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Monday, December 30, 2013
Technology Generation Gap
One blog post per day. So I'll do this on Sunday - it happened on Saturday unless something more interesting happens on Sunday!
It's all about this comic that is found.
I checked it out. I first found it in "Pleated Jean, Funny Pic Dump 4.19.20" that noted it came from Mashable Comics and using a Google image search found it properly cited, but the link they had to http://mashable.com/2011/08/26/generation-gap-comic/http://mashable.com/2011/08/26/generation-gap-comic/ does not show the whole comic. I did my due diligence.
Here's the story:
When I went to Khan Academy (see yesterday's post), I saw this:
So I recognized Aleece Townsend (an old fish (for breeding) loving friend whomoved to Oregon a few years ago), but did not know who a Aakash Barot was. I click on Aakash Barot image and it took me to his fb page. I saw the above comic under photo.
Thus generation gap reminded me of a few wonderful few days I spent at Learning and the Brain conference, May of 2012 in Crystal City. At the cocktail hour at then end of the first day, I saw a keynoter Larry Rosen and introduced myself. He was speaking to Rey Junco, a presenter with research on the positive impact of twitter) at the cocktail hour. Dr Rosen's Keynote and his breakout sessions discussed how the various generations use the communication tools from telephone, to email, to texting, Twitter ... and how the number of years in a "generation" is getting smaller and smaller (per this cartoon. I read a few of Dr Rosen's posts and watched a few of his videos, time well spent . Then tweeted my adventure and left this comment on with the comic..
It's all about this comic that is found.
Here's the story:
When I went to Khan Academy (see yesterday's post), I saw this:
- Maureen Greenbaum Love it Tweeted:
From @aakashbarot FB, technology changes rapidly see @DrLarryRosen http://youtube.com/watch?v=qEMH0L… impacts # education pic.twitter.com/m2WXIaHZTd
Austin's butterfly - a lesson of how much people can accomplish and learn from feedback from peers
A couple of days ago I saw one of the several video of Ron Berger's
Oct 9, 2013 - Uploaded by Expeditionary Learning
Ron Berger from Expeditionary Learning <- a="" href="http://elschools.org/sites/default/files/design-principles.pdf" target="_blank"> see 10 Design Principle - 1 page pdfor this older version - http://vimeo.com/38247060 where I left a comment.
Though Austin is a first grader, Ron Berger's video reminds me of what
- Eric Mazur of Harvard is espousing with Peer Instruction
- Julie Schell,
who taught a great symposium on Flipping the Classroom and Peer Iinstruction to Union County College faculty and staff in October if 2012 in Elizabeth - Sugata Mitra is trying to get the world to see with SOLE, Self Organizing Learning Environments.
Get the student
excited about a meaningful project, give him feedback, let him correct
the mistakes and stand back and watch learning happen.
Per Miss Frizzle- Take chances, make mistakes, get messy!
After watching the video study the versions of Austin's butterfly drawing.
Learn more for 2 excellent blog posts:After watching the video study the versions of Austin's butterfly drawing.
1: headguruteacher post of Nov 5, 2013
Lessons from Berger: Austin’s Butterfly and not accepting mediocrity
which includes the Austin's Butterfly video
2: Larry Ferlazzo on Jan 27 2013 Do's and Don'ts for Better Project-Based Learning
includes the Austin's Butterfly video prefaced with this:• Do leave time for improvement: Although projects have clear starting and ending points, they don't always follow a straight line. Allow time in the messy middle for students to improve their work through iterative cycles of feedback and revision. It's one more way that projects mirror how work gets done outside of school. Make sure students know how to give and receive critical feedback. Encourage them to learn from setbacks and get back on track if their project takes a detour. Watch Ron Berger of Expeditionary Learning demonstrate the power of critique in this video, "Critique and Feedback: The Story of Austin's Butterfly:"
be sure to read the entire post.
Saturday, December 28, 2013
Khan Academy
End of year contributions (tax deductions and feel that you are contributing to tikkun olam.
