למידה, אינטרנט ... ומה שביניהם

תוויות: בלוגים, הרהורים, כלים חברתיים

There are so many new ways to tell stories. Are we as teachers teaching kids ONLY to read and write and is that enough?

התלמיד יכתוב תוך שימוש במגוון ייצוגים, וישלב בעת הצורך צלמיות, טבלאות, תרשימים, תמונות, קול ותנועה לצד הטקסט האלפא-ביתי.

תוויות: אוריינויות, כתיבה

המחשבה שניתן לשלוט באינטרנט מלמעלה, קרי מרמת המנהלים, כבר מזמן אינה מציאותית. העובדים בארגונים והלקוחות הם אלה שישפיעו.

בישראל יש כ-250 אלף בלוגים, וכ-200 אלף תגובות בפורומים ובאתרים נכתבות מדי יום, אבל הכלכלנים יודעים כי יש לשפוט טכנולוגיה רק במונחי היכולת שלה להציג גידול ברווחיות. לווב 2.0, כך נדמה, אין בשורה בעניין זה, לפחות לא מיידית.

זו תופעה מורכבת שאין כלים להבין אותה. איך מודדים את חלקם של הבלוגרים בתל"ג? איך בודקים שליטה, מטרה, תועלת, תרומה לחברה, עלות שולית? הכלכלה של הבלוגרים אינה מדידה, ומבחינה ניהולית אין כלים להתמודד ולנהל את זה כמערכת מידע, ולכן מדובר בסיוט.

תוויות: כלים חברתיים, שימוש בבתי ספר

This year, I want my personal voice to be present in the community. I will, of course, continue to be present as Mr.Glogowski, the grade eight Language Arts teacher. I will be present in my didactic and supportive role of an educator, of a classroom teacher who guides and explains. At the same time, I want to be present as Konrad Glogowski, the human being who has his own interests and views. I want to be present as an individual, not an individual reduced to one role.

My own blog in our class blogosphere has always been used to post updates, assignments, commentary on student work, and words of encouragement. For years, it was called “The Language Arts Blog,” or “Mr. Glogowski’s Blog” or something equally official and unimaginative. The name of my blog has always reflected my one-dimensional presence in the community - the voice of a teacher.

This year, I want to move beyond blogging only about course-related topics. I want my students to see what I am interested in, what makes me mad, what fascinates me, what I write like when I write as someone other than Mr.Glogowski, the Language Arts teacher. In short, I want to be myself and am beginning to take small steps towards this goal.

If education is essentially a social process, then the teacher needs to be part of the learning community, not only as its facilitator but also as one of its members.

תוויות: בלוגים, שימוש בבתי ספר

תוויות: המלצות, כלים חברתיים, רשתות חברתיות

Effective Sept. 19, we are ending TimesSelect. All of our online readers will now be able to read Times columnists, access our archives back to 1987 and enjoy many other TimesSelect features that have been added over the last two years – free.

Since we launched TimesSelect in 2005, the online landscape has altered significantly. Readers increasingly find news through search, as well as through social networks, blogs and other online sources. In light of this shift, we believe offering unfettered access to New York Times reporting and analysis best serves the interest of our readers, our brand and the long-term vitality of our journalism. We encourage everyone to read our news and opinion – as well as share it, link to it and comment on it.

NBC’s move comes as companies throughout the television business search for new economic models in the face of enormous changes in the business. Networks continue to lose audience share, and viewers — especially many of the highly prized viewers under 30 years old — are increasingly demanding control of their program choices, insisting on being able to watch shows when, where and how they want.

תוויות: הרהורים, מידענות

Wired has created a fairly simple resource: How To Wikis covering subjects such as making youtube videos, using flickr, explaining DRM, etc. I'm starting to question the usefulness of resources like this. Five minutes with a good search engine will provide the same information, but with better context specific information for the searcher. Part of the same reason I'm questioning wikipedia as a concept - it is quite simple for anyone with marginal competence with online search/databases/Google Scholar to find what is needed. What is the value of aggregation completed on behalf of many people, rather than based on needs of one person? Not much value anymore.

