למידה, אינטרנט ... ומה שביניהם

College 005 is meant to test students' basic skills in technology and researching skills to help with academic coursework. The College encourages students to complete it their first year.

תוויות: אוריינויות, אתיקה

The best way to avoid plagiarism is to avoid reading anything written by somebody else.

Unfortunately, this is not really what higher education is supposed to be about.

תוויות: העתקה-הדבקה

The time it takes to craft sharp, witty blog prose is better spent expressing yourself on Flickr, Facebook, or Twitter.

Social multimedia sites like YouTube, Flickr, and Facebook have since made publishing pics and video as easy as typing text. Easier, if you consider the time most bloggers spend fretting over their words.

תוויות: בלוגים

Or it could be that teachers need to reconsider whether the “classic” term paper is still a valuable learning experience in a time when finding one is just a Google away.

I know why students don't understand thesis statements, argumentative writing, or proper citations.

It's because students have never read term papers.

תוויות: בלוגים, כתיבה

If you want to try to skinny it out, you cut expenses to the bone - like marketing, promotions, and staff. You put new features on hold and try to make money on what you’ve already got. And of interest to educators ... you cut your support to areas least likely to make money, particularly small niche markets like schools.

The equivalent photos of today's economic hard times -- displayed for free, of course, on Flickr -- may be represented by images of unemployed people in front of their computers cheerfully donating their labor to Wikipedia.

Hundreds of thousands, and perhaps millions, of newly redundant Americans will have nothing to do all day except contribute to wikis or become citizen journalists or "work" on their Facebook or MySpace pages.

The altruistic ideal of giving away one's labor for free appeared credible in the fat summer of the Web 2.0 boom when social-media startups hung from trees, Facebook was valued at $15 billion, and VCs queued up to fund revenue-less "businesses" like Twitter. But as we contemplate the world post-bailout, when economic reality once again bites, only Silicon Valley’s wealthiest technologists can even consider the luxury of donating their labor to the latest fashionable, online, open-source project.

For all of us, there comes a time on any given day, week, and month, every year and in different degrees over our lifetimes, when we choose to act in some way that is oriented toward fulfilling our social and psychological needs, not our market-exchangeable needs. It is that part of our lives and our motivational structure that social production taps, and on which it thrives. There is nothing mysterious about this. It is evident to any of us who rush home to our family or to a restaurant or bar with friends at the end of a workday, rather than staying on for another hour of overtime or to increase our billable hours; or at least regret it when we cannot.

תוויות: הרהורים, טכנולוגיה

To pass this test, no knowledge of the arts is necessary (not even a nodding familiarity with a few of the greatest works of English literature), no demonstration of mathematical learning other than plain arithmetic is required (forget algebra, geometry, or trigonometry), nothing beyond a familiarity with the highlights of American history is needed (never mind the fundamentals of world history, as this exam scarcely acknowledges that any country other than the USA even exists), no questions about the history, structure, or function of the United States government are asked (not even the standard "Name the three branches of our federal government"), science is given a pass except for a few questions about geography and the rudiments of human anatomy, and no competence in any foreign language (living or dead) is necessary.

תוויות: אוריינויות, למידה

תוויות: בלוגים, הרהורים

Filtering isn't everything it's cracked up to be, though, and you wouldn't want to live in a fully filtered world all the time.

The less limited the boundaries of your scope of view are, the more likely you may be to find things you didn't even think to look for.

תוויות: הרהורים, למידה, פני החינוך

Study: Google does a brain good

Members of the technologically advanced group had more than twice the neural activation than their less experienced counterparts while searching online. Activity occurred in the region of the brain that controls decision-making and complex reasoning ....

that when we get good at some activity, our brains will react differently compared to people who aren’t good at it

Can't say I quite follow the leap to Google and online searching being good for our brains. I'm sure many educators (parents) wish it to be true: "Look, little Johnny is searching on Google. He's getting to be so smart".

I can’t help but get a little annoyed when studies that purport to show something end up showing us basically nothing.

תוויות: הרהורים, חיפוש

she was only after a sliver of notoriety, the product of a culture where pornography has gone mainstream and fame can be had in an instant by simply distributing a sexually explicit video with a cell phone or on the Internet.

Everybody feels that the most important thing is to get your 15 minutes of fame and to go to any lengths to achieve it. So sending pictures around like that is a way of getting a whole lot of attention and recognition even though it's going to be devastating and short-lived.

These days, children are highly scheduled and highly supervised. Being under constant surveillance, the only way they can get any semblance or privacy is by going online to chat to their friends, which is quite a paradox if you think about it.

There is, quite rightly, a lot of emphasis on telling young people how to behave online, and how to keep themselves safe. But I have not seen any guidance about how to have a normal relationship, and I haven't seen any guidance for adults either. For young people, the emphasis is always on how to keep safe; for adults, it's always on how to keep safe in a legal sense.

תוויות: אתיקה, גלישה בטוחה

will lead to ways to define and measure students' knowledge and skills in understanding important technological tools....

Technology is changing and moving very fast, so accurate evaluation of student achievement in this area is essential.

תוויות: אוריינויות, הערכה, טכנולוגיה

I know it’s not a good thing to cheat. It’s like academic dishonesty, blah, blah, blah. But, you know, everyone, I think everyone, has at least done it once.

It's silly to consider that "cheating," he believes. "We're gradually waking up to the fact that in real life, it is all about working together," he says.

What's the point of cheating on something you want to do?

תוויות: העתקה-הדבקה

Students come into the edublogosphere and then they leave it just as quickly.

So do students belong in the teacher eat teacher world of the edublogosphere? Can you really trust us to care for long enough?

תוויות: הרהורים, מורים

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