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Do Learners Really Know Best? Urban Legends in Education
This article takes a critical look at three pervasive urban legends in education about the nature of learners, learning, and teaching and looks at what educational and psychological research has to...
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Visions of Students Today
NLafferty's insight:Visions of Students Today - a project run by Michael Wesch at Kansas State UniversitySee it on Scoop.it, via eLearning, Medical Education and Other Snippets
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Content Curation Tools Buyer's Guide: 21 Criteria To Identify Your Ideal One
Nonetheless we are just at the beginning of a new era, in which content curation will be as important as search, there is already an apparent abundance of content curation tools of all...
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Visual Thinking for Teaching and Learning
Resources & References Planning Nancy Duart, Slideology Note taking Universal Design for Learning Example: Master notebook Teaching Nick Sousanis, PhD candidate Writing his dissertation in...
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Attention & students checking out of the flipped classroom
Following a couple of conversations with students over the past week and reading a few articles in Clinical Teacher and Medical Education I've been thinking about attention in l...NLafferty's...
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Why I Don't Like Scoopit Links on Twitter [+Scenttrail Comment]
I’m seeing more Scoopit links in my Twitter stream and I’m not crazy about it. Sure it’s quick and easy to share with Scoopit. But it not quick and easy to consume. For me it's all about the...
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Twitter and #MedEd Conference: Educational tool or a white noise ba...
CCME 2014 Presentation: Twitter and #MedEd Conference: Educational tool or a white noise background channel !?NLafferty's insight:Ali Jalali's presentation at CCME14 on the role of Twitter as an...
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Articulate Storyline
Getting started with Articulate StorylineNLafferty's insight:Very handy if you're using Articulate Storyline to create content.See it on Scoop.it, via eLearning, Medical Education and Other Snippets
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The Pen Is Mightier Than the Keyboard
NLafferty's insight:Interesting piece about the value of note taking in lectures.See it on Scoop.it, via eLearning, Medical Education and Other Snippets
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Personal Learning Networks, CoPs Connectivism: Creatively Explained
As part of a graduate course in Social Network Learning, I ask students to create a non-linguistical representation. Here is the description of this assignment: The intent of this module is to...
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Beyond institutions - personal learning in a networked world - by Stephen Downes
In this presentation I look at the needs and demands of people seeking learning with the models and designs offered by traditional institutions, and in the spi…NLafferty's insight:Lots of useful...
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Self-directed learning
Stephen D. Brookfield explores the notion of self-directed learning. He takes Knowles' (1975) influential definition as a starting point and then explores some of the problems surrounding the...
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The Flipped Classroom™ Is A Lie
“Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.”...
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Chart of the Week: The hype cycle of emerging technologies
The Gartner Hype Cycle tracks emerging technologies from the "peak of inflated expectations" to the "trough of disillusionment" and beyond.See it on Scoop.it, via eLearning, Medical Education and...
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Note-Taking Jujitsu, Or How I Make Sense Of What I Read
So notes are important, we get that. But how do we use them to their utmost? How do we even gather them together and store them? How do we use them for our writing, for our thinking? These are all...
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Why Evernote is Amazing · alicedaer · Storify
A collection of articles, blog posts, tutorials, and ideas for making Evernote your best friend ever.NLafferty's insight:Evernote is one of the tools I highlight the usefulness of to students. Great...
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E-learning: what is it good for?
NLafferty's insight:A helpful blog post from Clive Shepherd. eLearning has become a boring chore for many learners, with death by clicks. It seems increasingly that developing an elearning resource is...
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Disrupting the Disruption in Higher Education - SXSWedu 2015
For years, we've been told that the higher education system is broken and its demise is near. EdTech companies and startups have responded to this doomsday sce…See it on Scoop.it, via eLearning,...
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Critical Digital Pedagogy
The digital humanities is as much about reading humanities texts with digital tools as it is about using human tools to read digital text. We are better users …NLafferty's insight:Not sure critical...
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The Future of the University: Speculative Design for Innovation in Higher...
This essay proposes five models of innovation in higher education that expand our "Ideas of the University," envisioning educational start-ups in the spirit of entrepreneurial experimentation. The...
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ID and Other Reflections: Uberizing Organizational Learning – Thinking Beyond...
NLafferty's insight:In some senses this is already starting to happen and it's being driven by individuals at the grass roots engaging in learning networks and communities like #FOAMed. Not sure many...
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Next Generation Learning Analytics: Or, How Learning Analytics is Passé
'Learning Analytics,' as so many know it, is already passé. There is almost always a disconnect between research innovation and the popular imagination. By the time a new concept or approach...
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How Personal APIs Let Students Design Their University (EdSurge News)
I sat at a table with faculty, technologists, CIOs, startup founders and students, all gathered under one roof to tackle the question: How might we use application program interfaces (APIs) to empower...
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Documenting Learning
As I've discussed in numerous posts, I am an experiential educator. I believe in and promote learning-by-doing and hands-on learning. I approach experiential learning from a cycle of learning which...
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SOLO Taxonomy
NLafferty's insight:SOLO (Structure of the Observed Learning Outcome) Taxonomy outlining levels of understanding - helpful if you're implementing constructive alignment.See it on Scoop.it, via...
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Oculus Rift Gives Medical Students a Surgeon's Perspective
When Facebook announced its Oculus VR acquisition in March, Mark Zuckerberg said video games would be "just the start" for the company's virtual reality OcSee it on Scoop.it, via eLearning, Medical...
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Better Reading Through Annotating: An Anthropology Example
“This class would be a lot less fun without Hypothes.is” —–student comment about “A History of Anthropological Thought” At the recent conference for Mellon Digital Pedagogy grantees at Austin College,...
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20 ways to prepare yourself for modern workplace learning
Listed below (in the right hand column) are 20 things that you, as a learning professional, will need to have done PERSONALLY in order to be adequately prepared to support new approaches to...
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Data collected about student behaviour doesn't help improve teaching or learning
Schools and universities pump lots of time and money into collecting data on learning analytics, but there is no research to show that such data actually helps to improve learning outcomes.NLafferty's...
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Maker Education and Social-Emotional Development - User Generated Education...
"Maker education, when planned around skills acquisition, can enhance social-emotional development.Self-Awareness: Making in all its forms requires a full range of skills including cognitive, physical,...
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