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It’s bad. It’s good. It depends….
Not too long ago we were asked to worry if Google was making us stupid. Too much scanning, too little substance; hyperactive, multi-tasking minds that have lost the ability for deep reading and thinking. Yes, I have days like that, but honestly, I think it started long before Google and Web 2.0. Nevertheless, point taken.
Now [...]
Wading into the Stream
I joined the Connectivism and Connective Knowledge course, described as a “rather large open online course” with hundreds of participants worldwide. I had the intention of actively participating, but soon became overwhelmed, downgrading myself to lurking and snatching a few tidbits from their daily newsletter. This reminded me of a post on Zen Habits [...]
Did you REALLY write this?
Our college recently purchased access to Turnitin, one of the more widely used plagiarism detection tools. I have used it in one class, but gave it a pass in another. While I have seen some glaring examples of plagiarism in my classes, I am still conflicted about the Turnitin process.
On one hand, using another person’s [...]
New literacy/Old literacy
In my last post on alleged generational differences, I concluded by saying we as educators should pay less attention to generations and more attention to both traditional and digital literacy. A recent article in The Chronicle of Higher Education resonated with me, and seems to reinforce this approach. We can not turn back the clock [...]
Generational Nuances
I am alternately fascinated and frustrated by the whole “digital native/digital immigrant,” Net-Gen discussion. Prensky is probably the most well-known proponent of this digital generation idea, suggesting that “today’s students think and process information fundamentally differently than their predecessors.” New books continue the emerge, and I dare say we have all sat through many [...]
The Screen is Flat Resources
MERLOT has hundreds of links and references for learning materials, so we are adding just a few links to papers and studies that we have read and pondered over the past couple of years. Please add any that you would like to share.
References for The Screen is Flat: MERLOT
CRL Information Literacy:
http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlstandards/informationliteracycompetency.cfm
Pew Internet and American Life [...]
The Screen is Flat
We are here at the MERLOT International Conference 2008 in Minneapolis, preparing for the presentation Becky Hines, Fritz Nordengren and I will give tomorrow in the Reinventing Libraries track. The title of the talk is “The Screen is Flat” (hat tip to Becky for this creative take on the popular book). We have had [...]
What is work?
This was an agenda item of one of our recent faculty meetings. As online course enrollment continues to grow, no doubt fueled by the recent spike in gas prices, we online teaching faculty are finding the lines of work blurring more often into evenings and weekends since that is when many of our graduate students [...]
No cute kittens
Fritz and I did a podcast at the beginning of the year on organization in which we talked about how we were trying new and old tools to manage our work life. Since then I have really paid attention to what is working and what isn’t. Here’s a partial update:
Zotero is a winner. I use [...]
One thing at a time
You may have heard the buzz on the new book Brain Rules. Author and scientist John Medina scoured peer-reviewed brain research to distill some nuggets of knowledge palatable for the masses. One item that caught my eye was the fact that multi-tasking doesn’t work. When we think we are multi-tasking, we are merely “switch [...]
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