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Authentic Learning Group Diigo (weekly)
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Authentic Learning Group Diigo (weekly)
Busting the Myths of Digital Learning
Results of JogNog Digital Learning Survey
- - By Cara Whitehead
Busting the Myths of Digital Learning
Survey from JogNog reveals schools unprepared to support digital learning - EdTech Times
- - By Cara Whitehead
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Tuesday, May 08, 2012
New World of Informal/Unstructured Training
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Take off those rose coloured glasses | Harold Jarche
- The new reality is that, at least implicitly, business units are realizing that work is learning and that they need to empower workers to learn and solve problems collaboratively.
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- Design & Create Courses
- Enable Learning
- Support Learning
- Be a change agent for development
What will your training role be in the future? The author describes four future roles:
- The future will not be L&D 2.0 but rather a new organizational learning approach, where learning is integrated into the workflow.
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Jenna Wortham: What I Read - Entertainment - The Atlantic Wire
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Jenna Wortham: What I Read - Entertainment - The Atlantic Wire
- I wake up around 7 or 7:30 a.m. and check the news on my iPhone. I usually sleep with my laptop nearby, but the phone is quicker.
- I've set a few select Twitter feeds to push their tweets to my phone via SMS from 7 in the morning till 2 at night.
- I listen to music while I get dressed. I’ve done that since high school. It prepares me for the long day ahead.
- During the ten minutes it takes me to walk to the train, I’ll quickly check Twitter for the news of the day, Tumblr for reactions to the news and Instagram for social news, to see if anything is heating up that might make for a good daily story or blog post -- a big news event, a backlash to something, a particularly timely meme, viral video or some other important topic.
- During the first half of my commute, I listen to podcasts on my ride into the city. I use a terrific app called Instacast to keep track of the ones I like
- I also read most of the New York Times through our iPhone app on my commute in.
- I try to absorb at least an article a day.
- For the second leg, I start preparing myself for the office. I reply to as many emails as I can in the last 15-20 minutes of my ride.
- Once I get to work, around 10, I open Twitter and Facebook -- these stay open throughout the day and I stick my head back into them repeatedly to keep an eye out for any news that might be bubbling up.
- I’ve got several secret Twitter lists that I use to help filter the news. The two that are the most useful contains all the founders, investors and start-ups that I'm keeping a close eye on and the other is full of reporters, tech and beyond, whose work I admire, so that I can see what they're tweeting about and linking to.
- I favorite about 50 things (or more) a day on Twitter -- articles to read, ideas I liked, books to read, songs. I use ifttt recipe to send my Twitter faves to my Gmail inbox so I can sift through them later.
- I have breakfast and skim my trades -- Hacker News, Reddit, GigaOm, The Verge, Gizmodo, BetaBeat, BuzzFeed FWD, TechCrunch, Techmeme, All Things D and The Atlantic Wire.
- While I skim, I take notes the old-fashioned way: With a fine-point Sharpie and a stack Post-it notes. I do a lot of pattern matching -- emerging themes among new start-ups, the types of companies that are getting funded, a VC or entrepreneur catches my eye -- and make a note or a list, and I keep these in a row on my desk for easy reference.
- For my beat, I need to see what new service or app is bubbling up and pay attention to how people are using the web, their mobile devices and new technologies, but it can often take awhile for things to catch on, so I'm constantly monitoring for that groundswell when a new service or behavior breaks out beyond my professional and social circle and starts to catch on in a bigger way.
- often take photos of these handwritten notes and file them in a separate folder on my iPhone for easy perusal later.
- I keep a fresh Steno notebook for each cluster of stories and blog posts I’m working on each week, and I always keep a graph-paper Rhodia notebook on me for longer to-do lists, general observations, story ideas. I avoiding spending a lot of time in my inbox -- it’s the equivalent quicksand -- so instead, I keep an eye on the emails to address anything urgent that comes in and make a list of people to reply to via email during a late-afternoon coffee break or before bed at the end of the night.
- f there's no breaking news that requires immediate attention, I'll file a blog post or two and then transition into interviews and reporting for the features I'm working on that week and calls and meetings with sources that last until late afternoon, when I have lunch. Then, I’ll go back to those same sites and see what I’ve missed.
