למידה, אינטרנט ... ומה שביניהם

History classes aren't often as much fun as they could be.... An awful lot of history classes are the passive-learning model, where the professor dispenses and the students consume. It's an efficient model. There's no evidence that it actually results in learning.

It doesn't take the Internet to perpetrate a hoax, but it is always a good reminder that we must be careful and cautious and think carefully about the credibility of what we read.

Think of it this way. Suppose there was a community garden in town. A botany professor wanted to teach his students about the dangers of shoddy pest control. So he encouraged his students to plant a crop in the community garden and deliberately infect it with aphids. Sure enough, the other plots in the garden became infected too. Would that be OK?

This project is not about Wikipedia or even the potential fallibility of user-generated content. This project highlights the importance for everyone, even so-called experts, to be constantly vigilant about all information sources. Everyone who encounters information online should be aware that it can be easily created by anyone. ... Information is now validated at the point of consumption, not creation.

תוויות: אתיקה, ויקי, למידה

This is really a remarkable thing. We are now able to just post a picture of almost anything on the Internet and have someone tell us what it is! Think of the power that gives your students. Think of the way they must learn to interact with others in order to use this power most effectively. I think it is truly amazing.

At this point in the story I would love to say that someone had correctly identified my caterpillar end of story, but that is not the case. I think often times our students are just looking for the “right” answers as well. Whether they find it on Google, Wikipedia, or someone tells them the “right” answer, the end, and an easy one at that is their objective.... I realized that learning and research are like many things in life - processes not products.

There is so much disorder in the walls of my head that it will take a much more diligent person than I, to clear some space to simply sit and breath. Is this the future we are preparing our students for, a world where we are nothing more than overflowing cups of knowledge and information?

תוויות: כלים חברתיים, רשתות חברתיות, רשתיות

תוויות: הרהורים

אנשים מרבים לבלבל בין עובדות לאמיתות ולא בודקים מספיק לעומק את אמיתות העובדות

בעולם כזה, תלמידים כיצרני תוכן עלולים להיות מטעים במיוחד.

בית הספר המחנך לאמת אחת, לתשובה אחת נכונה עומד בניגוד גמור להטלת הספק ושאלת השאלות שהיא הבסיס לכל חשיבה ביקורתית.

The whole project looks wonderful, from the point of view both of a researcher and of someone who loves neutrality in educational resources. My compliments also to whoever designed the site and its software. It is remarkably well-laid-out.

Don’t be fooled by this site. I encourage librarians to use it in information literacy instruction as an example of a biased website. A website can have all of the features students are traditionally taught to look for to establish reliability and still be propaganda. This site is an example of why we need to go a little deeper in our teaching about how to evaluate websites and how to detect bias.

תוויות: אוריינויות, הרהורים, למידה

תוויות: כלי ווב 2.0, כלים חברתיים

Facts and ideas, in my experience, are more likely to sink in if introduced in group exercises, exploiting the adolescent urge to belong. Teachers have their classes organize book clubs, recreate the Constitutional Convention, raise animals, write and perform plays, publish online magazines.

תוויות: דיגיטאליות, מורים

... I think that “21st century skills” and “___ 2.0″ have essentially become meaningless.

When I talk about teaching with technology, I intend it to mean giving students access to tools and teaching them to find answers to tough problems that challenge them. I want kids to be able to think and act, construct, compute, solve, share, and more. There are nuances and details that paint the complete picture of what I think teaching and learning should look like in the 21st century. And sure, many of these are simply aspects of what a good education should have provided in any century.

תוויות: אוריינויות, טכנולוגיה, למידה, פני החינוך

We were essentially conducting an experiment to see how crowdsourcing might enhance the quality of the information we are able to provide our collections, while also finding innovative ways to get those collections out to people who might have an avid interest in them.

sparks creative interaction with collections

תוויות: כלים חברתיים, תיוג

DESPITE the enduring myth of the lone genius, innovation does not take place in isolation. Truly productive invention requires the meeting of minds from myriad perspectives, even if the innovators themselves don’t always realize it.

Brainstorming, Mr. Boyd says, is the most overused and underperforming tool in business today. Traditionally, brainstorming revolves around the false premise that to get good ideas, a group must generate a large list from which to cherry-pick. But researchers have shown repeatedly that individuals working alone generate more ideas than groups acting in concert.

Collaboration involves individuals contributing their unique perspectives, not a type of faceless mob with an identity all its own. The individual view of collaboration has always been an issue for me in using wikis. Wikis overwrite individual contributions....

The best innovations occur when you have networks of people with diverse backgrounds gathering around a problem.

תוויות: בלוגים, ויקי, חוכמת ההמון

Most kids carry a mobile phone with them that not only can receive text messages like the lifesaving one from Dr. Meirion to Dr. Nott. The devices kids carry increasingly are able to deliver messages, images, and the Web itself. We can save some minds in the young generation by transmitting the knowledge they need to learn so they can use it through their mobiles.

תוויות: סלולארי

It starts with loving and respecting your students, recognizing that they are very intelligent, important people who have a lot to share with you and the world, and thinking about how you can unleash that.... There's a big difference between treating them as empty heads that you're going to fill with information....

תוויות: הרהורים, טכנולוגיה, מורים

"Here we go," I thought, "someone else opining about the pleasures of doing a completely inane task and lamenting that if we don't teach students when to use a period, a comma, and italics in some insanely stupid format designed before computers by people who create rules that are almost impossible to follow correctly because the people who created the system don't understand grammar well enough to recognize the inconsistencies.

The point, to me, is that computers are good at doing the same thing over and over again and we're not. So if you can get the computer to put in the commas and italics, you should let it .... With the busywork removed you can now focus on stuff that actually requires thinking.

תוויות: טכנולוגיה

Will it, as hoped, invite in smart people with expertise but who may not be technophiles? Or will it just invite in a new level of pesty, obnoxious, nuisance-making users?

Social Scientist Alert: what is the relationship between credibility and technical ability in editing a Wikipedia entry?

תוויות: ויקי, טכנולוגיה, כלי ווב 2.0

A far better approach would be to teach children to think creatively so that they could learn to interpret and apply the knowledge available online. “Teachers are no longer the fountain of knowledge; the internet is,” Tapscott said. “Kids should learn about history to understand the world and why things are the way they are. But they don’t need to know all the dates. It is enough that they know about the Battle of Hastings, without having to memorise that it was in 1066. They can look that up and position it in history with a click on Google,” he said.

For the older generations who grew up having to memorize historical dates and mathematical formulas, the idea that memorization shouldn't be a part of the educational experience is somewhat shocking. Of course you need to know the exact year something happened...don't you?

תוויות: הרהורים, למידה