Notes from "The Future of Teaching & Learning" conference -- How. First Keynote from Howard Rheingold. Started teaching a digital journalism class then moved on to teaching digital literacy. When first started teaching classrooms, thought about how to use online media to overcome disadvantages of teaching in classrooms namely a) not all teachers good at speaking extemporously and b) classroom learning militates against thoughtfulness, can't share thought that occurs an hour after class.
First started experimenting with using online tools for learning in 1995. When first started teaching in 2005? Used wikis from one tool, forums from another, blogs from another. Immediate feedback from students was this was too complex. So thought about consolidating tools. Socialmediaclassroom tool is freely downloadable or you can ask for hosted version. Developed way within Drupal to tie all work done around a lecture to be listed on page. Says forums not used as much as 10-15 years ago.
Unique accordance of forums -- long-lasting conversations on topics. Changing Higher Education: Higher Ed.'s societal obligations in. The American Association and Colleges and Universities (AACU) just released a survey of employers that looks at the characteristics employers want to see in the graduates they hire, and a related paper from the AACU Board called The Quality Imperative. The survey (which does not in any way contradict others that I have seen previously) reports that only one in four employers feel that higher education is doing a good job in preparing students for success in the global economy.
Not surprisingly, employers would like to have graduates who have both in-depth and broad range knowledge and skills Highest on their wish-lists for learning outcomes are several intellectual skills, e.g. critical thinking, that, as emphasized by Derek Bok in Our Underachieving Colleges, we don’t teach very well. The learning outcomes that 70% or more of the employers felt should get increased emphasis from higher ed are: The ability to effectively communicate orally and in writing (89%) And quoting Hiltzik again. 2010 NGTL Symposium | Next Generation Teaching and Learning. Come and join us in Berkeley for the NGTL Symposium 2010! This is our first year and it promises to be exciting! We are pleased to announce that Howard Rheingold, Dean Christopher Edley, and Gordon Freedman will be the keynote speakers.
We have a great program lined up; please see an advanced copy of our schedule for the day. Welcome to the website for the 2010 Symposium on Next Generation Teaching and Learning. This is the first event sponsored by the Center for Next Generation Teaching and Learning, and will be held at Berkeley Law School's Boalt Hall (room 110), in Berkeley, California, on Saturday, April 17. The NGTL Symposium is an event to share some of the trends and changes in emerging technology to support student-centered teaching and learning. Participants and speakers from a number of channels within academia, industry, standards bodies, and educational institutions will converge for one day to facilitate innovation and collaboration. Panel topics will discuss: (13) Twitter / Accueil. Librarian 2.0: Buffy J. Hamilton. Which of the following two assignments is more likely to engage high school students and inspire them to learn something?
1. Write a paper about contemporary US war veterans.2. Create a multimedia resource of news feeds, archival video, student interviews with veterans, document how you accomplished it, and share your findings with the world. Buffy J. Scaffolded by video tutorials, students created online research dashboards, found, critically examined, and installed widgets that feed continuing streams of material. Try it yourself! I recently made a ten minute video interview with Hamilton and asked her to share her insights. I found her in the first place by looking for people who seemed to know what they were tweeting about in regard to educational technology, then looking at who they paid attention to.
Image Credit: theunquietlibrary. Projekt Deutschschweizer Lehrplan. Individual Knowledge in the Internet Age (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDU. © 2010 Larry Sanger. The text of this article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License ( EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 45, no. 2 (March/April 2010): 14-24 Larry Sanger is best known as co-founder of Wikipedia. He went on to start another wiki encyclopedia project, Citizendium.org, and has most recently started an innovative directory of educational videos: WatchKnow.org. Comments on this article can be posted to the web via the link at the bottom of this page. In the last several years, many observers of education and learning have been stunned by the abundance of information online, the ever-faster findability of answers, and the productivity of online "crowds," which have created information resources like Wikipedia and YouTube.
I will analyze three common strands of current thought about education and the Internet. Though seemingly disparate, these three strands of thought are interrelated. No.