October 2015 archive
K-12 Technology
A Digital Future: K-12 Technology by 2018
http://www.theedadvocate.org/a-digital-future-k-12-technology-by-2018/
The recently-released New Media Consortium Horizon Report details six up-and-coming technologies in the next five years for K-12 classrooms.
Horizon #1: In the next year, or less.
Mobile learning. Cloud computing.
Horizon #2: Within two to three years.
Learning analytics. Open content.
Horizon #3: Within four to five years.
3D printing. Virtual laboratories.
Presented on the NMC K-12 Horizon Report over the weekend at the Alliance for International Education Conference held at Yew Chung International School of Shanghai: http://www.slideshare.net/davidwdeeds/aie-2015-china-conference-using-the-nmc-k12-horizon-report
proctoring
How to Secure Your Online Testing
November 4th, 2015 | 02:00 PM EDT | 11:00 AM PDT
Please click the link below to attend.
http://event.on24.com/wcc/r/1062657/C2DA1A7D321C3D295D4AAE257CFCB844
@Software_Secure
@eCampusNews
#eCNWebinar
webinar proctoring certificate of attendance
it is a sale pitch for http://www.softwaresecure.com/product/remote-proctor-now/
http://www.softwaresecure.com/
used with BB, Sakai, Moodle as LMS
Is software installed on the student side to monitor all of their activities on the computer during the exam?
RPNow record’s the student’s desktop throughout the exam and reviewed by our proctors. There is also a lock-down capability to prevent access to 100s of applications that could be used to cheat.
difference between surveillance and monitoring
Generation Z bibliography
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2014/01/08/visit-to-mankato-cetl/
Additional bibliography:
http://generationz.com.au/education/
some of the changes in childhood environmental behaviours I explore children and parent relationships, in particular, the phenomena of ‘bubble‐wrapping’ children to appease the anxieties of some middle class parents.
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more on Generation Z in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/?s=generation+z&submit=Search
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2015/09/19/gen-z/
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2014/03/27/who-is-coming-to-college-after-the-millennials/
educause 2015
testing in schools
It is on its way out. But not exactly. Can it get more confusing as it is… Apparently, it can…
Obama Administration Calls for Limits on Testing in Schools
Obama Announces End Of ‘No Child Left Behind’ Era: Education Is More Than Tests
why did this administration had to continue the insanity called NCLB from the previous one [for two presidential mandates]?
Reforming No Child Left Behind
https://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/education/k-12/reforming-no-child-left-behind
One Step Closer to Life After No Child Left Behind
The new law—the Every Child Achieves Act—would give much of that decision-making power back to states. Instead of the feds, state-level officials would determine how to assess academic performance, what counts as a struggling school, and which mechanisms to use to hold educators accountable for achievement. No more top-down reforms. No more mandatory interventions. No more Washington, D.C., bureaucrats stepping on the toes of local policymakers and educators who are much more in tune with their communities’ needs.
Right? Of course not. There’s plenty of important nuance here, and the legislative tug-of-war is just getting started.
Eight problems with Common Core Standards
LMS and student learning
Techniques for Unleashing Student Work from Learning Management Systems
the fundamental problem is that learning management systems are ultimately about serving the needs of institutions, not individual students.
In his manifesto on Connectivism, George Siemens writes that in Connectivist learning environments, the “pipes” of a course are more important than what flows through those pipes. The networks that students build are durable structures of lifelong learning, and they are more important
by having students own their learning spaces and democratize the means of production. Rather than forcing students to log in to an institutional LMS, I asked them to create their own websites, blogs, Twitter accounts and spaces on the open Web. In these spaces, students could curate links and connections and share their evolving ideas. Whatever they create is owned and maintained by them, not by me or by Harvard. They can keep their content for three months, three years, or the rest of their lives, so long as they continue to curate and move their published content as platforms change.
so, it is back what i claimed at the turn of the century: LMS were claimed to be invented to make the instructor’s life “easier”: instead of learning HTML, use LMS. My argument was that by the time one learns the interface of WebCT, one can learn HTML and HTML will be remain for the rest of their professional life, whereas WebCT got replaced by D2L and D2L will be replaced by another interface. I was labeled as “D2L hater” for such an opinion.
Now to the argument that LMS was a waste of instructors’ time, is added the new argument that it is also a waste of students’ time.
The way that Connected Courses deal with this challenge is by aggregation, sometimes also called syndication. All of the content produced on student blogs, websites, Twitter accounts and other social media accounts is syndicated to a single website. On the Flow page, every piece of content created by students, myself and teaching staff was aggregated into one place. We also had Blog and Twitter Hubs that displayed only long-form writing from blogs or microposts from Twitter. A Spotlight page highlighted some of the best writings from students.