For instance, most of the technical or scientific information that is in the Wikipedia was already on the Web before the Wikipedia was started. You could always use Google or other search services to find information about items that are now wikified. In some cases I have noticed specific texts get cloned from original sites at universities or labs onto wiki pages. And when that happens, each text loses part of its value.

When you see the context in which something was written and you know who the author was beyond just a name, you learn so much more than when you find the same text placed in the anonymous, faux-authoritative, anti-contextual brew of the Wikipedia. The question isn't just one of authentication and accountability, though those are important, but something more subtle. A voice should be sensed as a whole. You have to have a chance to sense personality in order for language to have its full meaning. Personal Web pages do that, as do journals and books.

תוויות: הרהורים, חוכמת ההמון

תוויות: כלים חברתיים, כתיבה

It’s the ability to more efficiently generate, self-publish, and find information, plus share expertise in a way that’s so much easier and cheaper than earlier knowledge management attempts.

Web 2.0 tools have almost certainly already entered your organization under the radar through unsanctioned employee usage. This raises the stakes and criticality of taking action sooner rather than later.

It's clear that enterprises, or to be more exact IT decision-makers, still fear web 2.0. Yet they also see the value in it. So their natural inclination is to control the situation - only allow sanctioned web software in and enforce policies that limit use of web 2.0 technologies. That way, IT decision-makers reason, the company still gets the benefits of web 2.0 - but without the risks.

Yet web 2.0 is all about open-ness and collaboration. ... The real reason why IT fears web 2.0 ... is that it upsets the historical need for control and power in IT departments. The ... reason web 2.0 is finding it difficult to penetrate the enterprise is not that IT can't see the value in it, but that they fear it may erode their control and power.

תוויות: כלים חברתיים, שימוש בבתי ספר

בשלב הכתיבה (שלב א') איננו זקוקים לקהל. אני חושבת שכמבוגרים המוטיבציה שלנו לכתיבה היא צורך לנהל דיאלוג פנימי (בדרך כלל בעקבות קריאה?). אולי אנחנו יכולים לדמות ולהכיל איזה קהל פנימי (עידו הרטוגזון מספר שכרמל וייסמן אמרה לו את המשפט הבא: כשאני כותבת בלוג זה לא כמו לכתוב מאמר...זה כמו לספר משהו לחברה שלי. תנסה לכתוב כאילו אתה מסביר לחבר שלך משהו).

בשלב ב', אחרי שהפוסט עלה לאוויר, אנחנו חפצים בקהל כלומר בתגובות. אבל קיומן או אי קיומן לא ימנע מאיתנו להמשיך לכתוב (קצת בדומה ליוצר גרפיטי שאינו יודע מי עובר ליד יצירותיו מהרגע בו צויירו על הקיר ואינו שומע תשואות או שריקות בוז). לדידי, דימוי הבמה מקפל בתוכו מידה של העמדת פנים, או של איזה show מיטבי (הצגת בכורה).

אני חושבת שהבלוג חושף אותי יותר משהוא מסתיר ומרבית הפוסטים אכן קרובים יותר ל"משטר של חזרות" וחסרים את הניסוח המושלם.

Way back in the days of typewriters, it made sense to have a piece well-written and perfected before beginning the arduous process of typing, page by page. Fortunately, I don’t remember those days, but I’ve heard stories. Now, typing a document initially should be both natural and expected. So many great tools for electronic collaboration also exist, making peer and teacher review of student work easy and seamless (and reducing time wasted on bad handwriting). These tools don’t work, by the way, on handwritten pages, whether lines are skipped or not.

תוויות: בלוגים, העתקה-הדבקה, הרהורים

So the question is, why take pictures of places that you visit that probably aren’t going to be as good as the photos that others have already taken that are already available for you to use in your own albums, slide shows, whatever? I mean, unless you want to organize the wife and kids in front of the spot just to prove you’ve been there, what’s the point?

The best way to learn is to do it yourself. Take the pictures, then use Flickr to find better ones and ask yourself, “Why are these better”. Once you know why, try to utilize those concepts the next time.

