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11 Dec 09

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Interview with me at UCB iSchool about technology and education 7 minutes

03 Dec 09

Education Futures - Invisible Learning: Designing cultures of sustainable innovation

"Through the development of 1) a collaborative, printed book; 2) an e-book; and 3) a repository of innovative ideas at www.invisiblelearning.com, we seek to:

* Share experiences and innovative perspectives, focused on rethinking strategies and innovative approaches to learn and unlearn continuously.
* Promote critical thinking of the role of formal, informal and non-formal education at alleducational levels.
* Contribute to the creation of a sustainable (and continuous) process of learning, innovating and designing new cultures for the global society.

This project aims to facilitate the creation of a globally distributed community of thinkers interested on the creation of new futures for the education."

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19 Jul 09

Learning Is Both Social And Computational, Supported By Neural Systems Linking People

Education is on the cusp of a transformation because of recent scientific findings in neuroscience, psychology, and machine learning that are converging to create foundations for a new science of learning.

Writing in the July 17 edition of the journal Science, researchers report that this shift is being driven by three principles that are emerging from cross-disciplinary work: learning is computational, learning is social, and learning is supported by brain circuits linking perception and action that connect people to one another. This new science of learning, the researchers believe, may shed light into the origins of human intelligence

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14 May 09

Purdue Tlt 09 Robbins

Melanie sez: In addition to unpacking a provocative topic (scary scary for many academics!) with insight, humour and heart, Robbins does so in a lively animated format that takes slide-sharing to a whole nother level. This is some phat loot for those of us looking to level up in the big battle that is technology adoption in education (and elsewhere - just change the titles and this would apply in any field). One of my favourite slides is near the end. It's about reconciliation and 'taking off armour' ... this battle isn't about winners and losers. T

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06 May 09

Social and Cultural Foundations of American Education - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks

Social and Cultural Foundations of American Education
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Social and Cultural Foundations of American Education

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22 Apr 09

Top Ten Necessities for Education Reform | Psychology Today Blogs

For the first time since the institution of public education in the U.S., students currently in high school are less likely to graduate than their parents. We are the only industrialized country where that is true. Here are my recommendations to change the appalling dropout rate and prepare students for the 21st century.

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For the first time since the institution of public education in the U.S., students currently in high school are less likely to graduate than their parents. We are the only industrialized country where that is true. Here are my recommendations to change the appalling dropout rate and prepare students for the 21st century.

06 Apr 09

Digital Media as an Educational Solution (Not the Problem)

Though teachers may be loath to admit it, digital media provide an opportunity to revive the American educational system, James Paul Gee and Michael Levine write for Democracy Journal. Educators should use students’ enthusiasm for video games, television, and mobile devices to teach the skills needed to succeed in the modern marketplace.

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Though teachers may be loath to admit it, digital media provide an opportunity to revive the American educational system, James Paul Gee and Michael Levine write for Democracy Journal. Educators should use students’ enthusiasm for video games, television, and mobile devices to teach the skills needed to succeed in the modern marketplace.
“The current approach to the literacy crisis is locked in a time warp,” according to Gee and Levine, “almost totally removed from the ubiquitous digital media consumption that currently drives children’s lives.”

The solution to America’s literacy crisis, and the increasingly problematic digital divide, lies beyond simple access to technology. Gee and Levine suggest in a creating a “digital teaching corps,” modeled on programs like Teach for America, which would send bright young teachers into low-performing schools to mentor children on technology and communication. T

01 Apr 09

January 2009 | Academic Commons

How might we merge a culture of inquiry into teaching and learning with a culture of experimentation around new media technologies? In this issue of Academic Commons we look at the possibilities for building knowledge around teaching and learning in a rapidly changing technological landscape. We take these questions up in the context of a dual challenge: to understand better the changing nature of learning with new media, and the potential of new media environments to make learning--and faculty insights into teaching--visible and usable.