This online learning environment had three important advantages. First, students owned their means of production. They weren’t writing in discussion forums in order to get 2 points for posting to the weekly prompt. They wrote to communicate with audiences within the class and beyond. Second, everyone’s thinking could be found in the same place, by looking at hashtags and our syndication engines on t509massive.org. Finally, this design allows our learning to be permeable to the outside world. Students could write for audiences they cared about: fellow librarians or English teachers or education technologists working in developing countries. And as our networks grew, colleagues form outside our classroom could share with us, by posting links or thoughts to the #t509massive hashtag.
infographics for geography students
M W F at 9am in SH 303. My class is GEOG 361: Tourism Transportation. Instructor Stacey Olson
how/where can you find us: http://scsu.mn/TechInstruct
Consider requesting an instruciton session http://web.stcloudstate.edu/pmiltenoff/info/
Kahoot quiz at the end: https://kahoot.it/#/
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gpnBk57b8b5MDLAbSgklkRAS6pVM2qljW3v4qYr1wdM/edit?usp=sharing
http://bit.ly/inforgraphicCOLL150
Plan:
* why do I need to know this: it is a trending quick and effective way to visualize numbers (stats)
* what is my assignment: create a MEANINGFUL infographic
* how I will be evaluated: assess the infographic and your strategy to make it public
– why infographics matter. Why is it more then just another alternative to PowerPoint
– what is an infographic: a portmanteau of information + graphic
– what are the cloud-based tools: Pictochart, Easilly and Infogram
– why are stats so important for infographics
– where are the stats to be found for the infographics
– how much stats and math needs one to know, to create a meaningful infographic
– how can infographics be promoted effectively, inexpensively and quickly
digital story telling bibliography
https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=cIx4CAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA429&dq=digital+storytelling+across+the+curriculum&ots=KpqFoWGQmm&sig=ZQJZkqfn_uE-2L4tqpBmVEiafXo#v=onepage&q=digital%20storytelling%20across%20the%20curriculum&f=false
Sessoms, D. (2008). DIGITAL STORYTELLING: Training Pre-service Teachers to Use Digital Storytelling Across the Curriculum. In K. McFerrin, R. Weber, R. Carlsen & D. Willis (Eds.), Proceedings of Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2008 (pp. 958-960). Chesapeake, VA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). http://www.editlib.org/p/27300/
Yuksel, P., Robin, B. & McNeil, S. (2011). Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling all around the World. In M. Koehler & P. Mishra (Eds.), Proceedings of Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2011 (pp. 1264-1271). Chesapeake, VA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). http://www.editlib.org/p/36461/
redesigns of large introductory courses
How-To Redesign Webinars: November and December of 2015
Each hour-long webinar will introduce one of NCAT’s recently published how-to guides followed by a case study of a highly successful course redesign. After a presentation, the lead faculty member will be available to answer questions and provide additional specifics about the redesign. The following topics and speakers are planned:
- November 10, 2015 at 1 pm EST: How To Redesign A College-Level or Developmental Math Course Using the Emporium Model. This seminar will showcase NCAT’s guide to redesigning a single math course using the Emporium Model and will include a case study of Louisiana State University’s redesign of College Algebra presented by Phoebe Rouse.
- December 8, 2015 at 1 pm EST: How To Redesign A Developmental Math Program Using the Emporium Model. This seminar will showcase NCAT’s guide to redesigning a developmental math program using the Emporium Model and will include a case study of Leeward Community College’s redesign of its four-course developmental math sequence presented by Eric Matsuoka.
You must register for each webinar, but there is no registration fee. Go to http://thencat.org/Webinars/2015Webinars.html to register for one or more of these webinars.
Videos of Prior Webinars
Videos of the following prior webinars may be accessed at http://www.theNCAT.org/Webinars/Webinars.html.
- Redesigning American History and European History at SUNY Potsdam
- Redesigning College Algebra at the University of Central Florida and the University of Missouri-St. Louis
- Redesigning Computing and Information Literacy at Arizona State University
- Redesigning developmental math at Cleveland State Community College, Chattanooga State Community College, Manchester Community College and Northwest-Shoals Community College
- Redesigning developmental math and English at Austin Peay State University
- Redesigning developmental reading at Northeast State Technical Community College
- Redesigning The Economic System at Buffalo State University
- Redesigning General Biology at Fairfield University
- Redesigning General Psychology at Frostburg State University and the University of New Mexico
- Redesigning Principles of Chemistry at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore
- Redesigning Science: Biology and Chemistry
- Redesigning statistics at Niagara County Community College
- Redesigning Women in Society at Arizona State University
- Getting Started on Course Redesign: examples of how redesign efforts began at both four- and two-year institutions