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New Saudi University Picks a President - Chronicle.com

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

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John Seely Brown Foreword to 109 IDEAS

Another example is Wikipedia – the vast, open source encyclopedia emerging on the net. Currently, Wikipedia has over one million articles in it and is being accessed more frequently than the New York Times online. It is a place where many of us turn first to find out information and as such it has an obvious role in education by providing readily accessible and moderately trustworthy information for students of any age anywhere. But it plays a much more subtle role as an emerging form of cognitive apprenticeship. The way that Wikipedia works is that often a niche community of passionately inclined amateurs will take an initial stab at researching and writing up a topic of great interest to them. Then what tends to happen is that professionals and others with more highly specialized fragments of knowledge start to jump in and expand (or roll back) some of what was written. The process is always on-going although for a particular topic it does tend to converge to a stable, but living, document pretty quickly. Now consider this process as a platform for apprenticeship. The amateurs (and others who are watching and participating) get to see the practices of scholar ship in action. They get to see (and participate in) the debates that emerge around the roll backs and so forth. Thus, the ‘apprentices’ get to experience the practices of being a scholar.

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Innovate: Why Professor Johnny Can't Read: Understanding the Net Generation's Texts

One way of better understanding Net-Generation learners is to examine the texts they create on online social networking, blogging, and image sites as well as in virtual worlds. Mark Mabrito and Rebecca Medley explore the nature of Net-Generation texts as a reflection of the cognitive differences between this generation's students and their older instructors, discuss the unique challenges this group of learners may present for instructors who do not share their technological immersion, and suggest the means by which such challenges may be overcome. To accommodate the needs of the Net Generation, Mabrito and Medley suggest that faculty must reconsider traditional pedagogy and integrate more innovative ways of instruction for this significantly different population of students.

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