February 2012
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Why design?
Design projects engage students as active participants, giving them a greater sense of control and responsibility for the learning process;
Design projects encourage creative problem-solving;
Design projects are often interdisciplinary, bringing together ideas from art, technology, math, and sciences;
Design projects help students learn to put themselves in the minds of others, since they need...
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Constructivism and Constructionism
Learning-by-designing approach … is often seen as being driven by two theories/approaches …
The constructivist theory of learning, developed by Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget, views learning as a very active process in which people continually construct new knowledge from their experiences in the world. According to this theory, people don’t get ideas, they make them. Constructivist...
December 2011
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Six elements of effective e-learning design
Activity - tasks for students to undertake that provide an experience likely to lead them to the desired new understanding.
Scenario - reason or motivation to undertake an educational activity if the learning is to be memorable and considered valuable.
Feedback - provision for feedback that amplifies the learning from the experience, and enables students to increase their level...
October 2011
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“Style only exists where there is more than one practical solution to a problem....”
– Hughes, Rian. (2011). Culture: Ideas can be dangerous. Fiell: London. p.166
June 2011
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Teach less, learn more
TLLM - a call to action, adopted by the Singapore Ministry of Education:
It aims to touch the hearts and engage the minds of our learners, to prepare them for life. It reaches into the core of education - why we teach, what we teach and how we teach.
It is about shifting the focus from “quantity” to “quality” in education. “More quality” in terms of classroom interaction, opportunities for...
May 2011
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Perry Model of Intellectual and Ethical... →
Source: model modifications by Nelson (1989), with additional comments by Thoma (1993).
Thoma, George A. (1993) “The Perry Framework and Tactics for Teaching Critical Thinking in Economics”. Journal of Economic Education Spring:128-136.
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World Economic Forum reports
The Global Information Technology Report: presents a detailed assessment of technology and competitiveness for 138 economies. Co-authored with Irene Mia and published by the World Economic Forum, the report and datasets are available at: http://www.weforum.org/issues/global-information-technology The Global Internet Values Report: A study on issues related to online privacy, trust, security and...
February 2011
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“In its broadest meaning, ‘self directed learning’ describes a...”
– Knowles, M. (1975). Self-directed learning: a guide for learners and teachers. Association press, New York.
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Seven principles of good practice in undergraduate...
Chickering, A., & Gamson, Z. (1987). Seven principles of good practice in undergraduate education. AAHE Bulletin, 39:7, pp3-7. http://www.aahea.org/bulletins/articles/sevenprinciples1987.htm
Encourages contacts between students and faculty.
Develops reciprocity and cooperation among students.
Uses active learning techniques.
Gives prompt feedback.
Emphasizes time...
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“Information technologies place into the hands of the consumer the capacity to...”
– Poster, M. (2001). What’s the matter with the Internet. University of Minnesota: Minneapolis.
August 2010
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Snowballing sampling technique
Source http://cyberron.blogspot.com/2009/07/snowballing-sampling-technique.html
“Establishing the sample and the sampling process in qualitative inquiry is almost often a subject of contention, and takes much more time in persuading panel members during research defense sessions. A systematic sampling process in qualitative research designs is rarely established. Often, what is used is a...
June 2010
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Definitions of a PLE
Definitions of Personal Learning Environment (PLE) - Presentation Transcript
Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) a collection of definitions (written in English)
Prologue “ It’s not ‘your’ definition. The concept of the PLE is being developed by a loose collection of people, each of whom is informed by the other. Any particular element of that development - such as a definition -...
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Rhizomatic Education - the definitive text
LE MARCHEUR PÉDAGOGUE: Amorce d’une pédagogie rhizomatique by Yves Amyot (2003)
L’Harmattan: Paris
Extracts available from - http://www.centreturbine.org/MarcheurPedagogue
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Motivation scale for education
‘The Academic Motivation Scale: A measure of intrinsic, extrinsic, and amotivation in education’
Vallerand et al. (1992). Educational and Psychological Measurement. 52, 1003-1017.
http://www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/r26710/LRCS/articles/AMS1992.pdf
May 2010
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Creativity
“… the process of having original ideas that have value”
From ‘The Element’ by Ken Robinson (2009). London: Penguin.
