Tag: Social Learning
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Tweaching
This question came up over the last week that I’ve been working on a poster for an upcoming symposium – how you ever convince students to follow their prof on Twitter or any of the other microblogging services? My answer to this was a non committal – I don’t know, first we have to convince…
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Extending my ISSOTL thoughts
Am I ever glad I copied this before I posted: Emerging from ISSOTL, I had some time on the train, so I took advantage of one of the apps that I just downloaded – Viigo – to read some of my feeds while I was waiting/riding. A few articles caught my attention and so this…
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NYT – Libraries, Games and Reading
The NYT has an interesting article that brushes the two sides of the “games can increase reading/literacy” idea that many authors like James Paul Gee advocate. The article looks at examples such as Haarsma’s Rings of Orbis that requires players to use knowledge gleaned from the books to be able to advance in the game…
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thestudygroups
Seemingly as a direct response to the Facebook flap, thestudygroups.com is a website that has popped up to allow students to share answers anonymously. It’s already picked up some press (GN) and I’m sure the same circles that were involved with the facebook story will pick it up soon as well. Now while I have…
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Student wins in Facebook flap
Well it seems that Chris Avenir has certainly got his moment in the lime light as he as won his case (GN). In the end he got zero on the assignments, but the other students were not similarly punished. Through the process, instructors have said that he should be kicked out. Students are saying (and…