Tag: engagement
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Another Terrible Idea from Turnitin | Just Visiting
Allowing the proliferation of algorithmic surveillance as a substitution for human engagement and judgment helps pave the road to an ugly future where students spend more time interacting algorithms than instructors or each other. This is not a sound way to help writers develop robust and flexible writing practices. Source: Another Terrible Idea from Turnitin…
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-07-16
in DigestUniversity lectures are a legacy of our pre-digital past http://t.co/RSOuMHuo via @zite # Presentation: The need for engagement in education (redux) http://t.co/DlXe0zjp via @zite # Research Zebra: Seven things you need to know when your partner is doing a doctorate http://t.co/dJJCcHS3 #
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-06-20
in Digestactive learning, africa, bamboo, books, clinical trials, data visualisation, educational technology, engagement, history, informal knowledge, lunar eclipse, mendeley, network, opencourseware, phd, pln, podcasts, pomodoro, reading, research, research whisperer, supervisor, surgery, teaching philosophy, writingMendeley goes open http://ow.ly/1tTg3t # Books Everyone Should Read http://ow.ly/1tTfS6 # VLT Survey Telescope snaps out-of-this-world photos with 268-megapixel camera http://ow.ly/1tSyUs # Surgery podcasts go viral http://ow.ly/1tSxxI # Be like the bamboo http://ow.ly/1tSxut # Visualizing Facebook Groups at UCT http://ow.ly/1tSxhV # My Teaching Philosophy http://ow.ly/1tSx4p # The Rise of Informal Knowledge and the Teacher’s Evolving…
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Posted to Diigo 02/25/2011
Presentation Zen: The need for connection & engagement in education As scientists and other specialists learn more about how our brains work, for example, many of the traditional instructional methods used for the past 100 years (or more) seem to be out of kilter with how human beings really pay attention, engage, and actually learn…
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“Objectivity” in educational research
Earlier today I had a productive meeting with one of my supervisors where, in addition to updating her on my progress, we discussed my reluctance to get “too involved” in my research projects. This is something I’ve touched on before and will probably continue returning to it during the course of my research. I come…
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-15
in Digestaccreditation, android, backchannel, buddypress, cape town, clifton, community of practice, copyright, crap detection, curriculum, degree, educational reform, engagement, free content, freedom, george siemens, goats, higher education, howard rheingold, iphone, jisc, learning technology, lessig, managing information, microblogging, microecop, mobile learning, network, nexus one, ocw, oer, open courseware consortium, open educational resources, p2pu, pbl, peer to peer university, personal learning environments, ple, pop quizz, presentations, problem based learning, twitter, university of the western cape, uwc, web 3.0, wordpress mu@ryantracey Agreed. The process, rather than the certificate, should be emphasised # RT @wesleylynch: Video comparing iphone and nexus – http://ow.ly/17iBb. Can’t imagine how the iPhone will survive, Android is already better # RT @psychemedia: Are Higher Degrees a waste of time for most people? http://bit.ly/buKpOW. IT professionals are hardly “most people” # University finds…