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How might we merge a culture of inquiry into teaching and learning with a culture of experimentation around new media technologies? In this issue of Academic Commons we look at the possibilities for building knowledge around teaching and learning in a rapidly changing technological landscape. We take these questions up in the context of a dual challenge: to understand better the changing nature of learning with new media, and the potential of new media environments to make learning--and faculty insights into teaching--visible and usable.
This is a portrait of the new shape of learning with digital media, drawn around three core concepts: adaptive expertise, embodied learning, and socially situated pedagogies.
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- The Visible Knowledge Project was a collaborative scholarship of teaching and learning project exploring the impact of technology on learning, primarily in the humanities.
- “This is a social revolution, not a technological one,” says Michael Wesch, “and its most revolutionary aspect may be the ways in which it empowers us to rethink education and the teacher-student relationship in an almost limitless variety of ways.” Looking at higher education as a whole, as well as his own teaching, Michael Wesch argues that we have had our "why's," "what's" and "how's" of teaching and learning turned upside down, and that the most compelling consequence of this moment is that it has sent us into a new "question-asking, bias-busting, assumption-exposing environment."
- It was a logical step for Cathy Davidson to move from a commitment to the public Humanities, in the tradition of John Hope Franklin (after whom the Center for the Humanities she directs is named) to a fascination with the potential of the new Web to transform the very nature of work we do in the Humanities.
- What impact are electronic portfolios having in higher education? In Electronic Portfolio 2.0: Emergent Research on Implementation and Impact, contributors from diverse institutions
  of higher education in sites across two continents share their research on electronic
  portfolios
- Over the past ten years, hundreds of colleges and universities around the world have begun utilizing electronic student portfolios to advance learning, teaching, and assessment. Theory and practice in the field are changing rapidly, even as new technologies emerge and the landscape of higher education shifts.
- n
  their new book Opening Up Education: The Collective
  Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and
  Open Knowledge (MIT Press,
  2008), editors Toru Iiyoshi and M.S. Vijay Kumar bring together a
  diverse group of scholars of teaching and learning to address this
  question: “How can open educational tools, resources and
  knowledge of practice improve the quality of education?”
- How can faculty from diverse disciplines
  cultivate and share knowledge about teaching practice?
- Faculty
  often fear that “assessment” will have a reductive
  effect, either by reducing the rich complexity of teaching and
  learning to simplistic metrics, or by limiting what’s being
  measured. Student learning in new media environments seems
  particularly difficult to reconcile with traditional assessment
  tools.
  
  In
  this interview, Terrel Rhodes, director of the VALUE project,
  describes the process of creating metarubrics that provide flexible
  criteria for making valid judgments about student work, resulting in
  frameworks tailored to local contexts but calibrated to “Essential
  Learning Outcomes.”

22 Mar 09

Rethinking Education - JamaicaObserver.com

To be educated is to have some familiarity with ostensibly useless subjects like History, Geography, Literature, Science and the Arts for no other purpose than a desire to be informed about human life. Literacy and job preparedness are required to live, but education gives life its deeper meaning and allows a fuller participation in civil and political discourse.

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To be educated is to have some familiarity with ostensibly useless subjects like History, Geography, Literature, Science and the Arts for no other purpose than a desire to be informed about human life. Literacy and job preparedness are required to live, but education gives life its deeper meaning and allows a fuller participation in civil and political discourse.
Let me argue that we should make the Humanities relevant, not by teeing them up for job readiness but by reorganising the curricula according to relevant life themes that can hold a child's interest. With the explosion of information from so many varied sources, there is an urgent need for a set of organising themes which connect these disparate topics back to people's lives and their beliefs. Subjects (history, geography, literature, etc) seem an arcane way to organise 'thought' except for those looking to delve deeply into these particular subjects. Under the current educational paradigm, too much is lost on the way from the classroom into the real world where so much of what students learn seems inapplicable.
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- A tentative list of themes would include 'The Origins of the Universe', 'Representations of God', 'Food and Nature', 'The Individual and the Common Good', 'Racial Differences and the Other', 'Gender Identity and Sexual Relations', 'Marriage and Family', 'Civil Life and Political Systems', 'Ageing and Death', 'Art and Beauty', and 'Work, Tools and Technology'. I would argue that these may be better organising principles for teaching high school instead of the traditional History and Geography, etc.
- By peeping outside our own echo chamber we soon realise that there is no "that's just the way it is". Human thought and human life are ever-evolving activities. We should actively encourage our children to seek out varied views. Cast a wide eye for knowledge and behaviours beyond the parochial prisms of the Seventh-day Adventists, upper-class St Andrew mores, American television or dancehall vibes. These are not the only modes of living and each in one way or another hinders our development.
  By anchoring the high school education along the lines of Themes of Life, instead of traditional subjects, we would keep the information relevant to children's lives.

