One of my favourite parts of #etMOOC was our time exploring open learning. @cogdog (Alan Levine) collects stories of open learning and sharing here. It is a concept I am committed to, and my own personal stories of open sharing are dear to me.…
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Loading ...Thanks to a bit of extra free time over spring break, I finally had some time to read Daniel Pink’s Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, since I’ve been lately thinking about the sometimes tenuous relationship that faculty have with professional development (PD. The first half of the book focuses on the problems of motivation mainly from the perspective of the the business world, but it has clear applications to other fields, especially teaching (Pink offers suggestions for parents and educators later in the book). The book is fantastic, and Pink is able to articulate much of what most people know from intuition but don’t put to practice. I’ll briefly underscore only a few of Pink’s points that I found salient to me:
…Pink argues compellingly that now is the time for “motivation 3.0″, which is based on intrinsic nature in humans “to learn, to create, and to better the world” (225), to supplant reward vs. Continue reading
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...MOOCluhan: Using McLuhan to understand MOOCs — from computinged.wordpress.com by Mark Guzdial
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“Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn’t know the first thing about either.” — Marshall McLuhan
When I first heard this famous quote from McLuhan, I was insulted. Surely, McLuhan must not appreciate high-quality education, that he considers it no better than mass-market education! Now, I have a better appreciation for what that quote is saying, and I realize that what he’s saying is deep and important, and relates to what MOOCs are missing.…
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It’s not unusual for a science fiction television show to spin off a video game. What is unusual is linking the show and the game together on an ongoing basis, with plot elements and characters from each crossing over to the other.…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...All the posts, the tools and story starters this week have got me thinking about creativity; in fact in dialoging with Mary Lee Newmann on my last blog, I wrote in a comment, “I needed this lesson (all our discussion about digital story telling) to remind me how important it is to exercise our “creativity muscles”.…
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I finally had the chance to do some catching up in #etmooc and watch David Cormier’s session on rhizomatic learning. Lately I’ve also been doing a lot of reading on gamification and educational games, and it struck me that these are two completely opposing approaches to teaching.…
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I’ve been thinking about this “Choose your own adventure,” and “curating multiple paths to learning” that Ben Wilkoff suggests in his Learning is Change series. My response is this:
Choose A Motivating Environment #etmooc from Sheri Edwards on Vimeo.…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Reading John Gatto’s pioneering work Dumbing Us Down, and took to musing on one of the paragraphs, this one from Dan Greenberg, founder of Sudbury Valley School, who wanted to look at what students need from modern education in a modern economic, social and political landscape:
Children must grow up in an environment that stresses self-motivation and self-assessment.…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...I have always wanted to write one of these summaries for the selfish reason that I was certain that this is the best way to have a really good grasp of the width and depth of the conversation. 140-character, abbreviations-ridden tweets fired at an amazing speed always left me feeling somewhat slow.… Continue reading
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As cliche as it sounds and inaccurate as it feels in many a difficult moment, we can never out-give kids, never. I don’t regret any second of time I’ve spent over the past 11 years trying to help kids learn stuff. I regret a lot of other seconds, but not those [...]…
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