Digital Literacy for St. Cloud State University
SCSU MediaSpace (AKA Kaltura) versus MnSCU MediaSpace
per Greg Jorgensen (gsjorgensen@stcloudstate.edu, MC 118-5, 8-48040), if you house your media (audio, video) materials on the
MnSCU MediaSpace – https://idpstarid.mnscu.edu/idp/Authn/UserPassword
you can now consider
SCSU MediaSpace – https://scsu.mediaspace.kaltura.com/
What is the difference?
For more information on how to use MediaSpace in your courses, please contact us.
Also as a LinkedIn discussion: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/4249252/4249252-6101373957234049029
the main value of project-based learning is that it teaches students to ask the right questions. Traditional assignments predefine the information that the students will use. Project-based learning puts students into the position of having to determine what information they need by asking the right questions.
The online environment proves yet another benefit in that it allows for the possibility of creating public results, such as a blog or Wikipedia article. You can also create a class wiki to host the projects. Students are far more invested in work that will be seen by many others than they are in the traditional assignment that is seen by nobody other than the teacher.
Finally, project-based learning constitutes a kind of gamification of learning, and thus has the same benefits that are driving the gamification of education movement. Games allow for short-term failure on the way to a goal without long-term cost, multiple paths to success, and just-in-time information within context of a goal (Gee, 2003; Kiang, 2014).
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Training teachers in how to design their courses is key to re-engaging individual students and holding back the tide of dropouts.
http://www.hypergridbusiness.com/2015/01/virtual-reality-breathes-life-into-immersive-storytelling/
Project Syria, a virtual reality experience built by a team of students at USC.
“I sometimes call virtual reality an empathy generator,” she says. “It’s astonishing to me. People all of a sudden connect to the characters in a way that they don’t when they’ve read about it in the newspaper or watched it on TV.”
What Peña’s doing — using virtual reality in combination with reporting — is part of a wider landscape of video games being created to explore the news. And they’re called, appropriately enough, “newsgames.”
“There’s an argument to be made that games are perfect at getting at the systemic problems and challenges in the world,” says Ian Bogost, a professor at Georgia Tech.
He says games are really good at showing the complex underbelly of stories.
Take a game that he helped make called Oil God. In the game, the player controls an oil-rich region, waging wars and inciting coupes. The player learns that oil prices are contingent on all sorts of factors rarely mentioned in a story about the price of a gallon of gas.
creating games to bring awareness to social issues for over a decade. The game to create the biggest waves was arguably MTV’s “Darfur is Dying” released online in 2006, in which players took up the role of a family displaced by conflict in Darfur.
It is on its way out. But not exactly. Can it get more confusing as it is… Apparently, it can…
why did this administration had to continue the insanity called NCLB from the previous one [for two presidential mandates]?
https://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/education/k-12/reforming-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.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/06/opinion/david-brooks-the-big-university.html
for the past many decades colleges narrowed down to focus on professional academic disciplines, but now there are a series of forces leading them to widen out so that they leave a mark on the full human being.
http://blog.cengage.com/students-top-strategies-for-avoiding-plagiarism/
more on plagiarism in this blog:
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/?s=plagiarism&submit=Search
1. Be confident in your own skill and originality!
2. Take care when quoting or paraphrasing others’ ideas.
3. Ask for assistance.
4. Check and re-check your work.