Digital Literacy for St. Cloud State University
Students say invest in support for online faculty(!!!). https://t.co/pteVlpIsoz
— Michelle Pacansky-Brock (@brocansky) December 21, 2018
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more on online learning in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=online+learning
Could the forces that fought the Common Core bring down personalized learning? https://t.co/9ZrjwSw0M5 @DianeRavitch @carolburris @AnthonyCody @leoniehaimson @ECEPolicyWorks @ProfessorJVH @BadassTeachersA @marla_kilfoyle @ProfessorJVH @YohuruWilliams
— Network4PublicEd (@Network4pubEd) December 21, 2018
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more on personalized learning in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=personalized+learning
When a special education teacher and a regular classroom teacher are teamed in the classroom, they can multiply each other’s strengths. Here’s a look at a successful co-teaching partnership: https://t.co/iJgP8g2N0y #speced #coteaching pic.twitter.com/RHnfByjsfL
— Education Week (@educationweek) December 15, 2018
NICHOLAS THOMPSON AND Issy Lapowsky 12.17.18
https://www.wired.com/story/russia-ira-propaganda-senate-report/
THERE’S A MEME on Instagram, circulated by a group called “Born Liberal.” “Born Liberal” was a creation of the Internet Research Agency, the Russian propaganda wing
Conversations around the IRA’s operations traditionally have focused on Facebook and Twitter, but like any hip millennial, the IRA was actually most obsessive about Instagram.
the IRA deployed 3,841 accounts, including several personas that “regularly played hashtag games.” That approach paid off; 1.4 million people engaged with the tweets, leading to nearly 73 million engagements. Most of this work was focused on news, while on Facebook and Instagram, the Russians prioritized “deeper relationships,” according to the researchers. On Facebook, the IRA notched a total of 3.3 million page followers, who engaged with their politically divisive content 76.5 million times. Russia’s most popular pages targeted the right wing and the black community. The trolls also knew their audiences; they deployed Pepe memes at pages intended for right-leaning millennials, but kept them away from posts directed at older conservative Facebook users. Not every attempt was a hit; while 33 of the 81 IRA Facebook pages had over 1,000 followers, dozens had none at all.
The report also points out new links between the IRA’s pages and Wikileaks, which helped disseminate hacked emails from Clinton campaign manager John Podesta
Russian presence unrelated to the relatively small ad spend that Facebook executives pointed to as the story first unfolded, in what the report authors describe as an attempt to downplay the problem.
“While many people think of memes as “cat pictures with words,” the Defense Department and DARPA have studied them for years as a powerful tool of cultural influence, capable of reinforcing or even changing values and behavior.
“over the past five years, disinformation has evolved from a nuisance into high-stakes information war.” And yet, rather than fighting back effectively, Americans are battling each other over what to do about it.
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memetic warfare:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memetic_warfare
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A year after the Meme Warfare Center proposal was published, DARPA, the Pentagon agency that develops new military technology, commissioned a four-year study of memetics. The research was led by Dr. Robert Finkelstein, founder of the Robotic Technology Institute, and an academic with a background in physics and cybernetics.
Finkelstein’s study of “Military Memetics” centered on a basic problem in the field, determining “whether memetics can be established as a science with the ability to explain and predict phenomena.” It still had to be proved, in other words, that memes were actual components of reality and not just a nifty concept with great marketing.
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more on social media in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=social+media
https://www.socialeurope.eu/a-cautionary-tale-to-be-had-from-swedish-school-reforms
One of the issues dividing the two main parliamentary blocs is whether there should be a cap on profit margins for publicly funded private schools.
The Swedish school system has received considerable international attention in recent years due to alarming test scores in the OECD’s international PISA study
Segregation is one of the most serious social problems facing Sweden and many other wealthy nations.
A recent report (the English title would be “A Nation Divided – School Choice and Segregation in Sweden”) that I have co-authored for the Stockholm based think tank Arena Idé shows that well-educated and Swedish-born families increasingly opt out of schools where the children have parents with lower educational attainments and an immigrant background. We also show that this “white flight” in Swedish municipalities throughout the country is increased by school choice and other reforms introduced in the early 1990s, whereby publicly financed private schools are allowed to compete with municipal schools for school vouchers allotted to each individual student.
The results in our study should be viewed in light of two recent reports: one from the OECDand another from UNICEF, both highlighting the inequality in the Swedish school system.
The results make it painfully clear that the Swedish school system effectively works against the very idea that schools should level the playing field for students from all backgrounds and give every child equal opportunity. Even after the rise of right-wing populism in Sweden, our established political parties have proven themselves unable, or unwilling, to rein in the highly unregulated Swedish school market.
Sweden: Market-based Education Produces Poor Results, Segregation https://t.co/YcAYe4sDe4
— Diane Ravitch (@DianeRavitch) December 7, 2018
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more on educational systems
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=educational+system
Mental health days are just as important as sick days. https://t.co/rjHs6S9euQ #mentalhealth #mentalhealthday #MentalHealthAwareness #TeacherLife
— WeAreTeachers (@WeAreTeachers) December 7, 2018
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More on contemplative practices in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=contemplative
meditation and education
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=meditation+education
mindfulness
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=mindful
Why is it so hard to figure out how many special education teachers are employed in each state? Because the employment figures that states submit to the federal government are sometimes wildly wrong. https://t.co/4eA9z2MNZu #speced pic.twitter.com/tKXhYCShN6
— Education Week (@educationweek) December 6, 2018
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More on SPED in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=special+education
Troy Shafer’s Health class.
Steps to promote your own brand versus using generic visuals:
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2015/10/21/handout-videos-on-mobile-devices/
Here is more information on apps and video tips for video editing using mobile devices:
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2014/06/19/how-to-use-the-free-youtube-video-editor/
more information on video recording and editing tools
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2016/12/21/tools-video-creation/ (for Android devices)
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more info for Health classes:
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2015/02/18/digital-literacy-instruction-for-scsu-health-class/
Short link to this blog entry: http://bit.ly/SCSUchem491
Syllabus Dr. Kannan Sivaprakasam