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Eric Calvert's List: Teaching / Learning / Thinking
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Apr 06, 09
March, 2009
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Apr 13, 09
Horizon Report on technology trends likely to influence education in the immediate and medium term future.
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Apr 16, 09
Conceptually interesting tool for using your social network to be smarter. This could be very cool or a high tech way to be extremely annoying to friends-of-a-friend. Possibly both.
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Apr 19, 09
Podcasts from a Berkely course on the open source concept. Includes lectures on "open source business models," "government policy toward open source," "open access journals and publications," and "user-created value and virtual economies," among others.
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Apr 23, 09
See charts on page 27 for survey results regarding motivating factors and barriers for adopting online courses in rural schools.
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Apr 26, 09
Abstract
We often talk about games, simulations and other events in learning, but these technologies support only episodic learning. Equally important are those technologies that provide a context for these learning episodes, an environment where students and interact and converse among themselves. This paper described experimentation in the development of distributed online courses and in software - particularly, the personal learning environment - that support the formation of connections between the far-flung pieces of such courses. This work, in turn, is suggesting and supporting the model of learning described in the first section, that of a course network supporting and informing an ever-shifting set of course episodes. This in turn suggests a pedagogy of participation rather than retention, and even suggests distributed and locally-based forms of evaluation and assessment. Future developments will focus on realizing these concepts as software or at least software prototypes. The intent of such systems is to to facilitate the conversation and interaction around episodic learning events in a distributed environment, transforming them from elements in a linear flow-based design to free-floating objects in an environment. -
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May 06, 09
The intent of this study is to document K-12 Web 2.0 policies, practices, and perspectives in American schools from the perspective of school district administrators. The study was made possible through the generous support of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. The CoSN study methodology included: 1) the design and field testing of a Web 2.0 survey for three respondent groups: school district superintendents, curriculum directors, and technology directors; 2) the constructing of a representative, random sample from the 14,199 public school districts in the U.S. stratified by four locales (e.g., urban, suburban, town, and rural); 3) the data collection through online surveys; 4) the weighting of findings to ensure demographic representativeness; and 5) analysis and reporting of the results. The report is based on the surveys from nearly 1200 district administrators, including 389 superintendents, 441 technology directors, and 359 curriculum directors. The reader will note that throughout the report, Metiri identifies the respondent group(s) and the associated weighted number of respondents who answered any particular question or series of questions. The complete methodology for the survey is included in the Appendix.
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May 15, 09
Hidden human networks influence organizational strategy, decision making and innovation without people knowing.
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