- During lunch, I check in on my favorite writers. In my regular rotation each week: Willa Paskin at Salon, Mary H.K. Choi at MTV and Wired, Edith and everyone at The Hairpin, Mat Honan at Gizmodo, Parislemon, Amanda Peyton on Tumblr, Robin Sloan’s blog, Shortform blog, Chris Dixon, Silicon Filter, Anil Dash, Waxy.org, Liz and Peter at All Things D, Guernica, The New Inquiry, Jonah Lerer, Clive Thompson, Vulture’s Mad Men and Game of Thrones recaps, The New Yorker’s Culture Desk, the picks of Longform, Rembert Browne and Jay Caspian King at Grantland, Anthony de Rosa at Reuters, David Carr and Brian Stelter, RConversation, Daring Fireball, Farhad Manjoo, Fred Wilson, Matt Buchanan and John Herrman at BuzzFeed FWD, Matt Stopera, Whitney Jefferson and Katie Notopoulos at BuzzFeed, Alexis Madrigal at The Atlantic, Rebecca Greenfield at The Atlantic Wire, Tim Carmody at Wired, Kashmir Hill at Forbes, to name a few
- I really admire iPad apps like Longform and Percolate. Lately, I use Pocket or Flipboard to see if I can unearth any new content that I should be paying attention to, although between Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook, I get sent down enough unusual and satisfying rabbit holes to keep me awash in new content.
- At the end of the day, I crave time away from the screen. I’ll go on a run, or to a show, or a tech event or a drinks thing to catch up with friends -
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Thursday, April 26, 2012
Open course in digital storytelling enjoys modest success | Inside Higher Ed
Open course in digital storytelling enjoys modest success | Inside Higher Ed
Canadian MOOC pioneer George Siemens remarks that Grooms course is different from the Stanford model. "The MOOCs at Stanford and Udacity are instructivist,” says Siemens. “Learners largely duplicate the knowledge base of the educator or designer.” In other words students are following in the instructor's learning footsteps much like the silhouettes of shoes in old dance studios showed learners the steps. What Groom and company are doing is to create an environment for learners to construct their own steps.
Saturday, April 14, 2012
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Saturday, February 25, 2012
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Saturday, February 18, 2012
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I’m not a participant, I participate! « In dubio
Terrific implications for "teaching". For example, if I am teaching how to summarize how can I get them to tell me about summarizing? Gget them to do it in class then draw inferences from what they have learned, have them research it, ask them to do it for unlikely objects then draw inferences. And how can get them to provide feedback on what they do? Do paired work, small group work, and large group work on how well a text has been summarized from the point of view of the audience-reader. Might start with a roughly annotated article and get them to read the original article. At that point they can judge what needs to be left out, changed, or put in.
I’m not a participant, I participate! « In dubio
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
teaching in china - Google Search
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teaching in china - Google Search
I used the blog search.
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7 Things to Know about Teaching in China | Certification Map
I looked at the first thing that looked good on the first page--skim quickly.
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teaching in china - Google Search
Go seven pages in just to break through the ice of the first page.
Saturday, February 11, 2012
Authentic Learning Group Diigo (weekly)
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Authentic Learning Group Diigo (weekly)
These “recipe cards” for Project/Problem Based Learning are intended for teachers to use with K12 students in groups, as well as individual students.Each card creates student learning categorized as TimeTravelers, Artists & Inventors, Historian Challenges, StoryTellers, ProblemSolvers, Scientist Challenges, Career & Tech Ed.The cards are meant to help teachers integrate core content and deeply embed creativity, problem-solving, and collaborative learning in each student, with or without the use of technology tools.The core content pieces are the basic ingredients with which teachers can cook delicious content for their hungry learners.Teachers are able to customize the driving questions in each of the content areas to fit the unique needs of their learners. The cards guide teachers through the basic steps of the project, with ideas and suggestions for best practice.The tips & tricks help establish a safe and respectful learning environment every single day of the year.