The Paradox Of Web 2.0 - Part 1: Is Teaching Equal To Learning? - Robin Good's Latest News

Despite many of us have perfectly clear what Web 2.0 is about (participating, sharing, being humble and listening, requesting feedback to learn from our mistakes) when we go home to our kids, we just forget all about it and in the act of sending them to school we really send them back to the Middle Ages.

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Despite many of us have perfectly clear what Web 2.0 is about (participating, sharing, being humble and listening, requesting feedback to learn from our mistakes) when we go home to our kids, we just forget all about it and in the act of sending them to school we really send them back to the Middle Ages.

Why is it so difficult for us to bridge what we have clearly realized in the media, television, radio and advertising markets to the world of education? Why do we see so little effort in injecting inside our schools some of the attitudes, approaches and skills we put to use in our work?
I'm Robin Good, and my contention, what I'm here for today, is challenging a little bit our way to often assume the beliefs about learning and the way it should be, and maybe also look a little bit more tangibly at what the ideal type of learning or a future type of learning can, or should, or must be for us to be happy about the results or what we are going to produce in our efforts to change and improve all of this.
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- I think that if we're looking and questioning the overall teaching system approach, we should also be mentioning the fact that all of what we've preached in 2.0 world, that is: bottom-up, participation, contribution, sharing, no dogmatic one-way view, but multiple, multi-faceted approaches, multi-dimensional look at things, just like in journalism is studied, are all critical for learning appropriately.

13 Mar 09

The Jigsaw Classroom: Overview of the Technique

The jigsaw classroom is a cooperative learning technique with a three-decade track record of successfully reducing racial conflict and increasing positive educational outcomes. Just as in a jigsaw puzzle, each piece--each student's part--is essential for the completion and full understanding of the final product. If each student's part is essential, then each student is essential; and that is precisely what makes this strategy so effective.

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The jigsaw classroom is a cooperative learning technique with a three-decade track record of successfully reducing racial conflict and increasing positive educational outcomes. Just as in a jigsaw puzzle, each piece--each student's part--is essential for the completion and full understanding of the final product.
The students in a history class, for example, are divided into small groups of five or six students each. Suppose their task is to learn about World War II. In one jigsaw group, Sara is responsible for researching Hitler's rise to power in pre-war Germany. Another member of the group, Steven, is assigned to cover concentration camps; Pedro is assigned Britain's role in the war; Melody is to research the contribution of the Soviet Union; Tyrone will handle Japan's entry into the war; Clara will read about the development of the atom bomb.

Eventually each student will come back to her or his jigsaw group and will try to present a well-organized report to the group.

11 Mar 09

Introduction - Emerging Technologies for Learning

Higher education is in the midst of transformative (but exciting) change. Over the next decade, the practices of teaching and learning "will undergo fundamental change"[1] as universities and colleges respond to global, social, political, technological, and learning research trends. A duality of change – conceptual and technological – faces higher education. Large-scale transitions, such as were evident in the democratic revolutions across Europe in the late 18th century (conceptual) and industrial revolution in the late 18th and early 19th century (technological), transform the large institutions of society: government, education, and religion.

