From Fall 2020: Possibilities, Promise and the Likelihood of Failure Short-sighted administrators, over-centralized systems, under-funded students, over-priced tuition – and other hypehenizations. State universities have done themselves in. Reform: cut admin, fund tuition down to $10/credit, get classes back to 10-20 – suits social distancing – place emphasis back on face to face, boost grad… Continue reading Reading: Fall 2020: Possibilities, Promise and the Likelihood of Failure
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Reading: On Burnett, The Radical Impossibility of Teaching
Source We’re selling bottled sugar water based on our sense of the needs of others. The grounding of teaching – much less Education – is rife with contractions we ignore. Going digital doesn’t change this but can offer a new ground for pedagogy. Maybe.
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makers and makerspaces | teaching composition in a creative economy – – (dh composition ) Learning Design Patterns as an Alternative Model of Course Design – Mike brings Alexander's design patterns into play for course design. Light in two rooms, and place structures to create spaces to congregate. – (pedagogy design learning patterns architecture )
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22 Thoughts on Automated Grading of Student Writing | Inside Higher Ed – I love it. The idea that teaching and evaluating written work can be done as a computer algorithm is a mind-saver. Why? Reading is boring. Automate now. I have videos to watch. My favorite thought is #7:” The only motivations for even… Continue reading bookmarks for March 29th, 2013 through April 12th, 2013
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Net Gen Skeptic: The Digital Literacy of “Digital Natives” – Post on the accumulating research finding that net gen/millenials is not a good discriminator of student knowledge of tech. As if it ever was. (digitalnatives evaluation literacy learning millenials )
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Nicholas Felton | Feltron.com – Home of the Feltron Annual Report and other lifelogging experiments – (lifecasting lifelogging ) Technologically Externalized Knowledge and Learning « Connectivism – – (vle ple learning elearning ) After Frustrations in Second Life, Colleges Look to New Virtual Worlds – Technology – The Chronicle of Higher Education – The thrill… Continue reading bookmarks for February 17th, 2010 through February 18th, 2010