNTECH-MA 2009 OL] Nov 16, 2009 : The Case Study for Assignment 1

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MPE 630 Evaluation versus Research: Similarities and Differences, has been ques

03 Dec 09

More offers -- and more distractions

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"We are disconnecting personally."
"We are disconnecting personally."
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- misconception, says Hallowell. We don't actually multi-task, we just switch
- misconception, says Hallowell. We don't actually multi-task, we just switch
- tion, says Hallowell. We do
- "We are disconnecting personally."
- "We are disconnecting personally."

28 Nov 09

Wikimedia blog » Blog Archive » Wikipedia’s Volunteer Story

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we choose to define editors as people who have made at least 5 edits
we choose to define editors as people who have made at least 5 edits.
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- we choose to define editors as people who have made at least 5 edits.

19 Nov 09

Mr. Mayo’s Class Integrates CC, Skypes with Lawrence Lessig - Creative Commons

Middle school teacher on why teaching kids about CC is a good thing

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You know, it becomes really advantageous for the teacher to figure it out because the kids really get into it, it makes their projects better, and it helps us all learn about these issues of copyright
So we’re trying to get the kids to understand that these are online communities where you take stuff, but it’s also really good to contribute content
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- have you guys had YouTube videos taken down? And they’ll all raise their hands.
- Because they all used the site, they all use various peer to peer file sharing sites to basically download copyrighted content, and they weren’t aware that was really illegal, so that really helped them clarify that for them.
- I was actually a construction worker and a truck driver for a number of years. I dropped out of college. And I always wanted to be a teacher so I went back to night school for like a number of years.

18 Nov 09

LRNT504 [LRNTECH-MA 2009 OL] Nov 16, 2009 : Readings - Unit 1

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Hannum, W. (2005). Instructional systems development: A 30 year perspective. Educational Technology 45 (4), pp. 5-21. Retrieved August 31, 2009 from http://learningarchitectsgroup.com/ISD%20Retrospective.pdf

23 Oct 09

Times Higher Education - Why offline? It's very personal

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- Isn't it a role of academics to help the student learn how to discriminate? - on 2009-10-23
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their inability to discriminate between different sources
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- Several scholars made self-deprecating remarks about their not being ready to embrace e-learning, referring to themselves as "a stick-in-the-mud" and "naughty".

13 Oct 09

Schools embrace iPods for learning

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"It's about removing barriers and helping them see this as more than a toy,"
- So true. By banning these tools, students get sent a message that the only use they have is trivial - entertainment, games, and communicating with peers - instead of powefrul tools for learning. - on 2009-10-13
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10 Oct 09

It’s not about tools. It’s about change. « Connectivism

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It is worth noting that those of us in the educational technology space draw on terms and concepts straddling numerous disciplines – psychology, learning theory, technology, and social trends (Freire/Illich-type power issues with a smattering of democracy and undertone of power and opression thrown in) – each generally viewed to be fairly incomprehensible, but when carefully blended, is absolutely alien to the daily thinking habits of most people.
Our experience confirms the tremendous values of connecting with others, forming networks, sharing and reusing content, collaborating, building together, fostering a crescendo dialogue threatening at any moment to break from our secluded networks into the broader consciousness of society.
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- ’m concerned that the current tone of talk about read/write web tools in the conference circuit is one of shoring up an approach to teaching and learning that is fundamentally at odds with how people learn and interact.
  
  Or put another way – we are seeking a window dressing solution when it is the house that needs to be renovated.
- It’s the change underlying these tools that I’m trying to emphasize. Forget blogs…think open dialogue. Forget wikis…think collaboration. Forget podcasts…think democracy of voice. Forget RSS/aggregation…think personal networks. Forget any of the tools…and think instead of the fundamental restructuring of how knowledge is created, disseminated, shared, and validated.
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We are not neutral « Connectivism

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he read/write web threatens a significant change in how we interact with information and each other.
The read/write web threatens a significant change in how we interact with information and each other. Mobile devices allow students to ignore the restrictions of network administrators. As educators, we still have a stronghold on accreditation. But what happens if accreditation is no longer the requirement of learners? What happens if the capacity to perform a task (such as programming with Ruby on Rails) is more about reputation within a field than a piece of paper provided by an institution.
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- I’m concerned that educators are not seeing the draw of learning and personal control.
- I don’t think we should treat the so-called web 2.0 as something to which we must automatically move simply because students are adopting these tools.

30 Sep 09

GROWING UP DIGITAL How the Web Changes Work, Education, and the Ways People Learn John Seely Brown

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In finer point,

it combines the one-way reach of broadcast with the two-way reciprocity of a

mid-cast. Indeed, its user can at once be a receiver and sender of

"broadcast"-a confusing property, but mind-stretching!
- Shirky expands on this in Here Comes Everybody. - on 2009-09-30
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- "Navigation" may well be the main form
  
  of literacy for the 21st century.
  - Henry Jenkins talks about this as well. One of Jenkin's New Media Literacies is the ability to undertake transmedai navigation - follow a story across multiple modalities. . - on 2009-09-30
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- How
  
  do we make good judgments? Socially, in terms of recommendations from people we
  
  trust? Cognitively, based on rational argumentation? On the reputation of a
  
  sponsoring institution? What's the mixture of ways and warrants that you end up
  
  using to decide and act? With the Web, the sheer scope and variety of resources
  
  befuddles the non-digital adult. But Web-smart kids learn to become bricoleurs.
- My generation tends not to want to try things unless or until we
  
  already know how to use them
- the Web becomes not only an
  
  informational and social resource but a learning medium where understandings
  
  are socially constructed and shared
- A lot of our know-how or knowing comes into being through
  
  participating in our community(ies) of practice.

03 Sep 09

First Nations students need Internet technology, advocates say | Vancouver, Canada | Straight.com

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because right now in town people are thinking computers are all about, well, Facebook and on-line poker and stuff
I’d like to raise the awareness of the need of it—because right now in town people are thinking computers are all about, well, Facebook and on-line poker and stuff—to raise the awareness that computers can do a lot more to help you out,

01 Sep 09

Study Finds That Online Education Beats the Classroom - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com

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Mr. Regier sees things evolving fairly rapidly, accelerated by the increasing use of social networking technology. More and more, students will help and teach each other, he said. For example, it will be assumed that college students know the basics of calculus, and the classroom time will focus on applying the math to real-world problems — perhaps in exploring the physics of climate change or modeling trends in stock prices, he said.

22 Aug 09

Group Topics on public annotation sticky note | Diigo Group Forum

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JOHO - August 18, 2009

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The Net may be the first medium that we never quite get
used to.

11 Aug 09

As Classrooms Go Digital, Textbooks May Become History - NYTimes.com

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With California in dire straits, the governor hopes free textbooks could save hundreds of millions of dollars a year.

15 Jul 09

WebNotes Blog - Highlighter and Sticky Note Tool for Online Research

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