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Posted to Diigo 07/14/2012
University lectures are a legacy of our pre-digital past Today’s standard lecture, as a knowledge delivery model, is a legacy of our pre-digital past. We already have decades of research behind us which says that, as far as learning goes, having one person stand up in front of lots of people and talking non-stop is…
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Posted to Diigo 06/29/2012
in Note“what Do You Think Marshall Mcluhan Would Have Said About Ebooks? how Do They Change The Message Of Books?” | Conversation | Edge “What do you think Marshall McLuhan would have said about ebooks? How do they change the message of books?” McLuhan pointed out the initial content of a new medium is the old medium…
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Posted to Diigo 06/25/2012
On Bubbles, Facebook, and Playing for Keeps: 10 Questions With Clay Shirky | Wired Business | Wired.com “When I look around at the risk/reward curve for higher education it’s grim. We’ve really gone past the point where raising tuition higher than inflation and then financializing the payment system has become abusive. I certainly never intended…
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Posted to Diigo 06/18/2012
in NotePresentation Zen: Steve Jobs on life: change it, improve it, make your mark “When you grow up, you tend to get told that the world is the way it is and your life is just to live your life inside the world, try not to bash into the walls too much, try to have a…
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Posted to Diigo 05/25/2012
Becoming Future-Ready : 2¢ Worth In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists How our children learn is critical today, not so much as a point of pedagogy, but for the development of a distinct and most important skill…
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Posted to Diigo 05/22/2012
Stigmergic Collaboration, The Evolution of Group Work, and Lessons for Creating Mobile Communities « Michael Sean Gallagher Mark Elliott writes about stigmergic collaboration and the evolution of group work Pierre-Paul Grasse first coined the term stigmergy in the 1950s in conjunction with his research on termites. Grasse showed that a particular configuration of a termite’s…
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Posted to Diigo 04/12/2012
Do Students Know Enough Smart Learning Strategies? | MindShift : It’s not just what you know. It’s what you know about what you kno To put it in more straightforward terms, anytime a student learns, he or she has to bring in two kinds of prior knowledge: knowledge about the subject at hand (say, mathematics…
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Posted to Diigo 04/05/2012
Note: The following are highlighted passages from Diigo, which explains the poor layout and structure. Learning in small groups – MEDEV, School of Medical Sciences Education Development Students working in small groups interact in a variety of ways and the teacher has an important role to play Barriers, more often perceived than real, may impede…
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Posted to Diigo 03/23/2012
More PBL Learnings – Crazy Teaching I also told students why we were doing this (something that isn’t done often enough in classrooms, in my opinion–why do some still insist on keeping what they want students to learn a big secret, making students stumble around trying to figure it out all in the name of…
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Posted to Diigo 01/16/2012
Critique to Some Papers | Community of Inquiry the CoI theoretical framework is essentially incompatible with traditional distance education approaches that value independence and autonomy over collaborative discourse in purposeful communities of inquiry (Garrison, 2009) the explanatory value of a CoI approach depends on the educational purpose and context it is very difficult to achieve…
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Posted to Diigo 01/09/2012
What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland’s School Success – Anu Partanen – National – The Atlantic Compared with the stereotype of the East Asian model — long hours of exhaustive cramming and rote memorization — Finland’s success is especially intriguing because Finnish schools assign less homework and engage children in more creative play Americans…
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Posted to Diigo 01/08/2012
Education in Finland: smart, continuos development (a bit like agile software development) | FLOSSE Posse We need highly educated teachers, appreciation of the profession, empower teachers, have decision making in classroom and school level etc. When these are in place we may focus on education, instead of training children to tests. I think, however, that…
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Posted to Diigo 11/18/2011
November 17, 2011 : The Daily Papert The really basic skill today is the skill of learning, and the best use of games is to leverage their tendency to enhance it talking about games and learning is an important activity when they get the support and have access to suitable software systems, children’s enthusiasm for…
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Posted to Diigo 10/12/2011
in NoteOctober 10, 2011 : The Daily Papert In the past, children may not have liked School, but they were persuaded to believe that it was the passport to success in life. To the extent that children reject School as out of touch with contemporary life, they become active agents in creating pressure for change. Like…
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Posted to Diigo 09/29/2011
September 27, 2011 : The Daily Papert learning is action-oriented and gets its feedback not from the yes-no of adult authority but from the resistance and the guidance of reality. Some attempted actions do not produce the expected results. Some produce surprising results. The child comes to learn that it is not sufficient to want…
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Posted to Diigo 08/23/2011
Transformative Questions : 2¢ Worth “How do we create a culture of learners that thrive in the 21st century?” Classroom Teachers How might I alter this assignment or project so that it “Responds” to the learner? How can the experience “Talk Back?” How might I plant barriers within the assignment that force learners to “Question”…
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Posted to Diigo 08/21/2011
OllieBray.com: Is a broken down car parked? “ ‘Thunks’ are deceptively tricky little questions that ‘make your brain go ouch!’ Ian’s examples of ‘Thunks’ include: ‘Is a broken down car parked?’ ‘If you read a newspaper in the newsagents without paying for it, is it stealing?’ ‘Do all polo’s taste the same?’ ‘Can you be…