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The role of debate in learning « Computing Education Blog
"“With my undergraduates, the hardest thing to teach them to do is make an argument, support that argument with evidence and bend and move and evolve,” said Susan Herbst, a professor of public policy at Georgia Tech. “Debate is an accelerated way to teach students to do that.”"
11-25 ISTE conference keynote update - Dangerously Irrelevant
For the record, I think it shows that something is not quite right with this process (not knowing what ISTE's next step is, I could change my mind on that). Too much name recognition, not enough thought about who would be most effective. The fact that I am currently ahead of Michael Wesch in that category is proof that we have a problem. (No, that is not false modesty. Who would be more successful addressing that topic to an ISTE audience?)
"Streams of Content, Limited Attention: The Flow of Information through Social Media"
"In a networked culture, there is also power in being the person spreading the content. When my colleagues and I were examining retweets in Twitter, we saw something fascinating: a tension between citationality and attribution. In short, should you give credit to the author of the content or acknowledge the person through whom you learned of the information? Instinctually, many might believe that the author is the most important person to credit. But, few ideas are truly the product of just one individual. So why not credit the messenger who is helping the content flow? We found that reasonable people disagreed about what was best."
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With the barriers to distribution collapsing, what matters is not the act of distribution, but the act of consumption. Thus, the power is no longer in the hands of those who control the channels of distribution, but those who control the limited resource of attention.
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Prejudice, intolerance, bigotry, and power are all baked into our networks. In a world of networked media, it's easy to not get access to views from people who think from a different perspective.
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A really useful Wordle trick
"Sylvie showed me that the answer lies with the tilde sign (~). Whenever you are pasting text into the “Paste in a bunch of text” window, insert that character between any words that you want to keep together:"
» What’s “Print?” Bud the Teacher
"What does “print resource” mean anymore? Has it become a meaningless term?
Let’s consider for a moment what used to count. An article from a newspaper was, in my classroom, considered a print resource. How about now? I’m more likely to read my local paper online than I am to read the print edition. Is an article from the newspaper still a print resource?
How about a magazine article? When I was in middle and high school, one of the great resources at the local library was a collection of magazine articles on CD-ROM databases. Even then, a magazine article wasn’t a print source, but it counted as one. Maybe because I was required to turn in a printout of the article with the final draft of my papers.
Encyclopedias? By high school, encyclopedias shouldn’t be cited by anyone, much less count as sources. But they did, and often do.
So might I humbly suggest a small change to any assignment that requires students to provide a “print” resource? Ask them for a primary source instead."
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Creating Passionate Users: Mediocrity by "areas of improvement"
"Maybe instead of working on our weaknesses, we should be enhancing and exploiting our strengths? What if the price for working on weakness (and who even decides what is and isn't a "weakness"?) is less chance to be f'n amazing?"
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