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Oct
10
2008

A new Jobfox poll shows that Gen Y workers are perceived by recruiters as being the weakest performers among the four generations that now make up the U.S. workforce.\n\nBut wait! We're shootin' ourselves in the foot...!

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Mar
11
2009

  • Courses are also at odds with the psychology of learning. We know that 'spaced practice' is a necessary condition for almost all learning, yet almost all courses do the opposite, delivering large, single doses. We also know that most skills need a 'learn by doing' approach, yet most courses are skewed towards knowledge. We know that learning is about long-term memory, yet most courses focus on short-term memory and assessment. We know that learning needs to avoid cognitive overload, yet most courses suffer from an obesity of content. We know that learning benefits from being situated in the context in which the learning is to be put to use, yet most courses pluck people out of this context.

  • Another factor to consider is the benefit of learning in the classroom in close contact with an instructor. Humans are designed to learn from one another using both verbal and visual clues to process and retain new information.
  • On the other side of the desk, instructors look for visual clues to confirm that students have understood what they've been taught
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Aug
31
2008

Do you blog? Make wikis? Twitter? Do you build mash-ups for your classes? Do you ever wake up thinking about an innovative twist on PowerPoint that will rock students so hard they'll pipe up and join the conversation? Could be you're an edupunk. Coined by Jim Groom, "Edupunk" an educational approach that combines creative drive with a maverick attitude, celebrating a kind of cocky, do-it-yourself confidence in which the educator—or possibly the student—designs the tools for teaching and learning. It speaks directly to the corporatization of education—and doesn't say nice things about it.

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  • "Edupunk" is an educational approach that combines creative drive with a maverick attitude, celebrating a kind of cocky, do-it-yourself confidence in which the educator—or possibly the student—designs the tools for teaching and learning. It speaks directly to the corporatization of education—and doesn't say nice things about it.
  • "Edupunk" is an educational approach that combines creative drive with a maverick attitude, celebrating a kind of cocky, do-it-yourself confidence in which the educator—or possibly the student—designs the tools for teaching and learning.
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Aug
30
2008

A bit academic for my taste, but good article, nontheless (free registration required) that explores the nature of today's online content as a reflection of the differences between today's students and their older instructors. It discusses the unique challenges this group of learners may present for instructors who don't share their students' technological immersion. But, it also suggests how such challenges might be overcome.

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  • In the last two decades, computer-enhanced learning has exploded to the point where almost every college campus markets its cutting-edge technology resources. Part of the impetus behind this growth is an attempt to address the needs of a fundamentally different type of learner who has been identified in the literature as the Net-Generation, or N-Gen, student
  • One indicator of the extent and type of differences between the Net Generation and previous generations of learners are the texts that N-Gen learners create and consume.
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