January 2010
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Aronowitz on Freire
Aronowitz’s analysis of Freire’s work on literacy and critical pedagogy:
Thus, for Freire literacy was not a means to prepare students for the world of subordinated labor or “careers,” but a preparation for a self-managed life. And self-management could only occur when people have fulfilled three goals of education: self-reflection, that is, realizing the famous poetic...
November 2009
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“You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them....”
– A Collection of 60 Inspirational Steve Jobs Quotes About Life,Design and Apple
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“Who am I then? Tell me first, and then, if I like being that person, I’ll...”
– Lewis Carroll, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”
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“A slow sort of country!” said the Queen. “Now, here, you see, it...”
– Red Queen’s race - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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“The self, as that which can be an object to itself, is essentially a social...”
– George Herbert Mead, Mind Self and Society from the Standpoint of a Social Behaviorist (Edited by Charles W. Morris). Chicago: University of Chicago (1934).
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Contemporary panopticism of the self
“Like Bentham’s Panopticon we have taken on board - within ourselves - the language games and associated subjectivities of Foucauldian “guardians” of all kinds, inciting ourselves to display and communicate the selves expected of us and that we assume others, in turn, share with us. This contemporary panopticism is a massive set of language games we engage in virtually...
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“When they came to explore the nature of organizational learning Chris Argyris...”
– Donald Schon (Schön) - learning, reflection and change
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from Competence to Capability
“One of the most recent models to challenge traditional concepts of learning and which looks at outcomes as well as process is that of Capability (Stephenson & Weil, 1992). Capable people are those who: know how to learn; are creative; have a high degree of self-efficacy; can apply competencies in novel as well as familiar situations; and work well with others. In comparison to...
October 2009
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Dangers of Facebook - Alex Turk CNIL
‘Les annonceurs se servent de cette mine d’informations pour délivrer aux internautes des publicités ciblées. Mais le danger de ce système est surtout qu’il produit un traçage dans le temps, et ce que j’ai dit à 20 ans sur Internet pourra m’être reproché quand j’en aurai 50. Du coup, on ne maîtrise plus tout à fait sa liberté de pensée et d’expression.’
...
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“Trust enables cooperation and becomes the means for complexity reduction even in...”
– Main Articles: ‘Trust in Global Virtual Teams’, Ariadne Issue 43
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Employability
“A degree alone is not enough. Employers are looking for more than just technical skills and knowledge of a degree discipline. They particularly value skills such as communication, teamworking and problem-solving. Job applicants who can demonstrate that they have developed these skills will have a real advantage.”
(Digby Jones 2004, fomer Director-General of the CBI)
See HEA website for...
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Crisis of boundaries
There exists a general crisis of boundaries that results when the sense of self that is formed by parochial face-to-face contexts and open ended virtual worlds intermingle. As Shields (1996) suggests, interactive technologies, exemplified by the Internet create
a crisis of boundaries between the real and the virtual, between time zones and between spaces, near and distant. Above all, boundaries...
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“People are now acting subjects of the Internet, transforming the Internet for...”
– Learning Futures: The emergence of socially connected digital identities
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Public awareness of privacy issues
“Average citizens are in no position to make judgments about the impact of these technologies on their privacy. Despite the widespread press reports about “cookies” technology and the routine deployment by web sites to track site visitors, only 40% of computer users had ever heard of a “cookie” and only 30% of computer users recognize that a cookie is used to track online habits.”
...
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SNS and privacy
“… there are also many potential threats to privacy associated with these SNS such as identity theft and disclosure of sensitive information. However, many users still are not aware of these threats and the privacy settings provided by SNS are not flexible enough to protect user data. In addition, users do not have any control over what others reveal about them.”
Ai Ho, Abdou...
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George Mead on identity and self
‘In the process of communication the individual is an other before he is a self. It is in addressing himself in the rôle of an other that his self arises in experience.’ ‘Reality “a field of situations”.’ ‘The self is something which has a development; it is not initially there, at birth, but arises in the process of social experience and activity, that is, develops...
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Rom Harre on identity and self
‘Everything that appears to each of us in the intimate structure of our personal being, I believe to have its source in a socially sustained and collectively imposed cluster of theories (1984: 21)’ Harre, Rom. 1984. Personal being. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
‘Personal being arises only by transformation in the social inheritance of individuals.’ ‘We...