Earlier in the year we supported wikipedia. Thinking about what (who) is making the kind of difference that we believe in, we decided to support Khan Academy.
Later in the day I went back to Khan Academy. I had used their Javascipt lesson with students for the Computer Science Education week's "Hour of Code". The students really liked it.
The KA home screen had a one minute video of Sal Khan introducing KA. When I clicked done it put me into the math series.
I took a few lessons in the sequence the software suggested and then quit for a while. When I signed on again and looked at my dashboard, I felt good about the progress I had made.
I was given a choice of direction. This is the way I believe learning MUST be. Great on positive reinforcement that progress is being made. Badges for each success and a dashboard here I see what I've mastered, what I am still working on and what I have left to conquer. No penalty for not knowing or making a mistake.
Earlier in the year we supported wikipedia. Thinking about what (who) is making the kind of difference that we believe in, we decided to support Khan Academy.
Later in the day I went back to Khan Academy. I had used their Javascipt lesson with students for the Computer Science Education week's "Hour of Code". The students really liked it.
The KA home screen had a one minute video of Sal Khan introducing KA. When I clicked done it put me into the math series.
I took a few lessons in the sequence the software suggested and then quit for a while. When I signed on again and looked at my dashboard, I felt good about the progress I had made.
I was given a choice of direction. This is the way I believe learning MUST be. Great on positive reinforcement that progress is being made. Badges for each success and a dashboard here I see what I've mastered, what I am still working on and what I have left to conquer. No penalty for not knowing or making a mistake.Friday, December 27, 2013
Linked In - Like any tool , knowing how to use it is the key
LinkedIn sent me an email that a former adjunct at UCC, Anita Rose, wanted to connect. I always check out the people who sent these invitations because I want to know the people I connect to either F2F or virtually, otherwise LinkedIn loses some of its value for everyone. My buddy, Stephen Nacco, had left one of the best recommendations for Anita that I had every read. That reminded me that I was going to leave recommendation for students over winter break.
Howard is on the Union County Foundation Board. He is looking for way to connect with Alums. I create a LinkedIn Group for UCC Professors. But there is none for UCC alums. But there is search and over 7500 LinkedIn profile say they are students or alums of UCC. WOW. This can be filtered by
A side diversion LinkedIn suggested a link to Karen Freidt. Her title., "Lead, NASA's Navigation Center for Creativity, Collaboration & Innovation" really exited me. So I broke my rule and sent a connect request. We share 1 connection, so it went through. I Googled her and found her Twitter
(followed her).
This led me to Karen's blog. It is full full of wonderful art and inspirational sayings.
And Karen's YouTube.
I shared all this with my wonderful daughter-in-law
Christine since she is my #1 artist.
Karen's tweet led me to Harvard Business Review blog post "What’s the Point of Creativity?" from Sept 1, which I diigo'ed under creativity.
Howard is on the Union County Foundation Board. He is looking for way to connect with Alums. I create a LinkedIn Group for UCC Professors. But there is none for UCC alums. But there is search and over 7500 LinkedIn profile say they are students or alums of UCC. WOW. This can be filtered by
- Where they live
- Where they work
- What they do
A side diversion LinkedIn suggested a link to Karen Freidt. Her title., "Lead, NASA's Navigation Center for Creativity, Collaboration & Innovation" really exited me. So I broke my rule and sent a connect request. We share 1 connection, so it went through. I Googled her and found her Twitter
(followed her).
And Karen's YouTube.
I shared all this with my wonderful daughter-in-law
Christine since she is my #1 artist.
Karen's tweet led me to Harvard Business Review blog post "What’s the Point of Creativity?" from Sept 1, which I diigo'ed under creativity.
