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13 Mar 09
100 Helpful Web Tools for Every Kind of Learner | College@Home
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JotSpot: Working in a group just became easier with this online wiki tool that allows students to share notes, project ideas and information in an easily accessible format.
30 Jan 09
Is Technology Producing A Decline In Critical Thinking And Analysis?
you can almost see the 16 mm projector, the yellowed notes and the cracked overhead sheets
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Greenfield, who has been using films in her classes since the 1970s
apophenia: Taken Out of Context -- my PhD dissertation
Much anticipated doctoral dissertation from one of the personalities of new media and a scholar of the changes to social processes brought about by web based social media.
07 Nov 08
Kevin Kelly -- The Technium
See also another article by Nova Spivak that was shared by Twine in the digest of Nov 7. 2008. Don't know if this URL will take you there. http://www.twine.com/item/11ktvpjqz-rk/how-to-build-the-global-mind
28 Oct 08
Why Web 2.0 Will Not be an Integral Part of K-12 Education: A Reply to Steve Hargadon | Britannica Blog
Much of the teacher’s work is in the preparation, when mistakes and dead-ends are invisible to students.
Watching competent problem solvers ( the teacher) solve a problem is critical for learning. Watching someone present a worked out solution doesn't not reveal the critical thinking skills and gives students a mistaken impression of teacher omniscience.
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Much of the teacher’s work is in the preparation, when mistakes and dead-ends are invisible to students.
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Much of the teacher’s work is in the preparation, when mistakes and dead-ends are invisible to students.
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21 Oct 08
Dashboard | Diigo
Julian Orr wrote a book called 'Talking About Machines' where he describe the way that photocopier technicians learned their trade. It seems to me that the process as he described it was a complex of similarity heuristics, but combined in a network of other technicians who had particular areas of expertise. Orr was riffing on the work of Lave and Wenger 'Legitimate Peripheral Participation' and John Seely Brown.
Similarity Heuristics, Iterative Methodologies and the Emergence of the Modern Supply Chain « Procurement Insights
Julian Orr wrote a book called 'Talking About Machines' where he describe the way that photocopier technicians learned their trade. It seems to me that the process as he described it was a complex of similarity heuristics, but combined in a network of other technicians who had particular areas of expertise. Orr was riffing on the work of Lave and Wenger 'Legitimate Peripheral Participation' and John Seely Brown.
14 Oct 08
Developing Online From Simplicity toward Complexity: Going with the Flow of Non-Linear Learning
The irony identified by Lee is that the two learning systems and cultures, that of school and of the Web, are fundamentally different; one has a basis in control and structure, and the other is seemingly unstructured and chaotic. Educators, particularly those of the young, would ignore such observations at their peril. As Lee states, “most teachers, parents, education bureaucrats and politicians will not sit easily with an education they don’t control – and in many senses do not understand” (p.169).
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the two learning
systems and cultures, that of school and of the Web, are fundamentally different;
one has a basis in control and structure, and the other is seemingly unstructured
and chaotic. Educators, particularly those of the young, would ignore such
observations at their peril. As Lee states, “most teachers, parents, education
bureaucrats and politicians will not sit easily with an education they don’t
control – and in many senses do not understand”
08 Oct 08
The Institutional Path for Change in This Age: Andragogy, not Pedagogy
Good article with summary list of
The Institutional Path for Change in This Age: Andragogy, not Pedagogy
- Good summary. - ggatin on 2008-10-08
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1. Letting learners know why something is important to learn
2. Showing learners how to direct themselves through information
3. Relating the topic to the learners' experiences
4. People will not learn until they are ready and motivated to learn
5. Requires helping them overcome inhibitions, behaviors, and beliefs about learning[Conner, M. L., Andragogy and Pedagogy. Ageless Learner, 1997-2004. http://agelesslearner.com/intros/andragogy.html]
Reframe It -- It's Your Web, Speak Up, Give It Context
Firefox addon that works like Diigo. Annotation of any web page. Opens in a sidebar and joins to a community. Like the FF ness of it.
05 Oct 08
Thomson Suing Zotero
I own a licensed copy of Endnote. I had a few years of references built up in Endnote but I was having problems with updates and loosing reference files and the application locking up. Support was terrible. Endnote was clunky bloatware but I used it because it was the best available at the time and I had a lot of references stored. I spent hours just keeping the Endnote application in shape.
I learned that I really needed to save my Endnote files on a regular basis other wise I had to do a lot of recreating, more hours of my labour. I saved the files in a non-proprietary format and consider it my stuff
I was so pleased when I discovered Zotero. It worked. A couple of times when I had issues getting it set up I contacted the developers and they got right back to me so I have been a big fan ever since. I was able to open my saved reference files in Zotero and concentrate on using my references rather that maintaining an application.
It will be interesting to see how this plays out but there are some very good arguments to suggest that this is a frivolous and predatory lawsuit. I hope GMU sticks to it.
If TR wants to maintain it's customer base, make a better product.
01 Oct 08
Second Life Mashup Helps Boost Distance Ed Retention at Huntington JC
"We are trying to overcome the distance you feel in distance education by being socially connected," Snoddy said. "You develop socially as well as intellectually in college.
This doesn' tmake sense. Do people not complete DE courses because they feel distant? More likely because most of the courses are complete crap and are offered by questionable faculty.
It is more likely that the courses selected for special treatment in this article were a step above the usual crap that gets served up as DE and were presented with a little imagination and care.
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We are trying to overcome the distance you feel in distance education by being socially connected," Snoddy said. "You develop socially as well as intellectually in college.
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We are trying to overcome the distance you feel in distance education by being socially connected," Snoddy said. "You develop socially as well as intellectually in college.
29 Sep 08
The Hyperwords Company
I've been using BlueOrganizer but this looks like it goes a step beyond. I like it!!
25 Sep 08
Don't Go Changing :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education's Source for News, Views and Jobs
Good summary of some of the issues that have inspired volumes of discussion.
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the “basic grammar” of higher education — the familiar ways in which faculty teach, students learn, departments function, administrators govern, and so on — has proven to be extremely durable, evolving little over the past century. It could be that reformers go easy on the vaguest of slogans precisely because they know how difficult it is to achieve the concrete goals toward which they work so hard, such as to get students to drink less and study more, to create tenure systems that reward excellent teaching, to graduate much larger numbers of low-income students, to devise a truly coherent undergraduate curriculum, and so on. Maybe academic reformers talk so often about transformation precisely because they see so little of it and they need the occasional dose of hopefulness.
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the “basic grammar” of higher education — the familiar ways in which faculty teach, students learn, departments function, administrators govern, and so on — has proven to be extremely durable, evolving little over the past century. It could be that reformers go easy on the vaguest of slogans precisely because they know how difficult it is to achieve the concrete goals toward which they work so hard, such as to get students to drink less and study more, to create tenure systems that reward excellent teaching, to graduate much larger numbers of low-income students, to devise a truly coherent undergraduate curriculum, and so on. Maybe academic reformers talk so often about transformation precisely because they see so little of it and they need the occasional dose of hopefulness.
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24 Sep 08
Posts - Research Blogging
blogging science and commenting on the effect fo social networking on scientific advancement. Steam powered academic journals are loosing influence because of editorializing by peer review committees who cherry pick articles and reinforce orthodoxy.
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