Much of what is called virtual education is really just bad teaching done on the cheap. Most of what I have seen offered as online courses for students doesn’t rise to the level of a mail-order correspondence course. There may be no lectures, but there is no deep learning to be found either. Teachers don’t know their students and the pedagogical emphasis is on product over process.
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Recipe for a Disruptive Keynote : Stager-to-Go
Much of what is called virtual education is really just bad teaching done on the cheap. Most of what I have seen offered as online courses for students doesn’t rise to the level of a mail-order correspondence course. There may be no lectures, but there is no deep learning to be found either. Teachers don’t know their students and the pedagogical emphasis is on product over process.
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Diigo in Writing Class « What Else? 1DR
Here a student simply highlights the information she needs to review later in her document (wiki, MS Word, presentation, etc.) in order to analyze the information for her needs.
...Through individual or collaborative Diigo annotations, students connect to facts in ways that allow comprehension and connections that deepen their understanding. Through Diigo annotations for feedback, students easily understand what aspects of their writing need improvement. Diigo is our friend in the writing classroom.
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Raymond Pirouz | Design is Fundamental™ (tumblr), Think Different Before the divisive “I’m a Mac” &...
Before the divisive “I’m a Mac” & “You’re a PeeWee” commercials, Apple inspired thinking around an idea of pushing the human race forward. It wasn’t about selling a product (I’m a Mac) or dissing another (You’re a PeeWee). It was about stirring the soul and connecting with the emotional center of our very beings — that which inherently knows its true potential yet wishes (maybe secretly, but definitely sincerely) for motivation to help ignite the passion necessary to strive for it.
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Attention and distraction - elearnspace
Educators and trainers face competition for attention from mobile devices and social networking services. Of course, prior to the development of these technologies, we faced a similar challenge of attention - but day dreaming is far hard to detect than someone posting comments on Facebook or Twitter.
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A Global Reset for Advertising - elearnspace
how well does our system match the activities of our learners and society as a whole - are the approaches to research, learning, and teaching within education synchronized to the dominant long term trends around information creation, sharing, and personal interactions?.
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Why Technology? by Ben Grey
Something has been happening lately in education, and the implications are a bit unsettling. People are beginning to ask a cogent question, but I fear it's being framed for the wrong reason. I'm hearing more and more important decision makers asking, "Why are we using technology?"
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Empowering Education Through Technology Articles - Technology empowers differentiated instruction
Although many educators realize technology's enormous potential to help them differentiate their instruction so that all students can learn, regardless of students' needs, abilities, or learning styles, it might be hard for them to find concrete applications of this approach to emulate in their classrooms. But in a Jan. 28 webinar from the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), experts provided several examples of classroom projects that can help all students learn while keeping them engaged.
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Conversation Starter | always learning
Teachers who use technology in the classroom are: flexible, willing to take risks and try new things, not afraid of failing, able to learn from their students, adaptable, and comfortable with the fact that they are not the smartest person in the room. Cultivating this kind of mindset is the first step to understanding how to use technology successfully in the classroom.
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» Not “New,” “Good” Bud the Teacher
But the networking itself, social or professional or otherwise, isn’t the new bit. It’s the good bit. Rich. Rewarding. Powerful. Sustaining. Rooted in professional conversation. Really, really good.
But not new.
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Google Docs, Wikis, and Tracked changes in Word: Looking at Collaborative Writing :: Ahhhhs and Ahas
***Tech integration -see comment 3 of this post
...writing is moving into the public sphere. Most writing that is published electronically is, by nature, works in progress. We post, we receive feedback (solicited or not) and we often rewrite or reconceptualize. In this way, teaching collaborative writing explicitely is crucial.
For me, the value of collaborative writing does not lie in the product but in the process; students are challenged to think critically, negotiate tactfully and engage meaningfully in a real life skill. The learning is layered and seamless.
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Dangerously Irrelevant: It's not 'the tests.' It's us.
We must take ownership of our own culpability...
It's not ‘the tests.’ It's our unwillingness and/or inability to do something different, something better.
It's not ‘the tests.’ It's us.
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Remote Access: Growing Student Networks
a vital part of our role needs to be helping our students to make new connections and expand their own network. A classroom that is connected, even loosely, with other nodes around the globe has a much greater opportunity to gain new ideas and perspectives than one which is focused inwards.
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The Blacklist: Educators on Facebook
Great Danah Bord quote:
What would it mean to have digital street outreach where people started reaching out to troubled teens, not to punish them, but to help them? We already do street outreach in cities - why not treat the networked world as one large city?
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Teaching as transparent learning « Connectivism
Prominent and transparent learners
I can’t speak for them, but from reading prominent educational technology bloggers - Will Richardson, Terry Anderson, Stephen Downes, Grainne Conole - I’m left with the impression that they too seek not to proclaim what they know, but rather to engage and share with others as they explore and come to understand technology and related trends.
Watching others learn is an act of learning.
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Half an Hour: The Monkeysphere Ideology
This is the fundamental error of our times. It is the error that allows us to characterize entire societies as 'ragheads', the culture that allows is to say "it's not personal, it's business" as we evict someone from their home or cheat them out of their life's savings, the ethos that allows us in the western world to build a society based on consumption and ownership of more and more even as starvation and disease wrack the remainder of the world.
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Blog Safe: Avoid Common Web-Publishing Pitfalls | Edutopia
Anyone with an Internet connection can learn these details about Spencer by following the digital footprints he's left on TeacherLingo.com, his blog, MySpace, and other sites across the Web.
He maintains a high online profile to connect with like-minded individuals he wouldn't meet otherwise. "For me, blogging has been beneficial because it gives me a public method for conveying my thoughts," he says. He knows there's a price to pay for that forum, though, and takes readers' praise -- and criticism -- in stride.
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Brendan’s Learning 2.0 Project » Blogs: more than mere blah-blah!
What struck me just as much, however, was the quality of the comments left by readers of this post. They too, without exception, had profound and thought-provoking ideas to share. I found myself becoming immersed, albeit as merely an observer, in a spellbinding conversation between David and his readers as I read down the page.
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cuebc.ca - Have your ipod and listen to it too! Sonya Woloshen
Many of my students have ipods. These mini music makers are captivating them…truth be told, my ipod touch captivates me! I feel as though we could use these ipods to, not only increase the interest factor of lessons, but also to encourage students to become involved in their learning process.
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Glogster - Poster Yourself
A fun way to collage together images, sound bites, text and video.
Be sure to use the EDU version, to allow for private glogs and safe place for kids
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Notation: * = Private bookmark and comment|… = Clipping [?] | … = Public highlight [?]
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