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Monday, June 21, 2010
Sunday, June 20, 2010
Unboxed - Yes, People Still Read, but Now It’s Social - NYTimes.com
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Unboxed - Yes, People Still Read, but Now It’s Social - NYTimes.com
- “THE point of books is to combat loneliness,” David Foster Wallace observes near the beginning of “Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself,” David Lipsky’s recently published, book-length interview with him.
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other readers have highlighted the passage on their Kindles, making it one of the more “popular” passages in the book.
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- Thanks to e-mail, Twitter and the blogosphere, I regularly exchange information with hundreds of people in a single day: scheduling meetings, sharing political gossip, trading edits on a book chapter, planning a family vacation, reading tech punditry. How many of those exchanges could happen were I limited exclusively to the technologies of the phone, the post office and the face-to-face meeting? I suspect that the number would be a small fraction of my current rate.
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- high-level thinking when the culture migrates from the page to the screen.
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- Mr. Carr’s original essay, published in The Atlantic — along with Clay Shirky’s more optimistic account, which led to the book “Cognitive Surplus”
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- The intellectual tools for assessing the media, once the province of academics and professional critics, are now far more accessible to the masses.
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- The question is not whether our brains are being changed. (Of course new experiences change your brain — that’s what experience is, on some basic level.) The question is whether the rewards of the change are worth the liabilities.
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- Quiet contemplation has led to its fair share of important thoughts. But it cannot be denied that good ideas also emerge in networks.
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Saturday, June 19, 2010
Authentic Learning Group Diigo (weekly)
Noteflight - GingerTPLC's Home
the best way to create, store, listen to, print, search and share notated music scores.
- - By Ginger TPLC
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Friday, May 21, 2010
Skype Keeps on Getting Better
Image via CrunchBase
I have been enamored of Skype for as long as it has been around. It is one of those tools like etherpad, diigo, and zotero that just works. It is the one tool that I recommend all teachers become friends with because it is a gateway to long distance sharing and learning with others. Now Skype has five-way video conferencing. And as David Gurteen points out it has screensharing as well for both Windows and Mac. Here are some more 'hidden' features:
Forward your calls for free to another
Skype name, e.g. from your home PC to your work PC.
Use Skype and IM-chat simultaneously--redundancy is good.
Emoticons add-on. And how to add them to Mac.
A directory of plug-ins.
Use it as an answering maching or a lie detector.
Or just read this very clear and useful post.
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Thursday, May 20, 2010
Bionic Teaching
Lots of very strong sound bites. I suspect that the writer would agree that we have had a problem with the experts being on top and not on tap.Education is failing.
Our solution is not to work, to spend money and time on our teachers, to help them become better, instead we send our money away, spending precious time testing products of a system we insist is broken.
We buy software. We buy content. We buy external experts.2 We buy reputation. We buy “trust” and “quality” because we don’t believe either really exists in our schools.
Invest that money in our teachers, on smaller classes, on things that have been proven to matter.
Make teaching a career that isn’t based on martyrdom. Martyrs die flaming deaths. Systems based on them don’t last. There are no easy answers. You can’t buy, process, software, magic your way out of this.
There is no microwave dinner version of educational reform.
Monday, May 17, 2010
Twitter: Gateway to Teaching Professionalism
Educational Hash Tags
Many of us started demonstrating Twitter without a thought as to its practicability. I know I did. I recalled showing it to a group of teachers in a summer writing academy almost three years ago to the deafening yawn of....meh. I knew it was a big wave building, but had no idea how its complex iterations would flood my own professional life. Now? If I want to get my 'regular' work done I better not open up TweetDeck. Just this morning I followed the #wisdom2conf hashtag to a fabulous TEDxTokyo talk by Dr. Hiroshi Tasaka on Invisible Capitalism and from there to Umair Hacque on Behavioural Innovation and from that to RSA Animate's glorious animations including Jeremy Rifkin's The Empathic Civilisation. The biochemical high from scratching the itch of the curious is my mostly positive addiction especially when combined with its necessary consequent--sharing. I guess that is why I conflate teaching and learning to the point where I am so overcome by my good fortune that I occasionally turn to my class with a conspiratorial whisper and say, "They pay me to learn!"
One of my goals this summer is to get my twitter professional development on track and to help others do the same. This means taking in another river of information. I can hear you saying good luck with that to which I respond with a hearty, "Thank you. Any help you might lend in this OED-ian task would be gratefully acknowledged with words but no money." The educational hashtags link above is a good place for me to start sharing a little bit more deeply with the Twitter community what I am raking in. It is time for me to innovate my own behavior, to disrupt my own personal learning algorithm, and to extend an empathic toe into my professions water in preparation for leap into the shallow end. At least I think it is the shallow end.
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Many of us started demonstrating Twitter without a thought as to its practicability. I know I did. I recalled showing it to a group of teachers in a summer writing academy almost three years ago to the deafening yawn of....meh. I knew it was a big wave building, but had no idea how its complex iterations would flood my own professional life. Now? If I want to get my 'regular' work done I better not open up TweetDeck. Just this morning I followed the #wisdom2conf hashtag to a fabulous TEDxTokyo talk by Dr. Hiroshi Tasaka on Invisible Capitalism and from there to Umair Hacque on Behavioural Innovation and from that to RSA Animate's glorious animations including Jeremy Rifkin's The Empathic Civilisation. The biochemical high from scratching the itch of the curious is my mostly positive addiction especially when combined with its necessary consequent--sharing. I guess that is why I conflate teaching and learning to the point where I am so overcome by my good fortune that I occasionally turn to my class with a conspiratorial whisper and say, "They pay me to learn!"