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Higher education is in the midst of transformative (but exciting) change. Over the next decade, the practices of teaching and learning "will undergo fundamental change"^[1] as universities and colleges respond to global, social, political, technological, and learning research trends. A duality of change – conceptual and technological – faces higher education. Large-scale transitions, such as were evident in the democratic revolutions across Europe in the late 18th century (conceptual) and industrial revolution in the late 18th and early 19th century (technological), transform the large institutions of society: government, education, and religion.
The fragmentation of information (Image 1) has resulted in an emphasis on individuals creating personal frameworks of coherence to understand sources information. Control over personal coherence making has significant implications for higher education.
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- he creation of information is now largely in the hands of individuals. The growth of user-generated content prompted Time Magazine to declare the 2006 person of the year to be, well, you – the individual contributing to video sites, blogs, and wikis. While information creation has always been possible for individuals (such as providing a letter to the editor in a newspaper), the barriers are now significantly lower.
  The packaging of information has been altered as well. While not everyone has aspirations of creating content, everyone has interest in organizing and packaging information. The use of news feed aggregators gives learners greater control in how they experience learning content. Services like iGoogle, Google News, tags, and numerous others, permit learners greater control over the type of content they encounter. Instead of content being pre-packaged, information can today be packaged according to the needs and interests of each individual learner. As a result, different skills are required of learners (Image 2). Making sense of fragmented information through networks of peer learners offers an indication of future learning tasks and even pedagogical

10 Mar 09

Transformative Studies Program

The Transformative Studies doctoral program is designed for individuals who want to engage in innovative research, combining rigorous scholarship, creativity, and self-inquiry. The program focuses on the development of the following capacities: 1) Making an original transdisciplinary research contribution in a chosen area of inquiry; 2) Engaging in inquiry as a creative, and collaborative process in the context of a community of learners; 3) Engaging inquiry as an integral, spiritual, and transformative process of personal and social transformation; 4) Applying one’s research to real-world problems, articulating and embodying one’s values, and skillfully putting theory into practice.

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The Transformative Studies doctoral program is
designed for individuals who want to engage in
innovative research, combining rigorous scholarship,
creativity, and self-inquiry. The program focuses
on the development of the following capacities:
1) Making an original transdisciplinary research
contribution in a chosen area of inquiry; 2) Engaging
in inquiry as a creative, and collaborative process
in the context of a community of learners; 3)
Engaging inquiry as an integral, spiritual, and
transformative process of personal and social
transformation; 4) Applying one’s research
to real-world problems, articulating and embodying
one’s values, and skillfully putting theory
into practice.
tudents
develop a solid grounding in research on transformative
studies and integral approaches, in the complexities
of transdisciplinary research, and in the knowledge
base of their topic.
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- The program stresses the role of the knower in
  the process of knowing.
- All inquiry is viewed as
  an opportunity for self-inquiry. Self-inquiry
  is in turn supported by, and informs, increasing
  academic depth and sophistication.
- The program stresses the interrelationship between
  theory and practice. Thought-leaders as well as
  action-leaders, students develop skills that allow
  them to participate in scholarly discourse, write
  for publication, and, if they choose to, conduct
  action-oriented research and interventions in
  applicable contexts.
- As part of the course of study, advanced students
  in the program will be required to take on a Learning
  Assistant role in at least one course to develop
  their mentoring, teaching and organizational skills.

01 Mar 09

Scary School Nightmare, Ivan Illich and Deschooling Society

Funny grim video about institutionalization of society -- postmodern take on Ivan Illich

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26 Feb 09

Diigo Blog » Announcing “Diigo Educator Accounts”

Easy to set up collaborative learning via shared bookmarking and annotation with features for classroom teachers and students

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11 Feb 09

Flexr 1.0.10

Welcome to the CK-12's FlexBook Tool
A place where you can find and customize content.

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04 Feb 09

Education - Change.org: Snark Attack: UCLA Research Dissing Technology Bombs

So let me get this straight: Electronic technology, which has been around at its current ubiquitous level for less than a decade, is implicitly responsible for a decline in “read[ing] for pleasure” that has been going on for “decades”? Let’s follow the ba

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Is Technology Producing A Decline In Critical Thinking And Analysis?

As technology has played a bigger role in our lives, our skills in critical thinking and analysis have declined, while our visual skills have improved, according to research by Patricia Greenfield, UCLA distinguished professor of psychology and director o

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03 Feb 09

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The following is a list of reference material on Mindfulness-based Education; more references will be added as they become available:

The following is a list of reference material on Mindfulness-based Education; more references will be added as they bec

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25 Jan 09

Mindfulness in Education Network

Opening the contemplative mind in schools is not a religious issue but a practical epistemic question... Inviting contemplative study simply includes the natural human capacity for knowing through silence, pondering deeply, beholding, witnessing the conte

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