תוויות: בלוגים, הרהורים, כתיבה

IT (Instructional Technology) is indispensable to most educational institutions. Its development and enhancement are crucial to the institution. But does improving IT improve “digital learning”? Sometimes. Not always. Maybe not even often. The reason is that IT is usually institutionalized from the top down whereas digital learning is shared, contributory, collective, collaborative, customizable.

In digital media and learning, the outcomes are less clear, the teachers have less of a determining role, and technology isn’t something delivered to others but is intrinsic to the larger learning project. Its building and application are part of the collective learning experience.

תוויות: הוראה, שימוש בבתי ספר

Are academic sources becoming irrelevant? Do younger engineers have the same tendency to publish white papers and journal articles as their older brethren?

Are professional blogs and wikis where one finds leading edge information on new research?

תוויות: מידענות

דוגמה לשימוש לא נבון היא האופן בו משמשים מאגרי לימוד לצורך כתיבת עבודה. התלמיד סורק כמה מקורות וכותב חיבור מסכם לפיהם.

בפועל, תהליך זה מסתכם ברוב המקרים בפיתוח מיומנויות copy & paste ללא תהליך משמעותי של לימוד.

על מנת שלמידה מסוג זה תיצור גישה אקטיבית לאינטרנט ותאפשר התפתחות עצמית של הילד על ההורה והמחנך להשקיע בפיתוח יכולתו של הילד:

1. לאתר את מקורות המידע המהימנים.
2. ללמדם להתייחס לחומר מתוך חשיבה ביקורתית.
3. ליצור אינטגרציה בין חומרים שונים היוצרת הבנה חדשה אצל התלמיד.

כל אחת מיכולות אלה דורשת כמובן עבודת תשתית רבה.

במקום לפתח חשיבה יצירתית, הילד רוכש חשיבה ממסגרת ומגבילה. הסוציאליזציה יוצרת חסמים פסיכולוגים מפני הבעת עמדה עצמאית.

חסמים אלה מוטמעים לתוך תפיסתו העצמית של הילד, ההופך למבוגר בעל תחושה של חוסר לגיטימיות להבעת האינדיבידואליות שלו.

תוויות: העתקה-הדבקה, שימוש בבתי ספר

Schools should pay attention to Keen's claims and discuss whether policies should be adjusted to meet some of his concerns. In recent discussions with several schools about Wikipedia and its suitability as a source for student research, I learned that these schools had created no policy governing this issue and each teacher was acting independently, with some taking quite a strong stance against Wikipedia while others were more permissive, suggesting that students might use it as a starting place for a project. The more we looked at some of the controversy swirling around Wikipedia, the more the staffs of these schools seemed intent on creating a policy.

תוויות: הרהורים, חוכמת ההמון, רשתות חברתיות

As some of us encourage educators to dive into social networking, it behooves us to explicitly acknowledge the challenges of time management, multiple network management, etc. It’s not all glam and glitz.

תוויות: הרהורים, רשתות חברתיות

Dentists, doctors and other professionals asleep for 100 years would awake ... to a world where they would not recognize their jobs, much less perform them. But in education, a teacher could walk into a classroom after a century and get busy.

Auto workers, engineers and film-makers asleep for 100 years would awake today to a world where they could not recognize their jobs - now done extensively by or through robots or computers - and yet in child care, a parent from a century ago could still walk right into a nursery today and change a diaper and feed a baby - - And soooo... therefore... human babies should be fed and cared for by computerized robots...

... things like electricity, school buses, indoor plumbing, and even textbooks would all have been considered new technology - if they were available at all. Teachers had to defend teaching impractical skills, like reading and writing, to a generation of children of illiterate parents. A contemporary teacher would be as flummoxed - and stymied - by the attitudes and expectations of Victorian society. Free public schooling was a brand new idea and innovations like subject-based teaching had just been introduced. Don't believe people who say schooling has never changed - it has changed more fundamentally than almost every other discipline.

תוויות: הרהורים