One of my goals this summer is to get my twitter professional development on track and to help others do the same. This means taking in another river of information. I can hear you saying good luck with that to which I respond with a hearty, "Thank you. Any help you might lend in this OED-ian task would be gratefully acknowledged with words but no money." The educational hashtags link above is a good place for me to start sharing a little bit more deeply with the Twitter community what I am raking in. It is time for me to innovate my own behavior, to disrupt my own personal learning algorithm, and to extend an empathic toe into my professions water in preparation for leap into the shallow end. At least I think it is the shallow end.
Thursday, April 29, 2010
From Fish to Infinity
Reading a new opinion columnist in the NYT—Stanley Strogatz. His column is called “From Fish to Infinity” (which I can only guess is a paean to cosmologist George Gamow's One, Two, Three...Infinity) and explores what he calls a second chance at math. It is a new way (to me anyway) for subjects to be explored in the Times because it takes a slightly more academic bent in its treatment of sources. It cites them. Who knew? That is a ‘new’ model. Better yet it has introduced me to a book and an article that I might never have seen as a math lover from afar.
- “E. Wigner, “The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences,” Communications in Pure and Applied Mathematics, vol. 13, No. I (February 1960), pp. 1-14. A pdf version is here. I put this one in my iPod touch and use the app, Papers, to read it. My skim of it can only come up with one word--mordant.
- P. Lockhart, “A Mathematician’s Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form” (Bellevue Literary Press, 2009). This one goes on my wishlist at Amazon. Please, anyone feeling generous? Otherwise I will have to get it via Interlibrary Loan (which the Firefox extension Book Burro found for me quite handily).
Saturday, April 03, 2010
Authentic Learning Group Diigo (weekly)
Fascinating view of the skeletons and habitats of different primates on Earth.
- - By Ginger TPLC
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Saturday, March 20, 2010
Authentic Learning Group Diigo (weekly)
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Authentic Learning Group Diigo (weekly)
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Authentic Learning Group Diigo (weekly)
Thursday, February 11, 2010
YouTube Doubler at bavatuesdays/Touchstone for Other Class Uses
YouTube Doubler at bavatuesdays
"Could see that being a very effective way for thinking through video editing, which is a series of important choices that one learns through both practice and example—and one needs to learn right away that cutting and editing have become synonymous for a reason—you must cut, cut, and then cut your shots again. "This could also be a lesson to writers as well. Kill yer babies. Clip back the flush of verbiage. I can also see it as a way to promote creative presentation ideas in the classroom. And a simple but fun collaborative project to get students to work together.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
EBSCOhost: EYE ON RESEARCH: 'Value Added' Gauge of Teaching Probed
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EBSCOhost: EYE ON RESEARCH: 'Value Added' Gauge of Teaching Probed
- "value added" methods
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- value-added assessments
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- a "falsification" test
- For example, he asked, what effect do 5th grade teachers have on their students' test scores in 3rd and 4th grades?
- Because it's impossible for even the best teachers to have an impact on students' previous learning, Mr. Rothstein reasons, there should be no impact.
- value-added calculations are based on the assumption that students' classroom assignments are random,
- teachers' long-run effects on individual students and finds that they tend to decay or fade out after the first year.
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The study also found, as Mr. Rothstein did, that the teacher effects faded in their students' performance from one year to the next, which may be the more important issue, according to Mr. Staiger.
"When calculating the potential value of shifting the teacher-effectiveness distribution, we and others have typically assumed that the effects of a strong teacher persist in the children they teach," write Mr. Staiger and Mr. Kane, who is the faculty director of the Seattle-based Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's project on policy innovation.
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- We still have the reliability problem,
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Saturday, January 16, 2010
Authentic Learning Group Diigo (weekly)
YouTube - I Need My Teachers To Learn 2.0.mov
Poignant song for our times.
Download the QT version here: http://kevinhoneycutt.org
Visit my sites for more stuff!
http://artsnacks.org
http://podstock.ning.com/
http://mysafesurf.org- - By Ginger TPLC
- My friend Rae helped me with this version!
Download the QT version here: http://kevinhoneycutt.org
Visit my sites for more stuff!
http://artsnacks.org
http://podstock.ning.com/
http://mysafesurf.org
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Friday, January 08, 2010
10 Ways To Learn In 2010: The eLearnin...
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10 Ways To Learn In 2010: The eLearnin...
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REdefining Work Context
Work context? Why not the art of defining knowledge and skill requirements? After all, we are talking about learning here, and training is obviously a part of that, right? Certainly, it is…and that is exactly the point of this writing – training is indeed a part of learning – and in some cases, only a very small part. Josh Bersin of Bersin & Associates referenced in July 2009 on the “The Future of the Business of Learning” webinar that training organizations spend upwards of 80% of their time and resources focused on formal training activities. He also noted that there was a dramatic increase in the use of informal learning. Training organizations will not keep pace with that trend unless their discovery efforts include the work context where informal learning opportunities surface.
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