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Four stages of competence
In psychology , the four stages of competence , or the "conscious competence" learning model, relates to the psychological states involved in the process of progressing from incompetence to competence in a skill .
apophenia: some thoughts on technophilia
My name is danah boyd and I'm a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research, a Research Assistant Professor in Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, a Visting Researcher at Harvard Law School, and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales.The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age - Creative
HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory) announced a new report called, “ The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age ,” now available at MIT Press. The report is in response to our changing times, and addresses what traditional educational institutions must know to keep up. From the announcement ,
Teachers are always trying to combat student apathy and University of Texas at Dallas History Professor, Monica Rankin, has found an interesting way to do it using Twitter in the classroom. Rankin uses a weekly hashtag to organize comments, questions and feedback posted by students to Twitter during class. Some of the students have downloaded Tweetdeck to their computers, others post by SMS or by writing questions on a piece of paper. Rankin then projects a giant image of live Tweets in the front of the class for discussion and suggests that students refer back to the messages later when studying. The Professor's results so far have been mixed but it is clear that more students are participating in classroom discussions than they used to. A video about Rankin's classroom experiment follows.
How One Teacher Uses Twitter in the Classroom