- - By Ginger TPLC
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Friday, January 27, 2012
Friday Links of Note
Friday Links of Note
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Ten Things You're Not Allowed to Say at Davos - Umair Haque - Harvard Business Review
I think many of the bullet points that Haque applies to Davos are applicable to all the conferences that educators occupy themselves with. I especially think the one about 'insiders rarely topple the status quo' is dead on. If you have time to go to these self-congratulatory fetes, then you are probably part of the powers that be. I could change my mind on this.
- Talk is cheap (and the more talk there is, the cheaper it gets). Corporations booking record profits as cities, states, and countries go broke have little (read: zero) incentive to actually do much get people, communities, and society out of this mess. The most powerful and influential folks at Davos — the titans of the global economy — probably won't do anything to heal the world, for the simple reason that because, as things stand, they "profit" most from its suffering. Want fries with that unsafe drinking water, bottom billion?
- You can't solve a problem on the level it was created (as Einstein's reputed to have said). This great crisis is in our economy — and so it might be of our society, culture, and polity.
- Insiders rarely topple the status quo.
- Moral vacuums tend to empower the amoral. Self-explanatory: take a look at these accounts of bankers vigorously defending what at this point my pet hamster knows is basically indefensible. It's like a self-parody — except it's not. Economists aren't exactly renowned for having a moral compass, yet without one, it's impossible to take on the fundamentally ethical challenge of rebooting prosperity.
- You need a whole brain to be a human. 21st century intelligence is not just analytical — it's ethical, emotional, and creative.
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Addictive UX: Why Pinterest Is So Dang Amazing | Design Shack
Why we love Pinterest. And I do love it. I am looking for a spinach recipe right now from there. I am planning on demonstrating to my students what a Google 20% project might consist of for our Intro to College Writing Class next week. This article will be my framework for that.
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Best Education Books of 2011 - The Huffington Post
Stager is an interesting character/curmudgeon and this is a worthy short list. No nonsense. Real teachers and real learning. Any one of these books could set a match to the tinder that is K-12 public and private education in this country.
- This article does more than suggest that you have an alternative to a CV or a resume, it also suggests that you live a completely different professional life, one dominated by demonstrable 'doing'. This means that project-based constructivist-connectivist learning will have to take the lead from K-20 and beyond.
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With Udacity, Former Stanford Professor Goes All-In on Online Learning - Education - GOOD
There is a different mode of learning afoot. It is what Howard Rheingold calls peeragogy. Combine participatory, peer-based learning with super-large online course taught by real practitioners (Udacity) and you will begin to see the glimmerings of a new type of learning that is both formal and informal. It is a new way -
Audiobooks.com lets you fill your ears for $25 per month | VentureBeat
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A Way To Think About Online Courses (By Apple, For Example) | Easily Distracted
Etextbooks are rising in the edu-zeitgeist. Steve Jobs' last legacy was a desire to totally disrupt the textbook market with electronic texts. This article looks beyond the hype of Apple's recent media blitz, but more importantly points to the possibility that etextbooks might not be recognizeable as textbooks at all. Etextbooks might mark the end of the idea of textbooks.
Saturday, January 21, 2012
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Thursday, January 12, 2012
Sunday, January 08, 2012
Newspeak Reminders from "A Word a Day"
Subject: Newspeak and Papier Deutsch
Before the Bush Administration gave us the phrase "enhanced interrogation" another administration used "collateral damage" to refer to the killing of civilians -- who had, by some process of word magic, lost their identity as humans to become merely "damage", like a broken window or a fallen tree. The Nazis did the same thing on a far more barbaric scale with terms such as die Endlösung, which turned mass murder into a bloodless impersonal noun.
This is not just another example of the bureaucratic degradation of language, although that is certainly part of it. As Orwell said in his great essay on politics and the English language:
"In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.... Thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging, and sheer cloudy vagueness.... Such phraseology is needed if one wants to name things without calling up mental pictures of them."
Or if you want to go back further, then we can quote the words that Tacitus put in the mouth of the Celtic chieftain Galgacus:
"To robbery, slaughter, plunder, they give the lying name of empire; they make a desert and call it peace."
Henry Willis, Los Angeles, California