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Bauman on identity
“Bauman quite rightly suggests that ‘identity’ is an uneasy concept that we examine when confronted with uncertainty and that one ‘… thinks of identity when one is unsure of where one belongs’ (Bauman, in Hall and Du Gay, 1996: 18)”
Questions of identity S Hall, P du Gay - 1996 - London: Sage
September 2009
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Social protocols of collaboration
Source: http://www.collectivate.net/the-participatory-challenge/
“What makes collaboration work? Certainly there is no ‘happy pill’ for something as complex and quotidian as collaboration. The following general, practical guidelines for collaboration resurface throughout much of the literature in the field of collaboration study:
Develop trust and mutual respect
Outline clear and...
August 2009
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Project Zero - Artful Thinking
“The purpose of the program is twofold: To help teachers create rich connections between works of art and their curriculum; and to help teachers use arts experiences as a touchstone for developing students’ thinking dispositions.”
Accordingly, in the Artful Thinking program, thinking dispositions are developed through the use of “thinking routines”—short, easy-to-learn procedures...
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Multiple Intelligences - Howard Gardner
Bodily-kinesthetic
Interpersonal
Verbal-linguistic
Logical-mathematical
Naturalistic
Intrapersonal
Visual-spatial
Musical
Gardner, Howard. (1983) “Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences.” New York: Basic Books.
See also http://www.infed.org/thinkers/gardner.htm
July 2009
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Refuge and Prospect
In 1975, Jay Appleton proposed a novel theory to explain why landscape has such an aesthetic impact and has recently provided a supplementary discussion (Appleton, 1978). He argues that, due to evolutionary circumstances, human beings spontaneously experience the landscape in terms of the opportunities it offers for them to ‘see without being seen’. A deepseated behavioural mechanism...
June 2009
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“Dr Easteal, professor of law at the University of Canberra, has accepted a...”
– Times Higher Education - The visiting fellow who will not visit
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Innocence and experience
Youth and Innocence -> Identity development
Age and Experience -> Identity play and reflection
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Ten intructional categories
Heinich et al. categorized instructional methods into the following ten categories (Heinich et al. 2002): 1. Presentation 2. Demonstration 3. Discussion 4. Drill-and-practice 5. Tutorial 6. Cooperative Learning 7. Gaming 8. Simulation 9. Discovery 10. Problem solving
Heinich, R., Molenda, M., Russel, J.D., Smaldino, S.E. (2002). Instructional Media and Technologies for learning, 7th...
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“Misconception 1: “A pattern is a solution to a problem in a...”
– Patterns: The Top Ten Misconceptions John Vlissides Object Magazine, March 1997 http://www.research.ibm.com/designpatterns/pubs/top10misc.html
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Lightening talks
What can you say in five minutes?
Here are some suggestions:
Why my favorite module / add-on package is X.
I want to do cool project X. Does anyone want to help?
Successful Project: I did project X. It was a success. Here’s how you could benefit.
Failed Project: I did project X. It was a failure, and here’s why.
Heresy: People always say X, but they’re wrong. ...
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“The seven headline skills
1. The ability to recognise a need for information...”
– Information Skills in Higher Education: A SCONUL Position Paper
May 2009
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“Social networkers differ in their attitudes to social networking sites and in...”
– Ofcom report:
Social Networking - A quantitative and qualitative research report into attitudes, behaviours and use See - http://www.ofcom.org.uk/advice/media_literacy/medlitpub/medlitpubrss/socialnetworking/report.pdf And - http://www.ofcom.org.uk/media/news/2008/04/presentation.pdf
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“KEY POINT 2
The first edition of our strategy talked about e-learning, but in...”
– Enhancing learning and teaching through the use of technology A revised approach to HEFCE’s strategy for e-learning
http://www.hefce.ac.uk/pubs/hefce/2009/09_12/
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“I find SL implementations emphasizing building tend to turn off my...”
– Second Life … revisiting media literacy
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“We can know the nature and characteristics of anything we conceive or create...”
– What is the Meaning of The Medium is the Message?
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Patterns
- bridge thought and action - are not a recipe of actions - are not obvious - are like seeds that will grow differently according to your environment - patterns can be ordered by how many people they effect … or from more general to more specific patterns ——- Digital storytelling approaches: Rosson and Carroll, 2005 Singleton and Thompson, 2007
March 2009
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“Using technology to improve education is not rocket science…it is much,...”
– Diana Laurillard, Opening Up Education 2009
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Taxonomy of identity information
Civil identity information Social identity information Role identity information Biometric identity information Transaction identity information