I also did some personal learning on how to get the most out of LinkedIn:
- How LinkedIn Works from How Stuff Work - 10 pages
- Forbes March 2013 Mistakes You Should Never Make On LinkedIn (2 pages)
- How to Connect on LinkedIn — and how not to
Thursday, December 26, 2013
Starting what I hope is a habit - centralizing the logging of my my education learning adventures
I've had this blog for several years but never seem to have the time to make a post. I scatter my thoughts, posting on Twitter as @sumware, on scoop.it, posts to LinkedIn and comments on blogs, and I maintaining several boards on PInterest. I bookmark lots of pages on diigo and share with several groups (including groups where my students share). I am a slow writer (bad typist and worse speller).
It is time to have a focus and a place to consolidate my Internet adventures. So here is a "3 days before New Year's" Resolution. I'll try to keep this blog up to date. (and interesting and fun)
I've made a wiki for UCC faculty to share their thoughts (bit.ly/UCCFac), but so far it is just me. This morning I updated the conferences page. There are lots of teaching and technology session happening this summer. I really enjoy going to these conferences and talking to other educators and learning all sort of new things. I have already been accept to present at Third Annual Tri-State Best Practices Conference: Collaborations and Connections Hosted by Bergen Community College at the Meadowlands on March 1, 2014.I am on the program: Twitter Boosts Student Learning and Enables PLNs (Professional Learning Networks) for Professors. Susan Mettlen and have a hat in the ring for 94th AACC Convention, April 5-8, 2014, in Washington, D.C. and for NJCCC Best Prac on April 25 at Mercer County Community College.
Each term I make a wiki for each subject that I teach. Fall 2013 it was bit.ly/f13wiki for the CIS120 Internet class, what a fabulous group of students and bit.ly/F13CIS100. Please click and see. I am very proud of the work these students do.
This fall term it seems that I will be teaching 4 sections of CIS100, Introduction to Computer Applications (some Internet, Presentations with PowerPoint and Google Presentations, Spreadsheet, Excel and Google spreadsheet, Access and Word and Google Docs), in Plainfield provided enough students enroll! Each student is required to make a Google site as a e-portfolio. They can learn from each other because links to all the portfolios are on a pages of the class wiki (all students can and should be contributing - bit.ly/cis100s14.
So, as you can see, I am spread out. Perhaps this blog will help focus or perhaps I will make a new wiki or maybe just keep enhancing bit.ly/UCCFac.
It is time to have a focus and a place to consolidate my Internet adventures. So here is a "3 days before New Year's" Resolution. I'll try to keep this blog up to date. (and interesting and fun)
I've made a wiki for UCC faculty to share their thoughts (bit.ly/UCCFac), but so far it is just me. This morning I updated the conferences page. There are lots of teaching and technology session happening this summer. I really enjoy going to these conferences and talking to other educators and learning all sort of new things. I have already been accept to present at Third Annual Tri-State Best Practices Conference: Collaborations and Connections Hosted by Bergen Community College at the Meadowlands on March 1, 2014.I am on the program: Twitter Boosts Student Learning and Enables PLNs (Professional Learning Networks) for Professors. Susan Mettlen and have a hat in the ring for 94th AACC Convention, April 5-8, 2014, in Washington, D.C. and for NJCCC Best Prac on April 25 at Mercer County Community College.
Each term I make a wiki for each subject that I teach. Fall 2013 it was bit.ly/f13wiki for the CIS120 Internet class, what a fabulous group of students and bit.ly/F13CIS100. Please click and see. I am very proud of the work these students do.
This fall term it seems that I will be teaching 4 sections of CIS100, Introduction to Computer Applications (some Internet, Presentations with PowerPoint and Google Presentations, Spreadsheet, Excel and Google spreadsheet, Access and Word and Google Docs), in Plainfield provided enough students enroll! Each student is required to make a Google site as a e-portfolio. They can learn from each other because links to all the portfolios are on a pages of the class wiki (all students can and should be contributing - bit.ly/cis100s14.
So, as you can see, I am spread out. Perhaps this blog will help focus or perhaps I will make a new wiki or maybe just keep enhancing bit.ly/UCCFac.
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